This is an excellent data thread. Mind you I love graphs. That aside, some really important points here
Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · 10mo agoLooks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵 ❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌ Seriously, no, for lots of reasons. 1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]
Vote for the parties that are committed to keeping out the current coalition open.substack.com/pub/simonwil...
Be careful what you wish for: The trouble with TOP
If Q is the answer, what is the question?
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Excellent article about Luxon the pretending to be daddy open.substack.com/pub/andrewdi...
Luxon's Wearing Daddy's Pants
The Prime Minister goes to Rotorua, tells drowning businesses to swim harder, and confesses
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This is a must-read article. It fills me with conflicting emotions, but I wish more could hear its message e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
Tina Porou: 'Our leadership is not a threat to Aotearoa' | E-Tangata
“The fear of Māori having a place at the table outweighed both the evidence and the truth about what the law actually did.” — Environmental planner Tina Porou on the government’s decision to remove Ma...
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This makes me so angry. If you don't have the heart to care about our children, what claim do you have to humanity? This govt has so many tools to fix this, but chooses to blame those with the least resources. If you value corporate welfare over child welfare, you are beneath my contempt
Report on child poverty reveals 'national shame', Children's Comissioner says
The Children's Commissioner says the latest report on child poverty reveals the country's "national shame".
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Wake up NZ. A good society is one where everyone can live a good life. Do we really want to watch our fellow citizens struggling just to eat? www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Who's poor in New Zealand now?
A group of people the size of the population of Christchurch is in hardship, but there are ways to turn it around, a group of social service charities says.
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I refuse to give up explaining this, but it is tiring
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2mo agoEquity vs equality? Why educators and health experts say understanding the difference matters
Government, community, human rights. We need taxation to ensure these pillars of a decent society are maintained. Good article
Good stuff Bernard. It's great to hear genuine discussion of the opportunity cost of fiscal "discipline"
Bernard Hickey@bernardchickey.bsky.social · 2mo agoChorus out. Open to all. Why is our Govt so afraid of a ghost story that is more than 40 years old and actually isn’t true anymore? #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/scoop-nz-g...
In The Matrix film, when Agent Smith has the character Neo in a headlock on subway tracks, a grimacing Hugo Weaving tells Keanu Reeves the sound of the approaching train is “inevitability”. The Department of Conservation appears to be in a similar headlock.
Conservation on the cusp: funding cuts and a Chrisp appointment
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I feel a little guilty sense of schadenfreude reading this. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-...
Christopher Luxon’s refusal to go is yet more evidence of our culture of no
National is polling at 28.4% but its leader won’t leave. Where is the ambition for outcomes? The growth mindset?
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Excellent article showing this govt protection of power co. profits, locking in fossil fuel dependence, all the while taxing those who pay for their own solar power
Nick Young@nickofnz.bsky.social · 5mo agoBREAKING It’s been revealed that the Luxon government ‘kicked the tyres’ on game-changing solar subsidies to cut power bills but decided to let us keep paying rising prices - and then to make it even worse with costly gas imports: www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588...
NZH tells of one site over 780% higher than normal rainfall etc., maybe a couple of more ex tropical cyclones, but ends with the "good news" is that "there is low risk of drought conditions developing in Northland over the next three months." Always look on the bright side of life, sings Brian
Jolisa Gracewood@nzdodo.bsky.social · 6mo ago“Stop 3x Waters” www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
Even a little Aotearoa New Zealand to warm the heart.
Feral Maui Hermit@mauigreg.bsky.social · 6mo agoDiversity makes everything better. This is what we are fighting for. If you need a bit of a recharge from the daily horrors, I cannot recommend this Playing For Change playlist enough. youtu.be/GuTIFsvlmAM?...
Inside the weirdest trial of the year: Jim Grenon, Julian Batchelor and TVNZ thespinoff.co.nz/media/19-12-...
Inside the weirdest trial of the year: Jim Grenon, Julian Batchelor and TVNZ
Billionaires, secrets, conspiracy theories, denials of racism, contempt of court and twists at every turn. This case had it all.
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"Aotearoa New Zealand is sadly not immune to illiberal forces"
Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · last yr.Analysis: This week's law changes are based on questionable assumptions, debatable evidence, flimsy rationales and flawed logic. Worse, some are manifestly contradictory and likely injurious to good governance, writes Professor Jonathan Boston.
Many thanks again to paying subscribers for their support and encouragement to make this sort of public interest journalism about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy available to the public. thekaka.substack.com/p/behold-ano...
Behold, another Quarterly Survey of Business Delusion
NZIER survey finds gap between business' awful experienced activity & still-hopeful expectations widens again to record-high -35%; Lack of demand fears at 11-year high; Architects' confidence slumps
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Debate boy once again lives the mantra "snark triumphs over research and insight"
Sam Sachdeva@samsachdeva.bsky.social · last yr.David Seymour described smokers as “fiscal heroes” during a speech to a neoliberal thinktank in London this month: ““If you want to save your country’s balance sheet, light up, because … lots of excise tax, no pension.” Tobacco researchers are…unimpressed: newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/21/s...
Bloody hell. These guys continually get top jobs based on saying what is wanted to be heard rather than competence
Richard Easther@rjme.bsky.social · last yr.Shocking arrogance from Quigley here -- seems to be unfit for any major office, including Vice Chancellor at Waikato newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/13/d...
An economy based on real estate, finance and immigration does not let to productivity growth. No shit, Sherlock. Unfortunately those with the power to change the settings are big winners
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · last yr.I appreciate this article so much that I have a feeling that every time I see a mutual repost it I will immediately also repost it again, so you'd better be doing some good quoteskeets folks or everyone will suffer.
