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Cassandra

TOP reveals its true colours – “the peoples’s flag is deepest red” – when leader Qiulae Wong says New Zealand needs to rebuild its relationship with Māori.

She promises to restore changes to marine and coastal area law and repeal legislation that has stripped references to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Etc. co-governance here we come. The only thing she hasn’t endorsed yet is a separate Maori Parliament but give her time.

Any rubbish about the centre is now gone for good.

It really is a battle line now. Are the Nats up to it?
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September 4, 2026 8:01am
- Scott
  
  Well Paul Henry is definitely up for it. He spoke at the Carterton events centre last night to a crowd of several hundred. He promised that our best days are not behind us and he promised that Act would fight for equal rights for all NZers. That we all have the same rights! What a novel concept! 👏
  
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  September 4, 2026 8:06am
  - leoj
    
    Luxon has been captivated my maori wonderfulness.
    Nats are unwilling to stop the wave.
    
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    September 4, 2026 4:35pm
- Tricati
  
  With one of TOP’s candidates being a co-author of Labour’s he paupau report, this is no surprise.
  The worrying part is, it appears National is endorsing parts themselves, hence many party faithful walking away.
  
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  September 4, 2026 8:07am
- KKNZ2025
  
  Anyone who looked at TOPs website would have seen their “Te Tiriti” policy. This is not new news, just Nationals laziness & a wilfully blinkered & partisan MSM promoting their Left Trojan horse.
  
  Lipstick on a pig.
  
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  September 4, 2026 8:16am
- kowtow
  
  Are the media up to it ?
  
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  September 4, 2026 8:42am
  - R
    
    More importantly, WHAT are the media really up to and for WHO!
    
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    September 4, 2026 1:23pm
- Luke Piewalker
  
  There’s a famous Margaret Thatcher quote:
  
  “If you stand in the middle of the road you get run over from both directions”
  
  … that’s Chris Luxon unfortunately
  
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  September 4, 2026 8:53am
  - RoboRob
    
    More of a jellyfish in the middle of the road 🙂
    
    The only times he gets strong is when he gets a leadership challenge.
    
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    September 4, 2026 11:14am
- gravedodger
  
  @ Cass
  If only ojne MSM claimed Journalist9sic) who has ready access to the Opportunities employee would ask ?
  
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  September 4, 2026 8:58am
  - Nobby2
    
    gravedodger, what on earth does your post mean/ refer to ?
    
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    September 4, 2026 10:56am
- lastmanstanding
  
  On the Socialist/Communist spectrum I put Opportunity at the Communist end. They want to make most citizens dependent on them for at least part or most of their income. They want to raise taxes so they get to decide where spending goes. I am a small Government supporter. IMHO the smaller the Government the better.
  On that score the spectrum is ACT the Nats Labour Greens Maori Opportunity.
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:04am
  - Philview
    
    I don’t know if Gareth Morgan ever reads this site but I have read a couple of his books. One book was about a motorcycle tour of North Korea. I read it years ago but don’t recall how he managed to get such access to freely travel around the country.
    
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    September 4, 2026 9:44am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      He didn’t freely travel N.Korea. He requested permission to travel one route down the mountain-chain of the peninsula.
      
      The bike-riders were escorted by N.Korean security vehicles all the way.
      
      https://www.vice.com/en/article/riding-the-baekdudaegan-0000140-v20n11/
      
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      September 4, 2026 11:19am
    - Im Right
      
      And I guess Gareth Morgan’s ‘payoff’ to North Korea allowing him to ride through the country was for him to praise and it and tell anyone who would listen that it was wonderful and he saw no poverty/prison camps/starvation….
      He was, quite rightly, lambasted for the glowing effusive report on the hermit kingdom (only being allowed to a strict route by the regime and had to have government babysitters with them throughout the time in the country)
      He lost a helluva lot of support after he posted the North Korea propaganda.
      (This is the man who owned 6 or more rental properties, that lay purposefully empty, as he didn’t want renters in them messing them up…what a guy lol)
      
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      September 4, 2026 12:15pm
      - AitchW
        
        There’s absolutely no reason for him to rent properties if he doesn’t want to.
        Private property rights are called rights for a reason.
        
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        September 4, 2026 5:19pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  The only thing QWong is connected to is the potential leaders paypacket.
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:31am
- sungsamning
  
  Yep, just another leftist tax and spend party. A new variety of ‘chocolate’ biscuits has appeared in the political supermarket. The packaging looks fantastic. However, there is no real chocolate. Only carob.
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:35am
- Yabster
  
  yep voting strategically is vital- national candidate, ACT or NZF party vote- it will be a landside if we all did that- see video explaining the staggering result of 2023 if we did that.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpq_uxCZFOA
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:54am
  - spryte
    
    This is a easy website to calculate the effect of the TPM split voting and subsequent overhang based on 2023 votes.
    
    It has National on 48 (NC), Labour 38 (+4), TPM 7 (+1), Greens 15 (NC), ACT 11 (NC), NZF 8 (NC). The CR remain at 67, the FL increase to 60 (+5). The tactical voting wouldn’t have changed the outcome, but it would have been closer.
    
    https://elections.nz/stats-and-research/mmp-seat-allocation-calculator
    
    Using the latest Curia poll and TPM tactical voting it changes to:
    National 40 (-8), Labour 38 (+4), TPM 7 (+1), Greens 13 (-2), ACT 9 (-2), NZF 12 (+4), TOP 8 (+8)
    The CR would have 61 (-7), the FL would have 66 (+11). The change in government would be due to TOP, not the tactical voting.
    
    May God have mercy on our soles.
    
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    September 4, 2026 3:25pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Dover?
      
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      September 4, 2026 5:56pm
      - spryte
        
        I had time on my hands.
        
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        September 5, 2026 4:05pm
- Simon
  
  “TOP reveals its true colours –”
  
  Sorry its Sept 2026. This is just low information voter. Generally core National
  
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  September 4, 2026 11:09am
- BananaLlama
  
  I fear that the leadership challenge to National has mortally wounded their chance at winning the election and TOP will easily pass the 5% threshold.
  
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  September 4, 2026 2:36pm
mister nui

In the last 24hrs we have had a chance to witness and get amongst the anti-immigration protests in Spain, centred around Dia de Ceuta.

Gee, the left really are lunatics and they embody everything they oppose. Their hatred to differing opinions, the right to voice those opinions, the hate to everything that has made their current stable, easy, generally affluent lifestyle is something so visceral you can see why so many of them have serious mental health issues and you have to wonder what’s becoming of them long-term. I honestly cannot see many, if any, being able to hold down a stable job, that has career prospects. Furthermore, god help us if these people procreate, they have zero capability of giving a child the stability it needs in its formative years.

But, part of the reason why I write this is that I fear for humanity and our long term ability to support ourselves. These people have no chance of driving an economy that is prosperous enough to support the needs of our ever-burgeoning pensioner demographic.

Maybe AI and robots are the answer, after-all. Because dollars to donuts, we’re fucked if we think the current twenty-something year olds are going to deliver.

A final point, it is hilarious to watch the purple-haired, septum ring wearing dropkicks screaming about the fascists. A lesson in history and a mirror would go a long way to showing these lunatics just who the fascists are.
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September 4, 2026 8:02am
- Yabster
  
  yep the Spanish PM is a socialist -granted 1.2 million illegals a one year working visa recently- most will eventually try to get citizenship or just overstay if they don’t get it.
  
  Ceuta is a disaster – you reap what you sow.
  
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  September 4, 2026 10:49am
- Paulus
  
  The sad part re procreation is that this is far too late for so many of them as so called family intermarriage, sort of, historical consanguinity had totally in the main exposed a mental attitude of like and their creation that will not satisfy what we might like to think of as the real world, which to them is only contined in their menal health being unacceoptable in many places but has exploded in recent years.
  And it is obvious that so many mental people are being conceived, as the UK Health service is being overwhelmed, as part o.f the move to destroy all but their world.
  
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  September 4, 2026 4:30pm
artemisia

Two views. Alternative facts?

Give us more money – Climate change remains the single greatest threat to the security and wellbeing of Pacific peoples. … A tenth of a degree is not a decimal point to us. It is a shoreline, a freshwater lens, a coral reef, a crop, and a home. (Pacific Islands Forum opening ceremony)

Trillions spent – So, the return on trillions in subsidies, costs of regulatory compliance, higher electricity prices, and lost economic growth is hypothetical, minuscule temperature changes that mean nothing.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/09/02/measuring-meaningless-climate-actions/
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September 4, 2026 8:07am
- redeye
  
  Last year, 107 Australian bureaucrats made 156 trips to 64 events in 31 countries, trying to secure COP31.
  They are obviously not worried about avgas emissions so why should anyone else.
  
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  September 4, 2026 8:26am
- judith8409121
  
  And the whole game is up isn’t it? China has pumped out more co2 in the last 8 years than the UK since the industrial revolution. The great climate cult narrative is about destroying industrialisation and moving it to China. Nothing any country can do – and most of all New Zealand – will change this – destroy all of the industry, farming, and life on our islands and it wont make a bit of difference. While the elites pretend that ‘global’ co2 is an existential threat it continues to rise – while they continue to push for the end of production in their own countries. Just think whether this is the plan?
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:02am
  - Gulag1917
    
    The latest daily average atmospheric carbon dioxide reading is approximately 426.81 ppmv (parts per million by volume)
    
    50 Million Years Ago (Eocene): CO2 reached about 1,600 ppm, and global temperatures were much warmer than they are today. As detailed by Columbia Climate School, the hottest period occurred “About 50 million years ago, when CO2 spiked to 1,600 ppm.”
    
    Cambrian Period (542 to 485 Million Years Ago): Carbon dioxide levels may have been up to 20 times higher than current levels. As noted by Columbia Climate School, “CO2 levels may have been about 20 times higher than today.” State of the Planet
    
    Ordovician and Silurian Periods (500 to 400 Million Years Ago): Atmospheric CO2 ranged between 2,500 and 6,000 ppmv during major marine evolutionary events. You can explore more on this timeline via Earth.org.
    
    The Pliocene (3 Million Years Ago): CO2 levels hovered around 380 to 420 ppm, which is comparable to modern levels, though ancient sea levels and temperatures were significantly higher. Learn more about this era through the Royal Meteorological Society.
    
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    September 4, 2026 11:41am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      More warmth please.
      
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      September 4, 2026 12:38pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      Coal and shellfish served to lock up most atmospheric carbon and drag it back into the crust. Took tens of millions of years about 400million years ago for anything to learn how to digest primary tree-building chemical lignin, so it all just built up and turned into coal (which is where most coal comes from)
      
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      September 4, 2026 5:32pm
- Nikola Donatello
  
  Yes it is bizarre. It is all about money.
  
  If Tuvalu were really affected by sea level rise, it would be cheaper to install coastal defences or even to evacuate Tuvalu and resettle the population.
  
  It is arrogant that people occupy a low lying speck of land in the middle of the pacific ocean and then want the entire world to spend trillions to slow sea level rise by an immeasurable amount.
  
  This is religion not science.
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:44am
  - Paulus
    
    Havn’t Tuvalu already bought a chunk of land in Fiji for resettlement ?
    
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    September 4, 2026 9:47am
    - Nikola Donatello
      
      I don’t know. Humans lived through the last glacial maximum. They didn’t try to stop it and it was immeasurablly worse than what we have now. Go to Marlborough Sounds. They are drowned river valleys. New Zealand was largely buried in ice. As was Europe and North America. Populated by humans just like us.
      
      Now we are going to destroy our civilisation in an attempt to reduce global temperature by fractions of a degree.
      
      We had the Enlightenment. Now we have the new dark age of climate catastrophe.
      
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      September 4, 2026 10:24am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Tuvalu has actually had it’s land mass increased, by wave action & depositing of sand etc.
        Sea level rise phfft……….
        
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        September 4, 2026 11:29am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Tuvulu is actually sinking.
    They are simply jumping in on the Climate Gravy Train.
    
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    September 4, 2026 9:50am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Correct , land masses move in all three dimensions.
      
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      September 4, 2026 10:43am
  - David Garrett
    
    Niko: I recently had the opportunity of viewing Gore’s doco An inconvenient truth which was released 20 years ago. It contains many dire predictions by 2030, none of which have shown any progress twenty years on, and only four years away from the supposed disaster.
    
    It also contains one bare faced lie: that one Pacific nation’s people – I can’t remember if it was Tuvalu – had already been evacuated to NZ because of inundation of their Island home. Complete bullshit.
    
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    September 4, 2026 10:26am
    - Simon
      
      ” It contains many dire predictions by 2030″
      
      You can go back to early 1980s ITV on you tube. Dire predictions by 2000.
      
      But Blackrock have invested billions in alt energy the show must go on. Luxon / National follow orders.
      
      At this point the worst climate garbage are not the Greens its National.
      
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      September 4, 2026 11:12am
      - Jethrod
        
        What are you on about?!
        
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        September 4, 2026 4:39pm
Gravelroad

Plenty of people will vote for anything to get a weekly income of free money and higher taxes applied to “the rich”.
A vote for TOP is a vote for communism run by amateurs.
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September 4, 2026 8:08am
- Luke Piewalker
  
  @Gravelroad. Amateurs? No no the left see themselves as morally superior and we must be educated to think correctly.
  
  Sigh
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:35am
AitchW

Is TOP going steadily to release increasingly left wing and separatist policy as the election nears?
That has to scare off moderate voters and, at the same time, cannibalise Labour, Green, and Maori party votes.
This can only be good for the current government.
Electorate vote National, party vote ACT.
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September 4, 2026 8:11am
Albie

The Emerson cartoon in The Herald this morning is true to form with yet another sneer against the government. Out of curiosity I asked ChatGTP how many of his cartoons are against the coalition since November 2023 compared to the four opposition parties: Not surprisingly, 4-5:1 or 80% of his cartoons. Media bias is alive and well.
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September 4, 2026 8:12am
nathie

On last night’s Bolt Report, Australia’s Labour Govt is setting up a taxpayer funded “indigenous hate and racism register”, where “feelz” of racism is to be recorded as actual ~~Hate Crimes~~ racism.

As Labour/Labor NZ/Australia/UK policy is generally interchangable, how long before we see calls for a similar database setup here?

Will the predominantly left-wing MSM call this out (and challenge Hipkins to rule it out), or will they gladly go along with it? Answers on the MSM’s push-back response can be found on the back of a postage stamp, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5nsf6Ge3Qs&list=PL2OFHLSeLxlYU4Pnch95gKgJOgeTH71DU&index=4
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September 4, 2026 8:13am
artemisia

Some of the more senior folk who follow Kiwiblog might be interested in this substack post referencing an Australian study.

Should healthy people over 70 take statins as a preventative measure? – A big new Australian trial of Lipitor strongly suggests the answer is no. Yet again, a would-be lifehack falls short once it’s put to a randomized controlled trial.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/should-healthy-people-over-70-take
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September 4, 2026 8:13am
Hugh Jarse

The very idea that Quilae came out of the woodwork, applied for this role, got it and become a proponent of all TOP policies is ridiculous. Either she was headhunted as a fellow traveller known to the GM and Board and asked to come through some BS application process or she is a total gun for hire. I know which one I believe.

It doesn’t really matter either way but for transparency it would be good to know the links that got her this role and the extent of the gaslighting that has gone on.
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September 4, 2026 8:30am
Maggy Wassilieff

Michael Laws and Maui Solomon discuss the hold-up in excavating and preserving the remains of an ancient canoe on the Chatham Islands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4NSawkVGE&t=386s
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September 4, 2026 8:47am
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  The inconvenient truth of an oceangoing double hulled waka dated to when moriori said they arrived from Polynesia. Proof that the ngati mutunga invasion wasn’t intertribal warfare but a horrific genocide of another people . Slavery and cannibalism almost wiped the moriori out.
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:15am
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    Proof? Can you provide a link to back up that claim?
    
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    September 4, 2026 12:52pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    paleo and neolithic hunter gathers murdering and eating each other was probably the most common form of death for humans up until the agrarian revolution. typically a few % per year died in warfare. Tens of billions have died this way since homo sapiens evolved. Maori were no better or worse than any other ancestral group, and that includes Europe.
    
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    September 4, 2026 5:37pm
lifesgood

Why have the move on laws excluded 14 to 18 year olds? In my opinion kids in this age group are some of the biggest pests around the place.
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September 4, 2026 9:16am
MCōs

Why is Gloriavale allowed to exist at all?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019050436/lilia-tarawa-on-cancellation-of-gloriavale-school-registration
We constantly condemn totalitarianism in faraway lands, but when it occurs so blatantly within our borders our leaders are more concerned about not making a fuss
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September 4, 2026 9:19am
- mandk
  
  There’s a lot to dislike about Gloriavale, but it’s not a totalitarian regime.
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:30am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Indeed it is ironic that they give Destiny so much stick and yet here we are.
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:33am
- RoboRob
  
  No fan of Gloriavale but I certainly dont want the government deciding who I can chose to associate with (so long as you are not breaking the law).
  
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  September 4, 2026 9:45am
  - igm
    
    Is this school still not a better proposition than many state schools with their DEI weirdo agenda-driven teachers?
    Seems home schooling is the best way to go.
    
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    September 4, 2026 10:06am
- David George
  
  The Gloriavale community is not trying to impose their lifestyle on others, how they choose to live is their business.
  I would have thought the Left would be right behind their communist ideals – no private property, “all for one and one for all” and all that. Surely the most successful model for the Maori separatists, Greens & Co.
  
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  September 4, 2026 10:11am
- Simon
  
  Gangs are much worse. Just welfare criminal basket cases.
  
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  September 4, 2026 11:23am
Scott

Winston Peters tells it like it is on a recent Facebook post:

“No one should lose their job for refusing to take a tikanga course that has no relevance to what their job is.

Janet Dickson has lost her real estate career because she refused to attend a compulsory te reo and te tiriti course.

This course does not help one real Maori.

Having irrelevant cultural compulsion shoved down people’s throats with the threat of being fired if they don’t is nothing but totalitarianism.

This is woke political and cultural correctness gone mad.

How can we live in a free society when compulsion and threats are now the norm?

Something is seriously wrong if we continue to turn a blind eye and do nothing to stop this woke cultural cancer spreading and cancelling hard working kiwis who just want to get on with their lives.”

Winston is not wrong! 😎
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September 4, 2026 9:33am
- Inandout
  
  Scott, on such an important freedom of thought issue you would expect a typical National MP to make a comment. I understand one junior Minister squeaked but Luxon merrily carried on with his Island hopping.
  
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  September 4, 2026 10:36am
- plc
  
  What’s he actually done about it?
  
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  September 4, 2026 11:04am
  - kowtow
    
    Exactly . If anything much of this is down to him , annointing Ardern , out of personal animosity to some National Party grievance.
    
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    September 4, 2026 12:28pm
  - Scott
    
    Members of parliament can do two things. They can legislate and they can speak. Winston is speaking out, he’s saying the things that need to be said. He’s shining a light on this poor woman who is being run out of her profession because she won’t bow down to the god of Maori wonderfulness.
    
    So this is not nothing. Many people bemoan Luxon because he doesn’t speak out. Winston is speaking out. Be grateful. Support Winston when he is fighting the good fight. 👍
    
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    September 4, 2026 12:50pm
    - leoj
      
      Winston is part of government now. If he was genuine he would be taking measures as part of govt to fix this.
      
      As usual, he is all talk.
      
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      September 4, 2026 4:41pm
      - Scott
        
        No. Winston is part of a minor party and can only legislate with the support of National. His talking is excellent. Be grateful.
        
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        September 5, 2026 8:54am
- Observer of Life
  
  So what has/is Winston done/doing to fix it then?
  Oh hang… NOTHING. As usual. All talk no action.
  
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  September 4, 2026 5:08pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxK_GKI61fs
One Nation has won the Secret Harbour election and will soon take the rest of Australia!
Labor and the ‘Greens’ aren’t best pleased. The National party is slowly improving. Liberals, not so much. It’d be nice to see ON score a state Premiership.
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September 4, 2026 9:36am
Nūhaka Native

Jenny Marcroft’s entire speech (at x1.2 speed) introducing her bill, the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill, to the select committee.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DczHa6Az5CI/

In my opinion, any MP who does not support this bill is, by definition, anti-female rights.

If anyone can enter the category of woman purely by self-identification, then the category stops meaning female as a sex class and starts meaning something more like a personal identity, social role, or internal feeling.

If self-identification alone defines the category, then “woman” no longer clearly means a sex category. It becomes an identity category instead. And that raises the obvious follow-up: if women’s rights were created to protect a sex class, can those rights still function properly once the category is no longer based on sex?
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September 4, 2026 9:37am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Guqxu2FKNQ
Bessent: “CUT THE SNAKE’S HEAD OFF” – But Who is the Real Target?
Susan Kokinda analyzes Scott Bessent’s remarks to Larry Kudlow about tracking IRGC assets, focusing on offshore hubs like the British Virgin Islands and the broader British-linked financial architecture behind shell companies, alongside Treasury’s campaign warning 60 entities to clean up, with Hong Kong a major target. She argues this financial offensive is part of a strategic realignment away from imperial “choke points,” echoed by Doug Burgum’s call to shift global energy focus toward the Western Hemisphere. In the Middle East, she highlights lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, the formation of the Mecca Joint Defense Alliance (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan), and Trump’s “Board of Peace,” under which Hamas has agreed to disarm. She also covers G20 tensions over inviting Russia’s finance minister, Bessent’s meeting with him, and Bessent’s claim of shared U.S.-China goals on Iran. [Wot? The pink gin crowd in the City of London run a dirty money machine? Who’d have thunk it? Being in the BVI; it has 11 times more shelf companies than people. Which brand of washing powder do the money laundromats use? Time it was shut down. Its not the Jews. They’re just a scapegoat for nutters to prattle on about. Its the city.]
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September 4, 2026 9:37am
- Don Beckett
  
  “Board of Peace,” under which Hamas has agreed to disarm. ”
  
  But they haven’t & won’t. Typical lying islamofascists who say things with no intent to carry them out, while playing for time & re-arming. But Israel’s IDF is not fooled, excelpt that our newsnedia are – those terrible Jews are killing innocent Gazans – except they’re not innocent, they are Hamas terrorists.
  
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  September 4, 2026 11:41am
Philview

This may have been discussed already but I have been wondering about the New Zealander and his wife who sadly died in a hot tub in Spain. They are saying he got caught in the suction and his wife couldn’t pull him out and they died of heart attacks. A very sad story but the only hot tubs I have been in can be turned off. Any thoughts on how such a thing could happen. The reports say they didn’t drown but died of exhaustion causing heart attacks.
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September 4, 2026 9:53am
- Mr Nobody NZ
  
  I’d be very interested in seeing the toxocology report to see if there were drugs/alcohol present in their system.
  
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  September 4, 2026 10:34am
- kowtow
  
  By all accounts a very tragic accident .Must have been dreadfully frightening for them fighting the suction ( which can be immense ) and not knowing what to do.
  The two children at home at the time , special needs .
  I think the suggestions that this could have been anything else are unhelpful , to say the least.
  
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  September 4, 2026 12:26pm
- Colville
  
  Phil.
  
  I know people have died in other places with similar problems where there is no air break in the suction line.
  
  Basically person accidentally covers drain hole, the pump sucks harder because its blocked and person can not get away.
  
  I remember an incident where a child in USA basically had their guts sucked out of their arsehole and unfortunately that did not kill the child straight away. Ewww.
  
  Yes turning the pump off would fix it.
  
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  September 4, 2026 1:40pm
  - OlderChas
    
    Surely all such “pools” should have a switch that automatically turns the pump off if the load on the motor driving it reaches X?
    
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    September 4, 2026 5:45pm
Yvette

Spirituality

ACT says
One law for all means the same rights, the same duties, and the same protection under the law. That is how we build One Law for All and One Future Together.
• Parliament is sovereign;
• the rule of law is fundamental; and
• all New Zealanders are equal before the law [1]

But what of –

ACT will legally enforce need before race in the delivery of public services.
ACT will separate spiritual practices from public service work.
ACT will prohibit public service employers from initiating or resourcing cultural or spiritual practices as part of the workplace.
“Public servants will remain free to practise their own religion, culture, or traditions in their own time, with reasonable accommodation where appropriate. [2]

Why is ACT not more emphatic on their position on spirituality?
Why not consistently state –
• Government and all its services will be secular
– along with the other three points above?
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[1] https://assets.nationbuilder.com/actnz/pages/36437/attachments/original/1787277161/One_Law_for_All_policy_06.pdf?1787277161
[2] https://community.scoop.co.nz/2026/08/act-will-restore-one-public-service-for-all-new-zealanders/
ACT New Zealand proposes prohibiting public service employers from initiating or funding cultural and spiritual practices in the workplace.
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September 4, 2026 10:20am
- Simon
  
  National disagree strongly
  
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  September 4, 2026 11:24am
I remember when

There is a long-standing colony of wild Emu on the East Coast of the North Island, near Ruatoria, and small, scattered populations elsewhere.
DOC have no policy that considers them.
MPI don’t administer them as they are not considered to be an “unwanted organism.”
Regional Councils aren’t responsible for their control/removal, unless they become a danger on the roads, as they are not designated pests under the regional pest management plans.

Apparently, according to an article in the NZ Herald in August, control seems to be left to wild cats when they are young enough to be vulnerable.
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September 4, 2026 10:20am
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  I suppose they fall in the same category as canada geese. No hunting license required or need to take them on the wing as a sporting bird.
  
  KFE sounds pretty good…
  
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  September 4, 2026 2:54pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Should take out the bloody black swans infesting the eastern bays of Auckland too. Unfortunately there is a mad woman feeding and encouraging them. It’s turning into an ecological disaster.
    
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    September 4, 2026 5:26pm
  - OlderChas
    
    I saw a satirical post the other day saying something like – ok if Lake Ontario is renamed Lake America – Canadian geese would have to be renamed Donald Ducks.
    Tickled my funnybone.
    
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    September 4, 2026 5:49pm
AitchW

I got blocked from the pro Hamas PSNA Facebook page. They’re advertising a boycott Israeli products day. I asked if they had a list of outlets selling Israeli products I could have so that I could visit them and buy stuff.
Typically they blocked me. Oh dear, how sad.
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September 4, 2026 10:37am
- Inandout
  
  Aitch, I recall during the 1981 Tour troubles SA wines were taken from wholesalers shelves. One enterprising Newmarket outlet though had ample supplies ‘out the back’, out of sight of the odious John Minto.
  
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  September 4, 2026 11:34am
  - AitchW
    
    Minto is donkey deep with the PSNA. Just another rent a rabble.
    
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    September 4, 2026 12:33pm
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  Using a Facebook page to promote the boycotting of Israeli products? Oh, the irony!
  I bet they won’t stop using all their little electronic toys that depend on Israeli technology.
  
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  September 4, 2026 11:35am
  - Inandout
    
    cmm, on the subject of Israel I marvel at the number of inventions that have come from that country. Their enemies in that region probably realise by now that it would be wiser to befriend Israel than fight. Anyway our lives would be poorer if we suddenly lost these.
    https://aish.com/israels-top-45-inventions/
    
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    September 4, 2026 12:52pm
    - Taieri
      
      Anyway our lives would be poorer if we suddenly lost these.
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      Does it include the Pegasus spyware as well?
      
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      September 4, 2026 2:42pm
      - Inandout
        
        Tai, exactly why Israel”s neighbours are very wary of that tiny nation’s technical might. Pegasus is marketed as a tool like perhaps CCTV.
        
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        September 4, 2026 8:49pm
  - David George
    
    A lot of our geothermal power stations are from Israeli company Ormat.
    They’ll have to disconnect from the grid as well.
    
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    September 4, 2026 1:23pm
- kowtow
  
  There’s a very nasty irish ‘rap” music group coming to NZ , they call themselves Kneecap and are very pro hamas /hezbollah .
  The very name Kneecap evokes the brutal , violent , permanently disabling “punishment” meted out by extreme republican terrorists in Northern Ireland.
  
  I’m not big on bans , but when our govt have banned free speech advocates from Canada . Goose gander and all that.
  
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  September 4, 2026 12:20pm
Damocles11

I like the idea that Nick Mowbray put forward (others had already been promoting it). I’ll be voting accordingly. If Labour Lite has no list MP’s then why the heck should I care. My aim is for the Coalition to win the election, not that we lose but at least Labour Lite has some list MP’s.
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September 4, 2026 11:10am
AitchW

One of the biggest chasms between the left and the right is that the left is intensely inward looking whereas the right looks outward. The left busies itself with issues like “equity” and “kindness” whereas the right is looking to increase international trade.
The left hates international trade because those involved might get wealthy and that’s not fair in their minds!
The left despises success and the right celebrates it.
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September 4, 2026 11:43am
Yvette

Te Pāti Māori says major constitutional reform a ‘bottom line’ for coalition deals
It would, in the short-term, establish a Tiriti Commission which could stall or challenge Government policies and bills presented to Parliament. And it would establish a $220 million fund for “Māori-led constitutional transformation” discussions and working groups.

The goal of those discussions and working groups would be to prepare Aotearoa New Zealand for a complete constitutional overhaul in 2040, marking 200 years since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

New Zealand’s Parliament has always operated under the assumption that Parliament is supreme, meaning it can do whatever it votes to do — but this Tiriti Commission would upend that foundational principle.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361027654/te-pati-maori-says-major-constitutional-reform-bottom-line-coalition-deals

Te Pāti Māori says historic constitutional reform, entrenching Te Tiriti o Waitangi and installing a powerful Tiriti commissioner will be a “bottom line” in coalition negotiations.

It will be interesting if the Election result places Labour in the position of needing the Maori Party to commit as part of a coalition.

A proposed $220 million fund for “Māori-led constitutional transformation” discussions and working groups must alter the Treaty’s status, albeit an Aryan-akin ascent and exceptionalism – opposite to what ACT was damned for attempting.

Treaty Reich or equality of rights and responsibilities for all?
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September 4, 2026 12:15pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  That’s a great billboard right there:
  
  TREATY REICH, OR EQUAL RIGHTS?
  
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  September 4, 2026 12:32pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Waititi has already said a few years back “I am not a fan of democracy”
  
  NZ would become an ethno dictatorship in a short space of time.
  
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  September 4, 2026 1:14pm
  - OlderChas
    
    Fightingtemeraire – and then would inter-dictator wars break out?? Or will all the dictators agree on everything and there will be sunshine and unicorns (is there a maori word for unicorn yet) forevermore amen.
    
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    September 4, 2026 5:54pm
- Nikola Donatello
  
  A commission to lead constitutional transformation.
  
  That is the exact language you would expect to hear in an African nation following a coup. I’m serious.
  
  We would be so much better off being taken over by Australia as a state.
  
  Alternatively, we can evacuate the North Island. It can become a tribal based nation. The South Island can become a new secular nation with a written constitution governed by science and democracy. Yes I know that seems bizarre. However it seems better than the road we are now on.
  
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  September 4, 2026 1:22pm
  - ISeeRed
    
    I like it. Most of the recent immigrants can be evacuted back to their homelands, though. I don’t want Indians turning the South Island into a giant landfill.
    
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    September 4, 2026 1:40pm
  - David George
    
    The South Island (AKA White Island) can be a democracy governed by science.
    Sounds great!
    
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    September 4, 2026 1:49pm
  - rouppe
    
    Ngai Tahu might not agree to that idea. They have a very lucrative fist around the throat of much of SI commercial activity.
    
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    September 4, 2026 7:57pm
Damocles11

The TAMW came to Epsom.
‘The man accused of a violent rampage in the Auckland suburb of Epsom can now be named.
He is 49-year-old Shalty Heta.
Heta is in custody after allegedly assaulting a jogger, taking a car and running down three high-school-aged cyclists, and killing a dog.
Appearing at the Auckland District Court on Friday, he pleaded not guilty through his lawyer, Jane-Frances O’Halloran.’

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/man-accused-of-violent-rampage-in-aucklands-epsom-named-as-shalty-heta/UTLWU2YKNBAUPKELMCBLNWO33Q/
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September 4, 2026 1:58pm
- mandk
  
  I assume Mr Heta is not Maori.
  
  The MSM would have told us his whakapapa if he is.
  
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  September 4, 2026 3:30pm
Taieri

a democracy governed by science
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We’ve already had a certain “democrat” governing by “following the science”…
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September 4, 2026 2:44pm
Damocles11

No wonder we run huge deficits. There is a nationwide competency crisis.
‘Stuff has obtained documents that show another IT project commissioned by MBIE cost nearly $13 million but failed to deliver.
It comes hot on the heels of another revelation made by Stuff that the agency attempted to custom-build an occupational licensing platform but failed, costing the taxpayer $5 million.
That in itself came after another MBIE botch-up: A failed immigration IT project, which cost nearly $40 million and achieved nothing.’

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361029209/mbie-sunk-nearly-13m-another-it-project-still-hasnt-been-delivered
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September 4, 2026 2:56pm
- AitchW
  
  I’ll bet [ Mod – this is rubbish ]
  
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  September 4, 2026 5:27pm
Ghost

a good video from the angry astronaut on Rocket Lab’s plans and space x trying to stop it

For years, Elon Musk barely mentioned Rocket Lab. And now, all the sudden, he’s trying to get the FCC to interfere with the biggest move they’ve ever made.
Why is this happening?

It’s because Rocket Lab is a bigger threat than most people anticipated.

YouTube
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September 4, 2026 3:21pm
- Damocles11
  
  Space X can’t afford to have even 1 competitor.
  
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  September 4, 2026 4:37pm
Gulag1917

Milei Argentina president escalating dispute over Falklands Islands.
US puppet and Argentina will be thrashed again in any war.
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September 4, 2026 5:45pm
Scooter

So Russell Harrison gets 10 months home D for money laundering/taking gold billion to Turkey for a NZ gang. What is not said in the article or anywhere is what happens to the money he was paid by the Ministry of Justice for 5 years on leave while waiting for trial. Yes you can’t make this shit up. I assume that he will never have to pay that back because it was MoJ’s choice and obviously didn’t look at options to sack him. There is something very corrupt behind this.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/former-lotto-presenter-russell-harrison-avoids-jail-for-involvement-in-international-meth-money-laundering-plot/
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