I couldn't possibly comment ... www.interest.co.nz/economy/1374...

And, Luxon’s lot are now going to kill the Clean Car Standard. At a time when fuel prices are rising and emissions have to come down. It’s a pattern and it benefits big business while the rest of us pay the price. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Chloe Swarbrick calls on New Zealanders to increase their economic literacy so they understand the "utter BS" most politicians spout on the economy. Here, she deals with the purely ideological 30/30 Rule that has held New Zealand back for decades #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/a-mini-hoo...

No shit, he attacked Iran twice during negotiations & the IDF continues to attack Gaza despite the apparent ceasefire What rational person is going to look at that pattern & think trusting the USA & Israel to act in good faith will end well for them? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

the world being like it is, this *ideological* editorial view is absolutely irredeemable by Stuff

Govt is replacing a key violence-prevention tool with a racist, transphobic & homophobic curriculum - please sign our petition to show current (& future) decision-makers we care about rights, respect & joy our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

Dear Peter Dunne: when was the last time you were successfully elected for anything, and given the answer, why does anyone still publish your opinions. #nzpol

He clearly thinks that him being touchy feeling is what everyone else wants. Yuck.

Pretty damning that the Refining Manager of the now closed Marsden Point Oil Refinery is going on radio going "WE NEED TO TRANSITION OFF FOSSIL FUELS" and calling our strategy MAGA and 1980s. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Wow. It really does. A rare occasion where throwing it to chatgpt would have been an improvement

Finally something for Chuck & Mary to legitimately grumble about

Yes. In fact I can hear tourists all around me shocked and unhappy. Very cringe (and they haven’t yet encountered the 400m corridor through shipping containers and the prefab terminal at the Picton end)

National/ACT/NZ First: Labour ministers didn't take official advice they didn't see into account when keeping Auckland in lockdown for the last week. Also them: We're going to ignore all this official advice because we don't like it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

While farmers mock concerns about their environmental impact with "no farmers, no food!" The reality is, they could do orders of magnitudes less agriculture and still have more than enough to feed all NZrs. Their decisions are made for their own economic gain, not some altruistic care for NZrs

Daily, if not multiple times are day we are bombarded with the evidence of how we have completely fucked the fundamentals of our economy, all the while being told that exports are the only way to grow NZ Inc. Food insecurity is a construct of NeoLiberalism www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Really struck by how awful a Christian Luxon is. Would Jesus have implemented "move on" policies for the homeless? While owning seven houses?? I'm an agnostic/atheist but I feel like I've got a better handle on what JC was about than our avowed Christian PM.

Ouch! Awkward for Luxon. Former Marsden Point boss says NZ has lined up with MAGA states on oil first stance. Expert says government needs to secure country’s energy future with renewable energy and electrification www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Nothing has changed for National nor their voters Remember National also vetoed the Dove's Auckland Rapid Transit Plan, they also tried to veto the Mangere Sewerage Treatment Plant because dumping into the Waitemata cost less Nats tried to Veto CRL until Len and AKL business told Key to pull 👉

When you're paying $3 a litre for petrol... Remember Luxon's govt crashed the EV market, slashed public transport & cycleway spending & cut fees for importing gas guzzlers by 80% - turning NZ into a dumping ground for the worlds dirtiest most oil hungry vehicles. Credit @newsroom.co.nz for the graph

Officials slammed move-on orders in just-released advice, warning they would add: - 6 people to the prison pop - 200-800 court cases - Make homelessness worse www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Got St John’s on speed-dial #nzpol

Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Minister for Corruption and Minister for Stale, Pale, Male Reckons, Paul Goldsmith #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Cripes, Chuck & Mary will be ropeable! Someone get the PM on the blower… #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36095...

I was maybe 10. He was doing a signing at a bookstore in the next town over. My mum, who'd introduced me to Mort when she was doing her degree in English Lit, took me. The queue was huge, a kind lady near the front let me join her. Terry smiled, I was speechless. I've never stopped reading his work.

This seems like a good idea #nzpol

Nobody in our news media organisations deserves any points for being at least six years late informing the public about Luxon's blatantly obvious uselessness.💩🥚

Those are powerful words, they were promised and really it was Luxon who promised them. It's like buying a gold Rolex and then the gold wears off

Janet Wilson going all slasher movie on Luxon 😆 #NZPol

#BHN Craig Renney on fuel prices | Clint Smith on Luxon's leadership | Citizen's arrest powers #nzpol www.youtube.com/live/xKzCBDC...

Uh... Uh... I don't know how we can be any clearer, guys

This is the same 2020 study you might have seen before, but it's true. I was gamely riding a lightweight street bike when and where I could, but it wasn't until I got an e-bike that the bike became my main means of transport.

TOP tries to say that the neo nazi who gave them $100,000 gives '$ to just about every party' NO - he ONLY gave it to right wing parties - LIKE TOP - NOTHING to Labour, Greens or TPM PLEASE repost this so EVERYONE knows exactly who they really are - just a lying pack of shunts #nzpol

Brodude farmerguy on the radio saying the Watties closure was because there was too much compliance and paperwork. I call bullshit on that. Are you telling me farmers in Australia have less paperwork and lower wages?

I'm glad we went through all that pain from austerity and cost-cutting for fucking nothing. Just like every other time it's been tried by every other government. At some point we're going to need a government that is going to invest in the people that live here.

Latest from me - a disturbing shift in government reporting from being evidence based to being based on political rhetoric: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Annnddd this is what happens when you cancelled the ferries that would have been delivered this year #ChrisLuxon, #NicolaWillis. Incompetents. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36095...

Because Government Minister’s lied. They knew their policies/actions would make beneficiary numbers soar. If winning needs lying, they lie. If their ideology over evidence policies destroy lives, livelihoods and communities they’re ok as long as it’s not their lives. #nzpol

Had lovely moment today at lunchtime when I was holding up a Palestinian flag - a trio of visiting Palestinian whāea saw the flag & kuffiyeh, came over for hugs & selfies Anyone wondering about continuing to be visible in support of Palestine - please do, visibility of 🇵🇸 & symbols does help ✊❤️🖤🤍💚

Imagine if a hotshot political reporter could be bothered to google back to December 2023 and print the comments from every person & their dog about all the bad things that would happen as result of N Willis canceling the IREX ferries? And what her and Winston's responses were at the time?

Who’d have thunk laying off thousands of public sector workers, canning government contracts, and generally grinding the economy to a halt, would lead to this. Add the huge numbers of people leaving the country every month and you’ve got a portrait of a drastically reduced workforce. #nzpol

Get you some business association managers like Jamey from Karangahape Road, and Brent from Uptown 👏👏👏 And big shout out to the businesses behind them, who support doing what actually works to help those without homes rather than vice signalling. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Our arable farmers are going to convert to Dairy on the Canterbury Plains because there's no 'market' for frozen products, our mills have shut down because we export raw logs Our economy is 'housing market with bits tacked on', the fundamentals of our economy are broken.

nick leggett's legacy coming brutally and destructively to the fore now with NZ's immense reliance on roads and truck freight very few people who can so singularly be held responsible for the failures of policy, and especially without having any real public accountability whatsoever

Aotearoa New Zealand experiencing a massive dose of FO after decades of FA #nzpol Heartbreaking, and entirely avoidable

Who benefits from Nats/Act/NZF #FossilFuel energy policy? Oil companies. And who just gave Nats/Act/NZF a $100k each? Oil companies- Greymouth Petroleum. And who pays the price? Ordinary people w higher cost of living. And we have to pay extra tax for the LNG import terminal.

A reminder - 1984 & the Rogernomics revolution is to 2026 what 1944 & the Bretton Woods Agreement was to 1984. IOW, the economic paradigm which has dominated policy for the last 40 years has run its course. We need a fresh approach which recognises climate change & our strategic vulnerabilities.

And here we have it. Due to Nikki Noboat's gross incompetence, we are down from 3 to 1 ferry. Had she not cancelled the iRex ferries, we'd have TWO BRAND NEW SHIPS this year. This incompetence is on her and Luxon.(Date checked.This is a current story.) www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

MSM 101: articles about The Greens must be framed in the negative

Bring back rail... www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

#NZpol From a few days ago: New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas - doubts the logic of “imposing a levy on electricity to fund an LNG terminal”, “because New Zealand also has a goal to achieve 100% renewable electricity generation by 2030,”