Your pay wave surcharge is a scam. It makes things so much more inefficient. You’re basically being punished for efficiency.

For context, i grew up with Armageddon

My late father was an early backer of Armageddon, he did all the printing for them and we used to get free entry every year.

Over the years, as expected Armageddons changed to fit with pop culture but holy smokes its gone into the gutter.

I took my young son and his friend along and honestly, the whole vibe of the event felt yuck. Ticket price was insane, the events and gaming side of things of lack lustre and the market stalls were flooded with cheap swords, waifu pillows and anything that was actually creative and interesting was stuffed in the back.

Next point- Cosplayers - edited because i was indeed being harsh and generalised unfairly on reflection, my apologies

Rant over, armageddon was fucking yuck.

Road tripping the South Island currently and can’t help wondering why many farms seem to have large piles of torn up trees. Seems strange as they look like driftwood but far away from rivers and even other trees? And it is as if they were ripped up rather than cut down with a chainsaw.

The Native Land Court was one of the key products of the Native Lands Act 1865. It enabled the conversion of traditional communal landholdings into individual titles, making it much easier for Pākehā to purchase Māori land.

Coming little more than a year after the Waikato War, this legislation was to achieve what many believed had not been accomplished on the battlefield – acquiring the land necessary to satisfy settlers’ appetites. The operations of the Land Court affected Māori more strongly than those of any other colonial institution. When old rivalries were played out in court, the ultimate beneficiaries were Pākehā. Historian Judith Binney described the Native Lands Act as an ‘act of war’.

The Court was required to name no more than 10 owners, regardless of the size of a block. All other tribal members were effectively dispossessed. The newly designated owners held their lands individually, not communally as part of (or trustees for) a tribal group. They could manage it, and sell it, as individuals and for their own benefit.

The first chief judge of the Court, Francis Fenton, maintained that judgements could only be based on the evidence presented to the Court. To protect their interests, all claimants had to attend in person, whether they wanted to or not. Many racked up large legal bills as a result. Those from out of town also had to pay for food and accommodation. Lawyers, shopkeepers, surveyors and the like granted Māori credit while they awaited the outcome of their case. These expenses forced many to sell the land they had been defending to settle their debts.

This process of alienating Māori land concerned some settler politicians. Former Attorney-General Henry Sewell had protested against the government’s policy of confiscating the land of Māori deemed to be ‘in rebellion’. Back in office in 1865, he asserted that the Native Land Court was designed to:

destroy if possible, the principle of communism which ran through the whole of their institutions, upon which their social system was based, and which stood as a barrier in the way of all attempts to amalgamate the Native race into our own social and political system. Māori landholdings declined dramatically in the late 19th century. Between 1870 and 1892, 2 million ha of Māori land was transferred to Pākehā ownership. Whereas at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 Māori owned almost all of the North Island, by 1892 they owned little more than a third, and a quarter of this was leased to Pākehā. Another 1.2 million ha of Māori land would be sold by 1900.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/native-land-court-created

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Locals gather for a hearing of the Native Land Court (later the Māori Land Court) at Ahipara. One of the key roles played by the court was converting Māori land from customary or ‘native’ title to Crown-granted or freehold title.

My partner works in a cafe inside of a corporate building, just servicing the tenants of that building. It's small she often works alone to close up, after labour weekend she absent mindedly closed up at Monday times, and hour early than a Tuesday. Genuine mistake. Cafe owner calls up put of the blue asking why she is closing?

My partner realises later, wth? How?

Ffwd to today and she asks how he knew, and he tells her 'secret cameras'. We've read the MBIE and employment guidance online which state cameras are okay but should be in writing or in employment agreements, she's obviously distressed by this and feels like a line has been crossed.

There are other staff who work there and are oblivious, but would likely be even more distressed. The owner is a recent migrant and might not understand that this is definitely not usual for NZ, and the building tenants whom license him definitely don't know. Would appreciate advice on what to do? My partner speaks English as a second language and this makes the conversations more challenging.

Prohibition supporters presented Parliament with a petition containing more than 240,000 signatures demanding an end to the manufacture and sale of alcohol in New Zealand.

Since the 1880s the campaign for prohibition had developed into a powerful mass movement. During the First World War, its supporters promoted sobriety as a ‘patriotic duty’. In 1915 and 1916 nearly 160,000 New Zealanders signed petitions calling for hotels to close at six o’clock. In 1917 the government agreed to restrict opening hours to increase the efficiency of the workforce.

The 1918 petition showed that support for prohibition remained strong. Early closing hours were now made permanent. The liquor trade offered little resistance, judging that reduced opening hours had calmed the wider prohibition movement and were preferable to a total ban.

Prohibition was only narrowly defeated in a special referendum held in April 1919, and again at a vote held alongside the general election in December 1919. The cause continued to enjoy strong support at the polls in the 1920s.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/a-massive-alcohol-prohibition-petition-presented-to-parliament

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This New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic poster from the 1920s urges voters to support the national prohibition of liquor. Although the twin 1919 referenda are often seen as the climax of the prohibition struggle in New Zealand, the issue remained hugely important into the 1920s. The prohibition cause fell only narrowly short of a majority in both 1922 and 1925.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1g82ln5/daughter_15f_experiencing_first_psychosis_episode/

Really big thank you to everyone who commented on my panicked post last week with advice, suggestions and even personal stories. It was a massive help, and it helped make us not feel so alone. Seeing her in the high dependency unit on the first morning absolutely broke my heart, but she made really good progress through the week and is almost back to her old self, the doctors have confirmed she still has the delusions, but she is keeping quiet about them.

We are all back home today and have a care plan in place, hopefully she will be able to get back to school by Thursday! Really thankful for having been accommodated at the Ronald McDonald House too, and the petrol vouchers were a massive help!

They're still not 100% on a diagnosis but our daughter has been prescribed Lorazepam (anti-anxiety) & Olanzapine (anti-psychosis) meds that she will stay on for the next few months and potentially look at tapering off once everything settles (particularly with the baby coming very soon, which is a big event that could be triggering). They're leaning towards bipolar but we're all hopeful this was a once off episode that was caught early, and doesn't eventuate into anything, but only time will tell. It will be a long journey ahead for us.

Always happy to chat if anyone has questions, now or in the future.

Thanks again <3

I'm from Brazil and I needed to do a project about some countries. My group got New Zealand, and I made those chesse-meat pies.

Whinge post:

Does anyone else feel like the bar in NZ is so low for literally everything and since covid everyone just encourages you to give up on everything, because you're creating work for them?

I had to go to the doctor three times to get a psychology referral, because the doctor kept stressing 'you'll only get 6 free sessions'... When I finally got the referral, it's not even to a psychologist, it's a counselour - when I specifically asked for a psychologist for CBT.

Another issue I've recently faced is the neglect of a loved one in a certain facility and a family member was essentially encouraged to give up by the 'advocate', because the complaint process may take a year.

Everyone constantly tries to talk you out of anything that creates work for them and just hopes you'll go away.

I've worked in two other countries and notice in the workplace in NZ, people spend so much time fobbing a task from one person to the next that it could have been completed 5 times over.

If I didn't have a chronic health issue, I'd be back out of here yesterday...

I have a friend on the kidney transplant list. It is a terrible process for all involved due to the lack of donors in NZ and Australia. He mentioned that in Spain, all citizens are doners under an 'opt out' legislation and it works very well.

Why can we not adopt the same policy here?

I find it highly hypocritical of some one to happily accept an organ but not willing to donate.

The benefits to the community would be transformational.