@caffeineworship Their economy is worth $80B+, and they still want handouts
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Jack Jones
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Make it make sense.
This union represents workers employed by Iwi organisations and Maori businesses only.
Therefore they should only be “upset” when an Iwi organisation or Maori business mistreats or exploits its workers.
What specifically has this Government done or not done in the budget to facilitate or promote mistreatment or exploitation of Iwi organisation or Maori business employees?
Jessica@bangonomics
If iwi are pissed. I’m happy.
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@CitizenBomber Housing prices are down, and first home buyers are up. That's not fragile
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – New Zealand Did Not Accidentally Become a Fragile Country
New Zealand increasingly feels like a wealthy country that cannot quite afford itself.
People feel it everywhere:
housing costs,
strained infrastructure,
regional decline,
weak productivity,
underfunded services,
young people leaving,
small businesses struggling,
and a constant political language of restraint, austerity, and managed expectations.
#nzpol
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@CitizenBomber So isn't environmental care being handed to local councils now
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National literally fiddles while Ministry of Environment torched
It says that something is very damaged in the NZ political culture when the 7 biggest polluters can buy their own policy and be protected by the most anti-environment Government ever.
This ritualistic sacrifice of the Ministry of the Environment on the alter of climate denial while culture war bigotry is manipulated by those causing the most environmental damage is heartbreaking.
#nzpol
LINK BELOW 📷📷
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@AucklandIsland You really need to research what labour did. Give you a clue. Look up he pua pua papers and the separatist divisive policies labour brought in.
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Yes we have a fracturing society and it's all because of the austerity and divisiveness of National's chaotic coalition.
theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…
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@HanumanKiJaiHo There was nothing left to strip from the cupboard. Labour made sure of that with their reckless spending and borrowing.
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THE SKINNY BUDGET has been delivered, the last one from coalition government!
Over the past 2.5 years they have stripped the cupboard bare with their failed Nickynomics.
Evidently there isn't much to call new spend. This is the contraction that reckless cuts & austerity delivers.
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@missispoi Having surplus means more can be spent on important areas instead of paying billions in interest bills from labours reckless borrowing and spending.
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What’s the bloody point of having surplus if people are hurting? They just don’t care.
‘Immediate pain, cuts and no plan': Opposition attacks Budget 2026 | RNZ News rnz.co.nz/news/political…
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@roadracerkev @tmurphyNZ So correct luxon did say that once or twice about the wet whiny and inward looking lefties, the trouble is Hipkins is wet whiny and inward looking every day. He very seldom says anything positive about NZ, whereas luxon is always talking up how great NZ is.
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@allbe0 @tmurphyNZ Which Chris called NZers ‘wet, whiny and inward looking’?
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Labour leader Chris Hipkins concludes his Budget speech pointing at the coalition benches:
"Enjoy the leather benches for 163 days more, because your time is done."
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Another busy but deeply satisfying day on Dr Gary's #ListeningTour.
Worked the 10hr evening ED shift yesterday, then slept on call at the hospital overnight, Morbidity&Mortality meeting this morning (very glad I am only 0.43 FTE in ED!), then off to doorknock at small businesses all along Herekino St with volunteers, then a meeting with the CEO and General Manager at I Have a Dream, in Tikipunga.
Full circle for me, because it's a place I first came to 10 years ago, when a family member volunteered there...and had an incredibly meaningful experience of helping students succeed.
In case you don't know, they provide a wrap around service that sticks with their children for their entire education: 15 or 16 years. They help something like 1,200 students in NZ.
Ensuring they get the academic, wellbeing, and future/career help they need from kindy all the way to 3 years beyond High school graduation. Donation funded.
It hits me to think that this is what all kids deserve, but too often cannot get.
Ka pai, IHAD.
And thanks for 90 minutes of bringing me into your world Moana and Shane.
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Clean green Aotearoa New Zealand gone thanks to the coalition of chaos.
sallypatricknz@sallypatricknz
FFS. Ministry for the Environment has been scrapped, with legislation bringing 40-year-old ministry to an end passing in Parliament on Wednesday night. Instead there'll be Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport (MCERT). rnz.co.nz/news/environme…
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@MaximusNortius Rubbish all hipkins did was moan moan moan. The guy never says anything positive. Such a misery guts. We was on fire as much as a wet match stick
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Just watching the budget. After Willis’s utter lies and the realisation of lots more cuts and debt, Hipkins is on fire in response! No matter how Willis painted it, it’s a black budget.
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@canderlodge Yet 1st home buyers have increased, plus those now able to purchase with less than 20% deposit has increased. There are much better education outcomes for students, just to name a couple..
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What a total halfwit this guy is!
Brilliant speech from Chris Hipkins and every single comment was true.
Everything from the economy, housing, employment, jobs, health, the cost of living has got worse since your lot got in! You can't defend one single thing he said, not one!
Simeon Brown@SimeonBrownMP
Chris Hipkins just stood up in the House and delivered a speech he'd written before he'd even seen the Budget. Think about that. He didn't read it, he didn't consider a single line of it, he just dusted off the attack lines his team cooked up days ago and read them out word for word. That tells you everything you need to know about Chris Hipkins. He isn't interested in what's actually good for New Zealand, he's interested in opposing for opposition's sake. The Budget National delivered today is all about securing New Zealand's future. It means more surgeries, more cancer treatments and shorter wait times for patients who've been waiting too long. It means more police on the beat, more prison officers keeping communities safe, and more criminals being held to account. And it means Kiwi kids getting a world-class education, with the basics taught brilliantly and real pathways into the trades and industries that will power our economy. Hipkins opposed every one of those boosts to frontline services before he'd even read the Budget. He'd rather play politics than back the things that will actually make a difference to New Zealanders. And he had nothing to offer in return. Nothing on how Labour would grow the economy, nothing on how they'd pay for their planned wasteful spending, nothing for the small business owners, tradies, and families doing it tough. Just spin, slogans, and the same recycled lines Kiwis have heard a hundred times before. Not once did he mention his capital gains tax. He knows Kiwis don't want their houses taxed, their KiwiSavers taxed, or their farms taxed. This is the same Chris Hipkins who delivered 30-year high inflation, soaring interest rates, and tens of thousands of households and businesses going backwards. He had his chance and he failed. He's opposing every good idea and offering none of his own. Only National is fixing the basics and building the future, so you and your family can get ahead.
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Just existing’: Kiwis reveal the costs crushing them ahead of Budget 2026.
I'm dreading the Budget. More austerity piled into us by National.
stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360984…
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Nicola Willis introducing her budget. She such a viscous woman. Talking platitudes, gaslighting us, blaming previous Govt, ignoring covid, and her actions are all punching down
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@MaximusNortius Just listening to hipkins on HDA, he certainly is a great spindoctor and full of BS. still no policies going to crunch the nbrs says he is a balanced investment guy
. Who is he kidding.
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Meanwhile Luxon responding to Hipkin’s excellent speech, with schoolyard bully behaviour and nasty rhetoric.
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@nettieg3 How about listing all the amazing positives in the budget instead of your BS list.
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Wannabe Minister of Finance Chloe Swarbrick’s crowdsourcing of serious fiscal policy perfectly illustrates how unserious the Greens are.
This is little more than an exercise in validation-seeking for policies the party has already decided on, essentially, tax the rich and deliver heaps of “free stuff.”
Swarbrick needs to realise that real governance and responsibility require the courage to say “no” to popular but unaffordable ideas, and the discipline to prioritise.
Politicians who treat the national budget like a group chat are precisely the ones who evade that responsibility and are deeply unserious.
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@GaryPayinda So you would rather it take 9 years to get consent to build a wind farm under the old system.
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Just got interviewed by sharp Te Kamo High School students analysing the Fast Track laws, and the record-setting number of laws passed "Under urgency" by this govt.
Personally, I think when govt pushes through unpopular or risky laws AND removes the community's seat at the table, democracy loses out.
We need the input of local residents, journalists, iwi, and scientists on major Fast Tracked issues like #BreamBay #SandMining.
35 year for-profit contracts require careful deliberation. With community commentary allowed. And an honest appraisal of costs and benefits.
No one wants unnecessary delays or roadblocks to needed infrastructure. Of course not.
But we also don't want Fast Track deals to be done in the dark, rushed through, with the risks and benefits unstated (or hidden as "commercially sensitive" secrets), and the key affected parties uninvited.
Remember that *what* we should be trying to Fast Track are policies that are Good for the Community and the Nation. Not just highly profitable for a few.
It's about the Many, not just the Few.
We are after all, still a democracy, and our elected govt is still meant to look out for the best interests of the people.
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@Kiwimum55 @JordNZ The difference is learning how to answer a question rather than how to dodge a question.
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The issue with Labour's #DuckGate isn't so much the embarrassing content (and inconsistency with Barbara Edmonds otherwise excellent record of playing the issue, not the person) it is the question of *who* leaked the audio, and why.
Suit and tie@Suitandtie9999
The actual audio of Labour’s Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds referring to Nicola Willis as a “duck-faced horse” and hearing her laugh about it, is far worse than seeing it in print. Truly nasty stuff from Edmonds and Labour.
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