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Daily review 04/05/2026

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, May 4th, 2026 - 14 comments
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Daily review is also your post.

This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).

Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

14 comments on “Daily review 04/05/2026 ”

  1. Incognito 1
    4 May 2026 at 5:44 pm

    Heather du Plessis-Allan is a duplicitous and disingenuous DP operative. She asserts false equivalence between Maiki Sherman banging on a door and the dark arts being practiced in the Beehive, especially on the 9th floor. She asserts that Sherman ‘dodged accountability’ when she’s clearly accepted the punishment. She asserts ‘repeat transgressions’ when one is alleged (and apparently quite minor) and there’s only one other (i.e., the door-knocking ‘incident’). She asserts that the credibility of a whole news organisation (TVNZ) is ‘damaged’ because of Sherman doing her job albeit in an overzealous way.

    Heather du Plessis-Allan argues in the Herald on Sunday (paywalled) that Sherman can’t easily retain her position without damaging the broadcaster’s credibility: “[She] won’t be able to demand accountability from misbehaving MPs if she manages to dodge accountability for repeat transgressions herself.”

    https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/04-05-2026/luxon-and-willis-in-singapore-while-one-member-of-the-press-pack-stays-behind

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    • SPC 1.1
      4 May 2026 at 6:17 pm

      Right wing media adopting the party narrative.

      The PM has chosen to favour them over TVNZ, so they are oh so grateful.

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      • Incognito 1.1.1
        4 May 2026 at 6:58 pm

        I just finished reading this:

        Flattery over facts?

        In the simplest terms, sycophancy is the tendency to prioritize approval over factual accuracy, moral clarity, logical consistency or common sense.

        https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-can-prioritize-flattery-over-facts-and-that-carries-serious-risks-274298

        Sycophancy can cause a number of problems:

        • It diminishes capacity to know the truth;
        • It is psychologically damaging, creating suspicion and distrust;
        • It lowers capacity to know one’s own mind let alone someone else’s;
        • It increases political risk, reducing speaking to truth to power, reducing holding authorities to account, and reducing self-correcting.
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  2. SPC 2
    4 May 2026 at 6:15 pm

    What is an estate or inheritance tax?

    Something 2/3rd of OECD nations have.

    The family behind the South Korean corporate giant Samsung has completed its payment of a 12 trillion won (£6bn; $8bn) inheritance tax bill, the largest such settlement in the country's history.

    Chairman Lee Jae-yong and other members of the family, including his mother Hong Ra-hee and sisters Lee Boo-jin and Lee Seo-hyun, paid the sum in six installments over the last five years.

    If a nation had one

    *Treasury would not be providing, annual we are doomed is we do not act, reports.

    *the number of boomers receiving super would be less of an issue as the structural component would be mitigated by the higher numbers paying this tax.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0px8g13xgo

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  3. adam 3
    4 May 2026 at 6:23 pm

    It's a good idea to listen to right wing analysis at times. As the war the Yanks and IDF's masters started – is just a bit buggered.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPuBWx9a4IE

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  4. Bearded Git 4
    4 May 2026 at 7:21 pm

    In reply to Incog above….I don't really care about Maiki Sherman….that is a non issue….but the fact that Jo Moir, RadioNZs Political Correspondent, was crawling to Luxon today in her despatches from Singapore worries me.

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    • Incognito 4.1
      4 May 2026 at 7:34 pm

      The person is not the issue, but her position is, or rather how invested powers treat her position and that of her employer.

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  5. Bearded Git 5
    4 May 2026 at 7:45 pm

    Maybe while Luxon is in Singapore he should pop over to Vietnam where they have just shelved a massive LNG import proposal in favour of renewables.

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    • Ad 5.1
      4 May 2026 at 8:14 pm

      Vietnam gets 50% of its power from coal. We could teach them a trick or two.

      Back in the previous oil crisis, PM Robert Muldoon did this complex deal with the Soviet Union in which surplus NZ butter would be traded for Russian oil. This Singapore deal has a good similarity for what became known as Butter For Oil.

      I don't think anyone in this Cabinet or in MBIE have the capacity to do more than just trade our future in micro-deals. They are playing the worst game of "Pretend and Extend" going into the June price crisis that I have ever seen.

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      • mac1 5.1.1
        4 May 2026 at 8:42 pm

        Who remembers "guns for butter," PM Keith Holyoake's rationale for involvement in Vietnam? This is an old slogan for what Trump and America want us to buy into now. I can see a reason for "butter for oil" but my fear is that morality and ethics, justice and peace itself are at risk in this developing modern world.

        I have a sense of history where warlords, robber barons, tycoons and piratic rulers are extending their reach again.

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  8. SPC 8
    4 May 2026 at 10:36 pm

    Waitakere man, I always think of some Maori guy called Rangi taking a wahine for a walk through a forest, so he offer her something to wear when they reach the beach.

    The Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area also needs to be protected.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/594194/why-planning-reforms-have-people-concerned-about-the-waitakere-ranges-and-development

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018984620/the-waitakere-ranges-heritage-area-act-what-s-next

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