Random thoughts

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NZ Electionjs day
fun and games x next 3 years,incl ...
or is it 4 now huh
shows how interested i am
i said duh'

probably
more important how the Au V8s are doing ha
last for this lifetime,cool...

POLITICS


Final day of voting underway in New Zealand's 2020 election
6:13AM • SOURCE: 1 NEWS

Today is the last day eligible voters can cast their ballots in the New Zealand 2020 election.

Source: Getty
Unlike during the advance voting period, the Electoral Commission's black-out laws are in place today.

All parties need to have removed their hoardings, no political advertising is allowed and people can't post or share content online that's likely or intended to influence someone's vote.


Final day of voting underway in New Zealand's 2020 election

 

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Put the kettle on and settle in with a fresh batch of British TV shows
By Rochelle O'Gorman

looking fwd to it
i enjoy
its not manufactured humour,often as natural as can be
i think

 

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uuhhmmm,being gay
has nothing to do with the pretend horniness, currently
need
a 'safety car'
yes
i ad,it ha

gals
are just as coool,in this inst
always thought,i was/am BI yay

The Hottest Movies on Netflix to Keep You Warm Tonight
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Here's Why Netflix Is Ending Shows It Already Renewed
GLOW, I Am Not Okay With This, and The Society all had renewals locked in, and then Netflix pulled the plug.

It's Officially 'Over the Garden Wall' Season, Ya Candy Pants
Cartoon Network's legit scary miniseries has become an autumnal rewatch staple that you could binge in a single night or savor across an entire week.

 

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resounding win,current govt


Election 2020: Red tide rising as Labour claims victory
about 1 hour ago
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Labour has claimed a landslide victory in the 2020 election and has the numbers to govern alone, while National has slumped to its worst result in years.

The Greens and ACT will have 10 MPs in Parliament each, but Labour will not need them, winning 64 seats, while National will only have 35.

Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas

Shortly after 10pm, National leader Judith Collins told party faithful she had phoned Labour leader Jacinda Ardern to congratulate her on the election resul

In her victory speech in Auckland, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern said Labour would be "a party that governed for every New Zealander".

Despite the heavy loss, National leader Judith Collins appeared set on remaining the party leader.

In Waiariki, there is a desperately close race between Tamati Coffey and the Maori Party's Rawiri Waititi. If Waititi wins, then he will return the Maori Party to Parliament.

National's faithful began trickling into its election night party at Auckland's Royal Squadron Yacht Club in Westhaven from around 7pm, but MP Paul Goldsmith told RNZ it was a "tough night for National and for our supporters".

New Zealand First Party is holding an election night event in Russell, Northland Photo: RNZ

Almost 2 million people cast their vote early this year, including 233,575 who voted yesterday.

Votes in the two referendums on end of life choice and cannabis will not be counted tonight, and preliminary results will be released on 30 October.

Official results of the election and referendums will be announced on 6 November.

 

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Almost 2 million people cast their vote early this year, including 233,575 who voted yesterday.

Votes in the two referendums on end of life choice and cannabis will not be counted tonight, and preliminary results will be released on 30 October.


please
bring on a natural progression tolife,as we know of it
no time,for supression of anyones rights,at your convenience

 

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smile
love THE CONVERSATION,Aus media

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Meet North Queensland First, the party that wants to kill crocs and form a new state
Claire Brennan, James Cook University

Some north Queenslanders feel every inch of their distance from the state government in Brisbane. A new party is hoping to tap into that sentiment.

Rotiv Artic/Unsplash
Cats carry diseases that can be deadly to humans, and it’s costing Australia $6 billion every year
Sarah Legge, Australian National University; Chris Dickman, University of Sydney; Jaana Dielenberg, The University of Queensland; John Read; John Woinarski, Charles Darwin University; Pat Taggart; Tida Nou, The University of Queensland

When cats were introduced to Australia, they brought several diseases with them. These diseases are taking a big toll on human health and the economy — but there are things we can do.

 

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smile
your to kind Australian media,THE CONVERSATION
LOL
however,cool as

yuour female state premiersplus the male ones,need close daily scrutiny huh


Nau mai haere mai and welcome to this special post-election newsletter.

They call election results like this landslides, but in truth Jacinda Ardern’s Labour victory is tectonic, altering the MMP landscape and reshaping New Zealand politics in general. It was always going to be a “COVID election”, as Ardern put it, but the scale with which she and her party have been rewarded is nonetheless historic.

You can see party results and the likely shape of the country’s 53rd parliament here, and also compare this year’s outcome with the 2017 election. Our panel of five political experts has analysed what happened and the implications for New Zealand’s political future.

If you never want to miss any of our ongoing NZ coverage, sign up for our special NZ newsletter, emailed each Wednesday morning.

Finlay Macdonald

New Zealand Editor: Politics, Business + Arts

Hannah Peters/Getty Images
New Zealand’s new parliament turns red: the 2020 election results at a glance
Liz Minchin, The Conversation; Michael Lund, The Conversation; Wes Mountain, The Conversation; Veronika Meduna, The Conversation; Finlay Macdonald, The Conversation

Labour's landslide election win means it could govern alone, without support from any of the other parties.

Wes Mountain/The Conversation
Jacinda Ardern and Labour returned in a landslide — 5 experts on a historic New Zealand election
Richard Shaw, Massey University; Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury; Jack Vowles, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Jennifer Curtin; Lindsey Te Ata o Tau MacDonald, University of Canterbury

Jacinda Ardern and Labour are returned to power in a landslide, making New Zealand political history in the process.

A young voter heads to the polls on the first day of advance voting. GettyImages
NZ election 2020: how might record advance voting numbers influence the final outcome?
Claire Robinson, Massey University

With more votes cast before election day than on it, late strategic voting could make all the difference.

Wes Mountain/The Conversation
NZ election 2020: Jacinda Ardern promised transformation — instead, the times transformed her
Richard Shaw, Massey University

The politics of reassurance have made her one of the most popular prime ministers in NZ history. Can Jacinda Ardern turn that into meaningful change?

Wes Mountain/The Conversation
NZ election 2020: as the ultimate political survivor, Judith Collins prepares for her ultimate test
Jennifer Curtin

For Judith Collins, centrism is an excuse to do nothing and stand for nothing. This election is the greatest challenge yet for her brand of politics.

 

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again Paul
all talk day after day
month after month
an/the entire year almost gone,no changes

plus
i hardly thinjk any of what your saying about us,is going to make any one singular state,of you country any better than ours
geuss its equal to my harassing your country tho

 

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Here’s the actual impact of cutting down on red meat (and everything else)

No Red October is just a tiny introduction to big dietary changes.



meat mmmmm

 

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worth an entirety mention,this am
BIC

From this morning, Melburnians can roam further for longer, and even get in a round of golf or a hair appointment to tame their unkempt lockdown locks. More enticingly still, the complete end of lockdown is within touching distance, as Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said he’s considering an early lifting of the “four reasons” rule that confines people to their homes unless exercising, working, caring or buying essentials.

But Deakin University epidemiologist Catherine Bennett argues Victoria should go further still, and immediately lift blanket rules such as the new 25km permitted travel radius. While health authorities focus on testing and tracing known cases, she says it’s time to place a little more trust in the public.

The decision caps an extraordinary political weekend on both sides of the Tasman. From Jacinda Ardern’s landslide win in New Zealand, to ACT Labor clinching a sixth term in power, our expert authors — Michelle Grattan, David Hall, John Warhurst, Adrian Beaumont and more — have got you covered.

Michael Hopkin

Editor, Science + Technology, Health + Medicine

Dean Lewis/AAP
View from The Hill: New Zealand arrivals inject new irritation into federal-Victorian tensions
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

Daniel Andrews' angst at the weekend about multiple New Zealanders who arrived in Melbourne via the travel bubble from NZ to NSW is a pointer to the pressure the Victorian premier is under.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern promising to accelerate Labour’s COVID-19 recovery plan after winning re-election in a landslide. Phil Walter/Getty Images
With a mandate to govern New Zealand alone, Labour must now decide what it really stands for
David Hall, Auckland University of Technology

In politics, what lifts you up can drag you down. To avoid that, Jacinda Ardern's Labour government will have to examine its political soul.

James Ross/AAP Image
Melbourne is almost out of lockdown. It’s time to trust Melburnians to make their own COVID-safe decisions
Catherine Bennett, Deakin University

Melbourne could be out of lockdown within a week, if COVID-19 case numbers continue their current trend. But blanket rules such as the new 25km travel radius risk unnecessarily burdening the public.

Lukas Coch/AAP
No snapback: the budget sets us up for an unreasonably slow recovery. Here’s how
Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute; Matthew Cowgill, Grattan Institute

Josh Frydenberg has told us his 2020 Budget is “all about jobs”. What he hasn’t said is that it is actually aiming for a slower recovery from the recession, as far as unemployment goes, than from most…

Lukas Coch/AAP
Labor scores its sixth ACT election victory in a row. But the big winners are the Greens
John Warhurst, Australian National University

The ACT is set to be governed by Labor for more than two decades straight, after the Liberals failed to cut through in the weekend's election.

Environment + Energy

• Humans threaten the Antarctic Peninsula’s fragile ecosystem. A marine protected area is long overdue
  Marissa Parrott, University of Melbourne; Carolyn Hogg, University of Sydney; Cassandra Brooks, University of Colorado Boulder; Justine Shaw, The University of Queensland; Melissa Cristina Márquez, Curtin University
  
  More than 280 women in STEMM call for a marine protected area to be established in the waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
  
  
• Explainer: what is the electricity transmission system, and why does it need fixing?
  Tony Wood, Grattan Institute
  
  Labor has pledged to create a A$20 billion corporation to upgrade Australia's energy transmission system. So what's this all about?
  

Politics + Society

• Jacinda Ardern and Labour returned in a landslide — 5 experts on a historic New Zealand election
  Richard Shaw, Massey University; Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury; Jack Vowles, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Jennifer Curtin; Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonald, University of Canterbury
  
  Jacinda Ardern and Labour are returned to power in a landslide, making New Zealand political history in the process.
  
  
• New Zealand’s new parliament turns red: the 2020 election results at a glance
  Liz Minchin, The Conversation; Michael Lund, The Conversation; Wes Mountain, The Conversation; Veronika Meduna, The Conversation; Finlay Macdonald, The Conversation
  
  Labour's landslide election win means it could govern alone, without support from any of the other parties.
  
  
• Hopes of an improvement in Australia-China relations dashed as Beijing ups the ante
  Tony Walker, La Trobe University
  
  Australia's increasingly fractious relationship with China has taken another blow after the 'Quad' meeting in Tokyo.
  
  
• Labo(u)r easily wins in both New Zealand and the ACT, and leads in Queensland
  Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
  
  Jacinda Ardern's NZ Labour Party scores a resounding election win, while the ACT government is comfortably returned.
  
  
• United States’ standing wanes on Lowy Asia power index
  Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
  
  According to the Lowy Institute's Asia Power Index, the United States has registered the largest fall in relative regional power of any country in the Indo-Pacific during the last year.
  
  
• Blunders aside, most Australians believe state premiers have been effective leaders during pandemic
  Samuel Wilson, Swinburne University of Technology; Jason Pallant, Swinburne University of Technology; Sylvia T. Gray, Swinburne University of Technology; Timothy Colin Bednall, Swinburne University of Technology; Vlad Demsar, Swinburne University of Technology
  
  New research shows WA Premier Mark McGowan has been rated highest in terms of leadership for the greater good, while Victorian leader Dan Andrews has surprisingly held steady through the second wave.
  
  
• VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on ICAC, Chris Eccles, and the Queensland election
  Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
  
  University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics.
  

Science + Technology

• Hey Google … what movie should I watch today? How AI can affect our decisions
  TaeWoo Kim, University of Technology Sydney
  
  Leading tech companies are increasingly using AI to influence our behaviour. But how persuasive do we find virtual assistants?
  
  
• Apple’s iPhone 12 comes without a charger: a smart waste-reduction move, or clever cash grab?
  Michael Cowling, CQUniversity Australia; Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia
  
  Apple's newest release comes without a wall charger and earpods. While the shift could reduce the company's carbon footprint, users shifting to wireless charging will use more energy.
  

Education

• Writing needs to be taught and practised. Australian schools are dropping the focus too early
  Claire Wyatt-Smith, Australian Catholic University; Christine Jennifer Jackson, Australian Catholic University
  
  A survey of NSW teachers shows there is an emphasis on explicitly teaching writing in the early school years. But the amount of time spent teaching writing dips in the middle years.
  

Cities

• COVID spurred action on rough sleepers but greater homelessness challenges lie ahead
  Hal Pawson, UNSW; Cameron Parsell, The University of Queensland
  
  Australia found shelter for more than 33,000 rough sleepers and other homeless people during the pandemic, but a coming surge in homelessness demands a comprehensive national housing strategy.
  
  
• How’s your life under lockdown? Tweets tell the tale of how neighbourhoods compare
  Alexa Gower, Monash University; Carl Grodach, Monash University; Dickson Lukose, Monash University; Geoff Webb, Monash University; Liton Kamruzzaman, Monash University
  
  The differences in sentiment in areas of high and low neighbourhood amenity have been clear under Melbourne's tough COVID restrictions. It's further evidence of the impacts of inequity on well-being.
  

Health + Medicine

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  Philippa Martyr, University of Western Australia
  
  Every time you pop an aspirin, thank the German chemist Hoffmann and not Hippocrates.
  
  
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  Hassan Vally, La Trobe University
  
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  Todd E. Caissie, Rutgers University
  
  After her win in 396 BC, Kyniska erected a statue of herself, reading: 'I am the only woman in all Greece who won this crown.'
  

Business + Economy

• Virgin sacrifice: boardroom bloodletting signals a classic private-equity hijacking
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  In pushing out Virgin Australia's chief executive Paul Scurrah, new owner Bain Capital has signalled more cost-cutting is on the cards.
  
  
• COVID won’t kill populism, even though populist leaders have handled the crisis badly
  Nicholas Gruen, University of Technology Sydney
  
  The forces propelling the fast-foodism of politics are well entrenched.
  

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still
pissed off
that the central coast/aka woy woy, i think, NSW Au PELICANS
USED TO try and nick,my Sunday feeesh and cheeeps, grrrrrr
in natuall newspaper duh
'
ps
f'kn Aussies talking shit,on the news,
and
not even pissed FFS

Aussie peliczn

feesh and cheeps in newspaper

 

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17 travellers from NZ who landed in Sydney caught entering Melbourne
3 minutes ago
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Seventeen passengers from New Zealand who travelled to Sydney under the trans-Tasman bubble arrangements have been caught entering Melbourne.

A security guard outside the departures area area of the Sydney International Airport in Sydney (file photo). Photo: AFP

The ABC understands the passengers flew to Sydney and got a connecting to flight to Melbourne.

Melbourne is currently not

blatant disrespect
jail then/deport them,never to return
dislike how Ausb m is hanling tyhings,but no need for that
doubt our govt would/should be concerned for them,on our election day

17 travellers from NZ who landed in Sydney caught entering Melbourne

FFS
read the fine print ffs2, rbkwp
making rash off the cuff statements,again

it does seem the Australian Commonwealth federal govt,was at fault,for not informing,once again i cant be sure of that,there states

APOLOGIES KIWI TRAVELERS

SEEMS 4 F'KN DAYS LATER

it comes out in the news/media,that kiwi travelers are indeed allowed to travel to 'whereever they want'
on arrival into Australia


in staying that,it is there responsibility to observe state laws,so they did make a mistake in that

ps
political transparency,what they all continually rave on about,trying to convince/bullshit to us,in action

 

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Here's the reason America probably won’t ever have compulsory voting
In the historic elections of 2016 and 2018, roughly half of eligible Americans choose to have their say. What would happen if the rest of the United States joined them?

well,we dont have it here in NZ and i agree,for our country

 

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Kurt Russell Is Santa Claus (Again) in 'The Christmas Chronicles 2' Trailer
Hot Santa is coming back to Netflix!


GO KURT
admire those we have shared life with huh

 

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geeesus
cant understand how any/many Australians
tune in/listen/believe in,that ANDREWS VICTORIAS STATE PREMIER

an entire year of manipulating your lives/millions of lives
men,or mice
bloody disgusting

 

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coxs plate saturday
incl grand final AFC ,given to QLDr f or there elections duh/by VIC/Au

NO SYMPATHY

you f'kn mugs n idiots Aus

like Trumpelstilskin
ya'all lve ANDREWS our state premier,too much huh

live with it ya'all

 

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BRIEFING
South Australia is the latest state to officially allow New Zealand travellers, as it joins the trans-Tasman travel bubble

rightly
so
UNLOCK YOUR BORDERS FOR YOUR OWN CITIZENS AS WELL,all you bloody dictator state premiers

think some/many of your citizens are having a great life being paid/not
working,wait till the money runs out
idiots

South Australia is the latest state to officially allow New Zealand travellers, as it joins the trans-Tasman travel bubble

 

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BORING NZ
starting to talk 'FEAR F'KN SHIT'
ADDED WITH THE USUAL '.complacency ' keyword

doesent take much to stir everyone up

we know of most things likely to happen FFS

repeat repeat repeat = PARANOIA


cant stand these kid sounding voices proclaiming the same ole shit,we have known since jan/feb

 

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LIFE AND LIVING IS ABSOLUTE CRAP @ THE MOMENT,in case you did not notice
NZ even

yesterday BIG HEADLINES by a NZ media source
pretend/startled hesdlines'fear' ..... obviiously referring to CV

TODAY,ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL,by the same media source
no apologie,no nothin

i think of all the shit,other bigger countries
USA/UK/Australia,put there people thru
coiuld imagine several million Kiwis alarmed' with yesterdays 'false
alarm'
like the weather forecasts,SELDOM F'KN HAPPENS

ALARMIST SOCIETY 2020
HUMANITY DESERVES ALL THE CRAP WE GET
and us adults,yet again,instilling it in youngsters/our fuiture generations

SHAMEFUL
weve not progressed/backwards socities
yes'

 

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shoot,the prisoner huh,D'anl,nearly lost his life
damn,no virus s rampant those days,was there

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making America free'
geee
when men were men,what dang happened