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I got to be in a safety video!

This is a short video on why a river boat isn't safe to take out on open water, why a spray skirt is essential, and what happens without the right gear.

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We know the answer. The current government in NZ also supports Trump and everything he is doing.

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The ACT party needs to be completely destroyed at the next election. Anybody who supports them should be relentlessly mocked and humiliated and shamed.

I can't believe this actually happened in our Parliament. What is is this? the 1700s?

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This must be embarrassing for Luxon and Winston. They did everything including threaten and bully the island to prevent this and failed miserably.

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Pirongia 4 square is putting on Shrek in the park for the locals

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Might be time to hand in your licence, that could easily have been fatal.

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Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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The article itself is poor, as it cherry picks just parts of some of the submissions, but there's an interesting point glossed over which is not well known.

Julian Batchelor - representing Stop Co-Governance - made his submission using a presentation on the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing there would be no need for Treaty Principles if the "true, bonafide, English final draft of the Treaty was in the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975."

Emphasis mine. I find it ironic that Batchelor thinks that a draft should be enshrined in law and that they've implicitly acknowledged that an original English version doesn't exist.

There is no actual final English draft of the Treaty, at least if there was one it has been lost to time. It's accepted by historians that Hobson, Busby, and Henry and William Williams assembled the several drafts they had between them on the evening of 5th Feb 1840. The Williams' then translated (which took all night, literally, they finished at sunrise on the 6th) Te Tītiti and deliberately used the transliterated term kawanatanga (governorship) introduced by the missionaries for use in the New Testament rather than rangitiratanaga (sovereignty) because they all knew that no chief would sign away their rangitiratanga (or arguably believe they could surrender it). Hobson, Busby and the Williams' were particularly concerned that Māori be spared the experiences most British colonial natives had in the past.

Te Tīriti was then translated into English and these two documents were sent back to the crown.

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There's only one organisation that operates NH90 helicopters, and it's the RNZAF.

I feel people like this probably get spooked by their cat on a regular basis too.

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Former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer says David Seymour’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill is damaging the “collective fabric of our nation” and the Government has not followed the correct legislative process in introducing it.

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Luxon is not a natural politician, is he?

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Investors will only have to remain in New Zealand for 21 days over three years to gain residency under changes to the so-called 'golden visa' to attract wealthy investors to New Zealand, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford says.

From 1 April, the Active Investor Plus visa will be replaced with two, simplified investment categories.

The first, the 'Growth' category, will focus on higher-risk investments, including direct investments in New Zealand businesses.

It will require a minimum investment of $5 million for a minimum period of three years.

The second, the 'Balanced' category, will focus on mixed investments, with the ability to choose ones that are lower risk.

There will be a minimum investment of $10 million over five years.

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Such a strange combination of items, who is buying mayo on the black market?

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I don't think we've ever had such a sharp change in public opinion as we've had over the last decade or so, certainly not in the MMP era.

Labour went from an outright majority to barely 25% of the vote in one term, and now we're set to have our very first single term government in a very long time.

It's enough to give you whiplash.

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Health New Zealand's new strategy to "fail early, fail often, succeed over time" when it comes to crucial data and digital operations has been labelled "unacceptable" by a union.

Te Whatu Ora has proposed to cut almost half its data and digital positions - more than 1000 of them.

PSA assistant secretary Fleur Fitzsimons said New Zealanders would not accept that Health NZ could ever fail early when it came to health records.

"The stakes are too high. I think it's quite shocking."

But the feedback leaked to RNZ displayed a lot of fear and consternation. Staff had got letters about the proposed jobs being cut.

"My letter has the wrong job title and I am not even from that team," responded one.

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Two people have been injured in Central Auckland after debris fell from a building.

Police were called to a building on Queen St on Monday morning after an object fell and shattered glass.

Two pedestrians were moderately injured and were taken to a nearby medical centre, a police spokesperson said.

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IoT 4 You and Me

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-02-08 20:43 | |


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| | Scheduled for (NZDT) | 2024-02-09 09:43 | | Launch site | Rocket Lab LC-1A, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand | | Booster recovery | No | | Launch vehicle | Electron + Curie | | Customer | Kinéis | | Payload | Kinéis 16-20 | | Mission success criteria | Successful deployment of spacecraft into LEO |

Livestreams

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| | Rocket Lab (official) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Al5hWmjoxQ | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LymS8p38Q98 | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t6_MoFqiT4 |

Stats

  • This will be the 1st launch for Rocket Lab this year.
  • This will be the 59th overall launch for Rocket Lab.

Payload info:

Rocket Lab mission page

NextSpaceflight:

Fourth batch of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each. The constellation will enable Kinéis, a company backed by private and public investors including the French government’s space agency CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) and CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites) an international space-based solutions provider, to improve its global IoT connectivity.


Previous mission: Owl The Way Up

Next mission: TBD

Please post small launch updates, discussions, and questions here! Also feel free to leave feedback or suggestions for the mod team. We’re a relatively new community, so feedback is very valuable!

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Looks like Peters is getting upset the Cook Islands are about to pen a deal with China.

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Chelsea Sugar (also known as the New Zealand Sugar Company) has been fined $149,500 for importing and selling sugar products tainted with lead.

More than 970 tonnes of products were manufactured from sugar contaminated during sea transportation from Australia, resulting in the company recalling thousands of products in late 2021.

Two more recalls were needed when it was revealed incorrect information was provided to supermarkets resulting in more tainted goods being released to consumers.

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