The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 1st August 2019

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  1. Finally agree with something from the Green Party.

    “New Zealand needs safer streets, not to blame parents when things go wrong, Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter says.”

    The child was killed in FRONT of the vehicle who didn’t see her, and the Waste Management Hino rubbish truck,can be operated by a driver standing on the left-hand side of the cab so clearly doesn’t have full vision at all when driving!

    Whose business crazy idea is that, probably to save money so they don’t have to employ more people and the risks of killing someone is part of making more profits!!!

    You would think work safe would put in a hefty fine as well, but no mention of it! Or maybe workers killing others is not in their remit!

    This is on top of the terrible deaths of 4 forestry workers who were killed in a head on collision this week!

    Then there was the road construction crew who were mowed down while working on the road a few months ago!

    Pretty sure I saw a bus driver who killed two pedestrians and another incident when a truck killed 2 kids as well.

    Sounds like an epidemic of poor road practices for trucks!!

    Extremely heartless to blame parents when their child is killed by someone else who did not see them because their truck is designed not to see around them!

    And probably more kids will die of obesity and mental illness from having to be ferried everywhere by parents for fear of their child being killed if they are outside near a road because the onus seems be be off trucks/buses/waste management to bother to look out for others!

    Have not even got onto the choices working parents have to make to have their kids looked after with one of the highest child care costs per income in the world and being punished for not being able to afford a 24 hour nanny!

  2. The other sad fact about the poor kid killed by the Waste Management truck, was that the waste management truck was parked halfway across her home driveway.

    The Road Code advised parents to walk to school with children aged five or under, but there was no specific transport law mandating a minimum age for unsupervised walking.

    So essentially it had little to do with walking to school and now is again taking public eyes off the very dysfunctional heavy vehicle industry onto another target instead of cleaning up their industry such as poor pay and conditions aka wages are still $16 – $25 p/h for heavy truck drivers inspite of licensing rules mean experienced drivers take two and a half years to go up the ranks (hence the boom in fake licences which is also driving locals to work longer hours for less money and be older themselves as youth are clearly not taking up an industry that pays experienced people less than support workers!).

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11999043
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/tvnz-investigation-dodgy-wofs-easily-acquired-cash-no-vehicle-checking-needed
    https://www.noted.co.nz/money/investment/new-zealands-truck-driver-shortage/

    So all in all, it seemed completely unnecessary for the coroner to apportion blame to the parents when it happened outside her house on her own driveway and they were within the road code guide lines on age!

    We also have to wonder why 1.2 billion is being spent on ‘safer’ roads when the main issues seem to be driver errors and too little training for heavy goods and or fake licenses, issues with vehicle safety features like not enough mirrors and fake WOF , too many cars and heavy vehicles on the roads, so not sure that 1.2 billion is being spent in the wisest direction for safety!

    But construction benefits by digging up the roads and causing even more congestion while taking all the public money, so all good!

    Making parents drive their kids to school while ignoring

  3. Maori love for migrants

    RNZ reported today (RNZ, n.d.) on the housing crisis in Whanganui and the refugee settlement program proposed for the region. In a stunning display of cultural hatred, Pushpa Praseed of the Multicultural Council of Rangitikei stated in the article that Maori “Should work on helping themselves get out of poverty”. Does this person mean we should hold the same standards to refugees as well, or just Maori? On this reasoning refugees should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, try harder to get out of poverty or harm’s way, and stay out of New Zealand. This reasoning is either racism, hypocrisy or garden variety stupidity. And Maori should pay forward multiple times for a refugee crisis (wars and refugee population displacement caused by Western governments in their name; industrial-strength racism limiting opportunities for Maori at all levels of institutions, leading to outcomes of poverty; lack of housing not only for the poor but working residents, made worse by all migration; a woke cultural ambassador insulting the local indigenous people, due to her racist attitudes or to try to divide and conquer with the wider community, like the sick campaign used by Israel, weaponising anti-Semitism like the boy who cried wolf)?
    Praseed goes further: “We are chucking money in a leaky bucket or in a bottomless pit,” she said. “Never mind how much you dump in there it still won’t be enough unless people stand up by themselves and go and start fixing things for themselves or looking after themselves.”
    Oh Maori have and do contribute to society thanks, financially and culturally, unlike you. You have no right to judge the indigenous population of this country in such a way, denigrating an entire race of people. You have no right to be a cultural ambassador in my country.

    RNZ. (n.d.). Focus on housing squeeze, not refugees – Whanganui mayor. Retrieved from
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/395707/focus-on-housing-squeeze-not-refugees-whanganui-mayor

    • Good spot there Jody, scary attitudes.
      “We are chucking money in a leaky bucket or in a bottomless pit,” she said. “Never mind how much you dump in there it still won’t be enough unless people stand up by themselves and go and start fixing things for themselves or looking after themselves.”

      Why are we importing migrants from the most racist country in the world and people from countries who don’t believe in gender equality and are number 1 in the world for racism. It’s crazy, from a social point of view.

      In addition we are predominantly giving permanent residency and voting rights to people from nations that don’t have a welfare system and therefore don’t believe in it.

      While it is NZ’s obligation to help the refugees that is not part of the problem because the numbers are small only a few thousand a year, my concern is that NZ has not bothered to think about the impacts of mass migration of hundreds of thousands of people every year who require housing and health care, due to fake economic reasons.

      However refugees should housed in the existing state houses and community houses which they are moved out of, when they get a job and are settled, and maybe Maori families should get the new housing estates… because they seem to be needing them the most.

  4. To Martyn,

    Have you though about a weekly blog instead of the daily blog, because it is hard to get a discussion going daily because by the time everyone’s comment is posted, and any replies it is often the next day and a new post for the daily blog… if it was weekly then people could comment on issues over 7 days instead of 1 day. Also easier to manage as it doesn’t have to be posted daily.

  5. When are we going to demand that National MPs are held accountable under the laws of this country.
    Sarah Dowie incited someone to commit suicide , that is illegal but no police prosecution.
    One law for National and its friends and the other applied to everyone else.
    It has become obvious that the New Zealand Police are completely compromised when it come too enforcing the law where the National party and its MPs are concerned.
    The smell of rotten corruption is in the air but no one has noticed.
    Giving this story 15 seconds of airtime on One News is an indictment to the abuse of justice.

    http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-law-means-nothing-as-usual.html

  6. I emailed Sarah Dowie and this was her response.

    Dear Mat

    Thank you for your email outlining your concerns. Obviously, we do not share the same opinion.

    You are correct however, that process matters in this instance should be directed to the NZ Police.

    I wish you all the best in your enquiries.

    Kind regards – Sarah

    Sarah Dowie | Member of Parliament for Invercargill
    Opposition Spokesperson for Conservation
    Member of Environment Select Committee
    Rothbury House, Level 1, 36 Kelvin Street
    PO Box 245 | Invercargill 9840 | 03 218 6813

    Authorised by SM Dowie, Level 1, Rothbury House, Kelvin Street, Invercargill

    From: Mat Simpson
    Date: Thursday, 01 Aug 2019, 6:36 PM
    To: sarah.dowie@national.org.nz
    Cc: Hon Simon Bridges
    Subject: Incitement of suicide.

    Sarah if you has not been a National MP you would be facing prosecution.

    There are two rules of law in this country.

    One for the National party and its donors and the other for everyone else.

    Utterly disgraceful that once again the rule of law only applies depending on who you are not on the crime committed.

    The New Zealand Police should be advising on why this was not taken further.

    Disgusted New Zealander.

    http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-law-means-nothing-as-usual.html

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