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@tim said in NZ Politics:
@mokey said in NZ Politics:
Labour announces plan to re-enter Pike River Mine. Cost has increased from $23m to $37m. All the known dangers still there.
What a stupid cuntry.
We've sold the "O" to help defray costs!
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@chris-b said in NZ Politics:
@no-quarter said in NZ Politics:
Under the new H&S laws I assume Little will be accountable if something goes wrong?
Going by the number of prosecutions in this case, all and sundry will be accountable.
@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
@chris-b yep will be a whole bunch of people held accountable if something goes wrong, and the H & S law changes were all driven by the Pike River tragedy forcing Directors and Officers of companies to be responsible for the H & S and no longer using ignorance as a defence.
Actually, the farmer was held not liable, which seemed a victory for some common sense. Stuff's reporting aside, it looks like the farmer provided safeish access, and the person went off the mown strips and wound up in difficulty. Seems hard to hold the farmer who didn't have a relationship with the victim liable for that - and the judge basically slapped down Worksafe who think everyone is liable for everything, no matter what
https://www.chapmantripp.com/publications/sound-health-and-safety-guidance-from-pioneer-case
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@jegga "It’s not ideal that he smuggled drugs. It’s not ideal that he stole other people’s identities. And it’s not ideal that he has demonstrated repeatedly poor judgement. But you don’t deport someone to a country where they legitimately may be in danger just because they’re not an ideal candidate, especially not when you’re trying to be a kinder government."
How the fuck could anyone say this shit with a straight face. I am quite ok with the government not being kind to foreigners who commit multiple crimes.
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@mokey it’s bizarre the degree the losers on that site will go to to tie themselves in knots to try and blame national for anything. There are people that post there that think national paid someone to grope the kids at the grooming camp .
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
@baron-silas-greenback this has been pushed by a couple of families who seem politically motivated. My brother worked on the mines near there for a couple of years and the consensus amongst the guy he worked with -some of whom lost friends that day is that they should be with their mates . The landowner has agreed to access for a memorial .
Good piece on the families who want the bodies left there:
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Man I feel sorry for those families. Having the deaths of your loved ones politicized and in the headlines for years on end must be grueling.
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@no-quarter someone should get John Campbell onto this injustice!
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The vehicular sabotage represents an escalation for the case, coming on the heels of recent vitriolic editorials in local Chinese-language media describing the professor and New Zealand-Chinese democracy activists as "anti-Chinese sons of bitches".
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12160570
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Class Monitor Jascintãh Why-the-Long-Face, who is a mom and lovely, said to the UN just a few months ago that kindness should be central to government decision making, goo goo ga ga.
Trump the Terrible trembled when her stern rebuke trumpeted around the world.
From The Australian:
"New Zealand is quietly blocking entry to about 450 refugees who could legally fly there on holiday visas, according to Nauru’s government, which has sent a written recommendation from the UN to allow refugees there to move freely in the region."
The principles that apply, of whispering ever so quietly when a gummint is being un-nice or hypocritical must have been squirrelled away in the footnotes to her speech. The NZ media had no comment 'cos they are rather busy right now voyeuring Jami-Lee Ross the Rooter.
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Setting aside recent speeches for a moment, a visitor ("holiday") visa legally requires people to have a return ticket, or other proof of genuine plans to leave. Whether from Nauru or anywhere else.
Nauru is also not on this list to "legally fly [here]" and rock up at the border without such visa: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-a-visa/tools-and-information/general-information/visa-waiver-countries. Their source countries are unlikely to be on that list too.
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@donsteppa dont they also have to prove they have the means to spend that time here too?
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Made the mistake of actually watching One News tonight. The lead story, deemed more important than anything else, was that a fucking club somewhere had a black and white parade float in some tiny town featuring people with painted black faces with the Micheal Jackson song "Black or White".
They managed to find some Maori people to talk about being offended on behalf of Africans.
That was deemed more important than:
- the damage synthetic cannabis is having, and the need to change the laws around drugs.
- NZers dying on the roads.
- Pacific people in PNG getting absolutely shafted by their corrupt as fuck government.
Among a host of far more serious stories. Some people getting offended on behalf of other people was apparently the most pressing fucking issue today. MSM is beyond parody.
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What do you do with an unrepentant arsehole like this? Home detention my arse. He has killed 4 people in 2 separate drunk driving collisions (not accidents, he was hammered so it was probably inevitable with the only think accidental being who the unfortunate dead were), been jailed and still won’t take the hint.
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He was sentenced to six months' home detention, 180 hours' community work, and disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for two years.
Yeah I'm sure restrictions around licensing concern him deeply. That's utterly pathetic, WTF was Judge James Johnston thinking?
I'd just lock the prick up as a clear threat to society.
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