If this is the PM’s standard approach to assessing legality, my plans to be a bank robber have all of a sudden taken on new purpose
“Foodstuffs North and South Island profits in 2024 remained higher than almost all global competitors including Walmart, Tesco, Kroger, Sainsbury and Carrefour, as reported in the Annual Grocery Report released today.”
Absorb the cost yourselves, fuckers.
#nzpol
Well, well, well
"Southland data centre to draw 220 MILLION litres of water a year"
![RNZ homepage this morning (with awkward typos!): breaking news banner reads “Average 91 petrol price around country surges past $3, Nicola Willis slams EV subsidies for ‘millionaires in Remuara’ [sic]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gcxgs7k33dfxqlr5a6uzp35z/bafkreibsxcooxzmjxf4dmnc7oegbe6jl7zqu5z6ihlj577ko4nwku5dcse)
![From today’s top RNZ article: “Willis stands by her government's decision to remove the electric vehicle rebate.
She said the rebate was very untargetted.
"I simply don't accept the idea that giving subsudies [sic] to millionaires in Remuara [sic] would help those afflicted by high petrol prices," Willis said.
She said if the government were to give support, it would be targeted, temporary and timely.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gcxgs7k33dfxqlr5a6uzp35z/bafkreie36fn6cz4gsrc75b2ppnqqytgic2rsktwxdnfxhklimo56fb7f5u)
“Millionaires in Remuera”, you say? Interesting choice of example.🤔
Also: just because you have that one anecdote about that one friend doesn’t invalidate a policy that was working for a great number of other people, who also exist.
#nzpol
this is in no sense how it should have happened. but it is precisely because we find ourselves in a situation that requires war, death, and destruction to get well positioned political actors behind accelerating energy transition that we should demolish fossil capital as decisively as we can
The insistence on characterising EV subsidies as a perk for millionaires instead of sensible way of kickstarting a necessary transformation away from fossil fuels, when they explicitly singled out landlords for preferential tax relief, is both stupid and disingenuous.
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Japan to USCENTCOM
To be honest this business of shifting nutritional information from labels to barcodes/QR codes that people have to scan with their phones reeks of further entrenching surveillance capitalism.
In NZ Delmaine already does this with recycling info instead of displaying the plastic recycling number.
FFS! More inane policy from this Coalition of Clowns.
People like me with strict dietary requirements rely heavily on easily accessible and accurate food labelling. We should not be introducing further barriers in a system that is already far from perfect. 🤦♂️ #nzpol
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I read this morning that ANZ has revised down its estimate of GDP growth for the December quarter from 0.7% to 0.2%. This is a great illustration of how green shoot hallucinations get talked up by the commentariat. Don’t drink the Koolaid.
That is true. But if we give hard-working kiwis subsidies for a Nissan Leaf, it would. And if we made public transport free it would.
#nzpol
How convenient this will be for new rich gold visa property owners! #nzpol
Ideally the President of the United States and the stupidest person on the planet should be two different people…
fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.
Nailed it.
I've never encountered a govt so determined to do the wrong thing,despite all the science and advice to point them in the right direction.
This is ineptness writ large.
And i lived through the Muldoon administration.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Great post at another place from @richardhills.bsky.social who nails the actual story of Marsden Point. No, it wouldn’t have helped. This is something media could be constantly pointing out to NZ First #nzpol
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and also a little self-centaured
This is ludicrous #nzpol
NZ must fight for fuel security says the person who won’t invest in people, public transport, solar, wind power, renewables, cycleways, or any solutions not wedded and embedded to the oil and gas industry. You can’t austerity your way out of this you headless chook.
While other nations have already started carless days the Luxon government is showing us pretty colourful charts, going on an overseas jaunt and talking bollocks like they know what they are doing.
So a normal day.
# nzpol
“We’ve sacked all our historians so let’s dump this.” #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
Willis hasn't got a clue or she would have announced an emergency mini budget to get EV subsidies and e bike rebates off the ground.
But if she that means admitting every National Policy in this space was and still is wrong
#nzpol what access does palantir have in Ao/NZ?
“But unlike 1979, we now have EVs. Except, well, actually you probably don’t. Because the Luxon/Peters/ Seymour Government spent the last two years systemically punching NZ’s car electrification movement in the face. Then, when it was out cold on the pavement, kicking it in the head.” #nzpol
#AtlasNetwork is a transnational big oil disinformation and state capture operation.
I see Verity is continuing her tear
#nzpol
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It boggles the mind how quickly this government's overtly stupid decisions have come back to haunt them.
Do people realise the fuel refined at Marsden mostly came from the Middle East. Crude oil extracted in NZ has long been for the export market & still is, we still produce oil, just never been able to use or refine it here.
Marsden owners closed the refinery side of the business.
Thread. Everyone should read Rousseau, who has a lot to say about the horror of thinking you exist only in the opinions of others.
Emerson on the money, as per
In today's Herald? Oh, no. Two years ago.
When Wild moments by a mad king is an active understatement. FFS please US do something impeach the guy now.
What sort of advantage is it called when the first and second movers move off an increasingly well sign posted cliff?
