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Comment:James Shaw: "I completely support what Metiria has done"
Date published: 10:10 am, August 8th, 2017What does that even MEAN adam? Where were Turei’s mother, Piupiu’s father, and the in laws when Turei and child were "in poverty?" Allowing poor wee Piupiu to starve while Turei’s mother looks on at the same address, and the father, Paul Hartley along with...
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Comment:James Shaw: "I completely support what Metiria has done"
Date published: 9:54 am, August 8th, 2017"remember that this is the greens and integrity will prevail"... LOL what? Cognitive dissonance doesn't even begin to describe that statement. Lie to the public and steal from the taxpayer = you're a hero of the Green Party and you embody their core values...
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Comment:Thank you Andrew - go well Jacinda!
Date published: 1:11 pm, August 1st, 2017I have been nothing but complimentary of Andrew Little today. You look and see if I haven't. At least he was a union man and, therefore, by definition, for those who work.
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Comment:Thank you Andrew - go well Jacinda!
Date published: 12:32 pm, August 1st, 2017I <3 haters :-)
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Comment:Thank you Andrew - go well Jacinda!
Date published: 11:21 am, August 1st, 2017Hear hear, I wouldn't vote for him (obviously) but he seems like a good honest guy. Better luck in his next endeavours.
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Comment:Little gone
Date published: 11:18 am, August 1st, 2017Little seemed like a decent guy to me. Just not quite right for that job. Thanks trade unions for your influence and control over who gets to be labour leader. It keeps the party divided and weak, therefore it's good for New Zealand!
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Comment:ACT in blue - gives up all pretense
Date published: 11:15 am, August 1st, 2017Looks like National and Act have some kind of MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING...? I'd vote for him. More freedom, less government control!
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Comment:David Seymour is the smeghead of the year
Date published: 4:08 pm, July 18th, 2017Maybe a good Union man like Andrew Little could lead an expedition into the mine?
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Comment:Metiria Turei and Paula Bennett on benefit fraud
Date published: 8:31 am, July 18th, 2017Lovely to see you too marky mark ;-)
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Comment:Metiria Turei and Paula Bennett on benefit fraud
Date published: 7:44 am, July 18th, 2017Genie's out of the bottle I'm afraid! We political junkies are an electorate too small to matter. But Toad of Toad Hall's benefit fraud appears to have got normal non-political-junkies talking, in a most unsympathetic way. Probably not the ideal launch for...
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Comment:Nat / ACT don't think poor people should have kids
Date published: 3:01 pm, July 13th, 2017The construction industry eh? OMG you know everything about me! I guess it's off to the Ministry of Love if your lot ever get back into power. You scary, scary big brother. :-/
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Comment:Nat / ACT don't think poor people should have kids
Date published: 2:32 pm, July 13th, 2017Mrs RRM is a very competent mother. All I had to do was catch them.
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Comment:Nat / ACT don't think poor people should have kids
Date published: 2:28 pm, July 13th, 2017Someone who's got three, delivered two of them at home, and fully meets the financial needs of all of them. That's who. I love how quickly you guys make it personal though.
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Comment:Nat / ACT don't think poor people should have kids
Date published: 2:24 pm, July 13th, 2017Who's talking about forced sterilization? Only the left, fantasizing that that's what Act wants to do. (Never mind the whole history of the 20th century that suggests it is mainly communists who embark on wholesale campaigns of domesticgenocide... )
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Comment:Nat / ACT don't think poor people should have kids
Date published: 2:22 pm, July 13th, 2017A lie. Act don't want to sterilise anybody. They just want to stop working people from having to pay to subsidise the families of bludgers.
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Comment:Nat / ACT don't think poor people should have kids
Date published: 2:21 pm, July 13th, 2017You've got a RIGHT to have kids. Just bang them out. Somebody else will pay for you.
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Comment:Non-news News and News Non-news
Date published: 1:01 pm, July 13th, 2017I must be imagining things then! Wait, no I'm not! http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/07/green-mp-threatens-new-election-if-labour-goes-with-nz-first.html Green MP Barry Coates says the party would refuse to support a Labour-NZ First Government - ...
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Comment:Non-news News and News Non-news
Date published: 12:45 pm, July 13th, 2017Green Party won't work with National... Green Party won't work with Winston First... The pool of people they can work with is small, and getting smaller! I can only assume the Green Party ENJOYS being taken for granted, used and then discarded by the ...
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Comment:Open Mike 10/07/2017
Date published: 9:46 pm, July 10th, 2017Really? Labour were in government only 9 years ago. They didn't do it.
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Comment:Open Mike 10/07/2017
Date published: 9:41 pm, July 10th, 2017I know you are, you said you are, so what am I?
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Comment:Open Mike 10/07/2017
Date published: 9:40 pm, July 10th, 2017There should not BE any listed buildings in NZ. We can't even afford to build new stuff we need, there is no way we should be squandering money on embalming old, unsafe, dysfunctional relics of the past that no longer serve a purpose.
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Comment:Open Mike 10/07/2017
Date published: 8:28 pm, July 10th, 2017Labour should definitely campaign on this in 2017 using the arguments you have just put forward. FILTHY RICH PRICK GIVES THE COUNTRY A $50M NEW CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. THIS WOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN UNDER A LABOUR GOVERNMENT. VOTE POSITIVE!
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Comment:Open Mike 10/07/2017
Date published: 8:14 pm, July 10th, 2017Shit yes I am! If I had 50 million I wouldn't give it away to ungrateful envious people like you just want to assassinate my character. I'd be driving a 1960s Ferrari around Europe eating and sleeping at 5-star and up places every night!
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Comment:Open Mike 10/07/2017
Date published: 5:45 pm, July 10th, 2017Can you supply any evidence that it's fake news?
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Comment:Open Mike 10/07/2017
Date published: 5:33 pm, July 10th, 2017Wow. A successful elderly guy gives away most of his money to build a childrens' hospital, no doubt as a final thank-you to his adopted country for offering him a chance at a good life. And the standard hates him for being successful and making money. This...
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Comment:Later Todd
Date published: 6:48 pm, June 22nd, 2017Say what you like about Todd Barclay.. atl least his staff member who he abused and screwed over was GETTING PAID at a level above the minimum wage! Vote Labour to protect worker's pay and conditions! Oh, wait... Vote labour for a better minimum wage! Oh, ...
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Comment:Act's Euthanasia Bill
Date published: 2:51 pm, June 12th, 2017I'm so sorry to hear that, that's absolutely horrific. Fly free young Jack.
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Comment:Act's Euthanasia Bill
Date published: 2:26 pm, June 12th, 2017Seymour is spot on, this is a core personal freedom issue. Don't want a gay marriage? Don't get one. Don't want a joint? Don't smoke one. Don't want a painless way of avoiding a few agonizing final months? Don't take one. But please please PLEASE don't use...
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Comment:How to make medicinal cannabis laws based on the needs of ill and disabled people
Date published: 12:20 pm, June 12th, 2017Doesn't go far enough. NZ citizens should be free to smoke / drink / imbibe what they like in the privacy of their own homes. Employers should be free to require that you turn up to work sober. Hurting each other should remain illegal, intoxication of ...
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Comment:Arise Sir John
Date published: 4:59 pm, June 5th, 2017LOL... Here's that song that's "not" about killing Key and "not" about raping his daughter, in case you've forgotten: That’s why I’m going to kill the Prime Minister. I’m going to kill the Prime Minister, because we are down and suffering and the ...
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Comment:Arise Sir John
Date published: 12:23 pm, June 5th, 2017What? It isn't 1917. In New Zealand if you can't make it on your own the government just pumps you full of unlimited free stuff week after week 'till the day you die. Overall Key has SLIGHTLY INCREASED the amount of free stuff that productive working ...
- The Secret Diary of .. Sheriff Mark Mitchell
MONDAY Sheriff Mark Mitchell rose at dawn. He had a long day’s ride ahead of him. He was headed for Waikeria. Waikeria! Even the name itself stirred his blood, and set root in his imagination. There was nothing and no one in Waikeria. But he would bend it to his ...5 days ago - The Boy in the Water: A forensic examination, at lastThe first phase of the inquest into the death of Gore toddler Lachlan Jones finished this week, turning up plenty of revelations and few answers. But through all the confusion, heartbreak and antipathy on display, the simple fact at the heart of this case remains: if little Lachie’s body had ...5 days ago
- How Many Public Sector Roles Are Going, And From Where?
Public servants' jobs are on the chopping block as the sector scrambles to meet the Finance Minister's cost-cutting targets. ...5 days ago - Can you control your image? Gina Rinehart, King Charles and ‘moral portraits’
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Benjamin, Professor in Art History, University of Sydney “She’s no oil painting”. Those were the unkind words of a colleague commenting on the subject of Vincent Namatjira’s acrylic painting, Gina. Every one of the prominent Australians and cultural heroes in Namatjira’s ...5 days ago - Government plans for Māori wards breach The Treaty of Waitangi -Tribunal
Government plans to require local councils hold a referendum on whether to have Māori wards breaches the Treaty of Waitangi, a Waitangi Tribunal report has found. ...5 days ago - Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it.Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan C Evans, Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW Sydney Martin Tobias Aakesson/Shutterstock Our government has great aspirations. It has committed to end extinctions and expand our protected areas to cover 30% of every Australian ecosystem by 2030. ...6 days ago
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- The budget has earmarked $8.6 million for live music. Is it enough to save the flailing industry?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University Leading music organisations have praised the federal budget for its investment in the live music sector. The budget includes A$8.6 million for a program called Revive Live: to provide essential support to ...6 days ago
- The Week in Politics: Charter schools, special police units and a tricky problem for the governmentThe Week in Politics: ACT brings back a signature policy, while NZ First mulls how to fulfil a promise. ...6 days ago
- There’s $110 million for Indigenous education in the budget. But where’s the evidence it will wo...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnee Shay, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland The 2024 federal budget contains A$110 million for Indigenous education. This includes funding for various different organisations to represent and help Indigenous people as well as scholarships in a bid to ...6 days ago
- New Caledonia’s Nouméa airport closed until Tuesday, says Air New ZealandAir New Zealand has confirmed Nouméa’s Tontouta International airport in New Caledonia is closed until Tuesday. The airline earlier told RNZ it would update customers as soon as it could. Earlier today, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters told RNZ Morning Report government officials had been working on an “hourly basis” ...6 days ago
- Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rainSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Linley, PhD Candidate in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Grant Linley Australia’s unprecedented Black Summer bushfires in 2019–20 created ideal conditions for misinformation to spread, from the insidious to the absurd. It was within this context that a bizarre story ...6 days ago
- ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviourSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcel Scharth, Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney OpenAI executive Mira Murati launching GPT-4o. OpenAI Earlier this week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted ...6 days ago
- Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Treasure McGuire, Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and as Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland Speedkingz/Shutterstock Menopause is a natural biological process that marks the end of a ...6 days ago
- The Friday Poem: ‘Xiāng’ by Hannah Patterson
A new poem by Hannah Patterson. Xiāng There’s a pear tree in our backyard And Xiāng tells me She can’t eat them anymore Not after some things that have happened in her life. She tells me, in Mandarin The word for pear sounds the same as the word for disassociation ...6 days ago - Cycle lanes are good for business, actually‘Cycling Works’ aims to show business support for citywide cycle infrastructure. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week, supermarket giant Foodstuffs lost its attempt to block the construction of a cycle lane outside Thorndon New World in Wellington. The Spinoff’s Wellington editor ...6 days ago
- The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending May 17The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1 Slow Productivity by Cal Newport (Penguin, $40) Taking out the top spot in Auckland this ...6 days ago
- Nuclear subs are coming to Australia. Now the Coalition wants reactors, too. We’re not ready for i...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University For decades, Australia has exported uranium – but not used it, other than in the Lucas Heights research reactor. But change is coming. We now face a rapidly deepening commitment to ...6 days ago
- After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brainSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam D Hines, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology Sergey Mironov/Shutterstock Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it’s likely at some point in our lives we’ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general ...6 days ago
- 'I can do much better': Green MP Julie Anne Genter promises to improve conduct"In future I should walk away," Green MP Julie Anne Genter says after complaints over an exchange in Parliament and from two members of the public. ...6 days ago
- Call to protect asylum seekers who may arrive in New Zealand by boatA group of more than 40 refugees, charities and advocates want better protections for asylum seekers arriving by boat. ...6 days ago
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- Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offsSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra van der Laan, Professor of Accounting, University of Sydney Mtaya/Shutterstock At some point, you or someone else will need to make a decision about your “send-off”. Most Australians die in an institution, such as a hospital or aged care facility. ...6 days ago
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- $63.6m boost for Surf Life Saving and Coastguard in Budget 2024"New Zealand has a tragically high drowning toll," Transport Minister Simeon Brown said at the announcement. ...6 days ago
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- At the heart of the budget is the sad truth the economy is weak. That’s one reason inflation will ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aruna Sathanapally, Chief Executive, Grattan Institute, Grattan Institute A central focus of this week’s budget is the treasury’s forecast for inflation. By this time next year, inflation is projected to be back within the Reserve Bank’s 2-3% target range. Inflation has ...6 days ago
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- Watch live: Transport Minister makes pre-Budget announcementSimeon Brown and Matt Doocey are set to reveal another bit of next week's budget. ...6 days ago
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- Charter schools might increase government costs, deliver marginal benefits – Cabinet papersCharter schools will likely get higher per-student funding than most state schools, and evidence of their efficacy is mixed. ...6 days ago
- Charter schools might increase government costs, deliver only marginal benefits, Cabinet papers showCharter schools will likely get higher per-student funding than most state schools, and evidence of their efficacy is mixed. ...6 days ago
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- NZ families worried as loved ones shelter from violent unrest in New CaledoniaBy Adam Burns, RNZ News reporter Worried New Caledonian expats in Aotearoa admit they are “terrified” for friends and family amid ongoing violence and civil unrest in the French Pacific territory. The death toll remained at four tonight, and hundreds have been injured after electoral changes sparked widespread rioting by ...6 days ago
- ‘Deadly spiral’ – state of emergency in Kanaky New Caledonia and the Paris vote that sparked r...French President Emmanuel Macron has declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia after several days of civil unrest in the capital. Four people are dead due to the unrest and violence in the capital, Nouméa. France TV reports that a 22-year-old gendarme who had been seriously wounded has become ...6 days ago
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- Winston Peters expresses concern over New Caledonia unrestThe Minister of Foreign Affairs says the escalating situation is of serious concern across the Pacific region. ...7 days ago
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