Ivanka Rosandich

‘When farmers do well, NZ does well’: National’s most used line, explained It’s one of the most used lines from the National Party, but is it true? And how exactly does the rest of the country benefit?

Compulsory reading for all kiwis

Unless they still believe in trickle down

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Love the last line “If it's so true that the gains of the farming sector are so good for New Zealand, how is it that 25% of New Zealanders are going hungry sometimes or often?”

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

If you add in those fleeing across the ditch... its just so bleak

Fishing industry nets changes to cameras, discards and catch restrictions Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says the changes are the biggest in 40 years, and will put an end to 'reckless' legal attacks that demonise fishers. Jonathan Milne reports.

This really boils my blood! Allowing trawlers to dump anything at sea, no public scrutiny of cameras, restricting judicial oversight and allowing quotas to roll over uncaught catch for 4 years 😡😡😡
#nzpol

Surprised/pleased to learn that Kiwibank doesn't add a Paywave surcharge to merchants.
So if your merchant doesn't want to be on the hook for those...

Ha! I thought that too

text reading "Kiwis Fleecing Kiwis Why the Foodstuffs model is failing."

1/3 PAK'nSAVE Richmond workers are calling out their bosses after a 6-month bargaining ordeal. The latest pay offer falls well below inflation, a real-terms pay cut for workers who are struggling.

"Customers are always shocked we don’t even get a staff discount, let alone a living wage." - Worker

"We can't increase the minimum wage because small businesses can't absorb it. The price of my latte will increase!"

"Small businesses just need to absorb transaction fees charged by the big banks"

Trying to spot the difference here. 🤔

#nzpol

War on Councils: It's Begun! Familiar faces abound as 3 Waters Mark II formally kicks off

Faced with an 8yr high in unemployment, 10yr high in business liquidations, 10yr high in Kiwis leaving #NZ, surging food prices, 500,000+ Kiwis accessing food banks every month, & persistently falling growth numbers, #National’s doing what it does best: open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

Does no-one in the CoC remember INCIS or Novopay? The history of govt IT projects is littered with costly fever-dreams that did not deliver. With such a poor understanding of the weaknesses & flaws of LLMs, Collins and Seymour are driving us over the cliff of another costly IT fuckup with AI. #nzpol

Oranga Tamariki won’t publicise scale of reoffending during future bootcamps More bootcamp programmes will be run as soon as next year.

Paywalled

Reoffending won’t be publicised during future bootcamps as officials prepare for ‘MSA 2.0′
#nzpol

Where do I send conservatives the bill for climate change? After all, if there's one thing they love, it's personal responsibility....

Where do I send conservatives the bill for climate change?

🤣🤣
Exactly!

Didn't the nats implement them under Key? So another one of their policies they are back tracking.

So dog food is now acceptable for the kids?
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#ActIsWorse

Yep, aware for a change

Night shelters say they're bearing brunt of emergency housing clamp down While rough sleeping is on the rise, the number of people being granted emergency housing has dramatically decreased.

Stuff can reveal the impact of the Government's directive to apply more "scrutiny" to emergency housing applications. The rate of successful emergency housing applications fell from 90% to 65%.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

WTF!
It will get worse as we don't post much these days

Injured homeless woman sleeps in her car on hospital grounds in Rotorua Nicola was discharged nearly two weeks ago, but has nowhere to go.

So, my fellow New Zealanders, are we okay with this?

Because if we,as a society, are fine with this,then I give this country fair warning:

ONE DAY YOU MAY BE IN DIRE NEED OF STATE ASSISTANCE...

...AND IT WONT BE THERE TO HELP YOU.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

An excellent and important 🧵 about David Seymour's current targeting of individuals who publically disagree with him.
It's a deliberate strategy designed to threaten and intimidate and needs to be called out as such.
#nzpol

Maybe he's actively trying to be a one term govt so he can claim some form of success?

Goldmine meetings in Central Otago heating up Stay connected with Central Otago! The Central App brings you the latest Central Otago news, job listings, events, and road updates—all in one place.

Poll in article

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PSA for adults who haven't had a booster for Whooping Cough... it is available at age 45 & 65. Thought I was going to die on several occasions during the past 6 weeks, starting to feel more alive but my asthmatic lungs are pretty buggered and will take much longer to fully recover.

Once again the Greens being the adults in the room.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#ActIsWorse

Exactly. Him & Verity Johnson - Can't read any of their (sometimes on point) criticism of the current govt without thinking they helped create this mess by championing/peddling "change" & "better business" myths while putting the boot into the previous govt. Each piece should include an apology.

Melissa McEwan • @Shakestweetz "Billionaire" isn't a qualification. It's the description of a person who is hoarding more resources than they could use in 100 lifetimes while other people are starving. It's the name for a human dragon sleeping on its pile of rubies and gold.

Luxon on RNZ equating billionaires with hard work. There is not one LivingWageEmployer on the rich list, the govt has stolen the chance of decent pay from 300,000+ actual hard working women, & the PM wants to celebrate the folks who don’t want to pay their fair share of tax or decent wages.

Thanks! Will let my GF person know.

List of ex-govt entities sold off but needing to be bought back because they were almost run into the ground.

Proof of past privatisation far cups.
#nzpol