Young New Zealander of the Year first trans recipient in awards’ 13-year history
Trans activist Shaneel Lal believes their Young New Zealander of the Year award may receive some online backlash, but said the win is a result of hard work, not to, “fill a diversity quota”.
Wow.
Just.
Wow.
Kiwibank have awarded the activist who led the mob violence on Saturday, as the New Zealander of the Year!???
You can not claim that Kiwibank doesn’t have an enormous pair of balls!
By awarding the activist who led the mob violence on Saturday, KiwiBank are boldly standing for political violence, mob rule and the strangling off of free speech!
That’s very radical for a Bank!
While Shaneel Lal + allies will claim what happened on Saturday was ‘Pure Trans Joy’, the rest of the country was gasping in shock at the mob violence.
I suspect a large number of current KiwiBank customers will be closing their accounts this week.
Rewarding what happened on Saturday is just another step forward toward the inevitable derailing of the election for culture wars.
KiwiBank supports that culture war.
Wow.
Ask Today FM about how going woke worked for them.
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Well, when it’s a made-up country, anyone can give anything they want to anyone. Sounds inherently stable.
Yep Prediction confirmed. Just closed my Kiwibank account for that very reason.
No you didn’t, as everyone knows it’s way too big an effort to change banks as so much work involved. Besides why care so much about something that doesn’t have anything to do with us!
Assumption piled upon supposition is not relevant comment, no matter how much you might want it to be.. Kiwibank is actually the hardest bank to deal with in NZ.. I got trapped here when I got sucked into coming back in a hurry in Feb2020 because of a family emergency that never actually happened in the end.. Tried to get a kiwibank account opened.. By the third attempt to get a full list of what was required, they had added that I needed a doctors note as well as practically documenting my life for them.. Went to the ASB, and had my account by the end of that day.. Your argument doesn’t hold up when reality kicks in, so I wonder why you even bothered to make it… You don’t work for Kiwibank do you?
Jim Anderton would be horrified at what the Key government did to his crowning achievement on behalf of the ordinary people of NZ, as it amounted to sabotage on behalf of the corporates who owned him, and the craven lickspittles that comprised the majority of his “government”..
KiwiBank NZer of the Year in many cases are silly, or just plain wrong
Yes it is all a nonsense.
This award would presumably have been well underway before the Parker event occurred.
Nice comment there Martyn, “big balls”.
So Kiwi Bank is going broke and when the bubble finally bursts – they are going to blame unsound, unsustainable banking practices on transphobia. Nice deflection.
But but but, the big banks are ripping us off and it should be easy for another bank to come in and offer a better deal. LOL!
Why LOL? There will be no even an imaginary NZ State bank. It is NOT FUNNY.
If that’s “the best”, then it doesn’t say much for their opinion of everybody else.
You know, those insignificant nurses, carers, search & rescuers, teachers, environmentalists, scientists, hospice staff, charity workers and so on and so on. All those folk quietly in the background doing, unselfishly, the demanding work that saves lives.
Not one of them is deemed worthy of “New Zealander of the Year”.
Kiwibank – up yours.
Disappointing of my bank. Who’s on the committee that decided the winners?
I will wait for an explanation by Kiwibank.
I have stopped supporting Stuff some years ago and have been wondering how one can demonstrate one’s dissatisfaction to “corporate” capture by groups.
I support trans and women’s rights but at the same time hate virtue signalling and suppression of free speech.
I have supported Kiwibank for ideological reasons (values) and have few complaints about their service.
I think Kiwibank will not address this so I will probably be forced to pick a new bank.
My situation mirrors yours but I think we will need to vote with our feet
Kiwibank should publicly state whether they support women having voices, or whether they support government sanctioned misogyny, bullying, violence, and intimidation of biological females.
Gentle Annie on full spin cycle. It you think Posey is all and only about women having a voice that’s your mistake. Why is it government sanctioned? For letting that shit stirrer into the country? Bizarrely she was threatening Hipkins to try and stop her entering the country ( all part of the publicity of course). Sure Davidson is an idiot but her idiotic comments did not entice or sanction anyone at the event to do what they did. On that basis Winnie and Seymour and Maureen F.U. Pugh were enticing the unruly elements at the parliament protest ( I don’t think they were)
Oh Wheel you are so right. All this faux outrage from an outsider with a big mouth who has no idea how our system works. Why do people like this woman who even uses a false name. Let her keep her ugly words where they belong. New Zealand does not need this ugly rhetoric, we have enough nasty trolls of our own. Why are people so outraged with the protest, why did the same people support the parliament protest. Its all purely political just for the sake of it. “As they say give then you have to take it”.
Yawn.
The more accolades the woke give out, the more dirt comes back to haunt them.
Kiwibank doesn’t get my vote if they allow Shaneel Lal types, to form mobs and treat woman the way we say the speak up for woman’s group treated.
Yes this is true Save NZ. I have written to the panel who made this outrageous decision and told them I will write to kiwibank CEO asking them to sack this panel.
Kiwi bank is my bank, so they might just listen
be a pub quiz
question.
Q)
Which country gave an award to an a man who helped incited a mob to attack a woman in 2023?
A)
Saudi Arabia
New Zealand
Pakistan
Nice one Bratty!
They are following what after 6 years is now Kiwi culture.
Labour/Greens will be so proud.
May I guess please RB.
New Zealand?
Accolates for the woke awards. They have nothing to do but go online and vote for each other.
“The renowned Māori leader and Māori astronomy expert beat Rugby World Cup winner Ruby Tui, entertainers Dame Jools and Dame Lynda Topp, and former All Black and mental health advocate Sir John Kirwan for the prestigious Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year / Te Pou Whakarae o Aotearoa award.”
Ok so doesn’t have any degree in Astrophysics because NZ now practises Mātauranga Māori knowledge. Any indigenous knowledge gives you the right to then become an expert in anything from physics to astronomy to Countering Terrorism.
The woke obsession of this knowledge has led to NZ children being so poorly numerate they actually score below the guessing rates in simple maths at primary level.
Seriously the woke shit, is getting not just embarrassing but dangerous for kids futures.
It’s strange to see so many woman turning to violent crime against woman.
“A woman jailed for stabbing her partner after falsely imprisoning her and demanding her PIN has been sent to a men’s prison.
Zara Jade subjected the woman to horrific abuse – stabbing her and tying her up before using her bank card to rob her of cash.”
Worth clicking the link to see the modern woman.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/transgender-woman-sent-mens-prison-29575042
Good look, Kiwibank!
GTFO – that’s tragic! At ‘their’ age, they should have more self respect …
NZ, born male – now a pensioner woman.
“She was convicted and served a life sentence for murder in 1992 following the asphyxiation of an elderly woman who was bound during a house burglary.
In 2010, she was convicted of aggravated robbery and kidnapping and sentenced to a further four years and six months in jail.”
Not seeing Marama’s transgender all lovin and crime free as the woke virtue signal.
When offering hitchhiking ride, be careful when you pick up an elderly woman now, could be a serial offender.
Wanted South Aucklander Bronwyn Warwick convicted of murder, kidnap, robbery in past 30 years.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wanted-south-auckland-74-year-old-bronwyn-warwick-convicted-of-murder-kidnap-robbery-in-past-30-years/Z6XRGG662JA5BLZSQVCX5THT2E/
snz terrrible, but how many straight women or men do exactly the same thing..what is your obsession with ladyboys?
Gag. It’s not about gender, or as you put it, ladyboys, it’s a power issue.
When Marama in her position of power says trans are all love, just pointing out that it’s another gross lie, and plenty of examples of that in the justice system. Self ID of gender is turning into a farce and the reason that they shout down anybody who points it out, is that they don’t want the truth to come out what a farce this is, and how detrimental it is going to be in the justice system as well as health, etc.
When the big banks and corporates, plus NZ’s own Kiwibank, are your biggest supporters, you are not the powerless minority you claim to be, transactivists. You are not the most oppressed of the oppressed.
Just take a look at all the corporations who have paid to earn the right to parade the Rainbow Tick. For their dollars, they get to tug the forelock and agree to actively support with the whole of gender ID ideology without question.
https://www.rainbowtick.nz/#org
And yes, Kiwibank is listed as having the Rainbow Tick.
And the young Kiwibank Nzer of the year, IDs as non-binary. NB is the new cool!
Back in the 80s we called that being a gender bender. It was people who defied sex-based stereotypes and was pretty progressive. The new eNBees, now embrace sex-based stereotypes and claim that biological sex doesn’t exist, or is a spectrum, or is trumped by how you ID based on how you feel about yourself and/or how you present…. or whatever, it’s hard to make sense of.
Precisely. The “New Left” and Big Capital are great allies, although I doubt that most of the former group appreciate the connection. What does Big Capital seek, and what does Capitalism itself require? Endless growth. The best way to lay the groundwork for endless growth is to demolish any social or moral barriers to profit. This is why multinationals are all so increasingly “woke” – it serves their bottom lines.
The purpose is to deconstruct any vestiges of tradition in the name of ‘progress’ with the goal of establishing a nebulous mass humanity devoid of any authentic identity in regard to ethnicity, land, and, in the case of recent events, even gender. This project requires the ideological advancement of anything that subverts traditional values and cultures, such as globalism, open borders, transgenderism and many others.
This is ironically called ‘identity politics.’ This constant push by the New Left toward universal homogenisation is promoted in the name of being ‘different.’ The Left and its globalist sponsors deconstruct in order to reconstruct. Far from opposing Capitalism and oligarchy, the many characteristically Leftist causes and social liberalism in general operate in the interests of Big Money
Yes, and unfortunately too few people understand what the drivers for this new ‘progressivism’ are. Same old global capitalists.
Yip. Too many conservatives blindly worship at the altar of capitalism, but apparently fail to perceive the obvious link between capitalism (i.e. infinite growth of production and consumption, and debt-expansion) and how nothing is ever conserved as a consequence. This is why social liberalism/leftism is needed to maximise profit through the removal of barriers to that end.
A free market is not the same concept as capitalism, and the former can maintain traditions and values and social coherence, whereas ever-encroaching capitalism is anathema to all of these conservative ideas.
By doling out this award to kiwibank have just endorsed mob violence and hate
like Martyn said: wow just wow!
we sink ever further down the dark hole that is identity politics
” That’s very radical for a Bank! ”
Jim Anderton would be horrified and disgusted.
Kiwi Bank condones violence.
Jim Anderton dishonoured.
I used to be occasionally speechless but now it’s happening on a daily basis. There was no way the Topp Twins were ever going to win this, sadly, even though what they’ve done for enhancing acceptance in Aotearoa is probably unparalleled.
Don’t despair KateNZ there’s an election coming up.
Violence? Violence? So how many were killed & injured in this violence?
https://www.un.org/en/un75/new-era-conflict-and-violence
So violence is permissible unless someone gets killed?
Or injured, or property damaged/destroyed, otherwise it’s just sound & fury. If violence occurred, the Police would have intervened.
Violence is permissible if it is State sanctioned or self-defence, otherwise not. Did violence occur? Arrests made? Were charges laid?
It was pretty much promoted from parliament and our parliamentary representatives. So, therefore, some may well argue (as some are) that it was State sanctioned.
Yes, violence did happen.
Hopefully, arrests will be made.
They are still working on laying charges.
Yes most definitely violence we saw it on television.
No arrests,the police were under orders from the Government.
The rabid mob had political endorsement.Read what Michael Wood said,it borders on inciting unrest.
It’s so obvious why can’t you see it Kim Ball?
Kim Ball – Many got injured at Albert Park, look at the footage…I am sure the Police are now, after the backlash against their lack of action…also, at Aotea Square/Queen St – against Destiny Church members — again, footage is available for the Police via CCTV
I didn’t see any ambulances or people with blood gushing down their faces, tgat wouldindicateviolence, did you? Hurt feelings are not assaults, and the only person facing charges only poured juice on a troll.
Hi Kim. Matryn Bradbury here, Editor of the Daily Blog. I was at the protest. Posie Parker walked past me, as she passed me, she was assaulted, shoved and pushed all the way down to the Rotunda, saw her assaulted in the Rotunda and as she attempted to leave, we filmed her falling and going under as she fell. She was assaulted numerous times, the protest was a mob and it was violent. Your attempt to pretend otherwise is beneath the moment. Are you saying I’m lying?
Excellent work there. Fascist shithead stirring cowards like Parker deserve all they get, & too bad if it ain’t pretty. Got her out of the country, too!
ticking a box trumps everything
While Shaneel Lal + allies will claim what happened on Saturday was ‘Pure Trans Joy’, the rest of the country was gasping in shock at the mob violence.
When you say the rest of the country and I felt like excluding the o in country after reading this who exactly do you mean? also the use of ‘mob mentality’ is another exaggeration please stop being so dramatic. We have bigger issues to worry about in our country than some stupid women from the UK who has come her to spread her vile.
We have homeless people, people struggling to pay their mortgages, Popels whose homes have been wrecked and rising inflation as we speak now let’s get our priorities right. Also, some people are sick and tired of being treated like shite what happened to us be inclusive and they are standing up for their rights.
Covid is pa Kellie- Jay Keen was invited to New Zealand by Maori women, to help all New Zealand women get a voice. Her platform is “Let Women Speak”, which is why misogynists want her silenced and have spread lies about her, including politicians and paid media.
She is concerned about the sexualisation of children and gender identification now being introduced into New Zealand schools, puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and gender re-alignment procedures for under-age children, approved of and encouraged by the New Zealand government, and obviously the pharmaceutical companies. Law suits are in progress overseas against things which our government is pushing, including over-ruling New Zealanders’ parental rights and responsibilities for children who are minors. They lied about her to shut her up and to turn people against her.
This week the mob violence in Auckland has also impacted quite hard upon the many Kiwi women who are survivors of male violence by reminding us what those who hate us or fear us are capable of. No woman needed that.
And then they have the rank stupidity to celebrate Albert Park as an expression of love for the transgender community and expect us to believe it. Not so.
GA she is only concerned about her own sensationalism she just want to be violently famous in her own mind.
? Keen is already famous, that’s why she got invited to come to help our women – nor would fathers of daughters dispute her main theses.
GA hand on heart , why do we need this woman who espouses hate. What problems is she really going to fix for us women. Who has been prosecuted for going into women’s toilets in NZ. We are a a civil country most of the time, where is the evidence that this women proposes to fix. This woman has 2 faces, all sweetness and light in the British press and a screaming banshee in NZ. What does that really say about her. She is a coward, where is her history of espousing women’s rights v trans rights in Afghanistan, Russia Saudi Arabia Pakistan. The truth is she is an opportunist who cherry picks her fights and this time little old NZ gave her more than she bargained for.
Who cares, it means nothing. The only thing you can guarantee is that the winners will be a diverse bunch, and the white cis guy won’t win.
Time for an alternative awards ceremony – TDB NZer of the year has a nice ring to it, I vote for Chris Trotter.
We have the right to speak and the right to protest but it’s also equally important what we say, how we say it and how we act to what has been said and done. And will everybody always be happy, no! never, can we move on from this vile woman from the UK and worry about more important issues like people being homeless.
covid is pa. You say that women’s advocate Kellie-Jay Keen is vile. Kindly say why she is vile. Facts.
And lets not forget Lal (who is only latterly a NZer – like Eli Rubashkyn and Riccardo Menedez March) is very well connected politically. If I could paste a photo I would – there’s one of him (them?) and their old mate Chippie. Dont forget the Rainbow Tick is good for 6% of the vote these days.
And then from the horse’s mouth ‘themselves’
“Queer hatred is at an all-time high. So when you bring in someone like Posie Parker into our country, what she does is that it normalizes the hatred towards queer people and it emboldens people to act on their hate speech,” Lal said.
Well you got that right Lal, they certainly did embolden the Trans Absolutists to act on their hate speech! “Parker is a fascist and a TransPhobe” – yeah, that hate speech.
“We cannot ensure the safety of queer people at that event, having seen how that event played out in Melbourne.”
‘They’ should have said “We cannot ensure the safety of NZ women at this event”
And as for “Queer Hatred is at an all time high” Really? Ever heard of the Gay Revolution and the good old, bad old days.
@Fantail
it’s called the Iron Law of Woke projection. The way the woke claim and complain society is, is exactly what their ideology and actions bring into being.
Queer hatred ? Well that’s a new one plucked from times long gone. Transgenderism, which is what the louts in Auckland were hysterical about, has little to do with homosexuality, apart from when gays and lesbians are also subject to its fascist dictates.
Some of you lot need to grow up regarding accepting difference. I have seen a lot of hatred from dark NZers over the years, poofter bashing, AIDS prejudice, Bennie bashing, and enduring misogyny.
I would like trans activists to stop the terf labelling, but trans people are human like most of you when it all shakes out.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/news/300844161/i-almost-didnt-show-up-shaneel-lal-on-their-young-new-zealander-of-the-year-win?cx_testId=12&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=2&cx_experienceId=EXE6G6ISTGR0#cxrecs_s
One can support trans and women’s rights at the same time.
I think most NZers do.
Bad manners and anti social behaviour should never be tolerated.
@TM
Yes most trans and other LGBT people just want to get on with their lives and should be allowed to. The issue here is modern Trans activism (not trans people). The ideology is destructive, irrational and actions are extremely illiberal. It stands on and claims to advance from the achievements of earlier generations of LGBT activists but is antithetical to them.
I fear a continuing decline of hard won respect and acceptance of the LGBT community in mainstream society. This is not because of something akin to a resurgence of conservative christianity but an entirely predictable backlash in reaction to the multitude excesses of queer theory ideologues. As a mirror to the woke idiots who provoked it, I doubt any backlash will be discriminating beyond superficial identity.
– LGBT = Social Justice (Equality) = Rainbow Flag (universal symbol of solidarity and love)
– 2SLGBTQIAA++ = Critical Social Justice (Equity) = Rainbow Flag + insurgent triangle and circle + umbrella (symbol of enumerated grievances that can be politically leveraged within a victimhood narrative).
Some of the elderly women mobbed in Auckland last weekend were old school lesbians who actually had to fight for gay rights as far back as the 70s. A time when there was a real struggle against authority.
Today many of those with power and influence fall over themselves to validate every insane and shifting proclamation by neomarxist ideologues and the mentally ill, who represent a cult using LGBT people as rhetorical human shield and political battering ram.
When most government, institutions, media and corporate power supports you, one should ask who’s interests your activism is serving.
Congratulations Shaneel Lal, well done.
Closed my accounts and will be moving my kiwi saver.
I can only assume Mike King has already won, and so ineligible?
More BS from our young NZer of the year. They really dont know when to quit and simultaneously claiming victimhood for the whole Trans movement. Pity they dont spare a mention of the real victims.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/487116/shaneel-lal-first-transgender-person-to-win-a-new-zealander-of-the-year-award
See twitter paste further down.
Also Eli Rubashkyn is now saying they were assaulted and they didnt assault anyone – tomato juice is not assault.
Fantail. Casting an offensive substance is a criminal offence, Legal System101. Ambassador Mallard’s Parliamentary sprinklers would probably not be scoped in statutory interpretation, but there’ll be those arguing it ‘til the ducks come home.
Fantail. Victimisers claiming to be the victim is a common narcissistic ploy. Unfortunately it is a practice used by transgender activist extremists all over the world, as well in the New Zealand Parliament and media and Albert Park in Auckland.
We now have a New Zealand more upset,more divided,more angry than ever before.
More than during the Springbok tour.
We need to put New Zealand back together again.
Neither Labour or Greens are capable of that and I question do they want to?