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news.bbs.nz - planned outage - feb 16 2026

By Kerr Avon on Sun Feb 15 20:15:30 2026

Latest reply by Crash on Mon Mar 2 18:18:17 2026
A way forward for a minnow country facing the collapse of rules-based international trade.

By Crash on Mon Feb 23 17:15:53 2026

Latest reply by marika on Mon Mar 2 05:45:50 2026
The electricity tax: a tax on gereators or users

By Crash on Wed Feb 11 14:26:03 2026

Latest reply by marika on Mon Mar 2 04:16:14 2026
David Seymour Wants Govt To Sell Its Air NZ Shares As Airline Loses Money

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Feb 27 06:02:21 2026

Latest reply by Crash on Sat Feb 28 15:06:46 2026
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Hs/Cfh78=?= Parliament Leaves Xwitter

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Feb 20 06:37:58 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Fri Feb 27 18:51:11 2026
Re: Niggapotumus shits in phone booth

By Anonymous User on Thu Feb 26 22:52:24 2026

Latest reply by phoenix on Fri Feb 27 10:11:26 2026
Mighty Ape flushing itself even further down the toilet

By Your Name on Wed Feb 25 17:20:25 2026

Latest reply by Your Name on Wed Feb 25 17:20:25 2026
Have a think

By Gordon on Wed Feb 25 00:12:10 2026

Latest reply by Gordon on Wed Feb 25 00:12:10 2026
Try again Auckland

By Gordon on Thu Feb 19 04:44:10 2026

Latest reply by BR on Sun Feb 22 05:57:32 2026
That should do it

By Gordon on Fri Feb 13 06:34:55 2026

Latest reply by BR on Wed Feb 18 05:09:48 2026
Astonishing blunder by National.

By Crash on Mon Feb 16 13:59:46 2026

Latest reply by greybeard on Tue Feb 17 10:01:25 2026
Re: Thank goodness for CO2.

By Gordon on Mon Feb 16 03:35:49 2026

Latest reply by Tony on Mon Feb 16 18:24:40 2026
Doing the right thing

By Gordon on Mon Feb 16 03:23:01 2026

Latest reply by Gordon on Mon Feb 16 03:23:01 2026
Why does there have to be a queer in every New Zealand TV series?

By Anonymous User on Wed Feb 11 07:15:33 2026

Latest reply by Ubiquitous on Fri Feb 13 16:30:43 2026
The gas/power tax

By Gordon on Wed Feb 11 21:51:32 2026

Latest reply by Mutley on Fri Feb 13 08:28:17 2026
Will NZ's Election be Stolen?

By wn on Wed Feb 11 01:00:33 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Feb 11 02:56:18 2026
The Malaghan Institute: =?UTF-8?B?TlrigJlz?= Own Bio-Skunkworks

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Feb 10 20:44:41 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Feb 10 20:44:41 2026
Companies Fear The Government Regulators

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Feb 9 01:36:44 2026

Latest reply by Tony on Mon Feb 9 02:30:57 2026
International trade: rules-based and NZ Interests.

By Crash on Sun Feb 8 17:40:29 2026

Latest reply by Crash on Sun Feb 8 17:40:29 2026
Sewage Treatment Failures

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Feb 5 01:53:07 2026

Latest reply by Tony on Fri Feb 6 18:20:58 2026
Re: Waitangi Day

By Mutley on Fri Feb 6 08:47:51 2026

Latest reply by Mutley on Fri Feb 6 08:47:51 2026
Woke gone mad again- Sky to inject Maori into sports commentary.

By Crash on Tue Feb 3 13:18:36 2026

Latest reply by Gordon on Tue Feb 3 06:39:31 2026
Democracy always under attack.

By Tony on Fri Jan 30 19:25:44 2026

Latest reply by Tony on Sun Feb 1 06:10:32 2026
New Zealand declines Donald Trump's invite to join Gaza =?UTF-8?B?4oCcQm9hcmQgb2YgUGVhY2XigJ0=?=

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jan 29 20:29:16 2026

Latest reply by Gordon on Fri Jan 30 00:04:47 2026
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Hs/Cfh78=?= Coming Together Over A Moral, Not A Political, Issue

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jan 29 05:43:11 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jan 29 05:43:11 2026
Grievance politics alive and very unwell!

By Tony on Thu Jan 29 00:11:36 2026

Latest reply by Tony on Thu Jan 29 00:11:36 2026
Re: [NEWS] NZ Post to close another 142 stores

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 27 06:48:21 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 27 22:56:54 2026
=?UTF-8?B?4oCcQ3J1c2hlcuKAnQ==?= Bowing Out

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Jan 28 05:57:40 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Jan 28 05:57:40 2026
New =?UTF-8?B?WmVhbGFuZOKAmXM=?= Own Pork Barrel

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Jan 26 20:51:26 2026

Latest reply by Crash on Tue Jan 27 13:37:28 2026
=?UTF-8?B?4oCcR2V0IFRoZSBEYXRh4oCd?= Link On News Article

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 27 00:15:08 2026

Latest reply by Gordon on Tue Jan 27 08:07:55 2026
Luxon's state of the nation speech.

By Crash on Tue Jan 20 13:50:41 2026

Latest reply by Crash on Tue Jan 20 13:50:41 2026
Another sure to fail? Lux pushing India trade as a future success story for NZ.

By greybeard on Tue Jan 20 13:09:26 2026

Latest reply by Crash on Tue Jan 20 13:35:28 2026
Another Liebour Own Goal

By Mutley on Tue Jan 20 08:41:09 2026

Latest reply by Crash on Tue Jan 20 13:31:13 2026
Well it did not happen

By Gordon on Sun Jan 11 21:16:34 2026

Latest reply by Crash on Sun Jan 18 14:19:11 2026
Why pressing fill at some petrol pumps can lock up hundreds of dollars

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jan 15 00:34:00 2026

Latest reply by Tony on Fri Jan 16 01:42:20 2026
Adelaide Festival =?UTF-8?B?V3JpdGVyc+KAmQ==?= Week Implodes

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 13 03:32:40 2026

Latest reply by Mutley on Thu Jan 15 08:52:13 2026
NZ Reserve Bank Governor Signs On To Letter Supporting US Chairman Powell

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Jan 14 11:20:42 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Jan 14 11:20:42 2026
The next Governmnet: a coalition of National and Labour?

By Crash on Tue Dec 30 16:10:11 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Thu Jan 8 11:29:05 2026
Invasion of Venezuela (oops, arrest of a "criminal")

By Tony on Mon Jan 5 07:28:54 2026

Latest reply by Gordon on Wed Jan 7 21:20:50 2026
Colonisation, a balanced view

By Tony on Tue Dec 30 19:29:44 2025

Latest reply by BR on Thu Jan 1 05:58:09 2026
Seasons greetings

By Gordon on Wed Dec 24 22:47:28 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Thu Dec 25 06:40:03 2025
A sucess

By Gordon on Tue Dec 23 23:06:11 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Tue Dec 23 23:06:11 2025
Centrist cites K DuF in callout of RNZ bias

By Crash on Tue Dec 23 20:46:30 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Tue Dec 23 20:46:30 2025
Take note ms Willis and Mr Luxon

By Crash on Mon Dec 22 09:07:28 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Mon Dec 22 00:25:24 2025
RNZ death knell.

By Tony on Sat Dec 20 19:33:56 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Sun Dec 21 20:59:10 2025
Re: "Sales" getting earlier and earlier

By Your Name on Fri Dec 12 10:37:17 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Sat Dec 20 19:29:39 2025
Needing to go bi-partisan on this

By Gordon on Thu Dec 18 23:50:34 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Sat Dec 20 13:29:17 2025
true inflation appears to be 2x official inflation

By wn on Thu Dec 18 19:44:59 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Thu Dec 18 23:04:21 2025
Yet another round of price increases incoming

By Your Name on Fri Dec 12 15:25:07 2025

Latest reply by wn on Thu Dec 18 03:33:37 2025
=?UTF-8?B?R292ZXJubWVudOKAmXM=?= Road-Code Hotline To Close

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Dec 17 00:37:09 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Dec 17 06:22:52 2025
[NEWS] 2degrees begins 3G shutdown

By Your Name on Fri Dec 12 10:42:42 2025

Latest reply by BR on Wed Dec 17 05:02:41 2025
A reckoning is nigh: Ruth Richardson

By Crash on Tue Dec 16 11:40:55 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Tue Dec 16 11:40:55 2025
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Hs/Cfh78=?= Jacinda Ardern On Graham Norton

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Dec 14 23:25:52 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Mon Dec 15 06:12:29 2025
So, there are some good things happening

By Tony on Sat Dec 13 18:43:49 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Sun Dec 14 11:37:11 2025
The Spectator, good news.

By Tony on Sat Dec 13 18:46:20 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Sat Dec 13 18:46:20 2025
RMA reforms

By Crash on Tue Dec 9 20:55:16 2025

Latest reply by Mutley on Wed Dec 10 08:34:33 2025
Yes Coal is king

By Gordon on Sun Dec 7 03:24:31 2025

Latest reply by BR on Tue Dec 9 04:32:35 2025
Boundary Dam

By Gordon on Sun Dec 7 03:56:59 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Sun Dec 7 20:10:38 2025
Good journalism still alive and well...

By Tony on Sun Nov 30 19:42:41 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Mon Dec 1 03:49:05 2025
Wake up National: Labour are not the pushover that the legacy of the Ardern years indicates.

By Crash on Sun Nov 30 20:20:05 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Mon Dec 1 13:10:21 2025
99% pure

By Gordon on Sat Nov 29 22:49:49 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Sun Nov 30 13:19:05 2025
Once more - lest we forget

By Tony on Sun Nov 23 19:56:43 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Mon Nov 24 06:51:58 2025
Tribalism, no place for it....

By Tony on Sun Nov 23 19:55:23 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Mon Nov 24 06:47:54 2025
Trouble At =?UTF-8?B?VOKAmUNvdmlk?= Inquiry

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Nov 20 00:04:54 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Sun Nov 23 18:02:04 2025
National's economic failures: Taxpayers Union nails it

By Crash on Fri Nov 21 11:50:28 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Fri Nov 21 20:49:37 2025
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Hs/Cfh78=?= Destiny Church Hooligans Named

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Nov 21 01:05:56 2025

Latest reply by BR on Fri Nov 21 17:55:03 2025
Wondering Why They Were There ...

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Nov 20 08:47:00 2025

Latest reply by BR on Fri Nov 21 17:51:44 2025
[NEWS] The Warehosue new CEO to revamp stores (yet again)

By Your Name on Sat Nov 15 14:13:19 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Sat Nov 15 21:28:50 2025
Interesting commentary on CO2 and global warming

By Crash on Sat Nov 15 08:57:30 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Sat Nov 15 06:21:06 2025
Nothing to see here - says Hipkins

By Tony on Wed Nov 12 20:47:21 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Sat Nov 15 06:39:08 2025
Lest we forget.

By Tony on Wed Nov 12 20:45:40 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Thu Nov 13 20:07:47 2025
[NEWS] Sky TV New Zealand to replace Paramount channels

By Your Name on Tue Nov 11 13:35:14 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Thu Nov 13 10:41:42 2025
Re: [NEWS] PB Tech Black Friday Sale starts this week

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Nov 10 21:03:30 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Wed Nov 12 17:41:31 2025
Why no convictions for terrible engineering? (reprise)

By wn on Sat Nov 8 08:10:01 2025

Latest reply by Mutley on Wed Nov 12 16:17:53 2025
Read all about it!

By Gordon on Sat Nov 8 22:40:50 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Mon Nov 10 12:48:34 2025
[NEWS] Apple announces new eco projects in Australia and New Zealand

By Your Name on Fri Nov 7 17:29:05 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Nov 7 19:58:58 2025
Slowly but surley

By Gordon on Wed Nov 5 03:40:51 2025

Latest reply by BR on Sat Nov 8 07:04:38 2025
Boot Camps: Failure Or Not?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Nov 6 23:05:42 2025

Latest reply by BR on Sat Nov 8 07:02:05 2025
The =?UTF-8?B?8J+HuvCfh7g=?= Filibuster

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Nov 8 05:53:32 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Nov 8 05:53:32 2025
School lunches 2026

By Gordon on Fri Nov 7 23:56:38 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Fri Nov 7 23:56:38 2025
Unemployment reporting: from RNZ and not biased against National

By Crash on Thu Nov 6 10:29:14 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Wed Nov 5 23:37:59 2025
Idiotic fireworks season yet again :-(

By Your Name on Sun Nov 2 20:14:49 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Wed Nov 5 19:39:15 2025
Tramsmission Gully

By Gordon on Mon Nov 3 20:58:20 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Wed Nov 5 15:43:08 2025
=?UTF-8?B?TXVzZXVt4oCZcw==?= Attempt To Show =?UTF-8?B?4oCcQm90aCBTaWRlc+KAnQ==?= Of WWII =?UTF-8?B?4oCcVW5jb21mb3J0YWJsZeKAnQ==?=

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Nov 4 02:06:04 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Nov 4 02:06:04 2025
"Black Friday" sales already started

By Your Name on Sat Nov 1 20:10:52 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Mon Nov 3 10:02:03 2025
Clmate change vs some maths

By Gordon on Mon Nov 3 00:50:17 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Mon Nov 3 01:45:30 2025
Fonterra sale to Lactalis: the unanswered question.

By Crash on Thu Oct 30 18:11:55 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Thu Oct 30 21:53:34 2025
Capital Gains Tax -- About Time

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Oct 28 22:51:11 2025

Latest reply by BR on Fri Oct 31 05:03:16 2025
Labour's Capital Gains Tax

By Crash on Tue Oct 28 12:05:25 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Thu Oct 30 17:39:48 2025
Another angle on a CGT.

By Crash on Thu Oct 30 11:40:07 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Thu Oct 30 13:53:00 2025
[NEWS] Auckland City Rail Lnk to have full 5G coverage

By Your Name on Wed Oct 29 17:53:10 2025

Latest reply by Ralph Fox on Wed Oct 29 18:17:22 2025
The "mega" strike

By Gordon on Thu Oct 23 01:48:10 2025

Latest reply by BR on Mon Oct 27 06:36:13 2025
People Are Putting A Scary Amount Of Trust In AI ...

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Oct 27 04:42:22 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Oct 27 04:42:22 2025
It happening right here in NZ

By Gordon on Wed Oct 22 23:47:17 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Thu Oct 23 15:21:58 2025
Bait & Switch on Maori Wards?

By wn on Wed Oct 22 00:14:43 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Wed Oct 22 15:36:40 2025
Fonterra: butt out Peters

By Crash on Fri Oct 17 17:22:29 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Mon Oct 20 16:27:55 2025
Good start

By Tony on Sun Oct 19 19:27:55 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Sun Oct 19 23:41:48 2025
An open letter to NZ

By Crash on Sun Oct 19 10:08:47 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Sun Oct 19 02:00:21 2025
All too easy

By Gordon on Wed Oct 15 01:00:24 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Wed Oct 15 01:38:24 2025
Winston Needs Subtitles

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Oct 12 06:18:56 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Tue Oct 14 23:35:29 2025
A sad but predictable result

By Tony on Mon Oct 13 07:17:01 2025

Latest reply by Mutley on Tue Oct 14 08:42:32 2025
Damien Grant on Swarbrick

By Tony on Sat Oct 11 18:45:01 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Mon Oct 13 00:24:18 2025
The Maori Party in Governmnet?

By Crash on Thu Oct 9 21:36:05 2025

Latest reply by Mutley on Sat Oct 11 13:28:52 2025
The brutal truth about Labour and the Maori Party

By Crash on Sat Oct 11 08:12:55 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Sat Oct 11 06:14:19 2025
Parliamentary rules: the Maori party is exempt it seems

By Crash on Thu Oct 9 21:16:19 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Sat Oct 11 06:13:06 2025
Re: RIP Nigel Latta

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Oct 11 05:19:10 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Oct 11 05:19:10 2025
So where to now after the Maori Party 'reset'?

By Crash on Thu Oct 9 21:43:57 2025

Latest reply by Tony on Fri Oct 10 08:29:20 2025
Todays 'Government spending press release.

By Crash on Fri Oct 10 14:50:00 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Fri Oct 10 14:50:00 2025
Maybe 1News got the pro-Maori bias memo?

By Crash on Thu Oct 9 21:08:14 2025

Latest reply by Your Name on Fri Oct 10 08:47:28 2025
Re: NZ Post putting itself out of business

By Gordon on Wed Oct 8 23:57:05 2025

Latest reply by Crash on Thu Oct 9 17:39:24 2025
Re: I am not surprised....

By Gordon on Thu Oct 9 00:14:38 2025

Latest reply by Gordon on Thu Oct 9 00:14:38 2025