Thanks for the heads up - unfortunately Bluesky doesn't seem keen on the ability to edit a post to add alt text, unless I'm missing something. Will keep in mind for future.

Salient is back, baby!

Ka pai, Joel.

Has to be one of the more entertaining 0-0s I've watched. Definitely a performance I'm hopeful we can build off of. Just worried for Sutts.

So while there has been a drop in what public transport users pay, it's a 13-20% drop over 7 years, rather than a 30% drop over 6.

All data taken from the report linked. Call me out if I'm spouting bull. 4/4

www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/Walki...

Also, Waka Kotahi/NZTA estimate that for 2023/24, without any public transport subsidies, the amount would be around 27%, which is what I would imagine 2024/25 will look like following the scrapping of half price fares for under 25s. 3/4

First off, while in 2022/42023 your average bus rider only contributed 11.6% of a trip's total cost, this is before the government removed half price transport for all to just those under 25. In 2023/24 (before half price for u-25s was canned), this was 20.6%. 2/4

Cheers for the shout out mate!

Utter insanity that it's allowed.

I fully intend be to make a fuss once Salient is back in print.

Whether it is too low already and needs a boost is another matter entirely, but the budget hasn't gone down since the coalition govt came to power

The end result of this is that government ministers can break the law and obscure government and the watchdog set up to regulate the OIA is powerless to stop them.

Why? Because the OIA does not allow the Ombudsman to investigate complaints regarding illegal late transfer of OIAs. When it comes to government agencies, the Ombudsman can investigate them under the Ombudsman act, but ministers are specifically excluded from that act.

I OIA'd Minister Brown about some transport briefings he received. After fifteen days, he did a partial transfer. After my follow ups on why his response took so long were unanswered, I complained to the Ombudsman, the OIA watchdog. They told me they were unable to investigate this breach of the OIA