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CJames

For those that support the Palestinians as a just cause, the poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research shows the problem
According to the poll, only seven percent of Gazans blamed Hamas for their suffering. Seventy-one percent of all Palestinians supported Hamas’s decision to attack Israel on October 7 — up 14 points among Gazans and down 11 points among West Bank Palestinians compared to three months ago. Fifty-nine percent of all Palestinians thought Hamas should rule Gaza, and 70 percent were satisfied with the role Hamas has played during the war.
Only 5 percent of Palestinians think Hamas’s massacre on October 7 constitutes a war crime.
That explains why even neighbouring Arab countries don’t want them there.

Hat tip Why Evolution is true
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April 27, 2026 8:01am
- Swifty
  
  But Twyford actively campaigns for thousands of them to be brought here to settle among us.
  
  I struggle to think of a greater betrayal of New Zealanders and their interests and safety than such a policy – it will mean the wholesale importation of extreme anti-semitism, raging extremism and both high welfare dependency and high criminality over generations, as the Danes have found out to their cost.
  
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  April 27, 2026 8:18am
- Cassandra
  
  We obscure Gazan support for Hamas by always referring to fighting as between Israel and Hamas. It’s between Gaza and Israel. Hamas is just the ruling political party. Germany invaded Poland, not the Nazis.
  
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  April 27, 2026 8:32am
  - kowtow
    
    The media are doing the same re Israel/Lebanon.
    
    Israel is not at war with Lebanon .It’s defending itself from Iranian proxy Hezbollah , who could be said to be occupying parts of Lebanon . But the only “occupiers” as far as the media and the rest of the left is concerned is Israel.
    
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    April 27, 2026 8:49am
- Philview
  
  I will just add that it was Iran running the campaign. 2 weeks later Iranian proxies carried out 170 attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria injuring dozens of US military personnel. It was in reality a declaration of war by Iran. At that point the US should have built an alliance to take the regime out.
  
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  April 27, 2026 8:35am
- Master Mariner
  
  Why not take it too its logical conclusion.
  All Arabs in ME Countries support the “Palestinian Cause” unlike there ruling leaders.
  This a potential mass destabilising force in ME Countries, Mostly of which support US alliances. ie KSA, Bahrain, Jordon, UAE, Egypt etc and even Turkey to a degree.
  I guess the real question was why Hama’s was allowed to co-exist with Fatah. The answer lies in its mission statement ( Death to Israel etc) and enabled through backdoor channels.
  https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-871731
  “Leaked doc. reveals Israel encouraged Qatar to fund Gaza despite sums reaching Hamas – KAN”.
  Like everything in the ME, Its not like it seems.
  
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  April 27, 2026 8:54am
- Simon
  
  For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces
  
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/amp/
  
  Israel led by wanted war criminals. Disgusting support for this nasty mad dog regime
  
  Regime change for Israel needed.
  
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  April 27, 2026 10:24am
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    blah, blah, blah.
    
    Do you just have a stock bunch of phrases that you cut&paste each time you post?
    
    Do something original.
    
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    April 27, 2026 12:14pm
  - Notsofast
    
    Will that mean Hamas lays down their arms?
    That is a serious question and everyone knows the answer.
    Islamists only respect brute force, they despise the countries letting them take over, England, France, Canada, Australia and so on.
    A man to listen to on this is Raymond Ibrahim, here is a sample of his work on triggernometry
    
    https://youtu.be/Y64jGdPHDmM?si=-f5CSo_LGJvFVsoz
    
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    April 27, 2026 12:48pm
CJames

There are still politicians and groups pushing Onslow pumped storage scheme as the answer to allow NZ to get rid of fossil fuel power stations need to look at the Snowy debacle. That $2B scheme was supposed to be open three years ago but is now up to $42B and nowhere near finished.
Yet they still say it “It won’t happen here”. Yeah, Right.
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April 27, 2026 8:03am
- Dougal10
  
  The politicians and associated groups are interested in the money , a build of this size has a lot of slippage when govt is funding it . Imagine if a full forensic investigation of snowy 2 was carried out , knowing how corrupt labour has been in australia with the unions
  
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  April 27, 2026 8:37am
  - kowtow
    
    Snowy was pushed by that economic genius Turnbull.
    
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    April 27, 2026 10:12am
- Handyman
  
  This is another case of the sunk cost fallacy. The project has lost touch with its reason for being. For the same money Australia could have had many times the guaranteed nuclear output using the uranium under the ground.
  
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  April 27, 2026 9:17am
- Simon
  
  It’s what Larry Fink wants. National just follow along.
  
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  April 27, 2026 10:26am
- peterwn
  
  The Onslow scheme is currently pitched as a private enterprise scheme with private finance. The two possible fears would be:
  1. If the scheme hits financial difficulties, then the promoters will be begging for Government money or guarantees.
  2. It is to keep the pot simmering until a sympathetic government (ie Labour) gets back into power.
  Manapouri Power Station and associated transmission lines were in that category. Originally the smelter promoters were going to finance and build these facilities then basically walked away leaving the Government holding the baby.
  “The [Snowy 2] over-run is attributed to a combination of geological challenges, poor initial planning, and construction difficulties.” (Guardian). Of these three aspects, planning and construction issues should be able to be properly addressed. Geological challenges is like a chicken and egg scenario – how much money do you spend on surveys, test bores, etc (eg a test bore every 20 metres). If you spend too much you potentially sink the project, if you spend too little the chances of being hit in the face by adverse geological conditions greatly increase. There is a very big temptation to hope for the best to get the project over the line. This could potentially lead to a similar situation to Pike River.
  Perhaps the promoters of Snowy 2 were given false confidence by the outstanding success of the original Snowy scheme.
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:07am
  - CJames
    
    It is all the uncosted transmission lines that blew out the project a lot.
    
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    April 27, 2026 2:29pm
- Drone
  
  The reality is that NZ could decommission the fossil fuel powerstations and rely fully on , hydrogen, wind, and solar. There are few scenarios where NZ would run out of energy if that were to be the case. That would automatically reduce the cost of power to the citizens as the cost currently of power is based on the most expensive power generation, ie fossil fuel. It would also focus the government and electricity industry on making investment in more “green” power generation.
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:49am
  - Handyman
    
    A person should be careful with the use of the term “in reality” if they are not familiar with actual reality.
    Other Green party statements often begin “in reality” or “what we know is” before going on to demonstrate they do not know anything and have no connection with reality.
    
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    April 27, 2026 1:03pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Ah yes, the imaginary inexpensive power sources that will save us!
    
    There is no “reality” where your solution is remotely viable. However, good on you for trying to keep up.
    
    Coal is by far cheaper than solar and wind. Orders of magnitude cheaper, and we only have around 300 years supply left.
    
    Once we have executed all the Kulaks we will live in collectivist harmony and be happy, eh comrade!
    
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    April 27, 2026 1:26pm
    - David George
      
      We have, according to MBIE, 16,000 million tons of good quality coal. We use less than 3 million tons per year so over 5,000 years worth by my reckoning.
      
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      April 27, 2026 3:45pm
  - CJames
    
    [Mod – debate without the abuse] Hydrogen costs about 4 times what any fossil fuel does. How is that going to be cheaper?
    
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    April 27, 2026 3:13pm
    - artemisia
      
      Maybe Drone meant hydro, not hydrogen.
      
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      April 27, 2026 4:38pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Wait a couple of years and AI robots will be able to do installs of PV on homes for not much more than hardware costs.
    
    It will become economically attractive for all homes to have maximum PV covered roofs (to deal with cloudy days) because it will be cheaper than grid.
    
    Add cheap sodium batteries for a few days storage, and an EV that can be charged to lower overall energy+transport costs. Consumer energy costs will likely drop well below what they are currently paying.
    
    So our current high electricity and petrol prices and issues seem likely just a short term problem that more economically attractive solutions will fix withing a decade without needing to build lots of big expensive power plants or grid upgrades.
    
    Humans have much bigger things to worry about.
    
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    April 27, 2026 3:53pm
  - wsk12345
    
    You clearly dont understand how power is priced. Do you really think that because ir “costs nothing to produce” that the price will be zero?
    
    Hydro resource is valued at the cost of the alternative. Where the alternative is non supply thr water value goes close to the cost of non supply. Thats many multiples of the cost of coal generation, just for thr avoidance of doubt.
    
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    April 27, 2026 5:16pm
  - Nobby2
    
    Drone, put your evidence forward by providing data, details and numbers, if you can’t or won’t you are talking out of your arse.
    
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    April 27, 2026 5:44pm
  - CJames
    
    Rephrasing what I wrote that the Moderator feels was abuse in what I wrote.
    There is no reality in your statements. The Greens may say it is so – that doesn’t make it true.
    Australia, California, Germany, UK have all proved going from the fossil fuels to the unreliables increased the power price to the consumer. Why would NZ be any different?
    
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    April 27, 2026 6:25pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

So here’s a story about how organisations are hijacked by grifters, who then loot the coffers and bully anyone who asks questions. Note also that the key event in the hijacking was an injection of public funds.

This is a UK story (Pride in London), but it resonates.

http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9qwyelgjwo
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April 27, 2026 8:03am
NeverMindTheBollocks

The paid-for-doing-work-of-no-value-while-taking-handsome-salaried crew are clearing their throats.

CEO Jo Henry said that without reform the ETS “could result in factory closures to reduce emissions, rather than investment in decarbonisation”. ‘investment’ – heh!

Let the ETS fail: it’s a fiction with no basis in reality. NZ used to pride itself on leading the world. I say, let’s invoke that spirit once more. My view is that the international ETS scam is a rotten house: one good kick on the door will bring the whole edifice down.

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment_climate/593459/climate-change-commission-warns-nz-ets-could-fail-without-reform
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April 27, 2026 8:19am
- imalwaysright
  
  ETS charges affect every person in NZ.
  
  There is a perception that they only apply to big business polluters and farmers, but even petrol has a 10c/l charge for ETS.
  
  The price of virtue signalling is rarely paid by the signaller.
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:18am
  - Bullion
    
    It doesn’t apply to farmers, agriculture emissions are exempt from the ETS. It means that activities that the ETS covers pay for agriculture emissions currently – which would be areas like manufacturing, transport (but not international travel), electricity generation etc. paying for agriculture emissions.
    
    If the ETS was broader, captured all areas, then it likely would be lower. That it is not as broad means the ETS is higher for those captured by it, and the incentive, with a price mechanism, to reduce emissions is not spread across all industry.
    
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    April 28, 2026 1:05am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    But the ETS does not apply to farmers. So there is nearly half of New Zealand emissions excluded.
    
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    April 28, 2026 7:27am
- Bullion
  
  If only the government was helping industries reduce their emissions with the revenue they were collecting from the ets?
  
  We could call it the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry (GIDI) Fund.
  
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  April 27, 2026 12:43pm
- NothingLeft
  
  PV has become so cheap that it will steadily take over other sources of energy globally 600GW installed per annum with global average ~3000GW electricity use. Even with PV capacity factor of only 15% it is on track to basically replace almost all generation withing 2-3 decades. ETS has clearly become unnecessary – economics will be the coup de grace to non-renewables, especially on houses where they avoid grid supply overhead that is 60-70% of electricity cost.
  
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  April 27, 2026 4:01pm
  - CJames
    
    Really? and the lights go out at dusk. Then what.
    Learn some basic grid economics before you make those pronouncements. All based on ignorance of generation ignorance.
    Tell us when you go off-grid. Then we will know how effective it is. But you will only be able to post on sunny days.
    
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    April 27, 2026 9:15pm
    - CJames
      
      Nothing
      Here is a graph showing just how expensive wind and solar grids are.
      https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2020/01/17/solar-and-wind-power-cost-about-9-times-that-of-electricity-from-other-sources/
      Here are world electricity prices Q4 2025 showing graph trend is still valid
      https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/
      Where is your evidence?
      Facts trump Teeshirt slogans, the level of your thinking.
      
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      April 27, 2026 9:30pm
David Garrett

Good morning from the Kingdom…no public holiday for us, but a big turnout for Anzac Day on Saturday. But then being self employed I can simply declare a public holiday at Garrett & Associates…which i have just done!
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April 27, 2026 8:33am
- Dougal10
  
  I still don’t understand why it is a holiday today in NZ , everything was shut Saturday morning. I guess it is just to stop envy by the monday to friday crowd.
  
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  April 27, 2026 8:39am
  - peterwn
    
    It was Clark’s Labour Government that thought it was unfair that workers missed a day off because ANZAC Day or Waitangi Day fell on a weekend. In some years both fall on a weekend. I would call such years ‘The year of the boss’. Every Labour Government always seems to create yet another public holiday.
    Incidentally Good Friday is not a public holiday in many countries, even Italy. Churches there hold a late afternoon service on Good Friday (presumably only monasteries and convents would hold three hour services).
    
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    April 27, 2026 10:44am
    - alwyn.a
      
      The legislation was actually passed in 2013 and first took effect in 2015.
      Does anyone remember who was the Prime Minister in those years?
      
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      April 27, 2026 10:51am
    - kowtow
      
      Wasn’t it the Key govt that passed the act Mondayising Anzac and Waitangi?
      
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      April 27, 2026 11:12am
      - Ghost
        
        no, it was in 2013 under the key government but not by them
        
        In Favor (61): Labour, Green Party, New Zealand First, Māori Party, Mana Party, United Future (Peter Dunne), and Brendan Horan (Independent).
        
        Against (60): National Party and ACT New Zealand.
        
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        April 27, 2026 11:36am
      - kowtow
        
        TY for clearing that up for me.
        
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        April 27, 2026 12:59pm
    - Nikola Donatello
      
      No the amendment you refer to was passed in 2014 during the Key government. It was a private members bill from David Clark. It passed with the support of the Maori Party and United Future. So it became law against the wishes of the National Party, the major party of the government at the time.
      
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      April 27, 2026 11:20am
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        And they done what to reverse it?
        
        SFA is what.
        
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        April 27, 2026 12:20pm
      - alwyn.a
        
        That is true. Unfortunately I wasn’t very clear with my statement.
        Peterwn was giving the credit to “Clark’s Labour Government”. The point I was trying to make was that Helen, like Elvis, had long left the building. She had ceased to be PM in 2008 and left Parliament in 2009.
        It was that bit of the comment I meant to be the reason for my own comment.
        
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        April 27, 2026 12:31pm
      - Nikola Donatello
        
        “And they done what to reverse it?
        
        SFA is what.”
        
        I do not follow you. Government does not work like that. Over just one term, a government will introduce hundreds of laws and thousands of individual policies. Are you suggesting that a new government will change all those back?
        
        So no, of course the Government has not changed the law on Anzac and Waitangi days. As an adjunct, I agree with the policy.
        
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        April 27, 2026 1:40pm
    - R
      
      If Comrade Clarke had thought that she would get away with it; she would have legislated for every worker to have a ‘paid’ day holiday on their birthday.
      
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      April 27, 2026 12:42pm
  - Paulus
    
    Called Unions !
    
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    April 27, 2026 10:50am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Interestingly, ANZAC Day is a public holiday in Tonga. Presumably, it is not Mondayised.
  
  https://pmo.gov.to/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Public-Holidays-for-2026.pdf
  
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  April 27, 2026 8:44am
  - David Garrett
    
    Nevermind: Right on both counts…no “Mondayization” up here.
    
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    April 27, 2026 9:24am
  - KKNZ2025
    
    Not Mondayised in Australia either
    
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    April 27, 2026 4:54pm
- Boy Geoff
  
  Why would someone down tick this post? It sounds like David Garrett is channeling the workers’ hero Samuel Parnell.
  
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  April 27, 2026 9:02am
  - igm
    
    I think we all know the culprit . . . not posting left-wing bile currently.
    
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    April 27, 2026 9:17am
  - David Garrett
    
    Boy: Anything I write – literally anything- gets downticked!
    
    I often wonder what the lone clown thinks when he sees 35 upticks and his lone downtick…I have noticed this is much less common since Mike Many Names left us.
    
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    April 27, 2026 9:33am
    - Flossie
      
      Or certain people are having a wee holiday from Kiwiblog?
      
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      April 27, 2026 10:15am
rouppe

Public Service Announcement:

Think carefully before using Public Trust to execute your will or manage any affairs of a relative.

They’re not on your side.
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April 27, 2026 8:39am
- imalwaysright
  
  $400/ hour for the services of a trustee???
  Sounds like extortion.
  
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  April 27, 2026 9:38am
  - David Garrett
    
    Imalways: That is indeed extortion. Administration of an estate is done at para-legal level, with sign off by a lawyer. A paralegal’s time should not be charged at anything like $400 per.
    
    I charged $450 per before I came up here, and I am a lawyer with 33 years experience.
    
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    April 27, 2026 9:54am
    - artemisia
      
      Hard to tell from the article but doesn’t look anything like a straightforward situation. May have needed a specialist to navigate.
      
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      April 27, 2026 10:02am
  - Taieri
    
    $400/ hour for the services of a trustee???
    Sounds like extortion
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    DCC charges $230 per hour with 3 to 6 hours to process an application to ERECT A DECK! Then, there is a checking/admin charge of $130-165 per hour with 0.5 to 2 hours charged and $610 for PIM/PCON and further $117.50 for the compliance certificate.
    
    When I built my deck about 25 years ago, the charge was a total of $80 for a whole project. A council inspector had a look and signed it off and that was all that there was to it.
    
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    April 27, 2026 10:45am
- pdm
  
  Agreed rouppe.
  
  We have a friend who was really mucked around by Public Trust after her husband died about 3 years ago.
  
  I recall when my father died in May 1974 – all done in a couple of months by Public Trust, Waipukurau.
  
  Now days delay and obfuscation after delay and obfuscation.
  
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  April 27, 2026 9:48am
  - Paulus
    
    Who owns the Public Trust now ?
    
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    April 27, 2026 10:52am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      You and me, Paulus
      
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      April 27, 2026 11:01am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    This is how Public Trust makes its ROI and pays its staff so well.
    
    Serving grieving people efficiently and clearing estates, not so much.
    
    However, in this case, not so sure. Looks like she is being milked alright, but not necessarily by PT.
    
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    April 27, 2026 11:13am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  An hourly rate of $415 per hour (possibly including GST – the article does not say either way).
  
  The Public Trust simply administers client funds. Sure, PT needs a lawyer or two on staff for when there’s a tricky point of law. But, from the story, there is nothing legally complex about the affairs of the client in question. A competent clerk with a couple of years of relevant experience could do this standing on their head.
  
  More generally, why are lawyer’s charge out rates so high? From reports, NZ seems to graduate a surplus of lawyers.
  
  For a commercial lawyer, sure, if there’s a metric that demonstrates value to the customer – ok (and good commercial lawyers will charge much more than $415). But for basic paper-pushing? AI can’t come soon enough for this industry.
  
  Tx Mod
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:00am
  - Taieri
    
    AI can’t come soon enough for this industry
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    Not that it will make it any cheaper…
    
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    April 27, 2026 2:04pm
Philview

The latest attack on Trump does show how difficult it is for the Secret Services to keep him safe. If a highly skilled assassin was involved I am sure they would find a way to get into a place like that. The guy once worked on a NASA research programme so it is sad to see bright young men having their minds poisoned to such an extent that they fall down an extreme rabbit hole.
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April 27, 2026 9:00am
- MCōs
  
  America is full of highly motivated people who absolutely hate their politicians among others.
  It’s amazing this chap could apparently just check into the hotel and get so close to the president.
  Maybe he didn’t get particularly close at all. I believe the gunfire that could be heard was perpetrated by the security.
  
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  April 27, 2026 9:56am
  - David Garrett
    
    MCos: one secret service man was shot…I have heard no suggestion that it was by his own side
    
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    April 27, 2026 10:30am
    - MCōs
      
      My wife tells me that even in Thailand where there is normally not much interest in American politics (they have a surfeit of their own to worry about) the general social media chatter points towards a setup.
      I suppose this is what happens when you have a president who makes his own bed. Now he has to sleep in it!
      
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      April 27, 2026 1:02pm
- Yvette
  
  Philview – If a highly skilled assassin was involved I am sure they would find a way to get into a place like that.
  
  “The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before. Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.” – Cole Allen manifesto
  
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  April 27, 2026 9:59am
- Drone
  
  If you watched the video currently circulating, you wouldn’t want the security services guarding anything important. The whole show is just part of DJT’s play for his golden ballroom which has currently stalled in the courts.
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:58am
  - All_on_Red
    
    As Conspiracy Theories go that is one of the dumbest.
    The Ballroom is still being built cause the Appeals Court keeps throwing the confected nonsense out.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyx9xyy0j9o
    
    They should have used Obamas Architect. His Library is just an awesome example of fine
    architecture.
    //
    Only $1 billion spent and $230 million to go
    https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/obamas-1-billion-presidential-library-looks-like-a-tower-of-doom/
    
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    April 27, 2026 12:47pm
    - RichardX
      
      Maybe you missed Blanche using the shooting as a reason to pressure preservationists to drop their lawsuit blocking the ballroom.
      
      https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/doj-cites-whcd-shooting-to-push-trump-ballroom-plan/gm-GM0E761F83
      
      Nice non sequitur to Obama though. Does he know he’s living rent free in your head?
      
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      April 27, 2026 6:19pm
Charlotte Wells

The Falklands are back in play.

Will Trump support Argentina or is he just trolling Starmer?
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April 27, 2026 9:36am
- kowtow
  
  C III currently visiting the US .
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:15am
  - sungsamning
    
    Wow! I guess the ‘No Kings’ protesters will be out in force. Won’t anybody think of all the lonely cats who’ve been ‘abandoned’ for the day? //
    
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    April 27, 2026 12:43pm
    - RichardX
      
      Pretty lazy rhetoric to equate the “No Kings” movement in the US to monarchs of other countries.
      
      After all, “No Kings” was one of the outcomes from the US Declaration of Independence and, as far as I am aware, the US protests did not mention banishing monarchs from any other country and CIII has no interest in new kingdoms.
      
      Maybe you think the protestors are too dumb to know the difference or maybe you have different information.
      
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      April 27, 2026 4:28pm
- Nikola Donatello
  
  Trolling
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:22am
- Eastlander
  
  The Falklands are considerably better defended than they once were, and the Argentine naval and air forces are a shadow of their former selves.
  
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  April 27, 2026 2:40pm
  - kowtow
    
    Talking of shadows of former selves , the RN is reported to be unable to mount anything like the task force it sent there back in ’82 .
    
    Meanwhile members of the UK’s special forces are resigning over the Hermer Starmer witch hunt.
    
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    April 27, 2026 3:12pm
    - Jack5
      
      Argentina has just bought 24 F16 aircraft.
      
      About year 2000, NZ was going to lease 28 F16’s to replace the Skyhawks which had been used for 30 years. Labour PM Helen Clark cancelled the deal.
      
      https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/argentina-has-purchased-24-f-16-fighter-jets/
      
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      April 27, 2026 4:31pm
    - Charlotte Wells
      
      In ’82 the UK despatched a 42-ship task force within 3 days.
      
      Now the Royal Navy doesn’t even have that many ships.
      
      But its got plenty of Admirals.
      
      It’s been 50-odd days and they still haven’t got a warship to Cyprus.
      
      A couple of weeks ago a sanctioned shadowfleet tanker was escorted throught the English Chanel. The RN managed totail it with an unarmed fleet resupply ship.
      
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      April 27, 2026 5:28pm
- Paulus
  
  Being silly as the people of the Falkland Islands only will decide if they felt necessary, and they don’t.
  Falklands is/was important as a watch place for the deep Drake Passage, wherby they can watch which deep sea submarines transit from Atlantic to Pacific and v.v.
  
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  April 27, 2026 2:44pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Trolling – but I don’t think Britain could stop them if it happened today, given the incredibly poor state of the Royal Navy.
  
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  April 27, 2026 3:20pm
Swifty

Who’s be a bloody employer these days?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/talanoa/two-workers-awarded-75k-compensation-after-court-finds-employer-breached-pasifika-values-including-respect/QQULIDIZT5DKTBFDA7VFA4VGTA/

Further down the DEI gurgler we go….
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April 27, 2026 9:37am
- Ian
  
  Well, reading it, it seems there were Pasifika values built into the employment contract. Being that the employer was a Pasifika organisation, I doubt many other employers would draft such values or consider drafting same into their employment contracts…
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:23am
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  A verdict richly deserved by an employer going woke and putting a “Pacifica values” statement in their employees contracts.
  Justice being done.
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:29am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    Everywhere I look that four word epithet comes to the fore.
    “Go Woke, Go Broke”.
    
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    April 27, 2026 11:46am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  You and I are the employer, Swifty, so the joke is on us.
  
  The complainants were employed by The Pacific Island Business Development Trust, which runs the Pacific Business Trust.
  
  Details of the Pacific Business Trust may be found at http://www.govt.nz/organisations/pacific-business-trust/.
  This means it’s a public sector agency.
  
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  April 27, 2026 1:56pm
  - Swifty
    
    Is there a Whitey Business Trust?
    
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    April 27, 2026 3:44pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

If you have relatives who served the NZ forces, you can see scanned copies of their military service records via Archives NZ.

Just enter the name, dates = 1914 – 1918 (0r whatever), then click on the record, then click on the View Online ID number.

It’s not just military records – there’s plenty there.

https://collections.archives.govt.nz/#/
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April 27, 2026 9:42am
sungsamning

Rupert Lowe doesn’t hold back — and in this latest clip on GB News, he makes his position on Keir Starmer crystal clear. [Restore Britain has only been around for a few weeks. ‘GB News’ don’t like him. Nor do the establishment. He is sceptical of Reform. The “lame duck” strategy — leave things as they are, or force change?
What happens next if leadership changes… and who steps in?]

No spin. No filter. Just straight talking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq2ey_sc-l0
You Won’t Believe What Rupert Lowe Just Did To Starmer.
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April 27, 2026 9:54am
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  Or is his party the device for splitting Reforms vote so the Labour/Tory uni party wins again?
  
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  April 27, 2026 11:31am
  - sungsamning
    
    I hope not. They need to work together and decide which electorates to stand in according to who has the best chance. There are some who think Reform are controlled opposition.
    
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    April 27, 2026 12:45pm
Paulus

Am I wrong in considering that Iran are actually seeking the total support, including of Nuclear Weapons from their Muslim compatriots Pakistan ?
Nothing to do with helping a settlement.
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April 27, 2026 10:55am
I remember when

Ani O’Brien:
“A Canadian judge has sentenced a man to six months in prison for choking and and kicking a toddler, despite the assaults being caught on camera, sighting factors including his indigenous background and the broader impacts of colonisation as part of thye reasoning for a reduce sentence.”

Why do judges always look at the past instead of considering the future, which is surely the point of the criminal justice system?
Do these decisions increase the possibility of the same behaviours in future?
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April 27, 2026 11:01am
- Handyman
  
  Judges and the parole board are at cross purposes.
  Judges reduce sentences if they prove, by their nature and upbringing, the criminal’s future violent offending is inevitable.
  The parole board extends criminals prison term if they believe the same information.
  
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  April 27, 2026 1:18pm
G152

The only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons in a war is demanding countries developing nuclear power generation to stop because it might turn into an equal footed foe
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April 27, 2026 11:29am
- Charlotte Wells
  
  Wrong on every part of your reasoning.
  
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  April 27, 2026 12:30pm
OlderChas

I thought the rules (law?) had changed to stop this rort. Two sets of grandkids at different ends of Auckland have teacher only days at school tomorrow. Is this country-wide does anyone know? Teachers deciding to have another day added to their long weekend – as usual. I wonder who calls the roll of teachers – if it’s called – and what is the punishment for those who don’t attend?
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April 27, 2026 1:10pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  Happening in North Canterbury.
  
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  April 27, 2026 5:24pm
- Ghost
  
  Teacher only days are set by the govt. The govt has allowed 4 half days this year, it is then up to the school board to decide when
  
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  April 27, 2026 5:29pm
Jack5

Former ACT leader Rodney Hide reckons the best course for New Zealand would be a return to Christianity.

https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/rodney-hide-new-zealand-s-rot-starts-in-empty-pews?
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April 27, 2026 3:06pm
- Ghost
  
  I often wonder how religion will cope when the world finds that we are not alone.
  
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  April 27, 2026 3:18pm
- NothingLeft
  
  As an Atheist I tend to agree. Though I find Christian supernaturalist beliefs extremely unconvincing, the behaviors it exhorts in it’s adherents tend to be very pro social and generally good for people who out-source their thinking to the crowd (ie most humans) it seems like a decent template for living a positive, live-and-let-live productive and contributing life that is more likely to be good for just about everyone.
  
  And evolution/game theory tends to bear that out – the cumulative gains from a millenia of Christian beliefs and social structures (and their affects on breeding people for less violence+ hard work plus not leaving a lot of unhappy unmarried young men always seeking to create revolution) were likely the reason for western cultural and economic supremacy in last century compared to other less optimal belief systems.
  
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  April 27, 2026 4:12pm
- Notsofast
  
  Cultural Christianity would suffice.
  See Richard Dawkins.
  It is beyond time to quit all indoctrination of children except for self evident virtues like industriousness.
  
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  April 27, 2026 4:13pm
- Albie
  
  The problem with Rodney’s suggestion is that we all need to go back to believing in a supernatural creator, which some of us find the notion of quite absurd in 2026.
  
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  April 27, 2026 4:25pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360970888/tauranga-mayor-mahe-drysdale-defends-having-50k-council-car
TCC just can’t help itself.
Incompetence, entitlement, self-interest, stupidity.
Did I miss anything ?
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April 27, 2026 5:23pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Meh. It’s not exactly a limo. The difference between the total cost of ownership of a car reserved for the Mayor vs use of a TCC pool car vs the Mayor using his own car when on Council business & claiming mileage is probably not material in the grand scheme of things.
  
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  April 27, 2026 5:37pm
Ghost

Of course you aren’t going to see it until it is signed.

The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) says keeping unions and the public in the dark on the India-New Zealand Free Trade agreement means the deal risks enshrining exploitative labour conditions.

The deal will be formally signed on Monday night in New Delhi, with the full text expected to be made public on Tuesday.

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April 27, 2026 7:45pm
Jack5

Queensland’s boom oil prospect

Queensland may be on point of making a big oil discovery.

The state already exports liquefied petroleum gas, sourced from the CSG gas being fracked from its coal fields.

Now it seems to have found a big oil field in the Taroom Trough prospect of south-west Queensland.

The ABC reports Queensland’s Department of Resources estimates the field spans around 43,000 square kilometres, which is around the size of Denmark.

Jacinda Ardern shouldn’t have scared oil explorers away from NZ.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-27/taroom-trough-oil-field-touted-as-solution-to-fuel-security/106603348
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