The Privacy Commissioner and civil-liberties advocates warned the photo licence could become a de facto national identity document even if that was not the stated intention. they said the system risked normalising carrying ID and centralising personal data. Nothing good will come of this.

In 2014 the Privacy Commissioner was concerned www.privacy.org.nz/assets/New-o...?

Privacy advocates at the time warned the photo licence could become a de facto national ID -- for example the then-Privacy Commissioner Bruce Slane. People worried about being stopped on the street by law enforcement demanding papers. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/historic-...?

In 1999, then Transport Minister Maurice Williamson publicly framed the photo driver-licence change as a road-safety measure and used language intended to reassure people it was not intended as a national identity system. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/half...

More importantly, this is legally fraught.
They are legal adults, not children.
Their parents are not, and should not be held, responsible for them.

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From Butthole with Love
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The Man With The Golden Butthole

Okay. So when Tory women or Tory PoC get attacked with prejudiced arguments (eg, policing a woman's clothing), they dislike it in exactly the same way that progressive women and PoC would.
So. Don't do it. It's wrong in all situations, even when attacking people you (and i) hate.

Eh?

This person has a novel double superpower. Electric shock farts and prehensile boobs.

Insurance companies already know what places they wont be willing to insure at reasonable premiums in the next couple of decades. councils have little to do with it.

The Insurance Council has been warning about this for maybe a decade. They already know the individual addresses of each property that will almost certainly be too hard to insure (and therefore impossible to mortgage) in 10 years, 20 years time. Absolute beachfront mansion? Effectively worthless.

this advert appears on the webpage of my local paper here in New Zealand. Who are these people kidding?

Noble sentiment. Good luck getting the Gummint to amend the Charities Act 2005 = can of worms. And you'll need to be clear about what you want them to do. Is it:
(a) remove only Density Church's charitable status? (How?)
(b) remove charitable status from all religious institutions? (Why?)

The "$3 per lunch" metric is a tragic joke.
If we need a cost measure at all, it might be more meaningful to look at the dollars per schoolkid fed at lunchtime.

That's okay. In order to eat the rich, first one must butcher the rich.

Yes.
And yes that’s true.
But if the apologiser believes they did nothing wrong, merely caused a bad result, the words of a demanded apology are meaningless.

Pretty quick for a geopolitical diplomatic social media post, though.
(But yeah the Botany Lobotomy is a Clux)

Asked-for apologies are worthless.

New Zealand reaffirms support for Ukraine after disastrous White House meeting www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...