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rouppe

I’m not sure if this would be sending the Greens into rapture or fury…

“We’re just seeing more and more wealth. I’ve got clients who fly in on a private jet at least every month, probably every second week at the moment. They’re from all around the world.”
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June 28, 2026 8:17am
- Jethrod
  
  Link not working
  
  [Mod – Wealthy buyers flying in every two weeks: Lodge sells for $16.5m as Queenstown feels the heat ]
  
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  June 28, 2026 8:42am
  - rouppe
    
    Apologies, and thanks…
    
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    June 28, 2026 9:01am
- peterwn
  
  Why? More geese to pluck or kill for the golden eggs?
  
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  June 28, 2026 8:45am
  - rouppe
    
    Rapture for the plucking side, fury for the “super-mega-ultra rich” side.
    
    They’re be so torn one could only hope they’d split in half
    
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    June 28, 2026 9:02am
    - mandk
      
      Think about it.
      
      Did the mega rich get that way without knowing how to protect their wealth?
      
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      June 28, 2026 9:05am
      - R
        
        Did the mega rich get that way without motivation, and the self discipline of being provident. Don’t spend your dollars the minute you receive them.
        
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        June 28, 2026 9:22am
- Dougal10
  
  And there are literally 1000s of spots in the south island high country that can have these houses built , they are great for employment . Just have to get past council red tape. One of the bigger issues will be airport parking but i guess places like invercargill would handle the jet storage and accommodate the pilots and crew.
  
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  June 28, 2026 9:08am
- AitchW
  
  The left is weird. It hates success but loves the tax it can extort from the successful.
  It demands cheap rentals then gouges every cent it can from landlords.
  It screeches about jobs then demands ever increasing welfare.
  It preaches that we should build ever increasing numbers of warm, affordable homes, then objects to any new development.
  It wails about crime then opens the prison gates.
  And the liberals, the indolent and the captured vote for it.
  
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  June 28, 2026 9:09am
  - R
    
    Remember, that SOCIALISM is only a polite word for ENVY.
    
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    June 28, 2026 9:24am
- Damocles11
  
  Selling the country off to ultra-wealthy foreigners is not really indicative of economic health. It’s just another gimmick – like mass immigration – used to affix a veneer of ersatz prosperity atop a rotting edifice. I thought NZ First were against all this sort of stuff btw? The usual bluster and grandstanding from Winston and co, with no substance in behind it.
  
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  June 28, 2026 9:49am
  - Paulus
    
    Are you really saying that the little fella Winston Peters is really all piss and wind ?
    
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    June 28, 2026 2:16pm
  - AitchW
    
    A few acres here and there is hardly selling the country off.
    
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    June 28, 2026 2:50pm
- Inandout
  
  rouppe, and the Donald’s war was mentioned twice. NZME can’t let it go. I believe John Kerry, that odious climate change champion, travels by private jet and has a mansion close to the sea edge.
  
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  June 28, 2026 11:40am
rouppe

A family received an eviction notice, and eight days later bought their first home.

Good on them. But the mixed messaging. We’ve been told for a decade that landlords are evil. It was one of the reasons I sold mine a few years ago. I’d had enough.

This family received an eviction notice because the landlord wanted to sell the place. Horrible landlord, throwing this family on the street, is the implication.

But to me it shows that with some planning, forethought and ambition, home ownership isn’t out of reach of anyone.
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June 28, 2026 9:08am
- peterwn
  
  Various commentators write articles about owning v renting. What they generally fail to mention is a big advantage of owning is you are not going to be at a risk of being chucked out because the owner wants the property to sell or for family.
  
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  June 28, 2026 9:21am
  - rouppe
    
    People talk about home ownership as if it means you can never be chucked out. You can be chucked out of your own home for a multitude of reasons.
    
    There are currently 95 mortgagee sales on trademe, for example.
    
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    June 28, 2026 9:46am
    - peterwn
      
      How many of these mortgagee sales are actual owner-occupiers, compared with those for investment properties, flippers ans speculative holds.
      Agreed home owners can be chucked out here the land is needed for public works but they receive compensation including sundry items such as removal expenses, conveyancing legal costs etc.
      
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      June 28, 2026 12:32pm
  - CJames
    
    We have had an influx of out of town STEM graduates to work. All of them started flatting or boarding. Yet within 2 years, most have bought a house even though they weren’t in long term relationships.
    Ownership matters, gives a sense of belonging, and for employers it indicates that the cost of staff turnover will be reduced
    
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    June 28, 2026 9:47am
    - gravedodger
      
      Never so happy and relieved when both offspring had bought a home and entered the mortgage market, they were both truly on their way, oddly it was the one who could afford it better who moved second.
      
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      June 28, 2026 10:23am
      - Paulus
        
        Years ago my daughter ex Uni, starting in Public Service, was fed up with sharing a bathroom, so what did she do at 24 – bought her first small house in Wellington with only a little assistance from late Grandfather.
        Found a lodger from Army who said he had nowhere to live, and married him.
        Married 35 years nice guy too.
        Both done very well.
        
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        June 28, 2026 2:22pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      In the NZ context, home ownership is seen as a secure investment/hedge against inflation with capital gains.
      
      Capital gains are due to supply/demands in a free market.
      
      Over the last umpty umpy years demand has exceeded supply.
      
      Ego capital gains.
      
      As we have seen already capital gains evaporate when supply exceeds demand.
      
      Ie lower immigration, increased Kiwi Kids(familys) fleeing the country.
      
      I call bollocks on the STEM Graduates buying to give a sense of belonging.
      
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      June 28, 2026 6:33pm
- Handyman
  
  For a glimpse of rental life under a Labour/Green/Maori/Ops government, look to New York.
  For decades, the New York city council imposed rent controls on a million apartments. (all those that existed prior to 1979). The results have been as inevitable as they have been predictable because there is only one topic that 100% of economists agree on — rent controls always result in lower quality and quantity of rentals.
  Existing renters cling to their cheap apartment, choosing to live in cramped rundown conditions because they cannot afford to move.
  Maintenance must be brought up to code when empty between leases. The rent is so low, (average USD 200 per week) it is more economic to leave unrented. There are no apartments for the thousands of downwardly mobile recent graduates.
  
  Now the communists are in charge.
  Mandami promises to confiscate apartments if legal owners do not bring them up to new standard. He says apartments will be gifted to “stewards”.
  Now we all know how this movie ends. The stewards will turn out to be friends of Mandami; the city will pay for renovations; and the apartments will be sold to defray massive overspend.
  
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  June 28, 2026 1:52pm
Ghost

Another day in the ceasefire

The Iranian regime launched drone attacks on a series of US targets Saturday claiming it was revenge after Iran was hit with a barrage of airstrikes earlier this week that has threatened to doom a cease-fire already teetering on the brink.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps would not disclose which locations “of the U.S. terrorist army in the region” it had targeted, but described the drone strikes as “defensive attacks.”

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June 28, 2026 9:09am
- AitchW
  
  One might be forgiven for thinking that the “ceasefire” was designed by Iran to be broken.
  Iran signed the agreement knowing that Hezbollah would continue to fire rockets at Israel and Israel would continue to retaliate.
  If only the ME hadn’t been blessed with oil…
  
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  June 28, 2026 9:13am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Bloody Hezbollah eh. Can’t they just let God’s chosen people carry on their occupation of Lebanon and all of the other land promised to them by their god
    
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    June 28, 2026 5:37pm
- David George
  
  The Islamic Regime have been attacking ships using the Southern(Oman) route in the Straits. The article fails to make that clear.
  You can’t make a deal with these monsters.
  
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  June 28, 2026 9:41am
  - rouppe
    
    Oman has not criticised the drone strikes on Bahrain despite being part of the Gulf Cooperation Council which includes Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
    
    Further, Iran has described the strikes as “not a violation of the ceasefire, but as ceasefire management “.
    
    There is a lot of water to pass through this Strait before the matter is over…
    
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    June 28, 2026 9:52am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Not neccessary so. The first Containership Evergreen was inbetween both.
    
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    June 28, 2026 4:20pm
- Ghost
  
  USA replies
  
  The United States has launched fresh strikes on Iran in the area of the Strait of Hormuz.
  
  Explosions were heard in the southern Iranian city of Sirik on Sunday, state broadcaster IRIB reported.
  
  Article
  
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  June 28, 2026 10:39am
  - Ghost
    
    Trump replies
    
    United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn! There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist! President DJT
    
    Truth Social
    
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    June 28, 2026 12:24pm
David George

Citizen Vigilante, the compelling new movie about the hunt for justice for victims of rape and murder, is now available for free for a limited time on

[Mod – no piracy links please. The movie was free for 48 hours from the filmmakers account on June 25th, it’s now avaliable to purchase or rent]
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June 28, 2026 9:36am
- mike
  
  Spoiler alert: the movie climaxes with the hero’s execution of a whole family. Compelling?
  
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  June 28, 2026 9:53am
  - David George
    
    “Compelling?”
    You watched it to the end.
    
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    June 28, 2026 10:47am
  - Gary Benner
    
    Mike, as usual I think you missed the point of the movie – that if politicians and others in positions of power do not address this issue, then at some point of time, the citizenry will take matters into their own hands, in a less than tasteful manner.
    
    It is said that one of the highest priorities of a government is to protect it’s own people, and a invasion, whether that be military with troops in boats & planes, or cultural using “everyday” people through immigration who then breed their way into control, amounts to the same.
    
    I see the movie (no different in violence to Terminator, Matrix, Rambo etc) as a warning of what will happen if policies do not change.
    
    It does make you think though, about policies of increasing immigration, along with greater gun control. Is this part of a plan, or coincidence?
    
    I remember in the Bond movie Dr No, when Bond keeps turning up, Dr No says “Mr Bond, when you meet someone for the first time, it is happenstance, the second it is coincidence, but the third time it is enemy action.”
    
    All we need now is a third policy to be enacted in law, that is to make it illegal to criticise Islam and we will have that trifecta.
    
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    June 28, 2026 4:00pm
    - mike
      
      The point of the movie is to glorify violence and terrorism.
      
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      June 28, 2026 4:10pm
      - Gary Benner
        
        Of course it is if you wish to ignore the underlying message.
        
        The British ignored the actions of the Nazis in the 1930’s for too long. The so called peacemakers had the view that appeasement would stop Hitler with his conquest of Europe.
        
        We are now seeing a similar “conquest” but with an entirely different modus operandi. The goal however is still the same (immigrate, populate, and overtake). I was in the UK eaarlier this year and saw it with my own eyes, and had my own direct encounter, while just minding my own business.
        
        Like cancer, if you leave it too late the battle is harder.
        
        And as a little reminder to those on “the left” (communists, socialists, Marxists, and secular nationalists) who may be encouraging this current attack on our western culture, in back in 1979 Iran the leftists helped the Mullahs to overthrow the Shah, and once he was gone, so were they . History is a bummer sometimes!
        
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        June 28, 2026 6:01pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Plenty of “noir” movies adored by lefties glorify violence and terrorism.
        
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        June 28, 2026 8:33pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Watched it yesterday.
  
  A pretty ham fisted effort that would probably backfire if used as a focal point for the pushback on Islamic crime.
  
  The main character is a very rich ex American soldier in Europe with daddy issues who inherited thousands of properties and owns hundreds of weapons.
  
  Hardly your typical victim of the Islamification.
  
  He discovers victims, and asks if they want ‘justice’, and then he goes off and kills the baddies.
  
  He also ambushes and kills an entire Swat team for some reason and on his downtime he tips his hooker.
  
  The Left could not have produced a better parody of what they would label a far right terrorist.
  
  A shame really, as there is a widespread frustration and fear that will result in vigilantism and it would have made a decent movie if it was based on a real person and with a genuine backstory.
  
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  June 28, 2026 10:37am
  - Inandout
    
    ima, still the movie thus far has made many millions more than its production cost, and it has just begun. Germany of course has banned the movie from public showings because it may ‘inflame’ certain people.
    
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    June 28, 2026 11:49am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Yes, inand, it certainly is popular but my point is that the main character comes across as dysfunctional and entitled.
      
      If someone wanted to discredit and mock the idea of vigilantism then making a movie such as this would be a good start.
      
      The only cure for the Islamification is vigilantism. These invaders must be put into a state of fear of the citizens if the Police are unwilling to sort them out.
      
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      June 28, 2026 12:35pm
      - Gary Benner
        
        imalwaysright, you are right to point out the weakness of the lead character in the movie – but that is part of the narrative.
        
        The main point I saw in that movie, is that if the situation is not dealt with by the politicians and those in power, then vigilantism arises. Suicidal empathy seems to be the term du jour!
        
        I think the situation in Europe, and in particular in the UK with the rape gangs and institutionalisation of Sharia law alongside English Law, is leading them towards an very unhappy situation, and I would not put it past the English to again take up arms to defend their heritage and culture. And it will not be pretty. And I suspect King Charles will not be part of their future either.
        
        So the lead character IMHO is not meant to be holy, or prefect. But it is what will happen if the UK, Germany, Spain and Scandanavia do not take action soon.
        
        We see Germany is now starting to make changes.
        
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        June 28, 2026 6:13pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        Very good points Gary, that’s put a different perspective on it.
        
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        June 28, 2026 7:41pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  Based on a true story.
  
  “The teenagers were given suspended jail terms last week after the judge decided they had shown “remorse”.
  
  The boys, aged 14, 16 and 17, sexually assaulted a girl, 14, in Hamburg in February while another girl filmed the attack. They then left the victim for dead in the freezing cold. ”
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37788377
  
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  June 28, 2026 1:12pm
BeaB

Colin Peacock is a master of selective, slanted media comment. This morning he suggested TOP was a ‘teal’ party, like the Australian combination of right-of-centre and Green voters. It’s more likely in NZ to be a murky brown, a mix of green and red. Peacock wilfully omitted to mention that TOP officials include Iain Lees-Galloway and Toni Grace, Chris Hipkins’s fiancée. Doesn’t look to me as though TOP is leaning toward National. Quite the opposite in fact. The Trojan horse to unseat the Greens and Te Pâti Māori as Labour’s bedfellows?
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June 28, 2026 9:47am
- Ghost
  
  Toni Grace is not involved with Top, she is a business partner of Iain Lees-Galloway. That’s like saying Jenna Lynch’s marriage to Andrew Ketels made her an act official
  
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  June 28, 2026 9:54am
  - BeaB
    
    I’m happy to stand corrected but are you quite sure she has nothing to do with TOP?
    
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    June 28, 2026 10:34am
    - pdm
      
      Agreed BeaB.
      
      She most likely is by association – especially when it involves the left.
      
      How would Ghostie know whether she was or not anyway?
      
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      June 28, 2026 10:51am
      - Ghost
        
        Perhaps you should stop posting lies on your dead blog about a married man. No she isnt involved in TOP, but some people are actually that stupid that they are making this up. Bit like the moronic claim on the dead blog that Tama was a member of the Maori party. When the msm and Green Party policy are more honest and accurate than your blog, you know it’s just a joke blog that has no sense of reality or desire to present anything but made up bullshit that makes the left look more honest than you
        
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        June 28, 2026 10:53am
      - pdm
        
        Struck a nerve did I Ghostie?
        
        I have often wondered why you are a self professed expert on every thing with no respect for other peoples points of view and opinions.
        
        Watch your blood pressure lad.
        
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        June 28, 2026 11:43am
      - Ghost
        
        No, I just hate dishonest people, people who spread rumours. You are a joke, your blog is a joke, just full of losers posting lies that make stuff and rnz look more honest. You should be ashamed, but it’s obvious you are a dishonest person who just likes to play dirty politics. Lying, spreading made up stories is not an opinion, it’s part of the problem in politics and the media. You moan about the left doing it, the media doing it, you are far worse than them with the utter bullshit you post over there. You think it’s acceptable to post that a married man is having an affair? That isn’t an opinion that is vile, sad, and pathetic. But this is what you do, your blog posts moronic crap about mp’s and people you don’t like, you make stories that are false, that isn’t an opinion. You are everything you claim to be against, and worse
        
        Opinion isn’t claiming a married man is having an affair, that’s pathetic
        Opinion isn’t claiming an mp you dislike is a paid up member in another party, that is lying
        
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        June 28, 2026 12:34pm
      - Ghost
        
        And here is the origin of the photo the idiots are claiming is James Shaw and his bedfellow Kayla Kingdon-Bebb. Try being honest instead of lying and spreading bullshit
        
        https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kaylakingdonbebb_ecosystems-extinction-nature-activity-7082885858042806272-mi06
        
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        June 28, 2026 2:43pm
    - Ghost
      
      Here is slatters post that launched that, read number two, people have twisted it to her being involved, she isn’t.
      
      Number 4 is bull, James is married to lawyer Annabel Shaw.
      
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      June 28, 2026 10:52am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Someone was wrong on the internet? 😛
        
        How was your weekend?
        
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        June 28, 2026 8:15pm
  - Ghost
    
    A correction, they are no longer business partners, their business venture closed down. But hey why do facts matter when people here who attack the left for lying, are just as bad with their lies
    
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    June 28, 2026 11:05am
  - Inandout
    
    Ghost, if she is a business partner she doesn’t appear in any of Galloway’s companies.
    
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    June 28, 2026 12:01pm
    - Ghost
      
      They were partners in one startup
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300142849/iain-leesgalloway-turns-to-social-enterprise-after-exiting-parliament/
      
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      June 28, 2026 12:25pm
- Boy Geoff
  
  Did Labour’s recent polling drop coincide with a nearly equal increase in votes for TOP?
  
  Is it okay for the left bloc to cannibalise its members’ vote share as much as it wants, as long as there’s no TPM seat overhang?
  
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  June 28, 2026 10:11am
  - Notsofast
    
    The maori party setting out a comprehensive tactical voting strategy will prove to be the means by which we swap 3 serious parties with 4 clown parties, result, part maori and trannys and girl teachers control the agenda, and there is nothing to be done but switch off the radio for a few years, and then see if it is New Zealand the way we want it.
    
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    June 28, 2026 11:34am
Damocles11

More grifting, with the weak ‘we’ve stopped the wasteful spending’ government happy to fork over the money –

https://x.com/Itinerantguy/status/2070837612982759914
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June 28, 2026 9:50am
Damocles11

The call is going out to the populace of the Middle East: New Zealand is a soft touch, move there for ‘the good life’.

https://x.com/Dame__Jane/status/2070424552023413139
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June 28, 2026 9:52am
- Notsofast
  
  I just got Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s email, this quote is the frequent and expanding clarion call alert:
  
  “Starmer, like other technocrats, operated on the assumption that history had ended and that the great civilizational arguments had been settled. It’s the core belief of an era that’s over. And the patient, increasingly visible advance of Islamism has exposed that belief as a delusion.”
  
  And if you tell the kids today they just won’t believe you.
  
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  June 28, 2026 1:03pm
Quail

Dougal10 https://autotrader.co.nz/showroom/ferrari/new-zealand-customer-takes-delivery-of-7-million-ferrari-f80
Further to investment in NZ!
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June 28, 2026 9:55am
- pdm
  
  Where will he be able to get it out of 2nd gear?
  
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  June 28, 2026 10:52am
  - AitchW
    
    Isn’t it a hybrid?
    
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    June 28, 2026 2:57pm
CJames

An issue that does worry me that doesn’t seem to be addressed by the political parties in the hollowing out of provincial NZ small towns. As example, take Westport. They have lost the cement works and the fish processing. Both significant employers. New potential employers like coal or mineral extraction there are bogged down in bureaucracy driven by people from outside the region. Even dairying is evil to the chardonnay set. It is a similar story for towns in Raetihi to Otarahaunga belt.
If there are no jobs, people leave, then it becomes a vicious spiral. How does NZ benefit from that depopulation?
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June 28, 2026 9:57am
- MCōs
  
  Westport also has serious flooding problems for some problems.
  Meanwhile on the other coast Ashburton, Timaru, are doing just fine due to the dairy industry and further inland tourism is booming
  
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  June 28, 2026 10:14am
  - Ghost
    
    Yeah. New business are coming to town. One of the developments here will open 27 shops next year. The developer is requiring they are all new business, not allowing existing business to from the town to it. Cruise ship tourism is booming here, timaru became the nz home port for The Scenic Eclipse II.
    
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    June 28, 2026 10:23am
  - CJames
    
    Ashburton & Timaru aren’t small towns and they are boosted by proximity to Christchurch.
    If the Greens get their way, dairying and irrigated crops will be a bust. Remember the Canterbury Plains 50 years ago? I do. What grew in February? That is what our extremists want to go back to.
    
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    June 28, 2026 12:44pm
  - keepcalmcarryon
    
    Timaru with the meat works closure?
    
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    June 28, 2026 1:47pm
  - CJames
    
    MCos – Are Westport’s flooding problems worse than a lot of Northland’s? They could be fixed by better stopbanks and river dredging.
    But yes, they should move the town to terraces on south side of river. That won’t happen unless the town has a real future.
    
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    June 28, 2026 2:29pm
    - R
      
      Flooding anywhere in NZ can be prevented with the election of Competent non-ideological driven councillors; who will employ similar criteria Council admin and management staff.
      
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      June 28, 2026 3:49pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Flooding/ no cement ships / No dredging required / Not hard to join the Dots.
    
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    June 28, 2026 4:27pm
    - CJames
      
      There was a ship at the wharf last time I was there. Looked like it was to load the mineral sand from down Charleston way.
      
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      June 28, 2026 6:54pm
- Damocles11
  
  The plan is just to pack more people into the cities as the rot continues in the provinces. Import people from South-East Asia to live in Auckland: they can work at Trade Depot, Domino’s, Bunnings etc & they need to be housed, buy fuel and coffees, shop at the duopoly. And we can kid ourselves that this represents economic health.
  
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  June 28, 2026 11:17am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Reported recently is that Kaitaia looks like losing at least one of the two sawmills there. It’s easy to knock the nephs on the couch, but for those that want an honest job with a local employer, this sort of thing doesn’t make it easy.
  
  Not that I’d want the taxpayer to be subsidising a Japanese multi national either. No easy answers.
  
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  June 28, 2026 12:55pm
Ghost

Article

Kiwi house and food prices led a Wellington woman and her American husband to make some tough decisions.

First saving, 30% of your weekly shopping bill being drinks is insane.

Second saving, don’t shop at woolworths

People on less than your house income are having and raising children. Cost of living is high, but you seem to be using that as an excuse
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June 28, 2026 10:12am
- MCōs
  
  The drinks is non alcoholic stuff btw.
  Apart from that we see a lot of these articles where people explain their personal financial situation
  I think they should keep it private because no matter their situation there’s plenty of people around only to ready to poke a stick at them.
  
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  June 28, 2026 10:27am
  - Eastlander
    
    No, it’s very useful for the average reader to see that those who bewail their alleged poverty are invariably gluttonous hogs who would be better off as plantation slaves.
    
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    June 28, 2026 12:32pm
    - MCōs
      
      There is no mention of poverty
      
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      June 28, 2026 5:06pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Gluttonous hogs EL? Going too far much?🤔
      
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      June 28, 2026 8:40pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yeah, I saw that. Lots of choices made, including moving back from the US. I note the writer does all the shopping and cooking, as well as having a full time job. Four other adults in the house.
  
  As always, I’m sure there are facts that we’re not being told. But the bottom line is that if the writer wanted kids, she’d have them. Sure, her life would not be as convenient or as materially well provided for, but no one would starve.
  
  Choices, choices.
  
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  June 28, 2026 12:26pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Another clickbait article to get viewers./readers
  
  How many families do you know that live with 5 adults living together who have an income problem???
  
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  June 28, 2026 6:36pm
  - Drone
    
    Probably many families at one time or another.
    
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    June 28, 2026 8:06pm
greybeard

2026 NZ Garden Bird Survey.
I don’t see how they can take the results seriously. Because the birds I count on my section are the same birds which are recorded by countless other people in my locality, and possibly localities some km away.
I live at a beach: even if I could count the seagulls which fly around I know that they will also be counted by neighbours.
What is the point ?
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June 28, 2026 10:35am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What is the point ?
  
  The point is to establish some indication of how garden bird populations are faring over time.
  
  There’s a number of assumptions that need to be taken into account..as it’s not a strict bird census carried out at same locations by experienced ornithologists.
  
  This might help:
  https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/discover-our-research/environment/sustainable-society-and-policy/garden-birds-the-science-behind-the-survey
  
  (p.s. 4 mallards at my pond, 16 on the front lawn)
  
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  June 28, 2026 11:52am
  - greybeard
    
    Thanks Maggy.
    I did a preliminary run today just to iron out any problems.
    Apart from the usual sprinkling of waxeyes, tui , seagulls and Canada geese I noted a few flying pigs: no doubt a byproduct of the current Labour Party convention down the road in Wellington.
    
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    June 28, 2026 5:05pm
Boy Geoff

That Hana-Rawhiti’s a real scallywag isn’t she?

What do they teach at these Kura Kaupapa Maori?
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June 28, 2026 11:41am
Tauhei Notts

Amongst all the rubbish I have seen on Facebook is a piece by an immigration consultant. His comments have been translated to English and the effect is to boost NZ First’s chances. I do not know which language he uses but it is one from the “sub-continent”.
He comments about how New Zealand is far and away the easiest and best country to emigrate to.
Hopefully some reader with better IT skills than I possess will be able to provide a link.
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June 28, 2026 11:49am
- Jack5
  
  That’s before National, Labour, and ACT ratify NZ’s FTA sell-out to 🙏 India.
  
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  June 28, 2026 1:03pm
Damocles11

‘Hezbollah has condemned a United States-brokered agreement to end the war in Lebanon, declaring the deal “null and void”.
The Trump Administration finalised an agreement on Friday local time stipulating that Israel would withdraw from some parts of southern Lebanon, alongside there being a process to disarm Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group.
Hezbollah’s rejection of the latest agreement comes after the US and Iran traded strikes for the first time since the broader peace deal was signed.’

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/hezbollah-declares-peace-deal-null-and-void-as-idf-continues-strikes/ZVN4HCAAERDNPHBKBSKFUJ4QQA/
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June 28, 2026 12:59pm
- Ra Henare
  
  You forgot to say that IDF kept bombing Lebanon hours after Trump signed the MOU, which explicitly said to stop shooting in Lebanon.
  
  So who broke the Peace agreement first.
  
  Given Israel scuttling the last 2 peace agreements, why would they do anything different for this one.
  
  Will be interetsing to see how Trumps EGO reacts.
  
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  June 28, 2026 6:39pm
  - Drone
    
    Bomb Teheran as usual.
    
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    June 28, 2026 8:10pm
imalwaysright

Here we go again.
French national 31 year old born in Central African Republic, has been charged with the rape and murder of a 2 year old British girl in Surrey.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15934919/French-man-charged-rape-murder-girl-dead-Surrey.html
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June 28, 2026 1:29pm
Yvette

Treaty
A Mr Peter Hemmingson, among several comments below the article “WILLIAM LUDBROOK: Luxon’s silence on Te Tiriti o’ Waitangi is undemocratic and deafening in 2026” [1] lists quite a few remarks from the discussions or oratory in response to the presentation of the Treaty, February 6, 1840.

Of some of those who spoke were Te Kemara, Rewa, Moka, Tamati Pukututu, Matiu, Kawiti, Pumuka, Warerahi, Hakiro, Tareha, Rawiri, Hone Heke, Hakitara, Tamati Waka Nene, and Eruera Maehe Patuone.
It does not matter if these Maori were positive or negative, they all reflect an awareness of a change of status for Maori – the Queen on top, and Maori below (if you are still allowed to say that sort of thing).
In other words, Maori knew perfectly well what was being proposed.
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[1] https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/william-ludbrook-luxon-s-silence-on-te-tiriti-o-waitangi-is-undemocratic-and-deafening-in-2026?commentId=f1b55e75-2303-41ce-803e-8ac66d77ee0f
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June 28, 2026 2:05pm
mike

Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit faces problems.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bbc-turning-trumps-own-lawsuit-into-his-jan-6-trial-trump-lawyers/ar-AA26wS8S?ocid=BingNewsSerp
LOL
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June 28, 2026 3:52pm
- Ghost
  
  It’s just pure racism attacking this black president
  
  https://youtube.com/shorts/9Eb9Ob2XSjo?si=Bglw3MypXpzeOIKu
  
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  June 28, 2026 5:12pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I’m thinking possibly an AI creation, otherwise, why???
    
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    June 28, 2026 8:23pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  That is a ridiculous move by the BBC.
  
  My bet is that it won’t last long in court.
  
  “Lawyers for the president wrote in a filing, reviewed by Newsweek: “Defendants are attempting to use this action as a vehicle to conduct a trial as to the events that occurred on January 6th.”
  
  The filing states that the “defendants have engaged in excessive and impermissibly broad discovery efforts in such a manner that it distracts from the core issues in dispute in this case.””
  
  “… the BBC had requested through discovery a number of documents, including Trump’s telephone logs, calendars, schedules and daily diaries from November 3, 2020 to January 20, 2021.”
  
  How is any of that related to their malicious cut&splice job?
  
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  June 28, 2026 5:29pm
  - RichardX
    
    How is any of that related…
    
    They may be able to demonstrate that the edit accurately portrayed Trump’s intention to forment violence at the Capitol.
    
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    June 28, 2026 6:51pm
  - Drone
    
    It’s a valid attempt to determine the reputational damage and financial cost to the Don.
    
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    June 28, 2026 8:13pm
mike

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360999086/act-unveils-plan-cut-government-departments-43-19
He also wants to cut the number of ministers – good luck securing that in coalition talks.
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June 28, 2026 4:17pm
- greybeard
  
  I agree: Peters has his say and the result is: National – 1: ACT – 1: NZF – 17.
  
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  June 28, 2026 5:14pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360999099/labours-chris-hipkins-calls-fair-go-apprentices-workers-and-even-tv
What a dickhead. They had 6 years to make a difference for these people ( assuming they needed help in the first place ).
What did they achieve ? Nothing.
Hipkins is a lying manipulative cynical prick. On a good day.
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- keepcalmcarryon
  
  No they achieved a massive fail by inducing a collapse of the polytechnic system by squashing them all together.
  
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