That the House of Representatives repeal Section 81(1) of the Local Electoral Act 2001, which prohibits scrutineers from overseeing early ballot processing in local elections, and adopt provisions similar to Section 174C(2) of the Electoral Act 1993, which allows such oversight in national elections
Petition reason
Section 80(4) of the Local Electoral Act allows voting documents to be fully processed before voting closes; however, Section 81(1) prohibits scrutineer oversight during this time. In 2022, 83% of voting documents in Auckland, 90% in Christchurch, and 80% in the Far North were received and fully or partly processed before polling day. We firmly believe that repealing Section 81(1) before the 2025 local government elections is imperative to uphold the transparency mandated by Section 4(1)(c)(iv).
Comment by Alisha: It’s hard to believe, but after two months of negotiations with the Petitions Office, the important petition is now open for signatures. Over the phone, the clerk described it as a strong and much-needed petition. However, they avoided using terms like ‘processed’ or ‘counted,’ insisting instead on the word ‘received.’
After persistent discussions, we successfully demonstrated that, in practice, ballots are processed without scrutineers, not merely received—raising significant concerns about the transparency and validity of local elections since 2001, when Helen Clark’s Local Electoral Act was signed into law, prohibiting the presence of scrutineers during the processing of early votes.
‘Global Boiling’ weather doesn’t necessarily make landscape prettier, but here in quite rugged terrain the snow does.
“The Ōito Line(大糸線, Ōito-sen) is a local railway line connecting Matsumoto Station(松本駅) in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, with Itoigawa Station(糸魚川駅) in Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture. The northern section between Minami-Otari Station (南小谷駅, Otari Village, Azumino District) and Itoigawa Station is operated by JR West. The northern section of the Ōito Line runs along the Himekawa River, offering stunning scenic views, including beautiful snowy landscapes in winter.”
President Trump participated in a virtual meeting at the Davos World Economic Forum and basically told them all that their globalist agenda is now non grata in the United States. It was beautiful.
If you’ve followed the WEF meeting agendas in the last 5-10 years, you would know that it has promoted war, censorship, and shrinking global business with cumbersome regulatory policies in the name of the green agenda. President Trump said that U.S. is not interested in this. He called it “the Green New Scam.”
He said that the U.S. has begun a “revolution of common sense” and then touted his recent executive orders to “save free speech,” focus on energy to grow businesses, and end the “discriminatory diversity equity and inclusion nonsense.”
He was asked about European Union regulations and basically told the room that they were an abomination for economic growth. Fact. He said that the only people who win from this are the consultants and told the room to stop hiring them. LOL!
He said that he intends to lower the corporate tax rate for businesses that manufacture in the U.S. to 15%, which is the opposite of what President Biden did. President Biden pressured other nations to bring their tax rate UP in order to avoid the “race to the bottom” so that companies would not move out of the U.S.
He spoke against the fines and lawsuits slapped on Apple and Facebook and called it an unfair tax. Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that the Biden administration was “the tip of the spear attacking its companies.” President Trump is making it clear that he will protect American companies abroad so foreign leaders should think twice before attacking.
The audience looked stunned and the applause was tepid as he dismantled their agenda, point by point. In a similar vein, Argentine president Javier Millei had a similar dismantling message but he delivered it in person. He spoke out about the radical transgender agenda as the agenda of perverts and invited “all mortals of the world to hear the sacred call of freedom.” He said that the “woke mind virus” is a global cancer that must be eradicated. The problem is that most Davos participants have that cancer. So what will they do now? Can someone go check on John Kerry?
Stuff pounces on Trump’s gaffe, then models how far New Zealand literacy has sunk.
Rutherford did this in Britain with British scientists, and Trump may have been referring to the US making the first nuclear fission bombs. Still, it shows how bad some of his advisors are, something he needs to change quickly.
A famous street that has been slammed by visitors as an “absolute embarrassment” may soon be named Scotland’s ugliest eyesore.
The Carbuncle Awards were previously presented by magazine Urban Realm to Scotland’s least-attractive buildings and areas between 2000 and 2015. The awards were discontinued following complaints that they “demonised” struggling working-class communities. However, the controversial awards are poised to make a comeback and among the destinations that have reportedly been shortlisted is an iconic street in Glasgow.
These were built for the general market but no-one wants them and will probably end up being bought for social housing by public agencies.
The contenders in Waikanae in our opinion are: 1. the new ‘Coronation Street’ Utauta Street units; 2. the Marae Lane concrete block wall, and 3. the ‘Barcode’ bridge for the railway over the old SH1.
Our first speaker in 2025 is Otaki MP Tim Costley speaking about his time in the air force. This talk is on Tuesday 4 February.
This coming weekend – 24-25 January – the multi-talented Jan Bolwell is doing a solo mixed-media show on the legendary German film-maker Leni Riefenstahl at the Performing Arts Centre. Well worth getting along to.
In the 1980s, I bought a Casio handheld programmable calculator and amused myself writing routines that solved algebraic equations, but I soon realised that calculators turn off the thinking process.
The ubiquitous use of calculators in schools has since created generations of mathematically deficient graduates. Predictive text, AI assisted writing, and the decline of reading is now doing the same for language. To some extent we have adapted to these concerning side effects of technology, but what if some technology could prevent us from thinking straight? What would be the consequences? Or more to the point, is it already happening?
In November last year we published an article “mRNA ‘Vaccines’, Cognitive Dissonance and our Future Prospects” in which we reported on rises in cancer incidence and the public warnings being sounded by leading UK oncologists about the role of mRNA ‘vaccines’. There has been some pushback. Apparently, some medical authorities are in denial, they say there is no cancer epidemic taking place. What does the latest data tell us: Yes or No?
The other night I wanted to know how many people were developing cancer in Sweden because there were no lockdowns in the country. It is an interesting question for us because recent media reports of sudden cancer tragedies have been blamed on lockdowns which, according to a widely reported narrative, delayed appointments for check-ups and tests at hospitals. Let’s be clear about it, delays could not actually ‘cause’ cancer, only, as the Lancet reports, complicate treatment and affect outcomes.
Sweden didn’t have lockdowns and they are continuing to publish annual cancer incidence data. Google AI Overview informed me that 69,621 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in Sweden in 2017 and then somehow got stuck and started imagining that there were also 69,261 cases in 2016 and 2015. It wasn’t too much of a problem because I never rely on AI suggestions. I go back to the source data. Table 1 has the official numbers of new cancer cases in Sweden by year published by Socialstyrelsen, Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare.
Compared to the average of the pre-pandemic years (2015-2019) when figures remained relatively stable, cancer incidence jumped by 10.9% in 2022 and pushed slightly higher in 2023. In all, it appears there were approximately 20,000 additional cases of cancer over the two years 2022 and 2023 more than you would expect from the historical trend. But it wasn’t due to lockdowns, they didn’t happen in Sweden. So what was the cause? The timing of the rapid increase is indicative and certainly favours Covid ‘vaccines’. 87% of Sweden’s population over the age of 12 received at least one Covid ‘vaccine’ in 2021. It is possible that Covid infection also played a role but far less likely as Covid had its most severe impact in 2020. In any case, the exact relative importance of these two possible factors doesn’t influence an important implication of the figures, both Covid ‘vaccines’ and probably Covid itself came out of biotechnology labs and exposed our internal cellular biology and immunity processes to novel bio-engineered genetic structures.
If Covid ‘vaccines’ are at fault, as some senior UK Oncologists like Dr Angus Dalgleish and Dr James Royle think, (who btw are not conspiracy theorists, a term that is often used to shut down legitimate discussion about valid concerns) the timing also indicates that the speed of post mRNA ‘vaccine’ cancer development qualifies for the epithet ‘turbo’.
I wonder whether Professor Pat Price, oncologist and chair of Radiotherapy UK, or Helen Petousis-Harris, associate professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland, have given any serious thought to the cause of rapidly rising cancer incidence? Causality is not rocket science. The gold standard involves identifying the timing of new elements or sudden changes in diet, behaviour, environmental exposure or medical interventions.
The Swedish data clears up one point, it wasn’t lockdowns. In fact that explanation was never plausible. Delays in testing do not cause cancer, they merely delay treatments which might affect mortality, but not incidence. The figures for 2022 indicate a sudden very large unprecedented rise in cancer incidence. As a result, the list of usual cancer suspects doesn’t apply. In 2021 over a short period of time whole populations did not suddenly begin to eat vastly more junk foods, avoid exercise altogether, ban breastfeeding, or purposely add pesticides to their meals, but almost everyone did get Covid mRNA ‘vaccinated’ in a hurry.
