Daily review 22/10/2026

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   Yay! I have voted, electronically, from Gladstone. Not as easy as voting at a booth, but actually quite seamless once you follow the instructions. Same party vote as the last 3 elections, different candidate, Whangarei electorate so hard to tip out the current MP.

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      Go Gary Payinda! An excellent Labour candidate and servant of the north day in and day out for years at Whangarei Hospital ED. Not my electorate but my ancestral homeland (paternally speaking) Chipped in $50 for an extra sign for him. Hope he comes through the middle between the climate-change denying real estate guy (National) and the anti-fluoridation former mayor (NZF)

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      Well done!

      Isn’t Shane Reti retiring from Politics!?

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   Why was Tamaki kept out of Oz? This looks at how Tarrant behaved in NZ. What have we to worry about in the minds of those who are deeply unhappy in our present harsh government regime – unstable, uncaring, wealth-oriented society.

   New Zealand History https://nzhistory.govt.nz › 51-killed-mosque-shootings

   51 killed in mosque shootings | NZ History | New Zealand's Muslim community suffered an horrific attack when a self-proclaimed 'white nationalist' opened fire on worshippers at mosques on Deans Avenue and in Linwood in Christchurch. Fifty people were killed and …

   …The gunman used five weapons, including two semi-automatic assault rifles, in the attack, which was livestreamed on some websites. The death toll would have been higher but for the heroism displayed by unarmed men at both mosques, and by the police officers who forced the assailant’s car off the road. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as one of New Zealand’s darkest days.

   More detail and looking deeper into Brenton Tarrant's background. It is a full report and covers and explains the years building his cold focus.

   https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/christchurch-mosque-shootings-who-is-brenton-tarrant-the-making-of-a-mass-killer/

   In the end, it took a year for Brenton Harrison Tarrant to admit to what most had already accepted as a blunt, ugly truth – that he came to New Zealand to kill people and he did so in Christchurch.

   The murderer came from Grafton in Australia, about an hour's drive from coastal Coffs Harbour in New South Wales… When Tarrant moved to New Zealand in August 2017, he later said he did so to plan and train for the attack he had already conceived. He moved to Dunedin, rented a house in a quiet street, and set about planning a massacre. New Zealand wasn't the target he initially intended to attack, but it became the country he settled on….

   He slipped into the country and lived a hermit's life, until the day he killed 51 people…. He had no job. He did little other than train at a local gym and shoot at a gun club south of the city. Even there, he sought little contact with others.

   In all, he spent more than a year in the weatherboard house in Dunedin East. He bought guns and ammunition, and he planned a massacre…. In that rented Dunedin house, there were two chairs, a table and a mattress. It was here, it is believed, that Tarrant sat and worked on the so-called "manifesto" in which people would later seek answers. The document recounts Tarrant's journey mentally and physically towards the massacre…

   The Herald's Matt Nippert – who researched a string of linked mass-shootings at Cambridge University – described the killers as a movement. They were a "lone wolfpack of white supremacists spawned in the dark corners of the internet", he said….

   In the cases studied by Nippert, the killers moved from "radical ideas to action … (after) a personal or domestic shock".

   "They're not members of violent groups, but sometimes try to join and are rejected, and are often found hanging around the fringes." They feed off each other, he found, and the ideology to which they grasp becomes a "contagion", spreading online with the reach of a virus. They weren't "lone wolf" killers but a "lone wolfpack", physically separate but unified in their sense of displacement and the way in which they sought to resolve it…

   My conclusion is that Tarrant was unhappy with no role model he could relate to, and his parents and society couldn't help him as a child to find his strengths. His father was a rubbish truck driver and his mother a teacher. Both seemed okay people but his father was unhappy and became obsessed with marathons and spent too much family money on it, and eventually there was a divorce, and he died at 49 from cancer when Tarrant was only 20. It seems that the only person for him as a young male was gone. He then tried to become personally strong and deal to a bad world in a way that other socially separate white young men did. Lessons in that – I think we could find them and make changes if we wanted to. (Tom Phillips could be regarded as similar.)

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