#nzpol Since the last election, the youth unemployment rate has climbed from 10.8% to 16.6%. Luxon's Government has responded by blaming young people, means-testing their benefits, and ripping fees fee away from uni students. It's great to see parties like the Greens backing our young workers:

Greens' youth jobs guarantee is the action young workers need NZCTU

The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi welcomes the Green Party's Youth Jobs Guarantee, which would give every 16- to 24-year-old who has been out of work for six months a pathway in...

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National refuses to regulate AI in New Zealand. #NzPol

Taking a light touch with AI's 'dangers and evils'

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In Te Tairāwhiti Gisborne and it was jobs jobs jobs that kept coming up. Our beautiful, equitable future ahead can *not only* centre our young people - but secure decent, meaningful jobs that build a country where care for each other and te taiao is simply how we work - for all of us 🌏✊️

“This is exactly why Government is supposed to exist," Swarbrick continued, "to regulate what needs regulating, to ensure benefits are appropriately shared and harms minimised." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

'We don't work for AI': Greens vow to regulate artificial intelligence

The Green Party says it will regulate artificial intelligence (AI) so its benefits are shared with New Zealanders, not just the technology companies that operate them, if elected.

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#nzpol To anybody who may want to hear: The easiest way to get someone "off the JS benefit and into work" is to offer ... a good job with a liveable wage in a safe environment where they are valued and can aspire to a life of contribution and service. Is not rocket science. End of. 🙏.

'We don't work for AI': Greens vow to regulate artificial intelligence

'We don't work for AI': Greens vow to regulate artificial intelligence

The Green Party says it will regulate artificial intelligence (AI) so its benefits are shared with New Zealanders, not just the technology companies that operate them, if elected.

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The consequences of pulling the plug on foreign aid

The drop of aid New Zealand sends to Ethiopia is small but significant. Slashing it in order to boost Pharmac's budget will cost lives.

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Why pay equity against other things? Why are women always put against everything else? That's structural misogyny right there. Side eyeing whoever was part of this piece.

Hayley@writagal.bsky.social · yesterday

What I really love during election year and at every other time is think pieces by dudes framing pay equity as a choice/cost versus a basic inherent policy that any democracy should have as a given right - which also wouldn’t be framed as such if men were the ones primarily impacted by its absence.

Sorry, I'll explain. We currently react to inflation by reducing the disposable income of spenders so that demand falls and unemployment goes up. We use a bufferstock of unemployed people to keep workers desperate, so wages are suppressed and we don't get a feedback loop (wage 🔄 prices) [🧵 1/n]

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · yesterday

Simply the best socio-economic policy anyone can vote for this election. If I was splitting hairs, I would say that the six months wait is about six months too long, but it's still a great start.

Oh dear, this is awful. A heady mix of ill-informed and untrue. Let's have a quick run through the lowlights... First, when we do get some articles about the rest of the balance sheet, Brucey? Govt's *positive* net financial worth? Business debt? Household debt? No? Why? [🧵1/n]

#nzpol There are so many unasked questions about our current economic 'policy' one of which - how come employment growth in 2024 and 2025 was worse than the GFC? There wasn't a worldwide slowdown in those years - the growth in unemployment here is entirely self-inflicted.

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · yesterday

When you hear Luxon crowing about Treasury forecasts of adding 221,000 jobs over the next four years, know that (a) it's a pathetic level of ambition, and (b) it's highly unlikely to happen without significant changes in policy.

Counterpoint: All potential NZ government parties can in fact afford whatever they want to prioritise. They have massive capacity for investment and the financial position of the country, despite what the current Government likes to cry, is totally fine. Spend money to make NZ better!

Unthinkable not so long ago but women are collectively worse off now than we were 3 years ago. But damage control is not progress, & we don't want to go back to 2023. Instead let's lift our horizons, imagine a relaxing future - and vote with that future in mind. Scorecard commentary:

Election 2026: Political Party Scorecard Revealed - Auckland Women's Centre

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here's the stats

Public meeting with Steve Abel this Thursday 15 Oct in Henderson: kai and kōrero on affordable food & energy, 7pm at Coffee Studio, Corban Estate 💚✊️

Our young people are our future and "no matter how small they are they can still fix the world" (quote from my 8 year old daughter as she looked at the headline over my shoulder) www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Greens guarantee a pathway to work or training for 16 to 24-year olds

The policy, released in Auckland on Sunday, $4.86 billion over four years.

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#LloydBurr fantasized about #MaikiSherman's partner's genitals, told her about it, Maiki lost her job b/cos she rejected the creepy comments? Fuck that. #AniO'Brien #JordanWilliams #FreeSpeechUnion #Taxpayer'sUnion are responsible for Sherman's exit. Hope she sues. #nzpol #NickyHager #DirtyWork

I’ve been asking women to run for local govt roles for over a decade. Worry about abuse, threats and violence has become a much more common reason to decline. There’s also a question to ask here about how parties deal with it - especially when their candidates do the abusing. One major party…

Dr. Cassandra Mudgway@legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well #nzpol

The NZIER report referenced here is worth a read. Sets out clearly how young people are being screwed all ways by Govt economic and social policy. The economy is being throttled, migration settings have loosened, and the Govt are victim blaming. Let young people earn a living ffs. Simple as that

Imagine that

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d ago

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Tens of thousands more unemployed people hurting for Christmas because of these policies

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 4d ago

Government finances end the year in better shape

I mean, it is not actually funny, but good grief. When you hear Lux-out talking about the 220,000 jobs on the way, getting the economy back on track, and the return to slurplus (whatever), remember that the numbers rest on assumptions that are frankly bollox.

Riddle me this: how come when Nat government *must* increase defence spending by $5 Billion Nats say they just have to borrow it but when similar Billions are required for Pay Equity for women they pretend this isn’t possible? #NZPol

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Why aren’t we talking about child poverty?

Child poverty was a hot topic in the last three elections. But it’s slipped off the agenda, even though it’s got worse. What’s going on?

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From 2018.... The age old tory myth that beneficiaries are on drugs.. just like failed bootcamps never miss a chance to punch down #nzpol

Your reminder that agriculture accounts for roughly 6% of NZ's GDP & yet 53% of New Zealand's gross greenhouse gas emissions. I bloody love our farmers, but some of them don't half mind being beneficiaries of Govt money at times.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d ago

National woos farmer vote with $300m low-cost loans for water storage

Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 3d ago

BREAKING US execution by firing squad of Fort Hood shooter to be livestreamed: Pentagon official

Greens announce passenger rail: Auckland–Wellington, Christchurch–Dunedin, Te Huia to Tauranga. Luxon: rail must be "commercially viable." Motorways aren't commercially viable. We fund them anyway. "Viability" is the test Luxon applies to things he doesn't want built. #nzpol

Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities

The Green Party says it will connect the country with intercity passenger rail services, if elected.

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#nzpol Living wage plans could also fuel productivity, reduce reliance on WFF tax credits and demand for foodbanks, and alleviate child poverty harms another economist warns. 🙏.

Sliding in the polls, have a crack at beneficiaries: National's drug test policy follows a well-worn pattern thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08-...

Sliding in the polls, have a crack at beneficiaries: National's drug test policy follows a well-worn pattern | The Spinoff

It's just the latest example in the party's sorry history of framing an economic failure as a personal one.

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