When I went to bed last night (about 10.30) the election result was still in the balance and I thought I would wake up this morning to a smug Scott Morrison chortling about how Australian voters had saved their country from chaos. But I was certainly ...
If you can see the sea they are togs.
The circus outside some Australian polling booths with voting placards being thrust nearly into people's faces tells me that our rule of no campaigning on election day is a pretty good rule.
The uncanny timing of this "asylum seeker boat" being found on election day should raise suspicions of any thinking voter, but I suppose the great unwashed will swallow it without a murmur.
The Australian electoral system allows campaigning on election day. It also allows election posters, billboards and other electioneering to be done almost to the doors of the voting booths. Such a system allows fat billionaires to spend something like $60 ...
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 4:44 pm, May 21st, 2022 - 124 comments
Categories: Christchurch Attack, terrorism, Ukraine, war
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The mass surrender of over 2000 members of the extreme nationalist AZOV battalion who have just been flushed out of their bunker in Mariupol is a major win in the fight against global race-based terrorism. These extreme nationalists share the same …
The 1972 NZ Super Scheme had one thing substantially different from Kiwisaver - it was government operated and government guaranteed. And that was both its biggest strength and weakness. Its strength was that the profits would stay in NZ and people would ...
National talks a lot about what they WOULDN'T do but not much about what they WOULD do - besides cutting income tax and building roads, that is. Probably because they wouldn't actually do anything.
I feel that the budget took a little too much notice of the bleatings of "the poor squeezed middle". As far as I am concerned the "poor squeezed middle" can go f.... themselves. They are in part responsible for the high inflation and exponential house ...
Mike Hosking is mostly concerned about ... about - himself - and that's what Mike Hosking has always been most...
Another example of Stuff using a stock photo, and not choosing a very good one for the occasion. When I read the article I actually had some sympathy for Mr Luxon as the self-styled "head" of this protest happens to be a well-known serial nutter in the ...
This morning there was an anti-mandate protest in Feilding. Why you need an anti-mandate protest anymore when the mandates are just about all gone suggests that many people don't ever read or listen to the news but there was one interesting point. One ...
ACT is essentially a party of wealthy white yuppies, whose concern starts and finishes at how much money is in their wallets. You can't reasonably expect such people to have any regard for people who are disadvantaged and their goal is to make a government...
It would be more accurate to say that National was supporting the intent and aims of the climate action budget. But when it comes to actual deeds, I expect National will fall back to its default position that everything is being done too fast and that ...
Yes, we actually have to pay for our "freedom" - it comes in the form of responsibilities, but some people don't want to know about that, like the rabble in parliament grounds in February.
Cycleways outside of cities are generally accepted as a good idea but as soon as you want to put them inside cities they become a polarising issue. They mean less car parks. And as everyone on this blog knows as soon as you start taking up car parks this ...
I am a driver who has worked on the roads for over 26 years. My observations are that there are two main types of people on the road who don't care a monkeys about safety, courtesy, respect for road rules and just plain commonsense - those who drive black ...
I dispute your claim that National had waiting lists under control. National's policies were to purge the waiting lists to make them look smaller so they could brag about it. That is not control, that is cynical manipulation. National is equally ...
No spitting and snarling! No brawling with police and throwing rocks! No mindless screaming and foaming at the mouth! No throwing excrement and leaving piles of rubbish for others to clean up. In other words, these were actual REAL Kiwi protestors, not ...
With respect, I think that a large part of of Jacinda Adern's problems is that she HASN'T got a big pool of talent available right now. There may be several who might develop in future years (like Jacinda herself did) but right now, it isn't there. Grant ...
Most New Zealanders are sick and tired of the social austerity - that is the lockdowns, the mandates, the masks, the social distancing, the border controls. They want to party all the time - no restrictions - and tough luck to all the poor sods who they ...
So National is interested in slashing budgets eh? Does that include the new roads and prisons that they always want to build? Probably not.
ACT wanted open shops on Good Friday and Christmas Day? So a day supporting a memorial for a World War One battle is sacred but the two most important symbols of the Christian faith aren't? And they call the LEFT loony???
ACT in the past have made noises about reducing the number of public holidays. I remember Richard Prebble saying something like the only public holiday needed aside from Christmas and Easter was ANZAC day, although I am working with a memory from over 30 ...
National and ACT have always regarded Labour Day, and its associated public holiday, with barely concealed loathing. It is a reminder to them of how NZ workers won the right to have a balanced work/sleep/recreational lifestyle and how this (to them) ...
Last night's 6 o'clock news repeated the misinformation in a report on the closing of MIQ's. Thousands and thousands of people happily swanned round in some of our best hotels for a fortnight for free in order to buy time for a vaccine to be produced then ...
Agreed that a good MIQ system would have been hard to do because of looming omicron and the reluctance of world airlines to commit themselves in a situation where rules were different throughout the world and constantly changing. It goes back to what I ...
MIQ was badly handled. The way it was set up was something of a lolly scramble. It would have been a lot better to have had a set waiting list whereby someone would move up in the queue until they gained a spot, with some spots set apart for emergencies ...
Russian war mentality. "If you don't defend yourselves we will slaughter you. If you defend yourselves we will slaughter you because you pissed us off.." Has a similarity to the creed of a certain Teutonic war monger of the 1930s.
"The ones really making things dangerous are those driving 40 in a 80 zone.." That is the stock excuse for those who think speed limits should be whatever speed you want to go. In my thousands of hours clocked up on the road I don't see many cars doing ...
I am a driver so I witness a lot of different driving behaviours on the road. I could forgiven for assuming that petrol was still $1 litre based on the kind of silly need-for-speed idiot driving I see constantly every day. Try driving at the maximum speed ...
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