Is there a lifeline for Moana Pasifika? 

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has hinted at “good news” for the embattled club, and is reportedly instructing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to look into proposals. 

Rugby Players Association CEO Rob Nichol told Mike Hosking that from a player’s perspective, the team hasn’t been set up for success, but they remain optimistic it can happen. 

He says there’s two to three key areas that need to be nailed for Moana Pasifika to be successful – it needs to be true to purpose, there needs to be a sense that it is owned by Pacific people, for Pacific people, and it has unique opportunities for commercialisation that need to be utilised well.  

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Is there a lifeline for Moana Pasifika?&nbsp;
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has hinted at “good news” for the embattled club, and is reportedly instructing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to look into proposals.&nbsp;
Rugby Players Association CEO Rob Nichol told Mike Hosking that from a player’s perspective, the team hasn’t been set up for success, but they remain optimistic it can happen.&nbsp;
He says there’s two to three key areas that need to be nailed for Moana Pasifika to be successful – it needs to be true to purpose, there needs to be a sense that it is owned by Pacific people, for Pacific people, and it has unique opportunities for commercialisation that need to be utilised well. &nbsp;
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Rob Nichol: Rugby Players Association CEO on the potential lifeline for Moana Pasifika

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One of Opportunity's polices is to stop you from using your KiwiSaver for first home purchases. 

The big question around that policy is - did you know that? 

Everyone, and I mean everyone, I have talked to that is even contemplating supporting Opportunity can't name a single one of their policies out side of land tax and universal incomes, which ironically, although they were the ideas that got them to prominence, didn’t actually make the so-called "bottom line" reveal. 

The main reason so far I have heard for Opportunity support is "something new". 

It's as simple as that. They are something new, like trainers in a different colour. You're a bit bored with the status quo so new should be good. 

I could go on for hours about how triggering that is for me. But back to the KiwiSaver. 

What else do they want? You don’t have a clue. 

Oh and while I'm at it, can you name anyone standing for them outside the leader? Have you seen anyone outside the leader at all? Is she the spokesperson for literally everything and does it worry you at all? 

If they get 5% that is six MP's. Who are the other five and what if they end up in Cabinet? A similar scenario happened with NZ First years ago. The "tight 5" is what they called them and it was Tuku and co and Hugo Boss undies.   

Ask someone older if you don’t know what I'm talking about. 

If you think Katie Zacharia is a joke, isn't it worse to vote for people you literally have never heard of, far less checked their ability to, oh I don’t know, run a country? 

KiwiSaver is a lifeline for first home buyers. It facilitates a dream for most of us to own our own piece of New Zealand. 

Opportunity don’t want that for you. They will ban it. What's that tell you about their ideology? 

I don’t mind who you vote for. But what I want for all of us is to vote with intelligence and hopefully some insight that came out of us researching what we are voting for. 

How much of what Opportunity are, you wouldn’t have a clue about, and therefore if it works out for them, we end up with a mass dose of buyer's regret. 

One of Opportunity's polices is to stop you from using your KiwiSaver for first home purchases.&nbsp;
The big question around that policy is - did you know that?&nbsp;
Everyone, and I mean everyone, I have talked to that is even contemplating supporting Opportunity can't name a single one of their policies out side of land tax and universal incomes, which ironically, although they were the ideas that got them to prominence, didn’t actually make the so-called "bottom line" reveal.&nbsp;
The main reason so far I have heard for Opportunity support is "something new".&nbsp;
It's as simple as that. They are something new, like trainers in a different colour. You're a bit bored with the status quo so new should be good.&nbsp;
I could go on for hours about how triggering that is for me. But back to the KiwiSaver.&nbsp;
What else do they want? You don’t have a clue.&nbsp;
Oh and while I'm at it, can you name anyone standing for them outside the leader? Have you seen anyone outside the leader at all? Is she the spokesperson for literally everything and does it worry you at all?&nbsp;
If they get 5% that is six MP's. Who are the other five and what if they end up in Cabinet? A similar scenario happened with NZ First years ago. The "tight 5" is what they called them and it was Tuku and co and Hugo Boss undies. &nbsp;&nbsp;
Ask someone older if you don’t know what I'm talking about.&nbsp;
If you think Katie Zacharia is a joke, isn't it worse to vote for people you literally have never heard of, far less checked their ability to, oh I don’t know, run a country?&nbsp;
KiwiSaver is a lifeline for first home buyers. It facilitates a dream for most of us to own our own piece of New Zealand.&nbsp;
Opportunity don’t want that for you. They will ban it. What's that tell you about their ideology?&nbsp;
I don’t mind who you vote for. But what I want for all of us is to vote with intelligence and hopefully some insight that came out of us researching what we are voting for.&nbsp;
How much of what Opportunity are, you wouldn’t have a clue about, and therefore if it works out for them, we end up with a mass dose of buyer's regret.&nbsp;

Mike's Minute: Do you know the policies of the party you're voting for? Or does it not matter?

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Christopher Luxon isn't worried that removing the right to silence in exceptional cases would clash with the Bill of Rights Act.

Under the policy, people who witness a child's murder could face up to 10 years in prison, if they don't reveal to Police who was responsible. 

Luxon told Mike Hosking he expects law groups will warn it's a bill of rights issue.

He says the same thing happened with the gang patch ban and other things like alcohol testing.

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Christopher Luxon isn't worried that removing the right to silence in exceptional cases would clash with the Bill of Rights Act.
Under the policy, people who witness a child's murder could face up to 10 years in prison, if they don't reveal to Police who was responsible.&nbsp;
Luxon told Mike Hosking he expects law groups will warn it's a bill of rights issue.
He says the same thing happened with the gang patch ban and other things like alcohol testing.
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Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister and National Party Leader on voter suppression, right to silence, and aluminium dumping

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Rob Nichol: Rugby Players Association CEO on the potential lifeline for Moana Pasifika

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