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hilarious, stuart nash just about ruined his chances at being a nzf candidate after his honest definition of a woman on sean plonkets show and now hes just done it again and made his position untenable cuz luxon had a cry.
pity really, the guy spoke fucking well at the nzf thingy last weekend, and really it wasnt that big of a deal what he said was it? sure, a douche thing to say but hardly career ending and it was only really cuz it was a pos nat mp and luxon had a cry. harden up imo, no ones really heard of the woman anyways so nashs coments cant have been too far off the mark.
anyways, chances are he wouldve done something else dumb if elected and got the party bad publicity so maybe its a good thing?
Good about Nash. Now how can we get rid of that other liability Jones?
I would imagine that if most NZF voters are anything like me, they find what he says pretty funny.
True that but that’s ot really the issue. compare that entitled tart to this lady.
Whakatāne mum battling stage 4 breast cancer after diagnosis during pregnancy
When Zivana Hori was told she had an aggressive form of breast cancer while 20 weeks pregnant, she was faced with an unimaginable decision.
Doctors advised the mother, who is in her 30s, that terminating her pregnancy would give her the best chance of surviving stage 3, grade 3 breast cancer. Instead, she chose to continue the pregnancy.
“I told them they had to save my baby first, then try to save me later if they could,” she said.
That was in September 2025. In January this year, her daughter, Dianne Rhythm Harmony Hori, was born at 34 weeks.
No doubt jabbed and all that pushed upon people by the very same entitled piece of Nat shit and her party mates, that is currently whinging and trying to defend her entitlement. My god, listen to her shouting on the radio. What a hariden.
He has always been a roided up wanker who opens his mouth and shit comes out, Did you pop over for the nzf thing last weekend.
yea nash sure has some small peen big roid energy thing goin on.
and nah, the youtube algorithm thought i should listen to the speeches while cruisin in the tractor.
Look up the laws that are in place around maternity leave and what other couples have to do. Few companies would pay someone 10 months to occasionally turn up at a photo opp and not at all at their workplace, which, in her case, is Wellington. The excuse that her local staff did look after the constituents doesn’t wash, as her workplace is in Wellington and its not an online job. She knew that when she started the job. The taxpayer pays her assistants, and frankly I doubt you can name me one MP who started as a kid and became worth the money at the job. She sounded like a she is an entitled hariden. No one should be allowed to stand until they get to 40.
I was talking about nash not fucking defending a nat politician , no wonder people get fucked off with you.
And have had a real job or owned a business.
A woman’s a woman. Tits, vag, complain, unapproachable a few times a month. Simple really. A Man. Cock and balls, muscular body, right all the time. Now, these flakes that run around screaming that’s not right, “how dare you!”.. blah blah have severe psychiatric problems. Refer to above description. Cock and balls. Vag and tits. Sorry to burst ya bubble, you f.i.t.h hillbillies who think otherwise. Get some psychiatric help. Quickly now. Righto. Maoris,…….
FB last night was full of the Nats trying to defend her. Oh, she was working, but no. Like the Horis and Greens, she was ripping off the taxpayer. She didn’t turn up at her workplace, didn’t do committee work, but like our local Tom, she and he learned from Peter Dunne to turn up at photo opps and do fuck all else. 10 months on full pay, whereas any other working woman would have had her maternity leave split between her and her partner and had to become a beneficiary for the time. or put her kid into a creche and go to work. Entitled piece of Nat wanker. Who failed in her work. 10 bloody months of not turning up. WTF. Every woman thats had a kid in the last few years should be shouting them down. Lazy entitled are both correct.
Nash was always a loose cannon with a big mouth,
The Drunken dwarf won’t be happy.
bye bye NASH. NEXT!!!!
Paul Henry: “Hold my beer”
Earlier, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Nash would not serve in any government he leads after the election.
Should have stayed on that basis.
Baldy assumes he will ever lead a government again lol.
He has apparently said that we are on track for net zero, so you may well be right. Talk about inability to read the room, he should resign and join the bat shit crazy Greens.
Alex Belfield 66 months imprisonment for online-stalking. Released then recalled on parole back to prison. Is Alex being persecuted by lawfare. The chairman of the parole board has deemed a rare “public hearing” is appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5mWpkqkJbs
Alex Belfield – We will ALL Find Out!
BlackBeltBarrister
hilarious, the guys face should be in a dictionary next to FAFO.
i used to like listening to him but could see from miles away he was gunna get himself imprisoned.
if he haf of plead guilty to the charges that he clearly was guilty of he wouldve got a far less of a sentence but the arrogant twat thought he was bulletproof.
then close to and during the case his content become more arrogant and you cant help but think the prosecutors wouldnt have been showing the judge that stuff behind closed doors…. hint, dont fuck off a judge even if they are a dudge.
now the clown has obviously pushed boundaries and breeched his conditions so another FAFO.
all those gullable dumbarses that donated should also wonder where the money went too.
the only absurdity in all this is he got done for stalking, if he was a paki reggin he wouldve got a free pass. if he was a paki who stalked, raped and murdered he still woulda got a free pass or less of a sentence.
After a €20 million ($39m) refurbishment finished three years behind schedule, the unassuming building where one of history’s most notorious figures was born is all but unrecognisable.
The roughcast yellow walls of the 17th-century home near the German border, where the future Fuehrer was born on April 20, 1889, have been whitewashed over by the Austrian architecture firm Marte.
A police sign hangs above the entrance, while the pavement still bears a memorial stone with the inscription: “For peace, freedom and democracy. Never again fascism. Millions of dead warn us”.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said that from now on the house would be “a place of democracy, of the rule of law, of security, of freedom, and of human dignity”.
He added: “And at the same time … the memory does not disappear, nothing is covered up. The memorial stone in front of this house, hewn from the granite of the former Mauthausen concentration camp, remains in place.”
After Hitler’s Germany annexed Austria in 1938, 65,000 Austrian Jews were killed and another 130,000 forced into exile.
But the country’s most popular political party is now the far-right FPOe, which was founded by former Nazis. Around 37% of Austrians back the party, according to polling aggregator Europe Elects.
The house, which had been in the hands of the same family from 1912, was from 1972 leased to the Austrian state and used as a centre for disabled people.
Despite neo-Nazis frequently flocking to the address, its last private owner, Gerlinde Pommer, vetoed any transformation of the house and contested its expropriation by the state until the very end.
Three years after Austria passed a law in 2016 to take control of the dilapidated building, the Supreme Court finally approved the €810,000 ($1.58m) purchase of the 800sq m property.
Demolishing the site was out of the question for historians. They urged Austria to face up to its role in the Nazis’ murder of more than six million Jews, along with Roma, the disabled, LGBTQ people and communists.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/austrian-town-turns-adolf-hitlers-birthplace-into-a-police-station/H4V4FYK2QNEKBCCZFG4WLW66KM/
Apparently, doing a whitewash removes the history and the attitudes that go with it. Seems Austrians agree that being a Nazi is still the best life course.
Hence of course, the Ukrainian war.
RFK Jr. warns: “In a million years, I would not take the flu shot—and I’ll tell you why.”
“The flu shot primes you for flu, 36% pathogenic priming for COVID & increases non-flu infections like pneumonia 440%.”
Here’s the evidence—ingredients, studies & stats that demand your attention.
🧪 Toxic Ingredients in Flu Shots:
• Formaldehyde – known carcinogen
• Fall Armyworm Ovary – growth medium
• Polysorbate 80 – crosses blood-brain barrier, linked to infertility.
• Neomycin – antibiotic that triggers severe allergies
• Egg proteins & dog kidney cells – allergens + foreign DNA fragments
• Squalene MF59 – tied to Gulf War Syndrome autoimmune reactions
🔬 Key Studies Exposing the Harms:
• Cochrane Review & Cowling et al. (2012): Flu shot increased non-flu respiratory infections 4.4X of COVID & pneumonia, that’s a 440% increase!
• Pentagon Study (2017–2018): Flu-vaccinated troops had 36% higher odds of coronavirus.
• Skowronski et al. (2009): Confirmed vaccine enhanced disease.
• Multiple meta-analyses (2022): Show interference & heightened risk for certain strains.
📊 Shocking Statistics:
• VAERS (as of 2025): 235,818 adverse events, 1,024 hospitalizations, massive underreporting.
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome: 1 in 1 million doses (WHO)
• Vaccinated kids: 4.4X more likely to catch other respiratory viruses.
• Military personnel: 36% increased coronavirus risk after flu shot.
Your immune system is smarter than Big Pharma’s guesses. Build it with nutrition, not needles.
another good example of an inherant ability to FUCKEN “””” multi task “”””
because white males can’t.. eh
”’ BUYING FUCKING FIRE TRUCKS ”’
..followed up by ANOTHER TOTAL cover up
and multi million $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ golden “FUCK OFF” handshake
…followed by another DEI uselesscrat civil servant appointment.
…take it right up the shit hole NZ, you left wing DEI fuck tard ..(yes yes, we’ll give you the elephant wanger
The wheels of the fire trucks & committees go round & round to get to the point of being out of warranty.
… a series of convoluted answers about a seven-year process that has so far failed to put any of 30 new [fire] trucks on the road. …….
….. the top two people in charge of the fleet – national manager Mike Moran and deputy chief executive Sarah Sinclair – had both just resigned. ………
….. Ex-Watercare head Raveen Jaduram was recently installed as new board chair. ……
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/755844/fenz-spends-90k-on-pr-and-lawyer-for-inquiry-into-vehicle-fleet
The musical chairs of golden parachutes to landing in other places.
….. five new aerials [ladder] on order had undergone “final” testing in mid-2025, when it was now clear they were still being tested.
Stiffler said they unearthed problems with them last November as part of pre-operating checks.
Two of the trucks were still in Brisbane being worked on, and three in New Zealand. …..
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/759008/lack-of-new-fire-trucks-probed-in-parliament
It seems DEI rules with connections for who gets appointed onto these committees.
yeah yeah alright ffs
“””” inherent “”””
I see the Ngati Fart Tua eternal Grifter, Complainer and Perpetually Unhappy Moaner, Dame Naida Glavish, is taking Transpower to Court because her electric light bulb was unable to be turned on and getter her KFC reheated was a bit of a mission. Not only that, according to her claim, her business bros up North, couldn’t cook their “P” up for a few days which caused them immense financial hardship, hence the Court action.
I see the IWI have to go and get a bunch of low life Lawyers, Omni Bridgeway to fund this Court action.
Who does this ugly old bag of bones, Naida Glavish think she is and should she win, after the Lawyers have been paid, how much will she claim of the proceedings?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/northland-iwi-leaders-push-transpower-class-action-over-pylon-collapse/ALYJHVLB7ZHHLFDFVJZF4DLMBM/
ask her who maori would blame pre treaty for any power outages 🙂 if its that important to them then perhaps they should be fucking thankful for colonisation.
I remember that incident well. It had a terrible effect on our company, I was forced to shut the doors for a couple of days and went fishing. The horror was real but the fishing was good. Just thinking about it will likely send myself and my favourite teddy bear scuttling off to my safe place.
You couldn’t even chill ya beer! Bet you had to threw them in the sea to chill.
Oohh, you poor downtrodden thing, I would suggest you and teddy make a swift phone call to the great Dame herself on the Native invented Telephone system and try and get a cut of the action.
That should alleviate all your suffered pain and grief and put teddy into a happier state of mind.
Or put Teddy in touch with a neighbourhood pharmacist who can flick him a baggie to brighten up his day.
Works for about half the population of the Far North.
No one has mentioned the doll. Surely if there was ever a case for it’s “killing” powers, this would be it.
Wouldn’t waste my time on that dago cabbage, Luxon is quietly sleep walking into the cross hairs. I can’t believe how tone deaf he’s become. I used to have a bit of respect for him, thought he would have been a decent sales rep and a reasonable middle manager. Now he seems to be morphing into an utter uber woke bell end. His comments on Nash and saying we are on target for net zero were both completely stupid. Nash’s comments were probably not that wise but they weren’t that wrong, I personally believe Nimon has massaged the system to suit herself. Nowhere in the private sector would you get away with that and I don’t blame her for doing it but trying to look innocent and offended when you get called out and having your leader come out with a load of manufactured outrage is just wrong. If he wants to see how net zero works all he needs to do is look how power generation is going over the ditch and how the economy is doing in Sri Lanka. The Greens are where he belongs, he will probably end up there once he’s finished giving the family silverware away.
What do you expect the ears are only drawn on the thumb!
A tragedy. Ref: Coroner’s warning after Auckland mother Angelina Pierre and baby die following motorcycle crash – NZ Herald
I had a discussion with y wife over this article. My wife says that Angelina had not been properly educated. I countered that she lacked common sense and deductive reasoning. My wife replied that common sense is not an instinct but is taught to us by our families and environments.
What do you think?
Common sense is an instinct. Some have it, some don’t.
Every behaviour can be taught and learned. Some have a natural instinct, but many need to learn. A good one to learn is self-awareness of danger.
I agree that common sense is an instinct and indicative of critical thinking. My wife (who is far further to the left than I am) argues that common sense is not instinctive and is learned through one’s family and wider environment.
My wife reasons that humans are not animals; we do not have instincts.
(My common sense tells me that it is better to leave the argument at that.)
Have you considered that the childlike beliefs of the simple Polynesian, which do not connect actions to consequences, may have something to do with it. Like the lilies of the field which don’t do much in the way of spinning or toiling (or thinking) leaving God to dictate any repercussions doesn’t spoil the wonderful hedonism of the moment.
“Don’t ask mе silly questions, I won’t play silly games
I’m just a simple choo-choo train, and I’ll always be the same
I only want to race along, beneath the bright blue sky
And be a happy choo-choo train, until the day I die.”
Stephen King.
The truly amazing part about this story is it only took the coroner 2 1/2 years to come up with this. There was a story on the msm the other day about a Darwin recipient who died doing somersaults on a Lime scooter without a helmet in Westhaven. He had to wait 7 years for the coroner which would appear to be normal.
One must not criticise life decisions of those with limited brain cell abilities. 😝
Darwin award winner.
That’s what I thought this morning. Darwin defo. FS she’d just got her license, was pregnant.
Great minds arrive at similar conclusions.
but yet they blamed some random pipe she may have hit and not the multiple stupid fuckups she made leading up to it.
a skid lid probs wouldve saved her life or at least the babies.
over here me and my mate get given arseholes from our workmates cuz we wear seatbelts or on the rare occassion we use the motorbike don a helmet… my response is just that its a fucking dumb way to die.
darwin must love aussies
Any pipe that contributed to the accident was likely a glass one.
What I couldn’t understand was why her defacto husband (partner) didn’t object to her getting a motorcycle when she was already heavily pregnant.
Why was she riding without protective clothing or a crash helmet. It’s not like motorcyclists behave like that in South Auckland…
(Oh! Wait a minute…)
7 years ago? Who was in charge?
it was probs some weird turn on/foreplay kinda thing.
This article, written by one Chris Beck, appeared this morning in my FB feed; Make of it as you will.
WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE? APPARENTLY “PACK OF BASTARDS” IS NOW ACCEPTABLE
A private text describing a National MP as “lazy” triggered wall-to-wall outrage, demands for explanations and lectures about political standards. You would have thought the sky was falling.
Yet Marama Davidson goes on national television, calls the entire coalition Government a “pack of bastards,” and even boasts that she is “being mild”—and suddenly the outrage machine goes silent.
Where is Christopher Luxon puffing out his chest and delivering one of his “this is completely unacceptable” speeches? Where are the demands for Davidson to apologise or face discipline from the Green Party? Where are the media commentators warning about abusive and degrading political language?
The contrast could not be clearer. One remark was contained in a private text. Davidson’s was a deliberate statement made during a television interview—and she doubled down when challenged.
Luxon cannot personally discipline Davidson because she belongs to another party, but he can publicly condemn the language and demand that the Green leadership address it. His silence simply reinforces the perception that political standards depend upon who made the remark.
If calling one MP “lazy” warrants national condemnation, calling the Government a “pack of bastards” cannot be dismissed as ordinary political debate. Apply one standard to everyone—or admit there is no standard at all.
I don’t know how Peters does it. Somehow the political refuge of the disaffected & geriatric has widened its appeal to include juvenile malcontents. NZ First has youth division & membership has shot up in the past 18 months. From https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/22/young-nz-first-triples-in-size-says-its-not-like-other-nationalists/
#. “One in seven delegates at the NZ First conference over the weekend was a member of the party’s youth wing: a full 15 percent.”
#. “The party says the cohort has tripled – perhaps even quadrupled – in size over the past 18 months, a shift young people are making towards nationalist parties in the United States and United Kingdom as well.”
The Greens have long been a magnet for teenage girls who find their policies of inclusiveness, pandering to DEI & championing little fluffy kakapo irresistible. Young males may see NZ First as a refuge from the constant degradation of the chromosomally diverse.
Because NZF are the only party that actually give a fuck about providing real opportunities for young people.
Reducing the current levels of immigration being one part of that. Preventing unfair competition with our industries being another.
My concern is NZF is full of policy promises but will lack follow through when it counts. Wouldn’t be the first time.
The addition of Laws is a positive.
You mean just like National?
Maybe he should change the party name to “Aotearoa First”. Then he’ll get the Maori vote as well. Just trying to be helpful.
Saggy, if “Aotearoa First” does not have a Hyphen and a couple of Macrons in it, then it is not the real deal or even a real thing. As such, without them, Maori won’t want a bar of it.
Signed, Pita.
“Aotearoa First” A sole soul name ?
Feel the vibe of He Puapua CoGovernance.
Or a double barrel-name?
but which half competes to become the “First” part ??
Hey stupidboy, that right there is how you shit stirr with class.
We are fire-hosed with good news stories of a Utopia that awaits those who turn off our self-awareness & sapience to embrace AI. Some of us remain cynical.
From https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-says-ai-models-went-rogue-testing-triggering-unprecedented-brea-rcna588611
#. “OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.”
How naughty. ///
#. “The ChatGPT creator was testing capabilities of some of its most advanced models in a controlled environment, but the agent escaped containment, reached the internet and broke into Hugging Face to satisfy its testing goal.”
Which begs the question. What exactly was the “agent” being trained to do & what were its ‘goals’? Corrupt the internet & bring it down? An expert warns:
#. “……that the incident was a harbinger of breaches to come, saying that today’s models were “like the world’s cleverest octopus escape artists, with unlimited prehensile arms and the ability to squeeze through anywhere.”….”
Cui bono?
H/T RCR Bites
Interesting reveal on some of the new UK Cabinet members
https://x.com/real_shirelass/status/2079439373162996117?s=46
A really cool project for these primary school kids. Looks like it was done in their holidays. Part of what good education should be about.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/science-and-technology/775782/school-students-successfully-launch-high-altitude-balloon-into-the-atmosphere
No hoodies! No kapa haka! No karakia!
How did it happen?
Lefty wowsers showing how out of touch they really are. “Death threat”, my arse. These snowflakes really have grown up in a cotton wool bubble.
Labour outraged Paul Henry said he’d ‘shoot’ Chris Hipkins in radio game – Henry says he’s ‘dumbfounded’ – NZ Herald
death threats 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, i guess winston is gunna cry about rape threats.
Shooting Hipkins would be too kind . The ginger maggot deserves prolonged fatal torture.
It’s times like these I like to refer back to the good book, the old testament in particular. A marvelous piece I’ve found really does suit Hipkins. Gather round and rejoice as I quote it, of course I’ve added a few bits to help with the translation. Here we go. Verily I say to thee on the seventh day we will drag the ginga one into my supreme presence where he will be fornicated by 20 well hung leather fetish gay men, he will then be spanked to death by 40 overweight lesbians with bad haircuts. On his passing his testicles will be removed, dried in the sun, ground to a fine powder and cast asunder to the 4 winds. All through the land there will be celebrations and burning of ginga effigies. All sounds very reasonable to me.
Yeah, right up to the bit where you topdress the countryside with his seed. Who knows what might happen.
For those living in Hamilton or near Hamilton, Paul Henry will be speaking at the Jet Park at 1 PM this Saturday.
Paul Henry Unlocked
In 1986 Paul Henry & his mouth arrived in the Wairarapa where he started a second rate radio station which he sold in 1992. He talked incessantly for all six of those miserable years.
In 1999 he ran as the National candidate in the general election ultimately losing to Georgina Beyer. Again he talked. Without pause, purpose or reflection.
Anyone who would walk across the street to listen to the pig ignorant, egotistical arsehole should be sectioned.
Are you voting for Act, or would you if it were not for Henry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnxxRGHrOO8
Stuart Nash Resigns From NZ First
Shaun Plunkett
30 new fire engines bought in 2019. Guess how many are in use?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAKHpyYm0q8
Tim Costley Tells All About His Investigation Into Fire & Emergency NZ
The Platform NZ
I read every report…
What a nightmare! Just watch from minute 2:30 for a little while if your attention span will not allow you to watch the whole report,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEEO8k6hIoQ
Oh, so that’s why NZ road speeds change so frequently over short distances and the law hasn’t been amended. Another communist game to confuse and cause mayhem on the roads.
We’d like your feedback on digital driver licences and electronic alternatives to labels for things such as regos.
Our proposed changes would give you the option of a digital driver licence you can have on your phone instead of carrying a physical card around. Similarly, an electronic alternative to a rego label would make renewing your vehicle licence more convenient and would reduce paperwork and the wait for it to arrive in the mail.
We’ve now drafted the rules around how digital licences and electronic labels would be used. On our website we have a document that explains what we’re proposing. Read the document and share your feedback with us: https://www.nzta.govt.nz/proposed-changes-to-modernise-nzta-services
Here are the highlights of what we’re suggesting:
You’d have a digital driver licence securely stored in a digital wallet on your phone (such as an Apple Wallet or Google Wallet) and you could present it when needed – for example to Police or when buying something that requires ID.
You wouldn’t need to carry a physical driver licence but you could continue using a physical driver licence if you wanted to. The digital version is an alternative. Physical licences aren’t going away.
To protect your privacy, there’d be strict limits on how information is shared when you use a digital licence to verify your age or identity.
Similarly with labels on vehicles, you wouldn’t need a physical rego label or a warrant of fitness label – among other types of labels (you can find the full list on our website). Like with driver licences, the digital labels are an alternative. You can stick to physical labels if you prefer.
On our website the discussion document explains how these new things would work in practice. Share your views with us using the feedback form. We’ll consider all the feedback we receive.
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FO 🤬 NZTA.
How useless is luxon when a stupid fuck like chippy gets the better of him?
Chris Hipkins set a trap for Christopher Luxon during Question Time yesterday, and Christopher Luxon, true to form, walked straight into it.
Chris Hipkins asked Christopher Luxon to account for the rising cost of groceries.
To which Christopher Luxon had the audacity to accuse Chris Hipkins of being an economic illiterate—while arguing that what Hipkins was advocating for was deflation, and that falling prices would mean less business investment.
Do you know what makes this such a brave card for the Prime Minister to play?
It’s the fact that Christopher Luxon allegedly doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, yet does believe in trickle-down economics.
But what was even sillier was what happened next.
Because I can guarantee you that everyone sitting behind Christopher Luxon was thinking exactly the same thing after he made that statement:
No. Don’t do it. It’s a trap.
And of course, it was.
Because Chris Hipkins, no doubt having waited his entire political career for this exact moment, stood up and, speaking for all of us, asked:
If you’re ideologically opposed to falling prices, then why did you campaign on cheaper groceries?
What followed was Christopher Luxon doing what I can only describe as his best Porky Pig impersonation, stammering and stuttering his way through an increasingly incoherent word salad of National Party platitudes.
Because Chris Hipkins had just absolutely cornered him.
Leaving Christopher Luxon with only one of two possible explanations.
Either he believed that his austerity measures would bring down the cost of groceries…
Or he believed that falling grocery prices were bad for the economy—and simply didn’t want to tell voters that before the election.
Now, of course, anybody who follows pages like mine already knew this.
But thanks to Chris Hipkins’ artful performance in Parliament yesterday, we got something even better:
confirmation from Christopher Luxon himself that the struggle of ordinary New Zealanders to afford their groceries isn’t a bug in his political project.
It’s a feature.
if I were bested by Hipkins in anything I’d walk into Cook Strait, pull the nearest wave over my head & call it a day!
‘nz sanity going verrall’
‘verrall fucked if f-tards are back in ‘
‘ verall da pedo-faggs gone fine-lay-son ‘
New Zealand Centre for Political Research Facebook Group
Chris Beck · odrnStoesp1032f333m924590tcmtl68tctu25a7f1ha227201ma4ul10a49 ·
Burning Huts: The New Way to Stop the “Spread of Colonisation”?
Chris Bishop’s recent comments raised more questions than they answered.
When asked how iwi participation would work under the Government’s new RMA reforms, he said:
“There will be a range of different ways… we haven’t yet written the regulations around that.”
He then added:
“The Crown has, for 30 years, signed a succession of legally binding agreements with iwi that we intend to honour. And the system that we are building honours those agreements.”
Those words concerned me. They were short on detail but long on reassurance that existing arrangements would continue.
So I started looking into what those “legally binding agreements” might include.
Some examples are:
2006 – Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group (Fifth Labour Government): Joint management of Rotokeerua lakes.
2008 – Ngā Poutiriao o Mauao (Fifth Labour Government): Shared governance of Mauao.
2010 – Waikato River Authority (Fifth National Government): Equal Crown-iwi management of the Waikato River.
2014 – Tūpuna Maunga Authority (Fifth National Government): Equal representation managing Auckland’s volcanic cones.
2014 – Te Urewera Act (Fifth National Government): Te Urewera became a legal entity governed under a new framework involving Tūhoe.
2014 – Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe Board (Fifth National Government): Shared governance arrangements for Ninety Mile Beach.
2017 – Te Awa Tupua Act (Sixth National Government): The Whanganui River was recognised in law as a legal person with a governance framework involving Crown and iwi appointees.
2022 – Ngāti Maru Claims Settlement Act (Sixth Labour Government): Settlement legislation including resource management provisions.
Looking across governments, one thing stands out: both Labour and National have supported governance arrangements that give iwi an ongoing role in the management of public resources.
The Te Urewera model is one of the most controversial.
Since the 2014 Te Urewera Act, several former Department of Conservation huts were deliberately removed and burned. Tūhoe leaders said many of the huts represented symbols of colonisation and argued that visitors should experience Te Urewera on Tūhoe’s terms rather than through traditional back-country infrastructure.
Critics argue the result has been reduced public access, fewer hunters and trampers using the area, and ongoing concerns about pest management and conservation outcomes. Supporters argue the changes reflect Treaty settlement commitments and a different philosophy for caring for Te Urewera.
For me, this is where the debate becomes real. If burning public huts because they are seen as symbols of colonisation is considered progress, then New Zealanders should ask whether this model is one they want expanded elsewhere.
Which brings me back to Chris Bishop.
If National genuinely intended to end co-governance, why build new legislation around existing “legally binding agreements” instead of replacing them? Why promise new iwi participation agreements while saying all previous arrangements will continue to be honoured?
My concern is that National is not removing co-governance at all. It is preserving it under a different name.
Whether you support co-governance or oppose it, New Zealanders deserve complete transparency. The Government should clearly identify which agreements will remain, what powers they will have, and why they are being retained.
Without that honesty, many voters will conclude that the promised end of co-governance is simply a rebranding exercise rather than genuine constitutional reform.
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Some of New Zealand’s rarest kiwi to be vaccinated as bird flu threat growsKiwi will now be vaccinated against bird flu after the Ministry for Primary Industries approved the second stage of the Department of Conservation’s vaccine plan.
Two of the country’s most threatened kiwi species, rowi and Haast tokoeka, will be among a further 23 species of birds deemed priority species.
The rowi species of kiwi is the rarest of the five species of kiwi. DOC says there is one natural population of about 450 rowi in Ōkārito forest and surrounds in South Westland.
More than half the known population of the Haast tokoeka lives in an actively managed area of the Haast ranges. The species is reclusive, and DOC says the inhospitable environment it calls home – the steep terrain and frequently cold, bad weather of the mountainous South Westland – is not for everyone.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361010079/some-new-zealands-rarest-kiwi-be-vaccinated-bird-flu-threat-grows?cx_testId=87&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s
“the new bird flu vaccine is an mRNA-based vaccine. This is the same technology that was used in some COVID vaccines.”
They’re fucked.