Too many of my generation stay in their lane and won’t change their vote even when the evidence is compelling.

Your own image?

Act declares its first mission is to keep the greens and labour out of power. Nothing aspirational or inspirational

Is that rents for new occupancies because my rent hasn’t dropped and neither have other friends rent

What a petty racist govt we have, dropping the te reo name from the school lunch program. Pathetic

Unfortunately all the talk about if it’s a tax or not diverts from what a massively stupid decision going for lpg is

The State of South Australia in Aussie has those answers for you. They went down the solar path and it’s been wildly successful

I hope you are right, hope I am completely wrong but I have a foreboding feeling we will see these scumbags back in again

Wish I had your optimism. Too many people accept the tired lies too easily and the left don’t push back or fact check aggressively enough.

It’s all she ever does, slag off the greens and labour. She is paid to do only that

I hate the term green shoots relative to our economy. It’s a trite way of ignoring all the damage done to so many people by this govt.

Worst summer in Auckland I can remember, forecast is for another week of this

It’s still bad for me, the worst in 36 years

And just to cap it off, this fake lead story is "Funded by the Parliamentary Service". I hope anyone working for Stuff as a journalist is feeling deeply embarrassed by this.

Well said I’m with you on this

I’ve been in business for 35 years. The last tax return was the smallest amount of tax I have paid even lower than my 1st year in business. This govt are economic morons

I spent 18 hours sitting with my elderly mother a couple of weeks ago in ed before she was able to be seen by a cardiologist. It’s the first time I’ve ever experienced such a delay

Graph of public pension costs as % of GDP for OECD countries in 2021 (latest data). NZ is lower quartile at around 5.1%. OECD average is 7.8%. Plenty of Euro countries are around 10% or above.

Looks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵
❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌
Seriously, no, for lots of reasons.
1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]

What an absolute disgrace. Just as with the South African rugby tours in the 80s we are on the wrong side of the ethical and moral argument and on the wrong side of history.

Weekly jobs day! Still crap. Next to no sign of recovery. See you next week.

In today’s NZ Herald

#BHN Before ‘trickle down economics’ was popularized it was called ‘the horse and sparrow theory’ where if the horse was fed enough oats, some would pass through its digestive system and the sparrow could eat from its manure

Literally picking through the shit of the rich for scraps

I’ve been in NZ since 1963 and this is the worst one

Well it’s clear all he listens to are penguins

Sadly I think it’s growing fast and denying its growth is very dangerous. We have a major problem just in the horizon.

It’s strange how nobody is questioning the fact that in the terms of reference NZ first are excluded from having to appear. That looks like corruption to me when they had a part in writing the terms of reference

Why exactly?

My latest tax return was the lowest since 1990 when I first became self employed. My income dropped by 50% in just over a year.

Leaving this here…#nzpol

Under John Key the phrase “ The working poor” gained traction, now we have “ The working Homeless” appearing in our language.