In 2008/09, the slump was global. This one was ours almost alone. Blows. My. Mind... that media aren't recognising this simple fact and asking obvious questions.

EV sales in Iceland decreased from 50% of new vehicles in 2023 to 15% in 2024 and 30% in the first half of 2025, after the government made policy and tax changes.

Threatening to invade 3 different countries (include 2 allies) should be disqualifying from any "peace" prize. Farcical.

FT calls the government's removal of EV incentives ill-advised: "The only countries that have already brought in similar mileage taxes, New Zealand and Iceland in 2024, experienced large, immediate falls in EV sales — though both, ill-advisedly, also removed incentive schemes around the same time."

My point here is it's a mistake to say the conduct of this government in relation to trans NZers is solely a NZ First thing. Yes, the majority of the National Party voted to ban conversion practices. But those who thought it should remain legal did not find that position a barrier to advancement.

I tell you what's irresponsible, leaving hundreds of thousands of kiwis wanting work or more work... There is loads of stuff that needs doing.

Clean car standard tinkering an incoherent misstep newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/28/c...

It's one thing to not want to discuss cases in public, but if the affected user is not being informed it's an unfair system open to abuse. Without transparency you will lose the trust of your users. Please do not go down the road of secret decisions with no recourse from your users.

They didn't give it to the guy threatening to invade Canada and Greenland? Huh.

Not only are we not doing enough to reduce emissions, we haven't even managed to stabilise them.

And now we know what is behind the government's surge in defence funding.

And because our society has chosen an economic model that requires some people to be unemployed, our society has a moral responsibility to support those people.

And the government is going to force rich parents to support their 18-19 year olds rather than just hanging them out to dry, right? Right?

It is offensive for the person supposedly in charge of the government and its economic levers to suggest that youths, and their playstationing ways, are responsible for the most rapid surge in unemployment since the Great Financial Crash

I will reiterate as someone with field and specific knowledge of New Zealand’s oil and gas sector, there is no giant untapped field out there. Even if Labour agrees to this, not a single drop of oil or gas will be produced in the next decade because it’s not there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Obviously Trump thinks "rare earth" means "rare earth magnet". He's had people talking to him about China's dominance of rare earth mineral supply and thought it was all about making rare earth magnets.

National have been awfully quiet about "brain drain" since the election.

Labour should be loudly promising they're reinstate the ban on day one with no compensation for companies that try to take advantage of this government's climate vandalism.

Convicted felon cheats at golf. Also, sky is blue.

If you're an #InternetNZ member planning to participate in the upcoming AGM, you, like me, might have been finding it difficult to get your head around the changes to the Constitution that would be effectuated by the MANY proposed motions. I've created a tracked-changes style guide:

I struggle with this too. Even the Epstein stuff isn't news. I'm glad it seems to be getting some traction at last, but mystified as to why so many people have turned a blind eye until now.

My thoughts on InternetNZ voting e te whānau

Seymour rejected the advice of his own officials, the views of the vast majority of expert submitters, the view of civil society orgs. He will not or cannot offer a justification for this, and instead resorts to insulting the competence or motivations of people who disagree with him.

Great thread

This constant abuse of urgency has to end. The rules need to be changed.

Show me a cover version better than the original "I Love Rock N' Roll" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4cF...

Hey feckless press gallery, it'd be nice if you pushed back on the Coalition calling the Green plans a 'soviet manifesto' when that's patently ridiculous. Like if people are saying utterly stupid shit, you're allowed to point out that it's stupid

We endured six months of submissions and process for the Treaty Principles Bill, a bill cabinet knew would never pass. Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.

The govt of "fix the cost of living crisis" and "we need to protect women" is cutting the pay of thousands of women. All to preserve tax cuts for landlords. Vicious, sadistic class-warfare.

Sobering chart of the day Should be a hey metric to judge the performance of our governments #nzpol. #ukpol

It's rare you hear a journalist explain precisely what Brian Tamaki is doing when he attacks the LGBTQI community, and what he's lying about, and what motivated him instead of just mindlessly quoting whatever he says. John Campbell, solid dude.

I hate that journos keep using the phrase 'War on woke.' It gives the whole thing cover. It's a war on science, a war on human rights, a war on evidence and decency. It's a war on democracy and a habitable planet. Call it those things, call it what it is. #nzpol

True. And it seems true of modern health too. Vaccines have been so effective that some people think they're undoubtedly worse than the diseases.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

I don't get how police apparently can't be criticised. Yes, they do a tough job. So do teachers but it's never stopped politicians criticising the fuck out of us.

How long before Trump explicitly rejects the metric system and NASA has to change back to customary units?

Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST. When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

This decision is not in line with our values as a country and not in line with the Christian values Penk claims to adhere to. He is clearly not capable of making good decisions as Minister, and should resign from the role. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Climate change denial party pushing climate change denial www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Finally. I guess now we get to see what else there might be to be discovered. Fwiw, I know someone who has come into contact with Tim Jago and describes him as evil. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Our 2030 climate change target is a 50% reduction. National has decided that we don't need to do much more, and has set our 2035 target at 51-55% www.beehive.govt.nz/release/sett...

Capitalism: the people who "win" are the people who contribute capital, not the people who contribute labour. It's right there in the name.

"X changed the world" hiding a lot of detail here. Did she mean "X influenced the US election"? "X made the world worse"?

I just assumed that Trump would make the (nonsense) argument that 22nd really only forbade three consecutive terms. But copying Putin is definitely more The Don's style.

National and ACT are killing the economy with their idiotic adherence to the disproven austerity dogma.

New: The Government’s new climate plan relies on unproven methane-busting technology and partially disproven carbon capture schemes for as much as half of its promised greenhouse emissions reductions. newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/11/g...

But did American democracy die *of* christo-fascism or *with* christo-fascism??