Panama leaker’s statement singles out John Key

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Well this story just keeps on growing doesn’t it.

Over night the Panama Papers leaker “John Doe” released a “manifesto”. In it he/she mentioned just one national leader by name, our very own John Key. Here are some extracts from the manifesto:

John Doe’s Manifesto

Income inequality is one of the defining issues of our time. It affects all of us, the world over. The debate over its sudden acceleration has raged for years, with politicians, academics and activists alike helpless to stop its steady growth despite countless speeches, statistical analyses, a few meagre protests, and the occasional documentary. Still, questions remain: why? And why now?

The Panama Papers provide a compelling answer to these questions: massive, pervasive corruption. And it’s not a coincidence that the answer comes from a law firm. More than just a cog in the machine of “wealth management,” Mossack Fonseca used its influence to write and bend laws worldwide to favour the interests of criminals over a period of decades.
…
Shell companies are often associated with the crime of tax evasion, but the Panama Papers show beyond a shadow of a doubt that although shell companies are not illegal by definition, they are used to carry out a wide array of serious crimes that go beyond evading taxes. I decided to expose Mossack Fonseca because I thought its founders, employees and clients should have to answer for their roles in these crimes, only some of which have come to light thus far. It will take years, possibly decades, for the full extent of the firm’s sordid acts to become known.

In the meantime, a new global debate has started, which is encouraging. Unlike the polite rhetoric of yesteryear that carefully omitted any suggestion of wrongdoing by the elite, this debate focuses directly on what matters.
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Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand has been curiously quiet [emphasis added] about his country’s role in enabling the financial fraud Mecca that is the Cook Islands. In Britain, the Tories have been shameless about concealing their own practices involving offshore companies, while Jennifer Shasky Calvery, the director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at the United States Treasury, just announced her resignation to work instead for HSBC, one of the most notorious banks on the planet (not coincidentally headquartered in London). And so the familiar swish of America’s revolving door echoes amidst deafening global silence from thousands of yet-to-be-discovered ultimate beneficial owners who are likely praying that her replacement is equally spineless. In the face of political cowardice, it’s tempting to yield to defeatism, to argue that the status quo remains fundamentally unchanged, while the Panama Papers are, if nothing else, a glaring symptom of our society’s progressively diseased and decaying moral fabric.
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The media has failed. Many news networks are cartoonish parodies of their former selves, individual billionaires appear to have taken up newspaper ownership as a hobby, limiting coverage of serious matters concerning the wealthy, and serious investigative journalists lack funding.
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Historians can easily recount how issues involving taxation and imbalances of power have led to revolutions in ages past. Then, military might was necessary to subjugate peoples, whereas now, curtailing information access is just as effective or more so, since the act is often invisible. Yet we live in a time of inexpensive, limitless digital storage and fast internet connections that transcend national boundaries. It doesn’t take much to connect the dots: from start to finish, inception to global media distribution, the next revolution will be digitized.

Or perhaps it has already begun.

See coverage in:

The Guardian: Panama Papers source breaks silence over ‘scale of injustices’ (“Whistleblower says leak of 11.5m Mossack Fonseca files on offshore tax havens has triggered debate but not enough action”)

The Herald: Man who leaked Panama Papers singles out Prime Minister John Key

Stuff: Panama Papers whistleblower calls out John Key over silence on ‘fraud Mecca’

Newshub: Panama Papers leaker targets John Key

RNZ: Key criticised by Panama Papers source

Labour: Govt must act as NZ singled out in Panama Papers scandal

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  1. Richardrawshark 1
    7 May 2016 at 10:37 am

    Unbeleivable The Nation this morning, Jamie Whitepower and the national party support machine, opps I mean the skinny emo lady made the amazing statement that they had no idea why john key would be singled out, and that trusts were set up way before National came into power. Never mentioning at all the law changes to trusts National made in 2012 to reduce the accountability of them that has created the whole issue.

    This was deliberate, a shocking omission and something needs to be done about it.

    She and Jamie White need publicly calling out and shaming on this seriously.

    • mike 1.1
      7 May 2016 at 11:21 am

      I believe that all we can hope for in regard to our domestic media response is for the story about New Zealand being donkey deep in it to feature in the international media.
      When New Zealand’s name is in overseas papers it gets reported here.
      So c’mon international media, help us out here!!

      • Paul 1.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 11:23 am

        RNZ. Our only hope.
        The rest of NZ’s media is owned by corporates who do not want the contents of the Panama Papers published.

        • whateva next? 1.1.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 1:06 pm

          …..and they will need support to prevent being accused of supporting “hackers”

        • Once was Tim 1.1.1.2
          7 May 2016 at 1:18 pm

          @ Paul …. much as our MSN would like to ignore it all where possible, I’m not sure that international media (such as AJ and others, DW, RT, and even BBC/CNN) are going to ignore it all. With something like this, the only ally Key will have is time ….. tik tok tik tok.
          Thankfully total suppression and ignorance is not going to be possible – which is why DPF and CT, among others are in overdrive mode and trans-Tasman and international voice treffuk is spiking.
          “SSSSSSSSSShut! Do we hev orl ear duxxxxxxxxx in orda goan forwid???”

        • UncookedSelachimorpha 1.1.1.3
          7 May 2016 at 1:25 pm

          Interesting to read that a number of media outlets were offered the Panama Papers before Süddeutsche Zeitung, but declined. Suggests something very wrong with our media – some of their owners are the same people implicated by the Panama Papers I suspect.

    • Nick Morris 1.2
      9 May 2016 at 1:37 pm

      When the PM declared “nothing to see here” because only 0.2% of the papers, or some such, refer to New Zealand by name, he might also like to consider that in the accompanying commentary issued in relation to the papers 100% of world political leaders referred to are New Zealanders, actually him.

      Another interesting fact was the number of “second” items he referred to in the gabbling, gormless explanations he gave a patsy Paul Henry and a overwhelmed Rawdon Christy. I counted at least 6, once I started counting, in one of the interviews as he desperately filibustered down the clock. On the other (first or possibly third) hand, bluntly, there seemed to be, actually, neither “firsts” nor “thirds”.

      The man is rattled.

      Look for some minimalist law changes to be whipped in before he dares front RNZ.

    • Reddelusion 2.1
      7 May 2016 at 1:29 pm

      Delusional Paul

      • adam 2.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 2:57 pm

        Reddelusion, my guess you are wetting yourself.

        Finger pointing, and Key is know known internationally, not only as that creepy world leader with a hair pulling fetish. He is an enabler of tax evasion. He helps out criminals and others to avoid paying tax, here and in the Cooks.

        The only hope is real conservatives within national take their party back. And come up to the plate on this one, rather than the usual gaggle of far right fan boys who comment on this site.

        This guy is an embarrassment, who needs to go.

        • One Anonymous Bloke 2.1.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 4:54 pm

          Well said Adam. The Right’s lip service to lawnorder and personal responsibility is showing.

  3. mary_a 3
    7 May 2016 at 10:57 am

    ALERT … Diversions and distractions coming up very soon!

    Seems “honest” John’s “cusp of something special” could be backfiring on him … horribly! Good 🙂

  4. Pat 4
    7 May 2016 at 11:06 am

    surely this will be an industrial strength descaler?

    Acts 9:18

    • Paul 4.1
      7 May 2016 at 11:10 am

      ‘immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.’

      • Pat 4.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 11:16 am

        will only take a change in understanding by a relatively small group to accelerate Key’s and National’s poll decline……….but then there are none so blind etc

        • Paul 4.1.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 11:20 am

          People relying on Key’s creation of a property bubble in Auckland for their income and earnings will turn a blind eye.
          There is a rentier class with much invested in this neoliberal nightmare.

          • Pat 4.1.1.1.1
            7 May 2016 at 11:28 am

            as Monbiot (i think) has said…we are all neolibs..whether by desire,or necessity and/or under protest…it would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the “rentier” class are totally amoral…and no i don’t own investment property nor even an Auckland home.

        • Reddelusion 4.1.1.2
          7 May 2016 at 1:34 pm

          While this Panama crap is beltway bollicks, even if voters wanted to leave national there is no where to go, Our opposition is such shite, i did not think there is anything national could do that would overcome joe public aversion for the opposition. Is not that NZ are in love with national, far from it, they just don’t vote for the plonkers and looser on the other side

          • whateva next? 4.1.1.2.1
            7 May 2016 at 1:35 pm

            Oh you wish….

            • Reddelusion 4.1.1.2.1.1
              7 May 2016 at 1:43 pm

              Has been the case for 3 terms, let’s see what happen in 2017, so hold that thought, but prepare for disapontment

          • Pat 4.1.1.2.2
            7 May 2016 at 1:36 pm

            we’ll see…..people don’t like being taken for fools.

          • Foreign waka 4.1.1.2.3
            7 May 2016 at 1:48 pm

            This will depend on the size of the breadcrumbs that are left for the naive and blind masses…

          • Anne 4.1.1.2.4
            7 May 2016 at 4:30 pm

            @ Reddelusion

            While this Panama crap is beltway bollicks…

            lols, lols. So ‘John Doe’ is telling lies eh? Forget the 11.5 million files he’s released to back up his/her claims.

            And many of us have been well aware since the 1990s that tax evasion and money laundering has been carried out through a tax haven in the Cook Islands since the1980s. Have you read Anthony Molloy’s book “Thirty Pieces of Silver”? The law firm at the centre of that famously grubby episode was “Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartlett & Co.”. The revelations in it are as relevant today as they were in 1998 when the book was first published.

            • Chuck 4.1.1.2.4.1
              7 May 2016 at 4:58 pm

              Anne, I have read Molloy’s book “Thirty Pieces of Silver” many years ago!

              And agree Cook Islands have been active since at least the 1980’s…And other tax havens have been around forever.

              Don’t want to put words into Reddelusion mouth. But if the left tries pinning “Tax Havens and Cook Islands” on to John Key, it will turn off voters who simply see it as another attempted smear.

              • adam …
                7 May 2016 at 5:24 pm

                Chuck what planet are you on, this is not a left or right issue. It’s a criminals verse the honest people argument. Most of my right wing friends, hate tax fraud and criminals. They are as disgusted by this as much as I am.

                What is happening Chuck, is the PM and this national government, by there actions and inaction, are on be on the wrong side of the debate. If, and it still needs to be proven, that this government enabled this type of behaviour – then it’s up to the conservatives in this country to deal with Key and Co. for their betrayal of conservative values.

                No one, no matter what side of the left/right divide you are on, no one, wants criminals and tax cheats to get away with it.

                Are you with the criminals Chuck? Or is it the tax cheats? Because at the moment that’s all I’m hearing from you is a defence of tax cheats and criminals.

                • Chuck …
                  7 May 2016 at 6:05 pm

                  Nice try to distract Adam…you are only trying to rewrite the last 7 years of attempting to link John Key to anything remotely “dishonest” by the left.

                  Criminals and tax cheats already face the full force of the law. As they should…

                  You are jumping way ahead of yourself here…to spell it out You are calling Key (and I guess anyone around him) of being a “tax cheat and criminal”, or at the very least Key is enabling tax cheaters and criminals. On the basis of no more than you dislike Key and wish him gone.

                  Get some facts first…or you are no better than the the so called Judges who used to burn women at the stake for being witches.

                  • Hanswurst …
                    7 May 2016 at 6:36 pm

                    […] the last 7 years of attempting to link Key anything remotely “dishonest” by the left.

                    Yes, heaven forbid that the Prime Minister should be held responsible for dishonesty within his administration.

                    Criminals and tax cheats already face the full force of the law.

                    Ah yes, this lovely straw man again. In this contet, nobody is arguing that people who break the law don’t get prosecuted. What worries people wiht regard to the Panama Papers is that they are evidence that the law is not fit for purpose, and appears even to have been screwed to enable massive tax avoidance.

              • Anne …
                7 May 2016 at 7:26 pm

                Chuck @ 4.1.1.2.4.1

                Nope. Not trying to pin Cook Island based corruption in the 80s and 90s onto John Key. Just pointing out that the use of tax haven entities in places like the Cooks for the purpose of evasion and the laundering of ill gotten gains has been known about for decades. I see the Panama Papers as an extension of what was occurring then, and it was inevitable such ‘havens’ should spring up like rabbits in the spring – especially under the present regime – in NZ. So, its no use John Key trying to deny they exist.

          • Johan 4.1.1.2.5
            7 May 2016 at 5:24 pm

            Red. You are a typical Tory and an apologised for John Key’s wrong-doings.

          • Ben 4.1.1.2.6
            7 May 2016 at 6:57 pm

            It is that kind of shortsightedness that has let all of this mess get so out of control Red. A complete misunderstanding of how things are actually ticking along, average Joe proudly reading their local newspapers thinking they are up to scratch and a total absence of even a concept of critical thinking. While I claim to be no expert and am aware of the ‘varying levels’ of cognitive biases we develop through our lives I feel somewhat in a stance to know when some one has completely fucked up their perception.

            Trying looking at a bigger picture that just red vs. blue, that is extremely narrow minded.

            A dose of Chomsky wouldn’t hurt.

  5. Keith 5
    7 May 2016 at 11:09 am

    “Curiously quiet”. He will be curiously shitting himself.

    Is it because it is, in all likelihood, the real reason as to why he even bothered being a PM will come out? Is it because being a PM of a formerly honest, independent, first world nation gave him unfettered access and ability to set up something as odious as these money laundering tax havens in our country and as it transpires The Cook Islands for him, his wealthy mates and those mates of mates?

    I assume the source of this information didn’t name Key just to pass the time and fill in a few words into their manifesto.

    • mary_a 5.1
      7 May 2016 at 11:49 am

      Excellent points raised there Keith (5). Good post.

    • [Not] Bill 5.2
      7 May 2016 at 12:53 pm

      Good Grief…. lay off the whacky Backy.

      [r0b: Hi, we already have a Bill, please chose another name, thanks]

    • Treetop 5.3
      7 May 2016 at 2:43 pm

      There could be a connection as to why Ian Fletcher left the GCSB and the naming of John Key. Fletcher would have known about tax havens in the pacific and who uses them, and connections to NZ.

      • whateva next? 5.3.1
        7 May 2016 at 2:47 pm

        He did always look “troubled”, maybe he did have integrity after all, except courage is as important in these times.

      • Hanswurst 5.3.2
        7 May 2016 at 7:02 pm

        Is there some background suggesting that Fletcher’s resignation could possibly be connected, or is it just some far-fetched free association?

        • Treetop 5.3.2.1
          15 May 2016 at 2:36 pm

          Do I have the evidence? No.

          Can I exclude it? No.

          Whitney wrote to Mc Clay on 2 December 2014.
          Mc Clay met Whitney and some other lawyers the next day.
          Parliament would have risen for the year shortly after the Mc Clay/Whitney meeting.
          12 December 2014 Inland Revenue released a report on foreign trusts. Concern was raised about damage to NZ’s reputation if there was a perception it was operating as a tax haven.
          13 January 2015 Fletcher resigned.

          The GCSB were involved in the Dotcom allegations of acquiring money through deception. I am of the view that there are foreign trusts in NZ where deception and illegal activity is involved. I think that Fletcher knew there was dirty money in foreign trusts and that Key has looked the other way.

          What part does the GCSB play in foreign trusts?

          Key gave the GCSB the power to look at an individual on shore or off shore for any reason.

    • Chooky 5.4
      7 May 2016 at 2:51 pm

      +100 Keith and Mary

    • aidan 5.5
      7 May 2016 at 7:58 pm

      answer, key uses those tax havens in cook islands, while enabling loopholes to be embedded here and i think nue was mentioned? this is a surely the first shot with more explosive bomb shells to come i hope,

  6. Zen Daldy 6
    7 May 2016 at 11:10 am

    I wondered if the leaker has intentionally name dropped Key in order to encourage journalists to dig a little deeper. I imagine there are journalists all around the world now looking more closely at the NZ link. Whether anything new is discovered remains to be seen but certainly more eyes will be focused on NZ’s role.

    • Paul 6.1
      7 May 2016 at 11:12 am

      If some overseas journalists bother to do some digging, Key is in serious trouble.
      Don’t expect anything from the courtesans and puppets who now make up the NZ ‘media’.

      • Reddelusion 6.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 1:37 pm

        Yes dear, I think it’s the 10 millionth time you have parroted that, we understand,

        • whateva next? 6.1.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 1:54 pm

          surely when the plebs are angry, it is time to depart? you think you can keep up with this charade? who will serve your latte?

    • alwyn 6.2
      7 May 2016 at 2:34 pm

      I wonder who the person who created this little manifesto is?
      After all it could even be someone like Kim Dotcom. He has an interest in smearing John Key, hasn’t he?
      Even the paper that first published stuff on this claim they don’t know who provided it. How can they know this is the same person, and not just someone like that Australian guy who claimed to have invented the bitcoin but has nothing that proved it. Send them something, sign it John Doe and they will no doubt publish it.

      • Chooky 6.2.1
        7 May 2016 at 2:57 pm

        pretty lame alwyn…jonkey nactional doesnt need “smearing” …he is the real original Lord High pooh source/sauce…something is rotten and reeks in the state of New Zealand

      • Hanswurst 6.2.2
        7 May 2016 at 7:05 pm

        After all it could even be someone like Kim Dotcom.

        It could be someone like your mum, for all we know. Was there actually a point somewhere in amongst your little flight of fancy?

        • alwyn 6.2.2.1
          7 May 2016 at 8:23 pm

          Well yes. Why don’t you think about it.
          There are plenty of contributors to New Zealand blogs who like to suggest that John Key is the devil incarnate and is responsible for all the ills of the world.
          Hardly anyone in New Zealand takes any interest in what they say. You really would like to be noticed. Therefore

          Pretend you are the person who leaked the documents.
          Now prepare a “manifesto” that includes an attack on John Key.
          Send it to the paper who originally published it.
          The are likely to be pissed of that nobody is paying any attention to them either
          When they publish it you claim that the whole world despises us and it is all John Key’s fault.

          It could, as you say, be anyone who sent it. I can assure you however that it definitely wasn’t my mum, or anyone like her. Anyone who fits that description would have to be the oldest person in the world.

          • Hanswurst 6.2.2.1.1
            8 May 2016 at 6:00 am

            There are plenty of contributors to New Zealand blogs who like to suggest that John Key is the devil incarnate and is responsible for all the ills of the world.

            No, that’s just the wishful thinking of Mr. Key and some of the NZ Right. The reality is rather more prosaic: most on the left in NZ think that Key is a bit of a dickhead and a rather below-average prime minister. That’s the long and the short of it, really.

      • Incognito 6.2.3
        7 May 2016 at 10:12 pm

        Süddeutsche Zeitung has authenticated that the statement came from the Panama Papers source.

        • alwyn 6.2.3.1
          7 May 2016 at 11:28 pm

          Well what would you expect them to say?
          Remember the Hitler Diaries? When the German magazine Stern paid a fortune for a set of forgeries. They kept insisting they were real.
          However since this paper claims they don’t know the leaker’s name how can they possibly know who has come to light with this “manifesto”?
          Actually, looking at what the manifesto actually says it isn’t really if any significance anyway is it?
          All he seems to be complaining about with John Key is that he won’t force sovereign countries like Nuie and The Cook Islands to obey John Doe’s wishes. What does he want Key to do? Invade them?
          Imagine the fuss here if Key tried to make either country do anything? Then he would become an imperialist tyrant in a flash.
          I see why the leaker adopted the name John Doe anyway. Anyone who seems to know so little about New Zealand’s relations with those two independent countries is clearly dead from the neck up.
          He really doesn’t have anything to say about what Key and New Zealand are doing does he? Hasn’t stopped people contributing to this blog from going ape though. Talk about making bricks with no straw.

          • Incognito 6.2.3.1.1
            7 May 2016 at 11:57 pm

            This is a most-disappointing comment alwyn.

            • alwyn 6.2.3.1.1.1
              8 May 2016 at 12:58 pm

              I feel terribly guilty that I have disappointed you.
              I shall try and do better in the future.
              What anti-Key, pro-Andy mantra would you like me to adopt?

              • Incognito …
                8 May 2016 at 3:23 pm

                No need to “adopt” anti-anything, just be (true to) yourself. BTW, sarcasm doesn’t suit you IMO.

                RedLogix phrased it much better today than I could: http://thestandard.org.nz/why-was-john-key-singled-out-by-panama-papers-hacker/#comment-1169900

                • alwyn …
                  8 May 2016 at 3:46 pm

                  Well, I can assure you that I shall not follow the example of this sort of comment. It was not remarked upon by any editor.
                  http://thestandard.org.nz/unemployment-jumps/#comment-1168720
                  That is some sick puppy, wouldn’t you think?

                  [lprent: Why? Something that you didn’t manage to actually argue, probably because it’d have sounded like a Mrs Grundy arging that they knew how people should respect daft arbitrary rules designed to stop people saying what they think.

                  I don’t particularly like the comment. But I don’t like lots of comments that we allow. However it is within the bounds of the robust debate we allow, gave a viewpoint on the topic raised by PR who was effectively saying that might is right (which I consider is far more obnoxious), and wasn’t commented on by any mod because they aren’t as precious as you are about personal views on others behaviours. If you want polite society, then I suggest you find another site with different rules.

                  If you want to argue about our rules, then follow the remedies in the last section of the about. ]

    • UncookedSelachimorpha 7.1
      7 May 2016 at 1:32 pm

      Scoundrel Key has already tried to distract and derail this into a mere cybersecurity issue. A cunning strategy from his PR strategists – but one that also reeks of desperation and fear of losing control!

    • Colonial Viper 7.2
      7 May 2016 at 7:26 pm

      Geeezus. Don’t buy into the PR. Massive corporates like Apple, Google and Exxon Mobil won’t even be touched. And all the oligarchy are going to do with this “crackdown” is weed out some of their own less wanted and less influential members.

      That and take out some of the over-ambitious members of the top 5%.

      The really powerful 0.001% will be untouched.

    • Sacha 8.1
      7 May 2016 at 11:32 am

      True. Was Key involved somehow? The #panamapapers go back 40 years, after all. Wouldn’t Winston love that.

    • Reddelusion 8.2
      7 May 2016 at 1:40 pm

      I hope not the story is already boring the publics will to live, barring leftie tragics and sufferers of KDS

      • Chooky 8.2.1
        7 May 2016 at 3:00 pm

        diddums

      • adam 8.2.2
        7 May 2016 at 3:01 pm

        So it’s down to you saying we have a mental health issue, because we can’t worship John key, the ponytail fetish, criminal enabling, tax avoidance evading PM.

        Interesting.

        • Chuck 8.2.2.1
          7 May 2016 at 4:39 pm

          Look at it a different way – someone does not need to worship John Key, to vote for him / National. Most voters have a general view on the direction they think NZ should be heading. And the people they trust to run the Government. This is what cause’s a voter to tick a box on election day.

          Ponytail thing was overdone by the left…it could of been a “win” but nope it was taken way too far (for what it was).

          As for your (and others on this blog) accusation that Key is a criminal enabling, tax avoidance evading PM is just that, an accusation with no substance to it. Other than wishful thinking by some…

          • adam 8.2.2.1.1
            7 May 2016 at 5:05 pm

            Do you live under a rock chuck?

            Ponytail pulling fetish, is what it is. It has stuck more than you think, and repeating the lame meme from kiwiblog, about it being over done, just makes you look like a cheap fan boy.

            No matter how much you lie to yourself does not make stuff true. No matter how much wishful thinking on your part.

            Yes, its accusations, with the media filling in the blanks. Oh and look – it has criminal written all over it. As almost every other day, more shit is sticking to a out of touch, criminal enabling national government.

            But, sure Chuck, believe you live in a world were our government has not made it simpler for criminals to hide money. Because almost everyone else from Australia, to Great Britain, now think we do.

            But then you probably can’t get the international press on your computer can you?

        • Paul 8.2.2.2
          7 May 2016 at 4:42 pm

          DNFTT

      • Johan 8.2.3
        7 May 2016 at 5:31 pm

        Reddelusion: You’re getting tiresome, shouldn’t you be playing with something?

      • Paul 8.2.4
        7 May 2016 at 5:35 pm

        9th May

  9. stunnedmullet 9
    7 May 2016 at 11:28 am

    Is it just me or or has “John Doe” got a bit of Kim dot Com about him/her ?

    • Gangnam Style 9.1
      7 May 2016 at 11:56 am

      Its just you, weirdo.

    • whateva next? 9.2
      7 May 2016 at 1:07 pm

      I don’t care who it is, but I do care about what he/she has exposed, can we not get distracted? (unless you are trying to distract?)

    • Treetop 9.3
      7 May 2016 at 2:29 pm

      Who would you trust more Dotcom or Key?

    • Graeme 9.4
      8 May 2016 at 9:00 am

      Too true. The papers that are in NZ have been doctored. You can’t tell me or any thinking NZer that, if we are involved (and that is a big IF), we are the only country after all at least two European leaders have resigned as a result of the papers so that tells me the enabler of the papers in NZ is a liar and a fraud himself.

  10. McGrath 10
    7 May 2016 at 11:49 am

    So we have Dirty Politics 2.0 where the country’s media and the Left will over-egg this to the point where the non-political will get bored of it all. Thus resulting in the following:
    1.) National’s ratings will remain unchanged or will actually increase
    2.) The left further cement their reputation as the party of negativity and gloom
    3.) Another term for National

    Just like Dirty Politics 1.0

    • Gangnam Style 10.1
      7 May 2016 at 11:56 am

      You don’t know what ‘dirty politics’ refers to if thats what you think.

      • McGrath 10.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 12:05 pm

        You mean illegally hacked information with personal attacks on John Key? That worked so well for the opposition last election.

        • ianmac 10.1.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 12:11 pm

          McGrath. You have not read Dirty Politics have you? Your comment betrays you.

        • Draco T Bastard 10.1.1.2
          7 May 2016 at 12:31 pm

          So, you admit that the information retrieved is true and that the corrupt actions that that information shows is also true?

          And then there’s the fact that in the public interest makes it legal anyway.

          So, why do you support corrupt politicians?

          • McGrath 10.1.1.2.1
            7 May 2016 at 1:35 pm

            The automatic linking to Key as the grand overseer without investigation strikes me as severe KDS.

            If it turns out that the Panana papers confirm Key is the corrupt uber-monster that the Left so desperately wishes, then I hope Key gets the full force of the law.

            • One Anonymous Bloke 10.1.1.2.1.1
              7 May 2016 at 2:20 pm

              🙄

              Thanks for your concern, it’s so obviously sincere, and not dripping with false framing at all.

            • Draco T Bastard 10.1.1.2.1.2
              7 May 2016 at 4:45 pm

              So, you dodged the question. Not surprised as authoritarian types support their leaders no matter what even when their leaders actions are criminal and/or psychopathic.

    • Paul 10.2
      7 May 2016 at 12:08 pm

      Troll #1
      Let us not feed this diversion.

      • Reddelusion 10.2.1
        7 May 2016 at 1:47 pm

        yes lets maintain our group think and narrow mindedness

        • Chooky 10.2.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 3:19 pm

          … you always seem to make and appearance when your master is in trouble…it is a SIGN

          … things are getting VERY serious indeed!

          • McGrath 10.2.1.1.1
            7 May 2016 at 5:44 pm

            I am the bird of ill omen for Key. I’ve not done a very good job of it though given he’s still there 🙂

            • Chooky 10.2.1.1.1.1
              7 May 2016 at 6:33 pm

              …and you seem to be a new friend of Reddelusion…birds of a feather?…two omens?

    • reason 10.3
      7 May 2016 at 12:57 pm

      So McGrath supports corruption …..

      Do you make money off corruption or have money hidden in a tax haven ?

      Does 2.2 Billiion being stolen from NZ sound like a good idea ?

      That’s the amount that Johns john attempted to steal on behalf of the profit gouging Aussie banks ….

    • UncookedSelachimorpha 10.4
      7 May 2016 at 1:36 pm

      And so a hand maiden of dirty politics continues its dirty work, well done McGrath

      • McGrath 10.4.1
        7 May 2016 at 1:46 pm

        Thanks. I try my best.

        But seriously, if you want this to stick to Key, just don’t flog it to death like Dirty Politics 1.0

        • adam 10.4.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 3:30 pm

          We are not, it seems the PM is doing this to himself.

          Man I’m getting so many good belly laughs this day.

    • WILD KATIPO 10.5
      7 May 2016 at 6:42 pm

      Or….we could start humming the New Seekers song about teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony…

      MEHHHHHHHHH……. NAH!

      This songs more appropriate for this govt and the Panama papers…

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwYzAnNRFQU

    • Graeme 10.6
      8 May 2016 at 9:03 am

      Looks like the 28% still think they are right! Well said McGrath

  11. Draco T Bastard 11
    7 May 2016 at 12:13 pm

    If there’s one thing we need to learn for this is that the financial system cannot be left in the hands of the private sector.

    Cashless

    The other thing is that our government needs to be both more open, more accountable and more limited.

  12. Richard Rawshark 12
    7 May 2016 at 12:43 pm

    The Cook Islands’ defence and foreign affairs are the responsibility of New Zealand, but they are exercised in consultation with the Cook Islands. In recent times, the Cook Islands have adopted an increasingly independent foreign policy. Although Cook Islanders are citizens of New Zealand, they have the status of Cook Islands nationals, which is not given to other New Zealand citizens.-Wikipedia

    the leaker mentions Cooks and our PM, in a world full of dodgy countries he singled out Key and Cook isl, yes there’s a link, has to be.

    When did the Cooks start getting more autonomous in their foreign policy, just after National gained power? why? does their foreign policy involve trusts? who in the cooks is pressing for changes?

    start digging folks I smell a rat, a big fkn rat and the leakers just pointed me at it’s location.

    John was especially smiley when he said he was confident after a year if he or his party members had something to worry about he would know by now. I’ve come to recognize keys poker face now, when he’s really worried he smiles and acts the happiest. It’s because he’s attempting to put on an act instead of being himself, quick wave, don’t care i’m ok, got stuff to do moving on attitude.

    That’s was the biggest grin and show i’m not worried, I’ve seen ever.

    National up to their crooked eyeballs in it, as a party I suspect.

    Love to see an audit of each and every one of their bank accounts and ledgers.

    and if he did know a year ago’s he’s smiling like a Cheshire cat because he had a year to bury it.

    • RedLogix 12.1
      7 May 2016 at 12:47 pm

      You are on an interesting track. But never, ever, underestimate what you will be up against. Especially not John Key. He is a lifetime master at these games.

      • whateva next? 12.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 1:10 pm

        as Victor E Frankyl points out:
        “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

      • Colonial Viper 12.1.2
        7 May 2016 at 1:18 pm

        He is a lifetime master at these games.

        Yep. And he wins by constantly letting people underestimate him.

        • Reddelusion 12.1.2.1
          7 May 2016 at 1:53 pm

          And singled minded focus on key by the left plays right into his hands as joe public roll thier eyes at the hyperbole, ugliness and derangement of the left as they focus on key as the manifestation of all evil

          • Colonial Viper 12.1.2.1.1
            7 May 2016 at 2:05 pm

            True.

            But surely if a thousand attacks on Key hasn’t worked to date, maybe another thousand will do the trick?

            • weka 12.1.2.1.1.1
              7 May 2016 at 2:27 pm

              A straw breaks the camel’s back.

              Then of course there is the value in pointing out corruption without there being a party political agenda attached. It’s not all about Key.

              • Reddelusion …
                7 May 2016 at 2:42 pm

                Yes but trying to portray key and the government as dr evil that falls out of the Peter Pan papers, that nz reputation is in tatters (where the world does not give nz half a second a day thought, at best) is patently ridiculous. International
                tax harmonisation, tax havens, multinational tax issues are all relevant issues that require an international respons, however trying to pin the state of such that has developed over many years on the national government of today and John key is what the public see as ridiculous

                • whateva next? …
                  7 May 2016 at 2:51 pm

                  “(where the world does not give nz half a second a day thought, at best)”
                  They might now though eh? Proud are you?

                  • Reddelusion …
                    7 May 2016 at 3:05 pm

                    I don’t think so, this view by the left that the world wakes up every day with NZ on thier mind is another derangement

                    • Whateva next? …
                      7 May 2016 at 3:08 pm

                      Not every day, but it’s a popular post on BBC world site atm

                    • Reddelusion []
                      7 May 2016 at 3:17 pm

                      Yes and read by kiwis about themselves, truely I have lived overseas and travelled a lot, NZ is enjoyably insignificant, and virtually invisible re world affairs (barring sport in relevant countries) to the consciousness of the 99.9pc of 8 billion people who populate this earth, sorry to burst your bubble of our relevance

                    • Reddelusion []
                      7 May 2016 at 3:19 pm

                      Ah you say but what about the dreaded and mythical 0.01pc

                • Richardrawshark …
                  7 May 2016 at 3:29 pm

                  Your right, I lived oversea’s half my 50 years, half of them asked me if I was Australian.

                  But one thing I do know, the UK roasts MP’s on a weekly basis, they hate corruption on a level we do not, they have a media that is at some part competitive, scoops make news still, unlike our lazy lot. If Keys involved in this it’s not the NZ media he needs to worry about it’s the international pressure. And don’t forget if Key’s masters ever think the public arte getting too overboard with looking into taxes that they will see an opportunity for a fall guy. Johnny boy.

                  The international news scene is way different to the managed media we are faked, I mean fed, I mean are studiously researched and presented with.

                  • ianmac …
                    7 May 2016 at 3:51 pm

                    As on OpenMike: “Seven police forces launch investigations affecting at least 10 MPs over #electionexpenses.”

                  • whateva next? …
                    7 May 2016 at 4:10 pm

                    Presuming that no one else has traveled outside NZ was where he lost me.

                • weka …
                  7 May 2016 at 4:55 pm

                  “Yes but trying to portray key and the government as dr evil that falls out of the Peter Pan papers, that nz reputation is in tatters (where the world does not give nz half a second a day thought, at best) is patently ridiculous.”

                  That’s your delusion, not mine, not the post’s. Even if you are using hyperbole to make a point, it’s a fairly insignificant point compared to the righties running round saying if it’s legal it’s ok as if there are no moral or ethical issues here at all. Key is a liar and there is no doubt now what his agenda is. You can like his agenda and excuse his lying, but you can’t pretend they’re not happening.

              • Paul …
                7 May 2016 at 2:47 pm

                Red has learnt his lines for the day.

                • Reddelusion …
                  7 May 2016 at 3:10 pm

                  I like your comments Paul as I enjoy comedy and the absurd , your repetition and serial linking can get rather boring though , new material please

          • ankerawshark 12.1.2.1.2
            7 May 2016 at 3:46 pm

            Reddelusion,…….its not the “left” who named John Key in these documents or indeed leaked them. It was someone who had access to this data who has said he did it because inequality is the biggest issue facing us and he is happy to co-operate with law enforcement.

    • NZJester 12.2
      7 May 2016 at 3:02 pm

      Remember to that before he was PM he apparently was instrumental in setting up Ireland as a tax haven. The place the richest company in the world Apple uses to tax doge.
      That is part of how he got so rich.

  13. Gristle 13
    7 May 2016 at 12:47 pm

    On Thursday Mr Key spoke to a conference on cybercrime and highlighted the Panama Papers as being the fate of companies who did not take cyber security seriously. What I take from using the Mossack Fonseca hack as a learning point is that Key thinks that it is more important not to be caught than it is be a good corporate entity.

    How about tweaking Labour Party support for the TPP so that it has a new element to its bottom line: international tax reform across all the parties so that multinational transfers and tax havens etc are put to the sword.

    • Reddelusion 13.1
      7 May 2016 at 1:54 pm

      Tell me has any one been arrested or charged over revelations of Peter Pan papers

      • whateva next? 13.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 2:48 pm

        Apartheid and Nazi Concentration camps were legal mate, does that make them OK?

        • Reddelusion 13.1.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 3:02 pm

          Yep and people where arrested mate for these crimes

          • whateva next? 13.1.1.1.1
            7 May 2016 at 3:25 pm

            afterwards, not at the time though

            • Colonial Viper 13.1.1.1.1.1
              7 May 2016 at 5:11 pm

              Who was arrested for firebombing Dresden and Tokyo, killing tens of thousands of civvies?

              • whateva next? …
                7 May 2016 at 5:33 pm

                um who was arrested for bombing London, France, Pearl Harbour etc? While we are on the subject what about asking the Danes about the viking invasion of Britain, or the Italians about the Roman Invasion of Britain.
                Is is really relevant to the original point??? are you deliberately shifting the focus onto yourself?

                • Colonial Viper …
                  7 May 2016 at 6:23 pm

                  The attack on Pearl Harbour was solely on a military target.

                  The fact that you cannot tell the difference between that and what was done to Dresden and Tokyo, makes your comments highly questionable.

                  As for German actions against British civilians via the Blitz, and also against French civilians – trials were held and German war criminals were convicted.

                  Who on the British or American side were convicted?

                  • Foreign waka …
                    7 May 2016 at 7:59 pm

                    At any time this question has been asked in the last 50 years the answer was: But we won (American/British alliance)….. says it all really, doesn’t it.

          • Ben 13.1.1.1.2
            7 May 2016 at 7:32 pm

            More bombs were dropped on Vietnam than in the entire WW2 campaign. Pol Pot and KR killed 1.5 million Cambodians during his genocide, the US killed 500 000 prior to that in a carpet bombing campaign with no official declaration of war. We all know that era of the SE Asia campaign ultimately proved to be completely unnecessary, was the US officially given the wooden spoon for humanitarian atrocities? No.

            This Utopian idea of Justice you seem to think exists doesn’t.

      • Gristle 13.1.2
        7 May 2016 at 3:01 pm

        The issue about Foriegn owned trusts is that they stink. Yes they are legal in NZ because various legislation has been passed to make them legal, so it hard to see someone getting arrested in NZ for a NZ based ForeignOwned Trust.

        The number of sceanarios where Foriegn Owned Trusts are doing anything but obscure beneficial ownership and increase the opportunity to hide money in terms of source (crime), use (eg terrorism) or tax status (eg evasion). Now many of these things are illegal in the country of origin but get minimal scrutiny at NZ as funds pass through.

        The rationale for NZ maintaining these sorts of mechanisms is given that other countries do it so NZ should do it too.

      • NZJester 13.1.3
        7 May 2016 at 3:16 pm

        The Panama papers should eventually see some arrests. Some in Mossack Fonseca have apparently knowingly been helping people such as child sex traffickers, black market dealers and dictators stealing money from their countries treasuries to hide their dirty money.
        The thing is most law enforcement have not got their hands on it yet.
        Not even the tip of the iceberg has been released yet only a few small ice cubes from the giant iceberg. The size of the data makes Wikileaks look tiny.

      • RedLogix 13.1.4
        7 May 2016 at 6:16 pm

        Tell me has any one been arrested or charged over revelations of Peter Pan papers

        Two responses:

        1. Many crimes, especially of this nature never make it to court. Or if they do it takes years if not decades.

        2. As John Doe himself notes, the legal profession has comprehensively failed. We can no longer expect any crimes of this nature to be prosecuted in the ordinary course of events. The corruption is systemic and embedded. Hopefully these revelations may prompt the changes necessary.

        • Colonial Viper 13.1.4.1
          7 May 2016 at 9:36 pm

          the legal profession has comprehensively failed. We can no longer expect any crimes of this nature to be prosecuted in the ordinary course of events.

          In the modern environment, prosecutors offices take a high degree of political direction. Police investigators as well. So I do not believe that this situation is primarily a failure of the legal profession.

  14. save nz 14
    7 May 2016 at 12:53 pm

    Great post. Again the big question is, why will not John Key show his tax returns, is it because he is a tax cheat?

    • UncookedSelachimorpha 14.1
      7 May 2016 at 1:40 pm

      Agree, John Key should make full disclosure of all his finances. Then we can see who he is really working for and what he really thinks of contributing his share to NZ.

      • Chooky 14.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 3:14 pm

        +100…nothing to hide…nothing to fear…it is incumbent on his position of trust

    • Reddelusion 14.2
      7 May 2016 at 3:03 pm

      He also won’t show his birth or marriage certificate, is he a kiwi? Is he married ?

      • Chuck 14.2.1
        7 May 2016 at 3:33 pm

        +100 priceless!!

      • UncookedSelachimorpha 14.2.2
        7 May 2016 at 3:40 pm

        As PM, if there was a public issue involving those matters, it would be appropriate for him to reveal his personal position.

        He IS active (and potentially benefits directly) in tax policy, social spending etc, and therefore where he sits personally on these matters is highly relevant to the public interest. Mitt Romney, Obama etc all revealed their tax positions, for these reasons.

      • adam 14.2.3
        7 May 2016 at 6:10 pm

        Are you now a birther Reddelusion.

        Look new meme from the unthinking fan boys – we need a new conspiracy theory – so we can stop the people from actually working out John Key and Co. are supporting criminals and people who avoid tax.

        • Chuck 14.2.3.1
          7 May 2016 at 6:29 pm

          Adam take it for what it was meant to be!!

          Its a very cleaver post from Reddelusion…

          Read – Obama and his “country of birth saga” verse Labour demanding Key release his “tax information”. Both Obama and Key said no to releasing the respective documents.

          And there you go again…”John Key and Co. are supporting criminals and people who avoid tax”. Get some real proof and I will clap as you lead Key to the jail cell.

          • UncookedSelachimorpha 14.2.3.1.1
            7 May 2016 at 9:09 pm

            Chucko. Your misspelling of the word “Clever” seems appropriate.

            Obama voluntarily published his birth certificate in 2008, again in 2011.

            It was relevant for him to do so, because citizenship directly determines your eligibility to be president of the USA.

            Key on the other hand, refuses to release his tax records. Obama happily released his.

            Remember when Key likened himself to Obama in 2008? What a joke – Obama spent his time working with disadvantaged people as a civil rights attorney…Key on the other hand spent his time shoveling money into his own bank account while creating nothing worthwhile.

  15. Once was Tim 15
    7 May 2016 at 1:07 pm

    Jussssst lissssssstening to John Key in RNZ presssssss confrinssssssssss (about 12:50 -13:04)
    Interesting when JFK is on heat and about to drop another turd, the speech becomes stereotypically effeminate with syllabic ‘esses’ and full of buzzwords: ‘learnings’, ‘in fact ekshully’, etc.
    His bullshit and spin is hopefully becoming more obvious to most.

    • Chooky 15.1
      7 May 2016 at 3:10 pm

      +100…smooth and as reassuring as a conman…slippery as a slimy snake….

      • whateva next? 15.1.1
        7 May 2016 at 3:23 pm

        I will be apologising if the whistleblower is ekshully lying, but will Mr.Key leave if in fact he is found to have lied, or even economical with the truth? After all we expect a high standard from our PM, not a minimal (pretty relaxed) standard.

        • Richardrawshark 15.1.1.1
          7 May 2016 at 3:36 pm

          These people are never wrong, they are the smartest people in the room, if he did set up trusts for tax evasion and you don’t like it, deal with it, your obviously wrong, it’s what you actually need, but don’t know it, why should the rich money men pay tax, they create wealth, they don’t pay tax.

          commoners, fkn liberties I tell ya.

  16. rod 16
    7 May 2016 at 4:14 pm

    Key’s arse lickers and spinners are on overdrive here today.

  17. Observer (Tokoroa) 17
    7 May 2016 at 4:33 pm

    . Query

    . – Apparently quite a number of foreigners have set up secret Trusts here.

    1) – -Do NZ citizens receive any payment from these secretive trusts?

    2) – Does our Treasury receive any payments?

    3) – If new Zealand is not receiving any worthwhile money from these wealthy secretive people, why on earth do we have tax havens? Weird- bizarre.

    4) – Why on earth would John Key talk people into dumping their money here

    5) – Why did he advise and seemingly coach the Cook Islanders to get wealthy people to dump their spare money silently with the islands.

    Is John key doing something for nothing? Are the Cook Islanders doing something for nothing? Can anyone clarify this for me?

    I find it hard to believe that no one is receiving payment. Even if the payment be for significant silence.

    • One Anonymous Bloke 17.1
      7 May 2016 at 5:07 pm

      They are taxed at a 0% tax rate. The lawyers’ and accountants’ fees are tax deductible. The National Party accepts donations in return.

  18. One Anonymous Bloke 18
    7 May 2016 at 5:02 pm

    Yeah, perhaps the hacker is sincere, and perhaps Mossack Fonseca got ratfucked by a competitor who lost market share when NZ got into the money laundering business.

    Yeah, I’m being cynical 🙄

    • adam 18.1
      7 May 2016 at 6:13 pm

      Well in two days we should know more.

      My guess, your cynicism is well placed One Anonymous Bloke.

  19. Observer (Tokoroa) 19
    7 May 2016 at 6:20 pm

    . Hi: One Anonymous Bloke

    . It is a puzzle. People are bringing money here without telling anyone apparently. Other than telling the Prime Minister – perhaps. Neither do they pay any Tax or meet any costs, as far as I know, incurred by New Zealand Government.

    A lot of this business is managed by a crooked Lawyer, who in a Court of the Crown, gave what the Judge called “A Sham Trust”, to a bankrupt developer who had already buggered up lots of Money.. It is supremely wrong for a lawyer or anyone else to commit perjury. But this lawyer was a swindler of major proportions.

    John Key said the lawyer was in fact a lovely “ethical and moral man”. You see Mr Key does not believe in moral. Nor in ethics. All we can safely say about the crooked Lawyer is that he is nowhere near as advanced as Key in deception.

    Key’s ragtag tail of admirers and liars will be found to have no intention of being moral either, as you can plainly see in the ill written garbage that they defecate onto this blog.

    • Johan 19.1
      7 May 2016 at 8:45 pm

      Hello Observer (Tokoroa)
      Got it in one, an accurate little nice snapshot.

  20. Chooky 20
    7 May 2016 at 6:47 pm

    ‘Panama Papers whistleblower speaks out on income inequality & corruption’

    https://www.rt.com/news/342153-panama-papers-whistleblower-leak/

    …”John Doe accuses Mossack Fonseca of using “its influence to write and bend laws worldwide to favour the interests of criminals over a period of decades,” alleging that it “actually did knowingly violate myriad laws worldwide, repeatedly.” He maintains “publicly they plead ignorance, but the documents show detailed knowledge and deliberate wrongdoing.”

    The source denies being a spy or working for any government, explaining that he decided to share the information because he “understood enough about their contents to realize the scale of the injustices they described.”…

    “The source says that although the ICIJ and media publications have refused to share the documents with law enforcement, he is willing to do so…

    “Doe discusses the failures that contributed to the system of corruption in which the Papers were born. Banks, financial regulators, tax authorities, legal systems and governments have all failed. Decisions have been made “that have spared the wealthy while focusing instead on reigning in middle and low income citizens.

    …The manifesto reveals the “sad truth” that the most “prominent and capable” media organizations looked at the documents before the leak was made public and chose not to run with them, despite “explicit claims to the contrary.”

    The revelation is likely to embarrass networks that are no doubt covering the leak now.

    Perhaps most surprising was the claim that WikiLeaks didn’t respond to contact made by the whistleblower.”

    [and]

    ‘Panama Papers leak not specifically directed against Russia – ICIJ head’

    https://www.rt.com/news/338439-panama-papers-icij-leak-russia/

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    Experiencing a locked computer can be frustrating, especially when you need access to your files and applications urgently. The methods to unlock your computer will vary depending on the specific situation and the type of lock you encounter. This guide will explore various scenarios and provide step-by-step instructions on how ...
    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
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  • Faxing from Your Computer A Modern Guide to Sending Documents Digitally
    While the world has largely transitioned to digital communication, faxing still holds relevance in certain industries and situations. Fortunately, gone are the days of bulky fax machines and dedicated phone lines. Today, you can easily send and receive faxes directly from your computer, offering a convenient and efficient way to ...
    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    14 hours ago

  • Protecting Your Home Computer A Guide to Cyber Awareness
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
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  • Server-Based Computing Powering the Modern Digital Landscape
    In the ever-evolving world of technology, server-based computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure. This article delves into the concept of server-based computing, exploring its various forms, benefits, challenges, and its impact on the way we work and interact with technology. Understanding Server-Based Computing: At its core, ...
    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    14 hours ago

  • Vroom vroom go the big red trucks
    The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
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  • Jones finds $410,000 to help the government muscle in on a spat project
    Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    15 hours ago

  • Again, hate crimes are not necessarily terrorism.
    Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    17 hours ago

  • Despair – construction consenting edition
    Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    18 hours ago

  • Coalition promises – will the Govt keep the commitment to keep Kiwis equal before the law?
    Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    18 hours ago

  • An impermanent public service is a guarantee of very little else but failure
    Chris Trotter writes –  The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    19 hours ago

  • What happens after the war – Mariupol
    Mariupol, on the Azov Sea coast, was one of the first cities to suffer almost complete destruction after the start of the Ukraine War started in late February 2022. We remember the scenes of absolute destruction of the houses and city structures. The deaths of innocent civilians – many of ...
    Open ParachuteBy Ken
    20 hours ago

  • Babies and benefits – no good news
    Lindsay Mitchell writes – Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit by Christmas. This pattern has persisted from at least 1993. For Maori the number jumps to over one in three.  ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    20 hours ago

  • Should the RBNZ be looking through climate inflation?
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    20 hours ago

  • Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    21 hours ago

  • Gordon Campbell on the public sector carnage, and misogyny as terrorism
    It’s a simple deal. We pay taxes in order to finance the social services we want and need. The carnage now occurring across the public sector though, is breaking that contract. Over 3,000 jobs have been lost so far. Many are in crucial areas like Education where the impact of ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    22 hours ago

  • Meeting the Master Baiters
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    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    1 day ago

  • How extreme was the Earth's temperature in 2023
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    Skeptical Science
    1 day ago

  • Backbone, revisited
    The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and toddlers chattering, laughing, happy, having a bloody great time together. Cheers, AT, for the bits of lane you’ve added lately around the ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 days ago

  • Ministers are not above the law
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 days ago

  • What’s the outfit you can hear going down the gurgler? Probably it’s David Parker’s Oceans Sec...
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 days ago

  • Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 days ago

  • Matt Doocey doubles down on trans “healthcare”
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 days ago

  • A TikTok Prime Minister.
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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    2 days ago

  • Texas Lessons
    This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
    Greater AucklandBy Guest Post
    2 days ago

  • Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links at 6:06 am
    The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours as of 6:06 am on Wednesday, April 17 are:Must read: Secrecy shrouds which projects might be fast-tracked RNZ Farah HancockScoop: Revealed: Luxon has seven staffers working on social media content - partly paid for by taxpayer Newshub ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 days ago

  • Fighting poverty on the holiday highway
    Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    2 days ago

  • Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:26 pm
    Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 days ago

  • At a glance – Is the science settled?
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    Skeptical Science
    2 days ago

  • Apposite Quotations.
    How Long Is Long Enough? Gaza under Israeli bombardment, July 2014. This posting is exclusive to Bowalley Road. ...
    Bowalley Road
    3 days ago

  • What’s a life worth now?
    You're in the mall when you hear it: some kind of popping sound in the distance, kids with fireworks, maybe. But then a moment of eerie stillness is followed by more of the fireworks sound and there’s also screaming and shrieking and now here come people running for their lives.Does ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    3 days ago

  • Howling at the Moon
    Karl du Fresne writes –  There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • Newshub is Dead.
    I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 days ago

  • Seymour is chuffed about cutting early-learning red tape – but we hear, too, that Jones has loose...
    Buzz from the Beehive David Seymour and Winston Peters today signalled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today. Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 days ago

  • Bryce Edwards: Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
    Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. Our political system is suffering from the ...
    Democracy ProjectBy bryce.edwards
    3 days ago

  • Was Hawkesby entirely wrong?
    David Farrar  writes –  The Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled: Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. It is a fact such patients are prioritised. ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • PRC shadow looms as the Solomons head for election
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • Climate Change: Criminal ecocide
    We are in the middle of a climate crisis. Last year was (again) the hottest year on record. NOAA has just announced another global coral bleaching event. Floods are threatening UK food security. So naturally, Shane Jones wants to make it easier to mine coal: Resources Minister Shane Jones ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 days ago

  • Is saving one minute of a politician's time worth nearly $1 billion?
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • Long Tunnel or Long Con?
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    Greater AucklandBy Matt L
    3 days ago

  • Smoke And Mirrors.
    You're a fraud, and you know itBut it's too good to throw it all awayAnyone would do the sameYou've got 'em goingAnd you're careful not to show itSometimes you even fool yourself a bitIt's like magicBut it's always been a smoke and mirrors gameAnyone would do the sameForty six billion ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 days ago

  • What is Mexico doing about climate change?
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    Skeptical Science
    3 days ago

  • State of humanity, 2024
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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    4 days ago

  • Govt’s Wellington tunnel vision aims to ease the way to the airport (but zealous promoters of cycl...
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
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  • The case for cultural connectedness
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago

  • Useful context on public sector job cuts
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago

  • Gordon Campbell On When Racism Comes Disguised As Anti-racism
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    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    4 days ago

  • Govt ignored economic analysis of smokefree reversal
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago

  • True Blue.
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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    4 days ago

  • Who is running New Zealand’s foreign policy?
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    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    4 days ago

  • 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #15
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    Skeptical Science
    4 days ago

  • Feline Friends and Fragile Fauna The Complexities of Cats in New Zealand’s Conservation Efforts

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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    4 days ago

  • Or is that just they want us to think?
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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    5 days ago

  • Fact Brief – Did global warming stop in 1998?
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    Skeptical Science
    5 days ago

  • Arguing over a moot point.
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    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    6 days ago

  • No Longer Trusted: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
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    Bowalley Road
    6 days ago

  • Mortgage rates at 10% anyone?
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    Point of OrderBy xtrdnry
    6 days ago

  • Sad tales from the left
    Michael Bassett writes –  Have you noticed the odd way in which the media are handling the government’s crackdown on surplus employees in the Public Service? Very few reporters mention the crazy way in which State Service numbers rocketed ahead by more than 16,000 during Labour’s six years, ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    6 days ago

  • In Whose Best Interests?
    On The Spot: The question Q+A host, Jack Tame, put to the Workplace & Safety Minister, Act’s Brooke van Velden, was disarmingly simple: “Are income tax cuts right now in the best interests of lowering inflation?”JACK TAME has tested another MP on his Sunday morning current affairs show, Q+A. Minister for Workplace ...
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    6 days ago

  • Don’t Question, Don’t Complain.
    It has to start somewhereIt has to start sometimeWhat better place than here?What better time than now?So it turns out that I owe you all an apology.It seems that all of the terrible things this government is doing, impacting the lives of many, aren’t necessarily ‘bad’ per se. Those things ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    6 days ago

  • Auckland faces 25% water inflation shock
    Three Waters became a focus of anti-Government protests under Labour, but its dumping by the new Government hasn’t solved councils’ funding problems and will eventually hit the back pockets of everyone. Photo: Lynn Grieveson/Getty ImagesTL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me at 8:06 am today are:The Government ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    6 days ago

  • Small accomplishments and large ironies
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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    6 days ago

  • The Song of Saqua: Volume VII
    In order to catch up to the actual progress of the D&D campaign, I present you with another couple of sessions. These were actually held back to back, on a Monday and Tuesday evening. Session XV Alas, Goatslayer had another lycanthropic transformation… though this time, he ran off into the ...
    A Phuulish FellowBy strda221
    6 days ago

  • Accelerating the Growth Rate?
    There is a constant theme from the economic commentariat that New Zealand needs to lift its economic growth rate, coupled with policies which they are certain will attain that objective. Their prescriptions are usually characterised by two features. First, they tend to be in their advocate’s self-interest. Second, they are ...
    PunditBy Brian Easton
    7 days ago

  • The only thing we have to fear is tenants themselves
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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    7 days ago

  • Comprehensive Partnership the goal for NZ and the Philippines
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.  The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    8 hours ago

  • Government commits $20m to Westport flood protection
    The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    14 hours ago

  • Taupō takes pole position
    The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    15 hours ago

  • Cost of living support for low-income homeowners
    Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners.  “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    17 hours ago

  • Government backing mussel spat project
    The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    17 hours ago

  • Government focused on getting people into work
    Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    20 hours ago

  • Clean energy key driver to reducing emissions
    The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    21 hours ago

  • Earthquake-prone buildings review brought forward
    The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago

  • Thailand and NZ to agree to Strategic Partnership
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Government consults on extending coastal permits for ports
    RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Inflation coming down, but more work to do
    Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • School attendance restored as a priority in health advice
    Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Unnecessary bureaucracy cut in oceans sector
    Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Patterson promoting NZ’s wool sector at International Congress
    Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector.    "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • Removing red tape to help early learners thrive
    The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • RMA changes to cut coal mining consent red tape
    Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • McClay reaffirms strong NZ-China trade relationship
    Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
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    3 days ago

  • Prime Minister Luxon acknowledges legacy of Singapore Prime Minister Lee
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.   Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
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  • PMs Luxon and Lee deepen Singapore-NZ ties
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  • Antarctica New Zealand Board appointments
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  • Finance Minister travels to Washington DC
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  • New Zealand condemns Iranian strikes
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  • Huge interest in Government’s infrastructure plans
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  • Health Minister thanks outgoing Health New Zealand Chair
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  • Roads of National Significance planning underway
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  • Navigating an unstable global environment
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  • NZ welcomes Australian Governor-General
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  • NZ and the US: an ever closer partnership
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  • Joint US and NZ declaration
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  • NZ and US to undertake further practical Pacific cooperation
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  • Government redress for Te Korowai o Wainuiārua
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  • Focus on outstanding minerals permit applications
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  • Applications open for NZ-Ireland Research Call
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  • Tenancy rules changes to improve rental market
    The coalition Government has today announced changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to encourage landlords back to the rental property market, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “The previous Government waged a war on landlords. Many landlords told us this caused them to exit the rental market altogether. It caused worse ...
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  • Boosting NZ’s trade and agricultural relationship with China
    Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay will visit China next week, to strengthen relationships, support Kiwi exporters and promote New Zealand businesses on the world stage. “China is one of New Zealand’s most significant trade and economic relationships and remains an important destination for New Zealand’s products, accounting for nearly 22 per cent of our good and ...
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  • Freshwater farm plan systems to be improved
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  • New Fast Track Projects advisory group named
    The coalition Government has today announced the expert advisory group who will provide independent recommendations to Ministers on projects to be included in the Fast Track Approvals Bill, say RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Regional Development Minister Shane Jones. “Our Fast Track Approval process will make it easier and ...
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