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@MikeySmithNZ Construction has been in a hole for a year and showing no signs of life. MOE and Kainga Ora projects have died off but I’m sure the strong National base of support the industry has will continue to vote for more of the same next election; at least that’s what my boss will do lol

How's everyone finding the economy right now? I'm in Auckland. And, can sense we are back in proper recession. I'm not looking at data for this although jobs are on life support. Just trying to get a gage on how it's doing. Any positive stories of pick up?

@NewstalkZB In the other news, water is wet.

Lack of jobs behind increasing benefit numbers, experts say newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-e…

@WilliamB1960 @GregPresland That bill also only 10% of the submissions the TPB had.

@GregPresland Remember the End of Life Choice bill? Got hammered in the Select Committee process with 90+% against but passed with a 65% approval in the referendum middle NZ’ers are not activists.

Proud to be a kiwi right now ...

@PolitlcsUK People putting any weight into what Liz Truss has got to say are bots or just plain stupid. That includes you @elonmusk

🚨 NEW: Elon Musk says Home Office Minister Jess Phillips "deserves to be in prison"

This is a complete and utter disaster and it’s ruining the lives of those participating. Close the bootcamps before someone else dies.

@PolitlcsUK Complains about asylum seekers coming in but quite happy to bomb countries like Yemen and fund wars in Palestine and Lebanon, displacing hundreds of thousands. You can’t have it both ways you old bag.

🚨 NEW: A voter says she doesn't believe in any asylum because the UK "has taken more than our fair share" Campbell: "Do you feel sorry for people fleeing wars?" Voter: "I think there is far too much made of this that they're fleeing wars" Campbell: "Oh, okay" #bbcqt

10 boys sent to her bootcamp. 1 has reoffended, 2 on the run and another 1 is dead. @actparty putting on a disaster-class.

@rdg_elliott You talking about the find out now poll? The one that is online and open to anyone around the world to participate in?

I don’t get it. I don’t get the polls. Labour have done more in three months than the Tories did in 15 years. This country have a very short memory.

Can the CEO of this Insurance company be next please 🙏🏽

This is how I know Luxon is an amatuer. I disagree with just about everything Penny Wong says in this interview, but my god does she know how to serve up the most palatable shit sandwich you’ve ever seen. She’s got some aura about her, could be future PM herself..

Multiple days at the top of the news cycle about a multi-millionaire who leads an American insurance company… It’s like they’re trying to manufacture care and interest in this.. bbc.com/news/live/crmn…

National promised 1000 additional homes for Tamaki Makaurau each year. Chris Bishop has now admitted this isn’t going to happen. "It was all talk from the get-go" @Kieran_McAnulty labour.org.nz/news-govt_brea… #nzpol

@uzerszn @chrisluxonmp Is that Auckland, Malaysia? 😂

@chrisluxonmp I was at a McDonald’s near Auckland the other day, and I overheard some Labour Party executives saying that, although they didn’t want to admit it to anyone, they all really approve of the job Luxon has been doing 🇳🇿

Not what I expected from my Spotify Wrapped.

@CadeCad84010759 @actparty At the last budget, Māori led initiatives received 2% of the total budget.. yet we’re almost 20% of the population. How much more “equal” do you want it to get 😂

Are you saying Kiwis should not be equal and Maori should receive more taxpayers' money? Maoris aren't indigenous to NZ. Based on symbology, they can be traced to multiple Pacific islands. In 1840, Maori was spelt with a lowercase m and meant "normal," i.e., the everyday people of the land made up of multiple tribes from the Pacific with different dialects—tribes today have some other words. Today, the Maori language is a modern construct, and many tribes in the 1840s did not understand it. For example, there was no name for all of NZ because no Maori had circumnavigated it.

BREAKING: The Government is fixing the Marsden Fund. The fund will now focus on core scientific research. Here’s how the fund was spending taxpayer money previously: - $853,000 to investigate relationships between Māori and taxation, aiming to propose new, Te Tiriti-aligned tax systems. - $757,000 to imagine 'honourable kāwanatanga' in preparation for a decolonised nation and a Tiriti-based future. - $360,000 to assess the rhetorics of civic deliberation in true crime podcasting. - $861,000 for research on linking the celestial spheres to end-of-life experiences.

Comment: The Government's decision to cut humanities and social science research from its major funding stream is both breathtakingly bad policy and scientifically illiterate writes Dame Anne Salmond #Echobox=1733335202-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/05/ann…

@Gunnersc0m Gonna need to score at least 3 goals with that defence.

Enough for all 3 points? 👇

@meco78526 I don’t know how you listen to him tbh. You’re out here making sacrifices lol.

Mycockskin having a rant on dame Jacinda Ardern blaming her for the decisions this coalition government are making

It gives billionaires dying on a submarine energy, not gonna lie.

@jimmy_jones755 @imissmilner A fruit is a fruit.

might be a ‘woke’ opinion but if you aren’t gonna wear the armband you don’t deserve to be captain. either you support everyone or you’re not captain, imagine if ipswich have a gay player who isn’t out or ipswich’s gay fans. that’s their captain.

Lester Levy complaining about Verrall saying he has a history of cooking the books, at the same time he’s caught trying to cook the books.. makes sense.