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Oh damn look at the mug in that last photo, I dont know if thats even a face a mother would love, can we put the paper bag back on it before someone looses their breakfast.
The rug must have tasted bad that morning.
LOL
She looks like Greta.
Both fucken ugly.
I think she’s marvelous. I’m not one for gossip, but I hear Naska has an entire album of her photos and if I remember rightly he used a picture of her as his avatar. The man’s a legend, that must have taken real dedication. Wish I was as fearless.
Hunty will do her, after SB.
Its not the prettiest photo of the lady. Politics does that to you.
Naaska will be onto you.Telling tales out of school.
It’s not a pretty lady.
It’s hard when you have shite to start with.
Just for your enlightenment, Tarquin. Posted this last night.
Fisheries New Zealand will hold another public meeting on a proposed Bream Bay and Whangārei Harbour mātaitai reserve after the first consultation meeting drew a crowd more than double the venue’s capacity.
More than 200 people attended last Thursday’s meeting at the Marsden Yacht and Boat Club, despite the venue’s capacity of 80, Fisheries New Zealand (FNZ) confirmed.
Attendees complained that well over half the crowd had to stay outside and were unable to see or hear presentations about the proposal.
The overcrowding occurred amid strong debate over the proposed hapū-managed mātaitai reserve, which would span 116sq km of Bream Bay and Whangārei Harbour, becoming New Zealand’s largest. Some recreational fishers fear it could eventually lead to restrictions in waters popular with anglers.
FNZ director fisheries management Emma Taylor said the turnout highlighted the strong views being expressed and that another meeting would be held to give people an opportunity to hear about the applications and ask questions.
A date and venue are yet to be announced.
Taylor said the closing date for submissions, previously August 21, would be extended until after the meeting.
“Following consultation, we will assess the proposals against the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, taking into account submissions, petitions and other relevant information, including the effects of the proposed mātaitai on recreational and commercial fishing interests, before providing advice to Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones.”
Opponents have since launched a petition, Protect Bream Bay for All New Zealanders: Retain MPI Management, urging the Government to reject the applications and keep fisheries management in the hands of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
Taylor said FNZ was aware of the petition. However, she encouraged anyone wishing to provide feedback to do so through the formal consultation process.
Petition organisers argue the applications fail to meet regulatory tests requiring ministers to be satisfied a reserve will not unreasonably affect local communities’ ability to harvest fish, aquatic life and seaweed for non-commercial purposes.
They have also pointed to bylaws approved for Whakaraupō (Lyttelton Harbour) as an example of how future mātaitai bylaws could affect public access to fisheries.
The petition also argues MPI is best placed to manage fisheries because it has access to scientific expertise, stock assessment data and nationwide fisheries monitoring.
Patuharakeke Te Iwi Trust Board resource management spokesperson Juliane Chetham has said the proposal is intended to protect and restore customary fisheries for future generations, with shellfish management a particular focus.
She told RNZ recreational fishing could not be banned through the creation of a mātaitai reserve itself and rejected suggestions the proposal was intended to exclude recreational fishers.
Chetham said concerns about depleted pipi beds at Marsden Bank and Mair Bank were among the drivers behind the application.
She said discussions about mātaitai reserves had too often focused on race instead of sustainable fisheries management.
There are two applications under consideration.
The main application by Patuharakeke Rohe Moana Committee seeks a mātaitai reserve covering about 115sq km of fisheries waters stretching along the coastline from about Oakleigh and the eastern end of Andersons Cove at Bream Tail, including the full length of Bream Bay and extending up to two nautical miles offshore.
The second application by the Te Rerenga Parāoa Rohe Moana Committee is for an adjoining 1sq km mātaitai reserve covering the Marsden and Mair banks off Marsden Point.
Together, the proposals encompass the harbour entrance, inner harbour channels, Marsden Pt, Ruakākā, Uretiti and the coastline through to Waipu.
If approved, the Patuharakeke application would create New Zealand’s largest mātaitai reserve, overtaking the 70sq km Cape Runaway reserve established in 2020.
FNZ said mātaitai reserves do not automatically change recreational fishing rules.
However, tangata kaitiaki may later propose bylaws, such as changes to bag limits, restrictions on fishing methods or seasonal controls. Any bylaws would require separate public consultation and ministerial approval.
Commercial fishing is generally prohibited within the reserve, although exemptions can be considered.
And this shit is why I tell my kids to get an education and leave this country we have called home since the 1880s and take our capital with them.
same thing is happening in other countries. Like many things, we are the trial country.
Even Jacinda agrees with you!
ClarkE agrees too, but he has to follow the money!
doubt he is following the pussy. That scratches and bites that bitch.
And wouldn’t you know it, you just can’t please some people.
The police union guy was complaining this morning that the new law will mean they will be arresting the crim stoppers if they use too much force and letting the crims go.
I kid you not. Heard it on the news just now.
Isn’t that what they do now?
An amendment to the Crimes Act has passed its final reading in Parliament.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says the majority of the legislation will take effect within a week.
That includes an expansion to citizen’s arrest powers, allowing members of the public to intervene in any Crimes Act offence at any time of day.
A person making an arrest would be allowed to use restraints “when reasonable”, but is also required to contact police and follow their instructions.
The bill is intended to crack down on retail crime by allowing security guards to detain thieves.
“Retailers and security guards face abuse and assault that no New Zealander should be subjected to, and we know the economic cost of retail crime is in the billions,” Goldsmith said in a statement.
The amendment also specifies a number of new, more specific offences, including for assaulting first responders and frontline corrections workers, and three new offences for “coward punches”.
“Where others may flee, first responders and frontline corrections workers run towards danger to help those who need urgent assistance. Assaulting them puts multiple lives at risk, so there must be greater consequences for these terrible acts of violence,” he said.
“We know how dangerous coward punches are. People can be killed or suffer lifelong brain injuries, yet perpetrators often receive lenient and insufficient sentences. That changes with this legislation.”
Goldsmith said the amendment also strengthened trafficking and slavery laws to close loopholes.
The police union guy is obviously a crim hugging twat if that is his interpretation of the new laws.
Christopher Luxon doesn’t understand NZ small businesses are forced to worry about the Government – Simon Bridges
Opinion by
Simon Bridges
NZ Herald·
7 Aug, 2026 05:00 AM6 mins to read
Simon Bridges is the chief executive of the Auckland Business Chamber and was the leader of the National Party from 2018 to 2020. He has also served as the Minister for Transport, Economic Development and Communications. He has also worked as a senior Crown prosecutor in the Tauranga District and High Courts.
Christopher Luxon’s remarks last week to Rotorua Business Chamber chief executive Melanie Short have got a lot of attention. In a long response detailing his own philosophy as a former CEO, the Prime Minister said “there’s a parent-child mentality” between Kiwi businesses and the Government, unlike those offshore.
This habit of going cap-in-hand to the Beehive is not the way to build “kick-ass” companies, Luxon said, asserting that he would know.
“Who cares what the Government thinks or does? Our job is to be adult, adult, adult.”
Labour was highly critical of the comments but Mike Hosking on Monday took an entirely different tack, strongly backing the Prime Minister and his remarks. Nevertheless, Luxon later that day apologised in order to cauterise a wound that was quickly festering in the small businesses community. Senior minister Erica Stanford said this was “necessary”, given the business pain out there. The Hosk continued to disagree, backing Luxon’s earlier stance.
At one level, many in the business community will sympathise with Luxon’s original “let’s get on with it” and “government be damned” attitude: businesses shouldn’t simply come to ministers with their hands out, moaning for more. But there are things Luxon doesn’t seem to understand about business and the economy in New Zealand.
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For starters, the adult-child analogy isn’t apt. Unlike children, adults get to wake up, eat, spend and do whatever they want, whenever they want. That’s the joy of being an adult. They are free. This, however, certainly isn’t the case for business in New Zealand today. If you are a small or medium-sized enterprise in New Zealand, you pay more business tax than businesses in most other OECD countries. Then there are other centrally imposed taxes and levies, local government rates and charges and, despite the rhetoric that the Government has done a lot to reduce it, a still-growing multitude of regulatory burdens to contend with. There is no choice or freedom associated with any of this.
Sorry Mike Hosking, but it is tough in the land of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME). You are out of touch if you think otherwise.
And if the Government wants businesses to behave like adults, it needs to treat them more like adults and get out of their way with a lower touch and more enabling environment than we have currently in New Zealand. This should include lower business taxes, rates and compliance, which hasn’t sufficiently happened this term or the couple before that. I’d argue, quite the opposite.
The other point is that in talking to the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce, Luxon was almost by definition talking to an SME crowd, and a provincial one at that.
Granted, SMEs aren’t individually of much if any importance. If Steve’s Barbershop falls over, no one but Steve really cares. But in aggregate, the SME sector really matters both to government and our economy. This again is more so in New Zealand than in most western nations. Our sharemarket and, overall, the big corporate end of town isn’t, relatively speaking, very strong. Simplistically, once you take out the primary sector co-ops, the Aussie-controlled banks and the former and current state-owned enterprises (SOEs), there are some brilliant companies left – but not nearly enough of them to make a decent, developed-world economy. New Zealand is a country of SMEs and self-made businesspeople.
And to state what I hope is blindingly obvious, but clearly isn’t, SMEs are very different from a business with thousands of employees and hundreds of millions or billions in turnover. They didn’t, as the Prime Minister says he did, “sit in Illinois for six years” as an executive of consumer goods company Unilever, and they don’t think that much about “commercially superior returns, great customer experience and awesome internal culture”. Not explicitly anyway. The owner very often is the internal culture, the HR manager, accounts, marketing and everything else, rolled into one. They are busy just surviving. They do their best every day without huge analysis or much if any support.
Yet, such lowly businesspeople do worry about what the Government does, because the Government in this small nation controls so much in terms of spending, sentiment, policies and programmes. Its taxes, costs and red tape make all the difference, as do its statements and initiatives.
If it does a good job, the economy grows over time; if it doesn’t, we’re all economically held back. As I have already said, SMEs as a generalisation would love Wellington to get out of the way, but it hasn’t, doesn’t and won’t. So, it matters. A lot.
Take just the last few years when the previous Governments shut down the borders and access to workers for too long. The Government has chopped and changed settings unpredictably in a range of areas since then. Steel Worx Group director Chris Barrett will speak for many when he said to Ryan Bridge on Herald NOW that Labour destroyed the economy, but National has failed to fix it. He went on to say that having turned 64 last weekend, the last three years should have been a period when he made “a tonne of money”, but hasn’t. “At my age, you don’t get another chance. You can’t stay to 80 or 90 to rebuild what [the Government] externally did to our business,” Barrett said.
This then takes us squarely to the important issue. What is the role of government when it comes to the economy? I’d love to believe it could get out of the way and become a passive observer of Schumpeter’s “creative destruction”, I really would. The Austrian economist coined the phrase to describe the process of new technologies and business models rendering older economic structures obsolete.
Perhaps with bolder, earlier action by the current Government, this might possibly have been somewhat achievable. But we didn’t see it. The left’s positioning on higher taxes and bigger government doesn’t hold much attraction either. So, we really are in a fix.
Barrett said his choice was to vote for one of the smaller parties in government to give them more power. I can understand his sentiment but then this will also create a weaker, less stable National-led Government, should it be returned to power. Some of the current crop of National MPs look set to have to walk off into the real world, as Luxon would call it, and survive like “adults, adults, adults”.
Simon Bridges is the chief executive of the Auckland Business Chamber and was the leader of the National Party from 2018 to 2020.
And so they should, and take their bald-headed bastard with them, along with his so-called finance minister.
Clearly business guys are getting sick of Luxon. There is another article doing the rounds from a CEO saying similar things.
I would think the main reason, by far, for businesses going to the Government is to complain or argue about the stupid regulations that Government puts on them that impedes their ability to grow the business (eg. just for Luxon —the ETS)
He is more interested in crawling up arses of other colour and type than bothering to help his “fellow” Kiwi’s.
Luxon is someone who has been appointed way above his abilities. Who would buy shampoo from a bald salesman?
Even air New Zealand gig was a failure after stepping into the shoes of Rod Fyfe. All Luxon did there was introduce all the native crap all passengers endure now
And those that are left in the national party are the simps that pushed him out when he challenged cindys totalitarian running of the country during her covid madness.
Former United Future leader Peter Dunne does not believe there is enough public appetite for a referendum on MMP, saying it is likely the prime minister’s call was down to his frustrations with his current partners rather than a genuine desire to change the electoral system.
Christopher Luxon announced on Newstalk ZB that if re-elected, he would look at a referendum on MMP.
The idea caught both of his coalition colleagues off-guard.
Luxon’s caucus colleagues have defended his call, saying the prime minister was reflecting conversations he had had with constituents.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has poured scorn on the idea, saying nobody had raised the issue with him during his extensive travels around the country.
Dunne, who served as a minister under both Labour and National governments in his 33-year Parliamentary career, told Checkpoint there was always a “measure of frustration” with the electoral system, because people saw it as not giving them the result they wanted.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/906485/peter-dunne-believes-luxon-s-frustration-with-nz-first-act-behind-mmp-referendum-call?fbclid=IwY2xjawThvw5wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMXJnVFViMmZEYWlNaDZOdFNzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeEq8GI3jigHXhUBy-CcjpjpEMJPib176PLhUyfZLtOuD-d8IH3rciaaqCbF0_aem_jATETjAMUeZRdHcV7cQNJg
imagine that, youre so upset your coalition partners are being effective and benefit nz while your own party founders so you think the best course of action is to sideline them so you can run a truly useless and inept govt…. may i remind luxon and kiwis that we pretty much had a fpp style govt in 2020 and if that were nats today i rekon we would get damn near the same result
He’s not a CEO now. He’s part of the board.
Is he the dancing monkey or the organ grinder?
He seemed like he wanted to grind Modi’s organ the other week, so I feel he’s the latter.
Trouble with Luxon is he really believes his 💩 doesn’t stink.
He’s called his coalition “Numpties and Yahoos”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBHHV8oXtVI
Christopher Luxon says he’s open to a referendum on MMP if re-elected | Stuff.co.nz
Luxon floating this referendum is for the rest of us trusting numpties and yahoos to vote for a four year terms for Luxon and other inept political to gain a deeper footing in the trough.
Winston Peters says of Luxon, “it’s inexplicable and a power grab”
I do agree , I believe we could get rid of select committees and go back to 2 houses , lower house list mps upper house electorate mps as a modified form of mmp.
Don’t even think about it. Doesn’t matter how it is envisaged.
The Upper House would be hijacked by Maori & used to stonewall legislation that didn’t benefit them.
Who is Peter Dunne and who cares what he says? He spent 33 years warming a seat and accomplishing nothing.
Didn’t he lance the vance?
rumour was.
From memory, wasn’t he responsible for our now vaping problem?
more than that. He is responsible for banning anything more innocuous than coffee smells. He exacerbated the Meth problem when he did that. Another god-bothering piece of shit.
And a Catholic. Bugger.
Time you repented and joined Naaska and I, free of the devil and its pompous helpers.
Exactly, like Helen Clark, Dunne seems to have an irrelevant opinion on absolutely everything.
Both Clark and Dunne should just piss off and disappear into oblivion. I have heard enough from the pompous Dunne and know all, Clark.
Opened a few letters to public applause.
He reintroduced the bowtie to dickheads!
Trump should propose the same law that Argentina president Javier Milei just introduced: If politicians run a deficit, they STOP GETTING PAID.
YES! DO IT NOW!
No salaries for public officials, from the president down to members of Congress, until the budget is balanced. Public office was never supposed to be a lucrative career for narcissists and psychopaths. It was meant to be a civic duty and an obligation.
Javier Milei’s “Fiscal Shackle” law finally forces accountability. If politicians don’t do their job, THEY pay the price, not the taxpayers. Why can’t we have common sense like this in America?
Now wouldn’t that be a novel idea in this country?
The trouble with that is that the income side of the equation is not earned, it is set by tax legislation and Council set rates. If they are set high enough the almost unlimited expenditure can go on…and on….and on…and on
As always now; one can see plainly that Luxon & National party support the further co-governance & further maorification.
….. [Shane Jones] ….“There’s a famous saying in politics: A pig’s tail is never straight.
And I feel that the Waitangi Tribunal have expanded their mandate. I feel that they represent a classic case of mission creep,” he says. ……
….. Potaka [National Party] is more circumspect, when reflecting on the changes needed.
“The endurance of the tribunal is top of mind.
It’s always about making sure that the tribunal is fit for purpose and fit for the times.
As it comes closer to finalising all the historical inquiries, that role I expect will change no matter who’s in Government.” …..
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/06/unreleased-review-recommends-waitangi-tribunal-keep-key-power/
One can figure that Luxon would work with to gain support from Labour & Te Partly Maori Party, Greens & Top to further the “Waitangi Tribunal” on these issues. 🤢 🤮
If Potaka has anything to do with this, then it will both be an absolute shambles and not take the best interests of the Country into account.
Just look at his record as Conservation Minister.
The Chateau Tongariro closed in 2023 and still no decision on it’s future has been made by Potaka as DOC Minister. This lack of action is costing the Taxpayers of this Country a huge amount, costing the Ratepayers of the Ruapehu District a fortune in lost employment and income. Potaka always seems to be meeting IWI over this but no one else and there is no indication when he will make any ruling on the Chateaus future.
Then there is his involvement as Minister with giving the Lease of Molesworth to Ngai Tahu and I bet if he has a say, eventually the National Asset of Molesworth will be gifted to Ngai Tahu, it is just the public of New Zealand aren’t aware of it yet.
A true snake and weasel, is Mr Potaka.
If you do see a pig’s tail straight, fuck off outta its way bloody quick.
He’s an angry bastard.
Happy pigs have curly tails.
not really, straight tail is a good sign theyre sick
Not when he is baring his tusks. GGRRR hog.
A really good & simple description of the control of language, that many of us sort of know but do now always realize how it is used against us & to be more effective in fighting back.
You may be surprized in some parts of what even some of us may have accepted even in small part in some of the subtle social-engineering of words.
https://rumble.com/v7do0bq-tiktok-woman-describes-an-aspect-of-dialectical-language-for-self-defence-p.html
4 mins 44 secs :
Words that smuggle in conclusions.
Facts are innocuously rearranged by vocabulary.
The sly input of “Conclusion” words which are accepted as ok, means that part of that arguement, the ideas & possibilities are unwittinlgy accepted.
The framed “conclusion” words arrive that settles a factual dispute.
“The hidden assumptions that are hiding inside language”, proving to be a most effective persuasion, to just accept even if only a small part.
So it seems that the “conclusion” has a base so it is inevitable.
— ——- – – – – – – ——-
To show it up, goes a long way in fighting back against this framing, & that dubious creation of the framed narrative.
It may only be words, but they are being harnessed in 1984 Orwellian in many parts of our lives to to rule over us.
Which goes to prove that we at YSB are very “inclusive” group of people. 😀 😁 😃
That would explain the use of macron-infested Maori words where Anglisized versions exist in English. For example, no modern publication can use the word kakapo for that flightless parrot. It has to be kākāpō, (or else the publication will be raided by the Thought Police…)
Our buses have signs calling the Te Pahi, who would have known that’s native for bus? They need a sign at the door saying, provided by the local ratepayer!!!
When there are no living monolingual speakers of Maori, why have bilingual announcements (Maori always first–and longer). It’s virtue signaling that will put people off learning Maori. Better to have a short announcement in Mandarin or Hindi for all the non-English-speaking elderly parents of immigrants.
I bet you’re all glad that your tax dollars are going to this worthy cause aren’t you?
https://tawhaki.co.nz/
More bullshit. It’s never ending.
Into the same vein of tawhaki, or Waitangi Tribunal, & the control of where macrons can be used.
So how much is one paying to iwi to catch a trout in Lake Taupo?
The current Government could and should step in, with legislation, to either extinguish Tūwharetoa’s Water Rort or, if the Nats don’t have the guts, at least formalize, limit and otherwise regulate what’s going on.
But the current Government won’t do either.
Which is why the National Party may well attract less than 30% of the party vote, at the next election.
https://mcleanj.substack.com/p/tuwharetoa-water-shake-down-creep
So initially we slid along with the mealy mouth hegelian dialectic of gaining a higher truth, through the vocabularly of just symbolic.
Then it slowly changes to gaining judicial power, that becomes a sly takeover, shakedowns and protection rackets from the tribal mafia and then total exclusion.
So it will be for Molesworth station too, all aided by the National Party.
All in the name of “Inclusion” as one must figure that Winston Peters also sat around the Cabinet table while these decisions are made !
yep whinny would have been there kowtowing to Potaka
I put Kaitorete into apple maps. not having heard of it before, neither has apple maps. not found.
All under Te Waihora Co Governance.
https://tewaihora.org/about-the-lake/kaitorete-spit/
& so it goes on in:—
… In 2012 Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and the Canterbury Regional Council (Environment Canterbury) came together to agree on a shared commitment and responsibility to restore and rejuvenate the mauri and ecosystem health of the lake and its catchment. ….
….. In 2014, Selwyn District Council joined,
followed by Christchurch City Council in 2016,
and the Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai in 2019. ….
So not only tax money, but inclusively takes rates $money too.
That’s Apple Maps 4 ya. Gave up using their crappy maps.
I would rather be using apple crap than this bastards stuff.
Bill Gates died and met God.
God said, “Well, Bill, I’m really confused on this one. I’m not sure whether to send you to Heaven or to Hell.
After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in the world and yet you created that ghastly Windows.
I’m going to do something
I’ve never done before.
I’m going to let you decide
where you want to go.”
Bill said, “What’s the difference between the two?”
God said, “It might help you decide if you took a peek at both places. Shall we look at Hell first?”
Bill was amazed.
He saw a clean white sandy beach with clear water.
There were thousands of beautiful men and women running around, playing in the water, laughing and frolicking about.
The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect.
“This is great!” said Bill.
“If this is Hell, I can’t wait to see Heaven.”
God said, “Let’s go!” and off they went to Heaven.
Bill saw puffy white clouds
in a beautiful blue sky, with angels drifting about playing harps and singing.
It was nice, but surely not as enticing as Hell.
Bill thought for only a brief moment and rendered his decision.
“God, I do believe I would prefer to go to Hell.”
“As you wish,” said God.
Two weeks later, God decided
to check up on the late billionaire
to see how things were going.
He found Bill shackled to
a wall, screaming in hot flames in a dark cave as
he was being tortured by demons with pitchforks.
“How ya doin’, Bill?” asked God.
Bill groaned “This is awful! This is not what I expected at all! What happened to the beach and the beautiful women playing
in the water?”
“Oh, that,” said God.
“That was the screen saver.”
Next time, try Google Maps. Pisses all over the Apple crap.
Birdlings Flat on Banks Peninsula on the way to Akaroa. Weird place like something outta Mad Max.
Fekkin cold today. Bring on global warming.
meh, its not too bad. i thought my balls would freeze and id be a sook. when we landed it was colder in auckland colder than queenstown. managed to get away wearing shorts so that was a suprise
OI, South Africa was in many places much colder. Grow a pair.
Not Cape Town bru
There the ocean made up for it….
If you swam on the cold side you’d freezyernutsov
Once went in off Clifton. It was a balmy 12 degrees. Stayed in for 30 minutes and then stood under a cold shower on the beach. That water felt warm….. Spent the rest of the day looking for my nuts….
Did you look in the Popes purse?
Luxury…I could never get parking there.
Sooty – It’s not a pretty lad y.Thats the reason thick as a brick Chloe had her hands in her pockets just checking her desired gender was still intact.
The Cambridge University fantasist has resigned under a cloud of plagarism. How many other pretenders are out there haven’t had their fabricated CV scrutinised?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQm-ct5ir9s
This is FAR BIGGER than Jason Arday. It is a National Scandal that Helps Explain Broken Britain
NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo
TPU/Curia Poll August 2026 …
National is up 0.5 points to 31.0 percent.
Labour is down 3.7 points to 27.8 percent.
The Greens are down 0.3 points to 10.1 percent.
New Zealand First is down 1.7 points to 9.1 percent.
ACT is up 0.4 points to 7.3 percent.
Opportunity is on 6.1 percent (+2.8 points).
Te Pāti Māori is down 1.9 points to 1.5 percent.
Converting these results to seats in the Parliament, compared to last month’s poll, National gains 1 seat to 40, while Labour drops 5 seats to 36.
The Greens are unchanged on 13, while New Zealand First drops 2 seats to 12.
ACT is unchanged on 9, while Opportunity gains 8 seats to 8. Te Pāti Māori drops 2 to 2 seats.
https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/aug2026_nztucurghs17668
More here:—
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/925138/coalition-still-in-position-to-form-government-in-new-taxpayers-union-curia-poll
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/08/07/labour-slides-as-coalition-clings-to-power-opportunity-breaks-5-poll/
opportunity will hound the nats, they insist theyll still deal with the party with most votes first//////
im guessing these results dont factor in luxrards latest couple of brainfarts. the latest seems to have blindsided nat mps and certainly got them rattled. wonder if its enough for them to finally say fuck it and knife luxon in the next week or so??? surely to fuck hes had enough chances, at this stage it looks like luxon just dosebt give a fuck about winning
Nobody trusts Luxon. Why would the voter believe he wouldn’t go with the Opp party if he needs to. He’s slagging off his current coalition partners. Does he think he’ll take National to win a landslide? //
It’s called the uniparty. Liarbour and National coalition
wouldn’t put it past the slippery shiny head.
When are the media going to demand his resignation and start rumors of a coup?
Why interrupt someone who is self-prosecuting in the court of public opinion?
I hope the FTA extends to cricket. I like Indian cricket almost as much as I dislike black craps. Be that as it may – I predict NZ will win all ICC tournaments in the 30s. Team will will full of Patels, Kohlis, Dhonis, Patidars, Bumrahs, Sharmas etc etc. No one likes cricket more than I do. Or should that be Naidoo?
As good citizens we must appreciate the new laws of allowing citizen’s arrest.
It would seem to become a good citizens duty, after reading the about the police in-action of over 3 months.
…… Sunday morning after Anzac Day, burglars broke into commercial premises in South Auckland, and stole $20,000 worth of tools. …..
…… in July as Hutchinson repeatedly asked for updates with a new officer ….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361016518/absolute-joke-business-owner-buys-back-stolen-gear-after-police-delay
After all rapid consequences makes the easy lifestyle of burglars & fences not possible.
Will also reduce recidivism.
Only ring the police after a good night’s frosting or rain, to report where the culprit, suspect is shackled to some pylon, power pole, way out in some distant paddock.
Surprised they didn’t just get a few more guys and take the stuff. What were the thieves going to do? Call the cops? Then they would have the fun of proving where they got the gear from.
Absolute fucking scumbags. Be worth going back and burning the house down with them and any family that n it. The cost of the house would be well worth it.
Read on FJA 🤔
The land-lord is Kainga Ora.
“Where we are made aware of behaviour that may be affecting neighbours or the wider community, we work with tenants, neighbours and relevant agencies, including police to understand the situation and determine any appropriate action.”
They are only concerned about “disruptive behaviour”, & probably more so with only their tenants as they may feel things of health & safety being a landlord.
the agency did not investigate criminal offending.
Though it does touch on nasska’s concerns about who can do what may be unleashed, in a fiery, but peaceful protest.
At the same time we know all the ones in Kainga Ora will side step their connection in doing nothing even if a place is burnt down,
The system depends on that many of us has too much to lose, so continue to trust & obey, to be.
That we will suffer more in the process, which is the punishment for us, but not for others.
If the legislation is used as envisaged; maybe. My natural cynicism is ringing bells about the concept enabling private armies/security forces & the attendant risks to our civil rights.
My cynicism is that the police are not applying laws, as can be seen in the above case example.
Nor do the judiciary.
nasska, many are already living in the of tikanga, jungle laws, the concept enabling private armies/security forces,
where real goons can & do the enforcing right now. !
Please note how complicit the systemic Judicary is aligned to those tikanga concepts.
In the district, King-hit with a full bottle of wine that broke on his head in a home invasion, then threatened with a knife that would not be released, so a part of a finger was chopped off, in between walloping the assailant, to keep him down so he could not carry out his threats of “I will kill you” which was repeatedly said after the police arrived.
To consider that other accomplices were not so far away.
So the father & son were charged, but were acquitted by a jury, but the cost of the defence lawyers, made his borrowings soar, so the bank told him to sell everything up.
….”many are already living in the of tikanga, jungle laws, the concept enabling private armies/security forces,
where real goons can & do the enforcing.”……
Acknowledged BUT there’s a real danger that the new laws will be used to legitimise those self same goons. Security at grass roots level is not a calling that attracts honest citizens of impeccable morals. It is dirty, boring, dangerous work & most employees are either psychotic, brain dead or seeking power trips.
……”how complicit the systemic Judicary is aligned to those tikanga concepts.”…..
In the eyes of the left wing, enlightened intelligentsia the warrior gene excuses all.
…..”the father & son were charged, but were acquitted by a jury, but the cost of the defence lawyers”……
A classic case of the misuse of weak, namby-pamby self defence laws which resulted in punishment via process but an issue separate to corporate private armies.
How many on “gardening leave”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq4t-PaufwY
Jordan Williams Exposes Corruption In The Ministry Of Justice
Kapahaka, is it good for maori? It is when the taxpayer funds $300k for maori research grant
Whats the difference between a magicians wand and a policeman’s tazer?
The magicians wand is for cunning stunts
David Attenborough: Here we see the white Kiwi male.
Watch carefully. He has received the wrong meal in a restaurant.
Notice how he says absolutely fucking nothing.
Transphobia for beginners: (ex The Urban Dictionary)
Bob: “I’m going to wear a dress to work and call myself Jemima. Will you call me Jemima?”
Female co-worker: “Of course, I’m a nice person”
Bob: “Will you refer to me in the third person as she/her?”
Female co-worker: “Of course, because I don’t want to upset you and I’m quite happy to have a man tell me that I don’t know how to use the English language correctly despite having spoken it without incident my entire life”
Bob: “I’d like to start using the women’s toilets because I’ll feel more comfortable”
Female co-worker: “I’m sure that won’t be a problem because your comfort is far more important than any pearl-clutching concerns that us women may have”
Bob: “So you believe that trans women are women?”
Female co-worker: “Well I can’t see the cost of me agreeing so of course I think you’re a woman in spite of you never having menstruated and being stronger than most women on the planet”
Bob: “I’d like to come on the women-only spa day so that I can sit in the hot tub with my lady cock out in front of all you ladies that don’t have cocks”
Female co-worker: “er…of course, because it’s a struggle for you being in a room full of semi-naked women whereas us women have no problem being used to serve your fetish…I mean ‘helping to affirm your true self'”
Bob: “I’d like to join the women’s rugby team that you also play on”
Female co-worker: “I’m not sure that’s safe, as I’m 5 foot nothing and you’d flatten me like a pancake”
Bob: “That’s Transphobia you terf bitch!”
Saw a funny thing on the news last night, apparently the government is increasing the penalties for shoplifting. Tamatha Paul got up and started moaning about this, she reckons people only steal because they are so poor. She went on to say no woman has ever stolen anything for fun or personal profit and they only do it because they need to.Why didn’t anyone ask her if she had ever heard of a woman called Golriz? I can’t work out if she is supremely arrogant from wearing the shield of sanctimony for far too long or just thick as two short planks with an I.Q approaching room temperature on a cold day. Either way, is this the best they can do?
Golly GrabnRun
LOL. They really are dimwitted.
Stealing a speech from AOC – she stated that starving people are only stealing bread. The TV, cell phone, and branded shoes just happened to get caught up in the rush as they left the shop bypassing the checkout.
Lockdown Hysteria – and those involved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87Et-w3vdg
The Lockdown Dissidents
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of prominent scientists challenged the prevailing government approach to lockdowns. The Lockdown Dissidents tells the story of researchers like Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas, and Robert Redfield—voices who say they were sidelined and censored when they questioned the public health consensus. …
Gay Bigfoot?
https://x.com/MustangMan_TX/status/2085442621430792424?s=20
Magnificent – and rather terrifying.
New Zealand Centre for Political Research Facebook Group
Frank Newman ·
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I wonder if it has something to do with all of the theft that I have ben told is happening at the mill….
STUFF: ‘Holy heka, it’s a bit of a shock’: Kaitaia mill to close today, two weeks earlier than planned
A Kaitāia mill will close permanently on Friday, two weeks earlier than initially planned, in what has come as a surprise to workers.
Juken NZ announced the closure of the Northland Mill in June and the loss of around 60 jobs after the company was unable to find a buyer for the site.
At the time, Juken NZ Director Yasufumi Tsuchiya said the closure reflected “challenging market conditions, including falling demand in key markets, rising costs and insufficient work to keep the mill operating sustainably”.
The mill was slated to be closed on August 21, but was brought forward.
V2
As a major player in the
slum rental, baseline rathole, hovel hire,low income accommodation racket what are your experiences re tenants child & earthquake proofing articles of furniture/TVs etc by fastening them to walls?There’s a guideline of sorts at https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/maintenance-and-inspections/regular-maintenance/tenants-making-changes-to-the-property/ but how does this work out in the real world? Thanks.
All but one of my tenants work, and he is not in a good way and has an autistic son, so not really able to answer your question. He has been my tenant for 16 years, and he has a rent that is way behind what I would get if it was refurbished, which I intend to do in a few months. The reason he is there is that during COVID, when WINZ wouldn’t up his payment, he pleaded with me not to put him out, as he and his son would be sent to a motel among the gangs and his boy would be targeted.
The last change of tenant I had was in 2021, and that was because I upgraded the house after the previous tenant left.
So long as they look after the house, then I have no idea what their problem would be in an earthquake. That’s their issue.
Some of my tenants I knew their kids, and now those kids have kids.
There will be changes soon, as at least one will be off to a smaller property and that house will get an upgrade.
So to answer your question, pick good long-term tenants.
The question arose this morning & I’m of two minds of whether to ask permission before or seek forgiveness later.
My beloved tends to get bored easily & although I am happy to accept the mantle of a retired cocky she seeks out good works to do. Regrettably she confuses the meaning of “I” & “we” so too often I get pulled in as an unpaid sidekick.
For the past couple of years she has been mentoring people who have got themselves into the financial shit but want to work their way out of it. As a retired office manager she is an excellent person for the task. Usually she has two, sometimes three cases current.
The latest is a single mother of one two year old boy. Rents quite a nice house in a reasonable neighbourhood but her finances are stretched to breaking point so I was ‘volunteered’ for a few hours of handyman work on the section & furniture etc.
She’s freaking out about the kid being at risk of pulling the TV down on himself & I want to wire it back to the wall. Piece of piss to do but I don’t want to leave her up for a bill for damage if & when she moves on.
Well, there are the rules. What is the tv sitting on?
What are the walls? If they are painted gob, then it’s not a drama, as you can always repaint a patch if it’s acrylic. A flake of paint and Resene or Dulux can match it. Cheap enough to do if you can put a hold-eye or such on a stud. An eye with a chain is what I have used.
It’s worth looking in Bunnings or Mega 10 as there are a lot of hold-type options.
Given the scarcity of tenants, then yack to the landlord and get their ok. They might not want to lose the tenant.
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And go find her a border.
Smells like a recession. I’m noticing a lot of “to let” and “for sale” signs around Glen Innes. It feels like the early 1990s all over again.
I notice a truckload of shops for rent in Nelson City. It’s like a ghost town.
Told ya. Ya shoulda left chippy in charge.
You jest surely. It’s your favourite OPM and his finance guru who can’t figure out that small business matters.
Anyway, I haven’t seen your name as the ACT candidate as you promised.
We are waiting.
After all, you are white, noisy, have lots of spare time and love a scrap, so the job would suit you well.
Do you need a seconder?
…..”After all, you are white, noisy, have lots of spare time and love a scrap, so the job would suit you well.”……
Bitch fight ! ! 🙂
GUILTY and referred to DOJ. Now Ron Johnson has Fauci’s departmental phone
https://rumble.com/v7dtem8-you-wont-believe-what-just-happened-to-fauci.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
You Won’t BELIEVE What Just Happened to Fauci!!!
Dr Steve Turley
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MryGQJ_19do
Worked for me. 🙂
Hunty is walking the strip in Vegas when a fantastic-looking hooker catches his eye. He strikes up a conversation and eventually asks, “How much do
you charge?”
The hooker replies, “I start at $500 for a hand job.”
The Hunty says, “$500 for a hand job? Holy crap, no hand job is worth that kind of money.”
The hooker says, “You see that Denny’s on the corner?”
“Yes.”
“Do you see the McDonald’s in the next block?”
“Yes.”
“And do you see the Wendy’s across the street?”
“Yes.”
“Well,” said the hooker, smiling invitingly, “I own all those, and I own them because I give a hand job that’s worth $500.”
So the Hunty says, “What the hell? You only live once. I’ll give it a try.”
They go to a nearby motel. A short time later, he is sitting on the bed realizing that he has just experienced the hand job of a lifetime, worth every bit of $500. He’s so amazed, he says, “I suppose a blow job is $1000.”
The hooker says, “No, $1500.”
“I wouldn’t pay that for a blow job!”
The hooker replies, “Step over to the window. Do you see those two
casinos across the street? Well, I own those, and I own them because I give blow jobs that are worth every cent of $1500.”
Poor hunty, still reeling from the terrific hand job, decides to put off buying
a new car for another year or so, and says, “Sign me up.”
Fifteen minutes later, he’s sitting on the edge of the bed, more amazed than before. He can hardly believe it, but he feels he truly got his money’s worth.
Deciding to go for broke, he asks, “So, how much for some pussy?”
The hooker says, “Come back over to the window. Do you see how the whole city of Las Vegas is laid out before us? All those casinos, with the beautiful lights, the gaming, the showgirls?”
“Damn!” says the guy in awe. “You own the whole city?”
The hooker says, “No. But I would . . . if I had a pussy.”