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Story framed as solar doesn't work when it's a technical issue. This is such a bullshit and misleading headline #nzpol

Let’s do THIS

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An important thread 🧵

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CC the media in New Zealand who just keep on pretending everything is normal and platforming the people who would happily destroy them #nzpol

“Oops, sorry no defence for harming pedestrians” Letter of the Week from Saturday’s Herald notes 5 school students hit by traffic this year inc. 10-year-old who was tragically killed after exiting bus 😭 time to re-prioritise vulnerable road users #saferspeeds #carbrain #oopssorry #nzpol

Lots of banking data out today (more later). Govt net spending is still pushing on up, but bond sales are sucking a bit more money out than Govt are pumping in.

Quite frankly the "less kind" can far cough

Gangs outnumber police in New Zealand - But That's Not All Gang profits have doubled, organised crimes are strengthening their hooks, NZ has lost experienced cops & can't even recruit 500 new ones

Gang profits have doubled, international organised crime strengthening their hooks, NZ has lost experienced cops, retail crime is up and often being ignored, drug use is in full blown crisis, domestic violence at 8 year highs, and the violent crime numbers are off base

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More top level journalism from Stuff on Jacinda's move to Australia quoting trolls from Elon's pedo social platform #nzpol

Student road patroller hit at crossing becomes 5th child run over on school run this month The latest child casualty was on morning duty when they were struck by a car.

Is it just me that thinks if the cars were going through store fronts instead of children there'd be something from this govt about it?

But since it's people's lives and not businesses livelihood they're quiet.

Since their policies create the situation, they're quiet.

Deafeningly quiet.

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23 $412m profit, 24 $146m profit, 25 $126m profit - 1 bad half year result and Seymour sees an opportunity to do the bidding of his paymasters and go on an anti-woke tirade

It's absurd that we provide electricity on the basis of maximising private profit instead of public good.

The shareholders have had their fun. Take it back.

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EDS Investigates: Freshwater ambushed | EDS The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has launched a series of investigative pieces into how environmental laws are being made in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since coming into power, the use of urgency ha...

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EXCEPTIONAL work from the Environmental Defence Society as always. Please take some time to read e te whānau

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A painting of a bird beside the text "oh you can definitely fuck off with that shit"

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WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK??????

This was how NACT funded their tax cuts for the wealthy and tax breaks for tobacco - off the backs of working women

Everything but the actual issues.

Where exactly are we going to “move-on” all the people in need of housing? Won’t be into the 3,500 cancelled new state home builds, or the 900 up for sale: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/where-exac...

Amen 🙏

Govt embarks on sale of 900 state houses, old and new Kāinga Ora sells rundown one bedroom demo-job for $1.37m in now-affluent seaside suburb of Pt Chev – and there's much more to come, reports Jonathan Milne.

When John Key sold 1000 state homes, it made headlines & sparked debate

Now Chris Bishop has cancelled 3500 builds & selling 900 houses (with land extra) in what's been called a private developers' lolly scramble, it's hardly making a splash

How #NZ has changed #nzpol

That's some full Handmaids tale insanity WTAF

Govt threatens to imprison homeless for 90 days at a cost of $49,680 per person Govt to empower Police to 'move on' homeless with threat of three months prison, costing taxpayer $552 per person per night; Govt adds 2,000 prison beds since election & delivers 420 new homes

FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

I give homeless people money if I have any on me, and then I vote for parties that will address the causes of homelessness. This is baseline decency and our own Prime Minister can't even drag himself up to that, because he's a prosperity gospel prick #nzpol

Maybe he should read something instead of getting all his information off Facebook.

What a dipshit

It's shocking. But does not surprise me. They seem to have become beholden to the government. They are doing a disservice to the people of Aotearoa.

Chris Hipkins' State of the Nation speech read like a "lump of jelly" filled with sentiment, but no concrete plans, and that Chat GPT could have written it, says Nationals' deputy leader. Nicola Willis is calling for a contest of "actual ideas" with the Labour leader, because if the party does not come up with policy, "the Greens and Te Pāti Māori are ready to go". New Zealand First leader Winston Peters also criticised Hipkins for one of the "most boring State of the Nation speeches in recorded history", and ACT leader David Seymour called it "featherweight". Hipkins made the speech in Auckland today, taking aim at the government's cost of living and climate policies. He did not announce any new policy, but repeated his promise that the public would see a "different" Labour to 2023. Chris “softy” Hipkins just delivered one of the most boring State of the Nation speeches in recorded history

The ACT leader has distinguished his party from its coalition partners in a state of the nation speech, giving a blunt assessment of how tough things are at the moment, especially for young people. ACT leader and Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour took a swipe at "bureaucratic" governments that aren't balancing their books, turned an old call for a smaller government into a campaign promise, and rejected the "endless blame game" of scapegoating one group after another. Seymour spoke to around 200 party supporters at a venue in Christchurch while a group of around 30 protestors gathered outside, raising concerns about pay equity, attacks on Te Tiriti and Palestine. Some protestors were also heard chanting inside the venue, with sirens being played during his introduction by deputy leader Brooke van Velden. Seymour said the number of people leaving the country was a "flashing light on the dashboard of New Zealand", and he used his speech to specify the "hard choices" needed to "turn down those lights".

I'm actually getting worried about RNZ now. Two articles, both on state of the nation speeches, same author, one week apart. Notice a difference?

ACT's is largely copy paste press release, Labour's is entirely framed by its detractors. #nzpol

Genesis Energy announces $400m capital raise, government to buy up to $200m of new shares It posted a strong lift in half year profit and announced a capital raise, as the government confirmed a $200m investment to maintain its stake.

Our electricity market should be lowering energy costs and protecting jobs, not helping the rich get richer. We need to fundamentally change our approach to delivering electricity. Publicly owned electricity remains the solution. #nzpol

All she does is attack. She has nothing to offer but pettiness and misery.