We have a fair number of wasps, also. And the place is over-run with litterbugs.

C’mon Chris. That’s frighteningly vague. Who are these people – and who do they influence? What are the consequences of their outpourings on minor radio stations? How do we know? And is anyone responsible for ensuring the sewage doesn’t meet the freshwater supply? (So to speak.)

I know that the word ‘racist’ has now morphed to include aversions and distaste for assorted religions – probably because xenophobia is too hard to spell, and parochialism is a toughie, too. And claiming it’s all ‘anti-Christian’ by the ‘once a year, and maybe funerals’ crowd is just asking for splats on the windscreen.

It’s just the usual partisan fears of loss and differentness parading as nationalism. We’ve been doing it for centuries in this country.

What is clearly on show are the limits of our parliamentary system. There’s too much self-interest which readily comes ahead of the needs of the country.

Time to clean the Augean stables in the Beehive, for sure.

From Australia’s perspective it may equally be the view that Adern’s comments on the Manus Island refugees and her pontification on the matter from the moral high ground as also ‘extraordinarily provocative”.

Given that the Australians are likely to view this as interfering in their domestic politics, would not they feel, with some justification, that we are meddling in a way that has the potential to damage the relationship between our two countries.

Adern should be mindful of untended consequences. For instance if NZder’s ‘rights’ to enter Australia are weakened or taken away altogether;most NZders will be pretty pissed off. If NZders rights are reduced in value, whilst the ‘right’s of Manus Island refugees are increased in value (i.e. they can enter NZ) – then this government will put itself at serious risk of not being re elected in 2020 (if it lasts that long).

Didn’t notice him wandering about like a spare ghost at the castle – head on platter.

Or doesn’t this apply to undersized persons – and the political innocent that was Key had no lessons to learn? Aw jeez, mate he wuz a natural! Yeah, right.

PM Ardern has probably been in politics for a whole lot longer than John Key – and she has smarter mentors. Nor does she come with the sobriquet ‘Smiling Assassin’. Unless you think that’s an endearing title for the head of the country, and you yearn for the Strong Chap assertiveness of the likes of Duterte?

Go back to screaming at the telly, Alf.

The bullshit from Australia reminds me of the babies-overboard lies told by the Australian government to demonise the Tampa refugees. Quite simply, the Aussies are not to be trusted. They make John Key look almost honest by comparison.

Witness Ian’s fake account was sickeningly similar to a certain “witness” interviewed back in 2006 on ABC’s current affairs program, Lateline. The man, face concealed, introduced as a youth worker who had been living in Mutitjulu (an aboriginal community), told of how drunk, aboriginal fathers were sexually abusing their own children. The aboriginal affairs minister, then – Mal Brough – had been claiming that the “children were being abused by paedophile gangs in unthinkable numbers”. The Howard government sent in the army to “rescue” the children – the community was destroyed (with there being, by some strange coincidence, a side issue involving allocation of mining rights to the land beneath the same community).
I was taken in – I trusted in the government and in the ABC – only to discover years later (a John Pilger investigation) that it was all lies. The witness was actually a senior government official who reported directly to the minister. All of the claims (by the witness, the minister, and the prime minister) were discredited by the Australian Crimes Commission, the Northern Territory police, and a medical investigation that reported: of the several thousand children examined, though most had ailments of some kind – none were of a sexual nature.

The horror of such dishonest, unjust, terrible, false allegations should have had all decent Australian’s on their bellies begging those aboriginal men for their forgiveness – but white Australia feels no shame – the aboriginals have not even had as much as an insincere, superficial apology.
To all reasonable minds, the Australian government must surely have lost all credibility a long time ago. For me, I find that I am unable to have any respect for it – and that rather, I loathe it.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018620063/man-jailed-for-largest-collection-of-child-abuse-images-ever-found-in-nz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/98443105/lower-hutt-mans-child-abuse-image-offending-largest-internal-affairs-has-prosecuted

Contrary to his description as a Lower Hutt man, Salman Jabbar Alhisaynawi is actually a refugee.

Defend Jacinda as you please Chris, but who will take responsibility when the Manus Island queue jumpers engage in similar criminality on our shores? After repeated warnings Jacinda will deservedly cop the blame. In opening the door for the illegal immigrants on Manus she has opened the door for National next election… Perhaps Labour and the MSM will cover it up as happened during the aftermath of the Tampa boat crisis under Clark… Either way ruining relations with Australia and forcing dangerous people into our communities (no doubt the same poor communities I voted Labour in hopes of protecting from bad Govt policy), is not what I voted for and i’m already consigned to scuttle my vote next election.

If any people on Manus are killed I hold the New Zealand national party and Australian governments wholly responsible because all they care about is their own self interested politically motivated agendas. Despicable, but what else would I expect from the greedy.