Carmen if you want to believe the rewitten treaty thats your right so what Don spoke that upsets you is the truth not like all the fluffy duffy of the past week
Intereating there is still as much oppisition to Maori lanuage no as was the case 17 years ago probqaly more as they keep pushing fotr it to be compulsory in schools we send our children to school to be educated not brain wased with some ones great scheme so this will eventualy lead to the death of the language
Poor Joe Maxwell is so deluded in his own little world that he is unaware of the majority of NZs have no interest in his little world thank goodness it is all over for another year and Joe can go back into his own little world still angers me the millions that are wasted on language in this country you will not find another country doing the same
sorry Jacinda has lost the plot Winston can twist her round his little finger at will Winston is just to smart for her did you not here him say labour were not the Govt
We cant look after all the children we have now what is the point of over loading the sistym WV can put them in there homes if they are so keen to have them here which we dont
Good on Winston thought he had lost it but no still the same old wiry guy we do not need Nauru imagrants here when we have a big problem with our own interesting how they always use children as there shield
Like it or not we all get old and how we age is different for every body dontknow why he harpes on so much about learning Maori as though he is going to storm the world with his new found toy
What is the world coming to girls are girls and boys are boys lets keep that way dont need girls in boys team and vice versa has common sense gone out the window
If Joel wants to go round speaking so people dont understand him his last comment is grow up and that what he needs to do how does he think he is going to manage only speaking an unknown langauge that no body understands but any how thats his problem
Another sob article why I should embrace something I do not want any thing to do with I am racist in the eyes of the PC brigade but for something that Moaris should embrace if they so choice thats fine but for me and all my friends dont push it on us
why did Stuff have to jump on the band wagon when the majority of NZs have no interest in Maori language week it is just a bore why do they think they can force it on us and waste so much tax payers money
Poor Jacinda she does not stand a chance against Winston he has been around so long and knows how to play his cards to advantage so as long as the situation remains Jacinda is on the back foot and we will never know what her potential is
Wheels have certainlly fallen of tis Govt quiet alarming how they are they are boeeowing money to fritter away on nothing hope we do not have the full three years
sorry Maori langauge is dead as far as me and all my friends go why do they dream of some thing that will never happen more the force it the quicker it will die
Sad I thought Jacinda was the one to lead the labour party but I have been proved wrong well and 1ly pity Winston could not stop all this squandering of money we are heading down the gurgler like a run away train with the wheels falling of it each week
Mr Wood has an interesting persective 0f the treaty Really the treaty in this day and age is useless Maori ceeded to the crown to stop Maori wars end of story I had a farm taken by the BNZ to cover for there playing the overseas market had to get the govt to bail them out so a lot of cash in compensation would be nice so as we see the gravy train steaming on the odinary rank and file Maori do not see any benifit of it
Get used to Winston being in charge and what ever you think Jacinda will get the small things to do so labour is getting what it wanted in the coalishion
Never farmed with nitogen if you cant farm with out it give up farming I new 30 odd years ago that we would run into this problem because it had happened in England and they had to ban it get good clover pastures and you get all the nitrogen needed and you dont need a topdressing truck running round your farm all the time and you finish up with happier cows there is still the odd dairy farmer who have never had an once of nitrogen on there farms and are doing very nicely thank you very much
Sad we have a PM that is supposed to represent our country but takes along her baby to make sure she get the utmost exposure if she was 1 to her country nanny dad should be at home looking after baby or else she should have sent Winston and stayed home looking after her own baby feel ashamed for our country
another rip of hundreds of million being poured into none eccentual porgrams when most schools are struggling to get enough funds to teach the basic time the Govt to a tight rein on none eccentual nice things
Do have symathy for high country farmers when the general public seem think they have a right to wonder around your run have no idea of how to treat stock leave gates open after all the farmer is running a business like when people climb trough a fence to help themselves to mushrooms or swedes
Plastic bags are not a problem in NZ where the problem is is in Asia bags are not a problem to us it is all the plastic wrap on things you buy from hardware stores and look at all the plastic toys that are left lying every where
Green peace need to pull there head in a bit and leave farming to those who know what they are doing do any of these people have a real job or do they just live of the country
Winston Peters stood for the majority of NZs we dont need a grandstanding Govt interfering in the Nauru situation so the PM needs to look after those a home before looking overseas our hospitals can not meet the demand now with out putting more pressure on the system sorry but she is getting like a fish out of water ;
We are not talking 25 years but 140 years of treaty settlement so dont brush it of lightly as the total sum is huge what they sold had nothing like the value that they are receiving they are receiving fully developed which they had nothing to do with
We elect people to run the country but cost more for them to get advisers so why dont we just employ adviser to run the country save having all these MP
Yes I was one of those who had faith in Winston and have been well and 1ly disappointed Would like to know how Jacinda brought him off over the imagrant quote when he was aperantly going to look after our own people
Bulding housing for so called refugees they are not refugees as they choice to come here so how abow looking after our own people first people rush around about these imagrants when there next door neighbour could do with there help but no that does not count
Had been a farmer for 50 plus years and not farmer bashing but if you can not farm with out nitrogen get out never used it know a number of dairy farmers who have never used it a good clover pasture will give ample grass cows are happy and we are not getting tanted milk from the nigrgen grass that they eat makes me cry to see the poor quality of cows around the country side now a days
I personaly do not support rugby or yachting specialy yachting which only caters to the idle rich but if sport can not stand on its own feet forget about it we dont need the Govt propping it up
The article written with rose tinted glasss I fear there are enough elderly people working now keeping younger ones out of a job leave alone what is working well
I have been retierd for a numbe of years but never hsd trouble getting staf even back then young ones were coming from school ful of go but by Christmas they had been blown out and left the industry so only the employers had them selves to blame by making these young ones work unreasonable hours so look around where you see saff have been on a place for years usually find are good employers
that is unbeleavable that there are so many thievies out there when you use a service you pay if you dont intend to pay dont use the service like any shop you pay before you take the goods
Leave it as it is power co are in the business of supplying power and if you can not pay your account on time so you should pay more you go to the super market and you pay before you walk out the door so why all the fuss about paying your account on time
Climbing trees is an activity that most children have tryed with different results this guy must be on another planet if he things all children are going to have climbing gear every time they climb a tree
At least Don is one of a few that speak truth as it is supposed to be I admire him for his frankness we need a few more like him instead of all this fluffy duffy stuff we get fed
The below comment sums it up well now we can get back to normal with out the vocal few poping up every where my concern is the millions wasted at the expense of thing more pressing
They deserve to be convicted like any body else that did the same thing perhaps a time in jail mite deter them from cost other people money in the future
PC is certainly to the fore now a days free speech of course we will not all ways agree if one part of society going down the wrong track why should we not be able to speech out
Has been quiet obvious for a number of years under standing of english has been on the slide yet they are pushing for other languages and for a simple word like trivial how could they get it so wrong
The force farming of the last 30 years was always going to create this nitrate problem when neighbours start throwing nitrogen around like it was going out of fashion 30 odd years ago sadly you could see the clover content disappearing out of there pasture so in there head long blindness they had no option but to keep putting on nitrogen at the peril of the soil so sadly we have a generation of farmers who do not know how to farm with good clover pastures this is the advantage of being and old has been farmer if you are not getting 600 kg per cow per year some thing wrong
The wheels are falling of our Govt so grab the head lines with Maori language week get sick of the indigenous people line they keep coming up with we have no indigenous people
Oh dear these naughty farmers are in the spot light again journalists favorite topic to get after these naughty farmers when these same people are giving us the standard of living we have come to expect bit unrealistic to say we can change a country on the other side of the world but this the catch call now a days naughty farmers but of course naught humans are so pure that they are not part of the perseved
Govt certainly suffed up big time on rentals and if they think they can allow dogs there will be ways around it having had all the trouble with dogs in the past the answer is NO NO
When a person with extreme views defends free speech someone gets hurt
Carmen if you want to believe the rewitten treaty thats your right so what Don spoke that upsets you is the truth not like all the fluffy duffy of the past week
Anika Moa interview: 'I was too childish for Seven Sharp'
Enjoy seven sharp but if this lady is on just switch of good to have a remote as the article said she is childish
How Don Brash's Orewa speech changed the way governments talk about Treaty of Waitangi
Treaty long past its use by date but the rewrite gets all the attention
When a person with extreme views defends free speech someone gets hurt
Trouble is a lot in immigrants do not want to intergrate but keep there own way where we are building up a very disintergrated society
Auckland's Powerstation owner apologises for booking controversial speakers
we certainly live in a PC regrime now a days but any how we shall have to bow to the vocole minority as all ways
Sharon Harvey: The question of compulsory te reo MÄori in schools
Intereating there is still as much oppisition to Maori lanuage no as was the case 17 years ago probqaly more as they keep pushing fotr it to be compulsory in schools we send our children to school to be educated not brain wased with some ones great scheme so this will eventualy lead to the death of the language
Treaty of Waitangi: What was lost
So what did they do with the moa
Joel Maxwell: The week that brings some people out in a rash
Poor Joe Maxwell is so deluded in his own little world that he is unaware of the majority of NZs have no interest in his little world thank goodness it is all over for another year and Joe can go back into his own little world still angers me the millions that are wasted on language in this country you will not find another country doing the same
Officials advised the Government to keep quiet about large Treaty of Waitangi payments, unless asked
What a gravey train always plenty of money for treaty but teachers told no money for them where does it end
The Winston and Jacinda show - it's time for Ardern to push back
sorry Jacinda has lost the plot Winston can twist her round his little finger at will Winston is just to smart for her did you not here him say labour were not the Govt
Why National insists on calling Jacinda Ardern 'weak'
Good on Winston for blocking this craze Crown MÄori Partnership they are not entitled to such a thing so top marks to Winston
Calls for PM to bring Nauru refugee kids to NZ
We have enough childen in poverty in NZ now we do not need some ones else problems wel meaning people do not think
Jeremy Elwood & Michele A'Court: Why all politicians should have small babies or large distractions
Our PM is paid big dollars to lead her Govt so that does not include a baby as well either give up being PM and go and look after baby quiet simple
New Treaty office suggested, likely to be established
not a problem Govt always got money for a lost cause
Jacinda Ardern: NZ can't save kids detained on Nauru
We cant look after all the children we have now what is the point of over loading the sistym WV can put them in there homes if they are so keen to have them here which we dont
The cost and value of refugees: are we ready to take on more from troubled lands?
We do not need the troubles of the rest of the world when we have a housing crises not enough money for health so we need zero imports
What is Winston Peters up to in refugee spat?
Good on Winston thought he had lost it but no still the same old wiry guy we do not need Nauru imagrants here when we have a big problem with our own interesting how they always use children as there shield
Joel Maxwell: You're never too old to become a better you
Like it or not we all get old and how we age is different for every body dontknow why he harpes on so much about learning Maori as though he is going to storm the world with his new found toy
Bruised Green Party go back to basics at annual conference
poor guy having to report the greens would be one of the most disinteresting things he could do
"NZ won't change law over Aussie policy on Nauru refugees, Winston Peters says
Forget it we are not able to look after what we have got now why add to the problem Australia is quiet right in its approach to the situation
Time for College Sport to emerge, blinking, out of the 1950s
What is the world coming to girls are girls and boys are boys lets keep that way dont need girls in boys team and vice versa has common sense gone out the window
Why we need to chill out about te reo and start wearing red suits
An other article by a man thinking we all should be chasing a dying language wont be great when we get past this week and get back to normal
Joel Maxwell: Let's hear it for Hamilton, for doing the right thing
What a ripe off why have local body elections just appoint who you feel like
Joel Maxwell: The business world doesn't really know any better than the rest of us
If Joel wants to go round speaking so people dont understand him his last comment is grow up and that what he needs to do how does he think he is going to manage only speaking an unknown langauge that no body understands but any how thats his problem
Language as 'our precious': Why Gollum is relevant to te reo MÄori
Another sob article why I should embrace something I do not want any thing to do with I am racist in the eyes of the PC brigade but for something that Moaris should embrace if they so choice thats fine but for me and all my friends dont push it on us
Why Stuff has become Puna for MÄori Language Week
why did Stuff have to jump on the band wagon when the majority of NZs have no interest in Maori language week it is just a bore why do they think they can force it on us and waste so much tax payers money
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's ability to lead dependent on coalition partners
Poor Jacinda she does not stand a chance against Winston he has been around so long and knows how to play his cards to advantage so as long as the situation remains Jacinda is on the back foot and we will never know what her potential is
Garner: Don't write this fumbling coalition off just yet
Wheels have certainlly fallen of tis Govt quiet alarming how they are they are boeeowing money to fritter away on nothing hope we do not have the full three years
What's the point in learning te reo MÄori, a language spoken only in New Zealand?
sorry Maori langauge is dead as far as me and all my friends go why do they dream of some thing that will never happen more the force it the quicker it will die
Coalition government is working as it should, says Winston Peters
Sad I thought Jacinda was the one to lead the labour party but I have been proved wrong well and 1ly pity Winston could not stop all this squandering of money we are heading down the gurgler like a run away train with the wheels falling of it each week
Air NZ boss to lead newly launched Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council
You dont expect any thing better from a labour Govt
Prime minister looks to kill the elephant in the room with economic speech
With the greens on board no hope for the Govt as we know greens want all business closed down
'There's a lot of anger': A Crown negotiator in Treaty of Waitangi settlements explains how they unfold
Mr Wood has an interesting persective 0f the treaty Really the treaty in this day and age is useless Maori ceeded to the crown to stop Maori wars end of story I had a farm taken by the BNZ to cover for there playing the overseas market had to get the govt to bail them out so a lot of cash in compensation would be nice so as we see the gravy train steaming on the odinary rank and file Maori do not see any benifit of it
NZ Made/NÄ NÄ«u TÄ«reni: The unsettling truth about the Treaty
If you continue to live in the past you have no future
What the Trump? POTUS's Kiwi supporters speak up
I am a Trump supporter he has done a great job and get sick of the media pulling him down when he has achived so much
Alcohol harm more than triple the cost of all Treaty claims so far - economist
How do you relate treaty pay out to the alcohol problem there is no resemblence there
Explaining Country Calendar's lasting allure
Been one of the best tv programs ever to be on our screens thanks guys
Time for weak Ardern to show them who's boss
Get used to Winston being in charge and what ever you think Jacinda will get the small things to do so labour is getting what it wanted in the coalishion
What grows the grass thick can turn our streams toxic and green
Never farmed with nitogen if you cant farm with out it give up farming I new 30 odd years ago that we would run into this problem because it had happened in England and they had to ban it get good clover pastures and you get all the nitrogen needed and you dont need a topdressing truck running round your farm all the time and you finish up with happier cows there is still the odd dairy farmer who have never had an once of nitrogen on there farms and are doing very nicely thank you very much
What is Winston Peters up to in refugee spat?
He said that in an interview yesterday that labour were not the Govt
Baby Neve's first overseas trip takes her to New York
Sad we have a PM that is supposed to represent our country but takes along her baby to make sure she get the utmost exposure if she was 1 to her country nanny dad should be at home looking after baby or else she should have sent Winston and stayed home looking after her own baby feel ashamed for our country
Teaching our kids about finance, in any language
another rip of hundreds of million being poured into none eccentual porgrams when most schools are struggling to get enough funds to teach the basic time the Govt to a tight rein on none eccentual nice things
The Treaty and Me: What the Treaty of Waitangi means to New Zealanders
Treaty a useless bit of paper well past its use by date it was for a time but that has long gone
Editorial: Doing what's right, for everyone
If we are going to sove every problem in the world we are going to be pretty smart look after the problems we have at home before heading off shore
Small businesses react to PM's new business advisory council
comments about small businesss are weak they are the back bone of the business world of this country
Taking the Nauru kids makes moral and political sense
We have enough poverty children now why compound the problem we deffinatly do not need some one else problems
Tourist growth puts access pressure on High Country farmers
Do have symathy for high country farmers when the general public seem think they have a right to wonder around your run have no idea of how to treat stock leave gates open after all the farmer is running a business like when people climb trough a fence to help themselves to mushrooms or swedes
How breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi are settled
Couldt agree more usless bit of paper
Editorial: A lost opportunity on Nauru
Winston definaitlly did the right thing
Government confirms single-use plastic bags will be gone in six months
Plastic bags are not a problem in NZ where the problem is is in Asia bags are not a problem to us it is all the plastic wrap on things you buy from hardware stores and look at all the plastic toys that are left lying every where
Greenpeace disupte Mackenzie dairying expansion inaccuracy claims
Green peace need to pull there head in a bit and leave farming to those who know what they are doing do any of these people have a real job or do they just live of the country
What is Winston Peters up to in refugee spat?
Jacinda did not have to be there when her deputy was there save $80
Editorial: A lost opportunity on Nauru
Winston Peters stood for the majority of NZs we dont need a grandstanding Govt interfering in the Nauru situation so the PM needs to look after those a home before looking overseas our hospitals can not meet the demand now with out putting more pressure on the system sorry but she is getting like a fish out of water ;
What's the point in learning te reo MÄori, a language spoken only in New Zealand?
Leave my Grandchildren out of it
A mature nation owns its history - the good and the bad
I am the older generation and dont like the way so called history has got twisted
The amount allocated to Treaty of Waitangi settlements is tiny, compared with other Government spending
We are not talking 25 years but 140 years of treaty settlement so dont brush it of lightly as the total sum is huge what they sold had nothing like the value that they are receiving they are receiving fully developed which they had nothing to do with
Te Wiki o te Reo MÄori: Celebration of our unique Kiwi identity
Sad the ordinary NZer has to be insulted with all this unfarmilar language Maori want it they can have it but leave us out
Farrowing crates a form of torture
Another townie full of knowledge about something she does not know any thing about
Air NZ boss to lead newly launched Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council
We elect people to run the country but cost more for them to get advisers so why dont we just employ adviser to run the country save having all these MP
Alice Snedden: Free speech is not an absolute right
If You express your rights as a NZ you get shut down pronto
My shameful confession: I voted for Winston and now I apologise
Yes I was one of those who had faith in Winston and have been well and 1ly disappointed Would like to know how Jacinda brought him off over the imagrant quote when he was aperantly going to look after our own people
Baby Neve's first overseas trip takes her to New York
A great Ambassador and Leader. for who what she does could have been done from the beehive
Questions raised as power bill rises to $1100 a month
Agree with your power bills we us all power hat pump 24/7 lots of hot water $300 or there abouts in the middle of winter in Southland
The cost and value of refugees: are we ready to take on more from troubled lands?
Bulding housing for so called refugees they are not refugees as they choice to come here so how abow looking after our own people first people rush around about these imagrants when there next door neighbour could do with there help but no that does not count
Te reo naysayers: build a bridge, and don't be the troll under it
Well written
Big fertiliser companies accused of quashing environmentally friendly way of applying nitrogen
Had been a farmer for 50 plus years and not farmer bashing but if you can not farm with out nitrogen get out never used it know a number of dairy farmers who have never used it a good clover pasture will give ample grass cows are happy and we are not getting tanted milk from the nigrgen grass that they eat makes me cry to see the poor quality of cows around the country side now a days
Send us the bill for keeping top rugby players
I personaly do not support rugby or yachting specialy yachting which only caters to the idle rich but if sport can not stand on its own feet forget about it we dont need the Govt propping it up
Raise the pension age regardless of future Super affordability
The article written with rose tinted glasss I fear there are enough elderly people working now keeping younger ones out of a job leave alone what is working well
Editorial: A lost opportunity on Nauru
Our PM does not see reason
Taking the Nauru kids makes moral and political sense
Great idea because I dont want to be paying for them
"Politics is a dirty game and the National Party is losing",
Once when we have these situations we end up with trail by media how many situations over the years have been distorted by the media
Manawatū dairy farms still struggling to find skilled labour
I have been retierd for a numbe of years but never hsd trouble getting staf even back then young ones were coming from school ful of go but by Christmas they had been blown out and left the industry so only the employers had them selves to blame by making these young ones work unreasonable hours so look around where you see saff have been on a place for years usually find are good employers
Daily petrol thefts cause Christchurch station owners to take elaborate measures
that is unbeleavable that there are so many thievies out there when you use a service you pay if you dont intend to pay dont use the service like any shop you pay before you take the goods
Thanks to New Zealand, I have spent all my life in a refugee tent
How do you propose that we can solve the problems on the other side of the world we can not solve our own so whats the point of all there articles
Calls to ban electricity 'prompt payment discounts'
Leave it as it is power co are in the business of supplying power and if you can not pay your account on time so you should pay more you go to the super market and you pay before you walk out the door so why all the fuss about paying your account on time
Nelson pensioner fights the power to keep his bills to less than $50 a month
How do these people with very low power biils get by line charges as you say $2 a day
Politicians muzzling MÄori - a tradition older than MÄori seats themselves
Our Country runs on separatism and is getting more so
Godzone: Is New Zealand really heaven on Earth?
NZ is a beautiful country Milford Sound would be the most pictures of any where in the world
A mature nation owns its history - the good and the bad
We are not frightened it is just the distortion spin that is put on it children of this day are brain washed so they will never know the truth
Safety first for kids climbing trees, says world champion
Climbing trees is an activity that most children have tryed with different results this guy must be on another planet if he things all children are going to have climbing gear every time they climb a tree
Don Brash and the cloak of respectability
At least Don is one of a few that speak truth as it is supposed to be I admire him for his frankness we need a few more like him instead of all this fluffy duffy stuff we get fed
Where to now for te reo?
The below comment sums it up well now we can get back to normal with out the vocal few poping up every where my concern is the millions wasted at the expense of thing more pressing
Andrew Gunn: Bond's new MÄori henchman is ...
winston has been a big disappointment just sorry now that I voted for him
Greenpeace activists oil ship protest was just 'low level disobedience'
They deserve to be convicted like any body else that did the same thing perhaps a time in jail mite deter them from cost other people money in the future
Where to now for te reo?
The more you force on people the quicker it will disappear
What the Trump? POTUS's Kiwi supporters speak up
you have to admit he has cleaned out all the rubbish in the white house
Where to now for te reo?
Great comment well done Ken Martin sumed it up well
Too often so-called hate speech is simply distasteful or offensive
PC is certainly to the fore now a days free speech of course we will not all ways agree if one part of society going down the wrong track why should we not be able to speech out
Milking it: There's no such thing as a budget cow, so what is budget milk?
Just a thought do you remember when we got those little bottles of milk at school with all that lovely cream on top Yum Yum
The education of students is not a trivial pursuit
Has been quiet obvious for a number of years under standing of english has been on the slide yet they are pushing for other languages and for a simple word like trivial how could they get it so wrong
Father's power struggle after meter switch mix-up
Power co are a law unto them selves and for people on limited income it must be a struggle
Football Fern throws weight behind girl's battle to play on boys' team
Has the PC brigade gone mad altogether
Dairy farmers tackle nitrogen loss
The force farming of the last 30 years was always going to create this nitrate problem when neighbours start throwing nitrogen around like it was going out of fashion 30 odd years ago sadly you could see the clover content disappearing out of there pasture so in there head long blindness they had no option but to keep putting on nitrogen at the peril of the soil so sadly we have a generation of farmers who do not know how to farm with good clover pastures this is the advantage of being and old has been farmer if you are not getting 600 kg per cow per year some thing wrong
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern encourages new generation of te reo MÄori speakers
The wheels are falling of our Govt so grab the head lines with Maori language week get sick of the indigenous people line they keep coming up with we have no indigenous people
NZ can't shake its dangerous addiction to West Saharan phosphate
Oh dear these naughty farmers are in the spot light again journalists favorite topic to get after these naughty farmers when these same people are giving us the standard of living we have come to expect bit unrealistic to say we can change a country on the other side of the world but this the catch call now a days naughty farmers but of course naught humans are so pure that they are not part of the perseved
Greenpeace's claims 'inaccurate' says Mackenzie District mayor
How many times has Green peace broken the law this year and dont even have to go to court
Pet or property: 'Good quality tenants have good quality pets'
Govt certainly suffed up big time on rentals and if they think they can allow dogs there will be ways around it having had all the trouble with dogs in the past the answer is NO NO
Alice Snedden: Free speech is not an absolute right
for such a small part of the population they want majority say
Getting MÄori place names right is all about respect
we live in a country with so many unpronounceable names and they seem to keep poping up all over the place
What's the point in learning te reo MÄori, a language spoken only in New Zealand?
Dont include my grandchildren