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David Garrett

Good morning from the Kingdom…nice clear morning here…a pleasant 24C
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September 10, 2026 8:06am
- mister nui
  
  Bit of a shock to the system… 36 degrees at Monza on Sunday, 4hrs up the road and 11 degrees in Innsbruck today!
  
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  September 10, 2026 8:25am
  - virtualmark
    
    Nui, how did you find Monza? It’s a race I haven’t managed to get to yet but it’s on the wishlist.
    
    I’ve heard that the facilities are pretty rundown and the organisation is very … Italian.
    
    How was it?
    
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    September 10, 2026 12:57pm
    - mister nui
      
      Exactly that. The facilities and infrastructure are diabolical and the organisation, or lack there of, is perfectly Italian, a fuck up.
      
      Race was great and we had great seats, but no shade, as most seats around the circuit have no shade.
      
      Honestly, unless it’s just for the experience, it’s not a race I would recommend. Been to quite a few circuits, a good number twice, but I do not see that I would go back to Monza.
      
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      September 10, 2026 4:59pm
- Damocles11
  
  Good morning from the Socialist non-Republic of Te Tiriti led Aotearoa, where public service and council bosses do as they please with zero accountability for their catastrophic incompetence. Good morning from this collapsing democracy where a full ‘indigenous’ takeover over of public institutions and our national identity continues with the acquiescence of a weak PM who is focussed only on managing our decline ‘better than Labour would’.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:54am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Haha Damocles11. That’s a pretty dark yet accurate summary.
    
    I’d change “Socialist non-Republic of Te Tiriti led Aotearoa” to:
    
    Gynocentric/Socialist non-Republic of fictitious Te Tiriti Principles.
    
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    September 11, 2026 3:58pm
Cassandra

UK PM Andy Burnham: “I won’t cut social security to fund national security”.

Sums the left wing approach up rather well.

I’d provide a link but it’s The Times and paywalled. Critics will have to buy their own subscription.
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September 10, 2026 8:06am
- kevn
  
  Lightweight… but he’s there.
  https://dailysceptic.org/2026/09/09/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-andy-burnham/
  
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  September 10, 2026 8:32am
  - David Garrett
    
    kevn: The writer lost me here: “Is this whole No. 10 North schtick not a perpetuation of Burnham’s tenure as mayor – and one which he is loathe to leave behind?”
    
    Loathe should of course be loath – meaning reluctant, not loathe, meaning extreme dislike or hatred.
    
    Maggy W pointed out a glaring error in an RNZ story earlier (see below)…clearly sloppy proofreading is not confined to Red Radio.
    
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    September 10, 2026 9:49am
- Albie
  
  Cass, as national security is a prerequisite for social security. I find this statement a bit odd coming from a PM, unless it is being taken out of context?
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:02am
- imalwaysright
  
  “UK PM Andy Burnham: “I won’t cut social security to fund national security””
  
  Translation:
  
  “We are using the money meant for the British Military, to defend the country, to pay for and support the Muslim guerilla army we are importing in plain sight.”
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:14am
- Positan
  
  Without national security, what are the longterm chances of social security … ???
  
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  September 10, 2026 12:11pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Who knows that incidences is not the plural of incident?

Well, clearly RNZ parliamentary reporters don’t.

Speaking to media, Hipkins said he had spoken with Verrall since the incident.
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Asked if he expected more incidences over the election campaign, Hipkins said Labour were “very mindful” that the election would be “heated”.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1310827/labour-s-chris-hipkins-says-his-party-won-t-be-intimidated-by-anti-science
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September 10, 2026 8:10am
- Cassandra
  
  I’ll be the first to expose myself to ridicule. Incidents. The other word relates to frequency.
  
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  September 10, 2026 8:14am
  - David Garrett
    
    Cass: No ridicule mate…You are spot on.
    
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    September 10, 2026 8:26am
- mandk
  
  I wouldn’t expect Hipkins to know the plural of incident.
  
  He doesn’t know the plural of ‘transwoman’ is ‘deluded men’.
  
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  September 10, 2026 8:29am
  - Groggy
    
    It wasn’t Hipkins that said it, that was the reporter’s question to him.
    
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    September 10, 2026 2:01pm
- wsk12345
  
  I’m more focussed on people being called anti science for calling Verrell out for being anti science! (She was one of the Ministers that prioritised messaging over known safety issues wrt the teen vaccine recommendations).
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:06am
  - Paulus
    
    Was not Verrall once a Medical Research Scientist, and accepted as a good one.
    
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    September 10, 2026 10:07am
- Rawhide
  
  Illiterate journalists. Pathetic.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:14am
  - Paulus
    
    Not Pathetic, Standard !
    
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    September 10, 2026 10:07am
    - Positan
      
      Regrettably Standard, Paulus. But, from a field of supposedly literate, communicating craftspeople, utterly and completely pathetic nonetheless.
      
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      September 10, 2026 12:18pm
- JackRabbit
  
  If the media were doing their job, they should openly ask Hipkins and Verrall why Mr Science (Fauci) himself now pleads the 5th Amendment to any questions related to the “science”.
  
  The election should heated. If the media were doing their job, he wouldn’t even be standing for election!
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:05am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6p4a8HpTUQ
Venezuela Was The Rehearsal: London’s Offshore Banks Are NEXT.
Maduro was a step toward toward beating the City of London. Now they’re going after London’s offshore banks. [400,000 shelf companies on an island with 30,000 people. Definitely sounds a bit fishy. Bad news for the city is good news for humanity.]
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September 10, 2026 8:17am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgMyT60pfQc
Introducing James Cleine as the NZ First Candidate for West Coast-Tasman.

One or two people might be surprised that Shane Jones isn’t standing there. O’Conner went to Dunedin. Maureen Pugh got on the wrong side of the nut zero issue. well; as far as the PM is concerned.
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September 10, 2026 8:18am
- Positan
  
  I’d go for the practical, scientific outlook of ONE Maureen Pugh over a DOZEN of the impractical, science-denying, 2023-election-promise-breaking Luxon, any day of the week.
  
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  September 10, 2026 12:22pm
- MCōs
  
  Shane Jones would be too scared he might win and have to move down there
  
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  September 10, 2026 12:54pm
igm

Good hearing Hipkins pulled a great attendance at his Naenae meeting for faithful and devoted . . . about 80. MSM and loyal followers (number props) means he attracted around 20!
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September 10, 2026 8:18am
- Biscuit
  
  igm, it’s Upper Hutt Street Fair Day this Saturday.
  
  If previous years are anything to go by, Chippie and his mob will be handing out free red LABOUR-emblazoned balloons.
  
  Dunno if Chippie will deign to make an appearance himself but we shall see.
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:19am
  - imalwaysright
    
    He needs to get rid of that daft smile of his.
    He looks like he has been pepper sprayed, or is being tasered. Sometimes both…
    
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    September 10, 2026 10:28am
  - pdm
    
    Apparently a cat created havoc at the Hipkins meeting last night.
    
    Biscuit did you send your cat to harass Hipkins if said cat was not fed with a whole sausage roll?
    
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    September 10, 2026 11:33am
- Ian
  
  You forgot to include the cat in the numbers….
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:46am
NeverMindTheBollocks

We’re told that AI has a 10+% chance of killing us all in the next decade.

Is this life imitating art? After all, the data ingested by AI will include the Terminator movies.

You should be very afraid if your name is Sarah Connor.

http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwy1k42w4o
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September 10, 2026 8:18am
- Im Right
  
  Ughhh NMTB, I think most on here are old enough that we can all remember the scaremongering back in the 80’s and 90s that automation/robots are going to take everyone’s job, no one will find work anywhere… Turns out nope!, car manufacturer workers did find the change devastating, but also made cars cheaper to buy!
  Anyhoo….all this AI will destroy humanity nonsense I shall file into the same cabinet as:
  All the doomsday predictions in ‘An inconvenient truth’
  Y2K hysteria
  Covid will wipe out the older generation.
  
  The left absolutely adore doomsday predictions, as they can campaign on preventing it! (with extra tax of course), a frightened population is an easily manipulated population.
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:09am
  - sungsamning
    
    Nailed it. Just the latest nonsense scare story the usual suspects are peddling.
    
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    September 10, 2026 1:36pm
- NothingLeft
  
  After being worried as hell about AI for last 10 years I am feeling a little buoyed today that the sheep seem to finally be waking up to the danger.
  
  And no I’ve never believed there was any significant danger from all the other Millenialist boogiemen like climate, covid, y2k, overpop etc. Even nukes or super-plagues would at most kill off 90-99%, and humans could eventually bounce back from that.
  
  AI extinction risk is a different category, because it is very high (I think closer to 100% that renders humans extinct in next century or two given how inefficient we are as intelligences compared to eventual AI solutions and evolutionary mechanisms select for superintelligences that prioritize growth ahead of anything else), there is no ‘fighting back’ possible, and we would lose control like apocryphal frogs boiling, with point of no return likely in next decade.
  
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  September 10, 2026 12:55pm
  - Im Right
    
    Please ensure your tin foil hat is secure NL, I’m sure you will worry about something else when you find your fears are unfounded.
    How old are you?
    I will make a guess at 30-40!
    If I’m wrong and you are a lot older, shame on you!
    If you are younger, you are gullible!
    If I’m correct…you are just what the left need and feed on, fear and have disposable income!
    
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    September 10, 2026 7:55pm
    - Ghost
      
      So, basically you aren’t paying any attention to what experts are saying and it’s all tinfoil hat
      
      More Anthropic employees sound the alarm about AI safety risks
      
      OpenAI scientist warns of risks as AI systems become more powerful
      
      Elon Musk Warns AI Could Kill Us All, Raises ‘Terminator’ Fears in Court Clash With OpenAI
      
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      September 10, 2026 8:16pm
      - Im Right
        
        Ohhh Ghost, did you read what the experts were saying about after An inconvenient truth came out (book and movie), DOOM!
        The experts about Y2K.,.DOOM
        I could post links, (hundreds) that the ‘experts’ said Miami and New York would be under water by 2020, No ice at either pole either.
        The whole of civilization will be back to the stone age on 1st January 2000 because of Y2K.
        As a lefty Ghost, I know you love a good doomsday to clutch your pearls at,
        I on the other hand, don’t give a fuck about all the lefty doomsday rubbish.(and it IS propagated by the left, and embraced by the the gullible…are you gullible Ghost?)
        
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        September 10, 2026 8:47pm
      - Ghost
        
        You can’t help writing stupid comments can you. NothingLeft is a tinfoil hat wearer, according to you I’m a lefty clutching pearls, what an idiot you are, and no, I’m not a lefty. I’m sure Elon would disagree with you calling him a lefty to, your comments are truly moronic, let me guess you work for a telco
        
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        September 10, 2026 9:07pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Self improving and self replicating AI/Robots are what is being developed. That is the road to a dystopian nightmare and we are on it. No this is not the same as the industrial revolution by any stretch. Human thinking, control and intelligence are being replaced. That has never happened in human history. AI has it’s place in controlled and targeted applications. Creating an unconscious out of control super intelligent monster (Recursive AGI) has no place in human civilisation.
        
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        September 11, 2026 5:06pm
Yvette

Stuff executive Joanna Norris hired to lead TVNZ newsroom
Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher said she would be missed.
“Jo is not only the most hardworking and outstanding colleague to all of us here and a fierce champion for journalism, but also a totally wonderful human and a dear friend. Jo has been a longterm partner in crime, a collaborator and conspirator and maker of lists,” she posted on LinkedIn.
Norris was also previously head of ChistchurchNZ.
[their spelling of Christchurch – not mine]
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September 10, 2026 8:20am
- Gravelroad
  
  “Partner in crime, collaborator, conspirator and head of ChistchurchNZ”
  Sounds absolutely ideal to head up TVNZ news.
  You would think that some of these media people would read through their comments before hitting the send button.
  Especially if they are up late at night and feeling a bit sad and confused……..
  
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  September 10, 2026 8:30am
  - David Garrett
    
    Gravel: proofreading is so last century mate…and old pedants like us are just…old pedants.
    
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    September 10, 2026 8:34am
    - slijmbal
      
      @DG
      
      Useless fact number 647. In Dutch they do use the same word, ‘pedant’ but it is much more common to call a pedant a ‘mierenneuker’, which literally translates as ant f#####r. Always struck me as an accurate description.
      
      Mind you, a bit of a grammar nazi myself so can’t really talk.
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:15am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Norris is probably the best they have. She was excellent with the Press until Stuff went completely ethno-centrically and psuedo exceptionalised woke.
  Norris hopefully can escape those chains but going to TVNZ which is a Stuff clone I doubt the cuffs will come off.
  
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  September 10, 2026 8:30am
- pdm
  
  ` Jo has been a longterm partner in crime,……………..’
  
  I take it that Jo excelled in distorting the truth and promoting the lefty political bias so evident at Stuff for the last 8 years or thereabouts.
  
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  September 10, 2026 8:39am
- RoboRob
  
  Oh well, there goes any hope for TVNZ news. Yhey weren’t biased before now that will notch up even higher.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:28am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Listened to Hosking this morning play Jack Tame on TVNZ last night emphasising the negative about boys reading less, whereas there was so much more positive news about education, but no, TVNZ had to report on the one negative aspect.
    
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    September 10, 2026 9:47am
    - R
      
      TVNZ…..the station that never disappoints where bias is concerned!
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:12am
- Paulus
  
  Says it all that she is the DEI appointment and from Stuff !
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:09am
Frank the tank

So our fearless PM decides to hoist his petard on a social media ban for under 16s. Labour says “hold my beer” and we’ll have an Online Safety Regulator. Can’t wait to see what the Greens and TOP will come out with…..

To those who excuse or ignore Luxon’s Trojan Horse folly don’t protest in a few years when your internet gets turned off, cops turn up at your door and your banking gets cancelled for a throwaway comment on this blog.

CovidCult…….ClimateCult…….InformationCult.

Rust never sleeps.
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September 10, 2026 8:21am
- leoj
  
  With any luck Luxon will resign his post as Nat leader after their drubbing this November.
  
  Who will replace him is anyone’s guess but who the f#*k cares?
  
  Party vote ACT to save the country.
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:46am
- Peter S
  
  A petard traditionally was a mine or similar (think IED).
  The expression “hoist by your own petard ” means to blow yourself up with your own booby trp.
  A petard is not a flag, and you don’t hoist it like one.
  Apologies for being pedantic, but your first sentence didn’t make actual sense.
  
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  September 10, 2026 11:06am
- rouppe
  
  Australia’s approach is better.
  
  Require FB etc to provide a switch so any given user can turn off the algorithm for them. Or make sure that on any given feed you can say “stop” and it actually listens.
  
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  September 10, 2026 5:47pm
DimChappie

Here is the email I have sent to Gerry Brownlee about the Ombudsman John Allen. You are welcome to copy as much as you like for your own messages (Allen is reported to have been called in to see the Speaker)

Speakers office email address:

[email protected]

Source video for reference: https://youtube.com/shorts/eSMQ0G9-Zao?feature=share

I urge the Speaker to discipline or preferably remove the chief ombudsman John Allen. By publicly swearing allegiance to the Maori Queen and the Kiingitanga movement at the Tūrangawaewae Marae on Friday, September 4, 2026, he has lost the confidence of the New Zealand public.
He claimed to represent “the mana of the NZ Parliament,” which I and many others find offensive. He does not speak for us.
The ombudsman is supposed to be the most trustworthy and unbiased of Parliamentary officers, yet he pledged support for a Maori regime in public, urging “systemic change”. How likely is he to decide fairly on any issue involving an iwi interest in a dispute? Many would-be complaints have been scared away.
His role in investigating complaints against the government is similarly tainted by his embrace of Kiingitanga. He has shown he is an activist for radical Maori, not an objective observer.
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September 10, 2026 8:44am
- Ghost
  
  Nothing to do with brownlee
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:42am
  - Ghost
    
    For the down voters, the ombudsman is indepdent of parliament. The speaker has no power to call him into his office. The speaker has no power to dismiss him. The only way to dismiss him is for a member of parliament to put forward a motion to the whole house. The speaker cannot do this. If the strict criteria for dismissing him is met, the house votes, a majority is needed, then it is up to the governor-general to dismiss him
    
    Don’t waste your time writing the speaker as he holds no power to dismiss or do anything.
    
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    September 10, 2026 10:13am
    - RoboRob
      
      And probably no point in writing to any other MP or the PM either. There is zero change of any MP taking this up this close to the dissolution of parliament. Even if this was a year ago I cant see any National MP taking this up, they are laser focused on the economy.
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:26am
    - DimChappie
      
      If correct and Brownlee can’t act, add these email addresses for a start, asking for help to replace the ombudsman:
      
      [email protected] [email protected]
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:27am
      - Ghost
        
        Removal or suspension from office
        (1)
        Any Ombudsman may at any time be removed or suspended from his office by the Governor-General, upon an address from the House of Representatives, for inability to perform the functions of the office, bankruptcy, neglect of duty, or misconduct.
        
        (2)
        At any time when Parliament is not in session, any Ombudsman may be suspended from his office by the Governor-General in Council for inability to perform the functions of the office, bankruptcy, neglect of duty, or misconduct proved to the satisfaction of the Governor-General; but any such suspension shall not continue in force beyond 2 months after the beginning of the next ensuing session of Parliament.
        
        Ombudsmen Act 1975
        
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        September 10, 2026 10:45am
    - Jimbo666
      
      So Brownlee hasn’t the power to call him in to his office for a chat?
      Who does the commissioner report to then?
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:48am
      - Ghost
        
        I belive people think the speaker holds more power than he does
        
        Here is what the speaker does
        
        https://www3.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/how-parliament-works/office-of-the-speaker/role-history-of-the-speaker/role-election-of-the-speaker/
        
        The ombudsman is an independent Officer of Parliament
        
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        September 10, 2026 11:19am
    - pdm
      
      Ghostie Brownlie has the chance of a lifetime to deal to the offensive Ombudsman Allen by whiteanting him.
      
      Let me tell you why/how.
      
      * Election due 7 November and minimal sitting days left for this Parliament.
      * National is polling poorly and is not likely to exceed say 32% of Party Vote.
      * Brownlee is a list MP only.
      * At 9 on he list he will have Willis, Bishop (if he does not win his seat) and Goldsmith ahead of him for entry from the list. Dependant on how many Electorate Seats National win.
      
      The above means this could be Brownlees swansong and he could take the Ombudsman down with him solely by getting an MP from any party to propose a vote of no Confidence in said Ombudsman and have it carried through the house.
      
      Based on your 10.45am comment.
      
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      September 10, 2026 11:48am
      - Ghost
        
        Which would be a breach of the Speaker’s constitutional role and office.
        
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        September 10, 2026 12:21pm
    - RoboRob
      
      Sean Plunket reports that an ACT MP has complained to the speaker with regards to the speech and that Brownlee is much displeased. He has arranged to meet with the Ombudsman next week.
      
      I will point out that parliament has 9 sitting days left and 100+ pieces of legislation yet to pass, including the RMA. So yeah, I dont think the ombudsman is going anywhere.
      
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      September 10, 2026 2:35pm
      - Ghost
        
        The Speaker cannot direct the Ombudsman, compel attendance, or impose conditions. A “call for a meeting” is a request within the Speaker’s oversight role, not a binding order. The Ombudsman’s independence means they are not subordinate to the Speaker in the way a department head is to a minister. the Speaker can raise concerns and request a meeting — it’s an administrative oversight function, not a directive.
        
        Only the house can remove or reprimand him by vote, the speaker holds no power to do so.
        
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        September 10, 2026 3:13pm
      - RoboRob
        
        @Ghost
        
        Just to be clear, I never said the Speaker could remove him. I just reported that the speaker is going to have a chat with him. As you and others pointed out, MPs could remove him, but even if they wanted to there simply isn’t the time to do so. Let alone the will.
        
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        September 10, 2026 3:28pm
- sungsamning
  
  Done.
  
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  September 10, 2026 1:40pm
- ISeeRed
  
  New Zealand is being conquered:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLNebzgeZyw (skip to 9:01 if short attention span)
  
  The long hikoi through the institutions is gathering pace.
  
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  September 10, 2026 2:12pm
Tomtoddy

Ani O’Brien is always worth a read. She has some interesting thoughts on tax in her latest blog post https://aniobrien.substack.com/p/your-kiwisaver-owns-the-companies (Hope that is how to refer it??)

Few commentators look at the tax burden on a net basis. It shows 10% of our population pay 100% of our net tax and the top 1% a very big chunk of that. They are the people who could move offshore in a heartbeat.

[Mod – link fixed]
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September 10, 2026 8:47am
- Taieri
  
  Your link leads to the page telling me about the wonderfulness of the Microsoft Outlook.
  No blog contents there…
  
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  September 10, 2026 8:58am
- R
  
  Labour doesn’t want that 10% in the country. Labour know that they themselves can manage the country much better without motivated independent entrepreneurs asking embarrassing questions.
  I mean, look how well Jacinda. Chipping and Grant were doing.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:15am
- kowtow
  
  That ties in nicely with the Eyebrows Andy Burnham post above . UK rich folk fleeing in droves and taking their taxable wealth with them.
  
  And who could blame them.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:36am
- MCōs
  
  I don’t know what the cutoff point is to be in the 10% of population that pays 100% of our ‘net’ tax, but before I left the NZ workforce 25% of my salary went on income tax, about 13% of the remainder goes on gst. So to buy something for $230 I would have needed to earn about $336. That is I would have paid $106 tax.
  At the time I received no welfare, no education because my kids had finished school and minimal healthcare. That’s the big three.
  So I must have been in the top 10% then
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:45am
  - R
    
    Yop 10 %…….Most motivated people are; and the younger ones will get their with theur ambition.
    That’s the group that keeps NZ afloat, economically.
    
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    September 10, 2026 10:17am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Yes, as I have said before, the way the left look at tax, the person who has paid say, $200,000 in tax has not paid their fair share!
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:50am
Observant Octagenarian

I see that the marketing for next year’s Rugby World Cup in Oz is on now.
Interesting that Sydney is now SYDNEY | GADIGAL… – the Aboriginal name is now appearing as an addon.
The impact of the UNDIP, which we have had for years now hits Oz!
Also eye watering prices – $2800 for a semi final game (although includes hotel night)
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September 10, 2026 8:57am
- MCōs
  
  Most kiwis can stay with the whanau/mudjin
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:49am
- Handyman
  
  These same people get agitated over the naming of Lake of America/Lake Ontario.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:54am
- Damocles11
  
  John Key put the DRIP in UNDRIP. It’s his moral cowardice in the face of the ‘indigenous’ takeover that haunts us to this day in the form of his legacy of capitulation and his disciple Luxon.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:57am
  - Yvette
    
    UNDRIP truths?
    20 April 2010 Press release
    National Govt to support UN rights declaration
    • reaffirms the legal and constitutional frameworks that underpin New Zealand’s legal system, noting that those existing frameworks define the bounds of New Zealand’s engagement with the declaration.
    
    “While the declaration is non-binding, it both affirms accepted rights and establishes future aspirations. My objective is to build better relationships between Maori and the Crown, and I believe that supporting the declaration is a small but significant step in that direction.
    https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/national-govt-support-un-rights-declaration
    
    • Labour MP Willie Jackson says his party didn’t intentionally withhold the contentious He Puapua report from Winston Peters, but he’s glad NZ First never saw it.
    “In retrospect it was probably good he didn’t see it. For goodness’ sake, look at how he’s acting now. And let’s not be cute here … if they had got it they would have utilised it and said ‘there we go, that’s why you have to vote for NZ First’.
    
    “There’s no explanation for it, you’ve got it one side of the Cabinet, which happens to be one party, the other party doesn’t know. I’m waiting around for someone to explain to me how is that good faith?” [Winston] said, in an interview with Newstalk ZB.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/125521049/labour-mp-willie-jackson-glad-winston-peters-never-saw-he-puapua-report
    ________________
    
    • Cabinet Māori Crown Relations – Minute of Decision MCR-19-MIN-0003
    Developing a plan on New Zealand’s progress on the United Nations
    > Minute decision.pdf [at the foot of the page linked here –]
    https://www.tpk.govt.nz/mi/mo-te-puni-kokiri/corporate-documents/cabinet-papers/all-cabinet-papers/develop-plan-on-nz-progress-un
    
    … among those Ministers present: Rt Hon Winston Peters and Hon Shane Jones [– MCR-19-MIN-0003]
    
    A little perspective before the Election.
    Both why New Zealand First won’t go with Labour, and why Labour should not go with New Zealand First
    And if Winston does go with Labour, will Willie have to let go He Puapua?
    
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    September 10, 2026 12:27pm
- Flossie
  
  All those advocating moving over the ditch should take heed. Not as bad as us on the indigenous persons’ rights, but getting there.
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:12am
  - David Garrett
    
    Flossie: Any Aussie with a modicum of sense should look at what New Zealand is doing and be horrified.
    
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    September 10, 2026 10:34am
- imalwaysright
  
  Why do they say “Welcome to Country”?
  
  Shouldn’t it be “Welcome to the Country” or even “Welcome to our Country”?
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:16am
  - nathie
    
    Was it even a “Country” before the arrival of the Europeans?
    
    Of course not, so surely (playing the game) it should be “welcome to my tribal land” (ditto when one travels to the next piece of tribal land).
    
    Which suggests the “WTC” phrase is another postmodernism invention!
    
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    September 10, 2026 12:41pm
  - kowtow
    
    Ernie Dingo , comedian and tv personality , invented it , so he’d know.
    
    And now it’s a “sacred’ ritual for all “progressives”.
    
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    September 10, 2026 1:54pm
- Biscuit
  
  OO. the way World Rugby have rigged the draw it is likely that New Zealand will meet South Africa in a Quarterfinal, good grief.
  
  Heaven forbid that two uppity Southern Hemisphere teams might make the Final, eh?
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:24am
  - virtualmark
    
    They do the draw too early.
    
    They do that so people can organise the tour parties and so on, but it ends up impacting on the quality of the sport.
    
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    September 10, 2026 10:31am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361031350/new-apple-ceo-unveils-latest-iphone-lineup

There will be plenty of people who will put themselves in hock to have one of these and to be seen to have one of these, at the same time moaning because of the “cost of living”, the price of food and petrol and why they can’t buy a house.
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September 10, 2026 9:04am
- RoboRob
  
  There is a direct link between low income / lower education and high end phones. My brother, who is not the sharpest knife in the block set, has always had the best phone available. Usually paid off as part of a plan where he paid about three times the actual RRP of the phone. This is a person with negative income (more expenses then income). Whenever I met his mates they were in similar positions but without fail they all had modern top model iPhone or Samsungs.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:33am
  - Grizz
    
    Yes, the plan. I wanted to buy a new phone. I am a big customer of one of the phone companies through my business. I attempted to obtain a discount for a new phone. Every time I asked they kept bringing up a plan. I quickly advised them that I was not interested in a plan. I wanted to buy only the phone and would pay cash now for it. They would not do it. It seems selling the phone as cheaply as possible without any add ons is not part of their business model.
    
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    September 10, 2026 9:47am
    - David Garrett
      
      Grizz: You need to change mobile phone provider – or at the very least go to another store. I recently got a new phone – and I am paying off the cash price in monthly installments.
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:02am
      - Grizz
        
        I went to them all. They all wanted a phone and plan deal.
        
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        September 10, 2026 10:11am
      - RoboRob
        
        Why, do your clients pay in coconuts?
        
        My (very limited experience) was that the amount you pay if doing that is significantly more then the price of the phone. If it is not, they want you on a plan that is more expensive then you need. They get extra cash out of you either way.
        
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        September 10, 2026 10:30am
      - David Garrett
        
        Robo: Neither is the case (although I have been known to accept payment in the form of a roast pig)
        
        I thought the deal was too good to be true as well, but it seems to be entirely as sold to me. And Yes I do have a plan: unlimited talk and text within NZ for NZD60 per month. You might want to check 2 degrees out
        
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        September 10, 2026 10:36am
      - RoboRob
        
        @DG
        
        If you are not using a lot of data you are getting screwed over.
        
        I have unlimited talk and text in NZ and AU for $17 a month (30 days so a 13 mth year) on prepaid Skinny. Not sure why people not using a ton of data bother with plans any more.
        
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        September 10, 2026 11:47am
      - Jack5
        
        NZ isn’t well served with “feature phones” or “dumb phones”.
        
        The range of models is small, and that’s rational for phone companies. They want you to buy a lot of traffic. It’s rational, too, for phone-set sellers given the different margin on a $1000 purchase than on a $100 one.
        
        Compared with feature phones, smart phones transmit and receive vastly more of the data that cellphone providers sell.
        
        China’s Guowang low-orbit satellites that will compete with Starlink may eventually provide a competitive alternative for feature-phone traffic. At the moment there looks to be a market gap.
        
        Meanwhile demand for feature phones is being lifted by the “digital detox” movement, which seeks to remove or reduce electronics and other things it sees as cluttering everyday life. Its enthusiasts typically prefer feature phones.
        
        A late smart-phone user, I wouldn’t mind a feature phone again, but as a back-up. It would fit snugly in a pocket and need far less charging.
        
        Thiṡ range of UK feature phones on the Net, will likely not work in NZ, but they show what would be a nice choice for this country:
        
        https://www.bestproductsreviews.co.uk/feature-phones
        
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        September 10, 2026 12:45pm
      - rouppe
        
        and I am paying off the cash price in monthly installments.
        
        Let me guess. Interest free payments over a 24 or 36 month PLAN with your mobile provider?
        
        The whole point was that Grizz just wanted a phone that he could slide his sim into without being tied to a particular provider.
        
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        September 10, 2026 5:55pm
    - Ghost
      
      Wait for the retail shops to have their sales and buy from them. Telco companies are a rip off
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:41am
      - spryte
        
        Exactly. Just buy the previous year’s model when the new one is released. 50% off a Samsung watch and 33% off a Samsung phone in the last 3 years by buying the 1 year old model. Apple? Maybe not so much.
        
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        September 10, 2026 3:01pm
    - Ian
      
      You need to search PriceMe for the best deal…
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:43am
  - David Garrett
    
    Robo: Many of the people of which you speak also seem to be able to afford elaborate tattoos…
    
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    September 10, 2026 9:57am
    - RoboRob
      
      And takeaways
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:30am
      - lifesgood
        
        And are most likely the very people who got turned down for food grants. If you can afford tats and take aways……
        
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        September 10, 2026 10:41am
      - David Garrett
        
        …And cigarettes…at near on $50 a pack…unless they buy them from their local black market tobacco seller of course.
        
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        September 10, 2026 10:57am
    - imalwaysright
      
      of whom?
      
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      September 10, 2026 10:59am
      - David Garrett
        
        Imalways: Touche Sir/Madam…and me correcting people who wrongly use “that” instead of “who”…And I can’t even blame drink or too hot weather.
        
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        September 10, 2026 12:01pm
- Damocles11
  
  I was with you until you mentioned the house. Property is massively over-priced due to central bank interest rate suppression and money printing in the wake of the GFC. People banked huge windfall gains, and of course they want to attribute that to ‘hard work’. Hard work gets you a good wage or salary, whereas central bankers deliberately enacting policies to enrich asset owners to create a ‘wealth effect’ is something else entirely.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:46am
  - wsk12345
    
    Except I saw it reported yesterday that house prices are on average back to 2017 levels.
    
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    September 10, 2026 12:09pm
- MCōs
  
  My wife who is in Bangkok at the moment just upgraded her iPhone at a genuine Apple shop for hundreds of dollars less than they sell for here.
  Fortunately those new foldable ones aren’t available because I’m sure she would have grabbed one of them.
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:07am
- Flossie
  
  It’s ridiculous the amounts spent on the latest phones. Family and friends without even their own home have thousands tied up in a (soon to be superseded) flash phone. Mine cost about $300 and does everything I need.
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:14am
  - David Garrett
    
    Flossie: I believe my new one was $400…and it is one step up from the most basic available. Like you, mine does everything I need…I even use it to access the interweb, albeit very rarely.
    
    I see some of them in shops up here in the Kingdom selling for thousands of dollars…even in pa’anga $4000 is a decent chunk of change.
    
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    September 10, 2026 11:00am
NK

Happy Birthday DPF.

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September 10, 2026 9:32am
Southern Raider

Actual numbers always undermine the media headlines

Multiple nations boycott Israeli goods from the disputed territories

Actual facts
– only $44M is exported to the UK from those areas compared to billions from the rest of Israel. The boycott is immaterial
– 18,000 Palestinians are employed by these businesses that are getting boycotted. The boycott was only result in financial harm to Palestinians

When Soda Stream was targeted by BDS activists they just shut the West Bank factory. 500 Palestinians and 450 Arab Israelis made redundant.
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September 10, 2026 9:39am
- kowtow
  
  Do gooders just have to do good.
  
  Same thing happened here when the lefties said pay everyone the same.
  
  Sheltered workshops had to close.
  
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  September 10, 2026 2:05pm
TripeWryter

Something seems to be happening in America.
I don’t know if the ‘something’ is a spreading phenomenon or one of those passing fads.
But my YouTube feeds are telling me that men are breaking up with partners and spouses who supported Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who strangled to death her three small children in the basement.
I guess it will make The New York Times and The Washington Post and, eventually, The once-Royal New Zealand Herald and Stuff.
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September 10, 2026 9:47am
- JackRabbit
  
  And three of the women on the jury have had an interview calling out the one juror as inflexible, and wouldn’t take on board “their” views, that is to find Clancy innocent by way of insanity.
  
  They said “He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children!”
  
  Another juror has spoken out and: “First, she revealed that the majority of the jury room was trying to pressure the brave holdout to vote not guilty from day one.”
  
  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/fourth-clancy-juror-breaks-her-silence-explains-why/
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:13am
  - David Garrett
    
    Jack: So much wrong with that comment…for a start no-one in either the American or our legal system is “found innocent”…Secondly, what apparently happened is not that the holdout refused to take on the other jurors’ view but rather he refused to accept the judge’s instructions that if he – the juror – had reasonable doubt (which admitted he did) then it was his duty to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.
    
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    September 10, 2026 12:08pm
    - rouppe
      
      What if he had reasonable doubt that the post partum depression was largely responsible?
      
      All I’m reading is that the juror had reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt about what? That specific detail is left out.
      
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      September 10, 2026 6:04pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Exactly
        The question is whether she was aware of what she was doing when she did it.
        There seems to be some deceptive behaviour from her about her intentions which combined with some premeditated activity doesnt look that good.
        This article sheds some light.
        https://justicecaseanalysis.com/lindsay-clancy-closing-arguments/
        The other disturbing thing is the behaviour of some of the Jurors during the Trial and what some have said in interviews afterwards.
        The comments of the Defense Lawyer were bad too. He is probably going to be censured,
        
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        September 10, 2026 6:15pm
      - Ghost
        
        I found one comment disturbing when the Foreperson said she thought he was going to agree with them all, and she was excited and started signing the papers. Huh, excited.
        
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        September 10, 2026 6:22pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Quite right Ghost
        Three children were murdered here.
        Its a tragedy all round but the attitudes of some of Jurors makes me think that Suicidal Empathy is actually real amongst liberal women.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidal_empathy
        When you look at how some women support the unlimited right to no cause abortion right up to birth you have to wonder whither goes their moral compass?
        https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/massachusetts-becomes-11th-state-with-no-abortion-limits-as-gov-healey-signs-bill
        Has this callous disregard for unborn children extended to living children amongst some women?
        If this is the case, can we trust some of these women’s judgements when impartiality is required?
        Btw- I think NZ has very balanced abortion regs so…
        As for the case, reasonable doubt goes both ways. There could be doubt that she was so psychotic that she didnt know what she was doing and accordingly what she did was deliberate.
        Thats murder.
        Glad I wasnt a Juror
        
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        September 10, 2026 8:34pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Allegedly it was a male juror who refused to accept a not guilty verdict for the defendant in this case.
  So it was declared a mistrial.
  This severely displeased the women on the jury, and those in the crowd outside the courthouse demonstrating support for the defendant.
  They didn’t deny that she killed the children – just that she shouldn’t be blamed because of mental health reasons.
  The male juror seems to have come in for a lot of emotion fueled pushback and harassment because he held his ground – especially from the defendant’s legal team.
  Who would want to be on a jury in the US?
  Not me.
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:58am
  - Ian Boag
    
    In NZ the judge would have finally – after a lot of push/pull – probably eventually accepted an 11-1 majority verdict. Different rules I guess.
    
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    September 10, 2026 12:33pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    Who would want to be on a jury in the US?
    
    It can be not much fun in NZ either ….. I was a foreman once and from time to time I would run a (secret ballot) poll for guilty, not guilty and unsure. Just to keep up with where we were getting to.
    
    Not all the jurors had their heads around the idea that “not sure” and “not guilty” are basically the same thing. “Not guilty” is not the same thing as “innocent” …..
    
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    September 10, 2026 12:45pm
    - David Garrett
      
      “Not guilty” is not the same thing as “innocent” ….
      
      Which is exactly what I said above.
      
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      September 10, 2026 2:24pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Egzackery – my point was that “not sure” is the same as “not guilty” …..
        
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        September 10, 2026 6:30pm
- David George
  
  The reaction to the Clancy murder case illustrates the gathering clamour for the illusion that we are not the agents of our actions.
  
  “The modern state is produced by two forces – the ‘constituted power’ that exists in the institutions of government, and the ‘constituent power’ which rises up from below and shapes it. What is constituted is not just imposed, but also grows out of what the people, in all or in part, openly or implicitly, demand. And perhaps constituent power in the modern West is simply driven by a desire to slough off the demands of moral agency and not to have to worry about it a great deal any more. Perhaps it is driven by the desire to be liberated from that concern – not so that one may act freely, but so that one may live without having to think seriously about one’s conduct or its consequences.”
  https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/individual-and-total-mercy
  
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  September 10, 2026 10:59am
- kowtow
  
  I find our fascination with American women’s weekly type stories perverse .
  
  The Mullah regime is raping ,torturing and murdering freedom loving young women , behind the veil of religion , Putin massacres and maims 1 and a half million Russian men ( as well as targets civilian Ukr people and infrastructure ) and we’re going on and on about a tragic case in the US , which is not that unusual except this time instead of one dead child , it’s 3 and it’s a white middle class family.
  Weird.
  
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  September 10, 2026 12:34pm
lifesgood

Good grief! I saw, on the news the rabble, otherwise known as Public Servants, who are striking for more pay. Judging by the look of them I think they are probably pid way more than they deserve. Pity help us if this lot runs our government departments.
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September 10, 2026 10:45am
- R
  
  ‘government departments ‘…….good chance that a number, hold positions of some influence in the outcomes from the relevant department where they are employed.,. ( domiciled daily..?)
  
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  September 10, 2026 11:53am
- greybeard
  
  Overweight, scruffy and in need of a shower.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361031299/10000-public-servants-walk-job-strike-turns-political
  How many of them would do a fair day’s work ? How many would start early and finish late, work late at night or at weekends, put in the extra effort ?
  None of them. How many spend half their week on courses, at maori lessons, “training” ?
  Public servants’ average pay is about $100,000 at present.
  
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  September 10, 2026 11:56am
  - Quail
    
    gb ,
    Not only their salaries, it costs substantially more than their salaries to sustain a civil servant.( Or any employee)
    And then remember it is taxpayers money they are being paid to spend. The more efficient they are in spending ,the more tax is needed.
    If there is any doubt look at the Governor General’s ( start at the top ) costs to start with!
    Any civil servant is a very high cost item!
    
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    September 10, 2026 2:14pm
  - MCōs
    
    “Overweight, scruffy and in need of a shower.”
    Look at it this way, Mister g.
    All these people must be in the top 10% income earners so they pay all the taxes that go towards our NZ super, my outrageous healthcare expenses and possibly yours, I don’t know
    PAYE + ACC on $100,000 is about $25,000 plus $9, 750 gst on the rest. That’s a big chunk in tax before all the road taxes, rates and levies etc
    
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    September 10, 2026 2:49pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Great example of ‘Lefty Math’
      You seem to forget that $100,000 salary is funded by our Taxes.
      Instead of spending $100k to get $35 odd k back I say we sack the public servant and save the whole $100k!
      
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      September 10, 2026 6:19pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Wrong. All that means is that the net taxpayer pays the public servant circa $75k.
      
      What value the country gets for the $75k is the question.
      
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      September 10, 2026 6:55pm
- imalwaysright
  
  I, as a New Zealander, was proud to see these heroes who have dedicated themselves to a lifetime of vocational servitude.
  That they can be expected to survive on the pittance granted is truly a scandal.
  
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  September 10, 2026 12:16pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I was walking down LQ yesterday afternoon, and saw dribs and drabs coming back from Cenotaph.
  
  I have to say that, as a generalisation, that they were …. awkward in appearance and gait. Certainly, the purple hair brigade were over-represented. Athletic and conventionally good looking they were not.
  
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  September 10, 2026 6:58pm
I remember when

Cultural loss now has a methodology. Insurance doesn’t have a response: Breaking Views.
On August 25, the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) published findings into its Experiences of tangata whenua with insurances report, concluding that the insurance system does not consistently meet the needs of whanau, hapu, and iwi.
The following day, the Natural Hazards Commission T eka Tu Ake (NHC) published details of the first hazard model in Aotearoa to represent cultural loss as a measurable output alongside physical and economic damage.

Sounds straight forward!
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September 10, 2026 10:57am
- RoboRob
  
  Incoming rort!
  
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  September 10, 2026 11:49am
  - R
    
    Robo,…I suggest that such rorts have been embeded within NZ legislation for some year’s now
    
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    September 10, 2026 11:56am
Tomtoddy

Excellent positioning by ACT on the Waitangi Tribunal. Focus only on remaining Iwi land claims, get them finished and then wind up. Brave and controversial but badly needed.
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September 10, 2026 12:40pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  The Tribunal could be gone tomorrow as they are not and never have been needed for settlements.
  Their existence has been to create more claims not less…….
  
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  September 10, 2026 1:33pm
- RoboRob
  
  Superb ACT policy. Apparently NZF also asked and got a review as part of the coalition agreement but of course the ministers involved are sitting on it.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1003529/unreleased-review-of-waitangi-tribunal-sitting-with-ministers
  
  ‘More than a year after a major review of the functions of the Waitangi Tribunal was announced, the completed review has yet to be released publicly with government Ministers still considering how to respond.’
  
  I suggest the consideration is how to delay any action on it, I recommend assigning the task to either Minister Goldsmith or Watts.
  
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  September 10, 2026 2:40pm
Yvette

ACT sets out plan to wind up Waitangi Tribunal
The ACT Party wants to wind up the Waitangi Tribunal, saying its contemporary inquiries have become increasingly ideological and expansive.
The party is campaigning on four reforms that it says will end the tribunal’s contemporary jurisdiction, and move the country on.
ACT leader David Seymour, who has previously branded the tribunal as “increasingly activist”, said while the tribunal had made an important contribution, particularly in helping address historical grievances, the tribunal that existed today was different to the institution established in 1975.
“Through urgent and kaupapa inquiries, the tribunal now passes judgement on day-to-day government policy. It proposes alternative policy settings and seeks to steer decisions that properly belong to elected governments and Parliament. This is not the tribunal’s role and never was,” Seymour said.

“The Tribunal should not operate as a parallel policy institution, producing its own prescriptions for how elected Governments should exercise their mandate,” the document said.

“The historical claims are, of course, winding down, and in fact, the tribunal can no longer accept claims which relate to historical matters.
– Lecturer for Māori Laws and Philosophy at Te Wānanga o Raukawa Carwyn Jones

In contrast to the government’s plans and ACT’s proposal, Te Pāti Māori wants to amend the Treaty of Waitangi ACT 1975 to make Waitangi Tribunal recommendations binding on the Crown, giving the tribunal more power to investigate and enforce breaches.
This, Te Pāti Māori said, was a “bottom line” for any coalition negotiations, along with the establishment of an independent Te Tiriti Commission.

all quotes – https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1321444/act-sets-out-plan-to-wind-up-waitangi-tribunal

The status of the Ombudsman, questioned above in this blog, appears not to be anything Parliament and MPs can do something about, except admonitions, but David Seymour can use it as ammunition. :o)
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September 10, 2026 12:41pm
Yvette

Today, ACT announced that we will wind down the activist Waitangi Tribunal.
ACT will focus the Tribunal on finishing the last dozen or so historical Treaty settlements, strip it of its power to pass judgment on current government policy, and wind it up once that historical work is complete. – ACT

If the Tribunal presents more reports or issues which will likely be supportive of the Left and perhaps particularly the Maori Party, can that constitute an offence within the purview of the Electoral Commission, depending of course on what the Tribunal puts forward?
Just wondering
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September 10, 2026 12:55pm
- kowtow
  
  ….final historical settlements .
  
  How far we’ve gone in such a short time from settling the final claims to perpetual claims over co governance , sovereignty , separate parliaments and even senior permanent bureaucrats being with the king or queenie movement!
  
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  September 10, 2026 1:30pm
  - Quail
    
    Good sound policy from ACT.
    A sensible start would be to simply defund the WT with a firm total funding cut off date ( eg 1 January 2027 ).
    Be great to see National and NZ First support ACT on this immediately???
    
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    September 10, 2026 2:42pm
Jack5

An internet sales trick common at the moment.

An online retail advertisement for, say clothing, that shows a photograph of what looks to be a local shop. Typical Kiwi faces front the shop in the advertisement.

A headline advertises a “total liquidation” sale and promises bargains. The headline is a short Maori word with a subheading of “Christchurch”.

The internet address includes the word “Christchurch” before the international dot com.

Snap! The kiwi buyer takes the bait.

But there’s no liquidation sale. There’s no NZ company registered in the name on the advertisement. There’s no local shop.

In the case I know of, the garment turned up, but from China, and the buyer says it was unlike that advertised. “Total rubbish” was her description.
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September 10, 2026 1:01pm
- lifesgood
  
  There are hundreds of these scams. Beware. Only buy from known companies and check them out carefully before you buy.
  
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  September 10, 2026 3:42pm
Ghost

Good. What sort of person gives a job in a school to a person facing charges of raping teen girls

A former school principal allowed a relative to work as a teacher aide without completing a mandatory police vet, despite knowing the relative was subject to sexual allegations.

The New Zealand Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal found the experienced principal guilty of serious misconduct over employment and vetting failures at a large Auckland school. The tribunal censured her and imposed a two-year ban on taking up school leadership or management roles.

Article

I think it was this teenager who got home detention for rape that was latter convicted for raping someone else. Lovely person to have working at a school…..
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September 10, 2026 1:45pm
- MCōs
  
  Last evening I watched the UK equivalent of the NZ programme Highway Cops
  It was shot around Newcastle in November, which meant it was constantly cold and gloomy and the sun was not welcome. The police whipped out their hand cuffs at the drop of a hat and everyone was unhappy – particularly the judges who imposed some pretty stiff penalties for not much.
  A bit hard to follow at times due to the Geordie accent
  
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  September 10, 2026 3:08pm
Ghost

bribing voters, someone is desperate.

Donald Trump has promised to give $US5000 (NZ$8500) to every American adult if Republicans retain control of Congress after the midterm elections.

The US president made the pledge during a speech at his party’s unusual midterms convention, where he told supporters to “pretend that I am on the ballot” for the elections in November.

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September 10, 2026 5:38pm
- Philview
  
  I have read it will cost a trillion dollars. He must have had a chat to Grant and Jacinda who gave away those 3 instalments of $350 to half the country.
  
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  September 10, 2026 9:21pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Definitely not one of his best moments. WTF?
  
  DT please stop saying stupid shit and just get on with the quietly and steadily DOING good stuff! Thank you for your attention.
  
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  September 11, 2026 4:03pm
I remember when

Watched the Willie and Paul comedy show on Ryan Bridge this morning.
Hard to see how either of them gained any votes for their party.
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September 11, 2026 9:48am
I remember when

The BBC report that the Houthis have reportedly seized the Red Sea port of Mokha.
This will allow them greater ability to further disrupt the world oil supply.
When are we going to see the final “Check Mate.”
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