OH COME THE FUCK ON.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Good to see someone taking this seriously #nzpol

A vast corruption scandal involving our PM and some of our biggest private companies and its not even on the front pages of the news sites any more already #nzpol

The duck horse discourse feels a lot like a dead cat to distract from National allowing corporates to write our climate change laws #nzpol

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

While National is offering loan guarantees, remember that they cancelled straight-up funding for decarbonisation through GIDI, so they could give the money to landlords as tax cuts www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Facebook let's you set up words that, if used in a comment, will auto hide the comment. Obviously I added all the common stuff like bitch and cunt, etc but you know what, adding "ratepayer" has never missed. Not always accompanying abusive comments, but always mis or disinformation.

Holy shit. This is quite serious. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Mike Smith "This is not just about climate change anymore. This is about whether billion-dollar corporations can use their political access to shut down legal challenges they do not want to answer." #nzpol

@mayor.nyc.gov: “I have thought often of the "Margeret Thatcher quote: ‘the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."

I wish I could remember where, but I saw a quote somewhere recently that was effectively: "Would you let random commenters on Reddit make your company's key business decisions? Because that's what is happening when you outsource core work to LLMs"

Not only did the coalition government dump all the work done towards safer online spaces (partly in response to the Inquiry), it gutted funding to disinformation research and cut staff that oversaw online threats, like these. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

Lazy Luxon allowing industry to write the countrys environmental laws is 👀 👇🏼 #nzpol

Luxon allowing lobbyists to write their own laws and then passing them verbatim is some next level Trumpian BS and should have no place here in NZ #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Holy moly. Luxon on tv tonight denying his office ever saw the draft climate law given to his office by Fonterra & Z Energy; the companies confirm they handed them over. Language of our draft legislation almost identical. Banger of a story www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361... #nzpol

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

i have a template to copy and paste and just add your own thoughts on it, open.substack.com/pub/huhana62...

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

I was there. We were excited. Nobody had to pressure and cajole and gaslight us to get us to use it.

This post outlines key concerns about the Disability Support Services Bill - the lack of consultation, an over reliance on unpaid family carers, and the eroding of disabled ppls rights: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/... #nzpol

Labour stands with public servants, public service unions, and the services we all need. 167 days to make this a one-term government and turn New Zealand around

Nats are acting like state housing is emergency housing, which tracks because they basically made emergency housing not exist. Michael Joseph Savage on the other hand established state housing as permanent, secure rental homes. Can we spot the difference whānau? #NZPol

Trying to navigate the Counties Manukau health system on my Mum’s behalf and I know everyone is doing their best - but god almighty it is grim. Every service that might be helpful is unavailable unless you are triaged at the absolute highest risk. Govt saving millions using family as unpaid carers.

Call me naive but couldn’t we raise corporate tax by 2% over a certain threshold (& cut MP’s accom benefit) instead of squeezing money out of people in social housing, cutting sexual abuse prevention services, forcing schools to choose between a heat pump & a teacher aide (as per the Press today)?

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/act-leade... Only corrects it after he gets caught. Will he be treated the same as Michael Wood or will Seymour get away with it like he did his links with Tim Jago? #nzpol

Long term state housing provides people with stability, you absolute ghoul. It means people can become part of a community, children don't have to keep changing schools, they have enough left over from rent to afford food ... to frame this as "dependency" is as bad as Willis's lotto reference #nzpol

This grift has been going on forever: Nat MP owns BUT DOES NOT LIVE IN Wellington apartment. Nat MP RENTS their apartment to ACT MP (who ALSO owns but does not live in a Wellington apartment) Nat MP rents NZF MP's Wellington apartment. All claim $1000/wk allowance while bashing beneficiaries.

Reading the updates on the everlee wihongi case will make you want NZ to cut off all diplomatic relationships with the USA and expel the ambassador because what the fuck.

Yeah, like winning the lotto.

It’s bad to be in social housing cause you are poor but completely fine to charge the taxpayer $52,000 to rent the house you already own. National party MPs are disgusting people and people who vote for them are disgusting too.

#NZpol Funding diabetes meds Wow, David Seymour accuses scientists and doctors "of lazy thinking we’ve seen in recent years" 😯😠 Arrogant shit from him. He also called the researcher(s) of the paper cited "biased". In science we don’t look at one paper; we consider all the data taken together 1/2

National MPs, with their six figure salaries, who claim accommodation supplements that are more than some state housing occupants earn in a year, stripping away accomm support for state housing tenants is some next level hypocritical cruelty. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol

Louise Upston pushing down hard on state housing while claiming $1000/week to stay in her own apartment: #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

like the timing ain’t greeaaat if we’re talking about who’s getting an easy ride here www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

This would be completely unsurvivable if it was a real product being delivered in a real market, not the Potemkin market of lowest bid wins neoliberal public service contracting. Corporate business models are not fit for purpose here. The old system worked. businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...

I've never seen anything like this. The Coalition's attacks on disabled people and the people who care for them are just relentless. We need to get rid of this vicious government, and we must put all our energy into doing it. www.emilywrites.co.nz/breaking-the... #nzpol

Bryan Roche describing the thousands of public servants whose jobs are under threat as "Human Capital" is a bit of a tell as to the worth they place on the working class.

social housing tenants would probably feel more like they had won the Lotto if they could claim a $36,400 accommodation supplement to live in their own property

Btw, while it's interesting to see people break down how you can make cheap meals, you have to be able to afford the ingredients to do it. No one can individually buy like 2c worth of carrots or bread or whatever. You need $5 for the whole loaf, $9 for a carton of eggs, etc.

Or, stay with me, people in private rentals are getting shafted and anyone not subject to private landlords looks like they won the lotto by comparison.

I liked our country better when we weren't treating everyone except rich, cis white people like absolute shit. And to be clear, we weren't exactly perfect before, but my heart hurts every day seeing the path we're currently on

We have another govt attack on Te Tiriti. NACT do not like health regulators having competencies that are Te Tiriti -based. Bill to revise the HPCA will give Minister power to direct regulators - Cabinet paper specifically mentions guidelines for practice. www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

Speaking as we were of cartoon villains. #nzpol

REDUCING SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL HOUSING TENANTS AND INCREASING THE SUBSIDY FOR PRIVATE TENANTS IS GIVING MORE MONEY TO PRIVATE LANDLORDS www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

THEY'RE TAKING $390 MILLION AWAY FROM SOCIAL HOUSING TENANTS AND GIVING IT TO PRIVATE LANDLORDS WHO HAVE TENANTS RECEIVING THE ACCOMMODATION SUPPLEMENT - IT WONT GO TO THE TENANTS, IT GOES TO THE LANDLORDS NATIONAL ARE GIVING MORE PUBLIC MONEY TO LANDLORDS, INSTEAD OF SOCIAL HOUSING PROVIDERS

The well paid folks on the board of CompassNZ delivered substandard slop to NZ kids while their website marketed itself as a provider par excellence. #nzpol compass-group.co.nz/supporting-t... Criminal negligence given the cost of living crisis. They should lose all govt contacts imo.