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@spacefish2 @nzfirst That's why I said we should be going further, as the TPB wasn't perfect. But imo it was far better than what was announced today that many seem to be fawning over.

@Wired__One @nzfirst The TPB wasn't a solution though, it was another re-write of the Treaty - no different to what activists have been quietly doing for decades.

@spacefish2 @nzfirst Correct. The Treaty Principles bill ultimately involved a referendum, albeit without the entrenchment. But we should be going further than that.

@Wired__One @nzfirst Successfully entrenching would likely require broad cross-party support - or a referendum.

@spacefish2 @nzfirst Referendums plus entrenched provisions require a super majority of parliament to overturn. Let's not pretend that this government doesn't have options. They do. They just don't want to use them.

@Wired__One @nzfirst Current politicians or parties cannot control what decisions future Govt's make, but they can make it more difficult. Following your logic - why bother making any changes at all?

@rendle_craig Good decision. It was never going to work.

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@acidiclemon2 @actparty Yep, they could. The Treaty Principles Bill didn't go far enough, but it's better than this bullshit in the fact that it defined all the principles. Not simply removed them from certain bits of legislation. Plus, it would've been backed by a binding public referendum.

@Wired__One @actparty A future government could also repeal the Treaty Principles Act.

BREAKING: We are repealing references to the Treaty in the following laws: - Education and Training Act - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act - Organic Products and Production Act - Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act - Crown Pastoral Land Act - Plant Variety Rights Act

@TheNzRocketeer @nzfirst @TristanTheKiwi Morons lapping it up like it's a big win. This country is stuffed.

@nzfirst @TristanTheKiwi The legislation website with Maori racial supremacy writ large across it calls your bluff. There are 290 Acts that mention "Principles of the Treaty", 207 that use "Te Tiriti". You're mocking us.

@turns1997 @worldiswatchu So our march to the left continues because you are all too scared to rally against shite policy, which is effectively the status quo. Nice...

@Wired__One @worldiswatchu We don’t need radicals either left or right in government period

Good, plenty more to do too!

@turns1997 @worldiswatchu It's better than this bullshit and was at least going to go to a referendum and define all principles. Not just remove half a dozen references from legislation. I'd personally rip the treaty up.

@Wired__One @worldiswatchu Supporting Acts bogus treaty bill which would have achieved nothing because a labour government would have been scrapped it🤦‍♂️

@turns1997 @worldiswatchu This is why nothing ever changes. Bellends like you are happy with the bare minimum.

@Wired__One @worldiswatchu This is you 🤣

@turns1997 @actparty This is my reply to ACT praising this move. But well done you... x.com/i/status/20550…

@Wired__One @actparty Give credit where it’s due man if Act or National had done this and not NZF you would be endorsing it 🤦‍♂️

@turns1997 @worldiswatchu No, I'm not actually. I just don't start waving my pompoms for policy that achieves little and can be easily overturned. But you do you...

@worldiswatchu He’s a Seymour apologist 🤣

@worldiswatchu @turns1997 How exactly does this stop Labour from putting them back into legislation then? Hint for you, it doesn't. So as I said what the fuck will they achieve other than appeasing simpletons who have no ability for complex thought?

@turns1997 Winston derangement syndrome 😂

The #WaitangiTribunal recommending this @NZNationalParty led govt stop the school curriculum changes as they are in breach of the Treaty is such *political* over-reach that it alone deserves the disbanding of that Tribunal. They are only about making trouble now. The curriculum changes are to fix a system that was failing children so the tribunal wants to lock in failure: get rid of it. The settlements are all done. It has no purpose continuing.

@EerykMcRae @actparty How do you delegitimize principles that have already been legitimized in legislation? Ignoring they exist won't fix it.

@Wired__One @actparty As I've articulated. I disagree with you. Legitimising lies which will inevitably be hijacked by Marxists is never the most palatable option.

@EerykMcRae @actparty I'm all for going further and tearing the document up and all relevant legislation. But that's a minority viewpoint in NZ, and sadly, the TPB was the best of the limited palatable options we have.

@Wired__One @actparty And if we're dumb enough to think Marxists and separatists wouldnt ignore and reverse/amend the results of a referendum at their first opportunity, then yes, it would've been a good idea. It ultimately would've been reversed/amended and legitimised an unconstitutional falsehood.

@saltyreigns Yep. It's meaningless slop to appease the masses that won't look or think beyond a headline.

Will these simply get replaced by the next left govt? (Or even national)

@EerykMcRae @actparty The Treaty Principles Bill was ultimately going to go to a referendum. Yes a future government could amend that with a simple majority if it didn't become an entrenched provision. But a binding referendum gives it more credence.

@Wired__One @actparty To be fair, a future govt could just change the principles too. This NZF policy isn't being implemented hard enough and is therefore a failure, nonetheless, it's objectively better policy than legitimising principles that have no constitutional basis.

@JosephMooneyMP I commend the tax adjustment, but genuine relief demands automatic indexing of brackets to inflation. My concern is the expanding entitlement state, which this fails to address. We didn't want Labour’s policies delivered more efficiently. We wanted them scaled back & ended.

We campaigned on and delivered the first tax adjustment policy in 14 years which particularly benefited low and middle income earners. The lowest income earners had drifted into higher and higher income tax brackets over the years due to inflation, and previous government hadn’t addressed it (easier to let that quietly tax people to fill government coffers than to stop the inflationary creep - which meant the lowest income earners were in the highest tax brackets for some of their income by the time we addressed it). Be interested if you knew this - the attack line from the left that it was “just a tax cut for the rich” seems to capture the most signal. Think about that for a second. The people most harmed by doing nothing were those on the lowest incomes. Fixing that became an attack line for the left.

Thanks for engaging Clint. A few thoughts: Some Big Structural issues: ☘️ New Zealand is among the top 10% of OECD countries for infrastructure spending (5.8% of GDP) yet ranks in the bottom 10% for value-for-money. ☘️ Over 50% of households receive more from government than they contribute. ☘️ 2.3 million fully employed New Zealanders are supporting themselves and another 3 million people. We can’t simply tax those workers harder and expect to fix this. ☘️ Treasury’s own long-term projections show NZ Super and health costs roughly doubling as a share of the economy by 2065. If nothing changes, government debt hits 200% of GDP. ☘️ Health is one of our biggest expenditures - New Zealand spends around 10% of GDP on health, compared to roughly 5% in Singapore. Singapore spends half as much as a share of its economy Some other issues: 💰 During COVID, the Reserve Bank created $53 billion through its bond-buying programme. At the same time, the government borrowed and spent $66 billion - the second-largest fiscal intervention of any advanced economy, by Treasury’s own measure. 💰 Together, these drove net Crown debt from around $60 billion to $182 billion. A tripling. The highest in New Zealand’s history in nominal dollar terms. 💰Bernard Hickey has calculated this contributed to nearly $1 trillion flowing to asset holders - the biggest transfer of wealth in New Zealand’s history. Why? Because money needs to find a home. Too many dollars chasing too few assets created a massive property bubble - with prices rising around 30% nationally, and up to 40% in some regions, in a single year. 💰 The hangover is still being felt, as sometimes what goes up in a bubble must come down. Wellington prices came down in some areas by 26% from their late 2021 peak. Auckland in some areas came down 22%. Some who bought at the top went underwater on their mortgages. Some of that COVID spending was of course necessary. But Treasury itself said in its 2025 Long-Term Insights Briefing that the $66 billion response spanned 821 programmes, however around half of it was unrelated to the pandemic. The Royal Commission confirmed it. Spending was not always timely, temporary and targeted. It has ultimately made it harder for young people to buy a home, and left the country in a challenging financial position. 💸 It has also left us with an annual interest bill of $9 billion on core Crown debt - rising to over $10 billion when Crown entities are included, and forecast to hit $15.6 billion by 2030. That’s more than we spend on Police, Corrections, Justice, Customs and Defence combined. Where does that leave us? We need more first-principles thinking. Our government has been doing a lot of excellent work in this space including significant education reform, building reform, RMA reform, etc. Tax more, spend more certainly won’t help.