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Comment:Let it Be
Date published: 12:18 pm, December 12th, 2018Actually Mr Marshy, you are making grave assumptions here. I am a business owner and have been a landlord. I have always factored in fairness to tennant customers, and I am doing very well thank you very much. I feel more than entitled to comment on such ...
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Comment:Let it Be
Date published: 12:15 pm, December 12th, 2018Antoine are your profit margins so tight on your rental that you have to do this???? I know that is a personal question and I respect that you may not want to answer it. I just don't believe that profit margins are tight at all for landlords. I was one ...
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Comment:Let it Be
Date published: 12:12 pm, December 12th, 2018Clive, what I meant was Judith's tactics are beginning to look Trump like. eg quoting a fake news website about the age of consent in France and asking Jacinda to comment on it. Implying that a CGT was already a done deal, criticizing the young Kiwibuild ...
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Comment:Let it Be
Date published: 10:56 am, December 12th, 2018PR LOL have a good day
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Comment:Let it Be
Date published: 10:45 am, December 12th, 2018Pukish, I am glad you feel able to forgive me. But I realized in posting what I did could cause some upset for you. That was not my intent. And I almost hate to say this but stand by my statements. I also have to say I admire your tenacity and devotion to ...
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Comment:Praying for Grace
Date published: 12:44 pm, December 11th, 2018His victim is entitled to people not jeopardizing a "fair trial" which may mean her family don't get justice. If the defence can argue that the person hasn't had a fair trial for whatever reason, that may effect the outcome. I don't want to see anything ...
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Comment:The Air New Zealand Industrial dispute
Date published: 11:23 am, December 11th, 2018Gabby, lol but too true.
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Comment:The Air New Zealand Industrial dispute
Date published: 11:22 am, December 11th, 2018And Millsy, during the 1970, before Roger Douglas Maori suicide rates were comparable to Pakeha...................................so neoliberal economics caused major disruption to the lives of many (to put it mildly). Maori suffered the most and we have ...
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Comment:Open Mike 10/12/2018
Date published: 1:40 pm, December 10th, 2018James for once I agree with you 100%
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Comment:Open Mike 07/12/2018
Date published: 4:03 pm, December 7th, 2018https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20181204_20181204_04 This was what got the speaker to his feet. It is a dumb question. : Has she entirely washed her hands of anything to do with the Sroubek fiasco, and is she ducking ...
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Comment:Open Mike 07/12/2018
Date published: 3:51 pm, December 7th, 2018Can you give me some examples of Jacinda getting flustered in question time? I watch it a lot and really don't recall any. Trev stood up recently in response to a question Bridges asked, but the question was problematic, something along the lines is she ...
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Comment:Open Mike 07/12/2018
Date published: 2:01 pm, December 7th, 2018Cheers PR. Can you explain for me what you mean by running protection for the PM and what he is actually doing/saying that leads you to conclude that?
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Comment:Open Mike 07/12/2018
Date published: 11:01 am, December 7th, 2018Thanks wayne for giving your opinion re my question. I would have thought withdraw and apologize is more appropriate if Simon or anyone else had of been critizing another politician, but not the speaker.
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 3:47 pm, December 6th, 2018Glad you agree Mr Marshy.
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 3:46 pm, December 6th, 2018No Mr Marshay. Contents of questions such as What did she think about two immigration people and two police turning up to interview said would, leaving her vulnerable, she should definitely not answer!!!!!! She shouldn't comment on operational matters...
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 3:41 pm, December 6th, 2018And Wayne runs away not answering any of the reasonable challenges we make...........
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 1:55 pm, December 6th, 2018Yes Anne re the baby. I remember at times John Key looking tired. Its a demanding job for all of them. Despite looking tired she answered the dumb question perfectly. I wonder if Nationals plan is to continue to bang on about Strobek (sorry sure I haven't ...
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 1:11 pm, December 6th, 2018Ms Ardern doesn't need protecting.................She runs rings around Bridges. His line of questioning about this case is just to keep it in the spotlight in the hope it boost s Nationals polling.............plan and simple. Ms Ardern's answers yesterday...
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 1:06 pm, December 6th, 2018OK Wayne, I haven't kept a tally of the question deducting thing. But straight up question. Should Bridges have been told to leave the chamber yesterday after saying when Trev rose to speak "here comes the protection?"
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 12:58 pm, December 6th, 2018LOL Pete, Cinny and Mister Smokey (great name by the way MS)
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 12:56 pm, December 6th, 2018Chris T Mallard stood up and he didn't even open his mouth.............Bridges said heres the protection........................and he was kicked out (rightly so from the house),..........thems the rules. Simons statement implied Mallard was bias. Whether ...
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Comment:Double down - protect parliament - ban Bridges for a month
Date published: 11:09 am, December 6th, 2018Maybe in the long run this bias will work for Labour.....................it keeps Simon there longer. That is a good thing. But yes Simon broke the rules big time..............best response was Winnies.............
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Comment:Memo from Crosby Textor - National's leak problem
Date published: 3:40 pm, December 5th, 2018It must be hard being blue right now. Having to appear supportive of Bridges, where every fibre of your being is yelling Noooooooooooooooooooooooo BTW Simon why don't you do another enquiry into who is the leaker, given the last one went so well...
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Comment:Another National MP accused of bullying
Date published: 8:12 pm, December 1st, 2018I disagree profoundly with your view of John Key Bewildered...................... There was no service to the people of NZ. Look at the state of Health education and housing he left the country in. Where was the service in the flag referendum. What is his ...
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Comment:TERFed Out: UPDATED
Date published: 8:56 pm, November 30th, 2018100% Ed. Thanks Racheal for your column
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Comment:TERFed Out: UPDATED
Date published: 6:28 pm, November 30th, 2018James Thrace, I very much agree with most of what you say re biology. And I think there is a real difference between feeling sexual attraction to your own gender (being gay) and wanting to change your gender.
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Comment:TERFed Out: UPDATED
Date published: 6:24 pm, November 30th, 2018Hi Bill, I think that gender is defined by biology. Gender sex role stereotypes are the social construction which we live within...................
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Comment:TERFed Out: UPDATED
Date published: 6:10 pm, November 30th, 2018Parent's have a responsibility to care for their children in the way they see fit. You might think I sound Victorian, but that I think isn't accurate. Nudists colonies are fine, but I don't have to attend and neither does any child of mine. I would say if ...
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Comment:TERFed Out: UPDATED
Date published: 5:19 pm, November 30th, 2018I don't have a problem with a man who has undergone gender re-assignment surgery being a woman...................I would expect them to come into female only spaces and hope they would feel welcome. I feel very uncomfortable with this other group who "feel...
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Comment:TERFed Out: UPDATED
Date published: 5:13 pm, November 30th, 2018Visubversa 100 + again. Totally agree. Very good points..............
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Comment:TERFed Out: UPDATED
Date published: 5:10 pm, November 30th, 2018DJ Ward, I was around in the days of centrepoint where that ideology was waved about................ It is also known as trans generational blurring. Males have very obvious sex organs.........................I don't want my 6 year old niece exposed to a ...
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