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KKNZ2025

“Roy Morgan’s New Zealand Poll for July 2026 shows the National-led Government (National, ACT & NZ First) down 2% to 49%, maintaining a clear lead over the Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori Parliamentary Opposition, down 1% to 41%.

In addition, a further 10%, up 3% support independents and parties outside Parliament – the highest level of support for parties not represented in Parliament since the last election.”

“National-led Government set to win most seats but fall short of a majority with 59 seats”

= TOP on 8% support will hold balance of power

https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/10281-nz-national-voting-intention-july-2026?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MRU%203%20Aug%202026&utm_content=MRU%203%20Aug%202026+CID_cbe886474e8088b3cf5b8e8822235933&utm_source=Market%20Research%20Update&utm_term=Read%20Full%20Article
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August 5, 2026 8:01am
- Ghost
  
  The hard part for TOP will be turning those polling numbers into votes and actually getting into parliament. Will they succeed, only a few months to find out
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:48am
  - Frank the tank
    
    TOP is getting a leg up from the media not examining their policies – at present they are odds-on to get in 70-30 imo. Helps having an attractive younger women being the face behind the party as well
    
    Scratch a little deeper and you’ll find the majority of their economic policy further left than the Greens. Their economic policies are best termed “Brainfarts in the Bullshit Factory”
    
    Be afraid.
    
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    August 5, 2026 8:59am
    - Nikola Donatello
      
      I agree with the 70 / 30 odds. David Garrett was willing to put money on TOP not getting to 5 percent.
      
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      August 5, 2026 11:57am
      - David Garrett
        
        Nikola: Actually the wager was a box of chocolate fish…and I repeat the offer.
        
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        August 5, 2026 2:58pm
      - Warren Murray
        
        I hope DG wins his bet.
        
        While I see the media promoting TOP is boosting their polling, I think general dissatisfaction with the parties in Parliament is manifesting as a protest vote for TOP.
        
        I blame National for failing to meet expectations raised pre 2023 election and Luxon for his disappointing performance.
        
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        August 5, 2026 3:47pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      It will be interesting to see if the media(to get more clicks) start a campaign to drag TOP down.
      
      If I recall (my memory cannot be trusted), ACT went from high polls. 3 months out to lower election votes
      
      So I looked it up. ACT
      2023 13% in Poll: 8.64% Votes.
      2002 10.5% in Poll: 7.14% Votes
      
      Similar swings have been recorded by NZ FIRST and the Greens. ie volitile swings
      
      Also keep in mind the mobile phone impact on Polls. eg
      Younger voters and mobile only households tend to have higher voter volatility and lower party-identification loyalty.
      
      So no need to start getting excited by todays polls.
      
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      August 5, 2026 4:22pm
- pdm
  
  One bit of good news is that NZFirst are down from their highs and are now level with ACT.
  
  Given Winston has been campaigning for the last year (since he ceased being Deputy PM) and ACT are only starting their campaign I am optimistic that ACT will finish with more MP’s than NZFirst on 8 November.
  
  That should put the kibosh on any thoughts of Winston sharing the PM role for good.
  
  Especially as Labour are not likely to have the means to form a Government.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:55am
  - RoboRob
    
    No, NZF as the only party that can work with Labour or National, they will always have an outsized amount of power in exchange for their role as king maker.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:09am
    - David Garrett
      
      Robo: Sadly you are correct…and being able to go either way is TOP’s major advantage
      
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      August 5, 2026 11:46am
    - Bevan
      
      I would point out that Peters has already ruled out working with Hipkins, but then I also remember what happened after the 2017 election…
      
      The only way to guarantee a non-Labour led government is to vote for either National or ACT.
      
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      August 5, 2026 1:15pm
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    Winston First only need 5% to get their toes in the door. Once they are in, Winnie knows how to play kingmaker very well – better than anyone.
    
    Winston doesn’t “play fair”. He will demand everything he can. Whether he brings more seats to the table than ACT is largely irrelevant to his position.
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:44am
    - Ra Henare
      
      It’s interesting that you say CMM
      
      Winston doesn’t “play fair”. He will demand everything he can
      
      It’s politics, for goodness’ sake.
      All politicians do it!!!!!!!!!!!
      
      It’s just that Winston has decades of experience playing politics. Unlike some of the fresh-faced innocents, i.e., Arden, Caving in to Winston’s demands.
      
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      August 5, 2026 4:27pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Apparently youth enrolment is well behind previous elections.
  
  Shows why the left were hell bent on allowing enrolment on voting day so they could rally the troops.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:56am
  - R
    
    This year may be the first time in three elections, that attendance at the polling booths hasn’t been manipulated by vested interests.
    
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    August 5, 2026 7:21pm
- MCōs
  
  I should hope that after the current unmanageable arrangement the next administration will have more confidence and supply agreements with far less power to the minor parties.
  NZ First should never have a minister within cabinet again and if they don’t like it they have nowhere to turn. They have already nailed their colours to the Blue mast.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:03am
  - RoboRob
    
    Dream on. If the right get back in National will be far weaker and the minor parties will not be so minor.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:10am
    - MCōs
      
      Still be minor
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:42am
  - Isobar
    
    For this to happen, National need to significantly improve their performance.
    
    They and they alone are responsible for their electoral outcomes. For what you say to be true they would need at minimum to be polling at John Key levels. At least in the 40s.
    
    There is zero chance with this leadership team and their offering that they would be capable of that. Nationals lowest ever result whilst Key was PM never dropped below 40. Luxon by contrast, is essentially a lame duck pm.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:35am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    MCos you fail to understand how kingmaking works.
    
    If they need NZF’s 5% to form a government, then he can pretty much make any demand he wants.
    
    The major vs minor thing does not really work because NZF can pull the plug and the whole coalition falls over.
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:46am
    - R
      
      ‘falls over’…negotiations fail due to EGO, and we have a new election in February ’27
      
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      August 5, 2026 12:59pm
  - David Garrett
    
    MCos: Your comments are usually much more sensible…Whatever Peters has said thus far is entirely irrelevant. On election night- or after he has been fishing for a week – he will do whatever benefits him the most.
    
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    August 5, 2026 11:50am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Its ironic that we have an MMP election, and then the Parties revert to FPP in order to form a Government.
      
      The voter buys a ticket to a dance, but doesn’t get to choose who they go home with.
      
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      August 5, 2026 12:43pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        […] then the Parties revert to FPP in order to form a Government.
        
        The difference being, of course, that the parties concerned only have influence commensurate with their vote-percentage, unlike under FPP.
        
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        August 5, 2026 4:56pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        ST
        
        No. Their influence is directly proportional to how desperate the major parties are.
        Just one seat could be the kingmaker.
        
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        August 5, 2026 5:08pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        In that case, it’s not FPP that is being reverted to; it’s merely the process of constructing a necessary majority.
        
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        August 6, 2026 9:16am
- Gravelroad
  
  Am finding it difficult to understand this
  On-going flirtation with the Opportunities Party – which is essentially just a bunch of unknown, amateur leftists/communists.
  It can only be because voters see the possibility for free welfare money for everyone and higher taxes for rich pricks.
  Is that all?
  Are people really that dumb?
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:25am
  - Paulus
    
    Must be good because I understand Labour Leader’s current girlfriend as a Leader of this motley lot !
    No Pillow talk eh ?
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:30am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Just had chat with elderly neighbour.
      He believes that the Opportunity Party’s agenda is designed to punish the older people who worked, saved, invested, built businesses – and paid taxes.
      And that the money they now have should be redistributed to the more youthful as it is “not fair” that the old and the useless have money, and the young do not.
      What about superannuation?
      His answer was “everyone will be on superannuation” (according to the OP Party policies) “from the age of 18”.
      It’s madness.
      
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      August 5, 2026 11:28am
      - Steve Otto N Shore
        
        “worked, saved, invested, built businesses – and paid taxes.”
        What are the young greedy bastards not understanding?
        I guess “WORK” is a swear word to them———-
        
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        August 5, 2026 2:11pm
    - Quail
      
      + GR,
      This is largely impact of MMP enabling activists to approach NZ levers of power with out necessary public scrutiny .
      In the past all candidates were scrutinised by their parties ,local communities , and then had to face the public ballot box.Parties were careful as to the quality and choice of candidates as they reflected voters aspirations, and it was voters who had the final say!
      
      Today parties are formed by the said activists themselves .They now only need 5% of the vote to enter parliament .
      And 5% of disaffected voters is not hard to find, perhaps they are not even sincere , just sick of the establishment, or perhaps simply tired of the lack of achievement of the incumbents.
      These candidates get in to parliament on the party list, with no individual ballot scrutiny as to their motivation , ability or even integrity.
      Their “elect me “policies practicality are often worse than impossible , but sound great.They can and do say anything as they know there is absolutely no chance they will have to deliver .
      Recent new party TOP manifestos are great examples of this.
      This is Top down governance, the we know best ,you do as you are told variety ! Individuals rights are apparently irrelevant.
      MMP is destroying NZ!
      
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      August 5, 2026 11:53am
    - Ghost
      
      You understand wrong. She has nothing to do with the party
      
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      August 5, 2026 2:29pm
  - Northshoredoc
    
    ‘Are people really that dumb?’
    
    Yes, just look at how lng Winston has been in parliament.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:42am
  - Colville
    
    Are people really that dumb?
    
    Yes.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:53am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Most people are not dumb. However, many pay very little attention to politics but still vote.
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:09am
    - R
      
      Many who vote, have no idea of economics, trade relations, reality, nor experience in any form of management, business formation and leadership. They are happy to be promised, and usually get, more handouts. They have no comprehension of FUTURE.
      
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      August 5, 2026 1:06pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    I’m hoping Opportunity gets a really good result after the final voting is counted.
    
    4.95% of the party vote would be a great result
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:46am
  - Ghost
    
    An idiot and their vote is easy bought
    
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    August 5, 2026 11:02am
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    “Are people really that dumb?”
    
    50% are below average intelligence.
    
    Yes, people really are that dumb.
    
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    August 5, 2026 11:37am
    - imalwaysright
      
      But it seems to be the 50% above average who are causing the problems.
      Nothing more dangerous than educated halfwits…
      
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      August 5, 2026 1:10pm
  - SGA
    
    @Gravelroad “Are people that dumb”
    well… there are plenty of people out there who aren’t extreme enough to be ACT or Greens, are disillusioned with National/Labour, and find NZF a bit stale. They don’t expect that the Opportunity Party will come close to implementing their more extreme policies (rightly, I’d guess), and feel like a fresh voice.
    
    Not an ad for Opportunity – just a more nuanced perspective than calling people “dumb”.
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:20pm
- Ra Henare
  
  For clarity.
  Key Voting Dates for 2026
  
  21 October 2026: Overseas voting opens.
  
  25 October 2026 (Midnight): Enrollment deadline. (Note: Under updated rules for 2026, voters must be enrolled by this date and cannot enroll at a voting place during advance voting or on election day).
  
  26 October 2026: Advance (early) voting begins across New Zealand.
  
  6 November 2026: Regulated campaign period ends.
  
  7 November 2026: Election Day (voting closes at 7:00 PM NZT).
  
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  August 5, 2026 4:39pm
Southern Raider

Assaulted and thrown down 2.4m stairwell. Had half his skull removed, permanent brain damage and died 5 years later.

Assailant got 2.5 years jail and was paroled after only serving a year of the sentence.

Tell me the justice system in NZ is fair.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/josh-storer-uk-man-attacked-in-albany-bar-dies/UCWFT5TFPBCE7EDFTWSNHZJOXE/
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August 5, 2026 8:05am
- KKNZ2025
  
  NZ doesn’t have a justice system, it has a legal system.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:52am
- David Garrett
  
  Southern: Sentences for violence in NZ are ludicrously light compared to those in Oz and the UK
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:02am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Let’s face the truth, DG. Increasing sentences for violent crime in NZ would be termed ‘racist’ by the msm, the ‘experts’, the ‘academics’ and their fellow travelers on the left side of politics. Those of us who view life through the lens of ‘common sense’ might beg to differ.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:28am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    Do you think that is because Maori are disproportionately convicted of violent offences? Perhaps there is an implicit accommodation of an acceptance of violence in Maori culture.
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:00pm
    - Paulus
      
      Remember the so called Haka and Kapa Haka are threatens of physical violence against others.
      
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      August 5, 2026 12:52pm
      - R
        
        Kapa Haka, taught as artistic display in all our state schools for years now. No surprise that we have a violent young society, lacking respect for others.
        
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        August 5, 2026 1:09pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        Paulus
        Suggest you read up on what the Haka is all about.
        Foreign media keep calling it a war dance.
        It is not!!!!!!!!!!!
        
        EG. Ever been to a graduation ceremony when audience members burst into a haka when someone of their whanu get capped?
        
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        August 6, 2026 2:06am
  - RichardF
    
    What can we do, David? These stories break my heart. Clearly the Government’s changes to the sentencing act are not enough. This is a key election issue for me.
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:26pm
    - Ghost
      
      the problem is the sentencing act, tinkering around the edges is not going to fix that.
      
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      August 5, 2026 12:36pm
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    Votes DG. It is all about votes.
    
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    August 5, 2026 2:28pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Tell me the justice system in NZ is fair.
  
  And the chap that threw him down the stairs did it for no reason apart from the fact that he could…
  
  Nathan could not explain to police why he did it except that Storer was annoying him, according to court documents.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/man-who-threw-josh-storer-down-albany-pub-stairs-sentenced-to-2-years-5-months-jail/HPG46KOAI752AFC7O6JRB74API/
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:14am
- Philview
  
  The last Labour Government had a policy of significantly reducing prison numbers. If the Left come back to power this year this policy will commence again. The worst case of this policy was the killing on MMA fighter Fau Vake and one of the men involved Ofa Folau was given 6 months home detention. The man who delivered the final punch called Daniel Havilli was given 2 years and 9 months.
  
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  August 5, 2026 10:16am
- Southern Raider
  
  To support free speech and democracy NZ Herald has now stopped all comments on this story
  
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  August 5, 2026 11:10am
  - R
    
    A fair indication of the Heralds POLITICS, and sense of responsibility towards thd community. How do their journalists (?) Sleep at night.
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:14pm
    - OlderChas
      
      The Herald has journalists???
      
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      August 5, 2026 5:24pm
      - R
        
        Apparently!
        
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        August 5, 2026 9:51pm
  - Ghost
    
    when the comments get too abusive they turn them off.
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:02pm
David George

Irish PM’s jet can’t land in fog after Israeli system removed, the aircraft is missing the key technology because his country banned defence purchases from the Jewish state.
The €53m (£45m) Dassault Falcon 6X is usually equipped with a FalconEye system, made by Israeli defence company Elbit Systems.

But Micheál Martin’s government was forced to purchase the aircraft from a French firm without it after Ireland blacklisted all Israeli defence technology in 2024.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/04/irish-pms-jet-cant-land-in-fog-after-israeli-system-removed/
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August 5, 2026 8:07am
- Southern Raider
  
  Can’t wait till the Irish try to go to war and have to fight with sticks and slings so they can continue their pathetic BDS strategy.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:23am
- mike
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  It seems doubtful that no other technology could be used.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:29am
  - imalwaysright
    
    This one dips the headlights automatically….
    
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    August 5, 2026 8:36am
  - David George
    
    Falcon Eye combined vision system is the best and is the only one compatible with Dassault systems. In fact it was specifically designed and manufactured by Israeli company Elbit in partnership with Dassault.
    So no.
    Free tip: you can easily look up actual facts before blurting out nonsense from your imagination.
    
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    August 5, 2026 8:51am
    - mike
      
      Irish air force has no issues with the aircraft.
      Free tip: approach MSM articles with skepticism.
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:20am
      - Jethrod
        
        But,but,but….. the MSM are your greatest political friend and shouldn’t be denigrate so.
        
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        August 5, 2026 9:29am
      - cmm (semi-retired edition)
        
        Almost an uptick for your last sentence there mike.
        
        However you don’t understand how the avionics industry works.
        You can’t just fit any box of tricks into any aircraft willy-nilly. The equipment has to be certified for every aircraft type it is fitted to. The engineers have to be certified to fit it, calibrate it etc. The pilots have to be trained and certified to use that equipment in that aircraft. For that they need all the training manuals, simulators, and such to exist.
        
        Yes, there are certainly equivalent boxes of tricks available from other sources, but not certified for that aircraft.
        
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        August 5, 2026 10:56am
    - igm
      
      Needed to swallow a camera for internal x-ray. It was Israeli made and did a perfect job. Will be forever grateful for their brilliance.
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:45am
  - Bevan
    
    Yet, no alternative system was fitted…..
    
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    August 5, 2026 8:53am
- G152
  
  There is this magical system known as IFR.
  Some say it means ‘I follow roads rivers and railways’
  And is universally available to ALL pilots qualified
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:58am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    Not if the fog limits visibility to 50 metres.
    
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    August 5, 2026 11:13am
  - R
    
    Only if the cockpit crew hold the appropriate Category 3 instrument landing rating.
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:19pm
- Positan
  
  Last year, the then, unbelievably-woke Nelson City Council passed a resolution (moved by a Green councillor) that it would not do business with any Israeli business or company.
  The unsurprising fact that Nelson City Council had never before done business with any Israeli entity, nor had been even remotely likely to do any sort of business with any such entity in the then foreseeable future was completely irrelevant and not even considered in the Nelson City Council’s pathetic haste to signal the absolute fatuousness of its “virtue” to the world.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:19am
  - Ehlana
    
    My high school declared itself a nuclear weapon free zone. They took a vote on it, waited until all those pupils had left the school, then without consulting current pupils, put the signs up.
    
    To be fair, they never checked pupils for weapons, so you could still bring them. And they didn’t try to limit bullying or harassment, so that continued unabated.
    
    Virtue signalling is what you do instead of virtuous behaviour.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:36am
    - mike
      
      Fun fact: NZ schools are allowed by law to possess uranium for scientific experiments.
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:59am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Assuming you don’t swallow the damn stuff, there’s not much U238 can do to harm you.
        Much riskier to stand outside on a sunny day for 5 minutes.
        
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        August 5, 2026 10:50am
      - cmm (semi-retired edition)
        
        I pine for more sensible times – when we could play with mercury or sodium.
        
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        August 5, 2026 11:14am
      - imalwaysright
        
        …and remember 10 year olds being allowed to use the class paper guillotine?
        
        Can’t remember anyone losing any body parts…
        
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        August 5, 2026 12:49pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Potassium in the swimming pool was always fun
        
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        August 5, 2026 12:56pm
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    “not do business with any Israeli business or company”
    
    I hope they stop using Intel CPUs then.
    And ban Apple devices.
    Or for that matter any phones, tablets and such using ARM processors.
    And no Mercedes trucks. Or any trucks using Bosch electronics.
    Nor Dropbox…
    etc etc etc
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multinational_companies_with_research_and_development_centres_in_Israel
    
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    August 5, 2026 11:02am
    - Southern Raider
      
      Unfortunately when it comes down to it none of the BDS clowns are actually that committed
      
      How can they spew anti Israel hate on Facebook and share antisemitic memes if they can’t use their Intel powered device?
      
      How can they turn up to weekly protests if they had to forgo being saved by Israeli medical inventions?
      
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      August 5, 2026 12:38pm
artemisia

So following forced sale the Pegasus golf club site development proposal has entered the fast track process. There is anger, even outrage, in the community, some 16,000 signed a related petition. Anger ramped when the new owner restricted access (and concreted holes). Not quite sure what all the issues of the 16,000 are, but look like removal of amenity and green space.

Still, 16,000 is a lot of locals. Maybe they had a case? Or maybe they checked out the normal consent process and how easily it can be delayed. Possibly for years. Or even if approved, hedged about with so many restrictions and costs that it becomes uneconomic for the owners. Which of course are the reasons for the fast track process.
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August 5, 2026 8:12am
- KKNZ2025
  
  “16,000 is a lot of locals”
  
  Apparently not locals, less than 5000 people live in Pegasus, with current design capacity 6000.
  
  Looks like a lot of external negative opinions from the usual suspects
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:21am
  - David Garrett
    
    FEWER than 5000 dear boy…LESS is for things not easily counted, as in “much less sand on the beach than usual”
    
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    August 5, 2026 11:57am
- Southern Raider
  
  Population of Pegasus is only 4,000 so most of those people aren’t directly affected.
  
  However I can understand the towns issue as they brought into a community to live beside a golf course and large green space. Same happened in Gulf Harbour north of Auckland where people brought houses backing onto the golf course for a premium and then a developer brought the course and closed it down.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:26am
  - surfing
    
    I thought the whole idea of Pegasus was having the golf course there, and I know one person (and their parents) who bought due to that.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:02am
  - artemisia
    
    Southern Raider – Lampedusa’s dictum ‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will really have to change.’
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:27am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    bought, not brought.
    
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    August 5, 2026 11:16am
- peterwn
  
  So the 16,000 petitioners are calling for the effective confiscation of private land through town planning processes.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:40am
  - artemisia
    
    There was local talk about a buy back, clearly didn’t happen. Though 16,000 and a few hundy each may well have done it.
    
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    August 5, 2026 8:46am
    - RoboRob
      
      I think the issue was that the value of the land was MUCH higher for a property developer then what the residents could justify.
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:04am
  - RoboRob
    
    The issue is around them being sold their sections (at least a decade ago) based around this being a small settlement centred around a golf course. The original developer has now sold off the golf course and they are talking about 1000s of new houses.
    
    There should have been some sort of HOA / body corporate that ‘owned’ and managed the golf course, so from that perspective the issue is partially their fault.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:03am
    - peterwn
      
      If the lot purchasers purchased their lots on the strength of a golf course being established, they should have insisted on the developer entering into covenants providing for the golf course and its continuing operation. It is such covenants that empower a HOA or body corporate to own/manage such a facility.
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:10am
    - MCōs
      
      Step right up
      Read our free brochure free brochure
      The big print giveth
      And the small print taketh away
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:13am
    - All_on_Red
      
      The land will have to be re-zoned before any development. 77 Ha is a fair bit of land. The locals want the Application to go through the normal consenting process, not Fast Track, where their say is minimal.
      The Golf Club was privately owned, not by the Developer. So the Rules in the Covenants set up by the Developer dont really apply (mainly cause the Zoning is different)
      I think the Mortgagee sale price might have covered the debts of Pegasus Golf Club?
      https://www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/pegasus-golf-course-locked-up-as-staff-told-their-jobs-are-gone/
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch/wolfbrook-sets-date-for-fast-track-of-pegasus-golf-course-housing-plan/
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:21am
    - gravedodger
      
      Make that two decades RoboRob, it began 2006.
      
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      August 5, 2026 1:00pm
- BarryB
  
  I cant understand the people of Pegasus. They bought into a development that had a golf course. Like many developments it went partly tits up and the golf part of it (the golf course) ran out of money and had to be sold.
  IF THE LOCALS WANTED TO KEEP IT THEY COULD HAVE PUT TOGETHER THE REQUIRED AMOUNT OF MONEY AND PURCHASED IT.
  But they didnt and now its going to be turned into something else.
  There is something missing in the attitude of the people who are objecting – you had the option and you didnt do anything. Saying that you were promised a golf course or a green space is not correct – you bought into a sceme that didnt come to reality – as my sister in Melbourne says -“go down to Bunnings, buy some timber, build a bridge and get over it” you screwed up, you dont like the idea of user pays and you want someone else to pay for your dreams. You took a gamble in the new development and it hasnt turned out – dont do the same stupid thing next time.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:53am
- pdm
  
  If they want further delays they can probably get local Iwi on board too.
  
  Ngai Tahu know a thing or two about delaying change/progress (whether or not it is progress at Pegasus) and will probably extract some Koha as well.
  
  Not likely to share the Koha though.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:00am
  - Colville
    
    Ngai Tahu understand that stirring shit with other peoples developments can go both ways and its a game that no one wins in the end.
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:13pm
- Ghost
  
  perhaps if those 16,000 people, who aren’t locals were members then this wouldn’t happen. But it only had 209 members, so it couldn’t survive
  
  https://www.golf.co.nz/club-detail?clubid=566
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:01am
  - Isobar
    
    100% this. Locals had years to support the golf club either through membership or purchasing the club outright. They didnt.
    
    The supporters seem to think there is a magic money tree thay means if it remains a golf course somehow it will be looked after.
    
    Greater Christchurch still has a shortage of homes. This location is actually quite well connected, its close to a new shopping area and other amenities. Preaumably the qualified engineers will clarify water, waste etc capacity. Its not impacting fertile soils etc.
    
    The only thing that is worth saying is that if approved by the govt through fast track, they should pony up the funding to ensure things they provide like schools, medical centres etc can handle the additional capacity.
    
    This area is a National safe seat, many residents would have voted for National and supported the fast track reforms. It would be incredibly hypocritical for them now to suddently change their mind. Their local MP is even a cabinet minister afterall that voted in this change.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:23am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    I have had more experience, as honorary treasurer of a small golf club, than most readers here.
    Look at the pictures of that golf course. One cannot maintain those lovely bunkers and extensive golf course with a mere 209 members. Yes, the golf club members were in fantasy land.
    Our golf club was looking sick 11 years ago. Then Covid came along which unusually increased membership dramatically and with new subdivisions nearby the golf club is now in a wonderful financial state. Increase the members and green fees, cart hire, bar turnover, subscriptions, assistance from gaming charities; it all came together. Note the gaming charities; Lotto was of no use whatsoever unless you can call the race card or the feminists’ card.
    
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    August 5, 2026 11:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The Golf Club was owing $9 Million.
  https://www.nzgolfbusiness.com/pegasus-golf-club-enters-voluntary-liquidation/
  
  The community were living in fantasy land…
  
  Why should the current owner be penalised by a bunch of disgruntled neighbours who clearly weren’t helping to keep their fantasy golf course afloat?
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:19am
Nūhaka Native

Michael Laws on The Platform pointing out:
This election is not actually between the current coalition and labour/Greens/TPM and now, thanks to the media amplification, TOP (Roy Morgan says they are on 8%) as well.

It is really the current center right coaltion versus the mainstream media and the metropolitan left wing parties. Every time they present ex Labour Party PM Helen Clark as their ‘impartial’ commentator on anything happening in or to the country, we all get to see that.

Laws also points out that if the coalition doesn’t stop squabbling, things won’t go well for them in November

They could take an Aesop’s fable lesson ‘United we stand, but divided we fall’, or, in the new ‘priestly language’ of NZ, ‘Kotahitanga te kaha’.

https://youtu.be/YvnRWQdMO1g
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August 5, 2026 8:13am
- RoboRob
  
  If only the government had some control over the media and could force them to be more impartial.
  
  I hear there is a minister of broadcasting but their role is limited to organising funding for the media.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:59am
  - peterwn
    
    If only !!!!!! That is no doubt what Chris Luxon and his people ponder over.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:13am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      That is no doubt what Chris Luxon and his people ponder over.
      
      They’ve had 3 years to ponder up a decent solution…
      
      If they haven’t figured out by now how to deal with a hostile media, then they deserve to lose the election.
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:22am
  - KKNZ2025
    
    “If only the government had some control over the media and could force them to be more impartial.”
    
    Perhaps they could consider a “Public Interest Journalism Fund”…oh, wait…
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:57am
- MCōs
  
  Of course Helen Clark isn’t impartial and neither is Michael Laws, nor the other ex PMs who comment on NZ politics.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:27am
Jimbo666

If those 16,000 had joined the golf club there wouldn’t be a problem?
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August 5, 2026 8:15am
- kowtow
  
  If they were Ngai Tahu the Crown would do the confiscation for them.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:01am
  - OlderChas
    
    If they were Ngai Tahu they probably had free membership as part of one of the final settlements.//
    
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    August 5, 2026 5:39pm
Scott

Here’s an old headline from the BBC in 2020:

Snowy winters could become a thing of the past

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55179603

The thing about the theory of climate change is that it should generate predictions that can be proved true or not.
So one of the few predictions of climate change is that snow will become a thing of the past. In Britain and here in NZ.

Well snow fell in central Wellington yesterday for the first time in 15 years!

Is climate change real? Is the planet getting inexorably warmer due to manmade greenhouse gases?

I’m very sceptical. Here in the Wairarapa it got to 7C yesterday. Not much global warming / climate change evident here.

And it’s a serious issue, with net zero and carbon credits and electric cars and fossil fuels exploration bans.

The theory of climate change impacts our economy in a big way. What if it’s not true? 🤔
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August 5, 2026 8:17am
- pdm
  
  Snow on Te Mata Peak and Mount Erin in Hawkes Bay.
  
  Doesn’t happen every year.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:03am
  - Jethrod
    
    I was told yesterday thesnow on Te Mata was last recorded on 1 June 2009. Reliable Havelock North resident of 40+ years.
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:01am
- David Garrett
  
  Scott: Global warming has also bypassed Tonga..a record low of 8.5C overnight a couple of weeks ago…and the days are much much cooler than usual…this phenomenon is of course why they had to change the name of the “crisis” from “global warming ” to “climate change “
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:10am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    You are conflating weather and climate. Over the last 30 years mean temperatures in Tonga have increased steadily, although not by as much as in some parts of the world.
    
    There is plenty of data for you to review.
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:36pm
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  Of course it’s not true. Climate change is a global phenomenon that is continuous, variable and completely beyond the control of, nor impacted by human activity. Unthinkable amounts of money have been sunk into “green” technologies, with no community benefits. The technologies are in their infancies in terms of engineering and so the money invested in them so far is sunk cost, with no measurable societal benefit, and global warming, pshaw!
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:56am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    What do you mean “of course it is not true”? The data does not support such an assertion. Happy for you to show me peer reviewed reputable data that refutes the dramatic warming over the last 40 years..
    
    As I have commented before, climate change makes many normally rational folk on this blog ignore evidence. Covid vaccines is another triggering topic. It is a mystery.
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:39pm
    - rouppe
      
      The assertion is that a warming world is completely down to human inputs.
      
      Last time I was at Te Papa there was an exhibit that showed sea levels had risen some 200m since the last ice age and hundreds of years ago. No human intervention there.
      
      Yet the polar bears survived.
      The Great Barrier Reef flourished.
      Humans flourished.
      
      Now your response is that temperatures have risen faster more recently, since the industrial age. If you watch a glass filled with ice, it takes a long time to get started, but the last 20% of melting takes a lot less time than the first 20%.
      
      It’s not inconceivable that as humans flourished due to a warming world, innovation also flourished as more people survived. That the industrial age happened because of a warming world, rather than a warming world because of the industrial age. There has been more technological advancement in the last 100 years than the 500 years before that.
      
      Peer reviewed papers? Anyone seeking to publish anything contrary to the leftists academic views is professionally destroyed. And you ask where contrary views are…
      
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      August 5, 2026 2:54pm
- Nikola Donatello
  
  You are confusing weather with climate.
  
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  August 5, 2026 12:31pm
- pb
  
  We don’t deal well with statistics. The world is ultimately driven by: way-off-the-bell-curve events. Weather is random, and the climate change graph boffins, cant deal with it. The most important events in history, are black-swan, and earth shattering. Weather is a smaller subset, but we cant even comprehend. As Kiwis we must learn the 1000+ year cycle of earth shattering quakes.
  
  Prudence. Tame chaos. Random weather is normal and healthy for life.
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:47pm
[email protected]

[Mod – Details on this case are supressed, that means we don’t tell people where to go to find out about it.]
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August 5, 2026 8:23am
rjay

I see Roy Morgan has the Opportunity Party even Steven’s with ACT. TPM, TOP, Greens and Labour could form a government. Or NZF, Labour and Greens.
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August 5, 2026 8:44am
- Ghost
  
  Roy Morgan are the only ones that have them over 5%, everyone else has them below
  
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  August 5, 2026 12:47pm
- Diogenes
  
  In some ways I’d love to see a coalition of Labour/Greens/TPM and TOP.
  
  That should last about 5 minutes.
  
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  August 5, 2026 2:55pm
  - Ghost
    
    they are a natural fit, don’t be surprised if they go the full term
    
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    August 5, 2026 5:12pm
  - Scooter
    
    In saying “that” do you mean NZ, because if Labour get in then NZ will be finished.
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:23pm
Ghost

A man allegedly assaulted a woman and stole her car prompting a serious police incident that has closed roads in Auckland’s Epsom during the morning rush.

Five people have been injured, NZ Herald are reporting.

stuff

One person is in a critical condition, one in a serious condition, one in a moderate condition and two others were treated at the scene, St John said.

NZ Herald

Some families are having an awful start to the day. hopefully they will be ok
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August 5, 2026 8:45am
- Ghost
  
  Looks like the guy intentionally ran into people
  
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  August 5, 2026 11:15am
  - Ghost
    
    Fuck, all five cyclist were high school students
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:28pm
peterwn

So Chris Hipkins has said he would never appoint Winston Peters as Foreign Minister. I bet he will quickly start whistling a different tune if after the election he is unable to form a coalition government without Winston’s support.
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August 5, 2026 8:47am
- RoboRob
  
  Guaranteed.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:56am
- Positan
  
  I’ve yet to hear Hipkins render any sort of meaningfully intelligent utterance.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:46am
  - R
    
    utterance, or intelligent credible election policy.
    Winston has been uttering since he was replaced as Deputy PM
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:30pm
- mike
  
  So, the same as Luxon ruling out TOP?
  
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  August 5, 2026 10:03am
lastmanstanding

IMHO the Coalition should be pointing out the consequences of Labour Green and TOP tax policies. The MSM have been silent as usual even though the policies will adversely impact many of them. Space doesnt allow me to do so except it will be middle income earners that will be most impacted. The rich as usual will employ lawyers and accountants to either legally avoid the impacts or transfer their capital off shore. Either way they wont be paying the taxes. The policies are inequitable and in some cases have been tried and have failed in other countries. As usual the Left see taxes and wealth distribution as their only goal. Growing the economy to create a bigger pie is beyond their capacity and capability.
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August 5, 2026 8:48am
- Luke Piewalker
  
  @Lastmanstanding. You are absolutely right. But the coalition government shouldn’t have too because it should be able to point out its own good policies.
  
  And there lies the problem. Luxon is 0/10 for his governments PR campaign.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:54am
  - R
    
    Their is no COALITION PARTY seeking election. There are three parties with individual policies, who may be able to coalesce into a government late November, or probably January, depending on how Winston’s fishing goes.
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:37pm
- RoboRob
  
  Unfortunately the coalition seem busy trying to extract their collective feet from their mouths at the moment!
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:55am
- peterwn
  
  They already are – pointing out that the left wing are proposing 8 new taxes and that countries have abolished wealth taxes because capital was fleeing these countries.
  
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  August 5, 2026 8:56am
- pdm
  
  I thought this was very good from National yesterday – originally seen on Facebook.
  
  https://nominister.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/this-may-be-the-national-partys-best-effort-in-two-years-nine-months/
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:06am
- R
  
  Envy and distribution of OPM, is the mainstay policy of ALL socialist Marxist parties.
  
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  August 5, 2026 10:20am
RoboRob

Have a listen to the political part of the Hoskings show (~08:10 – 08:25) on Newstalk ZB.

Mitchell is one of the more competent National MPs, Hoskings is possibly the most National friendly person in the media and Ginny Anderson (Labour) is ‘erratic’. Mitchell was totally destroyed on National not doing what they promised.

Mike said they hadn’t done what they promised on Maorification. Mitchell countered that they had and pointed to removal of co governance. Ginny then said, no they haven’t removed co governance and then rattled off a number of new co governance arrangements entered under this government.

Clearly Labour have identified this as a weakness, Ginny was well prepared and ready to go with her attack lines.

The only bright side might be that this may push National to get the removal of a tiny number of treaty references from legislation passed this term. It looked like this had zero chance of being passed but perhaps they now will as a counter to this Labour attack line. National has slow walked this process and clearly has no real interest in it. Comments from Judith Collins and Goldsmith back this up.
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August 5, 2026 8:53am
- Hugh Jarse
  
  If Hosking is starting to front them over these issues and it’s about time someone did there will be panic in the Boardroom. National will look back at this election as an opportunity lost when they see their list seats fall while those of ACT and Winston First rise.
  
  Anecdotal I know, but a lot of my acquaintances will vote for their National electoral candidate and ACT or WF as the party vote. This will mean that some good National Ministers and MPs will go but they only have themselves to blame. They have lost faith in National in delivering on their 2023 promises on maorification, but still wish to elect a right wing coalition including National as the best way to vote for their economy. I don’t totally blame Luxon, his party develops policy not just him and I do wonder about the leanings of others within the party.
  
  Trying to do a Jacinda now won’t change the result for them and the media will not back off a new leader, they will smell blood in the water and an opportunity to get rid of the coalition. it will be Bridges, Mueller, Collins all over again for National.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:58am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    Hugh, your phrase “they only have themselves to blame” should have been underlined.
    
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    August 5, 2026 5:24pm
gravedodger

Question how many of the 16 000 are willing to put up the $300 odd needed to clear the Five million debt the Golf course has accumulated, preventing that bill falling to Ratepayers of Waimakariri District Council who will inevitably be in the gun?
No answer needed the answer is clear, that is how the Five million debt arrived.
It would have been clear when it was a few thousand and growing annually, while many of the 16 000 were playing golf there for nothing because they had bought in as part of the development, while Full membership at Russley Golf Club, 30 minutes away approaches $3 000 a year.
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August 5, 2026 8:58am
- MCōs
  
  I might be wrong, but when the developer sold off the sections around the golf course I wouldn’t have thought it was only temporary like furniture in a display home.
  Or they could fork out to keep it afloat.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:40am
Yvette

Can anyone fathom what Winston is actually trying to do at the moment in probably ruling himself out of Foreign Minister positions in future coalitions, and facing the likelihood of TOP being ‘kingmaker’ rather than New Zealand First.

An aside – Winston’s definition of indigenous: an immigrant who arrived here before there was anyone else here to tell them to go home
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August 5, 2026 9:03am
- Ghost
  
  I think he is trying to pull a trump. Also it feels like he wants an early election to capitalize on his strength in the polls. I expect if he doesn’t get his way he will drop in the polls by election time.
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:08am
  - RoboRob
    
    Interesting. Hadn’t thought he might be imploding himself on purpose. If he does blow up the government (unlikely), I would think its an easy win for Labour.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:13am
    - pdm
      
      More a Hansen or Farage than a Trump I think.
      
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      August 5, 2026 9:35am
  - Yvette
    
    Ghost and RoboRob, it would seem that from late September, the required election timeline guarantees that no earlier polling date than November 7 is legally or logistically achievable.
    
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    August 5, 2026 9:42am
- Hugh Jarse
  
  Might be as simple as he is 81/82 and wants to spend his time in NZ rather than all of the international travel. I frankly don’t know how he does it at his age.
  
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  August 5, 2026 4:48pm
Gary Benner

The Electoral Commission is trying to get young people to vote.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/karl-le-quesne-electoral-commission-chief-electoral-officer-says-to-encourages-young-people-to-enrol-to-vote/

What I would prefer to see is a campaign to get young people involved in learning about the processes of government first, otherwise it becomes an “X Factor” or “American Idol” type affair, where looks and soundbites rule the day.

I would prefer to have a 50% turnout from people who genuinely understand the politcal scene, rather than 100% where a significant number are voting on the basis of superficial messaging, social media influencers, and enticements.

Quality not quantity.
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August 5, 2026 9:05am
- surfing
  
  If you wanted quality voters there would never be a labour government.
  
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  August 5, 2026 10:28am
- R
  
  Gary, it is a long time since ‘quality’ was the bench mark for any activity or appointment in NZ
  
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  August 5, 2026 10:31am
- Taieri
  
  a campaign to get young people involved in learning about the processes of government first
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  An excellent idea. This, and the government financing, should be a compulsory subject at school.
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:06pm
  - R
    
    As was the case during the 1950’s education period. Also had effective discipline in the schools then.
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:39pm
    - OlderChas
      
      R – It’s a pity that I can only give one uptick!
      
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      August 5, 2026 5:53pm
imalwaysright

Upper Hutt Mayor, Peri Zee’s office called the cops on a couple of ratepayers for attending meetings and asking questions.

The Police turned up unannounced at their home to discuss the matter.

The Police said they considered the complaint baseless but wanted to speak to the couple anyway !

Its not clear whether the complaint was under the HDCA or Stalking and Harassment Act, but as there was no offence why did the Police feel the need to visit?
We saw this sort of thing under Ardern.

Michael Laws interviews the man involved…If you upset the Mayor the Police will arrive
https://youtu.be/-Z9NqdJMIKM?si=j-hQQ2cMn6sqHP5D
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August 5, 2026 9:24am
- OlderChas
  
  Good god! I listened to the link – and it is just crazy. Who in the NZ Police told this – I presume uniformed constable? – to go knocking a citizen up for – – what???
  I am also concerned that people elected someone called Peri Zee as Mayor od a NZ city!
  
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  August 5, 2026 6:14pm
Positan

The Speaker booted Chloe Swarbrick out of Parliament yeaterday after she had accused him of double-standards.

Yet again, and true to form, OneNews showed its substantial leftist bias by failing to portray the incident among the 6.00pm headlines – as it has done every time a National, ACT or NZFirst MP was similarly dealt to.

Even well into the newscast, OneNews’ parliamentary coverage covered only the fallout occasioned from Winston Peters’ lapse with the Greens’ Chinese MP – but not a skerrick whatsoever to do with the eviction of Swarbrick.
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August 5, 2026 9:50am
- R
  
  Just ‘One News’ maintaining its consistency of political bias !
  
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  August 5, 2026 10:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  One News seems to be a day behind in covering news nowadays.
  
  I wouldn’t be surprised if we get the Chloe version of events on tonight’s broadcast.
  
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  August 5, 2026 11:07am
- Yvette
  
  Winston
  July 2026 remarks targeting Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan
  Speaker Gerry Brownlee publicly characterized Peters’ remarks as “inappropriate”. However, he took no formal disciplinary action or requirement for a formal retraction / apology, noting that no MP had raised an immediate point of order at the exact moment the exchange took place in the House
  
  February 2026 Remarks (Targeting Green MP Teanau Tuiono)
  Peters interjected during a question about Pacific climate aid, questioning why a minister was taking a question from someone “who came from Rarotonga to a country called New Zealand”. Tuiono was born in Auckland. Opposition Leader Chris Hipkins described the comments as “pure racism”.
  
  Following a review of the Hansard transcript the next day, Speaker Brownlee delivered a formal ruling affirming that questioning any MP’s right or standing to participate in Parliament was “highly disorderly”. However, he declined to force Peters to withdraw and apologize, stating that he had not personally heard the comment at the time it occurred due to noise in the chamber. When Opposition MPs challenged the Speaker over perceived double standards, Labour MP Kieran McAnulty was ejected from the chamber for “trifling” with the Speaker’s ruling.
  
  I doubt Chloe’s accusation will reverberate around global media news.
  
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  August 5, 2026 11:57am
  - RoboRob
    
    It seems the Chloe has a point, the useless speaker is scared to tack action against Winston. For once I am with the Greens, one rule for all.
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:36pm
Reg Perrin

How close were we to Black outs last night. Apparently Huntly Generation tripped at 7.45pm.

Seeing as Geothermal and Hydro were near their peaks where would the extra generation come to power a data center
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August 5, 2026 9:54am
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  Huntly has 5 generators sized from 50 to 403MW, so tripping one of those is maybe a small deal or maybe a big deal.
  
  There are data centres and data centres… Most data centres can rapidly (within seconds) offload their work to other data centres or just reduce their processing entirely – cutting their load by 90% or so. This is particularly true of AI training data centres which are generally non-realtime and can thus be turned down at will.
  
  The problem with losing a single generator/transformer/whatever is that this then transfers the load onto other components. This can cause trips to cascade through the network quite easily.
  
  It is common to continuously run contingency analysis software to predict the robustness of the network (this is termed network security in the industry, but that is a confusing term for many people). This continuously runs simulations of the form “If generator/transformer/line X trips then what is going to happen to the whole network?” Then rinse and repeat for every critical generator, transformer and breaker in the entire network as well as multiple. For example, in the 1980s South Africa there was a worry about terrorist attacks potentially hitting two or more power lines simultaneously.
  
  We were using this software when I worked in Eskom in South Africa in the 1980s so I assume NZ uses this sort of thing now. Back then computers were slow and we only ran a full network simulation every 15 minutes or so (and the very critical stuff ran maybe once a minute). With modern computers it would be easy to run these simulations multiple times a second.
  
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  August 5, 2026 11:42am
  - Reg Perrin
    
    This is where i got the info from. From reading it, it looked like it was producing nothing for a while which is why the spot price shot up
    https://newzealandenergy.substack.com/p/near-miss
    
    [Mod – cleaned up link]
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:54pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Transpower have warned of shortages tomorrow morning.
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:20pm
- gravedodger
  
  The Melons, all half a million of them if polling is to be believed will all stand out there with torches aimed at sola panels during the night Reg, that should do it?
  Meanwhile perhaps when the Melons send a space craft to the Sun at night to avoid the heat it will be able to come back fully energised?
  There will be an answer in someones head, maybe yet to be released//
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:17pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  I’m sure more solar+wind+batteries will solve this. //
  
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  August 5, 2026 4:43pm
surfing

Did I read that right, jetstar are going to charge $23 per flight to use overhead lockers ? I commonly pay for 2 to 4 tickets for our family, so, the increase is nearly an extra $100 to 200 per domestic return flight.
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August 5, 2026 9:59am
- RoboRob
  
  One assumes that the base price for the tickets goes down and the overhead luggage becomes another fare differentiator, like meals and seat selection.
  
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  August 5, 2026 11:37am
  - Flossie
    
    Why would you assume that!!
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:37pm
- David Garrett
  
  Surfing: Why on earth would you fly with Jetstar? I never have and never will
  
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  August 5, 2026 12:08pm
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    I don’t think Jetstar flies to the Kingdom.
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:24pm
  - RoboRob
    
    I have multiple times. Reasons
    
    1. Currently more timely and less likely to cancellation than AirNZ
    2. Price is usually 25-75% less then AirNZ
    3. Domestic service is about the same. I miss out on a lolly, which based on fare difference is worth about $80
    
    My son flies international on Jetstar on Friday. Fare was at least $600 cheaper and had better times / connecting flights. He misses misses out on 4kg of luggage (which he could have paid $60 to upgrade) and might have to buy his own drinks on flight. $600 buys a lot of drinks.
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:41pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Yes, Jetstar are a better deal.
      
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      August 5, 2026 12:59pm
      - cmm (semi-retired edition)
        
        Especially when you consider that we all pay to prop up Air NZ whether we’re flying or not.
        
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        August 5, 2026 4:58pm
  - surfing
    
    Ha ha everyone has different experiences.
    
    I fly the cheapest option, meaning jetstar 75% of the time. I’ve not had issues with Jetstar, except for the occasional 30-40 minute delay which happens to Air NZ too.
    
    Theres 5 in my family, cheaper flights add up quick.
    
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    August 5, 2026 12:46pm
  - Colville
    
    DG.
    Our kids always use Jetstar to and from Brissy/Goldcoast.
    Half the price of AirNZ.
    BYO sandwich!
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:20pm
- Ghost
  
  Fees start at $23
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/jetstar-to-charge-new-fees-for-using-overhead-lockers-for-carry-on
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:43pm
mike

I see Trump has found yet another grift: selling early access to his market-manipulating Truth Social posts.
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August 5, 2026 10:10am
Prince

WARNING TO WELLINGTON RATEPAYERS. YOU ARE BEING CONNED.

“From 1 July 2026:
• Wellington City Council rates increased by an average of 3.9 percent.
• The sludge levy increased by 2 percent.”

So proclaims Andrew Little’s Wgton City Council. In their ‘Rates Explained’ document..

https://wellington.govt.nz/property-rates-and-building/rates/rates-explained/rates-for-current-rating-year.

Not too bad, even when you factor in the Regional Council’s 9.7% increase on top.

But wait – this the WCC in action, so expect some subterfuge, some trickiness, and even some blatant lies.

Take that 2% increase in the aptly named Sludge Levy.

It’s really a 52.4% increase year on year.

How can that be ?
You see the 2% increase quoted is actually the impact of the Sludge increase on the overall total rates.

When the Council says the Sludge Levy increases by 2%, they really mean it accounts for a 2% slice of the overall rates package increase.

Tricky eh !
It like your local Supermarket saying the price of apples is increasing 1%, from $3 to $10. What they are doing is taking that $7 increase and applying it to an overall basket of goods costing $350. So just a 2% increase. Easy eh !

Now if I ran a business that was this slippery, I would sack the entire Finance dept. But I’m not sure that Andrew Little has clean hands on this. Let’s see how outraged he it when and if this becomes public knowledge. It is all a misunderstanding, and lack of clear communication, or is it an outrageous lie perpetrated by a Council that has a history of this behaviour.
Will the Commerce Commission look at this ? The Minister ? The media ? Ratepayers Union ?
It deserves wider publicity.
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August 5, 2026 10:35am
- RoboRob
  
  Very dodgy.
  
  Its similar to the trick most councils are doing where rates ‘only’ go up by 9% but they don’t factor in the entirely new ‘water rates’ that were part of the old rates in most cities.
  
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  August 5, 2026 11:39am
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  You expected honesty? I don’t which is one of the reasons I stay far away from Wellington though, unfortunately, they seem to visit my wallet on a regular basis.
  
  It would be interesting to see if someone takes them to task for fraud.
  
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  August 5, 2026 12:09pm
  - Prince
    
    Silly I know, but I do expect honesty from Govt Depts and local councils.
    It used to be this sort of deception was common from used car dealers. Now they are subject to all sorts of regulations and there are complaint bodies with teeth to monitir them.
    But not so much with our local councils.
    
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    August 5, 2026 2:04pm
Southern Raider

This is what will kill the Coalition in October

Highest unemployment rate since 2015. 1 in 5 have been unemployed for longer than 12 months. Our biggest city (and most electorate and party votes) has had unemployment get even worse.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361015990/region-struggling-most-unemployment-climbs-decade-high-56
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August 5, 2026 11:06am
- RoboRob
  
  I think the damage is already done. Many people are upset at the perceived unfulfilled promises.
  
  Just this morning Mark Mitchel claimed they had ‘put an end to co governance’ to which Ginny Anderson pointed out they had actually signed multiple new co governance arrangements.
  
  Economy – No
  Co governance – No
  Reduction in government size – No
  Borrowing reduced – No, increased
  Balanced budgets – No
  Inflation down – Sort of, very high rates and power inflation
  RMA – not yet
  New roading and infrastructure – >50% either delayed or cancelled
  De Maorisation of government departments – no
  Law and order – Yes, much better. Police # target missed.
  Reduced council rate rises – No, not for at least 4 more years.
  
  Not exactly a great record of promise fulfilment
  
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  August 5, 2026 12:50pm
  - RoboRob
    
    How could I forget,
    
    Education – YES. Good job Stanford
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:04pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      An incumbent Government should be campaigning on their accomplishments and the promotion of subsequent policy.
      
      The country is in no mood for any attempt at recycling previous policies or rolling over unfulfilled promises to be achieved just after their reelection.
      
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      August 5, 2026 2:02pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    Big problem is the alternative is so much worse
    
    It’s like having to vote with your nose blocked as the Coalition stinks but the Left wing block would make you vomit
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:26pm
  - Hugh Jarse
    
    I think you are a bit harsh on the economy item, the Trump has had adverse impacts on the economy now for over 12 months which they have had to contend with. I do wonder if they have been careful of overly damaging Wellington with big cuts to the public service, it’s already suffering from falling house prices (25% in some cases) and general malaise, another 18000 layoffs across the state sector who would be virtually unemployable wandering the streets of Wellington looking for cigarette butts and waiting to vote Labour this year might not have been pleasant.
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:59pm
- Gravelroad
  
  So why is this country importing thousands of allegedly (mainly) unskilled workers from other places?
  I don’t get it.
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:04pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    Because apparently the skillset to drive an Uber, sell a Vape and make a Domino’s pizza requires a very high IQ and university education which the NZ population can’t supply s//
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:27pm
    - BananaLlama
      
      Someone can come here on a Student Visa, bring their partner in on a temp Visa, daisy chain that into a three year Visa if they find employment and then get their PR.
      It’s going to be very hard to sell this to the NZ Public on election day when we have such high unemployment. National and ACT types can argue with me all they want but the NZ public isn’t going to buy it.
      
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      August 5, 2026 5:01pm
    - RichardF
      
      And work at Noel Leeming.
      
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      August 5, 2026 5:16pm
  - artemisia
    
    Because they are worth paying minimum wage to and the nephs on the sofa are not.
    
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    August 5, 2026 4:12pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      The “nephs on the sofa” will be amongst the 250,000
      people here getting the Job Seeker Allowance.
      Paid for with taxpayer money.
      If there are all these jobs that minimum wage immigrant workers will do, why can’t the “nephs” do some of them?
      Because nobody can make them?
      Easier just to pay up and shut up.
      
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      August 5, 2026 4:55pm
- Paulus
  
  I wonder what percentage of those so called unemployed actually vote ?
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:11pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    I think you would be surprised the number of blue and white collar workers currently out of work
    
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    August 5, 2026 1:28pm
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    100% to stay on the dole======
    
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    August 5, 2026 6:15pm
- R
  
  Have you considered that maybe 1 in 5 are hnrmployable in a meaningful productive manner. Look at the vountries education results over the last 4 decades
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:47pm
- BananaLlama
  
  The Coalition has done a very good job of getting inflation under control for Labour.
  
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  August 5, 2026 2:58pm
Philview

I was saddened to read yesterday of the passing of British journalist Rod Liddle. He has been a fierce critic of woke ideodology and penned many witty articles. Rod was an old school Lefty whose views didn’t change but he somehow became Far Right to his critics. Rod was only 66 and cause of death not yet revealed.
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August 5, 2026 11:17am
cmm (semi-retired edition)

I see that the Tour de France people are getting into a tizzy about bra-boosting and penis-packing that some competitors are doing to enhance their aerodynamics.

Surely this is unfair. Why should a large breasted women (or thick schlonged men) have an aerodynamic advantage over their less endowed competition?

Surely the fair way to do this is to allow everyone the same shape bulges and require everyone pack lead to make up for any missing material?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/cycling/cyclists-accused-of-faking-larger-bra-size-at-tour-de-france-femmes/26CQUIAG3FH3NEXUJVHWOY2F7U/
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August 5, 2026 12:21pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Perhaps those of us of the shorter variety should be able to wear spring loaded shoes or similar when playing basketball.
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:08pm
- Taieri
  
  Why should a large breasted women (or thick schlonged men) have an aerodynamic advantage
  ————
  
  May be they are heavier?
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:08pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    aerodynamic drag reduced around a rounded profile
    
    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/N-Rabino/publication/322530755_Analysis_and_Qualitative_Effects_of_Large_Breasts_on_Aerodynamic_Performance_and_Wake_of_a_Miss_Kobayashi's_Dragon_Maid_Character/links/5a5ef35a458515c03ee11245/Analysis-and-Qualitative-Effects-of-Large-Breasts-on-Aerodynamic-Performance-and-Wake-of-a-Miss-Kobayashis-Dragon-Maid-Character.pdf
    
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    August 5, 2026 3:46pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      I tried the link but it looked pretty turgid. The abstract said “we did some fluid mechanics on this and quted Navier-Stokes and Reynolds numbers and stuff” and the print was ludicrously small.
      
      What was the guts of it?
      
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      August 5, 2026 3:51pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Someone had fun with their computer and an anime model.
        https://www.instagram.com/p/DT1ezzMCh9Y/
        
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        August 5, 2026 5:59pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        I tried reading the paper. I’m a chemical engineer with a moderate grasp of Navier-Stokes and Reynolds numbers and all that shit. It failed the sniff test for me.
        
        if I cut an orange in half, stuck it on a peg and put it in an air flow with the round bit pointing upstream. would there be a lift force pulling it upstream?
        
        The other novel bit was supposedly you could get a copy of the paper from an address at mega.nz – our very own Kom Dot-Fatty ,,,, 🙂
        
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        August 5, 2026 6:39pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Sydney Sweeney should be a shoo-in for next year’s Tour, then.
      
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      August 5, 2026 6:21pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Can you imagine the Tour de Pharmacie winners podium…soft porn.
  
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  August 5, 2026 1:37pm
- mandk
  
  I think the over-endowed athletes should be surgically reduced to conform with the average.
  
  It’s the only fair way to go. It would certainly remove the incentive to cheat.
  
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  August 5, 2026 3:42pm
- rjay
  
  The same athletes have already been banned from swimming events for having flotation devices and keels
  
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  August 5, 2026 9:00pm
Diogenes

From the Department of Useless Information:

My cellphone informs me that this week I have used it 44 minutes less than last week. Why does Samsung think I need/want to know this? (Apart from the fact that I see lesser use a plus, though Samsung probably thinks it’s a minus.)

I’d love to hear of other items of Useless Information that you have been accosted with.
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August 5, 2026 1:25pm
- [email protected]
  
  Wonder what other data they are tracking?
  
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  August 5, 2026 7:58pm
AitchW

Larger breasts mean faster airflow over the front of the body, thereby increasing “lift”, essentially a vacuum in front of the rider.
For more look at Bernoulli’s theorem.
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August 5, 2026 3:08pm
- Steve Otto N Shore
  
  So does a big dick and balls.
  Am I missing the point? Or am I not that fast?
  
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  August 5, 2026 6:22pm
- Ian Boag
  
  Actually it means higher velocity down the sides … Think of a wing – the lift is at right angles to the airflow …. not upstream ….
  
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  August 5, 2026 6:41pm
Ghost

stuff has published CCTV footage of the high school students just before they are hit, cut the footage of them being hit then shown just after it. There is no reason to publish this video, especially when the families are dealing with this
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August 5, 2026 6:15pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Boxers from Uganda and Pakistan have decided that there’s no place like Bonnie Scotland to set up shop.

http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxj5xl0pxo
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August 5, 2026 6:32pm
greybeard

Although it may hurt you to do so, have a look at Stuff’s website tonight: virtually every article is negative in its content.
Against the NZ government, against sportspeople, kauri trees, kids, animals, you name it this website will find something negative to report.
Makes you wonder what sort of people work for it…..
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August 5, 2026 7:09pm
- Ian Boag
  
  I guess noone is holding a gun at your head to make you read it. The problem is that if you want a website with reasonably comprehensive coverage of things that are happening in NZ there aren’t a lot of options. Organisations that have journos in the field rather than just scraping (for free) from (offshore) news gatherers (who scape it for free off Stuff).
  
  Most of Stuff coverage is just “what is happening” – not a lot is politically slanted and some (Damien Grant) is a long way from lefty …
  
  What do you want? – “Prime Minister refutes (where have we hear that word?) stuff about him and Winston and anti-Chinese rubbish talk”?
  
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  August 5, 2026 7:35pm
  - Jack5
    
    Ian Boag’s right: there aren’t a lot of options for comprehensive coverage. Our reading and advertising markets are so small it’s a challenge for news media to make a buck.
    
    Main independent exceptions are NZME, through its Herald and radio, and the Otago Daily Times, bolstered by a swathe of regional papers.
    
    If there was no State TV and State radio, and if State subsidies weren’t keeping some other News Media alive, new independent, smaller and more economic news outlets would likely arise.
    
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    August 5, 2026 10:12pm
- artemisia
  
  “The blatant, blatant bias of the New Zealand media makes you want to weep,” Mike Hosking late last year.
  
  Some would say, well he would say that. But those ‘some’ could do well to look at who is listening to whom.
  
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