Roscoe Changleen

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Wait was the mistake savings 20,000 plus lives, Nicola? Photo of Willis and a headline "Govt says it won't make the same mistakes as the last if hit by a pandemic"

AI is gonna mark your children’s assignments and we are gonna put tracking devices on your car and sell all our conservation lands and take away your voting rights and blame you when businesses go under for not spending your non existent money.

YOURE GONNA LOVE IT - Nats

Like, more than half.

Why we don't already have a Labour-TPM-Greens coalition in opposition to the current Government in NZ is just beyond me.

The population of Aotearoa is crying (some of us literally) out for sweeping changes to justice, poverty, health, social welfare, education, taxation and climate change.

What I'd just say to you is, of course if voters enroll on the day then they're ON THE ROLL, INCL FOR JURY DUTY but if it's too hard then they're not on the roll for BOTH but my man Bish is the best we've got @ bullshitting black is white
#LyingExTobaccoLobbyist #ElectionRiggers

Quick video for the 'we saved too many lives, spent too much $, sent inflation to the moon, made interest rates go up, and now we have to pay for our sins 😢' crowd.
The idea that NZ could have 'opted out' of global inflation surge is daft. Almost as daft as NZ opting almost uniquely for a recession.

Erica Stanford hiring a radical anti-Maori language & education advisor who is teaching Stanford how to roll back "de-colonisation" is both riveting and extraordinary

Logically it should be blaring red lights, but in practice, it's not apparently so

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"I don't care what you say about whether it [bootcamps] does or doesn't work. We can have that intellectual conversation all day long, but we are, dammit, going to try something different because we cannot carry on getting the results that we've been getting.” - Luxon in 2024

🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣

Audrey Young, Heather du Plessis-Allan and Thomas Coughlan's verdicts are in: Erica Stanford is a star!

If you're wondering why NZME would pay three different people for the same opinion it's because the real goal is the Tory media laying the groundwork for Luxon's replacement.

‘We’ve had so much taken off us’: Backlash to the drift towards a cashless society But what does a cashless society mean for those not ready to leave notes and coins behind?

I'm sorry but if you're writing an article about the impacts of an NZ first members bill, you should be pointing out that NZ first keeps adding and removing member's bills from the biscuit tin because they're not serious politicians.

Hey @chrishipkins.bsky.social Be a better representative of LABOUR. Stop being so neolib-lite.

Labour MPs gather in Christchurch to formulate election strategy The party is inching closer to announcing its tax policy, amid growing unemployment.

Unemployment & homelessness rising, health system crumbles - yet Labour seems set on a CGT as its key response - sometime. Labour friends: is there any understanding that courageous, effective income redistribution & support for public services is the only way you'll regain real respect from many?

Finally a billboard we can all get behind! Well done Go Media for stepping up in a mana filled manner 👏 #VoteYesToMāoriWards #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #Aotearoa #nzpol

The way the at the right-wing is framed up to look "reasonable" for backing down and *removing the evidence* when they openly defame and lie

It's frustrating listening to right wing parrots spin mRNA vaccines as a failure when they literally saved tens of millions of lives on a fucking side quest!

mRNA vaccines are, without exaggeration, one of the greatest inventions in human history.

We basically hacked our immune systems. “Here’s the secret code for this new virus, prep to fight exactly that.” A promising avenue for addressing some cancers too.

And the US is throwing it away. For what?

Just more racism.

The only person to suggest "Wellington Bays" as an alternate name to the Rongotai electorate was one Neale Jones, who apparently didn't understand what "Rongotai" actually means in Te Reo and so just went with an English alternative instead ... and the Representation Commission went along with it.

Seven of the 10 young men involved in the controversial military-style academy (MSA) boot camp pilot reoffended, according to Oranga Tamariki. But the agency and its Minister is calling the programme a success, after eight of the original 10 participants successfully completed the first 12-month pilot. During the pilot, which has just concluded, participants ran away, one was kicked out of the programme and another was killed in a three-vehicle crash. Speaking to RNZ, acting senior manager in charge Iain Chapman said at the time the pilot began, the 10 participants were the "most serious and persistent young offenders in the country". Going into the pilot and expecting no reoffending would have been naive, he said.

There's a world of difference between expecting no reoffending, and calling 70% reoffending a success.

This government is an absolute joke. And journalists should laugh in their face the next time they claim to be evidence based.🤦‍♂️ #nzpol

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If they were any kind of journalists this article would end with something like “This represents the latest in a career long pattern for Bishop, who has frequently made known false claims about opponents and only walking them back when repeatedly challenged, but once reputational damage is done.”

Nicola Toki wrote: Great to see this getting some attention, thought, and hopefully momentum Underneath is a Mountain Tui article with headline: "Luxon wants to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands" The photo is of Luxon and Tama Potaka

Writing my Subtack is work. Often far too much for no real discernible reason, and often feeling stupid for it.

But today - Nicola Toki's note made my day.

Intense respect to her and the organisation she leads - Forest and Bird.

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Luxon wants to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands National say they will "unleash growth". That may be by selling / exchanging 5 million hectares of conservation land, much of it with "high ecological value" - representing 2/3 of the entire estate.

It's true - Luxon & National want to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment states:

“This proposal would represent a major change to New Zealand conservation law...The vast majority of this land is of high ecological value.”

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Struggling to think of a single downside.

Two graphs that everyone should understand. 1. Our govt has more financial savings (assets) than debts. Govt Debt in NZ is irrelevant. In fact it's too low given state of our infra. 2. Private debt is however out of control - draining our economy and enriching wealthy folks.

#NZPol Any government should need a significant supermajority and to have campaigned on selling any publicly owned assets.

It’s disgusting that these morons are allowed to impoverish our shared future prosperity for a 20 second sugar hit because they are too stupid to invest in productive growth.

The life-changing power of blaming everything on road cones The government isn’t being misleading about transport spending – it’s pioneering a transformative new mindfulness tool.

The government isn’t being misleading about transport spending – it’s pioneering a transformative new mindfulness tool.

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Some googling says it's 2-3 days.
"Because grapefruit permanently prevents the enzyme from breaking down the drugs, the body must manufacture more enzymes. This can take 36 hours or more. For that reason, it doesn't help to stagger the timing of medicines and grapefruit."

#NZPol Andrea Vance this time. Despite the headline and clip, the slip happened on Monday, council engineers have attended and assessed, the Post have bullied the mayor to get involved which she has and now on Thursday we get ‘council shit’. Now *this* is peak shit journalism.

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