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NeverMindTheBollocks

If Jacinda was still PM then none of these people would have been arrested, because that would not have been kind.

Who was Police Minister during the ram raid years? Chris Hipkins, Megan Woods and Ginny Andersen, all of whom are still in parliament.

Never forget.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360969522/petrol-drive-offs-and-diesel-thefts-spike-hundreds-people-charged-police-crackdown
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April 24, 2026 8:00am
- Philview
  
  I remember Ginny saying “Prison is no place for Maori offenders”. What an absurd viewpoint she had as Minister of Police.
  
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  April 24, 2026 2:15pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    About as irrational, woke and nutty as you can get. Heaven help NZ if those deranged clowns get another go.
    
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    April 24, 2026 4:36pm
Cassandra

A new report is warning New Zealanders that the “country’s social fabric is fraying on almost every measure”, amid growing isolation, financial stress and institutional distrust.

But then it goes on to say: “Findings from the Helen Clark Foundation………………….”

Hello.

And the author is Shambeel Eaqub. . Hello again.

Propaganda masquerading as proper research.

Breathlessly reported of course.
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April 24, 2026 8:01am
- Gravelroad
  
  The left is shameless in its exploitation of political loyalists who have easy access to approved media – such as Mr Eaqub.
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:12am
  - R
    
    A large segment of the population can obviously be FOOLED ALL the time, not just some of the time.
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:29am
  - Paulus
    
    Is he not Bangladeshi ?
    Perhaps better giving advice to them.
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:43am
    - Groggy
      
      No he was born in Canterbury but don’t let facts get in the way of your casual racism
      
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      April 24, 2026 2:23pm
      - Graeme Hall
        
        What birthplace got to do with the race of the man? It seems to me cultural values are more important.
        
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        April 24, 2026 3:19pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Not according to him….
        
        As a child, we moved from my birth country Bangladesh, to Samoa and then to New Zealand.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/98497672/shamubeel-eaqub-what-it-means-to-be-a-kiwi
        
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        April 24, 2026 3:33pm
    - Flossie
      
      Obviously not about cricket though!
      
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      April 24, 2026 2:27pm
- Wandering Star
  
  Do you not think that the country’s social fabric is fraying on almost every measure, amid growing isolation, financial stress and institutional distrust, though? I think this is quite obviously the case, and this is basically the situation in all secular liberal democracies, because the problems are rooted in that common ideology, which is showing undeniable signs of stress because of its internal contradictions.
  
  Just because you don’t like a particular source, doesn’t necessarily mean that what the source is saying is “propaganda.”
  
  In this respect you’re really the “anti-Casandra” in that rather than issuing prescient warnings, you are denying reality and dismissing the justifiable warnings of others.
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:34am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    You are correct that the social fabric is fraying, but that fraying is caused primarily by pushing the Maori agenda.
    It is being caused by the politicians – not the people.
    
    After generations of grievance politics we have Maori people who believe that have been short changed (despite ample evidence) and are entitled. Nothing is their fault. There is no need to act like adults and be responsible. Because colonialism.
    
    On the flip side we have a bunch of people being screwed over to give hand outs (financial and special treatment) to Maori. Of course that builds resentment.
    
    I think a good indicator of social cohesion (at least the Maori aspect thereof) is how many Maori sign up for the Maori roll. It is growing.
    
    The only reason anyone would sign up for the Maori roll is because they believe they are entitled to special treatment. ie they are racists.
    
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    April 24, 2026 12:27pm
- Simon
  
  Mass low wage immigration
  bloated public sector
  welfarism of the working age
  Maorification
  
  Too much to carry. NZ just cant carry the National party anymore.
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:50am
- Ross Bayer
  
  Cass it is always good to seek out a number of views as this leads us to being better informed. Conrad Black is a convicted felon and would not be my choice for information. great to see so many people up-ticking so this is a popular view
  I use people such as Douglas M, Daniel Davis, Larry J, Ray MacGovern, all high ranking ex military or CIA, there are some links for all to view.
  Their view is,
  Illegal war of choice
  killing of school girls and decapitation is not a war winning strategy
  Defeat by USA as none of their many changing objectives have been achieved
  USA effectively out of middle east as all bases destroyed.
  All billion dollar Radars gone
  US fleet parked 1000 km away from Iranian coast to as to avoid being sunk
  Clearly US is not able to project power so far from home is changing military enviroment
  Most of what is published by MSM is nothing but propoganda
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bAa49aUcDk
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYVfEAkMrs0
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWKdzwPd6EM
  I am really interested if someone can post a link for the counterfactual on these podcasts but i suspect no such source other than Mark Levin of Rachel Maddow or maybe those who love Linsay Graham and good luck with that
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:08am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Nothing that comes from his mouth or pen is realiable any more. When he said that we should not own homes and then Nek minute his Mrs made him buy one…….
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:14am
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  It seems we aren’t embracing diversity enough so our social cohesion is suffering. The cure must be more diversity.
  It’s not the fact we have never been so diverse and clearly it’s causing problems.
  The woke and their identity politics are inherently divisive , pushing Maori separatism , treating everyone differently based on race and gender and pushing for open immigration is a recipe for disaster.
  The Helen Clark’s in their bubble are completely blind.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:51am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Eaqub “Shambles” the economist that thought it was better to rent than buy a house.
  Why does anyone listen to him.
  https://www.gra.co.nz/articles-by-matthew-gilligan/rent-versus-own-why-the-economist-has-got-it-wrong#:~:text=To%20say%20we%20are%20astonished,a%20property%20to%20live%20in.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:55am
- Bullion
  
  I don’t see how those broad conclusions are wrong when everyday on this site people are expressing same/similar views – there was a post re distrust in the media just a couple of days ago for instance.
  
  It seems that the level of distrust is so high that even pov that are broadly expressed here are rejected based on who says them.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:56am
- imalwaysright
  
  The reason our social fabric is fraying is because we let it happen.
  
  Every day hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders take the knee to a marxist ideology disguised as a religion.
  
  They have all agreed that 2+2=5 and they resent themselves for giving in.
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:50am
  - Bullion
    
    That doesn’t make sense. Firstly what marxist ideology? Secondly, if more people are taking the knee to a marxist ideology, is that marxist ideology counter to institutions resulting in an increase in distrust in those institutions? Institutions is broad but lets say media, science, govt, commercial
    
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    April 24, 2026 12:44pm
  - Philview
    
    I saw an interesting Youtube podcast discussion on Marxism on the other day between 2 guys called Emmet Connor and Peter McCormack
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-uJmcQXcc&list=PLutwRFLXGQz2USmGSg8vd2PhmQz4W5cKv&index=1
    
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    April 24, 2026 2:22pm
  - keepcalmcarryon
    
    Accidental downtick sorry 🙂
    
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    April 24, 2026 2:39pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    The trouble is if you say 2+2=4 you lose your job. You’ll also be slandered and rendered a social outcast. Ball busting anti-woke measures must come from the top.
    
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    April 24, 2026 4:40pm
- PurplePen
  
  An irony. Helen Clark Foundation Social Cohesion report just released says isolation, disconnection across wider community is found to be prevelant. Clark’s govt in their Local Government Act 2002 significantly shifted the focus of councils toward community-led initiatives and social well-being.
  
  The core of the change was a move away from councils just providing roads, rates, and rubbish to a broader role in promoting the overall quality of life in their regions. What a waste of ratepayers funds.
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:50am
  - Phronesis
    
    The interesting thing is if you talked to people in the 90’s who grew up in iron curtain countries in the 70’s and 80’s they would often say that social cohesion was very good. Initially this sounded like a win for communism but it turned out that the reason social cohesion was good was because the State had become so corrupt and inept, and the country was so poor, that people simply had to rely on each other to get by. They were all in the same boat, but not by choice. This is what the left wants for NZ. Although without an iron curtain to keep anyone with talent in it’s going to be even more dire for those left.
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:37am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      World Economic Fund philosophy:
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_happy
      
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      April 24, 2026 12:43pm
  - Paulus
    
    Helen Clark brought in Regional Councils to overarch Local Government, and to her adherents many of the top jobs first, and many are still there.
    They are a world of their own and the sooner they are disbanded the better as they are very Maori orientated as she intended.
    
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    April 24, 2026 1:12pm
    - igm
      
      Leeching lefties have infiltrated all councils, with election assistance of various unions, hence the low performances with impunity for employees. Time for principal ratepayers only, voting in local body elections, to see an end of these incompetent, wasteful, non-productive bludgers.
      
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      April 24, 2026 2:56pm
- AitchW
  
  If the country’s social fabric is fraying it’s as a direct result of the policies of the last Labour government and its interminable lockdowns, its preferential treatment for Maori and its creation of an unvaxxed underclass.
  Of course Eaqub would never consider any of that.
  The left really is vile.
  
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  April 24, 2026 12:27pm
- Aquarius
  
  The Shambling economist and his Simplistic mate who applauded the killing of Charlie Kirk….
  About as far left as you can get
  
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  April 24, 2026 1:07pm
- NothingLeft
  
  The enemy, everywhere and always is the bureaucracies , NGOs, monopolies and ministries that are funded by us willingly or unwillingly.
  
  These bureaucracies, while containing some good people, or at least people who think they are doing good, have an inevitable emergent property at scale in their management: They care mostly about growing their size, income, and power. That means bloated headcounts doing nothing jobs, bloated salaries, and every trick in the book to reduce accountability. And of course they hold in their hearts left wing centralization/big govt political ideologies most favorable to that self-rewarding agenda.
  
  Every center right govt should hold as it’s most basic and essential responsibility the ongoing fight to reduce the size power and expense of these fundamentally institutionally parasitical bureaucracies. They do necessary things, but they are ravenous beasts that need extremely strict corralling and management.
  
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  April 24, 2026 4:11pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Christchurch ratepayers should be afraid. Very afraid.

The Council is seeking a visionary CEO. I’ve never heard of a visionary CEO who’ve vision doesn’t involve extra spending.

Brace yourself!

May be paywalled

http://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360991626/council-searches-visionary-chief-executive-interim-leader-appointed
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April 24, 2026 8:01am
- Handyman
  
  Famous quote from IBM’s Gersner in 1993.
  “The last thing IBM needs is a vision”.
  He went on to focus on execution and efficiently delivering what customers wanted.
  Local bodies, however, are all about articulating a vision and taxing the residents to deliver it.
  
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  April 24, 2026 11:27am
Scott

These two headlines yesterday from Stuff caught my attention:
‘Only Trump can save these eight beautiful Iranian women’, White House says:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360944966/iran-war
Colour me amazed but did Stuff just print a pro-Trump headline? Now in the story there are lots of caveats and doubts raised about the veracity of the claim. But still a pro-Trump headline from Stuff! I’ve never seen one before! Maybe they are going to be balanced in their Trump coverage?? 🤔
And then there is this headline:

‘Racist’ haka mocking Indian ACT MP sparks backlash’

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360968857/

Oh my goodness! Stuff criticising someone associated with the Maori party! Isn’t that racist? Surely the Maori party are above reproach?
But no. It’s true. Stuff have criticised someone associated with the Maori party. And on behalf of an Act MP no less.
Wonders will never cease! 😎
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April 24, 2026 8:04am
- Charlotte Wells
  
  I just ran outside to get a photo of the pigs flying past.
  
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  April 24, 2026 11:18am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  Nope, sorry. If the words “Trump says” or “the White House says” appear in a headline, that is the headline writer telling you that the rest of the words in the headline are almost certainly not true. In the case of these eight women, has there been any independent verification of any part of this story? And has the White House explained why these particular eight adults’ lives matter so much more than those of the many other Iranian women and children killed by the US military?
  
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  April 24, 2026 12:05pm
  - Scott
    
    Dudley, my dear fellow, I’m just commenting on the fact that Stuff saw fit to print a headline that was pro-Trump. It’s such an unusual occurrence and may be a harbinger of slightly more balanced coverage from Stuff about Trump?
    
    However I do realise that some people on this blog will never give Trump the slightest bit of credit for anything, even the possibility that he saved 8 Iranian women from execution. 😎
    
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    April 24, 2026 12:39pm
  - Ghost
    
    According to human rights groups involved, some of the woman were released weeks before Trump ever got involved. One of those stories where the truth won’t ever be known but both sides will play their version of the truth
    
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    April 24, 2026 12:49pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “According to human rights groups involved”
      
      And these days even they can not be trusted (on face value anyway).
      
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      April 24, 2026 5:31pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360969522/petrol-drive-offs-and-diesel-thefts-spike-hundreds-people-charged-police-crackdown
If only someone in authority had the OK to publish the names and photos of these ferals.
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April 24, 2026 8:07am
- David Garrett
  
  Grey: there is absolutely nothing stopping the service stations publishing names and photos- as long as they correctly identify them as drive offs. If they make a mistake that would be defamatory.
  I was in Christchurch last year and in the windows of a dairy I visited there were photos of people who had been trespassed for stealing…perfectly legal
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:26am
  - greybeard
    
    Thanks. I was thinking of something on a national basis , so that there was a general recognition and awareness of scrotes.
    
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    April 24, 2026 8:34am
    - David Garrett
      
      grey: Exactly the same rules apply for – say – all BP stations in the country, or a dairy in Christchurch.
      
      The crucial point is that in each case, they must be certain that the person they identify is a thief – otherwise costly defamation proceedings could follow. Allegations of theft or obtaining credit by fraud are without doubt defamatory.
      
      If I was advising an oil company, I would advise against identifying cars as being driven by a drive off; there is no way of being certain that the car is owned by the person who drives away.
      
      But as in the Christchurch case, if they have a clear photo of a person filling a car who then drives off, in my professional opinion they would be on safe ground.
      
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      April 24, 2026 10:17am
  - wisteria
    
    Moore Wilson’s in Porirua regularly has photos of theives.
    
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    April 24, 2026 8:46am
  - herb1
    
    Absolutely correct David. A couple of years ago while I was recovering from a serious head injury I got petrol from a BP where I’d been a customer, on way in to pay I ran to an old acquaintance I hadn’t seen for years and had a Lo g chat. On completion I got in car and drove home. Several days later I got a letter from petrol station saying I hadn’t paid . I went straight in and paid , spoke to manager who said on past record they assumed I’d forgot. Would have been awfully annoyed if they’d published my photo without checking. My memory is better now after a year of medical testing and coaching
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:17am
    - David Garrett
      
      herb: Yes…that BP station was well advised. I wonder how they got your name though: It has been many years since you could go to the Post Office with a rego number and get the name and address of the person who owned that car.
      
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      April 24, 2026 11:09am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    PB Tech in Penrose have photos up near the exit of people that have stolen from them
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:59am
  - MCōs
    
    The local supermarket had a number of photos on display of characters who one assumes were suspected of shoplifting
    After a number of years the gallery disappeared for some reason. Maybe the whole idea was ineffectual. After all for it to work someone has to recognize an individual, dob them in and the the owner notify the police who then have to be persuaded by the evidence to take action.
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:34am
    - David Garrett
      
      MCos: They can trespass persons they identify as risks for any reason or none; the photos were probably to help staff know who was who.
      
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      April 24, 2026 11:38am
    - zulumonster
      
      “After a number of years the gallery disappeared for some reason. ”
      Someone stole it?
      
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      April 24, 2026 12:34pm
      - MCōs
        
        Probably
        
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        April 24, 2026 5:01pm
- artemisia
  
  Young family member sold his first car, couple of hours later got an irate phone call about a drive off. Smart kid had changed the ownership online at the time of sale. So it was planned feral behaviour.
  
  Tell your children!
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:46am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Anybody who does not do that online immediately after the cash transfer is foolish.
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:15am
  - Flossie
    
    I must be missing something here. If the ownership details were changed at the time of sale why would the previous owner get a phone call?
    
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    April 24, 2026 10:30am
    - artemisia
      
      Don’t know, Flossie, but it happened. Maybe using a site like Carjam plus a bit of sleuthing?
      
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      April 24, 2026 10:54am
Cassandra

Canada’s Conrad Black argues that Trump is defeating Iran: “The blockade will continue until the abandonment of Iran’s military nuclear program and assistance to terrorist organizations, and its pretense to have any standing to close the Strait of Hormuz.”

“Any recourse to violence by Iran or an attempt to prevent the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will trigger “bridge and power-plant day,” and the destruction of the oil-shipping facilities on Kharg Island”.

“This is checkmate. The United States can strangle Iran in time for the midterm elections without violating Trump’s pledge to avoid “boots on the ground” in another “forever war.” This has been the shortest and most decisively one-sided of any war between serious contestants in modern history: a near nuclear power with armed forces of over one million people completely defeated at the cost of fewer than 50 fatalities, and a continuing naval blockade with a little further bombing will produce surrender.”

“We are on the verge of the victorious end of the war on terror. This includes the extermination of Hamas and Hezbollah, pacifying Lebanon, and beginning the reconstruction of Gaza.”

Black is a perceptive observer with deep contacts in the business and diplomatic worlds.
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April 24, 2026 8:09am
- Frank the tank
  
  Irrespective of the actual situation the MSM and it’s backers have baked in a Trump loss.
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:14am
- CJames
  
  The major threat to Trump not defeating Iran isn’t the Revolutionary Guards. It is the US media & progressives in the Democrat party. Though they are one and the same thing.
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:27am
  - emmess
    
    That’s correct
    If anyone has ever read the absolute cesspool (and I recommend you don’t) that is the Piers Morgan YouTube channel comment section, you’ll know this is the case.
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:58am
  - Taieri
    
    It is the US media & progressives in the Democrat party
    ———-
    
    Even “The American Conservative” writers are, in the main, not exactly enthusiastic.
    
    https://www.theamericanconservative.com
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:17am
- Ra Henare
  
  haha.
  Conrad Black, felon pardoned by Trump 2019
  Black was released from prison in May 2012 and deported to Canada
  Black had recently written a very flattering biography titled Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.
  
  No bias there /sarc
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:29am
  - Cassandra
    
    Blacks “felony” was legal in Canada and much of the world. He left the US on release voluntarily.
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:50am
    - Wandering Star
      
      Who cares if something is legal in the rest of the world if it’s illegal where the act takes place and where you are convicted for it? I love how you say “felony” as if that’s not exactly what it is.
      
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      April 24, 2026 2:04pm
    - Ross Bayer
      
      cass
      sadly from the comments we see there are many people who share your view let me be clear
      THE US IS LOSING THIS WAR BADLY AND THEIR UNWILLINGNESS TO ADMIT DEFEAT IS LIKELY TO CAUSE IRREPEARABLE DAMAGE TO THE WORLD ECONOMY
      for those of you who agree with Cass please consider how you would explain to the children of this world the view that you hold
      
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      April 24, 2026 2:04pm
      - Sane Voice
        
        Eezy peezy, I would just show them the images of the 7 October atrocities and point out how the Iranian regime was 100 percent responsible.
        
        I would show them the images of the bodies that fell like rain over Lockerbie and say that the Iranian regime was 100 percent responsible.
        
        And so on and so forth for every bit of their terror that has come upon the world in the last 47 years.
        
        See, eezy peezy.
        
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        April 24, 2026 3:08pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Cass. I lived in Canada when Black was a newspaper guy. He was never trusted then and I dont trust him now.
      
      Your attempt to whitewash him is…….interesting
      
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      April 24, 2026 2:19pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Further to your attempted whitewash re Conrad Black.
      I suggest some fact checking would have shown.
      
      Upon his release from prison in May 2012, Black was immediately taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Because he was a convicted felon and not a U.S. citizen, he was subject to a removal order.
      
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      April 24, 2026 2:30pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Looks like mainly corporate governance technicalities and quite possibly a political hatchet job. He lost the case and served time.
        
        https://grokipedia.com/page/Conrad_Black
        
        From the link: “In June 2003, Hollinger International, the publicly traded U.S.-listed arm of Conrad Black’s media holdings, formed a special committee of independent directors to investigate allegations of fiduciary duty breaches, prompted by activist shareholders….”
        
        Doesn’t appear to be a major scumbag.
        
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        April 24, 2026 5:44pm
- Ross Bayer
  
  See my post above which is the counterfactual
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:12am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I’m amazed Conrad Bkack is still alive and publicly engaging. He was something of a well preserved silver fox back in the 90s in the UK.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:29am
- Paulus
  
  Iran is run now by the vicious Revolutionary Guards many of whom are just normal Muslim ill educated fanatics who still get paid but that we hear may become suspect as many are returning to their villages. !
  Those at the top are creating their power physical first.
  Going to get more nasty as they continue to believe only the Koran and themselves – how the ordinary people of Iran particularly the women of course, just have to accept this ?
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:51am
  - Taieri
    
    Revolutionary Guards many of whom are just normal Muslim ill educated fanatics
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    The chief fanatic is actually quite well educated.
    
    “Vahid Shah Cheraghi was born on 27 June 1958 in Shiraz to Persian parents. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and a master’s degree in industrial engineering. He acquired a doctorate in strategic studies from Imam Sadegh University.”
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Vahidi
    
    As for the rest of “normal Muslim ill educated fanatics”…the IRGC is a conscript-based force. Service in the IRGC is not voluntary, its members are drafted. The membership will reflect the composition of the wider Iranian society. Some will be religious fanatics, others may be opposed to the regime, some are well educated, others less so. The main criterion will be not so much their education but their military capability. Just as in any military force, because that’s what the IRGC is.
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:07am
    - Wandering Star
      
      It’s actually quite notable that the Iranians, man for man, tend to have better professional qualifications than the US and the Jews.
      
      I suppose the designation “Mad Mullahs” has more rhetorical power than “The PhDs Who Run Iran” even though the latter is closer to the reality.
      
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      April 24, 2026 2:08pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Quite a number of highly educated people in history have committed insanely evil acts.
        
        It’s funny how highly educated or high IQ people often assume they are universally “god’s gift” to humanity. In reality they are often good at one or a few things and often complete dipsticks (or even monsters) in other areas.
        
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        April 24, 2026 5:48pm
      - Wandering Star
        
        Equally, idiots like Trump and the intelligent Netanyahu have clocked up higher death tolls in the least two or three years than anyone else. So I agree that evil is perpetrated by fools (Trump) and cunning (Netanyahu) people alike.
        
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        April 24, 2026 8:30pm
Yvette

Regarding the kauri die-back publicity post yesterday evening by kiwiblog host David Farrar, the graphic “horror” novel “What Shall We Do About Myrtle?” is here –
https://toitaiaowhakatairanga.nz/media/site/7f3eb2741e-1685232545/aroha-novak-myrtle-rust-graphic-novel-c-2023.pdf
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April 24, 2026 8:12am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  For whux sake!
  
  What is the message youngsters are to get from this comic?
  
  Science corporations are global parasites (p.11)
  Don’t trust doctors.
  Don’t take experimental treatments.
  Don’t go into a forest in case fungal rusts attack you.
  Say a karakia and you’ll be cured….. (but only if you personally commit to the karakia) (p. 23)
  
  I think a better use of science education funds for myrtle rust could have been to equip some schools with decent microscopes or funding trips for pupils into the bush or a plant nursery to try and identify symptoms of plant disease.
  
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  April 24, 2026 11:48am
Maggy Wassilieff

Zoran Racovic provides a clear account of how
New Zealanders increasingly shoulder Treaty burdens not theirs to carry.

In no other Western democracy does the ordinary citizen so enthusiastically offer themselves as a sacrificial vessel for the errors of their rulers. In no other civil society are people so eager to drape themselves in guilt not their own, speak in a borrowed tongue they do not understand, and recite protocols they do not believe—just to win the favour of cultural gatekeepers they neither elected nor dared challenge.

https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/zoran-rakovic-the-altar-of-atonement-how-new-zealanders-came-to-worship-their-own-submission-1?
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April 24, 2026 8:33am
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  I’m going to put in a claim for the South Island, Captain Cook discovered it before Ngai Tahu, they’ve been claiming ownership of my property.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:54am
  - Phronesis
    
    I’m related to Abel Tasman and he found the South Island (Staten Landt) not long after Tasmania. Long before Cook or Ngai Tahu. So I guess that makes it mine.
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:57am
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      Also true.
      
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      April 24, 2026 12:43pm
- Hard Cheese
  
  An outstanding piece of writing, he absolutely nails it
  
  … it requires shedding the false virtue of inherited shame.
  
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  April 24, 2026 2:46pm
Ra Henare

I was talking to “”a bloke in the pub”” the other day.
When he ascertained my age he asked me what advice I would give him.

My advice.
If you have it, you dont need it.
If you need it, you dont have it.

Choose what is really important in your life.

He was dutifully impressed and thoughtful with followup questions.

Wonder what other KB septuagenarians advice would be to a 35-40 year old.
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April 24, 2026 8:34am
- Flossie
  
  My advice is Do It Now. Most people regret what they could have done but didn’t at the end of their life. And life is scarily short.
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:31am
  - Paulus
    
    Don’t tell me I am on very borrowed time at 87 with a few physical problems, and a wife of 62 years having had a stroke, and we awake every day, and say well it’s just another shitty day in Paradise.
    We came with the Company over 50 years ago for three years.
    And loved it so stayed.
    
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    April 24, 2026 1:22pm
  - mogg
    
    70 should be go-go, then depending on your genetics it will be slow-go, after that no-go.
    
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    April 24, 2026 2:53pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Wonder what other KB septuagenarians advice would be to a 35-40 year old.
  
  If someone advises you against introducing a pretty plant into your garden, believe them.
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:54am
- Phronesis
  
  If you spend less than you earn, you will never be poor.
  
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  April 24, 2026 11:58am
artemisia

Campaign group costs universal free dental care, says NZ can afford it

Can New Zealand afford it? The 48 page proposal from Dental for All is available online and includes what they call Costings – estimates for a list of broad implementation requirements. Estimates, and we know how that works when OPM is involved.

There are already WINZ grants but the feelz are not good, and apparently it’s arbitrary anyway. Because reasons. Restrictive income and savings threshold mean there is some arbitrariness in who has access to the WINZ dental grant, and the process is demeaning and stigmatising, causing harm.

The considerable emphasis on tino rangatiratanga and special treatment based on race does not IMO help their cause.

Best free advice – Look After Your Teeth.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/593152/campaign-group-costs-universal-free-dental-care-says-nz-can-afford-it
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April 24, 2026 8:38am
- redeye
  
  I wonder if dentists have been asked if they would prefer the government set the price they can chage for their services. Because that is what it amounts to.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:01am
  - trout
    
    Southern Cross sets prices for medical claims; if the Medico does not agree with the schedule they do not ‘affiliate’; or the client gets to pay over and above the set rate. I have noticed that a number of surgeons who chose not to affiliate because of the imposition of set fees have later joined the scheme because of loss of business.
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:00am
- pdm
  
  `Best free advice – Look After Your Teeth.’
  
  Ah la Pam Ayres
  Best free advice – Look After Your Teeth.
  
  Sorry link did not work
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:07am
  - MCōs
    
    Pam Ayres wrote a poem
    Oh I wished I’d looked after me teeth
    Which has a slightly different emphasis, in that she doesn’t tell you what to do with your teeth
    https://share.google/byluYriOpyDDKtOva
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:44am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Maybe they should look into whether we actually have the capacity? Idiots.
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:17am
  - david
    
    My dentist seems to have a very short waiting list whenever he needs new tyres for the Porsche.
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:09am
  - Phronesis
    
    We only have one dental school and quite a large proportion of that school are unlikely to practice in NZ. From the UO facebook page: “From Canada to Malaysia, global students are choosing Otago’s world‑class Faculty of Dentistry to grow academically and personally”
    
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    April 24, 2026 12:03pm
- Boy Geoff
  
  And who wouldn’t take advice from such a lovely looking group of people (https://www.dentalforall.nz/about).
  
  Just wondering, how many of them are actually dentists rather than campaigners/unionists…? Was access to dentistry covered in te Tiriti?
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:19am
- Flossie
  
  It takes weeks to get an appointment at my dentist as it is. I hate to think how long the wait would be if there were hundreds more expecting a FREE appointment. On the plus side I do believe my dentist practice is full and no more patients can register at the moment.
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:28am
  - Taieri
    
    It takes weeks to get an appointment at my dentist as it is
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    Pretty much the same at my dentist’s practice, but in emergency they will make sure that someone is available and will squeeze you in.
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:11am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Flossie: “I hate to think how long the wait would be if there were hundreds more expecting a FREE appointment.”
    
    See hospital/welfare emergency dentistry data. Dentistry often involves eye-watering financial hits so many battlers simply put it out of mind until they have nasty mouth/dental problems that can’t be ignored. Then they go to WINZ and/or the ED at the public hospital, Those nasty problems often lead to earlier life expectancy (EG heart problems).
    
    Pay for regular maintenance of people’s mouths/teeth, or pay bigly dealing with the mangled casualties at the bottom of the cliff?
    
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    April 24, 2026 6:12pm
Gravelroad

Saw on Te News last night an excerpt of the haka performance that has caused some debate.
The head waggling included to mock the way Indian people communicate was an embarrassment to New Zealand.
It devalued the haka and was disrespectful of another culture.
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April 24, 2026 8:43am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  The haka always is disrespectful of the opposition. That’s the point of it.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:31am
  - Flossie
    
    Always? Why is haka often performed at funerals for example?
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:02am
    - Paulus
      
      To ensure sure the dead person is actually dead !
      Well after the standard violent haka so would you be !
      
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      April 24, 2026 1:26pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yes, it is disingenuous of some to be arguing that the racist haka was aimed at Dr Parma only.
  
  Che Wilson calling out curry, curry (karikari iniana) and the incorporation of Indian cultural actions was a clear display of contempt for NZ citizens of Indian ethnicity.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:31am
  - Yvette
    
    Maggy, when did anyone last hear any utterance from the Race Relations Commissioner?
    
    Just as Shane Jones poses as a famed orator in English but lacks common manners, again seeming to pick on Indian people.
    
    ■ Che Wilson calling out curry, curry (karikari iniana) and the incorporation of Indian cultural actions was a clear display of contempt for NZ citizens of Indian ethnicity …
    
    In Māori, Purari (often used in the phrase purari paka) is a loanword acting as an interjection, meaning “bloody bugger,” “damn,” or “blast”.
    Exact Meaning: It is a curse or exclamation used to express annoyance, dislike, or mild anger towards a person or situation. It is often paired with the word “paka” (meaning ‘fucker’ or ‘bastard’, derived from English) to form purari paka.
    English Origin: The word is loaned from the English phrase “bloody” or “poor bugger”.
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:52am
- Paulus
  
  But Maori do not care as they are vastly superior to everybody else now !
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:53am
  - Wairoa Native
    
    Probably more correct and maybe prudent to say ‘some Māori’. We are not a monolith. This racist behaviour by the likes of Che Wilson doesn’t please me much either.
    
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    April 24, 2026 10:13am
  - David Garrett
    
    Paulus: Didn’t that tattooed git in the cowboy hat opine recently that it was ” a known fact” that Maori DNA was superior to us whiteys? I don’t think he specified who exactly “knew” this fact.
    
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    April 24, 2026 10:25am
  - MCōs
    
    If one Maori is racist they all are?
    If one pakeha is racist he’s a lone wolf?
    
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    April 24, 2026 11:46am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Who is saying that? Or it’s just a made up lefty strawman?
      
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      April 24, 2026 4:43pm
sungsamning

“In this midweek update, Susan Kokinda argues that Kevin Warsh’s Senate Banking Committee testimony—calling for “regime change” at the Federal Reserve and blaming inflation on excessive money creation—signals a broader shift aligned with the Trump administration against what she describes as an Imperial, British-led free-trade order. [Its time to stop printing. Inflation is a tax on poor people.]
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/22/promethean-pac-outlines-why-canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-must-battle-president-trump/
Promethean PAC Outlines Why Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Must Battle President Trump.
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April 24, 2026 8:46am
peterwn

So a female prisoner (convicted of murder, possibly manslaughter) is objecting to be limited to half an hour on the phone a day (which nowadays she does not have to pay for). What does she think prison is Camp Cupcake? The Christchurch mass killer gets nil phone time (except presumably lawyers).
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April 24, 2026 8:54am
- Pope Punctilious II
  
  Ah, but prisons have “treaty obligations”, I imagine.
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:58am
  - peterwn
    
    But there were no telephones in 1840 so what Treaty obligations? Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone 36 years later, and the first telephone in NZ was 38 years later.
    
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    April 24, 2026 6:52pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      What’s the big deal stopping corrections from providing more phones? Might be the easy solution ….
      
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      April 24, 2026 7:18pm
- RoboRob
  
  WTF, 30mins a day is pretty generous. What next compaining about being restricted to only 2hrs a day of Netflix?
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:16am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    What does the Treaty have to say?
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:32am
- Blog-aholic
  
  It is encapsulated in one word. That word is ‘entitlement’. The real question for her is how many minutes on the phone to family does her murdered victim get?
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:17am
- R
  
  Imprisonment is a punishment. That means no daily extended contact with family too.
  
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  April 24, 2026 9:25am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Do they not realise the whole point of prison is that it is a punishment.
  
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  April 24, 2026 10:03am
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  Prisons are taxpayer funded gang pads.
  
  No bills to pay. Food prepared. No kids to take care of. Sounds like a good deal for many.
  
  And considering the recidivism rates, it must be.
  
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  April 24, 2026 1:17pm
- rouppe
  
  The longer story is that it used to be 3 hours a day. But there’s only so many hours that prisoners have in a day to be able to make phone calls, and certain prisoners – including the woman complaining – were using threats of violence to prevent some other prisoners from having any phone time at all.
  
  Hence the time reduction in order to give more prisoners at least some phone time.
  
  Seems reasonable to me.
  
  Could also say 3 hours a week, use them however you want but when you’ve used 3 hours that’s it until the following week.
  
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  April 24, 2026 6:44pm
Boy Geoff

I see that Te Pati Maori’s policy tab on their website says “Hang tight! We’re working on our policies and will be back soon.”

Maybe they should engage the services of those whispy-stubbled, soy boy journalists who hang with Chris Hipkins all day, to put in the positive PR.

An ad in the Spinoff with “Wanted! A couple of useful pakeha idiots to spread the good word” should suffice.
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April 24, 2026 9:17am
Nikola Donatello

I find it interesting that there is currently a competition running, sponsored by Buddle Findlay for excellence in Maori partnerships with local councils.

“The top entries demonstrate strong, authentic partnerships between councils and Māori, embedding tikanga, te ao Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles into how they work. The most successful projects were able to move beyond consultation to long-term, reciprocal relationships that deliver shared outcomes for communities.

A record 12 entries have been received this year, reflecting the strength and diversity of partnerships across the sector.

For many entries, the starting point has been an honest assessment of where organisations needed to do better for their communities.”

https://taituara.org.nz/tools-resources/news/partnerships-with-maori-driving-change-in-award-entries/

It would be interesting to ask the PM if he supports the expansion and deepening of these partnerships. My sense is that he won’t actively support them because he knows that his support base would be unhappy. The tactic seems to be silence and effectively tacit support.

I would be interested in other views, including whether I am reading too much into the significance of these rapidly expanding partnerships betwen local government and iwi.
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April 24, 2026 10:59am
- Taieri
  
  Maori partnerships with local councils
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  This is an oxymoron. Does a local golf club have a partnership with the local council? Or a local parish, cultural association and such likes? The individual Maori are ratepayers just as every other individual property owner. How can a ratepayer have a “partnership” with the local council? The ratepayers elect local councils, and, regardless of their ethnicity, fund councils activities with rates, and by doing so, they do not enter into any form of a “partnership”. Somehow we ended up with an informal parallel governance structure. Based on what? An argument of sovereignty (whether valid or not) doesn’t come into it. There’s no local government in NZ until 1852 (provincial councils) and the whole concept had absolutely nothing in common with the Maori tribal system as it was originally set up to create and maintain physical infrastructure, which didn’t exist in the tribal society.
  
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  April 24, 2026 11:50am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Of course, Maori, when it comes to Maori land, aren’t even ratepayers.
    
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    April 24, 2026 9:44pm
- Paulus
  
  Anybody using Buddle Finlay should consider what the fees they charge their clients for what they are doing, and go to a decent Lawyer.
  
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  April 24, 2026 1:32pm
- Nikola Donatello
  
  “The top entries demonstrate strong, authentic partnerships between councils and Māori, embedding tikanga, te ao Māori….. ”
  
  Embedding te ao Māori. It actually makes me despair. But clearly I am on the losing side of this argument.
  
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  April 24, 2026 2:56pm
- rouppe
  
  Chris Luxon would simply say that being Te Tiriti centric is not mandatory for councils. //
  
  I’m concerned. It is a steady erosion of basic democracy.
  
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  April 24, 2026 6:39pm
Maggy Wassilieff

It seems our senior politicians can’t suppress their racism against Indians.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_auckland/593337/auckland-mayor-wayne-brown-refers-to-rnz-staffer-as-a-muslim-terrorist
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April 24, 2026 12:54pm
- Ghost
  
  What a stupid thing to say.
  
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  April 24, 2026 1:06pm
  - Jack5
    
    Agreed, stupid, especially for a politician like Brown.
    
    However, reporters have evolved into a soft, touchy bunch, that take offence rather than accepting banter and insults as part of the job.
    
    In antique days of reporting apprenticeships rather than non-STEM tertiary education, there was a saying about training them in American newspapers.
    
    “Take them to the nearest pier. Throw them in. If they float, throw rocks to toughen them up.”
    
    One of those folk would have likely woven a racist comment into their report, turning the tables on the insulter.
    
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    April 24, 2026 1:25pm
    - MCōs
      
      The guy he insulted isn’t a reporter, but someone who works in the office
      He was obviously in no position to give Brown a piece of his mind, but I know a couple of people who wouldn’t have been so restrained.
      
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      April 24, 2026 3:36pm
      - Jack5
        
        Cossie’s … The guy he insulted isn’t a reporter, but someone who works in the office …
        
        RNZ’s chief people officer Sarah Neilson said the comment was not acceptable.
        
        This is from the Red Radio report, quoting RNZ’s chief people officer Sarah Neilson :
        
        “RNZ’s immediate concern is for our colleague who was understandably hurt by the comments …”
        
        Sounds like the person was part of the media pack, Cossie.
        
        A Red Radio person.
        
        https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_auckland/593337/auckland-mayor-wayne-brown-refers-to-rnz-staffer-as-a-muslim-terrorist
        
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        April 24, 2026 4:00pm
  - Phronesis
    
    It was RNZ so he probably was thinking communist, but caught himself, and downgraded it to terrorist.
    
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    April 24, 2026 1:32pm
- imalwaysright
  
  What part of what he said makes him a racist?
  
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  April 24, 2026 2:39pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Auckland mayor Wayne Brown referred to an RNZ staff member of Indian descent as “a Muslim terrorist” and commented on his beard as the man escorted him into the building for an interview.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_auckland/593337/auckland-mayor-wayne-brown-refers-to-rnz-staffer-as-a-muslim-terrorist
    
    It’s the implied assumption that a bearded chap of Indian descent is a muslim and a terrorist…and that it is ok to make a joke to the chap based on his appearance.
    
    i.e. Brown has racially and culturally categorised this public servant.
    
    How likely is it that Mayor Brown would make a similar statement to a fair-skinned male with a ginger beard?
    
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    April 24, 2026 7:53pm
    - RdM
      
      ” would make a similar statement to a fair-skinned male with a ginger beard?”
      
      What reason to suspect redheads of anything but good times? ;=})
      
      Neanderthal genes?
      
      https://londondaily.com/dublin-hosts-annual-redheads-festival-celebrating-ginger-heritage
      
      (but mostly young women pictured)
      
      It’s just a media beat-up.
      The article ended with his apologies.
      
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      April 24, 2026 8:27pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      The only assumption Brown made was that the man had a sense of humour, yes even an RNZ employee is technically capable of having one.
      
      There was no ill-intent.
      No justification to call him a racist.
      
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      April 24, 2026 9:03pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Another Mongrel Mob killer

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/cold-case-solved-as-erueti-wirihana-pleads-guilty-to-hastings-manslaughter-of-eddie-peters/

I wonder if anyone is keeping a tally of how many folks have been killed by Mongrel Mobsters over the years.
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April 24, 2026 12:58pm
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  You’re just being racist.
  
  What about all the murders caused by the other cultural organisations like the Lions Club and Rotary? Nobody ever makes a fuss about those!
  
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  April 24, 2026 1:15pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Our Government seems to collect data on my ethnicity every time I fill out a form….
    
    Shouldn’t be too difficult for Corrections or Justice Dept to supply numbers of MM killers and their victims.
    
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    April 24, 2026 1:34pm
  - Jack5
    
    The Mongrel Mobs and similar gangs are thick-oh’s, and service groups like Rotary and the Lions are good-oh’s, who give their time to help others.
    
    Sinclair Lewis (1930 Nobel Prize winner): “A Boy Scout is a young Rotarian and a Rotarian is a Boy Scout in long trousers.”
    
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    April 24, 2026 2:27pm
cmm (semi-retired edition)

I kinda feel a bit sorry for the partner being forced into providing an alibi, but if you don’t want fleas then don’t lie with dogs.

Do these women shack up with these guys for the thrill? For the drugs? For the sex?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/cold-case-solved-as-erueti-wirihana-pleads-guilty-to-hastings-manslaughter-of-eddie-peters/OFKRDCNSBVBJPJUIYTILFGQ7RM/
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April 24, 2026 1:07pm
- mandk
  
  It’s difficult to fathom why women do this.
  
  I was part of a jury in a manslaughter case, where a number of young, presentable and reasonably intelligent women were witnesses. But the young men they associated with, who also gave evidence, were complete dropkicks, who obviously didn’t do much to look after themselves.
  
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  April 24, 2026 1:21pm
cmm (semi-retired edition)

I recently watched a video about an interesting case in Florida.

Two young women try to carjack a man. He pulls out a gun shooting both of them. One dies.

The second woman got charged and convicted with second degree murder – even though she did not even fire a gun. She ended up with 20+ years.

He was not even charged – righfully so because it was self defence.

So how does she end up copping a second degree murder charge? She was found to have committed a felony (the carjacking) that resulted in a death. Therefore she cops a second degree murder charge.

That’s the way to treat criminals. Hold them accountable for the consequences of their actions!
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April 24, 2026 1:13pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  That’s all been done before. In Jolly Old England no less.
  
  Check out Derek Bentley;
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Him_Have_It
  
  She’s lucky to get porridge.
  
  The ‘innocent’ offender in Bentley got to do the air dance.
  
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  April 24, 2026 1:30pm
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  … and here in Rowerland a woman who offended far worse than that (also resulting in a death), gets 18 months
  
  “Justice Lang adopted a starting point of two years and six months’ imprisonment.”
  
  A starting point of two years and 6 months for a killing? Then a 30% discount for the usual reasons!
  
  … and to finish it off, leave to apply for home detention. For arranging and participating in a killing!
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rotorua-trigg-ave-death-deziah-rangitoheriri-jailed-for-18-months-for-instigator-role/ZYCTG2KTTJEI5ICDL2P2JDWAEE/
  
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  April 24, 2026 1:54pm
  - Cassandra
    
    The death penalty for fraud seems a tad harsh I guess but it effectively removes a lot of ferals from the hood, At least for a while.
    
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    April 24, 2026 2:16pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    ““Justice Lang adopted a starting point of two years and six months’ imprisonment.”” and then applied discounts.
    
    This is another way the judges distort the system, they impose a starting sentence well short of the maximum sentence and then apply their list of discounts to a sentence that has already been discounted from the maximum term.
    
    That’s double discounting.
    
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    April 24, 2026 2:47pm
- Flossie
  
  Florida has some interesting laws regarding deaths happening in the commissioning of a crime. Apparently if you are sitting in the car outside a shop and your passenger goes inside and kills someone you are also charged with murder, even if you had no knowledge or forewarning of the crime.
  
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  April 24, 2026 2:37pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    The UK has a similar law of ‘guilt by association’. A group of teenagers were all charged with murder after one of them stabbed the victim.
    
    We should have that law here to deal with infant torturers and murderers, paedophiles, and gangs etc.
    
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    April 24, 2026 2:51pm
Jack5

More evidence the tide has turned against legal persecution of British veterans.

Britain’s Attorney-General, Lord Hermer, closest Cabinet supporter of the UK’s PM, Starmer, is accused of seeking high fees in his leading role in the Al-Sweady scandal, which saw Iraq War veterans falsely accused of murder and torture.

The newspaper says it has found the Ministry of Defence challenged Hermer’s fee claims as a counsel in his pre-Attorney General days. Hermer sought 450 pounds ($NZ1034) an hour.

The Telegraph says:

“His clients had claimed to be innocent farmers and labourers caught up in the 2004 Battle of Danny Boy, but were instead revealed to be members of the Mahdi Army, an Islamist insurgent group backed by Iran. A public inquiry eventually ruled that the allegations were malicious falsehoods driven by ‘ingrained hostility’ towards the British Army.

“Emails and documents show that Lord Hermer was acting on a ‘no win, no fee’ deal at double his usual fees. He stood to gain tens of thousands of pounds if the claims succeeded, or if the government agreed to lucrative taxpayer-funded settlements.”

The newspaper reports a “fee note” shows Hermer also planned to charge more than 3,000 pounds (about $NZ6900) for a few hours of work advising on a press conference at which the disgraced solicitor Phil Shiner invoked a massacre from the Vietnam War, accusing British troops of a “My Lai”-style atrocity. A disciplinary tribunal later found Shiner guilty of “reckless” misconduct over those comments.

In an earlier report, the Telegraph said that both the Conservatives’ shadow Justice Secretary and a former Defence Minister have requested that the Bar Standards Board investigate the part played by Hermer in the Iraq veteran persecution. Separately, Nigel Farage, Reform UK leader, has reported the Attorney General to the House of Lords’ standards commissioner, alleging that he was a “deeply unpatriotic man” and a threat to national security.
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April 24, 2026 2:11pm
- sungsamning
  
  Yeah, its just like that Aussie SAS bloke. One only has to look at the people who want him in jail to know without doubt who is right. And its not them. End of story!
  
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  April 24, 2026 3:51pm
Flossie

Glad to see National has put in a complaint about TVNZ reporter(s). About time. I have complained to TVNZ about their political reporters before but they refuse to see them as anything other than fair questioners.
This was back in the day when I did watch their news.
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April 24, 2026 3:50pm
- sungsamning
  
  Just withdraw their ‘news and current affairs’ funding. Problem solved.
  
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  April 24, 2026 3:52pm
  - H. Upmann
    
    …and sell them. Bargain @ $1.00.
    
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    April 24, 2026 6:45pm
- RoboRob
  
  Just looked that one up. Interestingly ‘The TVNZ spokesperson said the correct place for such complaints was with Parliament’s Speaker, not with TVNZ or on social media.’
  
  They actually have a point, the issue was apparently that they were in an area of parliament they shouldn’t have been in. So yeah, big Gerry could act. However ‘In a statement to RNZ, a spokesperson for Brownlee said he was aware of the alleged events but had no further involvement with the complaint.’, so yeah more weak sauce from Gerry.
  
  If the issue is within the purview of the speaker then National dont need to lodge a complaint with TVNZ (who based on their answer could care less). The speaker can take action. I have recently read that the speaker can actually imprison people! I’m not saying they should be failed but a few nights in a cell might be the go.
  
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  April 24, 2026 4:38pm
- Hugh Jarse
  
  A couple of Lion reds too many by the TVNZ team ?
  
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  April 24, 2026 5:17pm
  - keepcalmcarryon
    
    Chardonnay I’d say.
    
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    April 24, 2026 10:57pm
AitchW

At long last the government is pushing back against TVNZ’S blatant bias. Time for the speaker to get involved and sanction Sherman, the junior producer who was with her and put TVNZ on notice.
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April 24, 2026 5:15pm
- Ghost
  
  That just looks weak and scared of Tova, just as it looked weak and scared of Mike when Ardern pulled out of his show.
  
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  April 24, 2026 5:23pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    TVNZ, grifting on the taxpayer and crapping on them at the same time.
    
    ZB, privately funded.
    
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    April 24, 2026 5:52pm
  - keepcalmcarryon
    
    Actually agree with your unpopular view here Jacinda was lame for doing the same.
    Best way to look strong would be packing TVNZ and RNZ up to sell.
    Extra weak Luxo left it towards the end of the electoral term when TVNZ has been broadcasting anti right propaganda from the get go.
    Whatever.
    
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    April 24, 2026 6:22pm
Swifty

Excellent!

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/593350/christopher-luxon-cancels-weekly-tvnz-breakfast-slot-lodges-complaint-over-press-gallery-conduct

You either keep subjecting yourself to their shit or walk away.

Walking away is the lesser of two evils in my view – there are many, many other ways to reach the citizenry.
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April 24, 2026 5:39pm
- septic skeptic
  
  A good move. Maybe he will work out that there is no point in him forcing us taxpayers to pay for this shite.
  
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  April 24, 2026 8:59pm
Ghost

Not sure I’d call it remote, but hey, the more the better

Burned-out doctors are leaving the US for a remote town in New Zealand

Four years ago, Dr. Brandon Williams, an internal-medicine doctor at a hospital in La Jolla, Calif., reached a breaking point. An increase in patients, not enough medical staff, the threat of malpractice lawsuits, and distress about patients’ inability to pay for healthcare got so bad that he developed post-traumatic stress disorder. One of his colleagues died by suicide….

The family sold their house and moved in November 2024 to the coastal town of Timaru on New Zealand’s South Island, which has become a hub for American doctors moving to the country. “I’d never thought of leaving the U.S.,” said Brandon. “I’d never even thought of leaving California.”

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April 24, 2026 6:59pm
David Garrett

Gathering for the dawn service in Tonga. Tongqns served in both World Wars.

My personal remembrance is the 55,000 young men who died in Bomber Command, 1800 of whom were
New Zealanders
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April 25, 2026 4:26am
Quail

DG,
This is not a competition,at all,
But my wife lost two uncles , one driving an ammunition truck in North Africa and the other flying a Spitfire in the Battle of Britain – the latter buried in Belgium.The other?
I have three given names of soldiers who went to WW 2 from NZ. Only one came back. Of the others one died in Italy and the other was last seen being marched along an island beach by Japanese after bailing out of his plane.
That was four lost from two families.
Other NZ families losses were much greater!
Their citizenship was paid for in blood.
It really makes me grieve when “ indigenous people” tell me that these families are somehow just a guest in NZ , that somehow ,because another race who arrived a bit earlier , they are special and deserve more consideration.
ANZAC day is a day of remembrance , a day when “One country, One people and One law “should be celebrated!
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