I am Key’s age and I was at university the same time as him. I can vividly remember the events of that year and how it tore the country apart. For Key to say that he does not recall means either that he has suffered a significant brain injury or he is telling fibs.
His subsequent comments are well unbelievable. He shows the emotional makeup of a reptilian …
I remember that year very well myself. I was in high school at the time and was pretty disgusted by fellow students making excuses like “there have been changes in South Africa”.
My father, who had represented NZ playing rugby in the late 40s and early 50s (in the Kiwis, not the All Blacks, since he was a League player) opposed the tour in the end because it was “tearing the country apart”. Not, I must emphasise, because of “those damn protesters”, but because he put our national unity ahead of rugby.
I’ve friends in Britain, and they’re pointing out the hypocrisy of Key’s clone, Cameron: in the 80s, he was a member of a student organisation campaigning to have Nelson Mandela executed as a terrorist and wore “Hang Mandela” badges.
It’s impossible for one to forget what happened or how one felt. Key is a lying scumbag (wow, that’s news, isn’t it?!). I’ll be ashamed to have him as our representative at Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
I am one year younger and I can remember too but then I was on the frontline.I can also remember the Victoria Uni contingent that joined us on the May 1 mobilization. They were a sight to see.
As for John Key, maybe some things are best left unsaid.
Dont debase the word pyschopath. Key isnt even a sociopath. He may politically be a smooth operator but he otherwise is fairly normal. He has a stable family life and a successful international business career- not just fanciful claims.
The main point about Key “forgetting” his political views back then, allmost certainly untrue as we DO KNOW he has long had an ambition to enter politics. A true sociopath would invent some political views that suited the current views today.
You’re right rhinocrates. It’s just we have a lot of idiots who can’t see he’s faking… đ
I would have more respect for him if he was honest and admitted… that he hadn’t really cared one way or the other in 1981 but he supposed he was more pro the tour than anti the tour. Since then he’s changed his mind and realised the anti-tour people were right.
To declare, Key did, that the occassion of the State Funeral for Nelson Mandela, deserves his attendance as NZ’s only credible representative reeks of cynical arrogance and hypocrisy especially as Key has been. like Colin Craig and John Banks, existing in a state of experiential denial of events leading up to and including 1981.
amorality is the name of the game don’t you know. Our bankster PM is what we deserve. The passionless people maaate. all that political malarky is a bit gay aye. Have a few bevy mate, beat the wife, buy some shares in a soe our parents and grandparents built. it’s all about me. i’m a winner and all those wingers are losers. john key mate, he’s a god. burn in hell all those who don’t believe. the gospel according to Key and TPP. Nooooooooo future (ff to 4 minits)
I made a comment on the page “Death of Nelson Mandela”. John Key going to the funeral is an insult, both to those who opposed apartheid, and to the man himself. If he had come out and said earlier that he was a member of the National Party and he was pro-tour, then people would have at least understood that, even if you didn’t agree with his stance. But coming out and saying “I can’t remember” is rubbish. There were numerous people who supported the tour, mainly because they wanted to see the rugby played. Many later regretted their stance. But not John Key.
Personally, I think John Minto and Trevor Richards should be in the vanguard of those leading the representation from this country, along with other leaders of the anti-apartheid movement.
Politicians going is just a junket – very few in Parliament today were there doing “the hard yards” when the tour happened, or when we marched in the streets.
I agree [email protected] send the people who led from the front people like John Minto should be sent to represent NZ not some bloke who say’s he couldn’t remember his position on the tour.No one seriously believes that spineless lying Key. If Key goes its the ultimate insult to a guy who literally was prepared to die for what he believed in. I say know to Key going to the funeral.
Absolutely agree that John Minto should be there. He was one of the one’s that drove this protest so therefore would be one of the people that Mandela would have been most appreciative of. Key in all of those news clips was left floundering as usual wondering how to couch his answers in such a way that he would be able to negate anything that he said at a later date to suit the current political climate. In a novel I recently read they referred to a politician as an *everyman*. It seems to me that Key is that man. *Whatever it takes* is his mantra. I used to be proud to be a New Zealander, now I feel that we are a laughing stock of the world knowing that key will genuflect in front of anyone who asks something of him even if is detrimental to NZ. We are unfortunate enough to have the only pm in the world with*made in the usa*
Cheers for that clip. Played it ‘blind’ to some folks who don’t know much about John Key or NZ politics, or politics generally event.
I asked the question: what do you think of this person’s response?
Answers given: he is lying.
It is infuriating that we as tax payers should be paying for this vile two faced charlatan to go to the funeral of Nelson Mandela. Everything that Mandela was and stood for, Key is absolutely not.
In the first interview in that clip Key sounds crocked. Talking shit with your mates at the pub is one thing, but boozy slurred evasive responses during an interview on the radio is embarrassing.
âWE HAVE LOST ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL, COURAGEOUS, AND PROFOUNDLY GOOD HUMAN BEINGS THAT ANY OF US WILL SHARE TIME WITH ON THIS EARTH. HE NO LONGER BELONGS TO US – HE BELONGS TO THE AGES.â
âšâ-Barack Obama, New Zealand Herald, Saturday 7 December 2013, page one.
Humbug Corner gathers, and highlights, the most striking examples of faux solicitude, insincere apologies, and particularly stupid recycling of official canards. It is produced by the Insincerity ProjectÂź, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.
âLâhypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend Ă la vertu.ââšâ-François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
More humbugs, mostly half-wittedâŠ.
No. 21 Chris Laidlaw: “I asked him if, with the recent birth of the British royal baby, there was just the slightest tinge of regret that they had got rid of the French monarchy?ââš
No. 20 Nevil Gibson: âWell, everybodyâs getting richer.â
âšNo. 19 Byron Bentley: âHe is a great guy, a good man ⊠very caringâŠâ
âšNo. 18 Rachel Smalley: ââŠheartbreak all over NSW as Queensland wins the deciding State of Origin!ââš
No. 17 Jay Carney: ââHe is not a human rights activist, he is not a dissident.â
âšNo. 16 Barack Obama: âI wish Muslims across America & around the world a month blessed with the joys of family, peace & understanding.ââš http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11072013/#comment-661330
âšNo. 15 John Key: âThey know this is an issue of national securityâŠââš
No. 14 Charles Saatchi: âI abhor violence of any kind against womenâŠââšâš
No. 13 Toyota New Zealand: âThe more Kiwis that lean, the more motivated our ETNZ crew will be to win.ââšâš
No. 12 Pem Bird: âWeâre there to do the business of advancing our people.ââšâš
No. 11 Whenua Patuwai: âTheyâre my brothers and to see one of them goes [sic]âitâs tough.ââšâš
No. 10 [REMOVED]
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âšâšâšâšNo. 8 Barack Obama: ââŠpeople standing up for whatâs rightâŠyearning for justice and dignityâŠââšâšâšâšNo. 7 Barack Obama: âNelson Mandela is my personal heroâŠââšâšâš
No. 6 John Key: âYeah well the Greensâ answer to everything is rail, isnât it.â
âšNo. 5 Dr. Rodney Syme: âIf you want good, open, honest practice, you have to make it transparent.ââšâšâšâš
No. 4 Mike Bush: âBruce Huttonâs⊠integrity beyond reproachâŠsuch great characterâŠââšâšâšâš
No. 3 Dean Lonergan: âYâ know what? The only people who will mock them are people who are dwarfists.ââšâšâšâš
No. 2 Peter Dunne: âWhat a load of drivel and sanctimonious humbugâŠâ
âšâšâšâšâšâšNo. 1 Dominic Bowden: âItâs okay to be speechless.ââšâš
I couldn’t help but notice the contrast yesterday between Helen Clark’s interview with Garner with her reflections on Mandela, and John Key trite superficial scripted lines he gave to the media.
Helen spoke with passion and eloquence, Key sounded like he was just spouting a few cliches the speech writer drummed up.
Makes me realise what we lost and what a lightweight chump we gained.
Spitting on his grave
The 5 most hypocritical Mandela eulogies by Israeli politicians
‘First get yourself a sick bag, then read these eulogies to Nelson Mandela from Israel’s leadership – some of them the very people who cultivated close ties to the bitter end with South Africa’s apartheid regime, and all of them presiding over the Israeli version of apartheid.’ — Jonathan Cook
Precisely. Most leading South African anti-apartheid campaigners have pointed to the striking similarities between pre-1990 SA and Israel in the Occupied Territories.
With the treatment of Palestinians and other minorities within Israel-proper bearing more than passing resemblance too (albeit\ a little less blatantly).
Do you really think that President Obama is being hypocritical. Surely of all the current global leaders, Mandela would have inspired him in a very tangible way. It is easy to forget what an extraordinary achievement that Obama’s election represented.
And as with Mandela, the realities of office have tempered Obama’s vision. Nelson Mandelda did not try to turn South Africa into a socialist paradise. He knew that way would lead to Zimbabwe. Reconciliation has been his great legacy, when others would have gone down another path.
Similarly Obama has had to deal with the real world. But he did end the war in Iraq, he has achieved a level of stability in Afghanistan. He is building a nuclear deal with Iran, which could yet be his highest foreign policy success. And if he succeeds in Iran, he will be strenghtened vis a vis Israel and Palestine
While their is valid reason to question some of his actions, it is unthinkable that Obama – a fellow descendant of Africa’s indigenous people – would not have been deeply inspired by Mandela. We have seen many examples where the realities of the American presidency has prevented Obama from achieving his goals. His attempts to change the health care system and make it available to the poorest Americans springs to mind.
Morrissey
Helen Clark was on the same side as Mandela. Key supported the people who put him in prison. He still does.
Not to pick on Morrissey, only that he is a representative example of the mood of the comments. Only I think that to understand JK you have to go at it from another perspective – his – to actually understand. He was I think telling the truth when he spoke in that first clip. Maybe hard for many people here to get but . He did not care at the time, he was not interested. He does not care now either only his job requires of him to say certain things so he says them. He has always been about the money nothing else. He is fine with equality with gay marriage with anything you want or don’t want. They only thing he is actually interested in is the money. There is nothing else going on.
If your proposition was really true, he would not have gone into politics. He could have stayed in the global finance sector and made much more money. He had shown he had exceptional skills for that, and in a sector which is highly competitive. He was at a senior level in a global firm, and had he stayed would have continued to progress. There were great riches to be made from 2001 to 2008 if he had stayed in.
He turned his back on that prospect.
So your analysis simply does not stand up. He returned to NZ for a reason, and that was not to make more money.
Whether you like it or not, he believes he can make NZ better. Obviously not to a Left prescription, but one that he believes lifts New Zealand’s success internationally.
As for going to South Africa, do really think it would sensible for the New Zealand Prime Minister not to attend. The South African government would take that as an insult and a snub. Given our history, hardly a good space to be in.
Wayne
It looks quite grand on your CV to show that you have been Prime Minister of a country. What do you give somebody who’s got everything? The Prime Ministership. And you get your picture in all the papers of a tiddly. little country that is becoming smaller every moment that he lets out a mining or other contract or his myrmidons do.
Have you thought of that aspect – Mr Sensible that’s you, doesn’t have flights of fancy that require imagination perhaps.
What’s that got to do with anything vaguely germane Wayne ?
Your observation approximates utterly inane “Questions For Oral Answer” verbiage. Clearly you haven’t stopped being a National Party cabinet minister with a well thumbed copy of the Crosby Textor Bullshit Manual tucked under your arm.
I’ve not a smidgeon of respect for your staged “reasonable man” carry on. You’re here not for reason or for care for New Zealand and it’s people. You’re here essentially for self , viz. John Key, the National Party, targeted privilege, and the fashioning of the rest of us as servants more or less of all three.
Pretty disgraceful really. All the more offensive for the glib delivery.
I think that the revolving door will be fully functional and when JK leaves politics he will re- enter the world of banking at a much higher level than that at which he left. So I do not think it inconsistent. Of course I am speculating.
On the matter of why he is in politics, I think the money thing still stands, look at what he is prepared to expend political capital on, what he is interested in. It is money, finance- selling stuff keeps him on the radar, doing his job. No one he is interest in knowing cares about any of the other stuff
Meanwhile, (back in Gotham) , when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the day-light, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs”. The Doctor- 12:1-
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets’.- Lots of somilar material in Matthew, 23.
The Middle East was preserved from the scourge that is Tui PIA at that time so, “mud in your eye’ will have to do. đ
Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to sandblast him, to take away his Malcolm X. You will try to hide his anger from view. Right now, you are anxiously pacing the corridors of your condos and country estates, looking for the right words, the right tributes, the right-wing tributes.
beautiful writing, we reflected over a cup of tea this afternoon, just how ugly State Apartheid as a form of social organization is, along with the many other social injustices among our own people, that many close their eyes to.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Only learning aspects of his formation still; I have Long Walk To Freedom could be near time to read it. Hard Labour!, such a forgiving, fore-seeing man. (Glad I’m sans tele at my home at present, they’ll probably send Hillary Barry đ )
as usual The Conservatives “were [generally] dead wrong” about Mandela, as they are about most things that could improve the quality of life of the greatest number; Oh no, peoples gotta be unequal they say, “otherwise why would the lazy [insert colour, or other disadvantage] so and so’s bother to get out of their tents and work for our benefit.
Well put RT. They really are bastards aren’t they ? Thing is, they never, never, never ‘fess up and apologise for being so wrong.
Frankly I’m beside myself at the prospect of ShonKey Python purporting to represent me at the funeral of a man against whom he is less than a flea. ShonKey Python who pretty surely agreed with the psychotic Thatcher that Mandela was a terrorist.
Playing Little Churchill. Vainglorious, risible little punk.
We should send the leaders of the anti apartheid and anti-tour movement like Andrew Beyer, John Minto, Trevor Richards and Marx Jones. The people who were on the right side at the time. Not these history re-writing, revisionist tories.
I totally support Key going to the funeral, provided he takes – as a gift from “Middle New Zealand”, one of those golliwogs that have been in the news.
According to yer typical “PC gone mad” talkback callers and National voters, those gollies are not racist, they’re just cute, so nobody in South Africa could possibly object. He should hand it over to Mandela’s widow, and pose for the cameras.
John Key’s old firm, Merrill Lynch, settled out of court in the US to avoid going to trial for racial bias in its organisation. This was the US: Key worked for Merrill Lynch in Singapore and London, during the late 1990s.
The case was an eight-year battle over why black brokers composed fewer than 2 percent of Merrillâs full brokers and generally had smaller books of business. Merrill argued that, in essence, society was the problemâthat white brokers had access to more wealth because they had larger social networks of well-to-do potential customers, who in turn were more likely to invest with brokers who are similar to themselves.
[…]
After years of legal losses for the plaintiffs, in 2012 the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals sided with McReynolds and found that the black brokers did face companywide policies that had the potential to be discriminatory, which made the group worthy of class certification. (The judges didnât rule whether the policies were in fact unequalâthatâs something that would be fought over in trial.) A trial date was set for early 2014, and the two sides began settlement talks.
The settlement approved today provides for $160 million to be divvied up among the 1,400 black brokers in the class, making it the largest cash award in a racial bias employment case. It also created a host of programmatic changes, including adjustments to how the firm distributes accounts to trainees and creating new coaches for black brokers. The efforts will be overseen by a committee of black brokers, including those who were involved in the suit. McReynolds expects to be on the committee in its first year.
âIâll give you as much time as you want,â George McReynolds drawls, leaning back in his chair in his Nashville office. That, he says, has been his philosophy during the 30 years heâs worked as a financial adviser at Merrill Lynch. At 69, heâs a slow-and-steady kind of guy: Heâs lived in the same home for almost four decades; he never takes his tan Chevy Malibu over the speed limit.
But McReynolds couldnât wait forever to be treated equally by his employer. Over the years at Merrillâhe started there in 1983âMcReynolds had gotten used to inequities small and large. With only a few fellow black brokers in the Nashville office, he felt isolated. Often excluded from work social events, he took to eating lunch at his desk; if he was out, he says, the receptionist sometimes told callers he didnât work there. He also noticed that the other African American financial advisers at Merrill were rarely top producersâmeaning they generated less business than their white colleaguesâthough they seemed to work as hard as everybody else.
While I love the civility and erudition of PA, sometimes they’re so damn, stiflingly polite that they’ll naively accommodate a pathological liar like Hoots just because he makes nice gestures. Meanwhile, I just want to throw up.
Watching holden and quantas crash to the ground, we should all watch and remind ourselves the dominant role that unions and labour governments played in their demise.
Dimwit the word that applies to autocrats like Key who is too ignorant to have any kind of soul about Mandela or the guts to actually stand up for what he should believe that apartheid was and is wrong
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Dimwit the word that applies to autocrats like Key who are too ignorant to have any kind of soul about Mandela or the guts to actually stand up for what he should believe that apartheid was and is wrong
Nelson Mandela was the greatest man since Gandhi & Churchill as a leader for freedom.
Maybe its because most of Keys life he has lived in the european world that still treats Africa as a slave colony ,They steal their oil what else can u say
Key has no shame, a tory prick.
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After signalling it a week ago, yesterday National launched their new housing policy which abandons their support for the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS) that they had worked with the government to deliver back in 2021 and shifts the focus to more sprawl. Overall there are three key areas National ...
The audacity of National’s “u-turn” over housing intensification is an extraordinary slap in the face for Chris Bishop and Nicola Willis. If it does nothing else, it raises questions about their political judgement, not for the first time.. Some in the Caucus have still not forgiven them for their ...
As the general election approaches, the Association of Former Members of the Parliament of New Zealand has organised an essay competition to to foster democracy. Secondary school students are being challenged to identify the important elements of a successful democracy, explain their value and consider whether they can be improved ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: For paying subscribers, here's my pick of the week’s top six news developments, quotes and charts of the week with my personal reflections, plus my suggestions for Sunday reading and listening. There’s also one fun thing. In summary this week, my six takeaways were:Christopher ...
With Open Arms: Is it at all reasonable to suppose that a colonial society in which whites traditionally occupied all the upper rungs of the ethnic hierarchy, and where the colonised were relegated to the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, will respond positively to a concerted indigenous push from below, ...
Hi,Just a quick online-only update that Webworm won “Best Team Investigation” last night at the Voyagers.This means a lot, especially considering we were up against giant newsrooms like Stuff and TVNZ:WINNER: David Farrier and Hayden Donnell | Webworm – The Downward Spiral of Arise ChurchJUDGES: Alan Sunderland and Ali Ikram“This ...
May 28, 2025.Ladies and gentlemen. It’s a beautiful clear morning here in Auckland City. We’re heading for a maximum temperature of 14 degrees, and the local time is now 10:30am. Please remain seated if you’d like to, or get up and walk around the plane if you prefer. New regulations ...
Somebody has made a new survey and it tells us this little waterlogged nation of ours is rocketing up the misery charts. Maybe they took it before the sun came back out.Or maybe they took it any time in the last two years. Because negativity is quite surely the new ...
The appointment of Elizabeth Longworth as Chair of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO was one of just two press statements on the governmentâs official website today. Perhaps thatâs because ministers have been busy preparing speeches for the Labour Party faithful who have gathered in Wellington for the party’s ...
Alarm bells have been rung by the department after its Deputy Director-General for Operations warns, ‘the initial view shows that we do not have sufficient funding to cover our basic running costs’. Thomas Cranmer writes – Following last weekâs budget, alarm bells have been rung by the Department ...
Luxon went after the NIMBY vote, declaring National’s 2021 bipartisan deal with Labour to make it much easier to put three townhouses on a regular section ‘wrong’. File Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTLDR: The week’s news in Aotearoa’s political economy I covered via The Kākā for subscribers included:The Labour ...
Hello! This is the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the week.Here’s what you may have missed.Last Sunday’s column was about the budget A big chunk of this year’s budget coverage was brought to us by the words crass, gauche and venal. The big questions ...
Hi,Usually Webworms are quite focussed — this one is the opposite. No rhyme or reason. A bit like my brain: sometimes ultra-focussed, other times utterly unable to settle on a goddamn thing. And as we head into the weekend, there are a bunch of things buzzing around in my head ...
The Mainstream Media, and especially the New Zealand Herald, regularly carry misinformed columns on the causes of the countryâs low-grade economic performance over recent years. One old codger, John Gascoigne, who describes himself as âa Cambridge-based economic commentatorâ (not the university, alas!) correctly told us early this week that New ...
The Treasury released its budget economic forecasts. What do they say about the economy over the next four months?Let me begin me with an irritation. One post-budget headline was âTreasury optimistic over recession risk in Budget 2023'. Treasury being optimistic is almost an oxymoron. They fire down the centre.It is ...
Photo by Ron Fung on UnsplashIt’s that time of the week again when and I co-host our ‘hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat about the week’s news with special guests:5.00 pm ...
1. Who most likely gave LOTO Luxon the idea to pull the rug on the urban density policy?a. A leading thinker on affordable housing b. A leading thinker on 15 minute cities c. A leading thinker on sustainable urban planning d. National-Party-supporting property developers2 . With what was this illustration made?a. Artificial inseminationb. ...
Buzz from the BeehivePoint of Order tallied $314.4 million of spending in the latest ministerial statements posted on the governmentâs official website. This includes a lump of money to â yes, really â help identify businesses in tourism and hospitality which treat their staffs well and to fund the ...
It’s that time of the week for an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session for paying subscribers about the week that was for an hour from midday (my apologies for the late start today), including:the Government’s payment of $130 million of Climate Emergency Fund money to NZ Steel to help it cut ...
National/ACT would have 62 seats in a 120 seat Parliament if the latest poll results were replicated in the October election, but micro-movements around the median and the size of Te Pāti Māori’s caucus will decide who governs. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: National/ACT could govern alone after October ...
Welcome to Friday – again! Hard to believe we’re almost in June. Hereâs our latest roundup of stories that caught our eye this week. The Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt covered the transport highlights from this year’s Budget. On Tuesday, Matt asked if the end is ...
What should one make of the Reserve Bank Governorâs extraordinary donation of a hostage to fortune in forecasting an end to interest rate hikes? Conspiracy theorists will be scratching their tinfoil hats and mumbling about positioning for a whacking great payoff on being forced out by a new government. ...
During New Zealand First coalition negotiations our policy was to train and resource 1800 new frontline police. We secured this coalition policy win to ensure our streets had a police force that could tackle crime - after years of neglect. Remember those previous nine years of neglect saw a âtag ...
Katie Kenny from Stuff published an article today with a lazy attempt at so-called âfact checkingâ my recent comments on the World Health Organisationâs concerning new regulations being developed. What is most surprising is that throughout this entire âfact checkingâ process, Kenny never once rang me asking for my side ...
The National Party has released another confused and rushed policy that will only further worsen the inequality that is driven by unaffordable housing. ...
Welcome to sunny and calm Wellington, which I know those of you who are visiting would of course expect to be the case. Itâs been a busy week since we put forward the 2023 Budget. Labour MPs have been out across the motu giving the good oil on the Budget. ...
Kia orana, Talofa lava, MÄlo e lelei, Taloha ni, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Noaâia e mauri, Ni sa bula vinaka, Kia ora, Tena Koutou Katoa. Labour Party President Jill Day, Prime Minister Hipkins, Party faithful, delegates and comrades, whÄnau and friends, itâs a privilege to be here today. I begin my ...
One of my kaumÄtua up North stood before the Waitangi Tribunal and said: âHe aha kÄ ahau, te tangata kore hara i mua i te Atua, e tu nei kia whakawaatia e koe, te tangata tÄhae, te tangata hara, te tangata kore tikanga?Ko koe kÄ te tika, kia tĆ« ...
New Zealanders will be highly concerned that the World Health Organisation proposes to effectively take control of independent decision making away from sovereign countries and place control with the Director General. W.H.O International Health Regulations on future outbreaks of disease aim to give the Director General extraordinary and wide-sweeping powers. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take responsibility for reducing inflation by taxing wealth instead of leaving RBNZ to continue hiking the Official Cash Rate. ...
The Green Party has released its list of candidates for the 2023 election. With a mix of familiar faces, fresh new talent, and strong tangata whenua voices, this exceptional group of candidates are ready to set the direction of the next Government. ...
Thank you for your invitation to be here, after yesterday's budget, and for the opportunity to talk with you. In the economic and social turmoil following the arrival of COVID 19 in New Zealand many concerns emerged. How would we keep our economy going and maintain our exports which are ...
At the heart of Budget 2023 is a cost of living package, designed to ease the pressure on New Zealanders in the face of global inflation and the challenges of rebuilding from extreme weather events. It provides practical cost of living relief across some of the core expenses facing Kiwis ...
A long standing Green Party policy has been extended yet again in this yearâs Budget. This will deliver warmer homes for thousands of people, lower power bills, and cut climate pollution. ...
The Green Party is fully on board with free bus and train travel for under 12s and half price travel for under 25s - next stop, free travel for all under 18s, students, and apprentices. ...
Earlier this week, the Prime Minister announced a billion dollar flood and cyclone recovery package as part of Budget 2023. This is about doing the basics - repairing and rebuilding what has been damaged and making smart investments, including $100 million of protection funding to ensure future events donât cause ...
The Fuel Industry (Improving Fuel Resilience) Amendment Bill would: boost New Zealandâs fuel supply resilience and economic security enable the minimum stockholding obligation regulations to be adapted as the energy and transport environment evolves. âLast November, I announced a six-point plan to improve the resiliency of our fuel supply from ...
The Government is making sure those on low incomes will no longer have to wait five weeks to get the minimum weekly rate of ACC, and improving the data collected to make the system fairer, Minister for ACC Peeni Henare said today. The Accident Compensation (Access Reporting and Other Matters) ...
A compulsory code of conduct will ensure school board members are crystal clear on their responsibilities and expected standard of behaviour, Minister of Education Jan Tinetti said. Itâs the first time a compulsory code of conduct has been published for state and state-integrated school boards and comes into effect on ...
Tena koutou katoa and thank you, Mayor Nadine Taylor, for your welcome to Marlborough. Thanks also Doug Saunders-Loder and all of you for inviting me to your annual conference. As you might know, Iâm quite new to this job â and Iâm particularly pleased that the first organisation Iâm giving a ...
The Government will enter into a funding arrangement with councils in cyclone and flood affected regions to support them to offer a voluntary buyout for owners of Category 3 designated residential properties. It will also co-fund work needed to protect Category 2 designated properties. âFrom the beginning of this process ...
The Government has announced changes to strengthen requirements in venues with pokie (gambling) machines will come into effect from 15 June. âPokies are one of the most harmful forms of gambling. They can have a detrimental impact on individuals, their friends, whÄnau and communities,â Internal Affairs Minister Barbara Edmonds said. ...
The total Police workforce is now the largest it has ever been. Police constabulary stands at 10,700 officers â an increase of 21% since 2017 MÄori officers have increased 40%, Pasifika 83%, Asian 157%, Women 61% Every district has got more Police under this Government The Government has delivered on ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon Nanaia Mahuta met with Korea President Yoon, as well as Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna, during her recent visit to Korea. âIt was an honour to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at the first Korea â Pacific Leadersâ Summit. We discussed Pacific ambitions under the ...
The Governmentâs Research and Development Tax Incentive has supported more than $2 billion of New Zealand business innovation â an increase of around $1 billion in less than nine months. "Research and innovation are essential in helping us meet the biggest challenges and seize opportunities facing New Zealand. Itâs fantastic ...
The next âgiant leapâ in New Zealandâs space journey has been taken today with the launch of the National Space Policy, Economic Development Minister Barbara Edmonds announced. âOur space sector is growing rapidly. Each year New Zealand is becoming a more and more attractive place for launches, manufacturing space-related technology ...
A new Year 7-13 designated character wharekura will be built in PÄpÄmoa, Associate Minister of Education Kelvin Davis has announced. The wharekura will focus on science, mathematics and creative technologies while connecting Äkonga to the whakapapa of the area. The decision follows an application by the NgÄ PĆtiki Ä Tamapahore ...
Protecting the environment by establishing a stronger, more consistent system for freedom camping Supporting councils to better manage freedom camping in their region and reduce the financial and social impacts on communities Ensuring that self-contained vehicle owners have time to prepare for the new system  The Self-Contained Motor Vehicle ...
A new law passed last night could see up to 25 percent of Family Court judgesâ workload freed up in order to reduce delays, Minister of Justice Kiri Allan said. The Family Court (Family Court Associates) Legislation Bill will establish a new role known as the Family Court Associate. The ...
New Zealand businesses will begin reaping the rewards of our gold-standard free trade agreement with the United Kingdom (UK FTA) from today. âThe New Zealand UK FTA enters into force from today, and is one of the seven new or upgraded Free Trade Agreements negotiated by Labour to date,â Prime ...
The Government will reform outdated surrogacy laws to improve the experiences of children, surrogates, and the growing number of families formed through surrogacy, by adopting Labour MP TÄmati Coffeyâs Memberâs Bill as a Government Bill, Minister Kiri Allan has announced. âSurrogacy has become an established method of forming a family ...
Defence Minister Andrew Little departs for Singapore tomorrow to attend the 20th annual Shangri-La Dialogue for Defence Ministers from the Indo-Pacific region. âShangri-La brings together many countries to speak frankly and express views about defence issues that could affect us all,â Andrew Little said. âNew Zealand is a long-standing participant ...
Research, Science and Innovation Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall and the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang met in Wellington today and affirmed the two countriesâ long-standing science relationship. Minister Wang was in New Zealand for the 6th New Zealand-China Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation. Following ...
5 percent uplift clearer and simpler to navigate Domestic productions can access more funding sources 20 percent rebate confirmed for post-production, digital and visual effects Qualifying expenditure for post-production, digital and visual effects rebate dropped to $250,000 to encourage more smaller productions The Government is making it easier for the ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pacific Region) Carmel Sepuloni will represent New Zealand at Samoaâs 61st Anniversary of Independence commemorations in Apia. âAotearoa New Zealand is pleased to share in this significant occasion, alongside other invited Pacific leaders, and congratulates Samoa on the milestone of 61 ...
The Government is continuing to support retailers with additional funding for the highly popular Fog Cannon Subsidy Scheme, Police and Small Business Minister Ginny Andersen announced today. âThe Government is committed to improving retailersâ safety,â Ginny Andersen said. âIâve seen first-hand the difference fog cannons are making. Not only do ...
The Government has received the first independent review of the Intelligence and Security Act 2017, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says. The review, considered by the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, was presented to the House of Representatives today. âEnsuring the safety and security of New Zealanders is of the utmost ...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has expressed condolences on behalf of New Zealand to the Kingdom of Tonga following the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Mele Siuâilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili. âNew Zealand sends itâs heartfelt condolences to the people of Tonga, and to His Majesty King Tupou VI at this time ...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has expressed condolences on behalf of New Zealand to the Kingdom of Tonga following the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Mele Siuâilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili. âNew Zealand sends itâs heartfelt condolences to the people of Tonga, and to His Majesty King Tupou VI at this time ...
Defence Minister Andrew Little and Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta have today announced the extension of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) deployment to Solomon Islands, as part of the regionally-led Solomon Islands International Assistance Force (SIAF). âAotearoa New Zealand has a long history of working alongside the Royal Solomon ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta will travel to the Republic of Korea today to attend the KoreaâPacific Leadersâ Summit in Seoul and Busan. âKorea is an important partner for Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region. I am eager for the opportunity to meet and discuss issues that matter to our ...
Trade and Export Growth Minister Damien OâConnor joined ministerial representatives at a meeting in Detroit, USA today to announce substantial conclusion of negotiations of a new regional supply chains agreement among 14 Indo-Pacific countries. The Supply Chains agreement is one of four pillars being negotiated within the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework ...
Our most spoken Pacific language is taking centre stage this week with Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa â Samoa Language Week kicking off around the country. âUnderstanding and using the Samoan language across our nation is vital to its survival,â Barbara Edmonds said. âThe Samoan population in New Zealand are ...
Over 90 per cent of New Zealanders are expected to receive this yearâs nationwide test of the Emergency Mobile Alert system tonight between 6-7pm. âEmergency Mobile Alert is a tool that can alert people when their life, health, or property, is in danger,â Kieran McAnulty said. âThe annual nationwide test ...
ENGLISH: WhakatĆhea and the Crown sign Deed of Settlement A Deed of Settlement has been signed between WhakatĆhea and the Crown, 183 years to the day since WhakatĆhea rangatira signed the Treaty of Waitangi, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Andrew Little has announced. WhakatĆhea is an iwi based in ...
Elizabeth Longworth has been appointed as the Chair of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, Associate Minister of Education Jo Luxton announced today. UNESCO is the United Nations agency responsible for promoting cooperative action among member states in the areas of education, science, culture, social science (including peace and ...
Tourism and hospitality employer accreditation scheme to recognise quality employers Better education and career opportunities in tourism Cultural competency to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces Innovation and technology acceleration to drive satisfying, skilled jobs Strengthening our tourism workers and supporting them into good career pathways, pay and working conditions ...
Tourism and hospitality employer accreditation scheme to recognise quality employers Better education and career opportunities in tourism Cultural competency to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces Innovation and technology acceleration to drive satisfying, skilled jobs Strengthening our tourism workers and supporting them into good career pathways, pay and working conditions ...
 Greater access to primary care, including 193 more front line clinical staff More hauora services and increased mental health support Boost for maternity and early years programmes Funding for cancers, HIV and longer term conditions  Greater access to primary care, improved maternity care and mental health support are ...
 Greater access to primary care, including 193 more front line clinical staff More hauora services and increased mental health support Boost for maternity and early years programmes Funding for cancers, HIV and longer term conditions  Greater access to primary care, improved maternity care and mental health support are ...
The Government continues progress on the survivor-led independent redress system for historic abuse in care, with the announcement of the design and advisory group members today. âThe main recommendation of the Royal Commission of Inquiryâs Abuse in Care interim redress report was for a survivor-led independent redress system, and the ...
Aotearoa New Zealand is providing NZ$7.75 million to respond to urgent humanitarian needs in the Horn of Africa, Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta announced today. The Horn of Africa is experiencing its most severe drought in decades, with five consecutive failed rainy seasons. At least 43.3 million people require lifesaving and ...
Health Minister Ayesha Verrall has opened two new state-of-the-art mental health facilities at the Christchurch Hillmorton Hospital campus, as the Government ramps up its efforts to build a modern fit for purpose mental health system. The buildings, costing $81.8 million, are one of 16 capital projects the Government has funded ...
The Government is continuing to invest in our regional economies by announcing another $24 million worth of investment into ten diverse projects, Regional Development Minister Kiri Allan says. âOur regions are the backbone of our economy and todayâs announcement continues to build on the Governmentâs investment to boost regional economic ...
An $8 million boost to New Zealand MÄori Tourism will help operators insulate themselves for the future. Spread over the next four years, the investment acknowledges the on-going challenges faced by the industry and the significant contribution MÄori make to tourism in Aotearoa. It builds on the $15 million invested ...
Defence Minister Andrew Little has marked the arrival of the first 18 Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles for the New Zealand Army, alongside personnel at Trentham Military Camp today. âThe arrival of the Bushmaster fleet represents a significant uplift in capability and protection for defence force personnel, and a milestone in ...
NZ Post has, with little or no warning, stopped sending mail to 34 countries; there are another 21 that arenât sending mail to us. But it's kept pretty quiet about it ...
Why is she in trouble, and what could happen if sheâs found in contempt? Scorn and entitlement. Or, at least, contempt and privilege. In the strange world where constitutional law and politics intersect, people are bad at naming things. Parliament has âprivilegesâ, and even a whole committee specially devoted to ...
What questions will a green doctor ask you? What should you do if police see your weed? And should you really drink it in a tea? Natalie Lowe is placing her sandwich board on a central Auckland footpath. Sheâs been outside mere seconds when sheâs approached by three burly men ...
The ANZ Premiership grand final will be a showdown of netballâs great wingwomen â Mysticsâ Michaela Sokolich-Beatson vs Starsâ Gina Crampton. Suzanne McFadden speaks to both athletes, on a common mission. Itâs a gritty battle just too close to call. Stars wing attack Gina Crampton and Mystics wing defence Michaela ...
The first King's Birthday Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias FICTION 1 The Axemanâs Carnival by Catherine Chidgey (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $35) Next week's Book of the Week review at ReadingRoom is by Philip Matthews (crowned Best Reviewer at last year's ...
Aotearoa has vast tracts of suburban and urban terrain. The possibilities for reformulating under-used landscapes into massive carbon-capture terrains are enormousOpinion: Many New Zealanders are engaged in the environmental work that needs to be done to halt the degradation of our planet. However, addressing increasing carbon dioxide emissions and ...
New Zealand's big emitters are under pressure to do more as the country heads towards its zero carbon 2050 target. NZ Steel's the first mover with a big deal with the Government to help it cut its emissions. Who will be next? The $300 million deal between NZ Steel ...
This week on the Raw Politics podcast: National struggles to deal with race relations and Labour and National fall out over housing density - plus the risk of a caucus breakdown for ACT The Raw Politics team takes a look at how National's leader and MPs are dealing with ...
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A new poem by Wellington poet Victoria Lewis. Carmine well â the cherries appeared quietly there on the kitchen bench as if to smile and say i love you,and you dared to forget those gleaming fruit form a prayer, a devotion bloody on the inside, taut on the out ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra nitpicker/Shutterstock By coincidence, the furore around the consultancy firm PwC is raging just as the National Anti-Corruption Commission is gearing up for its start of business on July 1. The PwC scandal, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ricardo Villegas, Senior Lecturer of Law, University of South Australia Today, Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko handed down his long-awaited judgment in the defamation case that Ben Roberts-Smith, Australiaâs most decorated living former SAS soldier, brought against the Age, the Sydney Morning ...
Wayne Brown has named and attempted to shame councillors who oppose the sale of the council's airport shares, but some are returning fire, saying he does not have the votes to pass his plan. ...
Some certainty has arrived for those impacted by severe weather events earlier this year but the bulk of the detail for a buyout scheme affecting at least 700 homes is a work in progress, writes political editor Jo Moir.Analysis: Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson has been determined since February ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Rolph, Professor of Law, University of Sydney At the heart of the spectacular defamation trial brought by decorated Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith were two key questions. Had the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times damaged his reputation ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Bateson, Professor of Practice, University of Sydney Shutterstock Australiansâ access to a range of contraceptive options depends on where they live and how wealthy they are. A recent parliamentary inquiry recommends ways to end this âpostcode lotteryâ for people ...
Labour's campaign chair is standing by a social media post which likens National's prescriptions policy to dystopian TV show and novel The Handmaid's Tale. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Coalitionâs decision to oppose the Voice to Parliament has put its moderate members in a jam. Some moderates are active yes advocates, while others are trying to keep low profiles. Bridget Archer, the outspoken ...
Greenpeace Aotearoa is calling out the agriculture industryâs "undue influence" over the Governmentâs agricultural emissions policy, saying that " predatory denial and delay " have stalled the development of plans to price and reduce ...
âThe huge fire in South Auckland illustrates the serious human health risks of incinerating flock, the residual material left over from the scrap metal process. It is one reason we will be opposing the building of a waste incinerator in Te Awamutu ...
Itâs reassuring to think that by paying for private treatment youâre âfreeing up a bedâ in a public hospital. But the reality is private beds donât free up public beds, they replace them. Ethicists argue that healthcare is special. Unlike other consumer goods, its availability and accessibility should be based ...
The office of mayor Wayne Brown has hit back at criticism journalists were âcherry-pickedâ for this morningâs budget announcement. A number of media outlets, including The Spinoff, Stuff, TVNZ and Newshub, were not invited to hear Brownâs budget address. Some, however, made it into the room after Brown had started ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Klugman, Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains mention of the Stolen ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sudyumna Dahal, PhD Student, Australian National University Shutterstock The human costs of tobacco and smoking worldwide are huge. 1.3 billion people use tobacco, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. More than 8 million people die prematurely because of tobacco, at ...
Today, the Government released a discussion document: Safer Online Services and Media Platforms. It aims to reduce peopleâs exposure to harmful content, and create a system that is easier to navigate if people need to report harmful content. The ...
The Act Partyâs compared a proposal to improve online safety to the governmentâs doomed hate speech laws, and pledged to âkillâ it off as well. Consultation is set to begin on a Department of Internal Affairs proposal to change how online content is regulated in New Zealand. But David Seymour ...
A new report from the Auditor-General on four initiatives to improve outcomes for MÄori has highlighted the importance of strong relationships between public organisations and MÄori, and of taking the time needed to build these relationships. However, ...
The Broadcasting Standards Authority welcomes todayâs launch of the public discussion document, Safer Online Services and Media Platforms, on a proposed new content regulation framework. The Authority has long been an advocate for a more flexible regulatory ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Clement, Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology, Author providedPalaeontology is the study of evolution and prehistoric life, usually preserved as fossils in rocks. It combines aspects of geology ...
Inclusive Aotearoa Collective TÄhono welcomes the release of the Safer Online Services and Media Platforms report from Te Tari Taiwhenua, dealing with content regulation for media and social media. âWe welcome the move to an independent regulator that ...
The drearily titled âSafer Online Services and Media Platformsâ document has just been released. Hereâs a TLDR summary from The Spinoffâs Shanti Mathias: The suggested changes are pretty different from what we have right now. All digital industries that publish content, including overseas companies like Meta and Google and local ...
The drearily titled âSafer Online Services and Media Platformsâ document has just been released. Hereâs a TLDR summary from The Spinoffâs Shanti Mathias: The suggested changes are pretty different from what we have right now. All digital industries that publish content, including overseas companies like Meta and Google and local ...
The Safer Online Services and Media Platforms document has just been released by the governmentâs Content Regulatory Review. It does more than capitalise nouns â hereâs what you need to know about whatâs inside. What is this document with the worldâs most boring name?Itâs a proposal from the Department ...
The Safer Online Services and Media Platforms document has just been released by the governmentâs Content Regulatory Review. It does more than capitalise nouns â hereâs what you need to know about whatâs inside. What is this document with the worldâs most boring name?Itâs a proposal from the Department ...
The 2010s musical theatre phenomenon has finally made it to Spark Arena. Does does it live up to the years of expectation? This Angelica Schuyler is transcendent Full disclosure: I am overly familiar with Hamiton without being a full-on Hamilstan. Iâve listened to the cast recording countless times, watched it ...
The 2010s musical theatre phenomenon has finally made it to Spark Arena. Does does it live up to the years of expectation? This Angelica Schuyler is transcendent Full disclosure: I am overly familiar with Hamiton without being a full-on Hamilstan. Iâve listened to the cast recording countless times, watched it ...
Members of the press being turned away from the door distracted from the announcement of asset sales and inflation-pegged rates in Auckland Mayor Wayne Brownâs final budget proposal Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown didnât mince words at a fiery press conference this morning where he confirmed heâd be calling for a ...
During New Zealand First coalition negotiations our policy was to train and resource 1800 new frontline police. We secured this coalition policy win to ensure our streets had a police force that could tackle crime - after years of neglect. Remember those ...
The government and councils will offer a buyout option to property owners whose land is too risky to rebuild on, and co-fund protection works for those who need it. ...
The government will work with councils to offer a âvoluntary buyoutâ for owners of homes written off by Cyclone Gabrielle and other recent severe weather. About 700 category three properties â those where itâs deemed the risk of future severe weather cannot be sufficiently mitigated â are expected to be ...
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I am Key’s age and I was at university the same time as him. I can vividly remember the events of that year and how it tore the country apart. For Key to say that he does not recall means either that he has suffered a significant brain injury or he is telling fibs.
His subsequent comments are well unbelievable. He shows the emotional makeup of a reptilian …
I remember that year very well myself. I was in high school at the time and was pretty disgusted by fellow students making excuses like “there have been changes in South Africa”.
My father, who had represented NZ playing rugby in the late 40s and early 50s (in the Kiwis, not the All Blacks, since he was a League player) opposed the tour in the end because it was “tearing the country apart”. Not, I must emphasise, because of “those damn protesters”, but because he put our national unity ahead of rugby.
I’ve friends in Britain, and they’re pointing out the hypocrisy of Key’s clone, Cameron: in the 80s, he was a member of a student organisation campaigning to have Nelson Mandela executed as a terrorist and wore “Hang Mandela” badges.
It’s impossible for one to forget what happened or how one felt. Key is a lying scumbag (wow, that’s news, isn’t it?!). I’ll be ashamed to have him as our representative at Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
I am one year younger and I can remember too but then I was on the frontline.I can also remember the Victoria Uni contingent that joined us on the May 1 mobilization. They were a sight to see.
As for John Key, maybe some things are best left unsaid.
Sounds just like John Banks doesn’t he, just as convincing.
John key is our dear leader, how dare you doubt him, hang your head in shame. Four more years boys, four more years ( of national )
Should anyone be surprised? Key has psychopathic tendencies. They are very good at faking emotions.
Dont debase the word pyschopath. Key isnt even a sociopath. He may politically be a smooth operator but he otherwise is fairly normal. He has a stable family life and a successful international business career- not just fanciful claims.
The main point about Key “forgetting” his political views back then, allmost certainly untrue as we DO KNOW he has long had an ambition to enter politics. A true sociopath would invent some political views that suited the current views today.
Note gwwnz I said has psychopathic tendencies, not that he is a full blown psychopath. Big difference.
Some CEO’s/ business people have psychopathic tendencies.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/2013/10/are-ceos-and-entrepreneurs-psychopaths-multiple-studies-say-yes/
Given Key’s background the diagnosis may be correct.
I disagree – he is terrible at faking emotions. đ
You’re right rhinocrates. It’s just we have a lot of idiots who can’t see he’s faking… đ
I would have more respect for him if he was honest and admitted… that he hadn’t really cared one way or the other in 1981 but he supposed he was more pro the tour than anti the tour. Since then he’s changed his mind and realised the anti-tour people were right.
Bolger is big enough to do it but not Key.
Even Ross fucking Meurant of all people is big enough to admit he was wrong about the tour.
Not our Key though. That places him on the continuum of fuckwittery, don’t it?
Now everybody say it with me,
I love john key our best ever pm.
Four more years, yeahaa
There’s a kid up ^ at 3.0 with the same name and eager anticipation for reaching teenagehood . Any relation?
To declare, Key did, that the occassion of the State Funeral for Nelson Mandela, deserves his attendance as NZ’s only credible representative reeks of cynical arrogance and hypocrisy especially as Key has been. like Colin Craig and John Banks, existing in a state of experiential denial of events leading up to and including 1981.
Give the representation some stuff reflecting a living on of Nelson Mandela’s wairua.
Key has the balls to acknowledge and invite John Minto to travel with him – both representing Aotearoa New Zealand ?
Be absolutely wonderful if he did. It would be stature Prime Minister !
amorality is the name of the game don’t you know. Our bankster PM is what we deserve. The passionless people maaate. all that political malarky is a bit gay aye. Have a few bevy mate, beat the wife, buy some shares in a soe our parents and grandparents built. it’s all about me. i’m a winner and all those wingers are losers. john key mate, he’s a god. burn in hell all those who don’t believe. the gospel according to Key and TPP. Nooooooooo future (ff to 4 minits)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIlUvEOhFos
LoadsaMoney
It’s a very ‘convenient’ line to spin to the media/public – I can’t really really remember.
What is also revealing is the way Key’s story changes the further he is questioned……not unlike his more recent fibs, lies and fabrications.
I made a comment on the page “Death of Nelson Mandela”. John Key going to the funeral is an insult, both to those who opposed apartheid, and to the man himself. If he had come out and said earlier that he was a member of the National Party and he was pro-tour, then people would have at least understood that, even if you didn’t agree with his stance. But coming out and saying “I can’t remember” is rubbish. There were numerous people who supported the tour, mainly because they wanted to see the rugby played. Many later regretted their stance. But not John Key.
Personally, I think John Minto and Trevor Richards should be in the vanguard of those leading the representation from this country, along with other leaders of the anti-apartheid movement.
Politicians going is just a junket – very few in Parliament today were there doing “the hard yards” when the tour happened, or when we marched in the streets.
I agree [email protected] send the people who led from the front people like John Minto should be sent to represent NZ not some bloke who say’s he couldn’t remember his position on the tour.No one seriously believes that spineless lying Key. If Key goes its the ultimate insult to a guy who literally was prepared to die for what he believed in. I say know to Key going to the funeral.
[email protected]
Absolutely agree that John Minto should be there. He was one of the one’s that drove this protest so therefore would be one of the people that Mandela would have been most appreciative of. Key in all of those news clips was left floundering as usual wondering how to couch his answers in such a way that he would be able to negate anything that he said at a later date to suit the current political climate. In a novel I recently read they referred to a politician as an *everyman*. It seems to me that Key is that man. *Whatever it takes* is his mantra. I used to be proud to be a New Zealander, now I feel that we are a laughing stock of the world knowing that key will genuflect in front of anyone who asks something of him even if is detrimental to NZ. We are unfortunate enough to have the only pm in the world with*made in the usa*
Cheers for that clip. Played it ‘blind’ to some folks who don’t know much about John Key or NZ politics, or politics generally event.
I asked the question: what do you think of this person’s response?
Answers given: he is lying.
typo
event = even
It is infuriating that we as tax payers should be paying for this vile two faced charlatan to go to the funeral of Nelson Mandela. Everything that Mandela was and stood for, Key is absolutely not.
He will have forgotten all about it by monday.
Man that video at the John Key vasectomy part is hellish
You gotta watch it.
Henry can be hilarious when he’s not being a fuck so it’s a limited season obviously.
In the first interview in that clip Key sounds crocked. Talking shit with your mates at the pub is one thing, but boozy slurred evasive responses during an interview on the radio is embarrassing.
Humbug Corner
âšâšNo. 22: BARACK OBAMA
âWE HAVE LOST ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL, COURAGEOUS, AND PROFOUNDLY GOOD HUMAN BEINGS THAT ANY OF US WILL SHARE TIME WITH ON THIS EARTH. HE NO LONGER BELONGS TO US – HE BELONGS TO THE AGES.â
âšâ-Barack Obama, New Zealand Herald, Saturday 7 December 2013, page one.
Humbug Corner gathers, and highlights, the most striking examples of faux solicitude, insincere apologies, and particularly stupid recycling of official canards. It is produced by the Insincerity ProjectÂź, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.
âLâhypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend Ă la vertu.ââšâ-François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
More humbugs, mostly half-wittedâŠ.
No. 21 Chris Laidlaw: “I asked him if, with the recent birth of the British royal baby, there was just the slightest tinge of regret that they had got rid of the French monarchy?ââš
No. 20 Nevil Gibson: âWell, everybodyâs getting richer.â
âšNo. 19 Byron Bentley: âHe is a great guy, a good man ⊠very caringâŠâ
âšNo. 18 Rachel Smalley: ââŠheartbreak all over NSW as Queensland wins the deciding State of Origin!ââš
No. 17 Jay Carney: ââHe is not a human rights activist, he is not a dissident.â
âšNo. 16 Barack Obama: âI wish Muslims across America & around the world a month blessed with the joys of family, peace & understanding.ââš
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11072013/#comment-661330
âšNo. 15 John Key: âThey know this is an issue of national securityâŠââš
No. 14 Charles Saatchi: âI abhor violence of any kind against womenâŠââšâš
No. 13 Toyota New Zealand: âThe more Kiwis that lean, the more motivated our ETNZ crew will be to win.ââšâš
No. 12 Pem Bird: âWeâre there to do the business of advancing our people.ââšâš
No. 11 Whenua Patuwai: âTheyâre my brothers and to see one of them goes [sic]âitâs tough.ââšâš
No. 10 [REMOVED]
âšâšâšNo. 9 [REMOVED]
âšâšâšâšNo. 8 Barack Obama: ââŠpeople standing up for whatâs rightâŠyearning for justice and dignityâŠââšâšâšâšNo. 7 Barack Obama: âNelson Mandela is my personal heroâŠââšâšâš
No. 6 John Key: âYeah well the Greensâ answer to everything is rail, isnât it.â
âšNo. 5 Dr. Rodney Syme: âIf you want good, open, honest practice, you have to make it transparent.ââšâšâšâš
No. 4 Mike Bush: âBruce Huttonâs⊠integrity beyond reproachâŠsuch great characterâŠââšâšâšâš
No. 3 Dean Lonergan: âYâ know what? The only people who will mock them are people who are dwarfists.ââšâšâšâš
No. 2 Peter Dunne: âWhat a load of drivel and sanctimonious humbugâŠâ
âšâšâšâšâšâšNo. 1 Dominic Bowden: âItâs okay to be speechless.ââšâš
I couldn’t help but notice the contrast yesterday between Helen Clark’s interview with Garner with her reflections on Mandela, and John Key trite superficial scripted lines he gave to the media.
Helen spoke with passion and eloquence, Key sounded like he was just spouting a few cliches the speech writer drummed up.
Makes me realise what we lost and what a lightweight chump we gained.
Helen Clark was on the same side as Mandela. Key supported the people who put him in prison. He still does.
We should send John Minto. John Key is an insult to all those who put themselves on the line in ’81 and on other occasions.
You can hear it hear: http://www.radiolive.co.nz/AUDIO-Helen-Clark-remembers-Nelson-Mandela/tabid/506/articleID/39444/Default.aspx
Helen spoke for 15 minutes about Mandela and what he did in his life.
Key spoke for 6 minutes about himself attending the funeral.
I hope Helen Clark attends the funeral in her own right and represents those of us who stood together.
AMANDLA !!
I’m sure she will… as a senior member of the UN delegation.
Key re whites hisSTory!
With all the Fuck ups poncKeys
Govt has made and have been exposed recently an oversea junket with photo ops pure genious!
muldoon is Keys idol.
So therfore key was for the 81 tour .
Spitting on his grave
The 5 most hypocritical Mandela eulogies by Israeli politicians
‘First get yourself a sick bag, then read these eulogies to Nelson Mandela from Israel’s leadership – some of them the very people who cultivated close ties to the bitter end with South Africa’s apartheid regime, and all of them presiding over the Israeli version of apartheid.’ — Jonathan Cook
http://972mag.com/the-top-5-most-hypocritical-mandela-eulogies-by-israeli-politicians/83109/
How could those pukes even dare?
oh shit! where’s the sick bag?
Precisely. Most leading South African anti-apartheid campaigners have pointed to the striking similarities between pre-1990 SA and Israel in the Occupied Territories.
With the treatment of Palestinians and other minorities within Israel-proper bearing more than passing resemblance too (albeit\ a little less blatantly).
Nelson Mandela: Obama, Clinton, Cameron, Blair â Tributes of Shameful Hypocrisy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nelson-mandela-obama-clinton-cameron-blair-tributes-of-shameful-hypocrisy/5360539
The Hypocrisy on Mandela is Palpable
http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/12/06/the-hypocrisy-on-mandela-is-palpable/
Do you really think that President Obama is being hypocritical. Surely of all the current global leaders, Mandela would have inspired him in a very tangible way. It is easy to forget what an extraordinary achievement that Obama’s election represented.
And as with Mandela, the realities of office have tempered Obama’s vision. Nelson Mandelda did not try to turn South Africa into a socialist paradise. He knew that way would lead to Zimbabwe. Reconciliation has been his great legacy, when others would have gone down another path.
Similarly Obama has had to deal with the real world. But he did end the war in Iraq, he has achieved a level of stability in Afghanistan. He is building a nuclear deal with Iran, which could yet be his highest foreign policy success. And if he succeeds in Iran, he will be strenghtened vis a vis Israel and Palestine
lol
I think Wayne has made some good points.
While their is valid reason to question some of his actions, it is unthinkable that Obama – a fellow descendant of Africa’s indigenous people – would not have been deeply inspired by Mandela. We have seen many examples where the realities of the American presidency has prevented Obama from achieving his goals. His attempts to change the health care system and make it available to the poorest Americans springs to mind.
Morrissey
Helen Clark was on the same side as Mandela. Key supported the people who put him in prison. He still does.
Not to pick on Morrissey, only that he is a representative example of the mood of the comments. Only I think that to understand JK you have to go at it from another perspective – his – to actually understand. He was I think telling the truth when he spoke in that first clip. Maybe hard for many people here to get but . He did not care at the time, he was not interested. He does not care now either only his job requires of him to say certain things so he says them. He has always been about the money nothing else. He is fine with equality with gay marriage with anything you want or don’t want. They only thing he is actually interested in is the money. There is nothing else going on.
So true. Key is a gutter rat of the first degree.
Plan B
If your proposition was really true, he would not have gone into politics. He could have stayed in the global finance sector and made much more money. He had shown he had exceptional skills for that, and in a sector which is highly competitive. He was at a senior level in a global firm, and had he stayed would have continued to progress. There were great riches to be made from 2001 to 2008 if he had stayed in.
He turned his back on that prospect.
So your analysis simply does not stand up. He returned to NZ for a reason, and that was not to make more money.
Whether you like it or not, he believes he can make NZ better. Obviously not to a Left prescription, but one that he believes lifts New Zealand’s success internationally.
As for going to South Africa, do really think it would sensible for the New Zealand Prime Minister not to attend. The South African government would take that as an insult and a snub. Given our history, hardly a good space to be in.
Wayne
It looks quite grand on your CV to show that you have been Prime Minister of a country. What do you give somebody who’s got everything? The Prime Ministership. And you get your picture in all the papers of a tiddly. little country that is becoming smaller every moment that he lets out a mining or other contract or his myrmidons do.
Have you thought of that aspect – Mr Sensible that’s you, doesn’t have flights of fancy that require imagination perhaps.
I am sure he likes being PM
Key likes or doesn’t like being PM. So what ?
What’s that got to do with anything vaguely germane Wayne ?
Your observation approximates utterly inane “Questions For Oral Answer” verbiage. Clearly you haven’t stopped being a National Party cabinet minister with a well thumbed copy of the Crosby Textor Bullshit Manual tucked under your arm.
I’ve not a smidgeon of respect for your staged “reasonable man” carry on. You’re here not for reason or for care for New Zealand and it’s people. You’re here essentially for self , viz. John Key, the National Party, targeted privilege, and the fashioning of the rest of us as servants more or less of all three.
Pretty disgraceful really. All the more offensive for the glib delivery.
I think that the revolving door will be fully functional and when JK leaves politics he will re- enter the world of banking at a much higher level than that at which he left. So I do not think it inconsistent. Of course I am speculating.
On the matter of why he is in politics, I think the money thing still stands, look at what he is prepared to expend political capital on, what he is interested in. It is money, finance- selling stuff keeps him on the radar, doing his job. No one he is interest in knowing cares about any of the other stuff
Meanwhile, (back in Gotham) , when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the day-light, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs”. The Doctor- 12:1-
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets’.- Lots of somilar material in Matthew, 23.
The Middle East was preserved from the scourge that is Tui PIA at that time so, “mud in your eye’ will have to do. đ
I look forward to someone asking Dear Leader,
“So, Mr Key, what did you do in 1981 to oppose the Springbok Tour?”
Appropriate.
Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to sandblast him, to take away his Malcolm X. You will try to hide his anger from view. Right now, you are anxiously pacing the corridors of your condos and country estates, looking for the right words, the right tributes, the right-wing tributes.
http://www.okwonga.com/?p=869
https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F123549937&show_artwork=true
beautiful writing, we reflected over a cup of tea this afternoon, just how ugly State Apartheid as a form of social organization is, along with the many other social injustices among our own people, that many close their eyes to.
The man called it RT.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/7-nelson-mandela-quotes-you-probably-wont-see-in-the-us-medi
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Only learning aspects of his formation still; I have Long Walk To Freedom could be near time to read it. Hard Labour!, such a forgiving, fore-seeing man. (Glad I’m sans tele at my home at present, they’ll probably send Hillary Barry đ )
Hypocrites.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/06/a-comprehensive-guide-to-conservative-reactions/197185
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remembering-religious-rights-attacks-nelson-mandela
he he, I was just checking out your links joe.
as usual The Conservatives “were [generally] dead wrong” about Mandela, as they are about most things that could improve the quality of life of the greatest number; Oh no, peoples gotta be unequal they say, “otherwise why would the lazy [insert colour, or other disadvantage] so and so’s bother to get out of their tents and work for our benefit.
Well put RT. They really are bastards aren’t they ? Thing is, they never, never, never ‘fess up and apologise for being so wrong.
Frankly I’m beside myself at the prospect of ShonKey Python purporting to represent me at the funeral of a man against whom he is less than a flea. ShonKey Python who pretty surely agreed with the psychotic Thatcher that Mandela was a terrorist.
Playing Little Churchill. Vainglorious, risible little punk.
đ Tell me about it; There’ll be a Cold Wind To Valhalla blows before some would give up alms, personally speaking.
Despicable.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.co.nz/2013/12/a-reminder-of-what-republicans-thought.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/apartheids-useful-idiots/282114/
We should send the leaders of the anti apartheid and anti-tour movement like Andrew Beyer, John Minto, Trevor Richards and Marx Jones. The people who were on the right side at the time. Not these history re-writing, revisionist tories.
+100
I totally support Key going to the funeral, provided he takes – as a gift from “Middle New Zealand”, one of those golliwogs that have been in the news.
According to yer typical “PC gone mad” talkback callers and National voters, those gollies are not racist, they’re just cute, so nobody in South Africa could possibly object. He should hand it over to Mandela’s widow, and pose for the cameras.
Then run like hell.
Not this Black Trio then?
“The Right Wingâs Campaign To Discredit And Undermine Mandela, In One Timeline”
Seems like the RWNJs are still up to their old tricks.
Follow Mandela’s example, and roar with laughter at all this rightwing fawning
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/06/follow-nelson-mandela-laugh-rightwing-fawning
John Key’s old firm, Merrill Lynch, settled out of court in the US to avoid going to trial for racial bias in its organisation. This was the US: Key worked for Merrill Lynch in Singapore and London, during the late 1990s.
The institutional racism goes back to the 1980s and earlier.
Rightwashing.
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/06/fight_the_right_washing_of_nelson_mandela%E2%80%99s_legacy/
https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/posts/10152099242462464
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorMarcoRubio/posts/699185433440157
https://www.facebook.com/Sen.JohnCornyn/posts/10152043066224424
Hooton attempts to make Mandela’s death an opportunity to rebrand himself with a long, rambling, self-obsessed autohagiography.
http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-mandela/?i=0#replies
Have a sick bag ready.
well purged; dear oh dear.
While I love the civility and erudition of PA, sometimes they’re so damn, stiflingly polite that they’ll naively accommodate a pathological liar like Hoots just because he makes nice gestures. Meanwhile, I just want to throw up.
no need to waste good tucker on that pucker-upper.
Good point and good night.
and it’s “Good Night from him…” (not many more years and we all at TS will be on ‘first-name’ terms đ )
The Two Ronnies… ah yes, nostalgia. Right, really good night.
but really really?
Watching holden and quantas crash to the ground, we should all watch and remind ourselves the dominant role that unions and labour governments played in their demise.
What role did their management and investors play exactly?
you gotta stop believing what you read in the paper tightyrighty
Dimwit the word that applies to autocrats like Key who is too ignorant to have any kind of soul about Mandela or the guts to actually stand up for what he should believe that apartheid was and is wrong
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Dimwit the word that applies to autocrats like Key who are too ignorant to have any kind of soul about Mandela or the guts to actually stand up for what he should believe that apartheid was and is wrong
Nelson Mandela was the greatest man since Gandhi & Churchill as a leader for freedom.
Maybe its because most of Keys life he has lived in the european world that still treats Africa as a slave colony ,They steal their oil what else can u say
Key has no shame, a tory prick.