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Conservationist Brad Windust slams Biosecurity NZ over hornet response Former Far North beekeeper and pest trapper Brad Windust is sounding the alarm over a lack of urgency shown by authorities over eradicating the pest.

“When you cut nearly 400 jobs in MPI, it's going to make a big, big impact, & the Luxon Govt needs to just admit that it was wrong, step up & fund them properly, & just throw everything at it that they can to eliminate these hornets, before next summer." #nzpol

In ‘but it’s not a bubble’ news.

We can't even staff the hospital wards we have now.

Simeon Brown isn't right in the head

How capitalism drives inequality: and how to stop it Wealth taxes are on Rachel Reeves’ agenda. Thomas Piketty has shown why it matters, and how we could stop the growth of inequality

Wealth taxes are back on the agenda. Data from two centuries proves: without taxation of wealth capitalism will always concentrate wealth at the top.

Murray Ball "Stanley" comic strip in which adult Stanley explains the resource inequality to a child. The child suggests simply devising resources equally among all people. Stanley reacts angrily that we can't just BECAUSE!

Haha perfect

It's a piece that falls into the 95% of what you think doesnt need to be said out loud.

Chambers failing that rule today

Kinda reminds me of the classic pro MMP cartoon by Murray Ball: teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/3...

This debate seems to be inspiring a lot of people to show their arses who - both professionally and personally - should know better than to show their arses 🤷.

NZ Herald website headline: Opinion Deborah Chambers, KC: 'Bugger off' – why taxing property feels like punishing thrift

I don't have premium access and don't care enough to pay to read reckons like these, but if DC KC can explain why a CGT is "punishing thrift" while taxing the interest paid on a term deposit isn't then she's probably worth whatever hourly rate she charges.

This fucking POS needs to wind his neck in #nzpol

Comes from appointing a DG Health who has no health background. National made the same mistake with Chai Chuah. Mind you din’t think any health practitioner would want the role given the idiots in government.

Facebook post from National saying that "your" investment flat helping pay your kids' uni costs will be taxed by cgt.

what if... hear me out... we made uni free AND did the cgt?

The founder and co-CEO of Tend Health thinks that expanding real access to proper primary health care is a bad idea? Shocked I tell you.

Every policy of this government shows us their worldview: other people, including children, have no value but economic value. Drive everywhere. Eat slop. Pay more for everything. Learn the right words, not how to think. Don't worry about your health or your neighbours, that doesn't generate revenue

If you saw the Ombudsman announcement the other day that whistleblowing disclosures and serious misconduct complaints ramped up significantly in 2024–25. Would not be surprised if (former?) Ministry of Education staffers feature amongst that. Hopefully the public hears the full story one day.

Oh goodness! So many to choose from. Depending on budget/formality, you can't go wrong with (from expensive to less expensive) 27 Steps, 5th Street Eatary, Earl, You Hanoi Me or Bar Yoku. Not sure they meet your 'new' definition, but all yum!

Cartoon showing a cliff with a giant pool on top filled with money, with a few superrich swimming in and lounging by the pool. A vertical conveyor belt transporting money from the bottom of the cliff to the pool is powered by people on unicycles, balancing precariously on a spinning rod. Signs on the cliff face read 'keep pedaling' One person has fallen off the unicycle and is falling down, passing a red painted line on the cliffside, with the text 'poverty line'.

A visual summary of inequality. Cartoon from last year.

#wealth #poverty #inequality

Got to feel for Schools, if they tried limiting prizegiving attendance to people fully vaccinated against measles or required masks and gloves the antivaxx weirdos would be out in protest. Instead we now have a potential superspreader event.

Vaccination is a useful way to reduce infection risk, especially in communities that don't already have a measles outbreak, but changing the population level of vaccination will take many months.

Vaccination is a long-term solution; acute responses should include other protective measures.

Now we know how National would have handled the Covid pandemic. The 20,000 we saved would be dead.

we learn fucking NOTHING from covid

god, the fact the government response to a measles outbreak is "our priority is keeping kids in school" is so bleak

A chicken place w a social mission has just opened nearby. They had sold out of whole chickens but made up a meal pack for us. It was very good & less $ than our regular takeaways. We’ll be back!

Their kaupapa is “Bird in the Hand is an objection to the cost of living.”

I hope they succeed.

I guess they've finally decided not to pretend anymore 🤷

It’s a National leader’s job to kill CGTs, is Christopher Luxon up to it? – Thomas Coughlan Thomas Coughlan Opinion by Thomas Coughlan Political Editor·NZ Herald· 1 Nov, 2025 05:00 AM 10 mins to read Thomas Coughlan, Political Editor at the New Zealand Herald, loves applying a political lens to people's stories and explaining the way things like transport and finance touch our lives.

Gave up on being on my bullshit about how maintaining a wall between editorial and newsdesk is important if major mastheads want their news desks to be trusted, but I'll take it for one last ride by leaving this here:

National so far this term:

Getting to your meeting 30 seconds quicker is a higher priority than protecting kids from cars on their way to school

Keeping school attendance up is a higher priority than protecting kids from measles

Saving a few bucks is a higher priority than a decent lunch

Death Cult Eddie Muster hasn’t got a shit show in the proverbials getting past St Peter st the pearly gates.

He’s gonna be hell cell mates with Epstein.

🤬 fully sick of brilliant women being driven out of public life by unchecked abuse, but at the same time don't blame a single one who does choose to leave.

Is this maniac for fucken real? He is so obviously a sociopath and needes help.