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The Farmers daughter

@Bluebyyou66

Farmers Daughter, Business woman, Sports enthusiast, Wife & Mother of 3. Common sense solutions. Logic over noise.

Tauranga City, New Zealand Katılım Ağustos 2022
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Wired-one@Wired__One·
Ngāi Tahu demanded $180 million from Santana Minerals to support Santana's Bendigo-Ophir gold mine. Santana refused, so the iwi lodged formal opposition?. How is this okay in 2026? It's blatant extortion! This nonsense must end. It's holding New Zealand back.
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Matthew Horncastle
Matthew Horncastle@matt_horncastle·
How To Manage Auckland City Council Morally Every dollar a council spends has been taken from an Aucklander. Not asked for. Not earned. Not freely given. Taken. Under the legal threat of penalty, charging order, and forced sale of your home if you do not pay. That is not an attack on councils. It is the honest description of how they are funded. But it carries a duty. If you take money by force, you owe the people you took it from your absolute discipline. Every dollar must be respected. Every dollar must be treated like it represents a real person working a real job for a real wage. Because it does. Auckland City Council has forgotten this duty. Net debt is $14.1 billion. The debt to revenue ratio is 247%. Their self-imposed limit is 270%. They are running the credit card to the cap. The asset sales target was $33 million. They delivered $14 million. Building consents are processed within the legal time frame only 82.5% of the time. The statutory target is 100%. To their credit, they found $84 million of operational savings this year. Which proves the point. They can run lean when they choose to. They have just not chosen to do it at the scale Aucklanders deserve. Here is what real stewardship looks like. Sell. The council owns assets it has no business owning. Port operations. Surplus land. Marketing agencies. Tourism arms. Sell them. Convert them into cash. Clear the debt. Use that cash to pay down what is owed until the balance sheet is clean. Stop borrowing against the next generation of Aucklanders to fund the current one. Reduce rates. Not freeze them. Not slow the increase. Reduce them. Because every dollar a council does not take is a dollar an Aucklander keeps. And that dollar will build a business, pay a mortgage, raise a child, or save for the future. It will do more in their hands than in the council's. If money is taken by force, the people taking it have one job above all others. Spend it like it matters. Auckland City Council does not spend it like it matters. That has to change.
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Matthew Horncastle
Matthew Horncastle@matt_horncastle·
Jacinda Ardern will be remembered differently by different people. I will remember her by the numbers. When she took office in 2017, net Crown debt was around $60 billion. When she resigned in 2023, it was heading toward $175 billion. She oversaw the fastest deterioration of New Zealand's public finances in modern history. Not because of a war. Not because of a natural disaster that lasted six years. Because of choices. House prices under her government reached 8.3 times the median household income. The highest in our recorded history. She did not just preside over unaffordability. She created a generation of New Zealanders who will never own the home they grew up in. Then prices crashed nearly 20 percent from their peak, leaving the people who had finally stretched to buy underwater on their mortgages. She gave New Zealand the worst of both worlds. Unaffordable on the way up. Losses on the way down. Productivity. New Zealand workers already put in more hours than almost any developed nation. Under Ardern, we produced less per hour than the OECD average. Our GDP per capita went backwards. That is the number that matters most. It measures whether the country is genuinely getting wealthier or just busier. We were just busier. She raised the top income tax rate to 39 percent while the country got poorer. She increased the cost of productive people while decreasing what they produced. That is not economics. That is ideology. Then there was the statement heard around the world. "We will continue to be your single source of truth." No Prime Minister in my lifetime has said anything more authoritarian than that. Not framed as emergency powers. Not buried in legislation. Said plainly. On camera. With a smile. That sentence alone should disqualify a person from public office permanently. When the COVID inquiry came, she refused to front a public hearing and chose a private interview instead. A leader who controls information on the way in and avoids accountability on the way out is not a leader. That is a pattern. She resigned before the consequences fully arrived. She left the country, accepted international appointments, and collected global praise while New Zealanders dealt with the debt, the mortgage stress, and the productivity gap she left behind. Leadership is not measured by the applause of people who do not live with the results. It is measured by what you leave behind for the people who do. New Zealand deserved better. And we must never again confuse charisma for competence, or kindness as a brand for results as a record.
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Suit and tie
Suit and tie@Suitandtie9999·
The Green Party’s endorsement of a candidate who celebrates violence and murder is nothing short of disgraceful. The Greens have selected Michel Mulipola as their candidate for Māngere in the upcoming general election. This is a horrific post from Mulipola’s Instagram account, published after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The Green Party clearly has an undeniable issue with violence. Another of their candidates, Tania Waikato, posted on social media that it “would be hard not to punch” Winston Peters and David Seymour if she succeeded in getting into Parliament. The media must not ignore this and ask why both Swarbrick and Davidson have no issue with the violent messaging of their candidates.
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People ask "How the hell did we get to where we are? Our broken society? The racial tension? Broken insufficient infrastructure? Our staggering debt?" Well, this is how we got there folks! NEVER FORGET!
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Basil the Great
Basil the Great@BasilTheGreat·
They've just invented a new way to stop environmental activists throwing paint over artwork
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The Farmers daughter
The Farmers daughter@Bluebyyou66·
@beehivebadboy He is a steady hand but nothing would improve under Winston, he would just hold the ship steady. I would rather David Seymour as PM to fix the economy and Chris Luxon in support, as foreign affairs minister. Cause that way everyone’s lives would improve. @nzpol
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beehivebadboy@beehivebadboy·
Could Winston Peters finally be New Zealand’s next Prime Minister? NZ First is surging to a record 13.6% in the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll — up nearly 4 points in a month — while Peters’ preferred PM rating climbs to 12.1%.58 For too long, Labour and National have drifted into the same big-government, high-cost mess. Voters stuck in old habits are watching nothing change. Peters is calling it straight: “Power to the People.” He’s slamming asset sales as a “tawdry silly argument,” pushing to break up the power companies so they can’t control both the power and the price, and demanding economic nationalism that puts Kiwis first.0 With nearly 50 years’ experience, a track record of delivering (from the Winebox Inquiry to fighting for minimum wages and regional infrastructure), and real spine against woke bureaucracy, Winston has the record and the fight that Luxon’s National lacks. Read the full article asking if this is finally his time — and why he could be the leader to break the cycle: @beehivebadboy/note/p-193775657?r=86qdtg&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@beehivebadboy… What do you think — time for real change? 👇
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Lindylou
Lindylou@lindylounz·
@kaiviti_cam @SeanPlunket It’s embarrassing but she will, from here on, be known as the drunken judge!
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New Zealand Taxpayers' Union@TaxpayersUnion·
Te Pāti Māori calls for more spending as a solution to inequality, but without growth, all you’re doing is redistributing stagnation.
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