Labour will oppose any steps towards the private ownership or operation of core public services like our schools, hospitals, and prisons.
Barb Edmonds MP
@barbedmonds.bsky.social
Proud local 💁🏽♀️ mother of eight 👨👩👧👦 tax lawyer 👩🏽⚖️ & @nzlabour MP for Mana.📍 Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington
Christopher Luxon has set the bar for ministerial conduct so low Ministers have to sack themselves. Andrew Bayly should’ve been gone months ago. After finding out about the latest allegation on Wednesday, the PM waited days for him to resign when he should’ve been sacked asap.
David Seymour wants to make it easier to sell our assets, hocking NZ off to the highest bidder…and he wonders why I don’t agree with him. Investing in NZ is a privilege, let’s keep it that way!
Govt are getting excited about lower interest rates and publishing some truly misleading nonsense. My adjusted design is messy, but the numbers and text better reflect the reality. Couple more importants things on this subject... [🧵 1/3]
A few thoughts on the MPS today - it is painting a picture of a soggy economy for New Zealand. We have to actively choose something better. craigrenney.substack.com/p/banking-on...
Banking On The Future
RBNZ paints a soggy picture of Aotearoa
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Real men don’t barricade women and children. Real men don’t threaten and intimidate. Real men don’t preach hate. Real men DO show respect, compassion & love. Real men are comfortable enough in who they are to celebrate the diversity of others. Brian Tamaki you are just a boy.
#BHN Chatting with Chippy about Waitangi at Waitangi and 2015 #nzpol youtu.be/2d-3rp5ldlQ?...
#BHN Chris Hipkins has a candid chat about the vibe at Waitangi
YouTube video by DOC Studios
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Headlines from the first week back at Parliament. Not exactly a good week for the government. HT: @barbedmonds.bsky.social
This National/ACT government are working from the same old neoliberal playbook, defund public services, run them down, then use that as an excuse to privatize them. It’s based on ideology and the people who pay the true price are everyday Kiwis.
Kiwis are delivering their verdict on this government with their feet - 125,000 gave up and left last year. That’s a person heading for the departure lounge every 4 minutes. The National/ACT agenda of slashing and privatizing will only drive more away.
Our reaction to the Minister’s plan for Te Pūkenga. www.labour.org.nz/news-ministe...
Release: Minister’s plan for tertiary sector a backwards step
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Maintaining government investment in the building of social housing is a productive use of taxpayer’s money. Instead we get tax breaks for tobacco companies and interest deductibility reinstated for all landlords…not just the new builds.
nzjanette@nzjanette.bsky.social · 2y agoIt's been a day in NZ politics. A short and probably incomplete list: 1) the govt has canned 60% of kianga ora's housing projects. That's 1019 no longer being built. #nzpol
NZ’s economy wasn’t in recession before the election. In the past 6 months the economy has dropped faster than any time since 1991 (excluding COVID). This is what the politics of austerity does. Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon are clearly making things worse not better!
NZ is totally off the track now with Nicola Willis spiralling our country deeper into recession. 🧵
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmer... Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of December 16 - 22
Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of December 16 - 22
Rod Emmerson's take on the week.
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Minister of Finance: no I won’t give the costs as they are commercially sensitive. ACT: hold my cup…
A great week for the government…said no one. Ok maybe just the PM 🏠
Festive Creative Cost Cutting with Health Commissioner Lester Levy. Just to get you in the Christmas spirit. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #HealthNZ #TeWhatuOra #HealthCrisis #HealthCare
Conventional wisdom in 2024 seems to dictate that the Covid-19 response was an overreaction, but that conventional wisdom is wrong. My analysis on the Royal Commission report and the response to it: newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/03/h...
Historical revisionism on Covid threatens NZ's pandemic preparedness
Comment: The Royal Commission report fundamentally validates the strategic and tactical choices made during the acute phase of the pandemic
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New taxes (just won’t say what they are) and can’t remember the range provided by Tsy for Climate Commitments. You’d think given the fiscal cost MoF would be over her numbers.
Deborah Russell MP@beefaerie.bsky.social · 2y agoA fiery hearing on the Government Financial Statements, characterised by time filling verbiage from the Minister of Finance, and the revelation she doesn’t understand the climate commitments this government has, or hasn’t, made and how that affects the financial statements she signed off. #nzpol
Good news to wake up to this morning…said no one. Are we back on track?! Front-line hospital workers told jobs could soon be gone www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Front-line hospital workers told jobs could soon be gone
Staff told RNZ they were shocked, some were crying, and they say patients would suffer if the team, who make beds, tidy wards and replenish supplies, were gone.
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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
This is happening on the National Party’s watch. Tax cuts for unproductive housing speculators, firing masses of public servants, stopping construction projects - all pulling the rug out from under the economy. The multiplier effect multiplying the damage. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Business insolvencies 'much higher' than in the global financial crisis
"From a historical perspective this is really bad," economist says as the number of business insolvencies hits more than double last year.
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Unbelievable! The oil and gas lobby has asked the government to UNDERWRITE the risk of fossil fuel exploration, with the taxpayer potentially taking "some or all" of the risk if new gas supplies fail to eventuate as they are likely to do. #nzpol #nonewgas
Oil and gas lobby asks government to underwite fossil fuel exploration, minister 'considering options'
A fossil fuel body is warmly praising the government's "no nonsense" draft emissions plan and calling for a sustainable aviation group to be scrapped.
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