Andrew Webster, the Warriors coach, is a superb leader. Listening to him speak about the players and seeing how players respect him is pretty cool.

Back in the day, when we built stuff, RBNZ gave Govt special accounts so Govt could spend millions building houses etc without selling bonds to investors. RBNZ basically just gave Govt an overdraft. The ghouls hate this shit - where's the rent in RBNZ financing state houses for public use? [Ends]

We have all known managers like Luxon. They keep out of the difficult discussions and then pipe up once a decision has been made. They're not leaders. They don't inspire and, almost never have an original thought of their own. They're the beige brigade. They just do enough to get promoted.

Hayden Paddon gets another opportunity at a WRC event. Epic. How long until Hyundai bring him back in full time?

Oh hey so I OIA'd Bish on his bid to rename Motu Move, turns out he's full of shit.

I don’t think I’ve seen a single one of AT’s electric buses broken down on the side of the road.

Second part: a senior figure in Young New Zealand First has ties to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...

NZ First youth leader linked to neo-Nazi network

A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 5d ago

Part one of my investigation into a group of young men trying to import “remigration” into New Zealand politics www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

With the #TāmakiMakaurau CRL being completed this year, why is the Western Line grade separation project not starting immediately afterwards? This seems like the next logical progression. Or is that deferred due to the NW busway?

Lessons for NZ - apparently datacentres in Ireland draw =23% of the country's power and household power bills have gone up 600 Euros in the last year as a result. Use urged from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 23% in 2025. Forecast to exceed 30%

AoNZ’s population is roughly the same as Sydney. Our GDP is less than Sydney. But we’re trying to gold plate infrastructure across a country that is approximately 1,000% larger than Sydney.

How did Drury and Paerātā train stations cost so much? They’re just stations with car parks.

#NZpol Former MP for the ACT Party, Damien Smith, wades into it, “To my former colleagues on the right: remaining silent on this is complicity. To NZ First: […] If you cannot represent all New Zealanders with dignity, then it is time to hand over the reigns” More in his piece ⬇️

Former MP says he was ‘wrong’ about Winston Peters, as Chinese-Kiwi MP row blows up

OPINION: I write this not as a partisan critic, but as a proud Irish-born capitalist, a right-wing conservative, and a man who has built his life on the principles of enterprise, merit, and mutual res...

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First time IKEA buyer. Firstly tried to order online but 3 week delivery timeframe didn’t work so, off to IKEA we go on a fairly miserable Saturday. Parking was easy, showrooms are bloody cool and checkout was easy. As were the loading bays. Game changer. 1/2

Element shoot days appear boring as hell but the creativity is very cool.

Seeing Clr Julie Fairey going in to bat for special character areas wasn’t on my bingo card but, here we are.

In case this isn’t clear, all parties were working collaboratively to advance a new law on consent NOW. National withdrew from this collaboration in order to promise it would do this same thing AFTER THE ELECTION. Trying to slow down this change.

Anyone who pines for central Auckland to be like the ‘old days’ is looking through rose tinted spectacles. Mid-week, it was dead after 5 and the weekends featured bar life on Friday - Sa nights and the old Cook St and Vic Park markets. The rest of the city was closed.

The members bill to make stalking a crime was literally lodged by Labour Party's Ginny Anderson in response to a murder that happened in 2022. Luxon wont tell you that though 🤷

The NRLW is a great comp. It is awesome to see these wāhine toa play.

I miss those COVID times, when people stayed home from work when they were sick.

RONS isn't Nationals kiwibuild moment - this is. "Transport Minister Chris Bishop now says the 10,000 charger target was actually an “ambitious stretch goal”. Last year, just 198 chargers were built. In the first four months of this year, the pace fell slower, to 31" newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/07/t...

The real problem with National's home solar loans policy

Comment: National's track record on renewables and EVs is to make big promises but drag its feet in Government. Will home solar be any different?

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I was looking for another of my posts and found this - which is particularly relevant given what the redoubtable trio of @musicalchairs.bsky.social @bernardchickey.bsky.social & @ganeshahirao.bsky.social have been saying post this week's OCR decision.

Terry Baucher@trabaq.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna "Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications" Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?

Wow. BYD Denza Z Coupe is stunning. And fast.

Mānawatia a Matariki

I'm so over AI. Me to person responsible for such things: "Can you please create a newsletter with new season memberships?" Done. Serves up some over detailed AI slop PDF.

Police are re-investigating 54 sexual assault and child abuse cases after concerns about one case triggered a review of almost 1,000 files. The senior officer who managed those files told me the scale of it was “news to me”. He remains under an employment investigation.

Revealed: The Detective Inspector under investigation as police review cases

Police reopen 54 sexual assault and child abuse cases as Detective Inspector Kevan Verry remains under employment investigation

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All of a sudden, co-governance is ok? Remove conservation land protection for sell off is ok, but returning conservation land to its original owners is risky? Did I get it about white? #nzpol

@lukewigram.bsky.social · last mo.

Let's see what right wing spin does to the Nelson Tenths settlement. It's already a crap deal, especially for those who've waited since 1839 for redress, but this kind of intervention is going to stoke animosity and division, not improve the outcome #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Good grief. This ticketing system is based on, and built by the same company as, the ticketing system London and NYC have had for a decade. I cannot fathom the waste that NZTA have been allowed to get away with on this project.

NZ Transit Buzz@nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · last mo.

#TicketingNews: Following a scathing report, and with delays and cost pressures continuing to dog the National Ticketing Solution, NZTA Waka Kotahi sent officials on a $22,000, six-day trip to India to see the system for themselves. Via The Post: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Wow. Scott Dixon leaving Chip Ganassi. Huge move. I wonder if the challenge of getting Arrow McLaren up there is the driving force behind the decision?

It never won't be dumb for Auckland's planners to fight to preserve "the natural character of the coastal environment" when the costal environment in question was completely man-made.