David Farrar

This is sadly very believable

@HarrisonF_37 @Xero I do have to say I love love love the ability to just forward on invoices to Xero by e-mail, and they end up in the system already coded. Love the product. Just not the price hikes.

@dpfdpf @Xero Xero might also know a lot of places upload copies of all bills into Xero and don't keep other backups so are legally required to maintain Xero for at least the next seven years.

Not overly happy with latest @Xero price increase. Am a foundation user. The doubling of the payroll fee means our monthly bill goes from $155 to $195 - a 26% increase.

Breaking News: The Spinoff discovers a low rates lobby groups campaigns for lower rates increases!!!! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-07…

The Parole Board used to publish 70 - 100 decisions a year. They seemed to have decided the public should no longer have access to decisions and have not published a single once since May 2025. The Minister should remind them we have an open justice system, not a secret one.

To be fair. Senator Paul has said the purpose of the hearing is to try and get Fauci to say something so he can be prosecuted for it. You'd be really really dumb not to plead the 5th when the entire point off the hearing is to try and jail you!

@Michaeldownunda 10 minutes before is reasonable. An hour before less so.

@dpfdpf Pet peeve for cafe owners... customers who turn up 10 mins before closing and expect full service not realising how long it takes for a cafe to hygienically close up for the day. 🤔

Pet peeve: cafes that close their kitchens an hour before closing time.

The left are breeding themselves into extinction:-)

Fascinating. I wonder if that is partly societal expectations that married men must provide for their families.

National has ruled out Labour, Greens, TPM and TOP. NZ First has ruled out Labour ACT has ruled out Labour Labour has ruled out ACT

With National having explicitly ruled out any deal with Opportunity (TOP), the Taxpayers' Union-Curia poll in future will include TOP on the opposition/centre-left for seat projections. We don't second guess what parties say.

On Saturday, Andrea Vance at The Post ran a big story pushing Labour's claim that National isn't hiring nurses. What she didn't tell her readers is that the facts and figures she had before she published said the exact opposite. So here are the numbers The Post had in its hands and decided readers were better off not seeing. When Labour left office, there were 2,632 nursing vacancies. Just two years later under National, there were 1,344. That is 1,288 fewer empty positions, a reduction of nearly 50%. The nurse workforce has grown from 31,739 to 35,342. More nurses are on the wards, fewer are walking out the door, and there is no hiring freeze. And the party shouting loudest about it today – the Labour Party – is the very party that owned every one of those worse numbers. They left the vacancy problem nearly twice as bad as it is now, and here they are calling the clean-up a scandal. You could not make it up. Then there is Labour's favourite line of the whole story, that the Government "saved" $200 million by deliberately leaving health jobs empty. It sounds shocking, until you find out what that money actually was. It was money already set aside to pay nurses and doctors the moment their new pay deals were signed. The deals had not been signed, so the money had not gone out the door. It was not saved and it was not pocketed. It was sitting there waiting to be paid, exactly as planned. Calling that a "saving" is like pocketing an unpaid invoice. The money is committed, it just hasn't left the account yet. We spelled all of this out for Andrea Vance before she published. She published Labour's disinformation anyway. Then look at what Andrea Vance reported. Labour's framing led the story, right there in the headline where every reader's eye lands. The figures showing things are better under National, the ones handed over in writing, were left out altogether. That cannot have been an accident. That was a choice. Let me be clear about one thing. There are still vacancies to fill, and we even pointed Andrea Vance to my Letter of Expectations directing Health New Zealand to move faster to fill them. But leaving out the improvement and telling readers things are going backwards is not balanced reporting. It is the version Labour is selling, and The Post chose to run it. New Zealanders deserve to know the healthcare system is improving. What they do not deserve is a scare story the facts do not support. Facts The Post had in front of it the whole time.

Fox: "Abolish the Senate?" DSA Chair: "True" Fox: "Abolish ICE?" DSA Chair: "Absolutely" Fox: "Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone in the US illegally?" DSA Chair: "Yep" Fox: "Defund the Pentagon?" DSA Chair: "Absolutely" Fox: "Abolish prisons?" DSA Chair: "Yep"

PMO confirms that the Prime Minister was indeed ruling out Opportunity - full rule out.

Breaking news @chrisluxonmp rules out doing a deal with the Opportunity Party.

Nothing like a morning run in 1 degree frost to wake you up!

It's ironic that Chris Hipkins's best asset may be Donald Trump. Between Trump's tariffs and the Iran War, he may damage the NZ economy enough to win it for Labour!

Fireworks at Damien Grant’s

Nice