Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Singapore Airlines. Having an engineer sacked because the steps he took to resolve error messages (with the approval of Singapore Airlines captains) resulted in a 17-minute delay sends a pretty clear signal to prioritise getting planes in the air over safety.

Engineer wins payout worth $47,000 after being sacked for delaying flight by 17 minutes

The airline argued it was unnecessary to power down the aircraft, and that the man had acted on “experience and instinct” rather than protocol, leading to a delay of 17 minutes and “customer dissatisf...

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Weird how Peters is choosing to end his political career as some kind of antipodean Temu Trump

Oh, well then, I guess we’ve no choice but to let the foreign minister keep doing racism. Wouldn’t want to be principled, let alone call Winston’s bluff. Better things aren’t possible

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nicola Willis and Mark Mitchell suggested this morning that firing Winston Peters would bring down the Government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

MSc and PhD students are the workforce in the engine room of our public research system. They are very, very cheap labor by policy design. This talk about a 'cost blowout' is utter rubbish. We frown on company owners that charge people to get a job. We should be doing the same here. #NZPOL

Cost blowout puts fees for foreign PhD students under review

A blow-out in the cost of treating foreign PhD students like locals has prompted a rethink of the long-standing policy and a cap on spending next year.

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The idea that LLM summaries can substitute for reading research yourself is flawed, not only because the summary may be inaccurate or miss points of particular importance to the issue you are looking into, but for a multitude of reasons, including:

Timothy Gassin@timothygassin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Disgraceful - both for: - the reliance on LLMs for assessing research that policy-makers should be reading and considering themselves and for writing parts of the curriculum, and

IMO our leaders are far too blase about this. We have one of the highest diasporas in the OECD. Our youth unemployment is well above the OECD average. But the proportion of overseas born residents is also above average. These indicators are not consistent with each other or a functioning economy.

Disgraceful - both for: - the reliance on LLMs for assessing research that policy-makers should be reading and considering themselves and for writing parts of the curriculum, and

There is a real inconsistency in NZ's constitutional arrangements between: - the very much limited and conditional basis of Crown sovereignty/governance in the Treaty, and - the adherence to absolutist conceptions of parliamentary sovereignty, drawn from the Westminster tradition.

Philip Joseph: The minister's failure to act honourably | E-Tangata

"It is unacceptable that a minister of the Crown should treat Tribunal findings with such off-hand indifference. The Tribunal's constitutional functions impose reciprocal obligations on the Crown to a...

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This is the sort of matter on which the left could do much better. Viewing economic issues through a lens of businesses vs employees is often unhelpful and neglects the fact that global finance, multinationals, and billionaires have very different interests to SMEs.

Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿@mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 4d ago

A long-ish thread on PM Luxon's foot-in-mouth speech in Rotorua this week, and a theory on why it happened. 1/

I get tired of hearing people say that Luxon is a really nice guy, but that he has a communication problem. Even if one accepts that he may be pleasant in person and may truly believe what he is doing is for the good of the country, that alone does not make someone fit to be PM.

Decisions that Luxon and Willis have made with their government have absolutely had an effect on businesses. To say that we shouldn't be looking to government when their decisions directly impact business is ludicrous. The latest hit to income in Wellington is the eye watering water bills.

Seymour: "It's important to differentiate that there are some people who call themselves businesspeople and yet always have their hand out to the government*, and there are a whole lot of people not like that doing it bloody tough, for reasons not of their fault." *ACT donors?

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's 'parent-child mentality' description of NZ businesses 'valid' in some cases - Seymour

The prime minister's office is defending comments Christopher Luxon made to Rotorua businesspeople that New Zealand businesses had a "parent-child mentality" and looked too often to the government for...

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Having read the transcript, I'll double down on my earlier post. Perhaps this 🎠💩 from Luxon will get the backlash from the business community that it deserves. Maybe it already is given recent polling...

Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability@te-ara-paerangi.community · 5d ago

Director hat on for this post. This man is made of gross incompetence. He does not understand the role of either business or government in society. Every flippen time he opens his mouth this is clear as day. People & businesses are doing it hard - in large part due to his government's policies.

Director hat on for this post. This man is made of gross incompetence. He does not understand the role of either business or government in society. Every flippen time he opens his mouth this is clear as day. People & businesses are doing it hard - in large part due to his government's policies.

Luxon's "I was out there building a kick-arse business" just galls me so much. Bro you were employed by a couple of gigantic inefficient enterprises. You did not build a pie shop or a landscaping business. You did not build a tech startup.

Oh wow 👀 Luxon has clearly never had to build a business from the ground up. Could he be more patronizing in response 😳 Turns out, Labour actually has a better track record of being better for local small businesses 🤔

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 5d ago

The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Poor effort. NZ manages to imprison people at a rate over 50% higher than England and Wales. NZ again punching above its weight! 😉

Andrew@openpolicy.bsky.social · 5d ago

"England and Wales’s penal policy is the most backward in western Europe. They imprison roughly twice the proportion of the population as Germany, and three times as many as Italy and Spain. Prisoner numbers in England and Wales have doubled in 30 years." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Waitangi Tribunal's appropriately scathing report about the government's plans to strip Treaty clauses from legislation can, to some extent, be summed up as 'People titled "The Honourable" acting dishonourably' forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Docum...

Another demonstration of the pointlessness of the NZ select committee process. That this process is allowed to operate along party lines, with the govt always having a majority, makes a mockery of the role of parliamentary scrutiny in a system with no other effective check on executive power.

Dr Dean Knight@drdeanknight.bsky.social · 7d ago

Well, that’s plain wrong and a misreading of Smith v Fonterra. 🤦🏼‍♂️ selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/SelectComm...

If I was Phil Goff I would be getting ready to stamp Winston Peters into a mulch given what he got sacked for compared to what Winston's pulling.

FFS *&*^% ... ... someone tell our PM that racism is not a game. ... and it hurts ... a lot ... Maybe if he wasn't white and so privileged he would understand. And, yes, I am angry. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

'There's a game going on here': Luxon asks for votes in response to Peters' immigrant comments

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has condemned Winston Peters' comments about a Green MP as "racist" and "outrageous", but says he maintains confidence in him as Foreign Minister.

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Just what Wellington needs. More job cuts. 👍

So...you wouldn't remove a Foreign Minister for being a racist, but you might allow a foreign power to dictate who the Foreign Minister is? Truly courageous and pricipled leadership of a proudly independent nation!

'There's a game going on here': Luxon asks for votes in response to Peters' immigrant comments

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has condemned Winston Peters' comments about a Green MP as racist and "outrageous", but says he maintains confidence in him as Foreign Minister.

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bit sick of the responses, including from the Race Relations Commissioner, characterising outright unhinged racism from on high that attacks migrants' rights to political participation, as unseemly, inappropriate, bad manners, undiplomatic etc rather than fundamentally damaging to our democracy

Jennifer@jennifilm.nz · 7d ago

Not to defend Melissa Derby but I went looking out of curiosity and she has given comment in this piece. But certainly I’d expect to see commentary from Tika Tangata soon. www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/30/c...

At the same time Chris Hipkins, buddy I know someone's telling you NZF are still a potential partner and it's going to lose you the damn election. Go out first thing tomorrow, absolutely torch Winston and tell the country you'll never work with him or his grubby cooker racists in any circumstance.

He cannot criticise Winston for being openly and proudly racist, the Chinese Embassy registering protest with MFAT, Shane Jones doubling down on the racism as PM because the government will fall apart. Luxon is without a doubt New Zealands weakest ever Prime Minister, a shadow of a man. Wet wipe.

I am begging a journalist to ask Luxon, on camera, why the Prime Minister refuses to condemn the racism of Winston Peters. When he says "I have criticised it" hit him with the, "not as Prime Minister, why is that?" and watch him slowly melt.

This has received little attention, but is significant news. Paul Hamer, who I think was the last remaining historian member of the Tribunal and quite possibly the Tribunal's most busy member (currently serving on 11 inquires), has not been reappointed by the government.

Beehive NZ@beehivenz.bsky.social · last wk.

A new release is available from Hon Tama Potaka.

It's quite remarkable how David Ausubel's comments about New Zealanders in the Fern and the Tiki (1960) still hold true to this day - an insistence on having 'the best race relations in the world' while overlooking widespread racism and being complete resistant to any outside criticism.