Show Notes
Episode 104 and we get into council spending, politics, immigration, free speech, culture and a heap more. Robert Lee is back for Spill the Tea and straight away we get into his council apparently finding a $2 million solution to something that was being talked about as a $63 million project. We get into how that even happens, council spending, local politics and whether ratepayers are getting value for money. Then we go down a few different roads around defamation laws in New Zealand compared with Japan, reputation, mana, free speech, whether social media accusations can destroy someone forever and where the line should actually sit between protecting people and protecting open debate. Later ACT candidate for Papakura Malkiat Singh joins us.Malkiat came to New Zealand from Punjab in 2006 and has built a life here as a robotics engineer, organic farmer, entrepreneur and licensed immigration adviser. We talk about why he joined ACT, what he thinks Papakura actually needs, crime, infrastructure, immigration, migrant exploitation, welfare rules for new residents, deportation of serious non citizen offenders and whether New Zealand is bringing people in faster than our roads, hospitals, schools and housing can handle. He also talks about his petitions during Covid, his experience with the immigration system, government waste, farming and whether he would actually stand up to David Seymour if an ACT policy hurt his own community. Then we finish with a quick fire and a few random side roads like always 😂 Local government, immigration, ACT, council spending, free speech and plenty of straight up conversation. Shubz Says So Episode 104. 0:00 Opening and general chat 3:48 Tribunal and treaty debate 12:59 Landlords and economic issues 22:03 Council and local politics 26:01 Philosophical and cultural talk 56:28 Political party formation 1:50:54 Interview with Malkiat Singh
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