So, so disappointed to see hundreds of muppets congregating at Memorial Park today with hilarious signs like "The final variant is communism!" and other such nonsense. Many of them dragged their kids along which is also very disheartening, if you want to be a dickhead at least spare your kids the ordeal. It's gutting to think that it's just this crowd of idiots stopping the rest of us from moving on and getting back to a normal life. Hundreds of idiots all gathered around in a bunch with no masks on, basically inviting covid to tear through them and their families. I guess I just wasn't prepared to see such a turnout for a quantifiably stupid reason.

I’ve a gay teenager and I’ve lived here my whole life but I’ve lived over seas and Wellington and Auckland. I love Tauranga (I live in golden sands, Papamoa), but there are no gay clubs. I remember one was about to open but the public are against it. There are a lot of retirement aged people here and lots and lots of churches (welcome bay), I’m just wondering I love this city. Are you accepting of people who aren’t the same sexual orientation as you? I went to te puke for 5 mins and I had someone throw a sandwich in my face and called me a faggot. I kissed my boyfriend on the cheek at bayfair and got escorted out. Now I barley look at my boyfriend out in public. Some guy threatened to burn our house down with our dogs. I love this city and it’s all I’ve ever known. I just need people here that my boyfriend and I are just like you. We are New Zealand citizens and we are just like you. Please stop trying to hurt us? We only want what’s best for this city and that’s that. Kia Ora

https://nzcovidmap.org/?loc=tauranga

A 2hr return trip from Pyes Pa to Omok. Take a bow Tauranga. That was crap!

Tauranga (as at 12:36 pm 17/01/22):

- Worlds End Bar and Restaurant Fraser Cove - January 11 - 3:45 PM to 6:00 PM

https://nzcovidmap.org/loc/tauranga

(in case you missed them)

11 New Locations of Interest in Tauranga - 15 Jan

Tauranga - 11 New Locations (as at 12:36 pm 17/01/22):

- Palmers Bethlehem Tauranga - January 9 - 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM

- Astrolabe Brew Bar Mount Maunganui - January 8 - 2:11 PM to 3:40 PM

- Pronto Burgers and Cafe Mount Maunganui - January 10 - 12:20 PM to 1:20 PM

- Astrolabe Brew Bar Mount Maunganui - January 9 - 2:01 PM to 3:30 PM

- Beachside Holiday Park Mount Maunganui - January 8 - 4:37 PM to 7:00 PM

- Astrolabe Brew Bar Mount Maunganui - January 9 - 9:19 PM to 10:19 PM

- Dixie Browns Mount Maunganui - January 10 - 6:48 PM to 7:50 PM

- Good Local Pyes Pa - January 6 - 3:00 PM to 3:45 PM

- Mount Hot Pools Mount Maunganui - January 10 - 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM (Close contact)

- Madame Sunset Mount Maunganui - January 8 - 6:58 PM to 7:30 PM

- Hide Bar Ltd Mount Maunganui - January 8 - 8:55 PM to 9:40 PM

https://nzcovidmap.org/loc/tauranga

Would have expected some idea after 24 hours. Unless the couple of infected individuals are hard to get info out of or weren't using the app.

Yes tauranga use to have a rail road system before it it got removed in 2002.

My hot take is that they should invest in rail again and build a rail system that goes from pāpāmoa to kaitiaki and connect and have a station near owen's place and another at Blake Park. And a station at the strand.

Subsides for the residence and the public.

So that we have more than just the bus and the times be extended to the early hours of the morning on weekends.

Thoughts?

https://waateanews.com/2022/01/12/tama-tu-tama-ora-tama-noho-tama-mate-tamatoa/

Tama Tū, Tama Ora, Tama Noho, Tama Mate! Tamatoa!

>The 50th anniversary of Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) will reunite a total of 50 living members at an event hosted by the iwi of Tauranga Moana this weekend.
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>‘Ngā Tamatoa 50+ years – Members Reunion’ will honour the movement of Māori youth who played an important role in revitalising the Māori language, taking action to push boundaries and challenge a system and its inherent racism.
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>A presentation acknowledging their contributions to te ao Māori, Te Rā Whakamānawa i a Ngā Tamatoa, will take place at the Baycourt Addison Theatre in Tauranga on Saturday 15 January from 9.30am.
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>Later that afternoon, Ngā Tamatoa members will share their personal stories and experiences at a series of educational panel discussions being held at the local campus of the University of Waikato.
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>Co-founder of the Tāmaki Makaurau branch, Taura Eruera, says the injustices that they experienced as tamariki in their daily lives – being raised in the recurring mamae and āwangawanga of their kuia and koroua – left them feeling helpless.
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>“When we became youth, the helplessness became compulsion. We were now able to take action. As we all came together, it was the Māori Battalion moment of our generation! We continued that same legacy, that fighting spirit.”
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>Linda Mead-Smith was a foundation member.
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>“I joined Ngā Tamatoa because I couldn’t stand the racism, the erasure of our history as tangata whenua, the disrespect shown to our kaumātua, the denial of the treaty as the basis of governance and worse, the acceptance by many Māori that being second class on our whenua was our lot in life.
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>“Bugger that! It was unjust and just plain wrong. We needed to make change.”
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>Ted Nia from the Pōneke branch says the trouble with their generation was that they had no war – “our war was here with no bloody guns”.
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>Orewa Barrett–Ohia from the Waikato branch says they simply had had ‘enough’.
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>“Enough of seeing the injustices against Māori and seeing our people in a constant state of mourning. Watching as more and more land was alienated. It was time to make a stand.”
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>Tickets are available for both the morning and afternoon sessions from [Ti

Seriously, everyone I have talk to who had serious mental health issues who could not afford private mental health care in tauranga would have to wait an average 6 to 9 months to be seen by someone,

Unless they can afford to move to the Waikato or auckland where they get seen almost immediately.

It is disgraceful and frustrating that a lot of affordable mental health care is almost always inaccessible in tauranga.

Who is the best person or contact to bring up this complaint?

About to do my full test at VTNZ Tauranga and was wondering what some of the routes are. Lots of roadworks everywhere and 30kph zones which make it hard not to speed in certain areas especially on Cameron road and the avenues closer to the CBD. Has anyone done a full test at VTNZ Tauranga recently? What was your experience like? Should I be doing it at the Mount instead?

KiwiAnimations opens his campaign in Tauranga to the applause of many members of the electorate who welcome him openly. Many of them remember KiwiAnimations as a passionate Member of Parliament for the area and so are excited to see him on the campaign trail once again. KiwiAnimations speaks to the crowd

"ACT is once again on this campaign trail and we are fighting on it against a Government which has lost touch with this country. This Government spends the whole term dividing this nation and embarrassing us overseas and then finally closes their term with a Budget which puts us in a massive deficit while simultaneously raising your tax burden. I don't think it's fair for the Government to show up and hike your taxes on working class income bands and then claim that they don't have enough money to pay for all their expenses.

The Government has gone out and spent all of your money on trying to shore up their voter base. Student loans in this country are fair and offer a sensible repayment package to support low income students going through a field where they will statistically get higher incomes from. The outstanding student loans was our money as the taxpayer which was loaned out to this group of people with the expectation of it being paid back. Instead, the Government has decided it will forgive student debt and make University free while people are struggling with the basics in this country and our cities are being brought low by poverty and lack of opportunities. We spent $20bn on forgiving this alone while the Government sees fit to charge every New Zealander on a working salary more of their income to pay for this decision. Think about that, the New Zealand taxpayer who is struggling with bills is now paying out thousands more every year so that the Government can win the student vote. In a time of economic uncertainty, that is going to cost livelihoods all to forgive a generous loan scheme.

It doesn't stop here however as the Government is trying to gut private healthcare services and working to bring it all under a central Government. By doing this, they are ignoring the fact that working New Zealanders oftentimes use these private services and enjoy their facilities due to the quicker times of service and accessibility to care. Many of these services are in fact in poorer communities the Government hasn't served and this Budget did nothing to address this when they're leading a war on private healthcare. The New Zealand healthcare system can u

Tauranga (as at 12:38 pm 12/01/22):

- The Barrio Brothers Tauranga - January 6 - 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM (Close contact)

https://nzcovidmap.org/loc/tauranga

Tauranga (as at 1:52 pm 13/01/22):

- The Barrio Brothers Tauranga - January 6 - 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM (Close contact)

https://nzcovidmap.org/loc/tauranga