@sharronsteed13 @dahmenaaron I think it's more a reflection on the change in affordability of housing relative to wage earning.
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Regular Jane
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@dahmenaaron Get over that, I think it's reference to the fact they are self made. Not the bank of mum and dad.
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Chris Hipkins and Chris Luxon both bought their first homes at 24. Sorry, WHAT. 24!!
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Folks the Fox has left the building!
But don’t fret.. find her on 🔵☁️
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@AucklandIsland There are several candidates I wouldn’t trust Marama Davidson is one she is an ideologue This chap might’ve wrong but we know where he comes from
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This is just unacceptable to have a candidate in an election refusing to front up to media. What's he hiding?
greg jackson@therealgregjack
Election 2023: Ryan Hamilton: National’s anti-fluoride, anti-mandate MP-in-waiting, via @nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-20… (An "at the ed of the day" already)
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@patbrittenden @Chewie_nz $10 doesn't come close to making up the removal of 20 hours free ECE which is being replaced with a much lower tax rebate in their plan.
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#BHN Under National, min wage went up 16.7% in six years, under Labour min wage went up 37.6% in six years
But National's IS offering min wage earners a $10 a week (or a 1% increase) tax cut.
Who's looking after the middle to lower income New Zealanders again? @Chewie_NZ
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@CovidSafeNZ There have been no changes to access to covid antivirals either.
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MONTHS! That potentially means we won’t get updated XBB vaccines until 2024.
We need them now while they match circulating strains, not when they are out of date.
If MOH/MedSafe want to follow international examples Canada approved the updated vaccines the same day as the US.
Hayley 🏳️🌈@Writagal
Just noting that updated Covid vaccines for New Zealanders are “months” away and also that not one party has explicitly said (during an ongoing pandemic) that clean air policy will be urgently progressed despite the very stark, very demonstrable health impacts of Covid. 🫠
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@NewshubPolitics There's a tax evasion joke in their somewhere 😄
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Lloyd Burr: Luxon looks like he has something to hide as he dodges tax questions dlvr.it/Sw9vmh
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“…when you get challenged, the natural thing is to be open about it.”
“Instead, they’ve taken the hunkering down approach, so for me as just one voter, just one commentator, it does make me more nervous that these are the people who want to run the govt.” 1news.co.nz/2023/09/15/nic…
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Lots of good things to emulate in blue zones societies, like healthy diets, strong communities, dancing, etc. but maybe not their record-keeping and data collection.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
The most interesting secret of "Blue Zones"— places where ppl live extra long lives—appears to be, sadly, improper record-keeping. The number of ppl living 100+ years just happens to ~mysteriously~ drop sharply after the introduction of state-wide birth certification.
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@maz_righthand @NewshubPolitics If they are wrong, it'll be higher interest rates and mortgages, higher inflation, higher house prices, more homelessness, more crime (as crime increases as with the gap between rich and poor), public service cuts and potentially higher GST.
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@NewshubPolitics Let’s be honest, Labour has never explained any costings over the last six years. What’s the big deal now?
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'Numbers don't add up': Willis heckled by Robertson, gets groans from audience over foreign buyers tax claims dlvr.it/Sw6L4l
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@chrisluxonmp Inflation will rise thanks to Nationals economically disastrous, financially inept tax cut plan that is based on "trust me bro."
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New Zealanders are sick of it. Data out today shows food prices rose 9.6% in the past 12 months. Some Kiwis can't afford to buy the groceries and none of us can afford a Labour Government.
A party vote for National will get the economy growing, end the cost-of-living crisis and get New Zealand back on track.
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Some mind-body + brain re-training ARE scams and caution is always advised.
However - it is just as important to recognize that mind-body approaches change patterns of GENE EXPRESSION.
There is no WOO in some of these techniques.
Which programs helped? Are scams?
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@LI_politico Rare to see this kind of reporting on covid in the news. (Rare but welcome).
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@NZStuffPolitics Why is no one mentioning Quigley is also the chair of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank?
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National is defending an MP's talks with a Vice Chancellor, while the party and Labour are both set to announce new policies. dlvr.it/SvgWsz
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@NewshubPolitics Stop bringing your confident feelings to a facts fight! Show us your work!
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'Nicola Willis and I are good with numbers': Nats' tax cuts plan 'absolutely stacks up' - Luxon dlvr.it/Svgb4Q
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@Writagal Wondering when we will be able to access covid specific anti viral too.
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Kia ora anyone in the know, when will the updated boosters that target the XBBs be available in New Zealand?
Or is that a while off yet/not coming because we’ve decided to axe the pandemic response budget alongside the climate change budget (that’s sarcasm but also 😬)
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@davidmbarnett A secret wrapped in an enigma posted in a tweet!
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I've had some secret book news that I can't talk about yet for ages and I haven't even done an enigmatic tweet saying I have secret book news I can't talk about. I'm so crap at this.
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@ClintVSmith Ghost houses make you look dumb in front of Monique.
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@mitchell_didit @NickDale @hexles @TheSpinoffTV This is not some new low, the political parties have been playing this particular game forever. The only party that, for the most part focuses on promoting beneficial public policy is the Greens.
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Armed with a stack of previous attack ads directed at himself and the Labour Party, the prime minister labelled Christopher Luxon "thin-skinned".
thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/0…
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Now do the same New Zealand.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
BREAKING: Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties
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