$53M to repair Moa Point, 9 months, and they hope to recover a lot of the money from insurance. Compare that with Christchurch City Council sitting around for years arguing about insurance before even starting on replacing the burnt out sewage plant, leaving residents suffering odours #nzpol

Luxon gets a couple of hard questions from Tova, and does a Q&A... #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

NZ Govt is going to lower our fuel standards to match Australia, which also lowered their standards to allow more sulphur because that is what they refine locally. Last time we had too much sulphur in our fuel, cars were stopping on motorways because it made some fuel guages read as not empty #nzpol

Going forward... Why did Jason Walls on 1news say, going forward, Synlait is a kiwi-owned dairy company when contrasting it with Fonterra? It has been majority Chinese-owned since, going forward, 2010 #nzpol

Chris Luxon is the most productive person in New Zealand. It has been reported that he produces enough word salad to feed 40 million people #nzpol

On NRT: A calculated policy of deceit - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-ca...

How is possible that 2L vanilla ice cream costs $5.67, but 2L milk costs $4.30? #nz #milk #costofliving #fonterra #profits

with everyone doing frame-by-frame analysis to decide if max or oscar were ahead at some imaginary line... maybe there is a simpler way? Why don't they just have white line perpendicular to the apex across the track? #Formula1

the new ferries won't have Electric Propulsion like iRex, right? but maybe can be upgraded in the future, if someone decides to spend money i guess. none of the huge emissions reductions we were promised then. #nzpol

A new supermarket is not going to deliver cheaper prices when we only have two 'competing' businesses www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"Mitchell, who returned from a week-long visit to India alongside Luxon on Saturday, said he was briefed on his return but didn’t condemn the delay." Luxon seems to be blaming Health NZ for not being informed, while ignoring his mate Mitchell. Why are we hearing about this on Tuesday?

One of my favourite datasets out today - Stats NZ business financial data (used to calculate GDP). Quick 🧵... This is the total 'NZ Inc' picture (adjusted for inflation). NZ businesses sold $771 bn of stuff in 2024, spent $539bn on stuff, and $128bn on salaries. Operating profits were $108bn [1/n]

Andrew Bayly isn't climbing to the top of Everest. He is only climbing to Base Camp, to clear his head. Understandable, as Base Camp is on the shoulder of Everest, or the possibly the upper arm. #nzpol

With all of the people resigning in the past week, I wonder if we missed someone? Did Luxon resign and forget to tell everyone? #nzpol

Did Luxon just say "if you don't like the police service we provide, the next time someone steals your marmite sandwich you can just perform a citizen's arrest"? #nzpol

Did Luxon just say "For God's Sake, just get a free University education, then leave the country for 30 years, so you can come back and say you are a proud New Zealander that is doing it tough, but is also entititled and sorted." #nzpol

Did Luxon just say "if you don't like the ferry service we provide, just get your own kayak and row your train carriage across the Cook Straight"? #nzpol

Did Luxon just say "if you don't like the health service we provide, just get your own scalpel and remove your own appendix"? #nzpol

Today on @theconversation.com I wrote about how NZTA’s own commissioned study shows speed limit reductions provide big economic benefits and a massive drop in fatalities and serious injuries—yet the government is still increasing speed limits. theconversation.com/false-econom...

"I think there's just a little bit of humanity involved in making sure that he had told the relevant people and then that's been made public at the latest opportunity." - Nicola Willis Latest? Surely she means 'earliest'? but then again she has a degree in English literature, so latest it is.

Bayly's actions last week should have been a gift for Luxon to demonstrate decisive leadership, after his previous poor handling of the Bayly situation. Instead he flubs it again by letting him resign. #nzpol

"ACT defence spokesperson Mark Cameron said he was pleased to hear the prime minister pledge to get New Zealand's defence spending close to 2 percent of gross domestic product." I guess if the PM reduces our GDP by 50% it will work...

“You really believe that there’s any danger in somebody driving a Range Rover or a Land Rover a couple of meters up a step?” - David Seymour Meanwhile, also same day in Wellington... www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Does Trump think that if you cover a place (Gaza) in enough USA products (bombs), that you own it?

If only there was a train or coastal shipping we could use to move large volumes of freight "we changed our name to Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting NZ to better reflect our brand and our voice, and the important contribution road transport makes to our country’s economy." www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

“Well, we’ve got about 2-3% electric vehicle penetration - it ain’t gonna change in a hurry,” Luxon said. omg. does that mean he understands what he did? 30% of vehicles registered were EVs with the subsidy, dropped to 10% and every new 'car' is a ford ranger. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

"How does this affect ACT" - is what he was thinking. "we did everything that we could that an organisation in our position faced" - David Seymour - he is really concerned about the individual, isn't he? #nzpol #timjago www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

How much did the Te Wero Wynyard bridge maintenance cost? I'm not an Aucklander, so I don't really care. Hopefully not my rates/taxes. Was it... A) $2M B) $5M C) $10M #Auckland

news tonight showed a funeral for a hostage. lucky for some. #StopGazaGenocide

i guess the ambassador is earning his pay: - telling Palestinians to head South, but then they bomb South of Gaza City and refugee camps. - 8000 rockets fired? any damage from them. 2014 2000+ rockets fired, 6 people died. - deny the civilians fuel needed for hospitals and producing water

Depluraluse a band INX