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  1. Comment on Open Mike 21/09/2026

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    I can’t get my head around the police and OT not talking to each other.

  2. Comment on Open Mike 21/09/2026

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    I see Belladonna explained in depth below.

  3. Comment on Open Mike 21/09/2026

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    Part of the problem here is the court suppression, so we don’t know the full details (rightfully, and we can’t talk about it on TS). But even given that, it’s clear there were issues with both police and OT, that might have made a difference. eg the …

  4. Comment on Open Mike 21/09/2026

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    I’m disgusted by the police and OT statements since the report came out. Talking up their staff is all well and good, but they needed to just stand up and say ‘we failed these children’. So while I think underfunding is likely to be an issue especially …

  5. Comment on Open Mike 21/09/2026

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    this is my guess too. That agencies thought him more credible than the children’s mother and step sisters. Institutional sexism and racism. But it’s a guess. This substack from Forbes is essential reading on the women and their fight to get the state to …

  6. Comment on Open Mike 21/09/2026

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    agree. But given he was what he was, how could society have protected those children? The police, OT etc exist for that purpose, and they failed, badly.

  7. Comment on Hager’s next book

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    Please use some marker to differentiate your words from your quote. I’ve added quotation indents now. If you can use coloured text, you can use those šŸ˜‰

  8. Comment on Hager’s next book

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    please fix your user name typo

  9. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    I guess there would be rules around how long you can be out of the country before it stops. It is a comms challenge for UBI generally, how to explain that it goes to everyone, but then some people pay higher tax so they return it.

  10. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    this is a great comment thanks. Agree LVT will make it harder for subsequent generations. Parts of the left have a blind spot on this, thinking anyone who can leave an inheritance much be very wealthy, and fail to appreciate that their offspring might be …

  11. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    is that from the policy doc?

  12. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    yes. The problem is they don’t differentiate between land that has people living on it (often low income) and land that is empty and held by wealthy people for capital gains (land banking). if you have a section with a caravan in queenstown, you could …

  13. Comment on Open Mike 19/09/2026

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    nice one.

  14. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    he would pay it back via increased taxation. But he’s apparently fucked off out of NZ now anyway thankfully.

  15. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    it’s not every small detail. It’s the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders.

  16. Comment on Open Mike 19/09/2026

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    My attention is on AI panic, the oil crisis, and climate/ecology, so I don’t mind boring. I’ll also take boring over parties being arseholes or manipulative. Green Party policy is good. I wonder if Labour are keeping their powder dry, didn’t the billboards …

  17. Comment on Open Mike 19/09/2026

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    Is this the most disinterested, boring, and unengaged election campaign ever? The election is in 50 days and no one, including political nerds, seem to gaf https://x.com/Tiare_MP/status/2100808284945207444

  18. Comment on Open Mike 19/09/2026

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    another really good example of the power the Greens have without being in government

  19. Comment on Open Mike 19/09/2026

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    UK Greens (England and Wales) hitting the radical vs pragmatic pinch point. Leader Polanksi tried to have their AGM postponed, as it ends 4 days before a byeleciton where Polanksi is running in Starmer’s former seat. One of the remits at the AGM is for the …

  20. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    I agree. The point is that OP don’t seem to have taken these things into account. Critiquing policy doesn’t stop progress on policy, it improves policy if the party is paying attention.

  21. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    why not tax super wealth instead? Plus GC and inheritance People shouldn’t be penalised for owning land they live on or intend to live on. That is counter productive to ending the housing crisis. Property value only becomes cash on sale, or via a mortgage. …

  22. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    what rate is the calculator using?

  23. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    that takes us to the values issue. LVT taxes part of the economic value of property. OP have quite a few exemptions, based on their values. But they also treat this as a stock unit issue, rather than land/whenua being the ground upon which we all depend, …

  24. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    yes tax neutral, and you could argue that those people will make capital gains on that property over time, but isn’t the point to break the housing as capital gains scheme? Or maybe not, maybe it’s to help middle income earners onto the ladder. You would …

  25. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    ‘like’ does a lot of heavy lifting.

  26. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    I commented further below. If they’re so sloppy they can’t actually write proper policy, there’s no good reason to trust them on this. It’s a significant issue but apparently they haven’t decided who can defer and who can’t. How can they budget? This is …

  27. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    In regards to 3. There are no ‘beneficiaries’ under a UBI scheme. Everybody gets it. Plus the Opp party policy makes additional allowances for superannuitants. People currently on Supported Living Payment, a benefit that is available to people too …

  28. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    from their policy document Deferrals protect older people and farmers Similar to the land uses for exemption, there are some landowners for whom the LVT risks imposing undue hardship. Older people are typically on fixed incomes and may be unable to …

  29. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    can you please point to where OP say the LVT can be deferred by anyone until sale? I know they had a clause for pensioners.

  30. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    agree. I know many people who have built a house by sitting on land until they could afford the build, then living on the land during the build in a caravan, sometimes for years. These are not wealthy people and this is the only way they can afford to …