Just updating on the latest nanny herald clickbait debt story. Same old tired myths... Govt books destroyed by the pandemic (they got stronger by the most sensible measure), Super is unaffordable (it isn't), and zero mention of the real drivers of the fiscal deficit. Let's dive in... [1/n]
Mum very excited to wear her new @garypayinda.bsky.social shirt and ruffling some blue feathers at Bridge next week!
“The Government’s headline $95-million-a-year boost for general practice is being funded through a corresponding reduction in the budget for hospital and specialist services, documents show.” Paywall #nzpol
‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: GP funding boost paid for by hospital cash
The Government’s $95m-a-year boost for general practice is being funded through the budget for hospital and specialist services, documents reveal.
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Great to see that National support 30 weeks Paid Parental Leave. Especially after they voted against the introduction of PPL. Blocked the extension to 26 weeks for several years. Canceled 33 pay equity claims. And just this year, cut Best Start payments for the majority of new parents.
NZ has - almost uniquely amongst our peers - tanked its economy and pushed 10,000s onto the dole (and offshore). We were told that this strategy would 'get interest rates down, tame inflation, and drive growth 🎉'. Yet, here we are, slumped and vying to be inflation champs. What went wrong? [🧵1/n]
“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 Mana Whakahono ā-Rohe.
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 is what so many people do not understand. The three waters approach would have saved ratepayers so much money while also building understanding of tikanga. Now we face potential privatisation of our water and wastewater assets and ending up filthy like the UK #nzpol youtube.com/shorts/rm5GN...
#BHN Is it time for Labour to say 'We told you so' about three waters?
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Three commercial products - tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food - account for around a quarter of all healthy years of life lost in Aotearoa New Zealand. Prevention policy matters. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/mor...
More prevention, less 'modern corruption’: A call-to-action to protect public health
Health Coalition Aotearoa's Prevention Brief 2026 calls for stronger evidence-based prevention policies on tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food alongside lobbying reform to improve health, reduce ineq...
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"Sleeping rough is often a sign of family breakdown, abuse, poverty, mental health issues, addiction, housing insecurity, or gaps in state care," "our first question must be 'How can we help you?', not 'How do we move you on somewhere else?'" #nzpol
Move-on orders risk 'punishing' children: Commissioner
The Children's Commissioner is warning that move-on orders risk punishing children and young people for being homeless.
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This USELESS coalition govt. Housing pressure hardest on working households not getting a benefit - report www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Housing pressure hardest on working households not getting a benefit - report
Working households earning less than the full-time minimum wage per adult are under the sharpest housing pressure, a new report by Child Poverty Action Group says.
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The reality at the coalface of cuts to emergency housing and austerity from Government. The catalogue of failures to care, to assist are damning. Move on orders will, in reality, hasten deaths and fill prisons. We need more public housing, more support and much less cruelty from govt. #nzpol
'Christchurch is my tomb': From homelessness to hopelessness
Tormented by transience, Caitlin McDonald's life was as fragile and fleeting as the butterflies she saved from the street. Surviving less than two years homeless in Christchurch, she chronicled her jo...
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One of my favourite Sam Neill videos: Sam Neill and the humble plastic bag youtu.be/NE4vKJYMbMY?... via @YouTube
Sam Neill and the humble plastic bag
YouTube video by Greenpeace Aotearoa
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Having the local supermarket as a drop off point is very convenient. I have a paper shopping bag set up to put soft plastics in and was shocked at how quickly it filled up.
Environment Network Manawatū @enviromanawatu.bsky.social · 2mo agoPalmerston North residents can drop them off for free at four convenient locations across the city, making it easier to keep plastic bags, wrappers and packaging out of landfill. www.pncc.govt.nz/News-Events/...
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
The absolute suspension of disbelief when it comes to connecting the dots on central bank inflation targeting driving unemployment and the specific industry employing large numbers of young people as an expendable labour force. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Inside New Zealand's shrinking building and construction industry
The New Zealand building and construction industry has shrunk over the past couple of years, with a full recovery unlikely in the near future, according to latest data.
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No matter what Luxon does he says that it will grow wages, hes been saying this since his campaign and so far none of it has grown wages. CEOs dont grow wages. CEOs grow profit for investors and stakeholders. Its all talk and slogans.
Early signs that Treasury's latest benefit forecasts grossly over-estimated the 'recovery'... again. It's almost like they haven't got a clue.
2007 John Key 'National will transform NZ to a high wage economy'... Approaching 20 years since the people bought that lie
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew Zealand wage growth 'worst in the world' - OECD report
Bernard Hickey doing God’s work again here. But which political party would take him up in this prescription? #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
The way we run the economy isn't working
RBNZ hikes OCR to cut inflation by slicing jobs, yet youth jobless rate is 20.3% in my daughters' group; Monetary policy's blunt tool punishes the young & poor for imported & administered inflation
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Omg, thank you Johnathan & Newsroom for running with this story! The only NZ media I’ve seen yet who has had the inclination to fact check the government’s spin (lies) around the “Strong Economic Growth” jokes. Finally a fleck of truth! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/09/i...
Reserve Bank rate hike hits Kiwi households enduring worst wage squeeze in developed world
While the central bank looks for economic growth in the stars, new OECD data reveals New Zealanders' after-inflation wages plummeted 6.4 percent. Jonathan Milne reports.
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A terrible policy from ACT, that would lead to US style privatised prisons and forced labour. Want to reduce crime? Reduce inequality #nzpol
Kay in the End Times 🏳️🌈 💗💜💙📚@jennykaynz.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnyone convicted of burglary 3X would receive a minimum sentence of 3 years in prison, no parole, home detention, or chance of early release. It would apply to someone facing a single conviction of 3 or more counts of burglary too. Policy would cost taxpayers at least $600,000 per person. #NZpol
$430m in supermarket excess profit. State Insurance sold in 1990, premiums up 500%. Kiwibank at 7%, big four can ignore it, government wants to sell that too. Power: $2.41 in dividends per $1 in new generation. We sold the public option. Prices went up. Every time. #nzpol
The policy was changed so that if a poor person contributed to their housing deprived situation by not paying rent then they would be considered ineligible to seek emergency housing. Being poor & not able to pay rent prevents them from using emergency housing #NZGovt thestandard.nz/this-governm...
1/7 Yet again, David Seymour provides an appalling, evidence-free policy. His new welfare reforms are built on a complete fantasy (shock!) and the machinery he’s designed will reliably break real bodies while completely missing the target. 🧵 andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/staining-t...
Staining the Poor: The Cruelty and Coercive Control of Seymour's New Card
ACT’s cashless welfare card ignores years of failed evidence to do something far worse: treat state-sponsored financial abuse as public policy.
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Very useful video to settle debates (in New Zealand, and elsewhere) on whether increasing speed limits on highways from 100kmph to 120kmph make any sense. You only ever save, at best, around one minute. Taken from Instagram, www.instagram.com/reel/DaP4kyF... #nzpol
The work we did with kākāpō is now not possible because the govt has said that our funding should go to science that makes money. Members of our current govt have said that if an endangered species is in the way of a mine or a new road then it’s goodbye #nzpol peterkdearden.substack.com/p/on-kakapo
on Kākāpō
and extinction
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I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.