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Comment:Open mike 23/12/2019
Date published: 1:39 am, December 24th, 2019or two right people. A third and we got a party goin on.
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Comment:Open mike 23/12/2019
Date published: 1:22 am, December 24th, 2019In any country, the words 'Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help you' are received with suspicion. In Russia, I'd be much more alarmed than here. Here, I'd be complaining 'So who is going to pay me while I do this self audit on your behalf?' In ...
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Comment:Open mike 23/12/2019
Date published: 1:00 am, December 24th, 2019Jonathan Pie is a lovely creation. He makes me feel awkwardly uncomfortable, that's not such a bad thing. It's when I'm feeling like that I change my mind, I come around, I shift. I like to grow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsdLPIOYHW0
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Comment:Open mike 23/12/2019
Date published: 12:54 am, December 24th, 2019We get the news we ask for. When a bloke rotating a few magazines gets more clicks than 400 people losing their homes, we get the periodical turner.
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Comment:Labour raise the minimum wage
Date published: 8:03 pm, December 19th, 2019I hear you Sabine. Sack your workers, take your recipes and methodology to a commercial Chinese slave kitchen. Have them take your product to near finished, snap freeze and ship to you. Squirt some cream or place a sprig of parsley on top and call them NZ ...
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Comment:Listening to left wing dissent
Date published: 8:08 pm, December 16th, 2019The left are feeling rudderless because the power comes from the collective us. The rise of platforms for me to express what is important to me has diluted the power of the collective and provided attractive avenues for me to focus on me rather than us. ...
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Comment:Caption contest
Date published: 7:50 pm, December 16th, 2019sibo
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 2:35 am, December 11th, 2019Many renters have the thought 'We're paying so much a week if we could rustle together a deposit we could be servicing a mortgage and own the place.' As rents rise as they are that sentiment gets more buy-in. A feeling a government can't ignore. They too ...
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 2:13 am, December 11th, 2019Somebody that has the where-with-all to have a house that they don't live in is generally open to a conversation and reason. Exploitive landlords are quick to make the front page, as they should. The tribunal is for everyone. I understand tenant reluctance...
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 1:38 am, December 11th, 2019Motel occupancy is not included in tourism data collection. Herb and Ena at the Whakatane Dew Drop Inn are not supplying our government with updated tourist numbers each evening. The worst thing about asking families to live in places that paying customers...
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 1:02 am, December 11th, 2019I liked the Latin flavour of your name Rocco. I Googled it and watched clips of a man sodomising and throwing shrieking females half his age around his bedroom. Are you the real Rocco? If not, why on earth would you want to attach yourself to a persona of ...
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 12:42 am, December 11th, 2019Mum and Dads viewing a rental property as a viable superannuation plan option have over the last few years had their faith in that particular option dismantled. Most weeks there is a press release that confirms that they made the right decision. A no cause...
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 12:14 am, December 11th, 2019Yep, housing people in happy homes is the only stat that matters. If we can find a way for people to own them, even better, that's the key to building communities that give a damn, even if it takes 3 generations of drip feed. Probably better if there is a ...
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 12:01 am, December 11th, 2019Rent levels are determined by 'Market Rent' and are legally obliged to fall within that criteria. If it gets to the stage that a tenant feels that their rent exceeds market levels they can and should firstly approach their Landlord/Property Manager and if ...
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 11:39 pm, December 10th, 2019Yeah, I do, pumping up the state house build rate. The right want to choke on their Truffle Burgers...'What! Give those wasters that can't help themselves heavily subsidised houses?" It's a plan worth considering for both sides of the political coin. With ...
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Comment:Rent increased over 40% under National (Key years)
Date published: 11:14 pm, December 10th, 2019Any LL looking at rent increases more frequently than once a year is working for Tony Soprano, regardless of any law change. Rental bidding - The market has become so competitive bidding against other interested parties is a waste of everybodies time. ...
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Comment:The plastics problem
Date published: 1:31 am, December 10th, 2019Would you consider plastic surgery duck? If I had a piece wedged in my bowel yes Quack. If only we could make products with the longevity of the stuff they came wrapped in. Bloody plastic. I stretch it over frozen peas and use it for 45 seconds and it's ...
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Comment:Open mike 06/12/2019
Date published: 3:46 am, December 7th, 2019Early Nissan Leafs with gasping batteries are worthless. If I had a burning desire to make money, I'd be looking for a way to give a worthless Leaf a new lease on life on a tight budget. I could keep my Princess as she is accustomed rebirthing orthodox ...
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Comment:Open mike 06/12/2019
Date published: 12:20 am, December 7th, 2019Imagine the kudos if an energy minister could declare '3 new geothermal generators are coming on line. There will be 30 fewer tankers tying up to the Marsden Point refinery this year. 300,000 more Kiwis will be getting around courtesy of the steam escaping...
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Comment:Open mike 06/12/2019
Date published: 11:55 pm, December 6th, 2019Creative protesting. Abseiling up the beehive will draw popular media coverage to a cause. I don't know about you but I'm a long way from Wellington and a first-time abseiler...should that be absailor? If not, it should be. Anyway, creative protesting. ...
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Comment:Open mike 06/12/2019
Date published: 11:23 pm, December 6th, 2019I was thinking today about protesting and if there could be a better way. Traditionally, it is about getting in the face of perpetrators or influencers and harping 'We don't like what you're doing, stop it.' It's a very basic strategy, rudimentary. I ...
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Comment:Open mike 06/12/2019
Date published: 11:04 pm, December 6th, 2019Nearly all family visitors start to grind on each other after a while. I love my beautiful ol Dad to bits but gee after 2 days of sharing the same space together... The true and divine pleasure lives in the anticipation of being together again Clean and ...
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Comment:Open mike 06/12/2019
Date published: 10:58 pm, December 6th, 2019Yeah, good luck Karol, I hope your flight wings you to contentment. You look to be on the way to me.
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Comment:Time to become a republic
Date published: 11:15 pm, December 5th, 2019I think it's difficult to get away from the popular model. Governors, senators, lords etc representing the will of the people in a specific geographical area. The head role, boss of bosses, the president, whatever we call him, it will be largely a ...
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Comment:Time to become a republic
Date published: 10:07 pm, December 5th, 2019I get confused by the term 'Crown' grey. In one sense it is the engine room of the colonisation that swamped NZ. In another sense, it is the components of government that don't get voted in or out, the Crown that arranges heart by-passes and road by-passes...
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Comment:Time to become a republic
Date published: 9:43 pm, December 5th, 2019I like the monarchy, it defuses 'What's in it for me?' If a majority wants them chucked out I think we should revert back to what we had before the Crown. Not President but Rangatira of Rangatira. A structure that obliges each to ensure each do the right ...
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Comment:Government to ban foreign donations to political parties
Date published: 8:30 am, December 4th, 2019Re-arranging the deckchairs on the Princess of the Seas. I'm wary of turkeys voting for an early Christmas.
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Comment:Open mike 02/12/2019
Date published: 12:33 pm, December 2nd, 2019If coming down hard on it I wonder if the govt are fearful of generating ammunition for contrary lobbyists. The build rate would slow right down and we might see headlines like 'The coalition oversees a build rate of negative 20 houses.' I do agree with ...
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Comment:The cost of capitalism
Date published: 9:31 am, November 28th, 2019Amazon don't pay any tax because they've never made a profit. Same with Uber. I don't think they're a worry because of neoliberalism but because their business model revolves around not making a profit. There is no money to share with employees. This flies...
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Comment:Open mike 26/11/2019
Date published: 11:30 pm, November 26th, 2019snap pat
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Comment:Open mike 26/11/2019
Date published: 11:29 pm, November 26th, 2019Fabulous idea..."How on earth can I get national exposure for my Geraldine kebab shop opening with a promotional budget of $350?" Hats off to that dude.
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