Are You claiming Labour never utilised former PM’s or senior members for political purpose despite them being involved in supposedly non partisan roles?
This is a deep involvement with a particular candidate rather than just general party support.
Maybe previous leaders have a particular issue they were involved with ?
Sign of desperation. Maybe Bidois is the wrong candidate for national in a by election on the Shore and their polling is telling them that
Key is on a few boards of Govt entities is he not ?
Key’s on the board for Air New Zealand, and ANZ Bank…. Maybe he checks his LinkedIn requests in alphabetical order? 😛
Air NZ is majority owned by the Crown but it’s publicly traded, so the obligations on directors are clearly established and no different from any other listed entity.
Neither directorship presents anything even remotely resembling a conflict of interest for Key. If he wants to shill for a candidate, then he’s absolutely entitled to do so.
A little bit like a former All Black endorsing National in and around the time of a general election perhaps ?
Or perhaps not quite as bad ,… this being a by election…
But you must admit,… something stinks,… and if you think Denmark has problems with stenches , – they have nothing to complain about compared to this,… and Key.
So in your mind the fact that Key recently became involved in the NZ side of ANZ means he will be caught up in the Banking inquiry despite not being there for the time being looked at.
How on earth is being Chair of the NZ wing of ANZ Bank a conflict of interest with appearing with Dan Bidios?
Or indeed a conflict of interest with anything that he currently does.
For years Sir Michael Cullen has been Chair of Kiwibank (appointed by National). He chairs the Tax Working Group. No-one has suggested that is a conflict of interest.
The commenters here are letting their antipathy of Sir John Key cloud their judgement. No surprise there.
Yes and I stated he never worked for an Australian retail bank before. He does so now but as his role is new and based in NZ he is unlikely to be pulled in to the inquiry by the Australian government on what Australian Retail banks did in Australia. But if you want to place a wager on it…
Don’t forget that a parallel inquiry is getting under way on the same banks in NZ. So Key while may not have been involved in the period under question, he is there now and will be tainted by association
Link please on the announcement of this parallel inquiry on the Australian banks in NZ.
Who is holding this inquiry given I have not heard the Government of NZ nor the RBNZ announcing they will be conducting any inquiry. The Australian government has no jurisdiction in NZ over financial matters here.
Just a nice stiff letter and a chat from the Reserve Bank with a whole bunch of questions for them to answer, specifically referencing the Australian inquiry findings.
However Sam Stubbs is building the groundswell for a public inquiry – see NZHerald today. Now that would be fun.
Yes but hes only just joined the board ( Jan ) and as Chair of the ANZ NZ subsidiary and later an ordinary member of the main board in Australia
Compare with the board of AMP which was up to its neck in regulatory malfeasance.
He is extremely unlikely to be caught up in any banking inquiry looking at the practice of Australian banks in Australia as a result of his recent appointment.
I shall reword you comment to be more accurate.
Now he is a director of ANZ Bank in New Zealand which is a subsidiary of the Australian Parent company. The operational workings are distinct from the Australian operation. Hint the NZ stands for New Zealand.
“also called “ANZ” in Australia”.
As someone who has accounts with the ANZ in both Australia and New Zealand I am only to aware that that is just about the only thing they have in common.
It is impossible to deal with the Australian bank in New Zealand. It is also impossible to deal with the New Zealand bank in Australia. The fabled Chinese Wall is absolutely impregnable.
Drives me crazy sometimes.
you are obviously not as smart as you thunk you are alwhinge. I have lived in aus and banked with anz in both countries simultaniously, with accounts in both countries . had no probs with the crossover once I pointed out to the lady behind the counter in sydney what the nz in anz stood for.
Amazing.
Please tell me pawlie. Assuming you lived in New Zealand and did not actually have a residential address in Australia how hard was it to persuade them to give you a credit card denominated in Australian dollars that would be paid, by direct debit, from an Australian account each month on due date?
And could the nice lady behind the counter tell you the balance in one of your New Zealand accounts from her Sydney terminal?
@paul Andersen.
I had really hoped you could have taken the time to answer my questions. You obviously find it a very simple matter to arrange these things and I was looking forward to your explanation for what I should do.
But, from you, nothing.
Is it really not as easy as you claim?
The operational workings are distinct from the Australian operation.
Yeah, I think we need an inquiry to ensure that. I’m pretty sure that the culture of criminality in the Australian banks would transfer across. Probably via direct instruction along the lines of: We’re doing it this way so you guys do to. This is a command from your owner.
And how do you know if he never worked for Australian banks even if indirectly?
And don’t feed us that bullshit that he worked as a bloody teller at the front of the bank, either,
But using a shitty ‘ Key – ism’ ,… what we can say is that John Key worked in tandem with Andrew Kreiger in pulling off the greatest FOREX heist in history against none other than the KIWI DOLLAR.
There’s your shitty hero in all his glowing true colours,- a self centered narcissistic , greedy grasping prick who never gave one shit about the economy thus the people of this country.
That’s your hero ‘John Key’ for you.
And the final authority that signed off on an SAS operation that saw the massacre of 6 civilians including a three year girl.
Doesn’t it strike you as rather coincidental that Key collaborated with Kreiger in almost collapsing the NZ economy when a Labour govt was in power? So much so that an official in Michael Cullen’s office called New York and virtually told Kreiger to ‘ get your fucking hands off our economy ‘ ?
Of course you would deny that as well.
Are you that much of a slimebag you cant even admit to that?
I guess not.
Anything to save either your ego , your vested interests or your Americanized worldview..
How odious.
And I don’t have to explain a thing, bud.
That’s why we provide links. I’m not here to hold your hand and wipe your dirty arse for you.
2 / I am not interested in your personal estimations of your own intellectual prowess.
3 / You cannot answer why Douglas left a report to be conveniently ‘discovered’ outlining his plans to float the NZ dollar.
4 / If you’d really like to know, – and have your whole neo liberal premise ( and that of your hero Keys ) exposed I am more than happy to oblige.
5 / The fact that the far right lost its hold during the Clarke years has much to do with it , – including why Key acted in the reckless , narcissistic manner he did with Kreiger against the KIWI at a much later date.
6 / It may be painfully embarrassing for you – and your hero Key , – if I did.
“Just WHY did Roger Douglas demand Rob Muldoon float the dollar “.
Well technically it was David Lange and it was a devaluation not a float.
The fact that you actually have to ask that question astounds me. Are you really so ignorant of international trade and foreign exchange that you have to ask?
For a very simple explanation of what happened in 1984 why don’t you have a look at this. https://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/1989/09/from_run_to_float_the_making_of_the_rogernomics_exchange_rate_policy/
Can I also suggest you get, or borrow from the Library, a simple book on Economics and read it. It isn’t really that hard to understand the basics and you won’t make yourself look so foolish in future.
Well , thank you for making all the others’ look so foolish’ as well …
…. ‘ it was a devaluation not a float ‘…
Which just goes to show that Gosman speaks through a hole in his arse with all his pompous bluster about ‘ knowing all about Forex’….
L0L0L0L !
Thank you.
And no , you are completely wrong, – it was Douglas who ‘accidentally released a statement ‘…
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…’ A key point of the free-market cabal’s programme was to devalue the New Zealand dollar, an extremely sensitive issue. Several weeks before the July 1984 election. Douglas, Labour’s shadow finance minister, “accidentally” released a statement which signaled his intent to devalue.
Since it was a near certainty that Labour, aided by the New Zealand Party’s drawing votes from National , would win, speculators began to dump the New Zealand dollar, planning, post-devaluation, to cash in each dollar of foreign currency for more New Zealand dollars than previously ‘…
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You , my wee dear laddie , ….have fallen straight into the noose unassisted.
Thank you.
And now may I introduce you to the REAL HISTORY of this country and the bogus premises with which the far right seized power,… and far from ME having to go to a library , … I would suggest that YOU save yourself a trip to the library and read this historic yet very up to date historical narrative on New Zealand’s recent political and economic history…
Read it up , you arrogant psuedo intellectual moron. And lets see you come back with an answer to the charges it makes.
I think you will find it more than damning on each and every level that you , and your fellow neo liberal travellor’s have tried to pollute this site, this country’s democracy and this economy for the last 34 years.
Oh ,… and one other thing,… we don’t talk ‘technically’ it was this person or that person when clearly it was one individual. And in this case,.. Roger Douglas.
Lange and Douglas ended up hating each others guts.
And if there is one redeeming quality about Lange it was because HE at least had a conscience.
And , – the whole premise of ‘devaluing ‘ was to be able to float the NZ dollar.
And cash in.
So there’s bugger all similarity’s between the short straws you are trying to draw and the actual reality’s I’m talking about.
…. ‘ And , – the whole premise of ‘devaluing ‘ was to be able to float the NZ dollar’….
Ever wondered where the concept of ‘ Corporate NZ ‘ came from ?
Well , that’s when a company opens itself to be registered and ‘ publicly floated’…ie ;
Instead of being exclusively privately owned , it ‘floats itself’ and opens itself up to public shareholdings. These shareholdings could, depending on the govt’s rules be local or offshore…
And one of the reasons behind Douglas’s drive to devalue was to create an artificial ‘crises’…and in that ‘crises’ would provide strong motivation and incentive to essentially ‘ float ‘ ‘corporate NZ ‘ and its economy by deregulation – particularly of Treasury and the Reserve Bank , – and open it up to private ( usually foreign) investment.
We are registered on the New York Stock Exchange as ‘ Corporate NZ’.
Moving on,… and we have after 34 years , – Australian banks virtually controlling ALL of our finances, dictating our interest rates, and hence our economy and hence our social conditions.- with a large bulk of profits due to foreign interest rates exiting this country , …. now ,… does any of this seem like sovereign New Zealand or in New Zealand’s best interests ?
And yet meanwhile , – free trade agreements which are imbalanced – ie FTA with China,…mean that we are vulnerable to power plays in the Pacific ,… sandwiched as it were between the USA and China , …along with increased pressure from other offshore banking / business interests ie ; Austalia , mean that slowly ( yet rapidly as the process actually was originally … ) we lose all notion of sovereignty barring that in name only.
In effect?
We have been systematically hollowed out as a nation.
Ever wondered why in a land of plenty there is so little to go round?
Here is your answer.
Again I say ,.. read these timely and wise words from an extract from Hugh Price of Hugh Price Publishers.
Hugh Price was a New Zealand Patriot.
Then read it again. Let it sink in.
Do your children and grandchildren a favour, and for Gods sakes fight for them.
… ‘ Thus it was perfectly understandable, indeed predictable, that any election called with some possibility of a devaluation shortly after would cause a run on the dollar. The practice in previous elections had been for the Treasury and the Bank to increase the liquidity of their foreign exchange holdings as the country moved into the final stages of the election. This apparently had been planned for a November 1984 election, but a snap election five months early had not been allowed for. However, given the extent of the run that actually occurred, there may not have been enough official liquidity, even if the officials had anticipated the early election ‘…
Interesting ;
‘Given the extent of the run, there may not have been enough official liquidity , even if the officials had anticipated the early election’….
And yet who caused the snap election ?
None other than Marilyn Waring.
And why ?… by threatening to cross the floor and vote with the opposition in favour of what would become Langes ‘nuclear moment’… have we heard that before recently?
Was Waring involved ?
We cannot say,… but it all seems so coincidental that right at the time that Bob Jones was lining up his ‘NZ party’ to dethrone Rob Muldoon by splitting the National vote, and around the same time Douglas was leaking his ‘devaluation’ papers,..that there was indeed a movement afoot to first ‘devalue’ the dollar, deregulate the financial markets and that, … by definition , … meant the Reserve bank as well as Treasury would have to follow suit ,.. which was exactly what happened.
And Corporate NZ was then up for sale , – often to the lowest bidder.
And why was devaluing and the ensuing deregulation of our financial markets so important to the Riogernomes?… simply because it meant that now the KIWI could be traded and a profit made on it. Massively huge profits.
And that , in effect was the very genesis of out current woes.
Well of course the National collective has doubts about Simon Bridges,… he has not the ‘presence’ to carry it off. Key used smarmyness, Collins uses ‘ brute appeal’.
I would say Bridges will give way to Collins eventually .
Which is not far from the natural order of things.
Key is gone , and that leaves Collins a free path, Bridges will be OK with that because he is a close colleague of Collins. Key will just make an appearance to validate it.
As for the big guns?
That area is Tory country anyways. Though there are signs of even that changing…
There are no ‘ big guns’ happening , – if anything , – more a liability and an opportunity for uncomfortable questions to be asked, such as ‘ why did you really leave , John ,.. was the heat over Operaton Burnham getting too hot?’… and what was that about tax havens , Johnno ?,… ‘was the sale of your home to a Mainland Chinese investor worth it in light of all the homeless in New Zealand, John ‘ Are you enjoying that wealth with a free conscience , John ? ‘…
If anyone who has followed the John Key disaster for the last 9 years will already know… there are rich pickings and much low hanging fruit to be had to gorge on…
Yes; we also remember when in 2007 Minister of Finance Michael Cullen connected Shin-key to the Tranzrail rort – and Key was holding the rail shares but hid them?
Key was also involved as a broker in 1990’s facilitating the sale of NZ Rail Corporation to Fay/Richwhite also.
Key did not sell his Fletcher Challenge Forests shares until June 2003, the same time as he sold his Tranzrail shares. He sold them in four parcels, on the 11th, 12, and 16th of June, for total of around $105,000 [share price]. As Key sold both his Tranzrail and FCF holdings at the same time, it may be that he sold his entire New Zealand share portfolio at this time This matches with his statement on Sunrise that he hasn’t owned any New Zealand shares since 2003. Why he chose to sell then and what other companies he held, we don’t know.
The Australian and NZ Banking sectors are very different beasts. It would serve little to no purpose calling over NZ based executives or Board members (unless they also worked in Australia at some stage). It certainly would make zero sense to have a NZ based board member be questioned about activities that occurred in Australia BEFORE HE WAS EVEN APPOINTED.
And ,… um ,… you are trying to suggest that a former Prime Minister of New Zealand who was all Bro- mates with Australia’s PM and was a major
player in the New York Forex markets is not intimately kept in the loop with what happens across the Tasman’s banking and financial systems …
OKKKKKK…
We have a right one here , Ladies and Gentlemen,…
Introducing Gosman , the new up and coming comedy act that will set New Zealand on the world stage along with the likes of Lorde, Split ENZ, and Crowded House….
Nope,
Prove key is not involved with bit coin?
You obviously have a clear idea of what proof is, so should be no problem for you to produce proof that key is not involved with bitcoin.
I find it interesting that anz didn’t take the opportunity to comment when I asked.
Nah mate , were struggling with the fact a dishonest murderous bastard like Key managed to fleece New Zealanders for 9 years without a whimper from our MSM , – including gullible bastards like you , bud.
Well this is a rather humorous shot out of the blue, – from whence did you spring from all of a sudden ?
Oh well , no matter , … Gosman , James, Yaga, and whatever , all the same to me… you see that’s the problem, … all you far right wing apologists all blur into one after a while, … you really need to learn to diversify a little bit…
Mix it up a bit. Be a little more military about it,… you know ,… spread out when attacking , concentrate forces when defending,… that sort of basic stuff.
But you don’t do that and you become easy meat. And in this case , – the comedians dream material.
So James , Gosman , Yaga or whatever else you care to call yourself at the moment ,,… I wish you a good day and hope you get over your confusion,… I really am perplexed at your sudden and unexplained appearance… and wish you well…
James, you may be correct, your comment caught my interest so, I did an image search online, and nada, the image is only on here according to my image search.
Well , one can only assume its a screenshot designed to send John Key up,… but truly now,… does it really matter when Key sent himself and this country up on an almost weekly basis?
One only has to Google John Oliver to see the evidence.
And why , pray tell would Key do that ?
Was it self mockery and embarrassment that he only achieved being Prime Minister of New Zealand and not Planet Key ?
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Oh shall we try that again , seems to be a problem with the censorship… an ongoing problem with the John Key administration in censoring anything disagreeable to their liking , it seems…
Banned Planet Key music video – YouTube
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Lolz forgot about the bitcoin; I have seen the PM that quit in a dodgy looking get rich quick scheme before (not bitcoin).
Wouldn’t have surprised me if the nats had whipped out key to try and push their Northcote candidate, that’s the funny/crazy thing, it’s easily believable.
So Truck Stop Paula doesnt have enough star power ?
Looks Strategy A was to downplay the by-election which is usually done if you sure you will win and dont want to other sides voters to even be aware an election is on.
Now they are onto Strategy B, which is to get publicity for their candidate and tell all their own voters , wake up there is an election on.
Expect an announcement about roads and bridges next !!! ( the only time Soimum will be mentioned) hahahaha
Especially when he saw the Donald didn’t give a crap about this no namer pony tail puller from where?… Nu Zaland??? What a creep ! Can we bomb that place???
And caused the National party to lose magnificently. Left Boring Dipping Bill in charge and didn’t give a shit. A bit like hes always been.
Oh damn. He is a fine man in the true National mould(y).
It would be a mistake to look beyond this man’s excellence which has been recounted in these historic lines.
(Simon) had a pair of boots with great big spurs
on;.
A fighting pair of which he was particularly fond.
On Tuesday and on Friday, just to make the street
look tidy,
He’d collect the passing villagers and kick them in
the pond…..
but, those villagers got out of the swamp…
(Simon) went a journey and he found a lot of
duckweed.
They pulled him out and dried him and they
blipped him on the head.
They took him by the breeches and they hurled
him into ditches
And they pushed him under waterfalls and this
is what they said:
“You are Si.. — don’t laugh,
You are Si.. — don’t cry;
You are Si.. as bold as a lion —
(Simon) the Lion, goodbye!”
Good Grief – Key has been gone for well over 12 months and still the mad frothing from certain commenters bit like Helen is to those on the other side ..red rag to a bull..
Anyhoo after looking at the candidates in Northcote if it was my electorate i’d be voting for the green candidate rather than the muppets the red or blue team have put up.
Nah , time means nothing when it comes to justice and with Key , – there’s unfinished business.
You wouldn’t deny Arthur Allan Thomas or Teina Pora justice would you despite the fact that they are ‘historic cases’… and there’s a whole range of issues surrounding Key that needs the spotlight shined fully on him.
And for him to turn up and show his face endorsing the very party that he dumped unceremoniously and left to lose an election smacks of a man who never gave a shit about the people of this country anyway, – yet deems he is sufficiently safe in hiding behind some sort of ‘statesman’ like facade.
Well hes not even that , – and many among us view him as a cheap conman.
Worse still , culpable in the murder of a 6 year old girl in Afghanistan .
Oh no no no , little friend, I call the game plan, not you,… and , I know you are chaffing at the bit for more , but be patient small grasshopper…all will be revealed in time…
Now ,.. back to John Key ,… the pony tail man….
Just what was it that he saw in Obama that made him so fawning ..?
Was it the superior height and Keys small man syndrome ?
Or was it the recognition of the almost insignificance of Keys role in the 5 eyes arrangement ?
“Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista) or the Franco regime (Spanish: Régimen de Franco) is the period of Spanish history between 1939, when Francisco Franco took control of Spain after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain
Natz must really be on the skids for it to roll the creepy, slimy one out once more to save its burnt bacon! Amazing what desperation can lead to at times.
After all ,.. they did try the almost deceased Richard Prebble ( at least his political career can be described as such … ) in rolling him out on commenting on rail ,… or in his words… ‘trams’… the other day…
So why not the shower pissing wonder and obligate narcissist John Key ?
As the old adage says … ‘ If the cap fits,… wear it’….
nationals were totally unprepared for defeat. everybody kept their thoughts to themselves, held their cards close to their chest and let the media do its little dance thinking that was enough.
nah.
the people had enough of nationals ramshhackle venal attitude to everything.
sure they made little booms here and there but the ultimate cost is enormous.
the media here is timid, unlearned, ignorant and devoted to their jobs first and foremost because that is the way the world rolls.
the cost of repairing nationals mistakes is going to exhaust any government but one thing for sure is that another ring in like john key and his style of government should never be repeated.
his job was to loot the treasury and he did so successfully.
lets hope his policies have not brought the country to its knees.
a lot of shit is about to come down the pike as they say and we have to be ready and alert to change.
and that means no wasting money on absurd ideological experiments and reminding the population that new zealand is not some completely infantilised episode out of a reality t.v. show.
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I am about to mail my overseas ballot to Florida so that it can be counted in the Democratic primary on March 17. In Florida you have closed as opposed to open primaries, which means that one must declare a party preference in order to vote in a party primary. ...
Winston Peters - Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the NZ First PartyWe all know that politics can be pretty messy at times. Just look at the Dirty Politics saga in New Zealand, the misgovernment of the Australian bushfires or the recent Trump impeachment debacle in the US. In a ...
Last Monday SpaceX launched another clutch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit, bringing up to 300 the number of these units intended to bring 5G internet to the whole globe. In this post I present a movie showing how all 300 such satellites will be zipping around our planet over ...
The recent floods in Southland have highlighted the issue of Rio Tinto's illegal toxic waste dump in Mataura. But according to Newsroom, there's an even worse mess in Ruakaka near Whangarei:A Northland property stockpiled one million litres of flammable and toxic chemicals. Almost two years since the situation came to ...
It’s amazing just how many attack ads $100,000 buys you these days. The National Party has really been going to town lately, with their latest Twitter campaign making a number of questionable and blatantly false assertions, one being that poverty has worsened under the Labour led Government.The National Party's claim ...
OMV's exploratory drilling in the Great South Basin has failed to find oil. Good. Firstly, because we can't afford to burn the oil and gas we've already found, so there's just no point looking for more. And secondly, because offshore, deep-water drilling poses a risk of an environmental catastrophe, which ...
The government has announced it will strengthen whistleblower protections. The major change is "allowing people to report serious wrongdoing direct to an external authority if they wish", which fixes one of the big flaws in the Act. At present, whistleblowers must generally make their disclosure direct to the body they ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bruce Lieberman CARLSBAD, CA. – When it comes to paying the electric bill, most people don’t give it a second thought – it’s something that in effect is “baked in.” But across California and several other states, local governments increasingly are ...
Excerpts from Being and Being Bought, by Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Spinifex Press, 2013. Part 4 Ekman, a Swedish journalist and critic, brings together a Marxist and feminist analysis of prostitution and surrogacy in this groundbreaking book. This is the fourth part of a synopsis and brief commentary of the book by Daphna ...
The Democracy Virus: China’s authoritarian political system enables a level of social surveillance and control that liberal democratic societies cannot match. The Chinese Government makes full use of the latest digital technology to both punish – and reward – its citizens. The plans it formulates cannot be challenged, or hindered. Where ...
Another day, another IPCA report on criminal conduct by policy. This time they kicked a child in the head when he was handcuffed:Police chased him and yelled out for him to stop. When he turned to face the police, he threatened them with a hammer. That's when the officers tasered ...
The investigation of two of the five parties in Parliament for fraud around their election donations has pushed the issue of party funding back into the spotlight. And while there are obvious things we can do to tighten up the donations regime - a much lower declaration threshold, realtime disclosure ...
While the south of New Zealand has been struggling with too much rain in recent days, here in the north we are so very short of it (though Saturday’s forecast looks promising). Basically, we have had almost none since Christmas.As someone who relies on rain to wash the car, ...
Former National Party MP Jami-Lee RossIt comes as no surprise that Jami-Lee Ross has been named as one of the defendants in the X2 $100,000 National Party donations case currently before the courts. Click bait journalists who were chaffing at the bit to discredit the former senior whip had already ...
Stand Clear! Winston Peters is encouraging voters to think of RNZ as belonging to “The Media Party”. He wants them to see it as a politically partisan institution with its own, vicious attack-dogs in the electoral fight. If he succeeds, it will be, and probably should be, the end of ...
"You're going to need a longer runway" Gratton et al explore the ongoing effects of upward-creeping temperatures on aviation in Greece in the period since 1955 at a range of airports in that country. For longer runways impacts are measurable but with little impact on operations. For airports with shorter runways, ...
In mid-December the Israeli secret police, the Shin Beit, revealed it had arrested dozens of Palestinian left-wing activists, including members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in the previous few months. Among those arrested was one of the central leaders of the PFLP, Khalida Jarrar. As ...
Former National Party chief whip Jami-Lee Ross is one of the four people charged over National's multiple fraudulent donations. How unsurprising. Meanwhile, just days ago National leader Simon Bridges was trying to pretend the charges were nothing to do with his party. Yeah, right. When your chief whip effectively publicly ...
If you've been watching FYI for a while, you'll have noticed that the police have a bad habit of demanding ID from requesters. They have apparently been repeatedly told to stop doing this by the Ombudsman, but we all know what law enforcement thinks of the law, so thye keep ...
Collateral Damage: For the Green Phoenix to be reborn, the funeral pyre so patiently assembled by its identity politicians over the course of many fractious years – but with growing intensity over the past three – first has to be ignited. The terrible probability, of course, is that, in setting ...
If you follow politics in New Zealand you've likely noticed that the right wing have been going on and on about the Coalition Government failing to reduce poverty. In fact they’ve been incessantly claiming, in the absence of any conclusive data, that poverty has been getting worse.Yesterday, NewstalkZB reported:Mike Hosking: ...
The Herald reported over the weekend that an Auckland business owner is being targeted with asset forfeiture laws over a workplace death:A workplace fatality has seen police use a law usually associated with drugs and organised crime to seize millions of dollars in assets from a business owner because of ...
Just days after talking about how people feel "squeezed" and promising tax and service cuts as a "solution", National is talking about cancelling a rise in the minimum wage if elected: National is considering scrapping the Government's planned minimum wage increase if it wins this year's election, the party's finance ...
Nobody thinks about the next century anymore. That at least is Sci-Fi writer William Gibson’s observation (in this BBC 4 short interview, starting at 1:43:50 ). He calls it “Futures Fatigue”, but isn’t judgemental about it. Gibson notes that in the 20th century speculation about the 21st (and beyond) was common. Now ...
A Labour government desperate for the numbers crawls into bed with Winston Peters. Winston ignores the law and secretly takes money under the table from someone. When it is exposed just months out from an election, he is investigated by the Serious Fraud Office. That's what happened back in 2008. ...
So the Serious Fraud Office has another secret $100,050 National Party donation before the Courts in a major scandal that looks set to quash any chances Simon Bridges had of winning the 2020 election.Yesterday, Newsroom reported:The Serious Fraud Office prosecution of four people over donations to the National Party involves ...
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... Story of the Week... Iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C., breaks off Pine Island glacier in Antarctica Story Highlights: The Pine Island ...
Prof Philippa Howden-ChapmanHousing policy is building up to be the key election issue again. In this blog I reflect on the importance of the role of the New Zealand Government in improving access to affordable housing. I look at what the Government has been doing to increase quality public housing ...
Writing on The Spinoff, Danyl Mclauchlan argues that we have a vacuum in our political system, in that there is no longer an anti-establishment party anymore:I think there’s a vacuum in our political system. There are obvious problems with the status quo but no real critics offering reform. It’s a ...
Stuff today has a piece about the government discovering it has been oversubsidising polluters for a decade under the Emissions Trading scheme:The Government is pledging to urgently fix an issue within the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), after it emerged some polluters are likely being over-compensated with taxpayer-funded carbon credits. [...] ...
The Marlborough District Council, tired of public scrutiny, wants to increase the amount it charges for LGOIMA requests:The cost of requesting official information from Marlborough's government agency could almost double after a jump in "fishing expeditions". Charges could be raised from $60 to $100 an hour for information supplied by ...
When Winston Peters was caught money laundering donations and stalking journalists, the Greens were conspicuous by their silence. It was another example of how getting along with their government partners was eroding their values and their own reputation. It was obviously unsustainable, and so now James Shaw has finally spoken ...
I am among the most pro-free speech people I know. I don’t doubt there are others more strident than me, but I’m certainly up there. And my support for freedom of expression isn’t limited to opposition to government-imposed restrictions. It extends to a belief that employers should have limited powers ...
The eastern Bay of Plenty town of Ōpōtiki is getting a new harbour, which will create 1,850 new jobs in the region, in a new round of regional services funding announced by Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones. Ōpōtiki's harbour is currently unusable by most ships, but it will receive ...
Darroch Ball MP, New Zealand First Spokesperson for Law and Order New Zealand First Law and Order spokesman Darroch Ball has submitted the ‘Sentencing (Priority of Interests in Sentencing) Amendment Bill’ – a Members Bill which introduces a new overarching ‘priority and weighting provision’ that courts must follow when sentencing ...
Fletcher Tabuteau MP, New Zealand First Deputy Leader A total delivery of 2,000 new Police Officers has been achieved. New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Fletcher Tabuteau attended the latest police graduation of Recruit Wing 335 in Porirua today. Mr Tabuteau said, “Increasing police numbers and boosting their resources was one of ...
Taupō District mayor David Trewavas has welcomed today’s announcement from regional economic development minister Shane Jones outlining $5.87m of funding for the re-development of the Taupō Airport. The bulk of the investment ($5 million) will come from the Provincial Growth Fund, while the rest will be from the New Zealand ...
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has defended multi-million dollar provincial growth fund money for Northland water storage. The New Zealand First leader, along with Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones, were recently in Dargaville to announce up to $12.745 million PGF funding top-up for water storage initiatives in the ...
One of our most immediate priorities upon forming Government was to get people out of sleeping in cars, garages, or on the street and into safe and warm housing. Since then, we've made major progress towards breaking the cycle of homelessness, including expanding Housing First, building more state houses, and ...
Kids learn better with a full stomach. That's why we launched our Lunches in Schools programme, which is already providing free and healthy school lunches to thousands of children so they can focus on what's important - learning. ...
Mark Patterson MP, New Zealand First List MP based in Clutha-Southland This afternoon to a crowd of over 100 people in Mataura -- Mark Patterson, New Zealand First List MP based in Clutha-Southland launched a parliamentary petition regarding the aluminium dross issue in Mataura, Southland. The petition asks that the ...
Fletcher Tabuteau MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development New Zealand First Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Finance, Fletcher Tabuteau has welcomed Statistics New Zealand’s latest report as a timely reminder of the value that this Coalition Government brings to every day New Zealanders: “This Coalition Government has meant a ...
Today New Zealand First made a pledge to campaign at the election to fund St John Ambulance the 90 per cent it has asked for. Government funding would allow St. John’s to achieve fully funded status. Leader of New Zealand First, Rt Hon Winston Peters publicly declared his determination to deliver ...
Darroch Ball MP, Spokesperson for Law and Order Newly released Police data shows once again the number of fleeing drivers have continued to skyrocket with a record 512 incidents occurring in December – almost tripling the number of incidents occurring just ten years ago, says New Zealand First Law and ...
While the Provincial Growth Fund has provided $2 million to set up temporary water supplies in Kaikohe and Kaitaia, Regional Economic Minister Shane Jones said he is greatly concerned that there are “issues” in implementing the projects. The Minister said the immediate solution was to pipe water from a bore ...
Mark Patterson MP, New Zealand First List MP for Clutha-Southland NZ First is calling on Rio Tinto to accept its responsibilities to the Southland community and enable the immediate removal of the toxic Aluminium Dross from the Mataura Paper Mill site. New Zealand First List MP for Clutha-Southland, Mark Patterson ...
The Coalition Government has announced that a further $500,000 will be given to help residents in Southland and Otago to speed up recovery efforts from the floods. It follows prior government assistance of $200,000 earlier this month where the Southland Mayoral Relief Fund received $100,000 to support communities impacted by ...
Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones was on RNZ’s Morning Report talking about the recent droughts in the Northland region and what the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is doing to alleviate its impact. The PGF recently announced a funding of $2 million for temporary water supplies to Kaikohe and Kaitaia, ...
Speaking to The Country’s Jamie Mackay, New Zealand First MP and Cabinet Minister Shane Jones talks water storage, plant-based meat imitation, and superstar Hollywood director James Cameron. While water storage may have its critics, Minister Jones defended the scheme by saying: “unless we invest and continue to invest” in this ...
Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones is accusing northern iwi leaders of selling out Māori by voting for ideologically-driven court cases rather than practical steps to increase water supply. “I just think that iwi leaders who think that water issues are going to be solved by perpetually fighting in the ...
A dairy owner in St Kilda, Dunedin was delighted to hear that an attempted robbery of his establishment was foiled by a government-funded security system. Sean Lee was delighted at how well the anti-theft smoke system worked. When a knife-wielding man entered the store, the shop assistant immediately pressed a ...
Customs says it stopped more than three tonnes of illegal drugs coming into New Zealand last year. This includes 1,180kg of methamphetamine, 329kg of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine precursors, which could have been converted into 246kg of methamphetamine, 739kg and 6469 pills of MDMA or Ecstasy and 60kg of cocaine. Offshore, ...
Hon. Shane Jones, Minister for Regional Economic Development Up to $2 million will be allocated from the Provincial Growth Fund to set up temporary water supplies in Kaikohe and Kaitaia where drought is biting hard, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. Drought conditions in Northland have led to ...
Darroch Ball, Spokesperson for Law and Order New Zealand First welcomes the deployment of an Eagle Police helicopter in Christchurch in what is a step towards fulfilling its long-standing goal to increase the use of police helicopters for the front line, particularly in addressing the scourge of fleeing drivers. Christchurch leads ...
It may have been the first sitting week of 2020, but our Government is already in full-swing - managing a strong economy, investing in infrastructure, and working to break the cycle of homelessness. Read below for all that, and more... ...
In a heated debate in Parliament, National's Deputy Leader Paula Bennett claimed that “nearly 1600 patched gang members have been added” since the Coalition Government took power. To illustrate her point, she altered a chart used by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to show her government’s progress in housing to instead ...
Speech by the Rt Hon Winston Peters at Parliament’s Opening 2020 "We all need insurance" This year New Zealanders are going to have a clear choice to make That choice is between: Optimism versus pessimism; More progress versus back to the future; Investment versus divestment; Unity versus division. New Zealand ...
Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones has slammed the Board of Auckland Airport following the airport's runway closing twice within two weeks due to maintenance. Around 2,000 passengers were affected by last week’s runway closures, according to 1NEWS. Another maintenance closure on January 24 saw two international flights and three domestic flights ...
It’s my pleasure to be in Sydney today for our annual meeting, Prime Minister. It’s fair to say that since we last met, tragedy and disaster have befallen our two countries. They say that in moments of that nature, the true character of an individual comes to the fore. I ...
Travel restrictions introduced for Iran from today No exemptions for students from China to enter the country Increased health staff presence at international airports The Government has announced a suite of new actions as it steps up its response to the rapidly changing global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. This ...
Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has today classified the drought conditions in Waikato and South Auckland as an adverse event for the primary sector, unlocking $80,000 in Government support for farmers and growers. “This is recognition that the extreme and prolonged nature of this dry spell is taking its toll on ...
The Crown accounts are in a strong position to weather any economic uncertainty as a result of coronavirus, with the books in surplus and expenses close to forecast, Finance Minister Grant Robertson says. The Treasury today released the Crown accounts for the seven months to January. The operating balance before ...
Supporting New Zealand to make most of digital and data driven technologies will be the focus of a new Digital Council that begins its work today. Minister for Government Digital Services, Kris Faafoi, and Minister of Statistics, James Shaw, have confirmed the group of experts chosen to advise the Government ...
Safety and climate change resilience are behind South Island regional roading projects that are being brought forward as part of the New Zealand Upgrade Programme, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. As part of the NZ Upgrade, $300 million was allocated for regional investment opportunities. “I’m pleased to ...
Digital and air connectivity in Fiordland are getting a big boost, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. As part of the $12 billion New Zealand Upgrade Programme announced in January, $300 million was allocated for regional investment opportunities, to be administered by the Provincial Development Unit. “I’m pleased ...
West Coast ports and roads will benefit from an investment of $18.6 million to improve safety and resilience and enable future economic growth, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. The $12 billion NZ Upgrade Programme announced last month allocated $300 million for regional investment opportunities, to be administered ...
Regional roading projects that will improve safety and resilience are being brought forward as part of the New Zealand Upgrade Programme, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. As part of the NZ Upgrade, $300 million was allocated for regional investment opportunities. “I spend a lot of time in ...
The Eastern Bay of Plenty will finally get the harbour development it has wanted for decades, thanks to a $79.4 million central Government investment, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. This game-changing project will revitalise the township of Ōpōtiki and the wider Eastern Bay of Plenty, creating hundreds ...
Regional New Zealand will be a hive of activity in the coming months as the New Zealand Upgrade Programme delivers on its promise to modernise our infrastructure, prepare for climate change and help grow our economy. As part of the $12 billion NZ Upgrade Programme announced by the Government last ...
A milestone has been reached with the graduation of more than 2,000 new Police officers since the Coalition Government took office in October 2017. Police Minister Stuart Nash says the graduation today of Wing 335 marks a surge of 2,023 new officers, and coincides with some significant breakthroughs against organised ...
Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Minister, Kris Faafoi, and the Minister of Education, Chris Hipkins, have welcomed a new cyber security qualification as a step towards countering cyber threats and keeping New Zealanders safe. Attending the launch of the new Level 6 Diploma of Cyber Security at Auckland’s Unitec Institute ...
Government Ministers today celebrated 20 years of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park/ Ko te Pataka kai o Tikapa Moana/ Te Moananui a Toi, and recognise there is much to celebrate and so much more to do to give nature a helping hand. Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage said “New Zealanders care deeply about nature.I want to ...
Prepared remarks on coronavirus by Finance Minister Grant Robertson to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and Massey University. Good morning ladies and gentlemen, The topic of this speech is the Budget 2020 priorities. But, given the considerable interest that I imagine is in the room about COVID-19 coronavirus, I do ...
E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā iwi, e ngā rau rangatira ma. Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Ni sa bula vinaka. Namaste Thank you Shamima, Hon. Minister Vuniwaqa, community leaders and Women’s Crisis Centre staff for your warm welcome. It’s an honour and privilege to officially ...
The Government has released a comprehensive response to ensuring New Zealanders get a fairer deal at the petrol pump. This follows the Commerce Commission fuel market study which found motorists were paying more than they should for petrol and includes: Fuel Market Bill drafting, to pass mid-year Industry consultation in ...
E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā iwi, e ngā rau rangatira ma Tēnā koutou katoa Ni sa bula vinaka As-salaam alaikum It is a privilege to be here today. Thank you for welcoming us to your house of prayer. Thank you for your warmth. Thank you for greeting ...
Taupō Airport is to be upgraded and expanded through a $5.9 million Government funding boost, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. “Taupō Airport is the gateway to the Central North Island. It is essential for both keeping local people and businesses connected, but also to bring more people ...
The Minister of Housing Megan Woods has confirmed the Government is working with Rotorua Lakes District Council and Te Arawa for the second place-based assessment to better understand the housing and urban issues affecting the city. “Every New Zealander has a right to a warm, safe and secure place to ...
19 new community homes (in addition to 14 opened in December) delivered in Takanini, Auckland 500 people housed by CORT Housing Trust by end of March 2,290 new public housing homes delivered in Auckland (November 2017 – December 2019). Another nineteen new public housing homes are being delivered in Auckland, ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Minister for Trade and Export Growth David Parker met today with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to discuss ways to strengthen ties between New Zealand and India. “India is a priority relationship for New Zealand. We share common democratic traditions, growing two-way trade, extensive people-to-people links, ...
Speech to the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) Delhi, India Wednesday 26 February 2020 [CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY] The Indo-Pacific: from principles to partnerships Distinguished guests, good afternoon and thank you for your invitation. It is good to be here at a time where New Zealand needs less of an introduction than ...
Tihei mauri ora Te Whare e tu nei Te Papa e takoto Tēnā korua No reira tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa Ni sa bula Vinaka It is a real pleasure to be here today, and to have the honour of addressing you all. If you’ll indulge me I’m ...
Conservation efforts in Coromandel and Hauraki are getting a much needed helping hand thanks to DOC’s Community Conservation Fund, announced Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage in the Kauaeranga Valley today. “Our natural environment is important to New Zealanders, and everyone has a role to play in protecting it. We need ...
Improved air quality to support better health and environmental wellbeing is the focus of proposed amendments to air quality regulations, says the Associate Minister for the Environment, Hon Nanaia Mahuta. “Although our air quality is good in most places, during winter certain places have spikes in air pollution, mainly from ...
The remote eastern Bay of Plenty community of Raukokere will receive a Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) investment of $10.6 million for a water storage facility, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones says. “This is great news for the rural community. The landowner, Te Whānau a Maruhaeremuri Hapū Trust, will use ...
The Lake Ōkaro lakebed has transferred to Te Arawa Lakes Trust, Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti Kelvin Davis announced today. Kelvin Davis joined Te Arawa at Te Papaiōuru Marae in Rotorua to celebrate the reinstatement of Te Arawa Lakes Trust as a key decision maker over the bed ...
New legislation is being proposed which aims to reduce the stress and financial hardship caused by late payments to small businesses. The Minister for Small Business Stuart Nash is considering stricter rules around payment practices between businesses. “Late payments from large organisations to smaller suppliers can be crippling for these ...
A new partnership programme between the New Zealand Police and Fiji Police will focus on combatting transnational organised crime and enhancing investigative skills, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on the first day of her visit to Fiji. The programme will see: · New Zealand Institute of Environmental Science and Research ...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama met today in Suva, and renewed their commitment to continue to strengthen Fiji-New Zealand relations on a foundation of shared values and equal partnership. The Prime Ministers acknowledged the kinship between Fijians and New Zealanders, one that has endured over ...
A $19.9 million investment from the Provincial Growth Fund will help develop essential infrastructure for an industrial hub in the Bay of Plenty town of Kawerau, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones says. “The funding will go to three projects to further develop the Putauaki Trust Industrial Hub, an industrial ...
The Provincial Growth Fund is investing $8.3 million on a roading package for Mahia that will lead to greater and wider economic benefits for the region and beyond, Under Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau announced at an event in Mahia today. The $8.3 million announced consists of: $7 ...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has welcomed new reporting showing the Coalition Government is on track to meet its child poverty targets, with 18,400 children lifted out of poverty as a result of the Families Package. Stats NZ has released the first set of comprehensive child poverty statistics since the Government ...
Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter today announced that Bikes in Schools facilities have been rolled out to 20,000 more kiwi kids under this Government. She made the announcement at the opening of a new bike track at Henderson North School in Auckland. “Bikes in Schools facilities give kids ...
Benefit settings rise in line with wages as of 1 April Main benefits will increase by over 3 percent, instead of 1.66 percent, on 1 April with the Government’s decision to annually adjust benefit rates to increases in the average wage. The Minister for Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni, said ...
Strengthening New Zealand’s political and business ties with India will be the focus of Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters’ and Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker’s visit to India this week. The Ministers are co-leading a high level business delegation to India to support increased people and economic engagement ...
The Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio continues to champion for greater Pacific participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers with the announcement of the Toloa Awards, with 8 recipients of the Toloa Community Fund and 13 Toloa Tertiary Scholarships. “The Toloa Programme encourages more Pacific peoples ...
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has extended the date for people to have their say on proposed changes to improve management of whitebait across New Zealand. Submissions were due to close on 2 March 2020 but will now remain open until 9am on Monday 16 March 2020. “I have ...
The endangered toroa/Antipodean albatross has new international protection for its 100,000km annual migration, thanks to collaborative efforts led by New Zealand, Australia and Chile. Today, 130 countries agreed to strictly protect Antipodean albatross at the Conference of Parties on the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild ...
China’s rise in the Asia-Pacific region has the entire globe assessing how the future of the region might look. Delegates at February’s QS Summit in Wellington got a first-hand analysis from some leading academics on the subject, with debates over the nature of the power transition that is underway, ...
The New Zealand First MP’s attack on ‘students that have come from India’ comes as another prominent New Zealander completes a visit to India embracing, well, students that have come from India. This morning on Newshub Nation, the minister for the regions and verbal jukebox Shane Jones took aim at Indian ...
Simon Shepherd: He's the Minister with a lot of money. Not only does he oversee the three billion dollar Provincial Growth Fund, Shane Jones is in charge of even more billions in infrastructure spend. But he's also the target of a Greenpeace campaign ...
Ahead of tomorrow's Children's Day, NZEI Te Riu Roa President Liam Rutherford is urging the Government to take action to address the crisis in early childhood education. "We share the Government's aspiration for Aotearoa to be the best place in the ...
By RSF in London During the first week of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing in London, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was concerned by the clear lack of evidence from the US for its charges against Assange. RSF also remains concerned about Assange’s wellbeing and inability to participate ...
The National Party will be reminded of its dirty rivers record at their “BlueGreens” conference in Nelson today by local water campaigners who will be holding a peaceful demonstration outside. ...
The On the Rag team assemble to dissect the previous month in news, media and feminism. It’s somehow the end of February so we’re here to look back at the month in Women’s Stuff. Uniform shorts are sending young women into counselling sessions at a a local high school, but why? ...
Firearms in New Zealand: Where to from here? Chris Cahill, NZ Police Association President This time next week, all going well, Parliament will have passed the Arms Legislation Bill as the second tranche of firearms reforms designed to make all New ...
From the tip of Farewell Spit to the very arse end of Stewart Island, there is one delicacy that unites Te Wai Pounamu: the humble green onion chip. But why? Alice Neville embarks on a quest for the true story behind this regional snacking quirk.I have many fond childhood memories ...
A surge of Māori internet memes have appeared on Instagram in the past year tackling topics from land theft to a shared love of fry bread.They’ve been around since the dawn of the internet, but in the last few years memes have become intrinsic to popular culture. They’ve also become ...
Visiting the Audio Foundation and the Michael Lett Gallery, both just off Auckland’s K’ Road, Tulia Thompson finds herself considering the galaxy and what it means to be human. You have to imagine you are viewing these on a stifling hot February afternoon. There is a cacophony of men and machines, ...
"If it wasn’t for the blood stains on his jeans and the road they could pretend it hadn’t happened": a children's birthday in Wellington is the setting for a short story by Rebecca Styles. “Oh, Jesus,” says Tom as he tears off down the driveway. Suzie runs after him — ...
Silver Ferns centurion Casey Kopua stars in the second episode of Pure As, a mini documentary series on the Silver Ferns' personal journeys to World Cup glory. The moment Casey Kopua returned to the Silver Ferns after two years in retirement, she had to seriously ask herself if she'd done the right ...
I had planned to write an unabashed rave review, and then another book landed in my letterbox – and I just couldn’t read those stories in isolation from my own experience, writes Spinoff books editor Catherine Woulfe.I want to write about two books that I’ve just read, and then I ...
Less than half of New Zealand adults have a will. One hundred per cent of New Zealand adults die. Sam Brooks writes on why you need a will.Before you read any further, ask yourself this one question:If I dropped dead right now, reading this piece, would my loved ones know ...
Yesterday New Zealand confirmed the first known case of Covid-19 in the country. As the virus approaches global pandemic status, what progress is being made in developing a vaccine? Siouxsie Wiles explains where we’re at, and how the vaccines work.The race to find a vaccine for Covid-19 is under way, ...
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed today that a suspected case of Covid-19 coronavirus has tested positive in New Zealand. Ardern said the person was in their 60s, and was a citizen of New Zealand who had recently travelled from Iran via Bali. The person had previously ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland Happy February 29! It doesn’t come round very often, so make sure you enjoy it. But why do we have these extra days? Well, if we didn’t, the seasons would gradually move around the ...
New Zealand Pompe Network Allyson Lock, MNZM An open letter to New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern “Know us by our deeds”. This was the headline next to your picture on the cover of Time Magazine, for all the world to see. I saw it. I’m ...
Analysis: The government faces economic strife and uncertainty as the coronavirus continues to spread, four men charged in National's donations case plead not guilty, and more revelations about NZ First's "slush fund". ...
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Conflict of interest methinks. Key is on a few boards of Govt entities is he not ?
Oh, but of course, Cof I has never been a prob for John boy, eh.
Are You claiming Labour never utilised former PM’s or senior members for political purpose despite them being involved in supposedly non partisan roles?
I’m sure you can link to screeds of tories bleating about it if they did. Actually, even if they didn’t but the tories just said they did.
“…Are You claiming Labour never utilised former PM’s…”
No, he is just positing a question as is his democratic right. Why do you hate democracy, Gosman?
This is a deep involvement with a particular candidate rather than just general party support.
Maybe previous leaders have a particular issue they were involved with ?
Sign of desperation. Maybe Bidois is the wrong candidate for national in a by election on the Shore and their polling is telling them that
Twas not a question in the first sentence. Was an opinion.
Fishy smell is back as Shonkey enters the picture again.
Smells like “the cup of tea” with ACT saga eh?
Crooked = National
“Key is on a few boards of Govt entities “.
Well no, actually.
What are facts between friends though?
Key is on a few boards of Govt entities is he not ?
Key’s on the board for Air New Zealand, and ANZ Bank…. Maybe he checks his LinkedIn requests in alphabetical order? 😛
Air NZ is majority owned by the Crown but it’s publicly traded, so the obligations on directors are clearly established and no different from any other listed entity.
Neither directorship presents anything even remotely resembling a conflict of interest for Key. If he wants to shill for a candidate, then he’s absolutely entitled to do so.
A little bit like a former All Black endorsing National in and around the time of a general election perhaps ?
Or perhaps not quite as bad ,… this being a by election…
But you must admit,… something stinks,… and if you think Denmark has problems with stenches , – they have nothing to complain about compared to this,… and Key.
A little bit like a former All Black endorsing National in and around the time of a general election perhaps ?
If you think Ritchie’s endorsement swayed anyone, you probably also think Robyn Malcolm was instrumental in keeping the Greens above 5%.
Denmark has problems with stenches , – they have nothing to complain about compared to this,… and Key.
I’m pretty certain John Key didn’t murder Helen Clark.
They may as well use Key now before he’s properly damaged by the Australian banking inquiry.
At least when Labour have brought out their star power in this election, they used their existing leader.
You really are a Muppet. Key never worked in retail banking and certainly never for Australian banks
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11934188
“Sir John Key joins ANZ bank as chairman”.
A conflict of interest i thought even National could see?
However it is obvious that he has been working for the banks all along.
So in your mind the fact that Key recently became involved in the NZ side of ANZ means he will be caught up in the Banking inquiry despite not being there for the time being looked at.
Not what i said.
The concern is the too close a relationship between NZ politicians, and private businesses they are later getting jobs with.
How on earth is being Chair of the NZ wing of ANZ Bank a conflict of interest with appearing with Dan Bidios?
Or indeed a conflict of interest with anything that he currently does.
For years Sir Michael Cullen has been Chair of Kiwibank (appointed by National). He chairs the Tax Working Group. No-one has suggested that is a conflict of interest.
The commenters here are letting their antipathy of Sir John Key cloud their judgement. No surprise there.
Kiwibank is not a private company.
And. Cullen is actually competent enough to get the job on his own merits.
Of course a National MP does not see any conflict of interest. It would prevent too many of them from jumping on their, after politics, gravy train.
Antipathy ?
Of john key?
He is no ‘sir’
We don’t reward treasonists with the title ‘Sir’.
Key worked for Elders Finance up until 1988, Aussie owned bank.
Now he is a director of ANZ Bank. Hint the A stands for Australia.
Elders was not a retail bank
But it was an Australian Bank. As is ANZ which is also a retail bank.
Yes and I stated he never worked for an Australian retail bank before. He does so now but as his role is new and based in NZ he is unlikely to be pulled in to the inquiry by the Australian government on what Australian Retail banks did in Australia. But if you want to place a wager on it…
Don’t forget that a parallel inquiry is getting under way on the same banks in NZ. So Key while may not have been involved in the period under question, he is there now and will be tainted by association
Link please on the announcement of this parallel inquiry on the Australian banks in NZ.
Who is holding this inquiry given I have not heard the Government of NZ nor the RBNZ announcing they will be conducting any inquiry. The Australian government has no jurisdiction in NZ over financial matters here.
It’s not a public inquiry.
Just a nice stiff letter and a chat from the Reserve Bank with a whole bunch of questions for them to answer, specifically referencing the Australian inquiry findings.
However Sam Stubbs is building the groundswell for a public inquiry – see NZHerald today. Now that would be fun.
Click – click. – Bang. 100% Mickey for connecting the dots.
dancing on the head of a pin….somehow fitting
Yes but hes only just joined the board ( Jan ) and as Chair of the ANZ NZ subsidiary and later an ordinary member of the main board in Australia
Compare with the board of AMP which was up to its neck in regulatory malfeasance.
He is extremely unlikely to be caught up in any banking inquiry looking at the practice of Australian banks in Australia as a result of his recent appointment.
True – a slipperier piece of shit was never shat.
True
I shall reword you comment to be more accurate.
Now he is a director of ANZ Bank in New Zealand which is a subsidiary of the Australian Parent company. The operational workings are distinct from the Australian operation. Hint the NZ stands for New Zealand.
Hint the NZ stands for New Zealand.
Your comment is accurate, but it’s also called “ANZ” in Australia too. 😛
“also called “ANZ” in Australia”.
As someone who has accounts with the ANZ in both Australia and New Zealand I am only to aware that that is just about the only thing they have in common.
It is impossible to deal with the Australian bank in New Zealand. It is also impossible to deal with the New Zealand bank in Australia. The fabled Chinese Wall is absolutely impregnable.
Drives me crazy sometimes.
you are obviously not as smart as you thunk you are alwhinge. I have lived in aus and banked with anz in both countries simultaniously, with accounts in both countries . had no probs with the crossover once I pointed out to the lady behind the counter in sydney what the nz in anz stood for.
Amazing.
Please tell me pawlie. Assuming you lived in New Zealand and did not actually have a residential address in Australia how hard was it to persuade them to give you a credit card denominated in Australian dollars that would be paid, by direct debit, from an Australian account each month on due date?
And could the nice lady behind the counter tell you the balance in one of your New Zealand accounts from her Sydney terminal?
@paul Andersen.
I had really hoped you could have taken the time to answer my questions. You obviously find it a very simple matter to arrange these things and I was looking forward to your explanation for what I should do.
But, from you, nothing.
Is it really not as easy as you claim?
Yeah, I think we need an inquiry to ensure that. I’m pretty sure that the culture of criminality in the Australian banks would transfer across. Probably via direct instruction along the lines of: We’re doing it this way so you guys do to. This is a command from your owner.
And how do you know if he never worked for Australian banks even if indirectly?
And don’t feed us that bullshit that he worked as a bloody teller at the front of the bank, either,
But using a shitty ‘ Key – ism’ ,… what we can say is that John Key worked in tandem with Andrew Kreiger in pulling off the greatest FOREX heist in history against none other than the KIWI DOLLAR.
There’s your shitty hero in all his glowing true colours,- a self centered narcissistic , greedy grasping prick who never gave one shit about the economy thus the people of this country.
That’s your hero ‘John Key’ for you.
And the final authority that signed off on an SAS operation that saw the massacre of 6 civilians including a three year girl.
Mr fucking ‘ GET SOME GUTS ‘ Key.
John Key / Andy Krieger – timeline debate – true or false? | NZ Court …
https://voter08.wordpress.com/john-key-andy-krieger-a-timeline-debate-true-or-false/
Forex heist???
What are you on about?
Explain how Key managed to game a floating exchange rate given no laws were broken.
Lol! – this guy.
Always in denial.
Doesn’t it strike you as rather coincidental that Key collaborated with Kreiger in almost collapsing the NZ economy when a Labour govt was in power? So much so that an official in Michael Cullen’s office called New York and virtually told Kreiger to ‘ get your fucking hands off our economy ‘ ?
Of course you would deny that as well.
Are you that much of a slimebag you cant even admit to that?
I guess not.
Anything to save either your ego , your vested interests or your Americanized worldview..
How odious.
And I don’t have to explain a thing, bud.
That’s why we provide links. I’m not here to hold your hand and wipe your dirty arse for you.
Answer the question.
How do you game the Forex market for a floating exchange rate?
YOU , little man ,… do NOT demand I do anything.
So you can take your prepubescent tone and take yourself squarely back to the link provided.
And yet while we are at it ,….
Just WHY did Roger Douglas demand Rob Muldoon float the dollar ?
Answer that , and I may consider answering you.
Or do you not know how the FOREX market works?…
I know how the Forex market works. You on the other hand obviously have little clue.
1/ Hardly the essence of this article.
2 / I am not interested in your personal estimations of your own intellectual prowess.
3 / You cannot answer why Douglas left a report to be conveniently ‘discovered’ outlining his plans to float the NZ dollar.
4 / If you’d really like to know, – and have your whole neo liberal premise ( and that of your hero Keys ) exposed I am more than happy to oblige.
5 / The fact that the far right lost its hold during the Clarke years has much to do with it , – including why Key acted in the reckless , narcissistic manner he did with Kreiger against the KIWI at a much later date.
6 / It may be painfully embarrassing for you – and your hero Key , – if I did.
You don’t even understand counter party risk Gosman…
Yeah I remember you floundering over derivatives…
By all means go ahead and indicate something technical which signals that you know the ‘forex markets’…
There is a high probability Key was involved in the attack on NZD…
Previous activity and his record after that event describe just how likely Keys involvement was…
“Just WHY did Roger Douglas demand Rob Muldoon float the dollar “.
Well technically it was David Lange and it was a devaluation not a float.
The fact that you actually have to ask that question astounds me. Are you really so ignorant of international trade and foreign exchange that you have to ask?
For a very simple explanation of what happened in 1984 why don’t you have a look at this.
https://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/1989/09/from_run_to_float_the_making_of_the_rogernomics_exchange_rate_policy/
Can I also suggest you get, or borrow from the Library, a simple book on Economics and read it. It isn’t really that hard to understand the basics and you won’t make yourself look so foolish in future.
Well , thank you for making all the others’ look so foolish’ as well …
…. ‘ it was a devaluation not a float ‘…
Which just goes to show that Gosman speaks through a hole in his arse with all his pompous bluster about ‘ knowing all about Forex’….
L0L0L0L !
Thank you.
And no , you are completely wrong, – it was Douglas who ‘accidentally released a statement ‘…
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…’ A key point of the free-market cabal’s programme was to devalue the New Zealand dollar, an extremely sensitive issue. Several weeks before the July 1984 election. Douglas, Labour’s shadow finance minister, “accidentally” released a statement which signaled his intent to devalue.
Since it was a near certainty that Labour, aided by the New Zealand Party’s drawing votes from National , would win, speculators began to dump the New Zealand dollar, planning, post-devaluation, to cash in each dollar of foreign currency for more New Zealand dollars than previously ‘…
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You , my wee dear laddie , ….have fallen straight into the noose unassisted.
Thank you.
And now may I introduce you to the REAL HISTORY of this country and the bogus premises with which the far right seized power,… and far from ME having to go to a library , … I would suggest that YOU save yourself a trip to the library and read this historic yet very up to date historical narrative on New Zealand’s recent political and economic history…
New Right Fight – Who are the New Right?
http://www.newrightfight.co.nz/pageA.html
Read it up , you arrogant psuedo intellectual moron. And lets see you come back with an answer to the charges it makes.
I think you will find it more than damning on each and every level that you , and your fellow neo liberal travellor’s have tried to pollute this site, this country’s democracy and this economy for the last 34 years.
Good luck.
Oh ,… and one other thing,… we don’t talk ‘technically’ it was this person or that person when clearly it was one individual. And in this case,.. Roger Douglas.
Lange and Douglas ended up hating each others guts.
And if there is one redeeming quality about Lange it was because HE at least had a conscience.
And , – the whole premise of ‘devaluing ‘ was to be able to float the NZ dollar.
And cash in.
So there’s bugger all similarity’s between the short straws you are trying to draw and the actual reality’s I’m talking about.
IS THERE.
Following on;
…. ‘ And , – the whole premise of ‘devaluing ‘ was to be able to float the NZ dollar’….
Ever wondered where the concept of ‘ Corporate NZ ‘ came from ?
Well , that’s when a company opens itself to be registered and ‘ publicly floated’…ie ;
Instead of being exclusively privately owned , it ‘floats itself’ and opens itself up to public shareholdings. These shareholdings could, depending on the govt’s rules be local or offshore…
And one of the reasons behind Douglas’s drive to devalue was to create an artificial ‘crises’…and in that ‘crises’ would provide strong motivation and incentive to essentially ‘ float ‘ ‘corporate NZ ‘ and its economy by deregulation – particularly of Treasury and the Reserve Bank , – and open it up to private ( usually foreign) investment.
We are registered on the New York Stock Exchange as ‘ Corporate NZ’.
Moving on,… and we have after 34 years , – Australian banks virtually controlling ALL of our finances, dictating our interest rates, and hence our economy and hence our social conditions.- with a large bulk of profits due to foreign interest rates exiting this country , …. now ,… does any of this seem like sovereign New Zealand or in New Zealand’s best interests ?
And yet meanwhile , – free trade agreements which are imbalanced – ie FTA with China,…mean that we are vulnerable to power plays in the Pacific ,… sandwiched as it were between the USA and China , …along with increased pressure from other offshore banking / business interests ie ; Austalia , mean that slowly ( yet rapidly as the process actually was originally … ) we lose all notion of sovereignty barring that in name only.
In effect?
We have been systematically hollowed out as a nation.
Ever wondered why in a land of plenty there is so little to go round?
Here is your answer.
Again I say ,.. read these timely and wise words from an extract from Hugh Price of Hugh Price Publishers.
Hugh Price was a New Zealand Patriot.
Then read it again. Let it sink in.
Do your children and grandchildren a favour, and for Gods sakes fight for them.
And fight for them hard.
New Right Fight – Who are the New Right?
http://www.newrightfight.co.nz/pageA.htm
And here is yet another peculiarity :
… ‘ Thus it was perfectly understandable, indeed predictable, that any election called with some possibility of a devaluation shortly after would cause a run on the dollar. The practice in previous elections had been for the Treasury and the Bank to increase the liquidity of their foreign exchange holdings as the country moved into the final stages of the election. This apparently had been planned for a November 1984 election, but a snap election five months early had not been allowed for. However, given the extent of the run that actually occurred, there may not have been enough official liquidity, even if the officials had anticipated the early election ‘…
Interesting ;
‘Given the extent of the run, there may not have been enough official liquidity , even if the officials had anticipated the early election’….
And yet who caused the snap election ?
None other than Marilyn Waring.
And why ?… by threatening to cross the floor and vote with the opposition in favour of what would become Langes ‘nuclear moment’… have we heard that before recently?
Was Waring involved ?
We cannot say,… but it all seems so coincidental that right at the time that Bob Jones was lining up his ‘NZ party’ to dethrone Rob Muldoon by splitting the National vote, and around the same time Douglas was leaking his ‘devaluation’ papers,..that there was indeed a movement afoot to first ‘devalue’ the dollar, deregulate the financial markets and that, … by definition , … meant the Reserve bank as well as Treasury would have to follow suit ,.. which was exactly what happened.
And Corporate NZ was then up for sale , – often to the lowest bidder.
And why was devaluing and the ensuing deregulation of our financial markets so important to the Riogernomes?… simply because it meant that now the KIWI could be traded and a profit made on it. Massively huge profits.
And that , in effect was the very genesis of out current woes.
By buying and selling a huge amount in an effort to crash the targeted currency. Just as Key and Krieger did.
And just because it wasn’t illegal doesn’t mean that it was ethical.
Who suffered Draco ?
All of NZ but especially the ones that were thrown out of work by Key/Kreiger’s attack on the NZ$.
Their bludging cost NZ around $300m at the time.
Well of course the National collective has doubts about Simon Bridges,… he has not the ‘presence’ to carry it off. Key used smarmyness, Collins uses ‘ brute appeal’.
I would say Bridges will give way to Collins eventually .
Which is not far from the natural order of things.
Key is gone , and that leaves Collins a free path, Bridges will be OK with that because he is a close colleague of Collins. Key will just make an appearance to validate it.
As for the big guns?
That area is Tory country anyways. Though there are signs of even that changing…
There are no ‘ big guns’ happening , – if anything , – more a liability and an opportunity for uncomfortable questions to be asked, such as ‘ why did you really leave , John ,.. was the heat over Operaton Burnham getting too hot?’… and what was that about tax havens , Johnno ?,… ‘was the sale of your home to a Mainland Chinese investor worth it in light of all the homeless in New Zealand, John ‘ Are you enjoying that wealth with a free conscience , John ? ‘…
If anyone who has followed the John Key disaster for the last 9 years will already know… there are rich pickings and much low hanging fruit to be had to gorge on…
A veritable feast , no less…
I would say Bridges will give way to Collins eventually .
Which is not far from the natural order of things.
Darwinian?
Naturally.
In true ludicrous Darwinian fashion.
Wild Katipo,
Yes; we also remember when in 2007 Minister of Finance Michael Cullen connected Shin-key to the Tranzrail rort – and Key was holding the rail shares but hid them?
Key was also involved as a broker in 1990’s facilitating the sale of NZ Rail Corporation to Fay/Richwhite also.
There is no end to this mans rorting.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10533576
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/john-key-the-unauthorised-biography/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502247&objectid=10523316
he was doing deals more than even pulling girls ponytails.
Sicko. /whos-sorry-now/
Key did not sell his Fletcher Challenge Forests shares until June 2003, the same time as he sold his Tranzrail shares. He sold them in four parcels, on the 11th, 12, and 16th of June, for total of around $105,000 [share price]. As Key sold both his Tranzrail and FCF holdings at the same time, it may be that he sold his entire New Zealand share portfolio at this time This matches with his statement on Sunrise that he hasn’t owned any New Zealand shares since 2003. Why he chose to sell then and what other companies he held, we don’t know.
It will be interesting to hear Key on the Tiwai aluminium smelter and the Australian commission of inquiry into banking practices.
ANZ blue seems a suitable backdrop.
Why should those topics concern him?
See above.
Are you living under a rock somewhere like a pre-Jacksonian Gollum ?
I’m not sure how far his court order extends ..
Why would they be interested in talking to a recent appointee to one of the Australian banks NZ subsidiaries?
Gosman cant correlate a subsidiary with a parent company…
The essence of compartmentalized thinking , folks…
The Australian and NZ Banking sectors are very different beasts. It would serve little to no purpose calling over NZ based executives or Board members (unless they also worked in Australia at some stage). It certainly would make zero sense to have a NZ based board member be questioned about activities that occurred in Australia BEFORE HE WAS EVEN APPOINTED.
And ,… um ,… you are trying to suggest that a former Prime Minister of New Zealand who was all Bro- mates with Australia’s PM and was a major
player in the New York Forex markets is not intimately kept in the loop with what happens across the Tasman’s banking and financial systems …
OKKKKKK…
We have a right one here , Ladies and Gentlemen,…
Introducing Gosman , the new up and coming comedy act that will set New Zealand on the world stage along with the likes of Lorde, Split ENZ, and Crowded House….
Key is back on face book touting bitcoin too.
DV – that was a fake advert that had nothing to do with key at all.
As you were told before – the last time you mentioned this.
But I guess if you are stupid enough to believe the advert …..
Prove that it’s fake James
I don’t think it’s genuine, but it is still there.
In fact when I asked the anz about the last series of ads,I got no reply
Prove that you are not a complete moron
Prove that you are as clever as you think you are.
So no proof that key is not involved then.
Seem like a raw nerve.
You are really struggling with the concept of burden of proof aren’t you?
Nope,
Prove key is not involved with bit coin?
You obviously have a clear idea of what proof is, so should be no problem for you to produce proof that key is not involved with bitcoin.
I find it interesting that anz didn’t take the opportunity to comment when I asked.
I think I have my answer to the question about whether you are a moron or not.
So no proof then.
Dv. I have a recollection that story about Key was outed as a fake months ago – maybe six months ago.
Prove it Anne. 😀
Nah mate , were struggling with the fact a dishonest murderous bastard like Key managed to fleece New Zealanders for 9 years without a whimper from our MSM , – including gullible bastards like you , bud.
https://thespinoff.scdn5.secure.raxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fatima-e1490084556189-850×510.jpg
Wild Katipo;
James/Gosman are really freckling out today eh? Where’s Alwyn though?
Puckish rouge is there too so the are all out there today after parliament resumed the “Budget debates” must have upset them badly.
The national party support team..
I consider them mere sport .
Like a fox hunt or a rabbit cull.
But please don’t tell them that.
It may offend their sensibilities. And we wouldn’t want that , now would we…
I think I had made a single post (correcting bullshit) and you think that’s fracking out?
You are strange.
Or are you inferring I am gosman also ?
Well this is a rather humorous shot out of the blue, – from whence did you spring from all of a sudden ?
Oh well , no matter , … Gosman , James, Yaga, and whatever , all the same to me… you see that’s the problem, … all you far right wing apologists all blur into one after a while, … you really need to learn to diversify a little bit…
Mix it up a bit. Be a little more military about it,… you know ,… spread out when attacking , concentrate forces when defending,… that sort of basic stuff.
But you don’t do that and you become easy meat. And in this case , – the comedians dream material.
So James , Gosman , Yaga or whatever else you care to call yourself at the moment ,,… I wish you a good day and hope you get over your confusion,… I really am perplexed at your sudden and unexplained appearance… and wish you well…
Do take care….
So DV – you dont think its genuine – but you are quite happy to pill out the line “Key is back on face book touting bitcoin too.”
So quite happy to spread lies that a) you dont think are right and b) were proven to you before.
Since you are such an obvious moron – a quick google would give you this
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2017/12/sir-john-key-being-used-in-fake-nz-herald-bitcoin-article.html
Ill save the link and pull it out again in 6 months when you spread the same bullshit again.
At last some evidence James.
Took awhile though.
Interesting the ANZ ignored a query though.
Yeah sorry I haven’t been sitting on here all day answering your bullshit conspiracy post that even you can’t believe.
James, you may be correct, your comment caught my interest so, I did an image search online, and nada, the image is only on here according to my image search.
Cinny – if you go to the news hub site you will see it’s a screenshot.
Google John key bitcoin fake and there are other articles.
Well , one can only assume its a screenshot designed to send John Key up,… but truly now,… does it really matter when Key sent himself and this country up on an almost weekly basis?
One only has to Google John Oliver to see the evidence.
And why , pray tell would Key do that ?
Was it self mockery and embarrassment that he only achieved being Prime Minister of New Zealand and not Planet Key ?
Planet Key – The Song – The Hits
Video for planet key song▶ 4:09
http://www.thehits.co.nz › Video
Oh shall we try that again , seems to be a problem with the censorship… an ongoing problem with the John Key administration in censoring anything disagreeable to their liking , it seems…
Banned Planet Key music video – YouTube
Video for planet key song▶ 4:10
James, couldn’t find it on the newshub.
Lolz forgot about the bitcoin; I have seen the PM that quit in a dodgy looking get rich quick scheme before (not bitcoin).
Wouldn’t have surprised me if the nats had whipped out key to try and push their Northcote candidate, that’s the funny/crazy thing, it’s easily believable.
Glad I read your comment 🙂
Nah, Bridges is too busy
liking WO tweetsleading the Opposition and Key’s got plenty of time on his hands (keep those hands to yourself, John).Sir John Key not only retired undefeated but still manages to troll the lefties 🙂
He did not retire, he quit and ran away. Nice framing though 😉
He didn’t run very far did he.
Actually, at the end of the day, he ran a mile.
Incognito,
Yes he cleared the scene in a hurry didn’t he just.
So Truck Stop Paula doesnt have enough star power ?
Looks Strategy A was to downplay the by-election which is usually done if you sure you will win and dont want to other sides voters to even be aware an election is on.
Now they are onto Strategy B, which is to get publicity for their candidate and tell all their own voters , wake up there is an election on.
Expect an announcement about roads and bridges next !!! ( the only time Soimum will be mentioned) hahahaha
Nope . Hasn’t even managed that.
And he didn’t retire, – he ran.
Like a coward.
Especially when he saw the Donald didn’t give a crap about this no namer pony tail puller from where?… Nu Zaland??? What a creep ! Can we bomb that place???
And caused the National party to lose magnificently. Left Boring Dipping Bill in charge and didn’t give a shit. A bit like hes always been.
Yeah ,… real master of the trolls he is…. not.
Eh????
You feeling okay WK? Your comment is slightly more unhinged that usual.
Havin’ a bit of fun watching all the sycophants rush to a wankers defense, that’s all,… quite humorous, actually.
But all humour aside, … supporting a pony tail pulling, shower pissing creep like Key is the height of your aspirations?
I mean seriously… come on… here’s your hero , idiot…
John Oliver – John Key – YouTube
Video for john oliver john key radio interview youtube▶ 1:45
Yup – undefeated world champion most corrupt PM ever to parasite off NZ.
🙂
Oh damn. He is a fine man in the true National mould(y).
It would be a mistake to look beyond this man’s excellence which has been recounted in these historic lines.
(Simon) had a pair of boots with great big spurs
on;.
A fighting pair of which he was particularly fond.
On Tuesday and on Friday, just to make the street
look tidy,
He’d collect the passing villagers and kick them in
the pond…..
but, those villagers got out of the swamp…
(Simon) went a journey and he found a lot of
duckweed.
They pulled him out and dried him and they
blipped him on the head.
They took him by the breeches and they hurled
him into ditches
And they pushed him under waterfalls and this
is what they said:
“You are Si.. — don’t laugh,
You are Si.. — don’t cry;
You are Si.. as bold as a lion —
(Simon) the Lion, goodbye!”
Thanks to AA Milne, for his wit and whimsy.
I’ve some questions for the pair of them….
Meanwhile, is there a Northcote Meet the Candidates function, and if so is anyone on here planning on attending?
He’s such a spent event.
At least Labour sent an actual drawcard PM.
There’s a whole cohort of diehard Nat voters who are still pining for him though Ad. Presumably they need motivating in Northcote.
Current ANZ advertising is *so* Key !
Two dim-witted yuppie fashionistas ..
Good Grief – Key has been gone for well over 12 months and still the mad frothing from certain commenters bit like Helen is to those on the other side ..red rag to a bull..
Anyhoo after looking at the candidates in Northcote if it was my electorate i’d be voting for the green candidate rather than the muppets the red or blue team have put up.
Nah , time means nothing when it comes to justice and with Key , – there’s unfinished business.
You wouldn’t deny Arthur Allan Thomas or Teina Pora justice would you despite the fact that they are ‘historic cases’… and there’s a whole range of issues surrounding Key that needs the spotlight shined fully on him.
And for him to turn up and show his face endorsing the very party that he dumped unceremoniously and left to lose an election smacks of a man who never gave a shit about the people of this country anyway, – yet deems he is sufficiently safe in hiding behind some sort of ‘statesman’ like facade.
Well hes not even that , – and many among us view him as a cheap conman.
Worse still , culpable in the murder of a 6 year old girl in Afghanistan .
Not so rosy when put in those terms,…
IS IT.
LOL you really do write some hilarious drivel.
Hilarious, – I most certainly hope so.
Drivel?… I assure you ,… I am deadly serious.
And the mere fact I induce you into making that statement shows you are playing into my game , not yours.
Keep playing, please.
Yes please – how about a diatribe on the Rothschilds those are usually a hoot.
Oh no no no , little friend, I call the game plan, not you,… and , I know you are chaffing at the bit for more , but be patient small grasshopper…all will be revealed in time…
Now ,.. back to John Key ,… the pony tail man….
Just what was it that he saw in Obama that made him so fawning ..?
Was it the superior height and Keys small man syndrome ?
Or was it the recognition of the almost insignificance of Keys role in the 5 eyes arrangement ?
https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/a/h/m/i/r/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1ahm06.png/1458528992693.jpg
Bored now..bye bye
Yes ,… small attention span and no developed sense of ‘stick – with – it –
ness’…
I understand,… yet unfortunately , you also,… fail the test.
I wish you all the best under the new administration and hope you find solace among your fellow mourners amidst defeat.
WILD KATIPO
Key’s presence here will send a negative action, he will lower the national vote here.
Key will spook the electorate now as he is not trusted and creepy remember the pony tail pulling?
maybe he is back to find some more?
I thinks that Simon Bridges is time is short and bloodletting will be out soon.
Stunned you, mullet ?
Where do our Nationalists go from here ?
“Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista) or the Franco regime (Spanish: Régimen de Franco) is the period of Spanish history between 1939, when Francisco Franco took control of Spain after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain
I feel a hekia lot of trouble for national when they did up old fossils…
Love the puns !
And yes , they are truly digging up old fossils,…
Like this Dire wolf one….viscous, mean and dangerous. The sort that populate the upper echelons of the National party.
Thank goodness the National govt is extinct.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Dire_wolf.jpg
Cadava’s perhaps
Natz must really be on the skids for it to roll the creepy, slimy one out once more to save its burnt bacon! Amazing what desperation can lead to at times.
Oh not really , mary_a,…
After all ,.. they did try the almost deceased Richard Prebble ( at least his political career can be described as such … ) in rolling him out on commenting on rail ,… or in his words… ‘trams’… the other day…
So why not the shower pissing wonder and obligate narcissist John Key ?
As the old adage says … ‘ If the cap fits,… wear it’….
Thanks for the posts Wild Katipo. You are someone who understands what has happened here in Aotearoa.
What’s with all the stuff about banks and conflicts of interest?
I don’t see any problem with Bidois needing John Key.
Just like Steve Hansen will be getting Buck Shelford, Sid Going and Christian Cullen in to help with the games against the French in June.
If he is really, really, really desperate and is trying to find some sort of magic ‘last resort.’
nationals were totally unprepared for defeat. everybody kept their thoughts to themselves, held their cards close to their chest and let the media do its little dance thinking that was enough.
nah.
the people had enough of nationals ramshhackle venal attitude to everything.
sure they made little booms here and there but the ultimate cost is enormous.
the media here is timid, unlearned, ignorant and devoted to their jobs first and foremost because that is the way the world rolls.
the cost of repairing nationals mistakes is going to exhaust any government but one thing for sure is that another ring in like john key and his style of government should never be repeated.
his job was to loot the treasury and he did so successfully.
lets hope his policies have not brought the country to its knees.
a lot of shit is about to come down the pike as they say and we have to be ready and alert to change.
and that means no wasting money on absurd ideological experiments and reminding the population that new zealand is not some completely infantilised episode out of a reality t.v. show.