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peterwn

As well as no longer giving regular Monday interviews to TVNZ, Chris Luxon should partially defund TVNZ and consider gong the whole hog and selling it.
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April 25, 2026 8:18am
- Homeworker
  
  I think you mean give it away as it is currently worthless but financially and from the quality of its ‘journalism’.
  
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  April 25, 2026 8:25am
- Im Right
  
  To be honest peterwn, the left would wail and scream if it was sold, but I believe the majority of the public would not care, I don’t think it would be such a vote loser if it was sold by this govt.
  I believe the NZ public have been ‘over’ TVNZ for a number of years.
  (I suspect the left (voters) would all decry it’s selling as it’s a NZ institution and the usual bumper sticker catch cry of ‘attacking democracy’…even if those same lefties haven’t watched it for years)
  
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  April 25, 2026 8:26am
  - Paulus
    
    NZME have hit it after the PIJF now calling it
    “Local Democracy Reporting”,
    Problem is they have no concept of what democracy is.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:38pm
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  It would have been a free hit early in their term with public support for real change.
  Luxon couldn’t even find anything in the treaty principles bill to like, there’s no way he’s got the stones to do this now.
  
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  April 25, 2026 8:27am
- septic skeptic
  
  I honestly thought it would be on the “first 100 days” list for the coalition this term. Maybe next time? Though it would certainly be interesting to see the effect of announcing it right now. Would the howling by the journalists and lefties actually amount to any lost votes?
  
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  April 25, 2026 8:31am
  - Paulus
    
    No !~
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:38pm
- Souvlaki
  
  Yes…and while the Govt is on a role…withdraw ALL taxpayer fuding to this odious group of thugs…item from RNZ:
  https://share.google/I3kxlYir4PdKAhvqH
  
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  April 25, 2026 8:35am
  - David Garrett
    
    …”On a ROLL” dear boy…A role is something you play on the stage…or perhaps elsewhere.
    
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    April 25, 2026 8:53am
    - Nikola Donatello
      
      Yes. The phrase likely comes from gambling and rolling dice, where a player who keeps winning is literally “on a roll,” and by extension from the idea that once something starts rolling, it keeps going until stopped.
      
      However I would argue that there is no lexicological basis for the using the term “roll” in this context. Any decision by the government to did us of these institutions requires fortitude, not luck.
      
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      April 25, 2026 10:26am
    - Souvlaki
      
      yeah…a typo,which I recognised as soon as sent….but to “correct”..sends the comment to “moderation”…and thus deemed “not worth the hassle”;)
      
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      April 25, 2026 10:52am
      - CJames
        
        I have found that correcting typos puts it back up straight away, not sending it to moderation, so maybe there is a filter on the size of the change.
        
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        April 25, 2026 11:22am
      - Jack5
        
        Talking of roles, Mr Garrett, are you one of the good volunteers who moderate Kiwiblog as helpers of DPF?
        
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        April 25, 2026 12:46pm
      - CJames
        
        I don’t think DG is a moderator as he has been pulled up a few times and even had comments severely edited with a note about not to make it personal or stay on topic.
        My view is moderators should rarely if ever make a personal comment. If DG did this, we would lose some valuable insights.
        
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        April 25, 2026 3:38pm
      - David Garrett
        
        Souv: No Sir, I am not a Mod…a few have put my name forward, but I’m the shit stirrer the boys promoted as a prefect!
        
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        April 25, 2026 4:21pm
    - Paulus
      
      Depemds what is in the Roll –
      
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      April 25, 2026 12:39pm
- yossarian
  
  It beggars belief that National continue to provide tax payer funding to an organisation that actively seeks to remove them from office?
  
  Would a private company continue a relationship with an advertising agency that continued to advertise how great the company’s opposition is and continuely run the company thats paying their bills down?
  
  That’s why National are losing votes, and I don’t know who is advising them and I thought Labour was amateur hour but these guys take the cake. I seriously can’t respect a political party that is so stupid.
  
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  April 25, 2026 9:15am
  - Warren Murray
    
    Or put it another non partisan way, Is TVNZ and RNZ giving taxpayers value for money? When trust in media is so low, I’d be interested in knowing what the value for money KPIs might be that justify throwing more borrowed money T them.
    
    It seems most msm are hardcore incubators for pushing leftist agendas and any news that they might publish is of secondary importance.
    
    I may be wrong but since the PIJF was set up, news standards and trust generally seems to have worsened.
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:34am
- AitchW
  
  TVNZ receives no government money.
  
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  April 25, 2026 9:28am
  - Warren Murray
    
    But capital was put in by the taxpayer between 2022-24 no dividends were received and since then the dividends are paltry.
    
    Other Govt bodies at the very least have a capital charge applied that recognises the opportunity cost of the capital those departments represent.
    
    Then there’s revenue from Govt – advertising from the likes of ACC, NZTA etc.
    
    As trust in TVNZ (and media not owned by the Govt) falls, the value in using these channels for advertising reduces.
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:44am
  - Jack5
    
    AitchW’s … TVNZ receives no government money…
    
    But the 2024 and 2025 annual reports of TVNZ show it received program funding from the Government in these years of: 2024, $5.18 million; 2025, $7.86 million.
    
    Juicier stuff from the 2025 annual report: three employees were paid half a million dollars or more; 12 employees were paid $300,000 or more.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:38pm
  - AitchW
    
    Why the downticks? TVNZ lives on advertising revenue!
    
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    April 25, 2026 2:56pm
- Scooter
  
  He should go on The Platform at least once before the election. He certainly hasn’t won any votes by going with lefty media types.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:02am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    It is so depressing that he will not go on the Platform. And revealing.
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:37am
- Nikola Donatello
  
  It should certainly be sold. But what do you mean by “defunded”? It receives 95 percent of its revenue from commercial advertising. It is profitable, although barely, and since 2025 has recommenced dividend payments to the crown.
  
  So yes please sell it. But it cannot be “defunded” in the same way that RNZ certainly can be.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:19am
  - I remember when
    
    If the opposition parties oppose the sale, perhaps it could be suggested that the Labour, Greens and Te Pati Maori should buy RNZ and TV1.
    It would be an ideal opportunity for them to display their business acumen.
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:59am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  should have been sold 15 years ago when it was still worth something. Now its just a liability.
  
  It is perturbing that TVNZ and RNZ both thought it was a good idea to hire prominent left-wing activists to front their political commentary during election year. Are they so confident that they will never be held to account for their behaviour?
  
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  April 25, 2026 12:07pm
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    Yes I believe that they are confident they can carry on forever esp RNZ.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:50pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Chuckle. It’s April, 2008 and DPF is righteously pissed off, A total beatup on One News last night.
    
    But that’s actually a link to my comment:
    
    Why on earth is any right-winger surprised by this event.
    
    We have an Oldsmobile TV network that is slowly dying along with it’s demographic, as it plays an endless stream of British drama and comedy to middle-aged and oldies who grew up with the NZBC. It’s missed the change in the youth market and this sort of stuff is an attempt to catch up with TV3 in that area, while Youtube and co. relentlessly grow in influence with better Internet connections.
    
    They’re doomed and the probably know it now. They will increasingly be dependent on government revenue for their survival and know that at some stage they might simply be shut down by a future right-wing government as yet another useless government department. After all – how many right-wingers can honestly say that they see much of their values reflected in what iis shown.
    
    Forget privatisation, that train left the station a long time ago even if National had the appetite for it. TV1 and TV2 just really are not worth selling. At some future stage their ‘market’ value might drop to the point that somebody would risk picking them up – but that will be someway down the line and by the time any future government realises, probably no price will reflect how useless they are.
    
    Admittedly the sweet spot would have been 1999 when Jenny and co. might have got a billion for the POS.
    
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    April 25, 2026 7:34pm
- redeye
  
  Selling TVNZ would need NZ First’s tick. And they are fundamentally against the sale of any public assets. If a concrete proposal to sell TVNZ ever emerged, everything in Peters’ and the party’s record points to strong opposition.
  
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  April 25, 2026 12:43pm
- Graeme Hall
  
  Agree, privatise it. Get rid of the staff, sell the equipment, sell the furniture, but don’t sell the name or the spectrum. Make any audience they have left tune to a new channel.
  
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  April 25, 2026 2:35pm
Yvette

Govt risks another colossal hīkoi if it weakens Treaty obligations
… Northland leader Pita Tipene has described it as “the Treaty Principles Bill by stealth”.
This proposal is very different, but he argues it has the same effect of “undermining Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”
His iwi, Ngāti Hine, has now filed an urgent claim with the Waitangi Tribunal. The Tribunal has yet to grant an urgent hearing, but it marks the first indication of the kind of legal challenge officials warned could follow.
And it mirrors the early response from Māori when the Treaty Principles Bill was first proposed.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/24/govt-risks-another-colossal-hikoi-if-it-weakens-treaty-obligations/

• Perhaps the most momentous statement by Maori since 1987 when the Treaty was deemed “akin to a partnership” by Justice Cooke, was that of the Maori king that “there’s no principles, the Treaty is written. That’s it”.
In one sentence the ‘principles of the Treaty’ which have been expounded, extrapolated and written into legislation, are gone.

Perhaps the Maori Queen, now that her year of silence is over, could state if she believes her father was right or wrong.
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April 25, 2026 8:20am
- I remember when
  
  An ideal opportunity to test the ‘nobody is allowed to cross the Auckland Harbour bridge on foot’ rule.
  
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  April 25, 2026 12:01pm
  - AitchW
    
    The rabble will cross the bridge with or without official approval.
    None will be prosecuted.
    
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    April 25, 2026 2:57pm
- I remember when
  
  To late for a ‘Treaty Principles Bill by stealth,” the stealth is already in full swing
  
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  April 25, 2026 12:43pm
- Paulus
  
  Does not the Waitangi Tribunal have some 3,500 decisions yet to be acted upon by the Goverment, as the Tribunal is but a Maori grievance place only to make recommendations.
  Whwn Maori finally takeover Aotearoa then they will enact all.
  
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  April 25, 2026 12:45pm
Scott

peter – couldn’t agree more about the govt selling TVNZ. It’s a reliable source of Labour Party talking points and loses no opportunity to attack the right leaning coalition.
While they are there they could sell Radio NZ as well which if anything is more left winged biased than TVNZ.

The state broadcaster is a mouthpiece of the left. Why should a right leaning govt put up with them?
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April 25, 2026 8:25am
David Garrett

Just finished breakfast at the NZ High Comm residence after the dawn service. The “breakfast” sure as hell didn’t cost you taxpayers down there very much! Hardly worth going.

The service – run this year by the NZ army – went off very well, although one of the organizers told me a lot of things went wrong. It certainly was not noticeable.

Tongans served in both World Wars although, not being a colony, they had no obligation to do so. I chatted with one Tongan guy whose Dad served with New Zealanders in North Africa. He got malaria there, which apparently troubled him all his life.

Very good turnout both by locals and ex pats. The Tongan army band is superb – even if some of their instruments look somewhat battered and worn.

All the best to those who turned out down there -well done all.
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April 25, 2026 8:26am
- David Garrett
  
  …and Anzac Day for me would not be complete without a tribute to the 55,573 brave young men – hardly into their adult lives – who died in Bomber Command in WW II – 1800 of them New Zealanders.
  
  New Zealand airmen of all ranks served in Bomber Command, including the late Les Munro who was a pilot with the “Dambusters” from 617 squadron. He set out on the raid but had to turn back after a collision with a power pilon caused him to lose communication with all his crew. It would have been impossible to bomb from 60 feet with no communication.
  
  The average age of a Lancaster bomber pilot was 21 – which meant that some were 20. A 21 year old with responsibility for the lives of six other men. There are numerous stories of pilots who kept crippled aircraft in the air knowing they would be killed so their fellows could bail out.
  
  I shed a tear every Anzac Day for those boys – and they were boys, at least in age. In deeds they were the finest of men. I very much doubt I could have done what they did. Mostly all gone now of course.
  
  In short oral histories at Motat, the majority say “I have been living on borrowed time since [the day their aircraft was attacked, but they escaped death]”
  
  What a generation those men were.
  
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  April 25, 2026 8:46am
  - Red Rooster
    
    DG. There is a great book called “Lancaster Boys” written from an Australian perspective but also including NZ and Canadian men. Around 25% of total Australian casualties in WW2 were in bomber command. They stayed on in Europe when Australia withdrew its troops to the pacific theatre and after the war the bomber command returnees were generally put down because they stayed in the “comfort” of Europe while the rest of Australians fought in the jungles of South East Asia and New Guinea. Bit sad really. As an aside the scrap over the Australians going home was not Churchill’s finest hour. He tried to divert them to Burma on the way home where they would have arrived as the Japanese took over. Their equipment was on another ship. It would have been a major tragedy. Luckily The Australian government gave the Brits the middle finger, something we should have done more of I think. I think the shadow of Gallipoli and decisions in WW1 weighed on The Australian attitude.
    
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    April 25, 2026 9:08am
  - rouppe
    
    That would be a PYLON , wouldn’t it?
    
    Dear boy…
    
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    April 25, 2026 9:31am
  - greybeard
    
    “Pylon” dear boy: I have no idea what a “pilon” may be.
    
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    April 25, 2026 9:34am
    - Nikola Donatello
      
      Yes well spotted. However I am sure that is a typographical error. We all make those.
      
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      April 25, 2026 10:29am
    - David Garrett
      
      Grey: You got me! I plead having to rise at 4.30 am in order to be seated at the dawn service by 5.30
      
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      April 25, 2026 10:30am
    - Wandering Star
      
      [Mod – your account will be unlocked after ANZAC weekend, when you come back you can stop this grudge you have carried against David under every account you’ve had. posting under a new account will extend your ban]
      
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      April 25, 2026 10:30am
      - Aquarius
        
        Mod – PLEASE don’t unlock that account !!!!
        
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        April 25, 2026 11:56am
      - CJames
        
        From the moderator’s comment, can we assume WS was posting under a number of accounts? If so, he may be one of those pests that infect the blog from time to time, just to wind up others into making intemperate remarks.
        
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        April 25, 2026 3:41pm
  - herb1
    
    My uncle was a Lancaster pilot who died at age 23 , shot down returning from a bombing raid over Frankfurt. All crew killed . My Aunty was pregnant and my cousin never saw his father. My mother remembered vividly the knock on the door when the telegram arrived . Very sad and when you look at war memorials particularly in small towns and see the names often from one family, it makes you realise the scale of losses. NZ in WW1 had highest casualty rate per capita
    
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    April 25, 2026 9:37am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      I knew a girl when I was a kid, her father had been killed when her mother was pregnant.
      
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      April 25, 2026 2:51pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      My Uncle Joe Murphy was a navigator in Lancasters – shot down 3 times, escaped twice – spent a year or so in a Stalag Luft.
      Real character – typical Irishman.
      Chesterton’s take on the Irish:
      – The Celtic men of Ireland
      Are the ones that God made mad;
      For their wars are always happy,
      And their songs are always sad.
      Uncle Joe to a ‘T’.
      
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      April 25, 2026 5:24pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    The organisation with the next highest % loss was the Merchant Navy.
    
    Read about the Arctic Convoys described by Churchill as “The worst journey in the world”
    
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    April 25, 2026 9:47am
  - Wandering Star
    
    [Mod – give it a break today]
    
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    April 25, 2026 10:41am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Just read Guy Gibson’s Enemy Coast ahead. The death toll in the Bomber Command was horrendous.
    
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    April 25, 2026 2:49pm
Tomtoddy

Imagine if some high ranking white person had used a public platform to mock Indians as this rascist – Che Wilson did in a recent haka, All hell would have let loose.

This two rules option – one for Māori and one for the rest of us has to stop before it results in bloodshed.
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April 25, 2026 8:53am
- David Garrett
  
  Tom: Sooner or later Indian and Chinese New Zealanders – particularly those who are born here – are going to cry “enough” to subsidising Maoris when they themselves are hard working and self sufficient.
  
  In the village near Rancho Garrett a Chinese family run the general store and one of the two liquor stores. The oldest son has both an engineering and a law degree. The daughter is some kind of medical specialist in Australia. The youngest son – who works for a bank – has just bought his first house at age 22.
  
  They are the most respected family in the village – by a country mile. None of them openly moan about indolent and criminal Maori….who knows what they say behind closed doors?
  
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  April 25, 2026 9:02am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    I have thought about that but I don’t see it happening. The Maori population is also growing. I don’t think that we can rely on the Chinese to save the day. Only the government can do that. And it sure as hell is not this government.
    
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    April 25, 2026 10:32am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      The Asian population (Combined Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Indian) of NZ already surpasses that of Maori…and is growing at a faster rate.
      
      Asian pop – 20.8%
      maori pop – 17.4%
      
      https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/asian-ethnic-population-projected-to-increase/
      
      I suspect this is why we are seeing such nasty rhetoric against our fellow citizens of Asian ethnicity.
      They are no longer content to be treated as punching-bags and shop-lifting victims by the thugs and thieves in our country.
      
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      April 25, 2026 11:01am
      - Nikola Donatello
        
        Yes good point. I’m just suggesting that finally rescuing us from all the destructive drama we see now flowing from the Treaty will require action from a government.
        
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        April 25, 2026 11:40am
    - pdm
      
      ND unfortunately you missed a word.
      
      I am sure you meant – `The Part Maori population is also growing’.
      
      An add on could even have been – `the ever diluted Part Maori Population is growing’.
      
      Full blooded Maori ceased to exist many years. As I understand it the late Maori lady (second) wife of an Uncle of mine was the daughter of one of the last full blooded Maori from the Wairarapa and she was born in 1937.
      
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      April 25, 2026 11:58am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Yep, Maori have been assimilated into the general population much like most immigrants since the treaty.
        
        The ‘Maori’ we hear of from the activists is a political movement that feed off the misery of those with Maori heritage.
        
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        April 25, 2026 12:11pm
      - Nikola Donatello
        
        Where I live it is very much Maori vs the rest. The partnership. Maori are sovereign. Maori folk have Maori flags on their front lawn.
        
        I see a sharp, unhappy division.
        
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        April 25, 2026 12:53pm
  - PurplePen
    
    Probably time to tea ramp up that complaint. From the AG’s Office: 2000s–2010s targeted spending on Maori about $600M/yr. 2021–2026 over $1B/yr.
    
    Maori Asset Base $126B in 2023.
    
    Welfare: 2023, government grants, social benefits (available to all citizens) 33% of Māori household income, 9% for non-Māori.
    
    Population that identify as Maori about 900k.
    
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    April 25, 2026 3:37pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  To think that taxpayer$ paid for this raci$t Shit…
  
  The Te Matatini stage was used as “a racist weapon” in a haka that translates in part as: “bloody curry Indian, dark skinned, oily, racist, roti eater”,
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/593371/te-matatini-stage-used-as-a-racist-weapon-group-claims-as-new-translations-of-haka-emerge
  
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  April 25, 2026 9:24am
  - Swifty
    
    What a stinking hypocrite Shaneel Lal is – he’s spent his entire adulthood in the country which welcomed him stereotyping entire races (European), genders (male) and sexualities (straight).
    
    He’s in fact created a whole lifestyle and income from doing exactly that.
    
    On top of that he’s got a terrible and lengthy documented record of online abuse, bullying and name-calling of other New Zealanders.
    
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    April 25, 2026 9:45am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Shaneel Lal needs to learn some history.
      
      He seems to be ignorant of that fact that straight, Christian Pakeha folk like Prof Jim Robb (and thousands of others) spent decades fighting for gay and trans rights in NZ .
      
      https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/45770/jim-robb-first-sociology-professor
      
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      April 25, 2026 1:49pm
  - Boy Geoff
    
    Hey Maggy, it’s wonderful to see the Reo as a vivid, flourishing, adaptable, modern language, huh?
    
    Long live the taonga!
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:34am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      What is very telling is that Tama Potaka is a fluent Te Reo speaker and he couldn’t understand the words in the racist haka.
      
      “I didn’t catch all the words and understand the haka when I saw it, so it’s a bit premature for me to comment.”
      
      When pressed, though, to make a judgment on the response and criticism, he reiterated that he didn’t fully grasp its meaning.
      
      https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/23/my-heart-crumbled-maoriindian-academic-calls-out-racism-after-haka-backlash/
      
      Either the haka contained nonsense te Reo or Tama Potaka is afraid to offend the Tainui-Waikato power base.
      
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      April 25, 2026 1:25pm
KH

Sick of the media. Interviewing their keyboards and inventing a leadership problem with the Nats. There was no story.
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April 25, 2026 8:58am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That’s Liam Hehir’s view:
  
  here is a question that no journalist I have talked to has really been willing to answer:
  
  Were it not for the intense media speculation about what was going to happen, based on what appears to be a false premises, would the leadership vote have happened at all?
  
  https://thebluereview.substack.com/p/causing-what-you-cover
  
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  April 25, 2026 11:26am
  - Ian Boag
    
    Come on. There is no facts-based answer to that question. All feelz.
    
    Polls in the toilet always generate a bit of leadership angst. It’s news. Should the MSM have ignored it? Pretended there was nothing to see?
    
    There are even people on KB who think he should be gone. Go figure.
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:53am
- Boy Geoff
  
  No story! Doesn’t TVNZ (Maiki) have a different angle on things?
  
  I wonder if Maiki’s lawyering up at the moment?
  
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  April 25, 2026 11:42am
  - Paulus
    
    I assume Maiki S waits to be selcted for a safe Labour set even as a Maori of mixed provenance.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:49pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

In France, two spikes in the daily highest temperature at one of the Paris airports have seen gamblers win big on Polymarket.

Hairdryers near the sensor are suspected.

It’s a mad world.

Source: The Telegraph
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April 25, 2026 9:15am
- JackRabbit
  
  Any sensors near an airport usually read high.
  
  Just as rain sensors in swimming pool showers record highest every humidity levels.
  
  Temperature sensors for recording average air temperatures are always positioned by professionals away from urban heat islands.
  
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  April 25, 2026 1:37pm
  - CJames
    
    In that case, very few if any meteorological organisations are professionals. There are numerous examples throughout the world of official sites that recorded record conditions found to not meet siting criteria.
    Best one was probably the one that recorded a record high in Scotland found to be next to where the exhaust was for the icecream van that parked there!
    https://www.cnet.com/science/scotland-almost-broke-its-high-temperature-record-but-it-was-just-a-parked-car/
    
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    April 25, 2026 3:50pm
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  Sounds like they are following the science lol.
  
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  April 25, 2026 6:18pm
lastmanstanding

I wonder if the US strategy as regards Iran will work. At the moment both sides are playing chicken waiting for the other to blink. The problem as I see it is the Iran leadership are not your normal enemy. They dont care a stuff about their people only themselves. They may decide to wait it out until the US either caves in to their demands or starts a long and bloody campaign to get rid of the Leadership. I cant see Trump doing that with the mid terms looming. Lots of body bags coming home would not play out well to the US citizens.
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April 25, 2026 9:19am
- Dougal10
  
  Most soldiers only believe in a cause while they are getting paid , the team that will win this are the ones with the deepest pockets.
  
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  April 25, 2026 9:31am
- All_on_Red
  
  The Iranians are days away from having no more capacity to store the Oil they are pumping. Then they will have to turn things off, which will have a catastrophic effect on those wells.
  It could take them months if not years to get them going again. Its estimated they will lose half their production capacity. The loss of income will be enormous.
  The reason the blockade will work has nothing to do with Geopolitics but Reservoir Physics.
  And money.
  
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  April 25, 2026 9:37am
  - Taieri
    
    Then they will have to turn things off, which will have a catastrophic effect on those wells.
    ————–
    
    And further catastrophic effects on our wallets…
    
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    April 25, 2026 10:27am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Buy the Oil elsewhere.
      The Sauds have increased output on their Red Sea pipeline from 1.5m BPD to 7m BPD
      The US is also increasing production.
      Venezuela is also increasing production courtesy of Chevron who have been working on that for months.
      The big loser is China.
      
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      April 25, 2026 11:13am
      - Taieri
        
        The big loser is China
        —————
        
        China’s economy accelerated in the first quarter of this year, expanding 5% from a year earlier as it largely shrugged off impacts from the Iran war so far, according to data released Thursday.
        
        https://apnews.com/article/china-economy-data-growth-e1dbb6d542c6c1b17f99671f4dcc7d81
        
        Crude Oil Production in Venezuela increased to 1095 BBL/D/1K in March from 1021 BBL/D/1K in February of 2026.
        
        https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/crude-oil-production
        
        This is a very small increase, which is not going to change much. At its peak in the 1990’s the production was about 3.5M barrels per day. Full recovery of Venezuela’s oil industry faces significant difficulties due to the neglected state of its infrastructure. It is going to take years rather than months and require very significant investments.
        
        Saudi Arabia’s oil supply to the market fell to 7,763 thousand barrels per day in March 2026, the lowest since June 2020, down by 2,348 tb/d from 10,111 tb/d in February, according to OPEC data
        
        https://tradingeconomics.com/saudi-arabia/crude-oil-production
        
        Increased US production doesn’t solve the problem as exports are likely to be constricted by the physical limitations in oil terminals. The Gulf ports can’t handle the largest vessels, most of them can only accommodate vessels up to Aframax size (80-120K metric tonnes deadweight).
        
        Meanwhile, the US strategic oil reserves are at the lowest level since 1982.
        
        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planned-release-of-strategic-reserve-would-put-u-s-supplies-at-lowest-levels-in-44-years/
        
        So, keep dreaming, unlike petroleum products, it’s still free…
        
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        April 25, 2026 11:48am
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        China being the big loser is the purpose of the years work by the USA.
        
        Taiwan is looking safer by the day.
        
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        April 25, 2026 12:35pm
      - AitchW
        
        Venezuelan oil is pretty crappy. Thick, high sulphur and other contaminants. Tricky to refine because of the metal contaminants and the sulphur makes it corrosive.
        ME oil by comparison is light and sweet, ie low sulphur.
        
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        April 25, 2026 3:03pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        You are naive believing Chinas numbers
        They are going backwards
        As for the US 171 tankers are booked for deliveries in May
        
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        April 25, 2026 9:50pm
  - david in Aus
    
    If Iranians were primarily motivated by money, they would have given up years ago. The pre-existing sanctions were devastating. The inflation rate in 2025 was 50%. The last shipments from the Middle East have now arrived. So there will be ongoing depletion of buffers. Crude oil prices are going to steadily increase, and market manipulation will no longer work. The Iranians are betting once crude oil price reaches over $150-$200, Trump is going to be more flexible.
    
    I would be very surprised if there is going to be any settlement until the pain is unbearable. Unfortunately, with how the plumbing of the world oil system works. Once an agreement is made it is going to take two to three months to see relief.
    
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    April 25, 2026 10:34am
    - All_on_Red
      
      You’ve been promising $150-200 for quite some time…
      And the US doesnt need any of their Oil.
      China does…
      Petrol got to $5 a Gallon on a couple of occaisons during Obama and Biden. Its currently at $4.
      As for saying the US will lose ‘friends’ in Europe and the UK, given how those countries havent supported the US then I really dont think they care. Why should they as those countries policies have contributed to the position they now find themselves in.
      Btw I heard that the US has sent Tankers of diesel to OZ to help out.
      Lastly despots who run out of money to pay their soldiers dont usually last long.
      
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      April 25, 2026 11:21am
      - Taieri
        
        the US will lose ‘friends’ in Europe and the UK, given how those countries havent supported the US
        ————-
        
        Haven’t they? And who has been underwriting the greenback over all these years of living high?
        
        The top three estimated foreign holders of federal debt by country, ranked in descending order as of December 2025, are Japan ($1.2 trillion), the United Kingdom ($0.9 trillion), and China ($0.7 trillion)
        
        https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/RS/HTML/RS22331.web.html
        
        Total all foreign investment in federal debt is $9,2 trillion. European countries hold approx. 40% of that. The foreign held debt is almost one third of the total annual US GDP.
        
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        April 25, 2026 12:00pm
      - Tom Hunter
        
        The top three estimated foreign holders of federal debt by country,…
        
        Who will they sell that to?
        
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        April 25, 2026 9:53pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        So?
        Whats your point
        They can do nothing
        The US is still the Gorilla in the room with the worlds most powerful economy and thats why those countries have invested
        
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        April 25, 2026 9:55pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘A record armada of crude oil tankers is steaming toward the U.S. Gulf Coast in April 2026. Maritime intelligence from Windward shows roughly 171 crude tankers en route—well above the typical monthly average of about 110. Market data firm Kpler reports that 28 Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), each capable of hauling up to 2 million barrels, have already been fixed for May loadings alone, compared with a normal monthly average of just five.
        
        This surge is driven by global supply disruptions, particularly rerouting around the Strait of Hormuz amid recent geopolitical tensions. Asian and European buyers are turning to stable U.S. supplies. U.S. Gulf Coast crude loadings are tracking near 4.9 million barrels per day (mbpd) in April and are projected to exceed 5 mbpd in May—the highest sustained levels on record.’
        More info in the link
        https://energynewsbeat.com/crude-oil/tanker-fleet-knocking-at-the-gulf-of-america-but-what-are-they-buying-and-for-whom-tanker-fleet-knocking-at-the-gulf-of-america-but-what-are-they-buying-and-for-whom/
        
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        April 25, 2026 10:13pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        You people make me laugh with your belief about China
        How is BYD doing?
        Oh wait
        ‘China’s electric vehicle powerhouse, BYD, has seen nearly $45 billion in market value wiped out in a sharp selloff that stunned investors. The decline is more than just a market hiccup. It has exposed cracks in the story of China’s booming EV industry and stirred doubts about how sustainable the growth really is.’
        
        Read more at:
        https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/yesterdays-darling-chinas-ace-ev-maker-byd-suffers-45-billion-stock-sell-off-what-really-happened/articleshow/123900901.cms?
        I’m glad I didnt buy one
        Spare parts anyone?
        
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        April 25, 2026 10:17pm
- Paulus
  
  The Oil in tanks etc at Kharg Island is cooling and will soon be unable to be used as needs to flow to keep alive.
  
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  April 25, 2026 9:46am
- Warren Murray
  
  The answer depends on how you define success. Both protagonists are conducting a siege. The USN is in a strong position to run a successful blockade of Iranian ports. Iran’s economy has been badly affected by sanctions for decades but the regime clings on. Cuba has shown that sanctions can take a very long time to achieve the desired result. As another person has commented, once Iranian storage is full, they have to stop production from their wells and that’s not a trivial issue. And, when the storage facilities are full they make tempting targets.
  
  By comparison Iran can counter the US blockade with its own blockade. But while it causes considerable pain on international markets, it only reduces supply, whereas the US blockade can completely stop Iranian exports (and imports).
  
  But the bigger picture means we must consider the strategic objectives of the US (and Israel) which is to stop Iran enriching uranium to weapons grade levels.
  
  Essentially the US is trying to do something impossible. Suppressing knowledge / technology has never been successful (I challenge anyone to cite an example where such a strategy has succeeded). The US is on the horns of a dilemma: attempt the impossible (deny Iran the bomb) or let Iran have the bomb and forever regret having failed to prevent it.
  
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  April 25, 2026 12:09pm
- MCōs
  
  America lost the Vietnam War because they weren’t prepared to keep fighting for thirty years.
  Pick a war, any war, and there ain’t too many the aggressors win because it’s just too hard to dislodge people fighting for their homeland.
  
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  April 25, 2026 12:42pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    The Vietnam war became politicised. The military were constrained to fully invade, consequently it dragged on for -11 years?
    
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    April 25, 2026 1:49pm
  - Jack5
    
    China would be a really vast giant opponent if there was war in Asia today.
    
    The Japanese Army in 1939 to 1945 failed to take all of China.
    
    General Douglas Macarthur was supreme commander of allied forces in the South-West Pacific in World War 2. He was virtual ruler of Japan for America from 1945 to 1951.
    
    Macarthur interviewed many of the old Japanese commanders about their China war, which tied down hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops.
    
    In April 1961, President Kennedy sought and held a private meeting with Macarthur, about France’s Indo-China war.
    
    Macarthur advised against a military build-up in Vietnam. Kennedy recorded MacArthur’s advice in a document now housed at the Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.
    
    Kennedy wrote: “MacArthur believes it would be a mistake to fight in Laos,” and that “anyone wanting to commit ground troops to Asia should have his head examined.”
    
    https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/a-new-take-on-general-macarthurs-warning-to-jfk-to-avoid-a-land-war-in-asia/
    
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    April 25, 2026 2:52pm
- David George
  
  The Israelis are brilliant at high precision targeting of terrorist leadership. As well as piling on the economic pressure, taking out the IIRGC top dogs will be the next major move, IMHO.
  There is already a split, with the elected politicians and regular army bullied into compliance and at odds with the IIRG faction. A full, or even partial, revolt and defection to the Iranian people’s cause would be a great thing.
  
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  April 25, 2026 1:18pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    “The Israelis are brilliant at high precision targeting of terrorist leadership.”
    
    No they aren’t.
    If they were, they wouldn’t kill so many civilians.
    
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    April 25, 2026 3:30pm
    - David George
      
      About 1600 (amounts vary 1400 to 1,900) civilians killed thus far in the Iran war.
      Way less than the tens of thousands of protestors mowed down by the Regime thugs prior to the war even starting.
      Iranians safer in a war than being at the mercy of their own government?
      
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      April 25, 2026 4:29pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        So they aren’t brilliant then…
        
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        April 25, 2026 5:39pm
      - David George
        
        That level of civilian casualties is extraordinarily low.
        Israel alone dropped 18,000 bombs, over 10,800 separate strikes on 4,00 targets and conducted 8,500 fighter jet sorties targeted at military and command structures.
        
        By contrast Iran and it’s proxies deliberately target civilian areas in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and, in the case of Israel itself, have been raining tens of thousands of missiles and rockets and committing actual invasion (Oct. 7) of civilian areas for decades.
        There is a massive difference in both outcome and intent.
        
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        April 26, 2026 8:03am
RoboRob

PM Luxon cancels regular appearances on tvnz Breakfast.

I ask all those here to reflect back on what they wrote when JA ceased appearances with Mike Hosking. We should apply the same standards with our team as we do with the opposition.

Personally I think what Luxon has done is worse. JA went for years with Hosking, taking an absolute beating on a regular basis before she gave up. She had the fall back of multiple friendly media outlets. Luxon appeared perhaps three times with Tova. It is six months out from an election and he is reducing his media appearances. He is leaving Hipkins with a regular TV appearance.

The only explanation is he can’t hack interviews by Tova. It’s not about state owned Vs non state owned. It’s not about payback for tvnz harassing the National whip, that’s just a smokescreen. This is Luxon being strong as I see the fan bois spinning.

Before you down vote me think about what you would say about Hipkins if he was pm and did this.
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April 25, 2026 9:59am
- Manu-Rau
  
  Don’t be silly. We all know Toxic Tova would never do this to Hipkins.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:18am
  - RoboRob
    
    Try watching the show. She also gave Hipkins hard questions. I doubt will continue now.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:01pm
- Gussy
  
  Luxon is unskilled in the art of rhetoric.
  Shame, really.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:19am
- mister nui
  
  100% correct.
  
  This only reinforces what I wrote a couple of days back about Luxon being weak and wet.
  
  It’s a given that Tova is a partisan hack with no substance of actual journalism to herself. She believes in race based policies, couldn’t describe the functioning or fundamentals of an economy to save herself. But, if Luxon had any stones whatsoever, he would fight back at her.
  
  We keep getting told how smart and clever Luxon is, by the likes of the small bloke from Dunedin, but he never fights his corner to articulate it.
  
  Luxon is fucking the national party, but, maybe because he belongs in labour, that’s what he wants.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:28am
- pdm
  
  RR I think there is a huge difference between Ardern and Luxon withdrawing from Monday morning interviews.
  
  In Arderns case she was almost always incapable of answering straight forward basic questions about what her government was doing.
  
  With Luxon TVNZ and Tova in particular but, lets not forget Tova’s predecessors (as I understand it because I have never watched breakfast TV) set traps for Luxon which he through naiveity walked into. Then they relentlessly got in his face and hounded him for the answers they wanted to hear.
  
  Therefore a huge difference.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:29am
  - Jethrod
    
    It was interesting with Mike H, he basically steamrolled her by speaking so fast and keeping at her so she really didn’t have time to think.
    I recall her “Mike, Mike ….Miiike” So funny.
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:59am
  - RoboRob
    
    Sure the Breakfast questions weren’t good but ANY politician could easily deal with them. Proven by the fact that many on all sides of the isle regularly do. Hoskings is far more difficult as they were fact based and he is probably the top remaining interviewer in the country.
    
    The action is the same, a sitting PM cancelling a regular media appointment because it got too hard. It’s not a good look. I see people down voting me and again think about what you are saying. It was pathetic when JA did it and we celebrated her incompetence, now because it is Luxon we pretend it is him showing strength.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:06pm
  - Paulus
    
    We have never watched TV until shortly before 6pm.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:53pm
- Ghost
  
  it was weak. To say they made the decision last year, why wait all these months. Tova now has the PM’s scalp, and the left will play on that. bad move, badly timed.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:29am
  - RoboRob
    
    They absolutely didn’t make the decision last year. I expect it is a direct result of the Tova interview where she asked how many Maori National cabinet members there were. Yes it was weak.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:08pm
  - Ghost
    
    Perhaps people would like to have a read of this post
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2021/03/pm_bails_on_zb.html
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:14pm
  - Jethrod
    
    I think just looking at it, someone got his scalp ages ago!
    
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    April 25, 2026 4:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The MSM cannot be trusted any longer to be a disinterested (impartial, non-partisan) observer and reporter of political events.
  
  They are now behaving as political change agents.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:32am
  - imalwaysright
    
    If only we had a Broadcasting Standards Authority….
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:01am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      hahahahahhaha
      
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      April 25, 2026 11:28am
    - MCōs
      
      We do and decisions are subjective by definition
      This is probably the section that may interest you
      https://www.bsa.govt.nz/broadcasting-standards/resources/complaints-that-are-unlikely-to-succeed/
      
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      April 25, 2026 12:28pm
    - Jack5
      
      The media want to be part of NZ’s political play rather than be recorders and critics. They seek political play without needing voters’ support.
      
      This is:
      
      Power without responsibility, which is the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.
      
      AI tells met that description first appeared in the lines of the character Sir Arnold Bax in the 1906 play “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,” by Arthur Wing Pinero.
      
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      April 25, 2026 3:09pm
- rouppe
  
  On the whole, I agree with you.
  
  Luxon should have developed some attack lines of his own for each of the relevant interviewers.
  
  He should have shanked a few interviewers with those attack lines, and if and when they complained, then said, well if you don’t like it, I don’t have to be here.
  
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  April 25, 2026 1:43pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  When the All Blacks get beaten they don’t run and hide.
  
  They learn, they train, they win.
  
  Unless there is a reason other than being useless and having a sook Luxon needs to behave like a LEADER .
  
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  April 25, 2026 3:44pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  @RoboRob
  
  Well shit.
  
  I downticked you in a fit of piss-offedness.
  
  But then I thought about it and realised that you’re probably correct.
  
  If he’d done this two years ago as a new PM facing the bullshit of Tova ™, it would have looked pretty good.
  
  Now?
  
  It just looks like a CEO scrambling to a new business strategy as the facts emerge about the old one.
  
  Sadly, that’s all Luxon ever was.
  
  Oh, don’t worry Chris: I’ll vote for some combinations of plonkers – National, ACT – who might keep this ship afloat until 2029.
  
  But only as a holding action: time enough for my kids to evacuate and we to liquidate whatever Labour/Green/TMP will take their revenge on and hopefully help them on to broad, sunlit uplands.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:33pm
RoboRob

The Maui gas field will close this December.

If you think Watts losing the energy portfolio and Jones, as associate minister, taking the helm on all the big issues in the media is anything but cover for a massive failure to react to an urgent issue, you have been drinking too much cool aid. The solution to the problem, the LNG terminal hasn’t even been consented let alone construction started. I believe they are still selecting the construction company.

Now Watts knew this was an issue before the last election and spend 2 years doing precisely nothing. We can blame Labour and Woods for the crisis but we should blame Watts and National for not dealing with it.

The new energy minister will roll out the , I am new and not over previous decisions so let’s focus on moving forward but that is just so Watts doesn’t have to face the tuff questions.
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April 25, 2026 10:06am
- mister nui
  
  Yep. We need some people who have achieved in building businesses to run this country.
  
  All we have is corporate wokesters, trade unionists, teachers, comms and pol sci grads, lawyers and assorted misfits and fuckwits.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:31am
  - RoboRob
    
    Ironically if Watts was in a private company he would be sacked for failing basic risk management.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:09pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    Maybe we should co-opt Trump after his term ends. 😆
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:26pm
- pdm
  
  Watts the `balls up’ Minister.
  
  He has `ballsed up’ Energy.
  He has `ballsed up’ Local Government.
  
  Taxpayer/ratepayers pay the price for his incompetence.
  
  He must be a Luxon sycophant because how else does he keep his portfolios.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:33am
  - RoboRob
    
    My thoughts exactly. I hear he is busy refusing interviews around the local govt portfolio now. I wonder why 🙂
    
    p.s. I called that when the co governance hit the fan.
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:11pm
surfing

Odious that Trump selects his own family members to negotiate the end of the war with Iran.

What’s the difference between Iran and America? Jobs for the family members all round.
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April 25, 2026 10:39am
- Wandering Star
  
  Sending Kushner and Witkoff to “negotiate” with the Iranians, both Jews with strong affinities with Israel, both real estate developers and not diplomats, and one of them even Trump’s son in law, was always a laughable proposition never meant to achieve a reasonable solution.
  
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  April 25, 2026 10:55am
  - CJames
    
    Then how did Kushner get the Abraham accords negotiated? – a lot more skill at that job than you will ever possess. But we know you hate Jews and will denigrate them at every opportunity.
    
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    April 25, 2026 11:31am
  - Jethrod
    
    WS…?…I thought you were having a break for Anzac Day?
    
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    April 25, 2026 12:01pm
- Taieri
  
  Odious that Trump selects his own family members to negotiate the end of the war with Iran
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  It used to be the job of the Secretary of State and his minions. Kissinger, Albright, Schultz, Baker, Rice and Powell are some more memorable names from the recent past. But then again, may be the presidents they served had too small families and had to use career diplomats instead of real estate developers?
  The current Secretary of State seems to be conspicuously absent from the current negotiations. May be he’s too busy with other things?
  
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  April 25, 2026 12:11pm
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    Odious, why?
    
    Perhaps he knows their abilities and loyalties.
    
    If he considers them good enough then they should do the job.
    
    Has any US commentator, not afflicted by TDS, bagged their selection?
    
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    April 25, 2026 1:34pm
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  Not saying it’s right but it’s about trust with Trump.
  He doesn’t truly trust anyone that isn’t family.
  
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  April 25, 2026 6:31pm
Swifty

British Colombia wrestling with identical ‘Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ issues to us and tying itself in all sorts of knots as a result – co-governance being a big mistake some say.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yLseIIjffz4&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D
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April 25, 2026 12:33pm
Nikola Donatello

If Trump ever comes out and supports Argentina on the Falklands I know which side I will be on.
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April 25, 2026 12:55pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  He won’t have to.
  
  Chile has already said it supports Argentina. Chile played a large support role for the UK during the Falklands war. Something that may not be well know is that Argentina had planned to invade Chile after the Falklands.
  
  It should be of concern that in 1982 Great Britain was able to send a task force of 42 ships to the Falklands in 3 days.
  
  The current Royal Navy now has less in total than that task force.
  
  On 2 March the British base in Cyprus was attacked. Now, almost 56 days later the Royal Navy has not managed to despatch any servicable warship.
  
  Argentina could invade and claim the Falklands and the oleaginous Starmer would give them billions for doing so.
  
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  April 25, 2026 1:23pm
OlderChas

Watched the Crusaders game on Sky Open last night. I would be interested to hear how much OneNZ paid for the stadium naming rights, only to hear it continually referred to as Te Kaha alone – or Te Kaha, OneNZ stadium by the commentators. I also wonder if the name, Te Kaha was “gifted” by some outfit, and how much the stadium or Christchurch ratepayers paid for the “gift”.
Both TV storytimes (so called news) repeatedly called it Te Kaha too – in their ad-nauseum promotion of it leading the “News”.
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April 25, 2026 1:16pm
- MCōs
  
  Considering the contempt with which you apparently hold for the TVOne news I’m surprised you watch it and not one of the many other evening news shows.
  I watched the run up to the kick off on Sky last evening at Te Kaha aka One NZ stadium and thought the presenters were excessively gushy. I don’t normally watch the preamble; maybe that was par for the course.
  I have a pretty low IQ and don’t care who pays what for the naming rights just so long as the Crusaders lose the Hurricanes win and Up the Wahs!
  
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  April 25, 2026 3:27pm
  - Jack5
    
    Cossie’s …I have a pretty low IQ …
    
    C’mon, MCos, we all know you’re smart and up with the play.
    
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    April 25, 2026 3:43pm
- Jethrod
  
  It seems strange to be called that when there is a Navy ship with the same name. The ship’s name proceeds the arena by about 29 years.
  
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  April 25, 2026 4:14pm
  - Jethrod
    
    Precedes , damn it!!
    Don’t dare comment DG!
    
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    April 25, 2026 8:52pm
Bullion

Is this the most Orwellian 2+2=5 moment?

Trump’s prescription drug math makes no sense. RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz have defended it anyway.
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Kennedy responded, “President Trump has a different way of calculating. If – there’s two ways of calculating percentage. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that’s a 600% reduction.”

That is just not true. It’s a 98.3% reduction, period. There is no mathematically valid way of calculating percentages that would make it a 600% reduction.
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Kennedy, apparently alluding to his exchange with Warren, said he had on Wednesday told a Democratic senator who challenged Trump’s claims of a 600% reduction in drug prices: “Well, if the drug was $100, and it raised the price to $600, that would be a 600% rise. Well, if it drops from $600 to $100, that’s a 600% savings.”

“That’s right,” Trump interjected as Kennedy was explaining. But it’s not.

An increase from $100 to $600 is actually a 500% increase, not a 600% increase. And a drop from $600 to $100 is an 83.3% reduction, not a 600% reduction. Kennedy claimed that Trump was using a “mathematical device,” but there’s no valid mathematical method that produces his numbers.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/politics/prescription-drugs-trump-rfk-jr-oz

Anyone defending this has truly drunken The Party coolaid.

The Party, led by Big Brother, seeks to control not just the actions of its citizens, but their very thoughts. By forcing individuals to accept a mathematical falsehood as truth, the Party demonstrates that objective reality is secondary to political loyalty. If the State can control the most fundamental laws of logic, it can control everything else.
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April 25, 2026 2:35pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Yes, if you reduce something by 100% then it will cease to exist.
  
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  April 25, 2026 3:40pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360970335/big-game-hunter-trampled-death-elephants
Is this a case of natural justice ?
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April 25, 2026 3:01pm
- [email protected]
  
  A fitting way for this big game hunter to die.
  
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  April 25, 2026 6:31pm
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  Media loves this shit.
  Is it true people who get their rocks off killing endangered animals for big money for brag trophies are a holes?
  Probably Yes. (I’m a hunter, not this type)
  Is it true the money they spend does have real conservation and job benefits for poor countries?
  Also yes.
  
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  April 25, 2026 6:37pm

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