Julie Anne Genter

What's wild is that Trump is going around deliberately & explicitly trying to bully countries into becoming dependent on US LNG.

Who on earth thinks becoming dependent on the US is smart right now?

Tune in at noon to @bernardchickey.bsky.social's Midday Hoon, to hear @connorsharp.bsky.social discuss the extraordinary cost of one of the cheapest of the Coalition's Roads of National Significance—and the risks of govt rushing us into a contract.

Livestream link: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

$22,000,000,000 on just one road? - Greater Auckland Last year, I posted about the challenges I faced, trying to daylight public-interest information about the government’s Roads of National Significance programme. As I wrote then, The paper also sugges...

Documents reveal Cabinet poised to commit $4bn to a RoNS that'll cost $22bn (or more) to complete.

❓Why is govt racing to lock this in—when it won't meet the “go” threshold until 2050?
❓Why does it require extra Crown $?
❓What’s the wider opportunity cost?

@connorsharp.bsky.social has the scoop. 👀

Greens claim wealth tax would raise billions, even with avoidance That's despite James Shaw telling Q+A he still needed to work with IRD officials to figure out how to calculate people's wealth and enforcing wealth tax compliance.

Just saying😉💚

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Begging @barbedmonds.bsky.social to revisit the taxation policy and the diluted, weak sauce, everything is exempt CGT that Labour have proposed

People want stronger action, the country (world) needs it. Be like Nike and JUST DO IT

It's not a "cost of living crisis", it's an inequity crisis
#nzpol

"Sixty-eight percent supported billionaires being taxed more to fund public goods like healthcare, housing and climate action"

SIXTY EIGHT PERCENT👀

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents reveal the government shelved a subsidy.

New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.

Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

In today’s NZ Herald

Why Qatari LNG will soon set NZ power prices LNG terminal in Taranaki will tie NZ wholesale electricity & gas prices to global gas prices; Gas price rose 47% last night after Iranian drones shut Qatar's LNG plant; NZ power prices would follow

Chorus out: LNG terminal in Taranaki will tie NZ wholesale electricity & gas prices to global gas prices; Gas price rose 47% last night after Iranian drones shut Qatar's LNG plant; NZ power prices would follow #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Applies to Aotearoa NZ as well.

If you feel like this - so many of us do...get five people to check their enrolment online.

Hint: type your address manually, do not use the auto fill as - for me - it skewed the result...

vote.nz/enrolling/en...

Light rail revival? Scrapped Auckland corridor 'a problem worth solving' The Transport Minister says the public transport corridor from the city centre to the airport, previously intended to be a light rail line, needs to be worked on.

Legend @connorsharp.bsky.social keeping the OG light rail project alive. www.1news.co.nz/2026/02/28/l...

Had a few things to say about politicians and their trophy roads (and tunnels) in the new Listener.

Gorton and Denton by-election: Result imminent, with Labour's Powell suggesting Green victory A Green Party source says they are

UK byelection declaration happening now www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...

Opposition parties react to Auckland housing U-turn Labour's deputy leader says the backtrack is a huge blow for families looking for affordable homes.

"We've been having this debate for longer than I have been involved in politics. Aucklanders and New Zealanders deserve far better," said Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Nicola Willis forced to apologise as National double down on $4 billion Wellington tunnel YouTube video by Mountain Tui

Julie Ann Genter's passion is clear but she's in a toxic work environment. #nzpol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1UL...

Cederhusen, Stockholm.

245 apartments in 10-13 storey cedar-clad buildings, with a cross laminated timber structure.

Designed by General Architecture.

A thread 🧵

Let's talk Moa Point disaster IMPORTANT: VENUE CHANGE Or watch it back on Julie Anne Genter's or Tamatha Paul's Facebook page Join us for this public meeting. An opportunity for everyone to come together, ask questions, and speak directly with the experts. Mon 16th Feb | Doors open 6:30pm | St Patrick's Performing Arts Centre Authorised by Julie Anne Genter MP

Mayor @andrewlittlenz.bsky.social and WW CEO Pat Dougherty will also be there. Head along whānau. #nzpol @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz @greens.org.nz

Why not spend $2.7b on solar & batteries instead? Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity

Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Moa Point shows why critical infrastructure shouldn’t be outsourced OPINION: Rongotai MP Julie Anne Genter argues Wellington’s sewage collapse is the predictable result of decades‑old privatisation models.

If we can’t afford to have the expertise in our councils to operate critical infrastructure, how can we pay someone else to do it?

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

A screenshot from Bernard Hickey's "the Kaka" newsletter that reads "It's also choosing to pay for the LNG terminal through a type of hire-purchase 'lease' agreement that increases the $1 billion up-front cost to $2.7 billion over the 15-year life of the facility, even though it may never be used if there is no dry year." https://thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-spend-27b-on-solar-and-batteries

So these dipshits won't fund a *pair* of ferry terminals that'd get used several times a day, but will fund an LNG terminal that *might* get used once in a blue moon?

One terminal, for the same price as two, and with zero (0) ferries?

Fifteen ways Luxon is increasing climate pollution (and the one way he says he is making it better but is not) - Greenpeace Aotearoa After the deadly storms, made worse by climate change, the Luxon Govt has tried to claim that it takes climate change seriously. But here are 15 pollution policies that speak louder than words.

After the deadly climate change-amplified weather recently, the Luxon Govt claimed it is taking action on climate change.

But their actions actually make climate change worse by increasing emissions.

Here is the evidence👇

Left, The Post: "Cash for storm-hit regions as PM stands by scrapping $6b resilience fund Questions linger over why the $6 billion resilience fund set up by Labour after Cyclone Gabrielle was canned by Christopher Luxon's Government even as his Cabinet is set to consider immediate funding to support the regions battered by last week's storm. Henry Cooke" Right, NZ Herald: "Watch: Govt allocates $1.2m to help communities affected by deadly weather disaster"

Luxon's govt cut funding for extreme-weather resilience in 2024, and so shouldn't be allowed to now crow about any money they dedicate without it being mentioned.

The Post does it right.

Realised I haven’t done shill post for coshop.nz, my food startup co-op platform, which just kicked off this year!

If you’re in Wellington check it out.

Newtown, Miramar, Haitaitai and Berhampore coming onboard from next week!

Peaches 🍑 at $3.31/kg! 👀

The Quiet Courage of Minneapolis David Farrier's Webworm attends the Minneapolis march and strike, and visits the Whipple Building and the site of Renee Good's murder by ICE.

spent the day in minneapolis to report on the huge strike & march for webworm. what an amazing fucking attitude this city has in the face of ICE scum (also: my glasses got foggy and then the fog froze): www.webworm.co/quietcourage/

It’s -25C in MSP and people are filling the light rail to attend a protest against ICE.
Public transport and resisting fascism bringing people together. 🥹

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Tunnel vision leaves Wellington a projected 17,400 homes short The cost of the capital’s move away from mass rapid transit has been revealed, with new transport plans leaving a housing deficit compared to the beleaguered and eventually abandoned Let’s Get Welling...

Green MP Julie Ann Genter: "For a city like Wellington it just make sense to have trains to the planes."

When someone asked me why Transmission Gullies road was falling apart so quickly I said look who signed the cheap deal.
Fucking idiots.
#nzpol