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ACT should threaten that if little sh*ts don't behave they will grow up to be like Paul Henry and David Seymour #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
‘There are a lot of little s..ts in classrooms’: Paul Henry unveils ACT’s school discipline plan
ACT says the party would give teachers new legal powers to remove seriously or persistently disruptive students from classrooms
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“We spend vast effort and money focusing on problem children. Let’s concentrate as much effort on the majority.” Meanwhile students in the Charter schools are costing an estimated $80k per head, compared to around $11k in State Schools. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
‘There are a lot of little s..ts in classrooms’: Paul Henry unveils ACT’s school discipline plan
ACT says the party would give teachers new legal powers to remove seriously or persistently disruptive students from classrooms
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#NZpol Andrea Vance: “New Zealand cannot spend one day courting foreign investors, skilled migrants and global talent, then send its foreign minister out to sneer at migrants and belittle foreign ambassadors the next.” Opinion: If a foreign diplomat can stand up to Peters, why can’t Luxon? [$] ⬇️
Andrea Vance: If a foreign diplomat can stand up to Peters, why can’t Luxon?
OPINION: Welcome to Winston Peters’ toxic fantasy of New Zealand where decades of contribution mean nothing if you happen to have been born on the wrong landmass, speak with an accent, or fail to fit ...
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"It's important to differentiate that there are some people who call themselves businesspeople and yet always have their hand out to the government" But I'm guessing that wouldn't apply to a business that has multiple bailouts from the Govt #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Seymour says PM’s comments on business owners is 'valid' in some cases
Labour has accused the prime minister of being "out of touch" and "telling struggling business owners to grow up" instead of owning the "weak economy".
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"That would amount to about 486,000km for tanker journeys" - of wastewater until 2050 when it will be connected to Auckland infrastructure Thank goodness for fast-track and cheap diesel #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
‘Dumping ground for Auckland’s wastewater?’ Alarm over plan to truck waste north
A Tai Tokerau community leader who helped spearhead a successful campaign against sewage spills into Whangārei Harbour fears a proposal to truck wastewater from a fast-tracked Auckland housing develop...
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“Trust of the kind New Zealanders extended cannot be assumed the next time it is called upon,” Brown said. Is Trust needed before we pay billions to someone to build an LNG terminal just down the road from houses by the New Plymouth port? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
'Trust cannot be assumed': New standards for the next pandemic
Key official advice behind major emergency decisions will be proactively released within five working days during future health crises, following findings that restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemi...
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Can anyone explain why "the Government says it can’t give them that for “legal reasons”." even though it (the National Party actually, not the Govt) wants Opposition support for their bill? What possible legal reasons would stop them sharing? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
Back our social media bill – but we can't give you a copy, National tells Labour
“Unwise” - Seymour warns National not to push ahead with social media bill without coalition support, Labour wants a copy before pledging support
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Seymour has also questioned whether the new ferries’ names, Kupe and Cook, represent a “quiet nod to co-governance”. I live that DP Seymour, the right wing Atlas weirdo in our Govt, has become the "sniveling wokester" we wew warned of by Winston #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...
'Not something the Govt needs to do': Seymour questions Peters’ ferry plan
Act leader's remarks come a day after confirmation the new fleet would not be privatised.
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"allowing companies to temporarily bypass regulations through a permanent regulatory exemption scheme" Is this DP Seymour acknowledging that his Ministry for Regulation has been ineffective? #nzpol Seymour pitches NZ as global testing ground for new technology share.google/jUcPnzqioLZM...
Seymour pitches NZ as global testing ground for new technology
The ACT leader wants to make it easier for companies to trial technologies such as driverless cars, agricultural drones and AI by suspending regulations.
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Sometimes reading old stuff is a good reminder that we say the lights of the train coming - and did nothing thefutureisrail.org/government-p... (from Jun-24) is a great - but depressing read of a policy analyst warning about a 2024 Government Policy Statement on Land Transport
“This decision reflects the need to allocate public funds transparently, consistently, and based on robust evidence.” Also "The Children's Minister won't confirm how many participants remain in the government's highly-scrutinised bootcamps." (ODT, Jun-26) #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
A Prime Minister once hailed it as a rare success. So why has this charity closed?
Genesis Youth Trust, which tackled youth reoffending in South Auckland, closed last week after 25 years.
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Quick reminder that labour introduced a tax transparency bill that would report on how fair our tax system is anually and the first thing luxons govt did was repeal it so that nobody would get that information.
Fed Farmers has upped the level of bs being fed into #nzpol. Is anyone surprised anymore? Scientists sound alarm over hallucinated AI citations in NZ rural policy report share.google/n8NATaDphDAn...
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We came in fourth highest out of 25 countries in the OECD comparison of average wholesale power prices between 2018 and 2025, exceeded only by Greece, Italy and Ireland Our 'private' power co's are making bank #nzpol www.consumer.org.nz/consumer-rig...
6 myths about NZ power prices
Why are New Zealand power prices so high? It’s not all about lines charges, Labour’s oil and gas ban or the cost of renewable energy.
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Wages down in real term GDP per capita down Productivity down Finance Minister Willis: "I stand by the decisions we’ve made" Lovely #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...
We are going backwards: NZ's real wage growth the worst in the OECD
Kiwis are also working less and producing less per hour worked.
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In New Zealand doesn’t even HAVE a basic lobbying register let alone cooling off rules because of lobbyists stopping it every time! ‘she’ll be right’ isn’t ok anymore in a modern democracy, and the fast track legislation without adequate lobby laws has opened a political Pandora’s box in NZ politics
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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The trouble is we’re now in a state of perpetual extreme weather events: www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
'A storm every eight days' - country's biggest insurer calls for systemic response
A storm hit New Zealand every eight days on average in the last year, causing claims to the country's largest insurer to more than triple.
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If we can't trust lying politicians, who can we trust? Looking at you (again) Minister Goldsmith. (I increasingly think our PM just doesn't actually realise what is going on around him) ##nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
The government is confident police will apply move on orders fairly. Here's what police had to say about them
Draft advice and emails sent while the Government’s move-on orders policy was being developed show that Police tried to steer ministers away from targeting homelessness and towards “aggressive” anti-s...
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“it’s not just up to the banks to close [the gap]. It requires broader societal change. ” Yeah, well, that "broader societal change" is not going to happen from the Govt that sent a clear message when it cancelled Pay Equity claims #nzpol businessdesk.co.nz/article/fina...
Closing NZ’s gender business gap may add $25b a year to GDP – Westpac
Women-led businesses could contribute an additional $10 billion a year to the gross domestic product if barriers were removed, a Westpac report released on Tues...
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"Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith directed officials to include begging and rough sleeping in the policy against their advice" Is it wasteful spending if you employ officials and continuously ignore them? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
The government is confident police will apply move on orders fairly. Here's what police had to say about them
Draft advice and emails sent while the Government’s move-on orders policy was being developed show that Police tried to steer ministers away from targeting homelessness and towards “aggressive” anti-s...
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#NZPol Instead of focussing government budget on renewables & storage, we're wasting a billion on an LNG terminal whose main user will be Methanex (45% of our natural gas) Which like the Rio Tinto smelter that uses 13% of NZ's electricity, is already subsidised millions by the NZ government
Too broke to pay tax? Methanex pays $70m dividend to Canadian owner
The Govt has paid hundreds of millions in subsidies to the Taranaki-based methanol producer; now there are calls to speed its exit from NZ. Jonathan Milne reports.
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What they said: "We have gone line-by-line through existing Government spending to ensure precious taxpayer dollars are going to their best purpose" (from the National Party Website) #nzpol What they did:
This seems perfect right at a time that NZs Coalition Govt is telling us that making English an official language is very important #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Year 1 students given test saying ‘feast’ and ‘coats’ are fake words
In a phonetic test provided to students, some real words were labelled as fake, and pseudo words labelled as real.
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NZs PM Luxon clarifying the ombudsman report on secret meetings with lobby in his office: youtu.be/bPv8MCyyUbw?... #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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ACTs response to huge wastage and poor nutritional value for kiwi kids - "we saved millions " #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Auditor-General issues warning over government's school lunch scheme
Alarm bells are ringing over the coalition's school lunch programme, with the Auditor-General warning the government has not been able to clearly show the scheme is delivering its aims.
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Meanwhile, the NZ Govt has announced it is going to lay off another 8,900 Public Servant and replace them with AI Only 5 years ago, the same Party leading the Govt said it couldn't attend Parliament during Covid lockdowns because they hadn't been trained on how to attend meetings remotely. #nzpol
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
