MaybeTop8
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I'm all for the audit. Wiz won't be paying anywhere near the same percentage as paye employees.
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MaybeTop8
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This is the right. This is who they are.
The growing fascism in New Zealand. Would be nice to see our righties on here call this out too.
We are witnessing this right now.
culture-centered.blogspot.com
The growing fascism in New Zealand. Would be nice to see our righties on here call this out too.
We are witnessing this right now.
How a Far-Right Network Took Down New Zealand's Broadcasting Watchdog
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
juju
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I mean I'm not dumb enough to relentlessly trying and make this point over and over and over to maybe top 8.
You and the wizard should get a room - you can tell him he's a positive successful entrepreneur...
and he can tell you your the best ever NRL Referee Fan Club president & a NRL master tactician head coach in waiting...
Ah now it's the change your claim move.
MaybeTop8
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I'm picking you used to de-wing flies as a child. You're sure the life of the party now.Ah now it's the change your claim move.
That's a long way of saying you don't advocate for that. Well done. Good to see we agree.
BabylonPink
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He took his tourist trap with 4 employees , then doubled the size.
Making they're jobs probably harder and the tourist trap less supervised and safe.
All in the name of profit.
Let's audit wiz.
Lie, defame, deflect.
MaybeTop8
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You need to see someone about this repetition issue
Ironic post of the year?
MaybeTop8
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Inronic moronic
Thars a massive step for you. Admitting that about your posting style. Great progress
John Nick
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Be very careful You will have to get past his little pimp first.
BabylonPink
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You talking about SJ7?Be very careful You will have to get past his little pimp first.
wizard of Tauranga
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Been audited before. Nothing to hide. Not underpaying my taxes
Proud to contribute to our health, education and social services.
Now from left field, if you work 80 hours a week, should you deserve to retire before people working 40 hour weeks!
wizard of Tauranga
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You have some issues about me bro. It must be hard looking at the world with a negative light all the time. Get outside and get sun fresh air and sunshine sometimes
My tourist trap became the biggest, leading and highest rated (Google review) attraction of its type in New Zealand.
Hereβs a hint. Aim to do things exceptional and the money is just a bye product. Profit driven is short term thinking.
BabylonPink
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I'm sure lazer tag or whatever lame thing it is will be an amazing legacy bro.You have some issues about me bro. It must be hard looking at the world with a negative light all the time. Get outside and get sun fresh air and sunshine sometimes
My tourist trap became the biggest, leading and highest rated (Google review) attraction of its type in New Zealand.
Hereβs a hint. Aim to do things exceptional and the money is just a bye product. Profit driven is short term thinking.
MaybeTop8
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This coalition have set a whole generation back.
Worst government ever.
An unnecessarily extended recession by poor economic decisions and mismanagement.
Then in true tory fashion double down on those less fortunate
www.nzherald.co.nz
Unemployment in Auckland rose to 6.3%, with youth unemployment at 18.7%.
Nationally, 23.5% of young MΔori aged 15-24 are unemployed.
The underutilisation rate for young people is 23%, highlighting struggles in finding sufficient work.
The top-line unemployment rate last week didnβt make much of a headline.
Officially, it was down from 5.4% to 5.3% in the first quarter β but with caveats around changes in the size of the labour force and expectations that the worst of the Iran war fallout is still to come.
Naturally, the Government claimed this as good news.
But you didnβt have to dig too deeply into the latest unemployment data to find some shocking numbers.
And if, as most economists think, weβre going to see further deterioration as businesses deal with the pain of the oil shock, then we have a big problem.
Unemployment in Auckland, New Zealandβs largest job market, was at 6.3% β up from 5.4% for the same period a year ago.
Youth unemployment was much worse.
In the Auckland region, 18.7% of people aged 15-24 are unemployed.
Tragically but somewhat predictably, the figures for MΔori unemployment make sobering reading.
At a national level, almost a quarter (23.5%) of young MΔori (aged 15-24) are unemployed.
In recent years, the raw numbers of jobless in the youth category have been relatively low because more young people have opted to stay in school or go back to further training.
The unemployment rate is based on the cutely named Neet rate (those βnot in youth, not in employment, education, or trainingβ).
That rate had been climbing as the unemployment rate had risen over the past few years.
Thatβs a good thing, right? It means a better-educated workforce and more opportunities in the long term.
I remember writing that this would pay off when these kids finished their studies and came out into an improved job market.
But the disturbing thing in the latest labour market release was that the Neet number has started to rise again.
People canβt stay in school forever.
In the March 2026 quarter, the proportion of people aged 15-24 who were not in employment, education, or training was 14.4%, compared with 13.3% in the December 2025 quarter.
That suggests more young people are finishing their training courses, coming out of school or uni and struggling to get work.
Are things really worse for this generation?
In the style of Monty Pythonβs Four Yorkshiremen sketch (βYou think you had it tough...β), Iβve always been prone to pointing out that the unemployment rate peaked at about 11% in 1992*.
Thatβs just as my generation came out into the workforce.
But Iβm increasingly of the view that changes in the way we work have complicated comparisons with that era.
I think the casualisation of the workforce in the past 30 years, the so-called gig economy, minimises the size of the current problem.
These days, far more people are self-employed, or on short-term contracts, freelancing, or even working more than one part-time job.
They donβt count as unemployed if they receive payment for as little as one hourβs work a week.
When times get tough (as they have) and their paid hours drop to levels that make life miserable, they only count as βunderemployedβ.
We get a much better sense of how many people in the economy are struggling with a lack of work by looking at the underutilisation rate.
That combines the unemployed and underemployed numbers.
The underutilisation rate in the year to March was 13%.
For young people, it was much worse.
It was 23% for those aged 20-24 and a shocking 50% for those 15-19 (although thatβs probably a statistically smaller set given the Neet rate).
Overall, it looks to me that reality for young people now is that it is as hard or harder to find enough work than it was in the early 1990s.
So what was Generation Xβs response to the lousy job market?
Well, a lot of us gave up looking. We joined what was colloquially known around my way as βJim Bolgerβs surf teamβ.
There were also some great rock and roll bands largely funded by the unemployment benefit, which effectively doubled as a kind of arts grant in those days.
Iβm pretty sure being on the dole isnβt as fun as it used to be.
The days of cheap inner-city flats are long gone.
Drinking in pubs and bars costs a fortune.
Benefit rates for single people under 25 are much less generous β presumably in order to incentivise people to look harder for work.
Perhaps there is some logic to that.
But regardless, what we can say is that young people face the highest unemployment rates, receive the lowest benefit rates, and now face tighter eligibility rules β all simultaneously.
From November this year, those aged under 20 wonβt be eligible for a benefit at all if their parents earn a miserable combined annual income above $65,500.
In the past few months, the big brain drain of Kiwis heading offshore long-term has started to ease.
There were hopes this would see our net migration rate lift in a positive way β more population means more economic growth, more tax revenue, a lift for the housing market etc.
Another surge in unemployment, and youth unemployment in particular, will jeopardise that part of the recovery.
To put it bluntly: if you donβt have strong parental support, good luck in Australia.
As a footnote to all this gloom and nostalgia, I should say that a bunch of mates and I, who were knocking around together in the early 90s, are catching up for one of our semi-regular gatherings this weekend.
Most of us spent some time on the dole, despite (or perhaps because of) our non-vocational arts degrees. We did some rubbish jobs, we headed to London and eventually we went back and did more training.
In the mid-90s the economy recovered, we got our act together and life wasnβt nearly as apocalyptic as we used to predict in our late-night rants at the time.
We all did okay in the end.
Yes, we all came from middle-class backgrounds and you could argue we were privileged and all that.
But that puts us right in the zone for the young Kiwis currently leaving the country en masse.
Hopefully, New Zealandβs job market has another comeback in it.
And then one day, this current generation of school leavers will catch up in their virtual reality pubs or neural network chatrooms (or whatever theyβll be doing then) and laugh and complain about how tough they had it when they were young.
Worst government ever.
An unnecessarily extended recession by poor economic decisions and mismanagement.
Then in true tory fashion double down on those less fortunate
Liam Dann: Tougher than the 90s? Why the job hunt for young people is worse than it looks
OPINION: We should be shocked by youth unemployment
Unemployment in Auckland rose to 6.3%, with youth unemployment at 18.7%.
Nationally, 23.5% of young MΔori aged 15-24 are unemployed.
The underutilisation rate for young people is 23%, highlighting struggles in finding sufficient work.
The top-line unemployment rate last week didnβt make much of a headline.
Officially, it was down from 5.4% to 5.3% in the first quarter β but with caveats around changes in the size of the labour force and expectations that the worst of the Iran war fallout is still to come.
Naturally, the Government claimed this as good news.
But you didnβt have to dig too deeply into the latest unemployment data to find some shocking numbers.
And if, as most economists think, weβre going to see further deterioration as businesses deal with the pain of the oil shock, then we have a big problem.
Unemployment in Auckland, New Zealandβs largest job market, was at 6.3% β up from 5.4% for the same period a year ago.
Youth unemployment was much worse.
In the Auckland region, 18.7% of people aged 15-24 are unemployed.
Tragically but somewhat predictably, the figures for MΔori unemployment make sobering reading.
At a national level, almost a quarter (23.5%) of young MΔori (aged 15-24) are unemployed.
In recent years, the raw numbers of jobless in the youth category have been relatively low because more young people have opted to stay in school or go back to further training.
The unemployment rate is based on the cutely named Neet rate (those βnot in youth, not in employment, education, or trainingβ).
That rate had been climbing as the unemployment rate had risen over the past few years.
Thatβs a good thing, right? It means a better-educated workforce and more opportunities in the long term.
I remember writing that this would pay off when these kids finished their studies and came out into an improved job market.
But the disturbing thing in the latest labour market release was that the Neet number has started to rise again.
People canβt stay in school forever.
In the March 2026 quarter, the proportion of people aged 15-24 who were not in employment, education, or training was 14.4%, compared with 13.3% in the December 2025 quarter.
That suggests more young people are finishing their training courses, coming out of school or uni and struggling to get work.
Are things really worse for this generation?
In the style of Monty Pythonβs Four Yorkshiremen sketch (βYou think you had it tough...β), Iβve always been prone to pointing out that the unemployment rate peaked at about 11% in 1992*.
Thatβs just as my generation came out into the workforce.
But Iβm increasingly of the view that changes in the way we work have complicated comparisons with that era.
I think the casualisation of the workforce in the past 30 years, the so-called gig economy, minimises the size of the current problem.
These days, far more people are self-employed, or on short-term contracts, freelancing, or even working more than one part-time job.
They donβt count as unemployed if they receive payment for as little as one hourβs work a week.
When times get tough (as they have) and their paid hours drop to levels that make life miserable, they only count as βunderemployedβ.
We get a much better sense of how many people in the economy are struggling with a lack of work by looking at the underutilisation rate.
That combines the unemployed and underemployed numbers.
The underutilisation rate in the year to March was 13%.
For young people, it was much worse.
It was 23% for those aged 20-24 and a shocking 50% for those 15-19 (although thatβs probably a statistically smaller set given the Neet rate).
Overall, it looks to me that reality for young people now is that it is as hard or harder to find enough work than it was in the early 1990s.
So what was Generation Xβs response to the lousy job market?
Well, a lot of us gave up looking. We joined what was colloquially known around my way as βJim Bolgerβs surf teamβ.
There were also some great rock and roll bands largely funded by the unemployment benefit, which effectively doubled as a kind of arts grant in those days.
Iβm pretty sure being on the dole isnβt as fun as it used to be.
The days of cheap inner-city flats are long gone.
Drinking in pubs and bars costs a fortune.
Benefit rates for single people under 25 are much less generous β presumably in order to incentivise people to look harder for work.
Perhaps there is some logic to that.
But regardless, what we can say is that young people face the highest unemployment rates, receive the lowest benefit rates, and now face tighter eligibility rules β all simultaneously.
From November this year, those aged under 20 wonβt be eligible for a benefit at all if their parents earn a miserable combined annual income above $65,500.
In the past few months, the big brain drain of Kiwis heading offshore long-term has started to ease.
There were hopes this would see our net migration rate lift in a positive way β more population means more economic growth, more tax revenue, a lift for the housing market etc.
Another surge in unemployment, and youth unemployment in particular, will jeopardise that part of the recovery.
To put it bluntly: if you donβt have strong parental support, good luck in Australia.
As a footnote to all this gloom and nostalgia, I should say that a bunch of mates and I, who were knocking around together in the early 90s, are catching up for one of our semi-regular gatherings this weekend.
Most of us spent some time on the dole, despite (or perhaps because of) our non-vocational arts degrees. We did some rubbish jobs, we headed to London and eventually we went back and did more training.
In the mid-90s the economy recovered, we got our act together and life wasnβt nearly as apocalyptic as we used to predict in our late-night rants at the time.
We all did okay in the end.
Yes, we all came from middle-class backgrounds and you could argue we were privileged and all that.
But that puts us right in the zone for the young Kiwis currently leaving the country en masse.
Hopefully, New Zealandβs job market has another comeback in it.
And then one day, this current generation of school leavers will catch up in their virtual reality pubs or neural network chatrooms (or whatever theyβll be doing then) and laugh and complain about how tough they had it when they were young.
