Are you suggesting that we do not ban terrorists groups as despite the ban there are still terrorists in NZ?
However there needs to be reform to deal with an issue that has been growing and has been fuelled by 501 deportees.
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Ah, the poor hard done by 501's.
Who can forget the plaintive bleating from Jacinda and others in 2017, when Aussie put up the hoist to tip the dump rats back where they came from?
The poor split families left behind, etc etc.
Never one word about personal responsibility, and consequences of actions & choices that 501's made.
Here we are 4 years later, realising what these 'poor, under priveleged' people are really like.
See how they 'thank' us?
I am saying it's easy to spout mantras 'lock them up', 'ban gangs' etc - but close to impossible to draft laws. That's why I asked for the definition of a gang. Are boy scouts included? Rotery? Round Table?
As has often been pointed out the NZ Police are a gang. Do you want them banned?
Hmm - been there frequently. I remember amazing food, colourful markets, a quite good orchestra, three major and quite different ethnicities and religions living together in peace, two outstanding universities, a nice and friendly Aikido club and amazing architecture and lots of green stuff including even bush walks and interesting nature reserves.
Quite funny how differently different people can see this amazing city ... are you sure you have been in Singapore?
Quite a bizarre post. You may have missed the conspiracy and repeat offences part of my original post? Police are subject to a complaints process, a Minister of Police and various reviews and commissions. THere are various ways to oversee and scrutinise them to prevent criminal activity becoming endemic. Obviously every organisation gets the occasional bad egg…it does not mean every organisation has criminality at its core.
Sounds like a great place to work? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN23G1PG
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Sterile, colourless and boring in my experience, the least interesting part of Asia. Then of course some people go to Australia and find Canberra attractive. But if you really like Singapore, pop over to Salt Lake City. It would blow your mind, it's so horrible. And while I've never been to Brasillia I'm told it's even worse - internationally recognised as the worst of all the planned cities. You'd probably love it!
Vancouver looks great.
If I had the misfortune of being born in America I'd probably live in washington state just to be able to easily able to pop over there.
Well, lets face it - lots of saddening stories from migrants with valid NZ visas which our loving and kind government decided to hang out to dry ... and to destroy their families and livelihoods. Mothers separated from their children, families not allowed back to their home, partners with both valid visas separated, and people with valid work to residence visas getting a kick in the butt from our government. I guess they deserve not better, why would anybody trust and rely on these liars?
The Labour government turned NZ into a xenophobe and racist place many migrants will never ever consider again as a future home - and our unkind anti immigration minister made sure that many migrants with absolutely crucial skills had to leave New Zealand during the last 18 months. The idiot even got rid of GP's, vets and nurses - just to demonstrate his ignorance and laziness. Just too difficult to move his butt in order to do something for his people and for the people whom we used to promise (well, printed on the visa) that NZ being a good choice, I suppose?
Oops - you were talking about New Zealand and our inept government, were you?
Referring to Singapore ... well, one of our boys lives and works there. He has a great and well paid job at the university and actually had to travel several times last year overseas (between Singapore and Taiwan). While travelling there is admittedly at the moment more difficult than it used to be before Covid (Singapore used to be one of the easiest countries for travellers ... I remember leaving the airport typically 30 to 45 minutes after touchdown - and I don't have a Singaporean passport) - he always managed to get in a reasonable time frame out and into the country ... a breeze compared to our absolutely disastrous MIQ experience in NZ. In Singapore it is quarantine at home, and hey - the number of their Covid deaths is quite similar to NZ :):
You really should not point fingers to others when you are supporting one of the least effective and most xenophobe governments we ever had in New Zealand. Qualified people are not really trying anymore to move into NZ. I guess why would anybody with skills in demand try to get into a country which makes it so difficult to get in and which is so happy and careless to break on a whim the commitments it used to make towards migrants?
It might take decades for New Zealand's reputation to recover after the irresponsible Labour government destroyed it.
Meanwhile, Australia has opened up its doors to not just Kiwis (first preference) but to other nationalities as well in the essential services.
So sobering to observe in the last couple of years, 6 doctors (of whom 4 are specialists) I know have migrated to Australia - a blood specialist, a plastic surgeon, an anesthetist, a radiologist & his GP wife and a cardiologist. All educated and trained in NZ (save the GP).
You sound exactly like one of my ex-colleagues when we used to go to Singapore for our regional conferences. Boring as hell etc etc to her especially compared to the conferences in Bangkok and Hong Kong.
So one weekend, I asked one of the Singaporean attendees to take us all out of the city centre and out to the 'suburbs' where Singaporeans actually live and socialize. She was absolutely blown away by the various places we visited, especially the ethnic places - the variety, the colors and the friendliness of the people (almost all speak English), the food, the shopping, the clubs where we hung out until the wee hours - and the complete feeling of safety at all times. There is nothing quite like being in a club being served great food, great drinks, mingling with the locals and listening (& dancing) to a Filipino band playing. She has never ever described Singapore as boring since then.
If you want boring, try Auckland city from a tourist perspective!
NZers are the first preference? Is that because with special category Kiwis they can tax them and then deny to them the full range of government services - hoping that if their luck runs out, they will have to return across the Tasman to access help from the NZ Government?
Could well be except that the Aussies do dangle some extremely attractive inducements to entice NZers they want to cross over.
The doctors I mentioned got all their relocation expenses and all other expenses (rent, insurance, transport and a monthly food allowance) paid for the first year (including for 4 weeks’ holidays), double their NZ pay for half the working hours and assistance with getting dual citizenship after 5 years in Australia.
Let’s be blunt - our hospital system will collapse but for the migrant doctors & nurses from other countries.
The mood of the boardroom under any administration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM
The NZH should run a broader range of stories for the perpective of home buyers rather than investors.
Even the WP owned by bezos has stories about the pandora papers involving many NZ trusts.
Well, the ethnic places I have visited in Singapore are places where Indian people, Malayan people and Chinese people live ... and they all brought the best of their culture with them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060908...tle_india.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Singapore
Have to admit however that I got in Singapore as well the best Bavarian pork roast (at the Brotzeit) I ever had .. which means something given that I grew up in Bavaria :):
https://www.chope.co/singapore-resta...tzeitlocations
Quite funny - despite haven been often to Singapore I can't really remember lots of British Expats (well, you see some in the Museum they built to remember the British surrender against the Japanese :p) (the former Ford factory: https://www.visitsingapore.com/en_au...-ford-factory/) - maybe the Expats only live in some really boring parts of Singapore which I haven't yet seen and they avoid the interesting parts? Typical Brits ...
I shouldn’t read your post at dinner time…as I wait for the vege pasta meal too…
I remember as a child watching Tenko on TV. The last series was set in Raffles Hotel, so I had to have afternoon tea there when I got to visit. Back to the horrors facing the Labour Govt, I suppose…
Schuhplattler :t_up: followed by this...:drool:
yum yum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZoxizWozCg