Mary-Ann De Kort - Stand with the people
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Opinionated but views are entirely my own Talking bs, crypto or bitcoin will get you blocked
Kieran McAnulty and the big holes left by National $1.5billion cut from housing, $1.5billion cut from health, $6 billion shortfall in those roads they're promising Yet they're borrowing more than any govt since covid youtu.be/ursnvjvp7lA?si…
'I'll have to pass on surcharge cost' - Cafe owner Don't get sucked in over surcharges getting dropped. They're not stopping the BANKS from charging small businesses, just stopping adding a surcharge. As a result they will have to pass it on to everyone. rnz.co.nz/news/business/…
The retail industry said on 1 News at 6pm that retailers will need to increase their prices to account for the costs they will face for not recouping the credit card and payWave fees. So National's idea is not the win you think it is.....
27,850 jobs gone in a year rnz.co.nz/news/business/…
Glumsky Luxon on seeing how his growth economy is doing. growth in unemployment growth in beneficiaries growth in homelessness growth in business insolvencies growth in emmigration growth in inflation growthin the number of people who think that NZ is NOT on the right track
So we’re not back on track coz an economy is like an oil tanker that takes a long time to turn… Yep, we’re on a different course where govt appointed Professional Directors get an 80% pay rise but teachers get 1%… #NationalACTNZFirst are costing us more rnz.co.nz/news/political…
This is good news. Whanganui gets voice in unpopular fast-track seabed mining decision nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chro… #nzpol
The AG, Justice Department, Auditor General have all said Goldsmith's electoral proposal is a big problem, breaches human rights and BORA, & all Luxon can do is deflect. Of note National's move is textbook voter suppression - used by US Republicans #nzpol #nzpolitics
Hey old chum, do you wanna go on a Crown board and go to war on wokery and all that Māori stuff? It will be funny as. Sure. What's it worth to you? I'll go hard. Ah, we're working on that. Give me a couple of months.
Its indefensible. Just a plan to put barriers in the way of voting and gerrymander the election. Christopher Luxon defends voting changes after Judith Collins raises problems rnz.co.nz/news/political…
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#dailyreminder of a sitting MP who was not firmly reprimanded by media or @chrisluxonmp after release of an MPI v Oxbow report 2YEARS 225DAYS ago She abused power & her Official email acct when bullying MPI officials for investigating family A blatant example of #NZMedia failure
Voting booths set up a separate desk for special votes as a norm. The coalition f'ers are inventing a problem that doesn't exist..
Seems like the Sapere business case finding in favour of a Waikato Medical School *excluded* the cost of educating the Waikato students in their undergraduate degrees! Lopped off 3 years of study costs but counted them for Auckland and Otago. rnz.co.nz/news/business/…
Paywalled but worth tracking down. "New Zealand faces the prospect of spiralling into disparity, hardship and disenfranchisement; Max Rashbrooke writes of how he hopes to fight such forces with the power of ideas." thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360770…
Luxon arriving at the netball Was greeted for his performance
‘PM ‘grilled’ on hiking board members’ fee ranges’! Grilled??? The rich & sorted frickin nitwit gets away with it! 🤬🤡🤡 80%!!! Meanwhile Gvt workers have been offered a 1% pay increase. Govt to increase Crown body board members’ fee ranges by up to 80% nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/go…
We used to have them but, like so many short sighted decisions, they were cancelled
Greens want passenger trains between Auckland & Tauranga. How novel. A #nzpol party with a worthwhile infrastructure plan that would have great benefits for Bay of Plenty. Anyone who says differently has no idea. Rail @winstonpeters🚞#nzpolitics 1news.co.nz/2025/07/25/gre…
The Wright Family Trust, through its commercial arm WCW Trustees, owns a 75% stake in the online radio station, The Platform. The remaining 25% is held by Sean Plunket, who founded the station. The same Trust that owns Best Start Educare. Would you send your kids there?
I went to this tossers page to comment about his shocking tweet.
Data from Stats NZ today demonstrates how far we have fallen in the labour market. Between June 2019 and June 2023, we put on 225,000 new jobs. Since then, we have lost 31,216 jobs. A job lost every 34 minutes. A thread