My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
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Unemployment up. Underutilisation rate is worsening. Long-term and youth unemployment up. #nzpol #ditchthepricksin26 #Nationalnoideas
Hello NZ govt 👋, maybe this is a better approach than building more prisons & punishing beneficiaries? Hard to argue with the numbers #nzpol
Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 10h ago
kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 11h agoNot for *government duties* for his role as leader of the National Party for a party *fundraiser* for the *election* Surely this is outside the bounds of what the Air Force should be used for?? Seems like an enormous breach of his access to public assets! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
“This is an initiative of the chief government statistician, it is an initiative that’s come out of Stats NZ. It’s been in ferment for several years now,” said National Party Minister of Statistics, as he sought to nimbly side-step the bus he had just chucked Stats NZ under. #nzpol
Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 8h agoThe Government lacks the 75 percent support needed to push reforms through – but the next Parliament could vote to delay the 2028 census.
Wide screenshot of the RNZ website this afternoon, with my arrow added for comparison… even the automated “related stories” column is calling Luxon out on his BS now. #NZPol CC @BobLefridge
'For Hickey, there is a deeper structural challenge. “You’ve got an economy which just doesn’t know how to operate without house prices rising”.' #NzPol
As unemployment hits 11-year high, how does it look under the hood?
Bernard Hickey breaks down the numbers released today.
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I speak not as your leader, but as a messenger: today is the final day to enrol on the Māori roll. As Matiu Rata showed us in 1980, your seats and roll are your power, but leaders can't stand without your vote. Stand firm, push on, and draw strength from history. #NZPol #MāoriRoll #TeTiriti
Unemployment at its highest level for 11 years, did I see? And THAT INCLUDES THE COVID AND LOCKDOWN TIMES. Thanks to the Ardern government that protected jobs and businesses at the time.
Winston Peters relentlessly dodged answering Lawrence Xu-Nan's very precise questions inviting him to stand by his racist outburst in the House last week. What a snivelling coward. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan grills Winston Peters on 'racist' comments that were directed at him
The Green MP who Winston Peters told to "go back to your own country" has challenged the Foreign Minister in Parliament over his comments.
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Xu-Nan's question pointing out that Peters had used MFAT comms to stand by his statements outside the House deserved a better hearing than it got from Brownlee, who then fluffed around and failed to make Peters answer a valid question directed to him as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Auckland Grammar School will ensure counselling and support are made available to students and school community who were impacted by violent Epsom incident. Attacker was known to police as having mental health issues. Could help for him have prevented attack? #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...
Auckland Grammar School 'devastated' after student cyclists hit by stolen car
The headmaster of Auckland Grammar School says they are "devastated" after a group of students was hit by a car while cycling in Epsom.
rnz.co.nz
Absolutely appalling outcome of authoritarian austerity and refusing to meet the basic human rights of so many.
Kay in the End Times 🏳️🌈 💗💜💙📚@jennykaynz.bsky.social · 12h agoWatching NZ Parliament TV with Wellington MP Tamatha Paul talking of the desperate situations of rough sleepers and homeless people. Like the man found freezing and unresponsive on the street this week. He couldn't be saved. Many others need help. #NZpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Raybon Kan joked about NZ First policies in 1996, after Winston Peters told him to go back to his own country. Privately he was shaken. If NZ First had its way and sent me back where I came from. I’d have to go back to a Third World, Masterton. 🙇 Xu-Nan #NZpol www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ive...
I've never talked about it, but Winston Peters also told me to go back to my own country
OPINION: Could it be a Chinese thing not to want to cry racism? To be stoic?
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Watching NZ Parliament TV with Wellington MP Tamatha Paul talking of the desperate situations of rough sleepers and homeless people. Like the man found freezing and unresponsive on the street this week. He couldn't be saved. Many others need help. #NZpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Bare shelves, freezing nights: Wellington’s rough sleepers at risk
It comes as a man, known to sleep rough, was found dead on the streets of central Wellington.
thepost.co.nz
Three recommended rules: 1) Number every box you can 2) Worst last beats left off 3) Never stop early Personally I think leaving candidates unranked who you find abhorrent is fine. BUT - if there are any who are bad, but less bad, you want to rank them at the end of your list. #InternetNZ
Three ways to fill in the same ballot. In our Single Transferable Vote system the more candidates you're able to rank the less likely it is that your vote could be wasted. Even if you're down to the bad options, if you have thoughts about which are "least bad" you should rank them. #InternetNZ
And, so it continues today... We have so much that needs doing - fixing up our infrastructure, teaching our kids, building warm houses, etc... Yet, we have 400,000 people wanting work or more work. It's so obviously a failure of economy strategy and leadership. [Ends]
When you couple the laissez-faire 'just move to Auckland' approach with an economic management model designed to keep unemployment rates at 4% - 5%, you quickly get widening inequality. Whole towns shut down and people that struggle to find work get hammered (young people, disabled etc) [9/n]
In the 1970s and 1980s, the state pulled back from interfering in the (allegedly) free market economy, technological advances and free trade made their mark, and finance was set free. The urban rich blissed out on credit and share market gains, but provincial NZ was quickly hollowed out. Why? [8/n]
It is worth reading the 1950s and 1960s NZ history to get an idea of how much things have changed - the state basically did everything to make sure people were not left wanting work ffs. This excerpt if from the 1960 Stats NZ Yearbook. I don't view this era through rose-tinted glasses, but..! [7/n]
The solution proposed was seductive: If inflation took off, interest ion debt could be increased, which would slow spending and the economy, increasing unemployment (giving employers power to suppress wages). Obviously, higher interest rates also protected the real value of rich folks' savings [6/n]
... the economics profession nodded in agreement. From this point on, the theory that we needed to crush workers' bargaining power to 'control inflation' became the norm. Millions of economics students were programmed with the theory, and they were hired into institutions across the world. [5/n]
Inflation took off in the 1970s across the world - the Yom Kippur war quadrupled oil prices and the Iran war of 1979 kept things moving. The world ran on oil (sound familiar?) so prices followed. The ghouls seriously argued that inflation was enabled by workers having too much bargaining power [4/n]
Nah, the economy ticked along with close to zero unemployment and inflation between 2% and 4%. The relatively lower inflation in the 2000s was mainly thanks to lower oil prices and imported cheap labour and technological / productivity advances in Asia. Now, let's look at the 1970s.... [3/n]
The theory is that if unemployment is too low, then greedy workers will demand ever higher wages, and higher wages will feed into prices, and higher prices will push wages (the wage-price spiral). The simple logic is appealing, right? So presumably we had sky high inflation from 1945 - 1975? [2/n]
Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]
The Human Rights Commission cannot inquire into Peters' statements in the House, because of Parliamentary Privilege. Mps putting themselves above the law erodes their legitimacy and social licence.
The Press@thepress.co.nz · 14h agoWinston Peters’ attack on a Chinese-Kiwi MP has prompted nearly 60 complaints to the Human Rights Commission.