#chrishipkins — Public Fediverse posts

"We announced, for example, the rollout of more AI tools for our health system ..."

#ChrisHipkins, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=529f222f-cd18-45ae-9a52-39bfda42b320

Wait ... the place you're going to start experimenting with this bleeding edge technology - unproven and observably unreliable as it is - is in our *public healthcare* system? Jesus wept.

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#health #healthcare #PublicHealth #AI

Of everything Hipkins says in the 30 interview, the one that horrifies me most - as an activist who's spent decades struggling for ethical tech - is the answers to Guyon Espiner's questions about "AI".

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#ChrisHipkins #MOLE #AI

Of everything Hipkins says in the 30 interview, the one that horrifies me most - as an activist who's spent decades struggling for ethical tech - is the answers to Guyon Espiner's questions about "AI".

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#ChrisHipkins #MOLE #AI

Of everything Hipkins says in the 30 interview, the one that horrifies me most - as an activist who's spent decades struggling for ethical tech - is the answers to Guyon Espiner's questions about "AI".

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#ChrisHipkins #MOLE #AI

Of everything Hipkins says in the 30 interview, the one that horrifies me most - as an activist who's spent decades struggling for ethical tech - is the answers to Guyon Espiner's questions about "AI".

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#ChrisHipkins #MOLE #AI

"I think the profits that we're seeing from the banks, from the supermarkets, from the electricity companies, from some of the insurance companies, are a sign that NZ doesn't actually have what the free market is supposed to deliver us, a competitive economy."

#ChrisHipkins, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=529f222f-cd18-45ae-9a52-39bfda42b320

Where do I start with this one?

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"We've had 4 or 5 decades... of an economic system that says 'don't worry about concentration of wealth, eventually that will flow down, everyone will be better off', and a lot of people are going, '... that's not what we're experiencing, the cost of living is getting more, we're feeling more marginalised economically, our jobs are less secure', and they want something different"

#ChrisHipkins, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=529f222f-cd18-45ae-9a52-39bfda42b320

Bang on, but ...

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#30 #GuyonEspiner #RNZ #NZPolitics #podcasts

Poll: National and PM nosedive to new lows, left bloc would gain power https://www.byteseu.com/1948921/ #ACTParty #ChloeSwarbrick #ChrisHipkins #ChristopherLuxon #DavidSeymour #DebbieNgarewaPacker #GreenParty #LabourParty #MaramaDavidson #NationalParty #NewZealand #NewZealandFirst #Politics #RawiriWaititi #TePatiMaori #VerianPoll #WinstonPeters

*But* ... the one thing Hipkins ought *not* to lose his leadership role over is stories about his personal life. His private business.

None of us are saints, especially in the eyes of puritan ultra-conservatives and crypto-conservative identi-Moonies. Every one of us has skeletons in the closet that scurrilous muckrakers could dig up as a basis to exclude us from political office.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=358d4088-5010-4c4c-91ba-ecd7538a2ebd

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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #privacy #MuckRaking #NZPolitics #ChrisHipkins

The unnecessary 2nd-phase of the #Covid enquiry seems to have said what everyone already knew: We could have done better if we knew then what we knew now.

#National now has to convince us that #JacindaArdern & #ChrisHipkins willingly ignored the Govt's many reliable psychics & prognosticators
#nzpol

Hipkins, Luxon neck and neck as preferred PM – Govt gets 5/10 https://www.byteseu.com/1805083/ #ACTParty #ChloeSwarbrick #ChrisHipkins #ChristopherLuxon #DavidSeymour #DebbieNgarewaPacker #GreenParty #LabourParty #MaramaDavidson #NationalParty #NewZealand #NewZealandFirst #Politics #RawiriWaititi #TePatiMaori #VerianPoll #WinstonPeters

Labour sets its demands on Govt’s India deal before backing it https://www.byteseu.com/1801343/ #ChrisHipkins #ChristopherLuxon #economy #LabourParty #NewZealand #NewZealandFirst #Politics

I'm often frustrated with Hipkins, but he makes an important point here;

"... 20,000 fewer jobs in the construction sector than there were on election day 2 years ago ... where have [those workers] gone? Well, a whole chunk of them have left the country, and some of them have ended up on a Jobseeker benefit. So we're paying them to sit at home, when we could have been paying them to build the future of the country."

#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/12/19/the-bradbury-group-end-of-year-special-with-chris-hipkins-gerry-brownlee-john-tamihere-chris-penk-tdb-3-wise-men-special-guest-santa-claus/

#NZPolitics

what to expect from politics and the economy in 2026 https://www.byteseu.com/1726143/ #ACTParty #ChrisHipkins #ChristopherLuxon #GreenParty #LabourParty #NationalParty #NewZealand #NewZealandFirst #Politics #TePatiMaori #torangapu

Te Pāti Māori support crashes after weeks of in-fighting https://www.byteseu.com/1611459/ #1newsRecommends #ACTParty #ChloeSwarbrick #ChrisHipkins #ChristopherLuxon #DavidSeymour #DebbieNgarewaPacker #GreenParty #LabourParty #MaramaDavidson #NationalParty #NewZealand #NewZealandFirst #Politics #RawiriWaititi #TePatiMaori #VerianPoll #WinstonPeters

For those who think Jack Tame is biased against the right because he regularly exposes right-wing politicians and their bullshit non-answers, here he is doing exactly the same thing to Chris Hipkins;

https://m.soundcloud.com/qandanz/chris-hipkins-will-capital-gains-tax-have-unfair-outcomes

#podcasts #TVNZ #QAndA #CGT #ChrisHipkins

"...the Charter School model is just totally, fundamentally flawed. Labour will repeal the Charter School model, we'll deal with any schools that have been established in the meantime on a case-by-case basis ..."

#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/11/05/the-bradbury-group-with-chris-hipkins-fran-osullivan-john-tamahere-simon-wilson/

This is the kind of bottom line we need to hear more of from Labour. "Charter Schools" can be converted to Special Character schools, just like the last lot.

#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #education #CharterSchools

"...the Charter School model is just totally, fundamentally flawed. Labour will repeal the Charter School model, we'll deal with any schools that have been established in the meantime on a case-by-case basis ..."

#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/11/05/the-bradbury-group-with-chris-hipkins-fran-osullivan-john-tamahere-simon-wilson/

This is the kind of bottom line we need to hear more of from Labour. "Charter Schools" can be converted to Special Character schools, just like the last lot.

#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #education #CharterSchools

"...the Charter School model is just totally, fundamentally flawed. Labour will repeal the Charter School model, we'll deal with any schools that have been established in the meantime on a case-by-case basis ..."

#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/11/05/the-bradbury-group-with-chris-hipkins-fran-osullivan-john-tamahere-simon-wilson/

This is the kind of bottom line we need to hear more of from Labour. "Charter Schools" can be converted to Special Character schools, just like the last lot.

#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #education #CharterSchools

"...the Charter School model is just totally, fundamentally flawed. Labour will repeal the Charter School model, we'll deal with any schools that have been established in the meantime on a case-by-case basis ..."

#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/11/05/the-bradbury-group-with-chris-hipkins-fran-osullivan-john-tamahere-simon-wilson/

This is the kind of bottom line we need to hear more of from Labour. "Charter Schools" can be converted to Special Character schools, just like the last lot.

#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #education #CharterSchools

"So of course spineless jellyfish Chris Hipkins doesn't want to. Oh, he agrees the punishment is "too extreme", but he says Labour is "pretty unlikely" to filibuster the debate. So, he's going to take the leverage the Speaker handed him to force the government to compromise and adopt a more appropriate penalty, and he's going to do... nothing."

@norightturnnz, 2025

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/05/which-side-are-you-on-labour.html

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#NZLabour #ChrisHipkins

I didn't stop to transcribe the exact quote. But Hipkins said that when he gives interviews, his target audience is the person who voted Labour in 2020, but switched to the Nats in 2024;

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pat-brittenden/episodes/BHN-Chris-Hipkins-on-making-policy--if-this-government-is-racist--bootcamps-and-more-e2rtson

I have thoughts.

First, this dogma clashes directly with his more nuanced comment earlier in the podcast. That the centre is *not* the space between the two biggest parties, but rather the space of the uncommitted voter.

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#podcasts #BigHairyNews #BHN #centrism #ChrisHipkins

"Inequality is a massive contributor to government costs. So ... if you get the economy rejigged, so that the playing field tilts a bit more towards equality, then government costs go down."

#ChrisHipkins, 2024

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pat-brittenden/episodes/BHN-Chris-Hipkins-on-making-policy--if-this-government-is-racist--bootcamps-and-more-e2rtson

'Leveling the playing field' was a key message of the 1980s/90s coup. But as Hipkins says, if we care about democracy we don't *want* the economic playing field to be level. We want it slanted towards those with the least.

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#podcasts #BigHairyNews #BHN

"What we need to do is convince NZers that there is an alternative approach to managing the economy to the one that we've had for the last 30 or 40 years."

#ChrisHipkins, 2024

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pat-brittenden/episodes/BHN-Chris-Hipkins-on-making-policy--if-this-government-is-racist--bootcamps-and-more-e2rtson

This a good start. But I want to see every Labour spokesperson giving speeches describing exactly how their portfolio has been conceptualised since Rogernomics and Ruthenasia, how it's failed, and how their approach would be fundamentally different.

#podcasts #BigHairyNews #BHN #corporatism

🍼🪦 5 septembre, un jour, une vie, un décès https://www.election-politique.com/election.php?ref=967

#Anniversaire #Birthday #5Septembre #5Settembre #5deSeptiembre #September5 #5September #ChrisHipkins #ManuelBlancoEncalada

🍼🪦 5 septembre, un jour, une vie, un décès https://www.election-politique.com/election.php?ref=967

#Anniversaire #Birthday #5Septembre #5Settembre #5deSeptiembre #September5 #5September #ChrisHipkins #ManuelBlancoEncalada

My cartoon for today's https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350328090/cartoon-july-2

Labour where are you?! Some MP's have been fighting the opposition but the main dude, well, tumble weed springs to mind...

#NzPol #Aotearoa #Labour #ChrisHipkins #EditorialCartoon #PoliticalCartoon

A good summary of what recent housing policy changes add up to;

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"If you look at what this government have done, right, so they've dialed back the state house building program, they just cut half a billion $ out of that last week in the budget."

#ChrisHipkins, 2024
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pat-brittenden/episodes/BHN-Chris-Hipkins-LIVE--Nicola-Willis-on-QA--TPU-Beehive-Stunt-e2kfoni

#podcasts #BHN #BigHairyNews #housing

My cartoon in today's @thepostnz @thepress_nz @waikatotimesnz and other @nzstuff owned papers

Hipkins gave his State of the Nation speech over the weekend. Taxes of all sorts are back on the table...

#NzPol #LabourParty #ChrisHipkins #Caricature #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Cartoon #CarDrifting #Aotearoa #NewZealand

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350225246/cartoon-tuesday-march-26

"There hasn't been a multi-leaders debate since about 2002, because I think in the leaders’ debates people do want to see the people who could credibly be prime minister after the election."

#ChrisHipkins

https://www.thepress.co.nz/a/politics/350084495/election-2023-press-debate-back-double-leaders

The entitlement this smacks of, is why the combined LabsNats vote has hit record lows. Unless the election is rigged, any party leader could be the PM if that's what we, the citizens, decide when we vote.

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Voters in New Zealand election ousted the party once led by Jacinda Ardern and elected the country’s most right-wing government in a generation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/10/15/asia-pacific/politics/new-zealand-conservative-government/?utm_content=buffer3cd74&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #politics #newzealand #christopherluxon #chrishipkins #jacindaardern

"Had an excellent meeting with the New Zealand PM #ChrisHipkins and discussed the full range of #India-#NewZealand relations. We talked about how to improve commercial and cultural linkages between our nations," tweets Prime Minister #NarendraModi. #press

Want a laugh? Then take a look at this. 😁

https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/05-05-2023/a-haunting-friday-afternoon-image

#TheSpinoff #ChrisHipkins #SausageRolls #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

At least increased booze prices only affect those who actually buy it. You know what else will cost the average household Chris? Rates rises to cover the cost of councils continuing to pay for the collection and recycling of container waste produced by alcohol corporations. #FacePalm

"It will add a small cost to the average household and we don't want to be imposing additional costs on families at this time."

#ChrisHipkins, 2023

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/486382/prime-minister-s-chief-of-staff-andrew-kirton-led-lobbying-firm-that-fought-against-reforms-now-binned-by-chris-hipkins

#recycling #ContainerReturn #subsidies

My cartoon in today's @NZStuff and in print @DomPost @waikatotimes

Prime Minister Chris (Chippy) Hipkins has only been in the job for five weeks! Definitely a baptism of fire 🔥

#NZPol #ChrisHipkins #Chippy #BaptismOfFire #Aotearoa #NewZealand

My cartoon in today's The Dominion Post & online @NZStuff

Parliament gets back to work this week... Good luck with getting any clearer information or details from the opposition.

#Chippy #Luxon #NZPol #ChristopherLuxon #ChrisHipkins #PoliticalCartoon #BiggestBestSmartest #WordSalad #NewZealand #Aotearoa

🇳🇿 Chris Hipkins (44 ans) nouveau Premier Ministre. Parcours personnel et galerie de portraits de ses prédécesseurs depuis Henry Sewell en 1856 🖼️ http://urlr.me/XFKwf

#NouvelleZelande #ChrisHipkins

As leader, however, Hipkins now faces an uphill battle, with his party trailing the opposition National Party in the most recent published polls. But he lacks Ardern’s charisma

#NewZealand #ChrisHipkins
https://www.boomlive.in/explainers/chris-hipkins-jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-prime-minister-20811?utm_medium=Social__TW_Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674392100