Roscoe Changleen
@changleen.bsky.social
Pōneke based Pākehā. #NZPol Humanist. We can make everyone’s lives better with deliberate choices. Toitū Te Tiriti. This is the worst government ever. ⚠️ Bad fucking language warning.
Missing *ALL* our targets,thats some achievement Wasnt by accident #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
New Zealand now at risk of missing all its climate targets, Climate Commission warns
New Zealand is at risk of missing all of its climate targets, and time to get back on track is running out, the Climate Change Commission says.
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Look at us, making international news. #nzpol
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2w agoNew Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions are falling too slowly to meet national climate targets, with progress stalling in 2024 and key goals for the next decade now at heightened risk, the Climate Change Commission said on Wednesday.
Why didn't the government buy shares in Golden Bay Cement instead of giving money to billionaires WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF US, THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THAT MONEY. Why didn't our Right-wing-Canadian-billionaire-owned newspaper ask this?? #NZPol
Latest weekly jobs data. This is not what a recovery looks like. Job ads online from MBIE is the second chart. Wellington / Auckland stuck at GFC levels. At some point, folks will work out slumps stay slumped until something changes.
Worse than Covid. #NzPol
Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · 3w agoLatest weekly jobs data. This is not what a recovery looks like. Job ads online from MBIE is the second chart. Wellington / Auckland stuck at GFC levels. At some point, folks will work out slumps stay slumped until something changes.
#NZPol Why is Seymour having opinions about NZ Foreign Policy? Shut up cunt.
Vote these useless fuckwits OUT in November!! #NZPOL
David Clegg@delphijunkie.bsky.social · last mo.Just as spending hundreds of millions to procure no boats should've been career ending for our Finance Minister, so should our Associate Minister of Education serving our rangatahi inedible slop in order to save a few bucks. #nzpol
Seymour has a go at the Auditor General for daring to describe his shitshow. #NzPol
School lunches inquiry finds long list of failures
It’s saving money. But that’s about it.
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The two men in this photo both claim to be Christian but both are cruel, greedy men who lack empathy. I suspect their brand of Christianity is the kind designed to keep women and people of colour in subservient positions #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government stands by including rough sleeping in move-on orders
The government is refusing to budge on including rough sleeping as part of its move-on orders, and denies the legislation would criminalise rough sleeping.
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The recent slide of the Kiwi dollar against other currencies is a symptom of how much our economy is on the rocks, rudderless & helpless. And yet it's been largely unobserved by the financial or political media (musical chairs excepted).
I am begging for just one story where the cost of this policy is reported relative to the 2026 total budget. Try and find the fare subsidy on this graph, I'll wait.
Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 2mo agoToday from The Detail: For the price of a couple of coffees, Labour says Kiwis could get to work all week. But is it really that simple?
When Govt spend money into the economy, they create the money to pay taxes and they create the special bank reserve money that *has* to be used to buy Govt bonds. The spending comes first. The real constraint on what we can do is *what we can do*. It's not about the money. Never has been. [Ends]
It's weird watching people trying to work where we are going to 'find the money' to invest in getting our country back on track. Why don't they start here - the $30bn sat in the Govt's settlement account? The only thing stopping this money being spent is votes in parliament. What? [🧵 1/n]
Please read my 75pp submission on the #AtlasNetwork's 40 yr old global disinformation campaign against climate policy here: www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... Full report of the Australian Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy: parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/dow...
Dr Jeremy Walker@jeremywalker.bsky.social · 4mo agoBUSTED: 🤥 Founded 1976 by big fossil, #AtlasNetwork unit CIS is spinning the 🇺🇸🇮🇱oil war on Iran with anti-RE 'drill baby drill' stories for secret 'donors'. 👇👀 this 1981 CIS funder list published by 🇦🇺Senate inquiry on anti-climate disinfo: Shell, Exxon, Santos, Utah www.cis.org.au/news/four-le...
Here's the thing about the whole "fuck around and find out" deal - if we don't make sure they find out, they keep fucking around. Sorry if you're worried about being the meanie in this equation, but that's how it works.
We could have nice things too, if it wasn’t for this stupid government. #nzpol
“The government is aggressively utilising Te Tiriti to secure elite global market access, while actively dismantling the domestic legal architecture that is required to give the text any real meaning,” writes Nicola Hoobin about NZ trade agreements such as the one signed with India this year #nzpol
Te Tiriti duplicity: honoured abroad but dismissed at home | E-Tangata
“The Crown cannot easily look a High Court judge in the eye and argue that statutory Treaty obligations are vague, unworkable, or a threat to democratic certainty when the executive branch has formall...
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Everything boils down to a lack of funding. Sooner or later, austerity will kill people Ferries running aground and breaking down, unsafe and poorly maintained rail, crumbling health service #taxtherich #nzpol
Rail bridge was inspected and deemed safe. Soon after, it collapsed
A Transport Accident Investigation Commission report into the April 2024 Rangitata River rail bridge collapse has exposed systemic monitoring and inspection gaps, prompting Infrastructure NZ to call f...
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The govt consulted a senior law professor who told them that legislating over Smith vs Fonterra would provide "immunity from accountability" for corporate defendants, and was inconsistent with its own Regulatory Standards Bill and common law rights They did it anyway. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
'Constitutionally abhorrent': Expert reveals advice to government on climate law change
A legal boffin who was consulted on the government's law change that would prevent companies from being sued over climate change explains his opposition.
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Yep, our wages would be around 8% higher if the surplus was shared out like it is in the average OECD country. We don't need to grow the pie to have higher wages, we just need workers to get a bigger slice. [Ends] (see ALT for notes)
An iwi leader has described the coalition government as "the most racist, anti-Māori government ever to come to power", telling the Waitangi Tribunal its review of Treaty clauses across legislation amounted to an "unrelenting assault" on Māori rights. #nzpol
Tribunal hears claims of 'unrelenting assault' on Māori rights over Treaty reforms
An iwi leader described the coalition government as "the most racist, anti-Māori government ever", while experts warned the proposed Treaty reforms could be the widest breach of Te Tiriti in decades.
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#NZpol "New Zealand has begun testing Elon Musk's Starshield military satellite communications system... the NZ Defence Force said it was testing Starshield to see what use it could be." Never far away from the clutches of *the* worst techbros are we, whether that's Citizen Thiel or This F'n Guy™️
New Zealand testing of Elon Musk's Starshield 'significant', US expert says
An expert says it's the first time he has heard of the military satellite system being used outside the US.
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