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Pause Charter-School Approvals Until Transparency & Safety Are Guaranteed Our children deserve access to safe and integrity-driven education. Right now, companies like Crimson are pushing charter schools through with almost no oversight, while making money off private tutor...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pa...

$12 billion on defense, $9billion new spending. But they've cut funding to food banks when 900,000 are reportedly food insecure. And they've just cut funding for disabled travel costs.

Government financial position weaker than expected in May budget The government's financial position is looking worse for longer with a delay in getting to surplus and bigger deficits, according to new Treasury forecasts.

Thanks Luxon, Willis et al for f***ing our economy. This is all on you & your choices. #nzpol
Government financial position weaker than expected in May budget www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Treasury: NZ's economy should grow soon, but so too will our debt The Treasury remains hopeful that New Zealand's economy will grow next year, although its official has downplayed how good those times will be.

Treasury blames everything but their Minister for the state of NZ's economy. #HYEFU #NzPol

I've not been on here for ages and I'm surprised at the reaction to the Chris Hipkins interview compared to twitter. I fully agree that he/Labour needs to up their game. They should be miles ahead of National in the polls, that alone should tell them something! Start with some real Labour policies.

What are they doing over the ditch? They could have had a flacid Emissions Trading Scheme instead of these ridiculous, distorting subsidies. Idiots.

A Facebook post by Yifat Goddard shows a photo of four people standing together indoors. From left to right, a woman in a black floral dress, a man in a dark long-sleeved shirt, another man in a dark suit with glasses, and a man in a pinstriped suit. The caption mentions Brian Tamaki, Alfred Ngaro, and Nigel Woodley, noting that it was an important meeting with the deputy of the minister of foreign affairs in Israel.

After New Zealand announced it would not recognise a Palestinian state, Israeli deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskell visited the country. While here she met with Christian Zionist leaders

Brian Tamaki (Destiny Church)
Alfred Ngaro (leader of the NewZeal party)
Nigel Woodley (Flaxmere Fellowship)

You also didn't campaign on:

- cancelling the ferries
- throwing out the anti-smoking legislation
- shutting down the health system
- ditching pay equity
- NULLIFYING TE TIRITI
- requiring all legislation EVER to be approved by David Seymour
- etc etc

And yet,

They don't pay their actors and back stage crew, do they.

"Somehow selling off assets,(which can mean life itself, including land and basic infrastructure), running down public services, cutting jobs, degrading the environment & exporting our young people, is supposed to deliver a thriving economy".

Importantly, Renney highlights that Luxon could stop this exorbitant waste of money if he wanted to now - and stay true to his commitment to Seymour. Will the National Party? I think we all know the answer to that.

Oof. This bit, from @mountaintui.bsky.social today:

mountaintui.substack.com/p/treaty-pri...

For what it's worth, IMO part of the role of an opposition party is it credibly articulate an alternative to the Government. If part of Labour's election platform is "here is what NACT promised and here is how they failed to deliver", I wouldn't call that abandoning its voters.

#NZ Government is minimising the potential of our Human Rights being maintained & fulfilled.

3 more years & we’re worse than on our knees.

First glimpse of decent December 2024 econ data. How are companies doing?
Well, record numbers of companies called it a day. That's nearly 8,000 companies removed from the companies register in December alone (50,000 for the year). Lots of reasons to stop trading of course... [🧵1/n]

With grim economic news likely set to continue, we will see more of this "vibes based analysis" in the near future - as those who endorse the government's current policies look for any support they can find. New Zealand isn't back on track yet - it’s currently getting worse for working people

THIS. Proposed cuts would literally reduce our central maternity workforce from six (used to be *15*) to ONE. 60000 births a year, desperate shortages in clinical staff who are having to pick up loads of admin and quality “back room” work. One person can’t be the hub of the wheel.

YouTube video by RNZ Rawiri Waititi wraps up end of year debate with cheeky waiata | RNZ

Make this *the* #ChristmasSong of 2024. Share everywhere

For those in USA, this is what #NZpol looked like while #Congress was trying to fund your government (our system means the #CorruptCoalition can tank our country without check until the next election)
youtu.be/TgtXO1RmT0E?...

Just catching up on Luxon's Q+A interview (yikes) and something that I noted was he kept saying that rents have stopped rising under this government.

That isn't true. Not only are rents rising fast relative to past years, they're now rising faster than wages

ERS Position Paper on Heated Tobacco Products - ERS - European Respiratory Society ERS is an international membership organisation that unites physicians, health professionals, scientists and other experts working in respiratory medicine.

An interesting article on heated tobacco products

#nzpol

I still can’t believe that Casey Costello and NZ first get to decide New Zealand’s smoking policy with zero oversight or input from the Minister of Health (as useless as he is) 🤯

www.ersnet.org/news-and-fea...

Jones’ staffer arranged undeclared dinner with mining companies Resources Minister Shane Jones refuses to answer fresh questions about an undeclared dinner on the South Island’s West Coast which, newly released emails reveal, was arranged by his staff.

No, discussion is NOT closed - the Minister used his office staff and ministerial title to arrange a dinner with mining companies invited to submit fast track applications.
Which wasn’t diarised.
Then blamed his staff.
Um, WHAT?

Great work by Newsroom here.
#nzpol

On Luxon’s Landlord Myths, And The Needless Nightmare Of High Interest Rates During the PM’s post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, Christopher Luxon claimed that renters will be feeling “grateful” for the way the government is putting “downward pressure“ on rents. Really. A...

"If the bulk of landlords cared for their tenants, many of them wouldn’t be so reluctant to do the maintenance work and carry out the improvements to make their rental properties warm and healthy." 🇳🇿

Excellent info here. Thank you.

My niece suffers from POTS too and she's been very ill with it, especially the tachycardia & has been off work, so I really can sympathise. She's joined the POTS facebook page where she's found some quite helpful info.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says Māori protests against government 'pretty unfair' Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government plans to work for Māori and non-Māori alike, and protests are "unfair" for a government that's only been in power a week.

Would you not expect protests in Wales if you replaced the bilingual Welsh & English road signs with English only?

Would you not expect protests in Northern Ireland if you replaced the bilingual Gaelic & English road signs with English only?

Why expect any different in Aotearoa New Zealand?
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Woman visiting her mother in small town where he lived. She went into an ice cream parlour & there he was. Starstruck, bought her icecream. Back at car she had change in one hand & handbag in the other but no icecream so went back.
He, sitting in the corner said "it's in your handbag".
True story.

I really hope Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson don't make any rash decisions because, let's face it, a National govt with with the worst leader in it's history plus with no real finance minister, combined with Seymour & Peters, can't help but fall apart. We'll need Chris Hipkins & Grant Robertson!

Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation. What are we going to ... New Zealand's air pollution crisis

I've spent a year working on this investigation into New Zealand's hidden air pollution crisis and I'm stoked to share it!

For those without the time for a long read, the wonderful
Hugo Stewart has put together a fantastic video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnFr...

Look at that, our .09% growth is ahead of those countries we compare ourselves to. Don't believe the ads you see on the telly or anything that comes out of Luxon's mouth