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#2989256 28-Oct-2022 15:01

I see our PMs paid media outlet is in full swing with "operation boost image"

PM in Antarctica: Jacinda Ardern on ‘childhood hero’ Shackleton’s hut, what ‘contested’ world means for the continent and climate change - NZ Herald

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#2989264 28-Oct-2022 15:32

sen8or:

I see our PMs paid media outlet is in full swing with "operation boost image"

PM in Antarctica: Jacinda Ardern on ‘childhood hero’ Shackleton’s hut, what ‘contested’ world means for the continent and climate change - NZ Herald

Like spending the day at Macca's doing burgers and ice cream for the masses? :-) Either way its campaign time

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#2989268 28-Oct-2022 15:35

sen8or:

I see our PMs paid media outlet is in full swing with "operation boost image"

I prefer Matthew Hooton's take on it in today's Herald calling it the "Farewell Tour"

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#2989311 28-Oct-2022 17:02

JPNZ:

sen8or:

I see our PMs paid media outlet is in full swing with "operation boost image"

I prefer Matthew Hooton's take on it in today's Herald calling it the "Farewell Tour"

Putting career on ice, would also be accurate...lol

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#2989341 28-Oct-2022 18:36

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Putting career on ice, would also be accurate...lol

Or, Can I upsize??

End of the day politics is silly. Parties campaign on what the public want, the real issues are of low consequence. You cannot make changes if you dont get voted in. Thereafter, you cannot make real changes in case the public doesnt like it. Tax cuts great we like that but then you offset by cutting other spending which we dont like. So we vote you out, then you fix these issues, but no tax cuts so we vote you out, and so on. Often, its all about me, its not about NZ. For well meaning politicians (and I feel we have many on both sides) to fix any issues you need to get votes, to get votes you need policies that give the citizens a direct benefit (doesnt apply to all of us but probably most of us, rich or poor)

Not the ideal career path when many of us do well in our career and get rewarded. With politics you need to be in the right place at the right time, "real" decisions are not important.

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#2989390 28-Oct-2022 23:28

Did anyone catch up on Mahuta’s report into local governance and the changes they want to make?

*Requiring council staff to conform with ‘te ao Māori values’ by law;

*Funding of ‘Tiriti-based partnership in local governance’

*Removing the requirement for local referenda before changing the voting system (for the remaining councillors to be elected) by imposing STV across the country.

*Lowering the local voting age to 16.

Are a few of the changes listed.

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#2989416 29-Oct-2022 06:12

JPNZ: Did anyone catch up on Mahuta’s report into local governance and the changes they want to make?.

The review panel was appointed by cabinet and is chaired by an accountant. The draft report is available and submissions on the draft invited.

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#2989446 29-Oct-2022 09:35

JPNZ: Did anyone catch up on Mahuta’s report into local governance and the changes they want to make?

*Requiring council staff to conform with ‘te ao Māori values’ by law;

*Funding of ‘Tiriti-based partnership in local governance’

*Removing the requirement for local referenda before changing the voting system (for the remaining councillors to be elected) by imposing STV across the country.

*Lowering the local voting age to 16.

Are a few of the changes listed.

Did anyone read Shane Jones' article in the Herald. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shane-jones-government-is-chasing-its-ideological-tail/WCZOGBOLK5EVXPZ2OLZCRETNJ4/

He rips into this government's treaty ideologies.

Of course, supernatural beings infest other parts of Labour’s agenda. Taniwha once dormant, writhe across the parliamentary landscape as ministers insert the Treaty into more statutes.

They add nothing as is demonstrated in the Oranga Tamariki Act which requires the CEO to commit to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. Vulnerable children need protection from warped two-legged taniwha, not cultural cant.

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#2989457 29-Oct-2022 10:27

Paywalled. History has shown that vulnerable children in state care need protection from all kinds of things including both mild and extreme racialism.

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#2989466 29-Oct-2022 11:32

Technofreak:

He rips into this government's treaty ideologies.

Of course, supernatural beings infest other parts of Labour’s agenda. Taniwha once dormant, writhe across the parliamentary landscape as ministers insert the Treaty into more statutes.

They add nothing as is demonstrated in the Oranga Tamariki Act which requires the CEO to commit to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. Vulnerable children need protection from warped two-legged taniwha, not cultural cant.

Can’t have those supernatural beings getting in the way like Jesus writhing across the parliamentary prayer and those damned annoying angels flitting in and out everywhere and the holy ghost booming that I can’t go shopping on Easter because a magical preacher floated up to heaven that day. How can we get anything done with all this primitive superstition everywhere?

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#2989476 29-Oct-2022 11:57

Rikkitic:

Technofreak:

He rips into this government's treaty ideologies.

Of course, supernatural beings infest other parts of Labour’s agenda. Taniwha once dormant, writhe across the parliamentary landscape as ministers insert the Treaty into more statutes.

They add nothing as is demonstrated in the Oranga Tamariki Act which requires the CEO to commit to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. Vulnerable children need protection from warped two-legged taniwha, not cultural cant.

Can’t have those supernatural beings getting in the way like Jesus writhing across the parliamentary prayer and those damned annoying angels flitting in and out everywhere and the holy ghost booming that I can’t go shopping on Easter because a magical preacher floated up to heaven that day. How can we get anything done with all this primitive superstition everywhere?

I didn't realise you and Shane Jones were so alike in your thinking.

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#2989843 31-Oct-2022 08:55

sen8or:

...our PMs paid media outlet...

Wait, what?

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#2989885 31-Oct-2022 10:39

JPNZ: Did anyone catch up on Mahuta’s report into local governance and the changes they want to make?

*Requiring council staff to conform with ‘te ao Māori values’ by law;

*Funding of ‘Tiriti-based partnership in local governance’

*Removing the requirement for local referenda before changing the voting system (for the remaining councillors to be elected) by imposing STV across the country.

*Lowering the local voting age to 16.

Are a few of the changes listed.

This is the stuff that warrants expending political capital on.

Not large scale transport, housing or benefit reform.

Government from Wellington, for Wellington, by Wellington.

The rest of the country just exists to pay for it.

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#2989892 31-Oct-2022 10:41

Rikkitic:

Can’t have those supernatural beings getting in the way like Jesus writhing across the parliamentary prayer and those damned annoying angels flitting in and out everywhere and the holy ghost booming that I can’t go shopping on Easter because a magical preacher floated up to heaven that day. How can we get anything done with all this primitive superstition everywhere?

I'm assuming based on the strength of your conviction and issue toward this, you won't be making use of the public holidays they are based on and will, instead, attend work, forgoing any of your additional benefits as a result?

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#2989947 31-Oct-2022 11:06

networkn:

Rikkitic:

Can’t have those supernatural beings getting in the way like Jesus writhing across the parliamentary prayer and those damned annoying angels flitting in and out everywhere and the holy ghost booming that I can’t go shopping on Easter because a magical preacher floated up to heaven that day. How can we get anything done with all this primitive superstition everywhere?

I'm assuming based on the strength of your conviction and issue toward this, you won't be making use of the public holidays they are based on and will, instead, attend work, forgoing any of your additional benefits as a result?

Public holidays are not restricted to only any one group, but I also note that other religions do not get they religious holidays as public holidays.

But as an Atheist, I use these days to spend time with family.

Christmas is about Family, "Santa", Gifts and eating too much, christianity has nothing to do with it in our family.

And lot of "Christian " things were simply stolen of pagans to make christianity more palatable.

https://chefin.com.au/blog/these-6-christmas-traditions-are-actually-pagan-customs/

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