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Comment:What If Roe v Wade is Really Reversed?
Date published: 1:15 pm, May 10th, 2022In 5th grade a child is 10-11 years old. A few girls would have started menstruating at that age. The term my child started school, they had an opposite sex friend and the kids would chant to them "X and Y are in the shower, having sex for hours and hours...
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Comment:The end of Roe v Wade
Date published: 9:27 am, May 5th, 2022The same story shows that women getting abortions were more likely to have voted for Biden. The Repub are killing Republicans with their covid policies and creating Democrats with their abortion policies. It doesn't seem the greatest of strategies.
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Comment:The end of Roe v Wade
Date published: 9:24 am, May 5th, 202225% of women in America will have had an abortion by the end of their child bearing years ( https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/14/upshot/who-gets-abortions-in-america.html ). Just because someone affiliates to a religion, it doesn't mean they ...
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Comment:The end of Roe v Wade
Date published: 3:41 pm, May 4th, 2022The thing is that men hold the finances that get people elected (by and large). That means men's issues always win. I think a political win versus women being criminalised and victimised isn't a great alternative. Anyway, here is how it is playing out in ...
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Comment:Open mike 02/05/2022
Date published: 9:28 am, May 2nd, 2022The PBL program has been around for ages. It was in my daughter's primary school and she's now 20. It's a whole school approach with incentives and rewards for positive behaviour - it does teach some kids to suck-up to the teachers though. With the new ...
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Comment:National's diversity problem
Date published: 11:11 am, May 1st, 2022Governing (and hence politics) is a team game. You want the best team. Sometimes the "best" candidate adds nothing to the team that isn't already there. The best team brings a diversity of views and ideas to the table, a diversity of skills, and can speak ...
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Comment:Open mike 28/04/2022
Date published: 8:10 am, April 28th, 2022Having a lottery system was the fairest way to let people in (with a separate route for emergencies). It would have been impossible for MoH workers to read, *verify* and rank around 10,000-15,000 people's reasons every round. (Verification being important ...
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Comment:RNZ's weird take on MIQ
Date published: 10:24 am, April 21st, 2022People didn't all want to come at the same time. People wanted to come and go multiple times.
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Comment:RNZ's weird take on MIQ
Date published: 10:18 am, April 21st, 2022If we had waited for a gold-plaited system then we'd still be waiting for people to get threw MIQ. The system had to be as secure, simple and as fair as possible within the resources that were available - and the constraint was human resources - something ...
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Comment:National still has a culture problem
Date published: 9:56 am, April 3rd, 2022This American Life did a segment on a women finding her troll. (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps **) . And the trolls excuse was much the same, he was feeling bad, he didn't like the women ...
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Comment:The right to protest Christchurch version
Date published: 11:18 am, March 22nd, 2022Aren't the costs being imposed because the protest wasn't notified to the council beforehand? That seems fair enough to me. The rules are there to try and keep people safe. It doesn't stop people protesting, it stops people being selfish and arroagant.
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Comment:Open mike 11/03/2022
Date published: 10:32 am, March 11th, 2022They are unvaccinated and then say "we’re against the fact that it’s been forced and no-one has a choice on anything any more," A bit of irony.
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Comment:The latest poll
Date published: 10:20 pm, March 10th, 2022It's very depressing. National are incompetent and they poll at 39%.
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Comment:Denazifying Ukraine
Date published: 9:05 am, March 7th, 2022This Nazi stuff was swirling around in America before the Capitol riots. It just smells like Russian propaganda - "what would put Europe off supporting Ukraine? They are really Nazis and Nazis are the worst."
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Comment:Convoy protest aftermath 4/3/22
Date published: 12:42 pm, March 4th, 2022The protesters do themselves no favors. https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/127954753/marae-defenders-in-altercation-with-protester-warned-more-are-coming
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Comment:Convoy protest aftermath 4/3/22
Date published: 10:13 am, March 4th, 2022I agree somewhat about the people. However, I am more concerned about the money behind it, be it overseas interests wanting to start a beachhead or local business interests who saw it as a way to pressure the govt into relaxing the rules for their personal...
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Comment:Open mike 02/03/2022
Date published: 1:19 pm, March 2nd, 2022I am favor of having a high bar for giving people the gift of NZ citizenship but in this case the child is a NZ citizen so her disability status should have no impact on the decision about the status of the rest of the family.
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Comment:Open mike 02/03/2022
Date published: 12:57 pm, March 2nd, 2022They were of no use long ago because of their inaccuracy. When the number of cases of covid in the community was tiny, a positive covid results was nearly 100% likely to be wrong. It was just sending well people home to isolate. There only use was in high ...
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Comment:Convoy protest 28/2/22
Date published: 12:26 pm, March 1st, 2022I don't know - OIA the MoH.
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Comment:Convoy protest 28/2/22
Date published: 6:30 pm, February 28th, 2022On December 1 there were only 11,900 covid-19 cases in total. Three months later there were 82,433. 87% of the cases so far haven't had a chance to have long-covid because they have had covid-19 for less then 3 months. https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?...
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Comment:Convoy protest 28/2/22
Date published: 5:58 pm, February 28th, 2022There have been 7,038 unvaccinated cases and 485 ended up in hospital i.e. 69 hospitalisation per 1000 cases. There have been 72,301double vaccinated or boosted cases with 500 ending up in hospital i.e. 7 hospitalisations per 1000 cases. (That's for people...
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Comment:Convoy protest 28/2/22
Date published: 5:37 pm, February 28th, 2022The recording of hospitalisations and deaths allows for multiple reasons for hospitalisation or death. So, if someone gets a gunshot wound and has covid-19 then the primary reason will be the gunshot wound but other conditions will be recorded as well. ...
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Comment:Convoy protest 28/2/22
Date published: 5:04 pm, February 28th, 2022From what I have heard (from eyewitnesses) the numbers are decreasing.
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Comment:Convoy protest 28/2/22
Date published: 1:35 pm, February 28th, 2022Why? If he does it in protest, is that ok?
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Comment:Convoy protest 28/2/22
Date published: 1:34 pm, February 28th, 2022Just because an adverse event is reported, it doesn't mean the event was due to covid-19. Doctors tend to report everything to check for emerging patterns of illness. We don't know how many people would have had the same event on that day if they hadn't ...
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Comment:Convoy protest 27/2/22
Date published: 4:52 pm, February 27th, 2022There is no resolution to this situation. The protesters have given a set of demands that are impossible to satisfy and would be irresponsible to satisfy.
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Comment:Convoy protest 27/2/22
Date published: 12:57 pm, February 27th, 2022I'll add COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown and Wellbeing: Experiences from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/4/2269
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Comment:Convoy protest 27/2/22
Date published: 11:16 am, February 27th, 2022Early on, I had to walk through them to get to and from work and noone was wearing masks (besides me). Maybe 6x altogether before we got sent home. I should add that I inadvertently walked through a cloud of cigarette smoke which I though was ironic.
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Comment:Convoy protest 26/2/22
Date published: 5:15 pm, February 26th, 2022There is coming in peace but that doesn't negate the fact that they are highly likely to be covid-19 carriers. I bet Winston, Seymour and Andy Foster are feeling a bit of anxiety at the moment.
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Comment:Open mike 26/02/2022
Date published: 10:46 am, February 26th, 2022A while ago Weka asked if anyone was doing something about the economic and social costs of covid-19. There is a team at Victoria University doing a study on it at the moment. They want to hear from anyone who has had covid-19 - from those who are ...
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Comment:Convoy protest 22/2/22
Date published: 5:24 pm, February 22nd, 2022It looks like they are specialised police medics from the photos.
- Bryce Edwards: Discontent and gloom dominate NZ’s political mood
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...3 weeks ago
- Hamilton councillor Melaina Huaki quit after being queried about regular absences
Melaina Huaki attended only two-thirds of the meetings she was scheduled to be at, and resigned after RNZ asked why. ...5 days ago - Diary cock-up heaps pressure on fast-track ministers
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RNZ Pacific Outgoing Secretary-General Henry Puna of the Pacific Islands Forum is “not surprised” with the violent unrest in New Caledonia which has shut down the French Pacific territory. New Caledonia has come to a virtual stop after three days of civil unrest, resulting in burning, shooting and looting, as ...5 days ago - Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over GazaCOMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly endless human rights atrocities committed against you. It’s been seven months of almost complete silence from Mamamia and their most popular writers and podcast hosts. ...6 days ago
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- The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowan...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Goldie, Adjunct Professor and UNSW Law Advisory Council Member, UNSW Sydney Victoria Labadie/Shutterstock The government says the budget will help people doing it tough. But it has also opted not to increase JobSeeker and Youth Allowance, despite expert advice these ...6 days ago
- Funding might change, but Job-ready Graduates stays for now. What does the budget fine print say abo...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwilym Croucher, Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne On one level, the 2024 federal budget brought few big surprises for universities. The two key measures were already announced leading up to May 14: ...6 days ago
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- Anything Less Than $49/week Isn’t Tax Relief, It’s Shortchanging New Zealanders
Connor Molloy, said: “Christopher Luxon is right to point out that inflation over the last 14 has pushed New Zealanders into higher income tax brackets so that they are paying more of their wages in tax even when they are not better off." ...6 days ago - How easy is it to leave a gang?As police focus on curbing gang activity, community leaders say arrests won't solve issues that run deeper. ...6 days ago
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- Comical Incompetence As Wellington Council Might Have To Dig Up Brand New $55 Million Bus Lanes And ...A memo accidentally released by Wellington City Council shows at least $5.2 million of pipes needing urgent repair have just been covered up by $55 million of brand new bus and cycle lanes on Thorndon Quay. ...6 days ago
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- Green industry yes, conservation no: a budget for people, not for natureSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Neal, Senior lecturer in Economics / Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Sonpichit Salangsing/Shutterstock Last night’s budget is another missed opportunity to arrest the poor and deteriorating state of the Australian environment. Subsidising green industry in Labor’s ...6 days ago
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- Strike Force Raptor 3.0? The new anti-gang unit, and the questions that remainA new national gang unit – coupled with smaller ‘disruption units’ – will target and ‘harass’ gang members, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. A gang crackdown Throughout National’s election campaign and into its time in government, ...6 days ago
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- Questions about coalition's Covid-19 vaccine mandate pledgeThe government is still trying to work out how it will meet its pledge to end Covid mandates, given the mandates were scrapped more than a year ago. ...6 days ago
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