Tax Wealth not Wages
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Norwegian prog metal devotee. Ally, climate action, social justice, tangata tiriti and Lion Brown.
Unemployed? Underemployed? Employed? Three jobs for all of us that will pay off in November. 1. Think you're enrolled to vote? Check that you are. 2. Not enrolled? Moved since the last election? Get enrolled! 3. Vote this rotten, job destroying, govt out! #huie #togetherforthevote
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 3h agoJob seekers describe fear and frustration as unemployment soars
Voting prevents unwanted policies. Full stop. Every law you hate that got passed happened because somebody didn’t show up. Election Day is less than 90 days away and every single seat is in play. Your vote. Your values. Your voice. Use it. #BlueWaveIn90Days
The NZ economy is being lashed by high fossil fuel prices, which increase the cost of living and drive inflation. Let's decarbonise the energy system for the climate and reap the side benefits of lower energy prices.
This isn't some sort of free choice. The media should reject that bullshit framing. New Zealanders forced to go without food and heat as government drives more and more into poverty. There. Fixed it for you. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather...
Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite
An advocate for older people says recent cold temperatures combined with the cost of power and other goods have produced a crisis point, with many people forced to choose between food and heating.
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The weirdest thing about elections in NZ isn’t the level of political corruption, it’s how everyone thinks there isn’t any. If you regulated election spending the entire right wing of NZ politics would evaporate overnight.
11-year high of 5.6% unemployment. Fixing the basics, like fuck. Absolute economic vandals. #nzpol
Regular viewers will know that I had serious doubts about the 'recovery' well before Trump decided to cause global chaos (and trading opportunities for his buddies). Suffice to say, today's unemployment data is GRIM! Let's have a look... Unemployment rate vs the guesses of clueless ghouls. [🧵 1/n]
Released from ICU this afternoon and now home. Photo shows the impact that the back of my S-Works helmet took after I was thrown from my bike 20 yards through the air at 60 km/h and landed in rocks and sand. Without this helmet I’d be dead. E-bike and e-scooter yahoos take note.
The Public Service Commissioner is in one corner trying to tell the Public Service Association what they can and cannot say politically, and then we have Mr CEO of the country using public services to get to and from party political events like that’s just fine and ok
kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 16h 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...
Look. What I say to you is this. I'm entitled to my entitlements. In the event of me feeling entitled so something that is in no way shape or form an entitlement, see above.
Roderick Mulgan (Free Speech Union board member) lobbied Simeon Brown; Brown appointed him to the Medical Council. UK FSU founder Toby Young attended a private UCL eugenics conference in 2018. That's the 'free speech' movement's character reference. #nzpol
Second Free Speech Union figure appointed to regulate doctors after meeting minister
A former chairperson of the Free Speech Union (FSU) - who lobbied Health Minister Simeon Brown over proposed changes to how doctors are regulated - has been appointed to the Medical Council.
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Unemployment is at 5.6%, according to new data from StatsNZ. 171,000 New Zealanders are unemployed, and the labour market is in crisis. We need a change of direction. #nzpol
Unemployment rate highest in more than a decade – labour market in crisis NZCTU
Today’s unemployment rate of 5.6 percent is the highest rate in more than a decade and shows a labour market clearly in crisis says Sandra Grey, President of the NZ Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Ka...
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This is an excellent Chlöe Swarbrick quote re the Treaty Principles Bill but feels very relevant to current #nzpol events.
Chlöe Swarbrick and NZ Greens with one of the most important messages for the public to note ahead of the upcoming election in Aotearoa.
#nzpol In light of the -10⁰C predicted for tomorrow, can the Aotearoa NZ Govt press pool ask the PM and his many ministers what is being done for the thousands of homeless around the motū who are now forced to sleep rough, in bushejs, under bridges, or in garages, or in their cars. #MontageTime
The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hey #Kikorangi peeps: if you have family who live overseas who have been back to Aotearoa at any point in the last three years, they can enrol to vote. Get them to vote.nz. They just need a NZ passport or drivers license (they can be expired).
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Let me paraphrase this for you Ms. Willis. Winston, and Seymour for that matter, can do anything they want safe in the knowledge there's sweet FA we'll do about it. They have us completely over a barrel and we're too spineless to put the interests of the country ahead of those of our party.
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d agoNicola Willis and Mark Mitchell suggested this morning that firing Winston Peters would bring down the Government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
So, tell me Mr Luxon, now that you've retired from politics and are spending more time with your money, how did your government collapse? Slowly, then all at once. But you know, it turns out I was never in charge of my government after all. I was just Peter's, Seymour's and the NZI's useful idiot.
The fast track has created a dependency on political patronage. Individual businesses can only access the fast track if ministers agree. Coincidentally political party donations linked to fast track applications have ballooned.
The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren't on the printed roll and who say they're unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/03/t...
Tens of thousands could be turned away from voting – but no one is counting them
The Opposition says people who think they're not enrolled should lodge special votes rather than being turned away from voting entirely.
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In the last two elections in between checking my enrolment and election day I was removed from the roll. Only found out when I attempted to vote. All sorted out painlessly at the time but it doesn’t bode well
Look. What I say to you is this. Four out of 100 feel better off under my government. They are the adults in the room. The other 96 Should stop looking to my govt to make the economic weather and start disrupting! What? At the ballot box? No. Not like that... www.stuff.co.nz/money/361012...
A staggering number of Kiwis' money worries have got worse in the last year
Many Kiwis feel like they’re going backwards at the moment.
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Look. What I say to you is this. Hey, listen, I'm a big fan of being a disrupter, a dynamic CEO who does business differently; especially when it comes to our international trade relationships. What's that? Winston? Nah, don't want to talk about it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Luxon speaks to Peters about comments: 'That's a conversation between us'
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he has had a conversation with Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, following his tirade towards a Chinese-born MP in Parliament last week.
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Look. What I say to you is this. Wellingtonians paying $4,000+ under Local Water Done Well, is much better than Labour's Three Waters plan where central govt would pay. Just don't call it a tax. #nzpol Wellington residents shocked by 'ridiculous' water bills... www.rnz.co.nz/news/regiona...
Wellington residents shocked by 'ridiculous' water bills for car parks, granny flats
Wellington region residents say they've been handed "ridiculous" and "unreasonable" water bills for basement car parks and granny flats.
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