Responsibility for the health cuts and the harms being done to vulnerable people by rationing their dialysis rests with one person: Nicola Willis. She's the one that decided a tax cut for families with an average of $276 million in assets is more important than healthcare
The IRD report that laid bare this state of affairs came out in 2023, and there was an election later that year. So the incoming National government did two things: it told IRD to stop reporting that data; and then in her very first Budget, Nicola Willis gave those families a tax cut
Oh and yeah both sides won the civil war
They've beaten critical thinking,common sense, science and smashed morals into defeat
We elect them to.. let chatGPT do the work??
MPs are using OIA exemptions designed to protect candid policy deliberation to hide AI chat logs. One minister used AI across 53 logs to shape RMA and infrastructure policy, structuring thinking, framing options, drafting correspondence, but then refused to release any of it.
Electing an empty suit who wants the line on his CV and the knighthood at any cost, happy to deal with nzf.and act and let them walk all over him was a serious mistake by the NZ electorate
obvious they had no plan or spine, we can't risk another gutless leader in the difficult complex times ahead
Imagine a parallel world where NZ had spent the last 2 years doing everything possible to reduce fossil fuel dependency in energy and transport. Weβd have lower climate pollution and a more resilient economy. Instead the Govt subsidised fossil fuels and now we are exposed to Trumpβs madness.
Sad state of crime and policing in #newzealand
#nzpol
You know whats not going to be rationed...?
Also 100% preferred on sandwiches and burgers
Fortunately we have had a many years ongoing priority to reduce transport inflation by having the mass movement of internal goods focused on rail fulled by renewable electricity.
(listens to earpiece) Oh No.
#nzpol
Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El NiΓ±o event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
You wouldn't know my polling, it goes to another school.
Completely on brand for Luxon to only rate overseas polling, he hates anything from here.
Whooo I got my electricity bill
That'll cover the weeks groceries
Oh look, more doom
And.. surprise, it's fossil fuels!
They don't care really
Not a single bit they're wealthy and sorted
Good news , farmers are getting a $360k tax free payout!
That sounds a fuck lot like Frontline services
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
They are not changing the price depending on who walks past it
π€β‘ This is NZβs newest electric ferry - and I went where nobody's allowed! π
From the bridge to the batteries - even the Hamilton jets - we go behind the scenes of this 200 person, battery-powered beast - even using the country's FIRST MEGAWATT CHARGER!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qymm...
Who has the dildo of Consequences, are you ready?
Ya flash chargin ya yangwang mate?
stuff comments
Luxon getting some love in the Stuff comments
#nzpol
Silly, its the super wealthy !
With luxons lights out we're saving almost 0.5W!
Fuck me ol 7 houses cant even afford electricity either!
