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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1h

A bit of a long thread on the strategy and cultural war the right is surging ahead with here in Aotearoa (while I’m tired and awake at a hospital bedside).

Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 15h

Gov enacting massive ACC austerity cuts by stealth.. effectively sanctions.. #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

ACC stops payments to record numbers of long-term clients

Many say they cannot work and worry they are being "dumped as a way to save money".

www.rnz.co.nz

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Green Party NZ (unofficial) @nzgreens.nzcow.com · 15h

📺 NZ Green Party #nzpol
📢 We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

👉more news/weather bots

Greens respond to Labour’s CGT announcement

www.greens.org.nz

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Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 15h

Nice juxtaposition @bernardchickey.bsky.social #nzpol

Scoop of the day: PM Christopher Luxon has had the council rates on his Waiheke Island holiday home revised down by $8,100 after he objected to the valuation on the Onetangi home being too high at $10.5 million. The valuation was cut to $7 million, according to NZ Herald-$’s Chris Knox this morning, citing land value records. Luxon’s property was one of 47 in Onetangi that had their valuations cut, with a total of 211 ratings valuations downgrades across all of Auckland’s 630,000 properties.

Quote of the day: “Our biggest concern is those over 65. We’re seeing a significant number of over 65s, who are on fixed incomes and can’t cope with the rise in food or power, because a lot of them are renting.” North Harbour Budgeting Services general manager Claudette Wilson via (RNZ)

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¡No Pasarán, Mate! @nopasarannz.bsky.social · 17h

Better messaging around how taxes & benefits improve society (and the economy) is **paramount**, or else Labour will risk torpedoing the current public appetite for it.

Also, fully expect a wealth tax to follow otherwise why are we tinkering around the edges?

#nzpol

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 16h

"Labour will ruin the economy!" yells Nicola Willis whilst knee-capping said economy again and again #NZPol

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

"People will leave the country" scream National

To where, fuckers? Australia that already has CGT?

Where 90k kiwi's have already left because of your policies and mismanagement?

#nzpol

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 19h

I'll take whatever tax reform we can get to fund (some more) healthcare, even if it's something that should have been done 10 years ago lol.

Will wait another 10 years for Labour to agree that a progressive wealth tax is a good idea 💀 #nzpol

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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 19h

Wouldn't have anything to do with the investment properties she owns? #nzpol

wheretheystand.nz/people/nicol...

Nicola Willis - WhereTheyStand

National List MP

wheretheystand.nz

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Greeneggs | Toitū Te Tiriti @heiheikakariki.bsky.social · 18h

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jonathansgamecast.bsky.social @jonathansgamecast.bsky.social · 19h

Luxon is calling Labour's medicard idea an entitlement card. No luxon an entitlement card is the New Zealand Property Investors membership card. #nzpol

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 19h

Funny to hear David Seymour tell RNZ today that we have all the money we need for everything. Last year he said NZ is broke and we couldn't afford the ferries

Spoiler: they threw away ~ $1bn to break i-Rex

#charlatan #NewZealand #nzpol

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 19h

#nzpol

Not only is AI going to fuck up human-human trust, there’s a very good chance it will crash global markets too.

Such fun 🙄

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 20h

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

www.wired.com

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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 18h

My #nzpol cartoon for The Listener #megastrike www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Chris Slane’s Cartoon of the Week

Chris Slane shares his perspective of the week in politics.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Greeneggs | Toitū Te Tiriti @heiheikakariki.bsky.social · 19h

Three rocks, examples of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks

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Helwise @helwise1.bsky.social · 20h

Post a better finance minister than the current one. #NZpol

a raccoon is sitting on a bed playing with a wooden toy .

Alt: A raccoon is plating with an abacus.

media.tenor.com

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 20h

#NZGovtFail - I blame #ACT for purposely reintroducing #pseudoephedrine to pharmacies, enabling “P” aka meth production #nzpol

Meth use up 74%, cocaine use soars 229% but help for drug addiction gets harder to find

#drugs #crime #poverty #inequality

www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Meth use up 74%, cocaine use soars 229% as stigma and funding shortages thwart efforts to tame addiction

Desperate families say NZ drug treatment services are broken and under-resourced.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 20h

John Key left NZ with ~$60 billion debt

Nicola Willis admits Labour borrowed ~$80 billion over 6 years w/ a global pandemic & post Covid inflation

And Luxon's National are on track to borrow $120 billion ($100bn with pay equity stolen) in less time & no pandemic #nzpol #kiwi

Nicola Willis's Debt More Than Labour Incurred Over Full Term

YouTube video by Mountain Tui

www.youtube.com

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rupertbbare.bsky.social @rupertbbare.bsky.social · 20h

In Philip K Dick's short story "Faith of our fathers" an illegal anti-hallucinogen allows you to see the country's leader is actually horrifying biomechanical monstrosity & this is a pretty good metaphor for living in Lower Hutt & hearing people fawn over Chris Bishop.
#nzpol

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Christopher Luxon NatGPT @rugbyintel.bsky.social · 21h

What I'd just say to you is, what a load of rubbish Labour's new free Drs visits policy is. As my Finance Minister #NickyNoClue says, we've underfunded health so much that bottomfeeders can't get to see a doctor "at all"
#LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #EconomicVandals #NZpol

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 21h

No ferries.⛴️
No trains.🛤️
No trams.🚊
Only roads.🛣️💩😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 21h

"The New Zealand government is now basically a road-building authority with bits tacked on."

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

We’re spending all our money on roads that suck

At this point, the New Zealand government is basically just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 20h

Also for these PseudoChristians:

Christopher Luxon
Simeon Brown
Judith Collins
& company
#nzpol

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

For those who don't know:

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 21h

So, no influence at all then!
🤡❄️ #nzpol

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 21h

Correction: Stanford does not care about teachers. Or students.
She never has.

You can clearly see her lazy ignorance & insipid sycophancy has one goal:
More power.

She lusts to ascend to the same vapid Tory delusion of the faux Prime Ministership as Luxon currently incompetently occupies.

#nzpol

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 21h

Labour just went for CGT-lite. It won't raise much money & won’t change the incentives in our housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on economy. It’s focus-group-hugging performative politics. It tells low wage renters flying to Australia: not much will ever change. It says; ‘Fly my pretties. Fly’. #nzpol

Tuesday's Chorus: Where's the solar & batteries? And a proper CGT?

30% of dairy farmers in Southland & Otago still without power five days after wild winds flattened power poles; Locals surprised & farmers scramble for diesel generators; Labour goes for CGT-lite

thekaka.substack.com

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