Trevor Nicholls

@aquatarkus.bsky.social

Software developer, Green, resident in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Luxon government will adopt urgency to scratch its arse cheeks but anything that will benefit more than a few rich businessmen; women or young families or the disabled, can wait and be used as a bribe for the next election campaign #nzpol

Simeon Brown is boasting that the Luxon government has slashed the cost of consultants; I would like to see these figures adjusted to reflect the obscene use of AI tools in government and parliamentary services. Because we'd see that's a shit ton of money - for very poor outcomes #nzpol

Politicians arguing that the health services should be colour blind for reasons of fairness are glossing over a much bigger inequality, which is that health funding is significantly over-invested in diseases of the rich and indulgent. #nzpol

It's quite simple: NZ, like the rest of the western world, will reach net zero when everything has burned to the ground and there's nothing left to preserve. Luxon just expects that to happen in less than thirty years and by God he's going to work hard to make it happen #nzpol

As a country which is so tightly identified with its unique birdlife, Kiwi-land ought to take the arrival of avian flu really fucking seriously Unfortunately the current government is relaxed about everything except corporate profits #nzpol