Mandy Hager

The Opportunity Party still hates beneficiaries If you dismantle welfare, you push many New Zealanders into desperate poverty.

The Opportunity Party still hates beneficiaries.

If you dismantle welfare, you push many New Zealanders into desperate poverty.

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A very good explainer piece on economic vision #nzpol

It's wild that the right-wing media are starting to do a better job of examining the CoC than most of the moderate or the left. This absolutely smacks of corruption because there is essentially zero financial or environmental case for it #nzpol

Are we just supposed to accept that every heavy rainfall event will result in death? #nzpol

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It's like the gov want a ferry disaster... #nzpol #govhomicide

Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal | Cornell Chronicle Liquefied natural gas leaves a carbon footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new Cornell study.

#LNG Liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing & shipping are taken into account.
Natural gas & shale gas are all bad Liquefied natural gas is worse," #nzpol #climate #ghg news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

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#nzpol New unemployment data from Stats NZ today, showing the impact of an economy that isn't working. An additional 5,000 people became unemployed during the quarter, rising to levels last seen in 2015. 164,000 people are now unemployed, up 39,000 in just 2 years. A🧵

A list of key dates for the 2026 General Election.
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Next up is August 6:
* Last day for registration of parties and logos
* Last day for Māori who are already enrolled to change roll types (midnight)

#NZPol #NZElection

'Nakedly political': No rivals considered for Judith Collins' new job The outgoing minister was the only person considered for Law Commission president - with no recruitment process and no other candidates.

There’s the shonky process & I’d thought her short tenure as Leader of the National Party should have disqualified her from the post. Petty, vindictive, sneery & openly manipulative. It was a trainwreck and I think the Law Commission and NZ should be concerned. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

"Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says the government is still waiting for advice from officials"...

This delay means AoNZ will have no input to shape the foundational rules being debated at the April UN meeting
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LNG vs rooftop solar.
LNG requires a $2.7B infrastructure investment, most of the work will happen in one place - Taranaki.
Us consumers will pay for LNG generated power FOREVER.

If the Govt subsidised $2.7B of rooftop solar, there'd be work across the motu.
The electricity would be FREE forever.

This, 100%

Now imagine if we lived in say a small island with the 9th longest coastline in the world at 15,000 km (36% more than Great Britain), & that island happened to protrude into the roaring 40s, a continuous wind pattern spanning the entire globe, boy wouldn't that be cool.

Or fucking import LNG

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Wellington wastewater plant operator has faced overseas legal action over failures The multinational company contracted to operate Wellington’s failed wastewater plant has been the subject of several legal cases overseas.

Veolia multinational company operating Wellington NZ’s wastewater plant is implicated in overseas legal cases over maintenance failures that saw raw sewage discharged into seas.

Can NZ councils replace incompetent #Veolia with inhouse service? Get $ back?
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Bulk of Otago now covered in mining related permits Shows map of OTago

Hearing a foreign-owned gold mining company CEO is calling Otago "the new West Africa of mining"

To help stop mine start by adding your voice to the thousands of people who have already at eepurl.com/jsaheU and you can also find out other ways to help here: sustainabletarras.com/nomine/ #nzpol

#BHN This is where we left off the saga of the CoC LNG conversation yesterday

- Luxon says it's not a tax
- Watt says it's not a levy or a tax
- Seymour says it is a levy
- Winston says it is a tax

Are we all clear now? #nzpol #nzpolitics

Dictionary definition of ‘levy’: "a tax raised by levying: we all pay a fossil fuel levy in our electricity bills."

#NZpol Dear Christopher Luxon,

A 'levy' is defined as ‘a tax raised by levying’

The example used in the Dictionary app (source OED) is very appropriate:

"we all pay a fossil fuel levy in our electricity bills."

We're spending a billion dollars on the generating equivalent of an 8 track cassette player

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What fuckery is this?!? JFC 😓

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ONE BILLION DOLLARS.

IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.

No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.

New Electricity Tax To Subsidise Private Corporations & Fossil Fuels National Party, laser focused on the cost of living, threw away ~$1 billion on ferries, introduced Paywave changes that will increase fees & are now levying a new tax on Kiwi families and businesses

Was going to paywall but too much critical information to do so - I'll never be a good business man but who cares? Public interest first. I'll give up my days for that.

New electricity tax to subsidise private corporations & fossil fuels #nzpol #kiwi

Is Luxon trying for a Pick Me favour from Trump with move to buy USA's LNG?

Sounds like Amazon paying Melania for movie!

Dubious product to buy favour!
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‘Most critical since 1967’: Israeli move to expand West Bank powers slammed The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

9/2 2026

Aljazeera Live updates

#Israel approves measures to expand its powers in occupied #WestBank

#Palestine #auspol #nzpol #cdnpol #cdnpoli #uspol #iepol #ukpol #frpol #eupol #depol #nopol #sepol #fipol #dkpol

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New Zealand deputy PM heckled day after saying colonisation good for Maori PM calls for civil debate as government faces backlash over efforts to roll back policies to support Maori community.

Good to see David Seymour getting the recognition he deserves.

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#lyingluxon again??
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Part of Taupō high school ‘completely destroyed’, as two fire appliances fail Emergency services were called to the blaze on Spa Rd on Sunday afternoon.

Part of Taupō high school ‘completely destroyed’.

Remember: firefighters have been reporting these equipment failures almost daily and #NZ homes and businesses have burned down over the last year, while ACT and Nat Ministers downplayed the crisis #nzpol

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#StephenMiller: #Edgelord in Chief

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#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #TRump
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