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"We’ll fund the infrastructure needed for tourism - without whacking a bed tax on Kiwis." - Nicola Willis and Lupston.
Odd to see colleagues of bully-boy Sam use "bed" and "whack" in the same "post".
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New Zealand is "being sleepwalked into catastrophe" on so many fronts, not just feral deer. Feral businessman-politicians are doing even more damage.
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Can anyone explain why this years Labour party billboards have magenta highlights through the traditional red - the same basic shade that the ACT party use in their branding?
Do Labour really want to remind us that it was them 80s that sold out into the neoliberal disaster that ACT so desperately want to continue destroying the country with?
Odd choice
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Can anyone explain why this years Labour party billboards have magenta highlights through the traditional red - the same basic shade that the ACT party use in their branding?
Do Labour really want to remind us that it was them 80s that sold out into the neoliberal disaster that ACT so desperately want to continue destroying the country with?
Odd choice
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HOW the flaming F**K is 74.4% of EMERGENCY PATIENTS "seen within six hours" (note not treated just seen) at ALL acceptable?
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Gee it seems even cruel denying people benefits isn't enough to stop the numbers climbing.
They're trying to rig the figures by denying under 20s benefits and it still increases by 80,000
*Wonder how many parents on minimum wage decided it made more sense to quit so their children could get a benefit?
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How to spot bias in our MSM
You look at MSM
NOTE: The story is LUXON'S views about Hipkins' comment NOT Hipkins comment with Luxon's response buried 3/4 of the way into the story like they do when Luxon says something
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Joel Maxwell with a cynical look at NZ's political parties. There are some good lines and he's right about Labour using invisibility as a campaign technique.
"Labour’s ghost campaign risks driving voter turnout into the ground"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361030025/labours-ghost-campaign-risks-driving-voter-turnout-ground
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While I love that #National's ideological bias has crashed headfirst into reality, let's not forget that even the targets they've hit are bullshit:
Less people in emergency housing ≠ people housed, meeting climate targets ≠ doing enough about '#ClimateChange', less people taking up elective surgery ≠ a well run #HealthSystemJobseeker #s climbing, almost 80,000 over target | #RNZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1298748/pm-christopher-luxon-s-targets-jobseeker-numbers-climbing-almost-80-000-over-target
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Presumably the guy who died on Paul Goldsmith's doorstep was in the middle of writing a thankyou letter on his achievement of fewer than 800 households in emergency housing at the time. #nzpol
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God, the level of spin is reaching proportions.
"In the year ended December 2025, official figures from Statistics New Zealand show 19,000 Kiwis made the return home from Australia while 47,500 departed."
Luxon: "I'm happy to send you the numbers. As I said to you, 14 percent growth in Kiwis coming back in the last year."
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The THIRD "error" by MSD
AI working as intended I guess
When does the Minister resign?
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getting exercised about some completely made up shit that doesn't happen is utterly imported american right wing playbook shit though
it's not only a choice it's likely a funded choice #nzpol
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even the cooker caucus isn't EMBRACING this - to be almost fair
but... they're not... denouncing it - and that's a choice #nzpol
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Food is not an essential need, but a private helicopter pad is.
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Judging by the election billboards around Central Otago, it is clearly National v ACT. The left is virtually invisible..
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The MINIMUM amount of years you have to have lived here is 10 years ALREADY
edit: should add anyone born On or after 1 July 1977 it's 20 years
https://www.workandincome.govt.nz/eligibility/seniors/superannuation/who-can-get-it#yearstable
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One thing I detest about Winston Peters and NZ First is their constant immigrant bashing. My partner has worked as a health professional for many years in NZ and paid taxes and contributed to the country in many ways. She has an EU passport but has had permanent residency in NZfor over 30 years. She chose to keep her EU passport because that is where she came from. It is not possible to have both a German EU passport and a NZ one. Peters and his NZF mates are trying to do a Trump and score a few redneck votes by pursuing such negative and destructive anti-immigrant policies. Like the AFD in Germany, NZF is acting like a Nazi party. They don't deserve anyone's support. #NZPol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1273306/new-zealand-first-pledges-to-restrict-superannuation-to-citizens-from-2029
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Roy Morgan (which is trust worthy) and Curia (which is not)
BOTH
Show support for Nat Lite collapsing
It's like voters want REAL CHANGE not a watered down version of what we've got.
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billy-bored #nzpol
i might even have to vote for sophie depending on the analysis for kāpiti 😅
tim (very) costley needs to go
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I am grateful when someone else is able to express the things that I'm thinking better than I could hope to.
Chris Hipkins Must Resign
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This is an amazing piece of journalism. Where has this kind of in-depth refutation been over the last... 10? More?... years?
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Not even pretending to hide their corruption -
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"New Zealand is in the bottom 10 of the world for economic growth in 2025. This group includes Myanmar, Yemen, Iran & Haiti
Our youth have been worst hit. Nearly 1 in 5 are unemployed"
In the World Happiness Report 2026, NZers aged under 25 reported the 126th biggest drop out of 136 nations
A youth quake will define this... -
Greens vow to break up supermarket duopoly, set up publicly owned 'KiwiMart'
The party’s ‘Affordable Kai’ policy would also expand free school lunches and set up a publicly owned KiwiMart supermarket.
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My daily email out in full for paying subscribers: Meth use hits 2m/week in April; Opportunity below 5% in new poll; ACT & NZ First campaign to pull out of Paris; Greens propose KiwiMart; National to double income threshold for 1st home loan to $300k #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/meth-use-h...
Meth use hits record high as e... -
Fixed Act’s billboard with @Niall’s suggested addition and @MichaelaKHulse’s photography and editing #NZPol CC @ArrestJK
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The attention #NZMedia give to Act which is currently only ranked as the fifth sometimes sixth most popular political #NZPol party is unbelievable despite the Act Party being ranked so low in public polls.
I can only put it down to the fact Act are the highest ranked party in terms of dark money backing.
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@zl2tod @rnzbot_nz Yes, ACT is pretty clear about their motivations. Lax campaign finance laws aside, I'm OK with them expressing their views. That's politics.
It's the media coverage, even by RNZ, that's surprising me. In this case, it's like if ACT announced a policy to abolish all public health funding and the media just reported it without any mention of what impact that would have on the country.
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Tough assignment debating dairy farming issues with the dairy farmer’s politicians in dairy farming country with an audience of dairy farmers.
Steve smashed it:
youtu.be/DYL4uqxmPuA
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@rnzbot_nz I don't understand how it is that this RNZ news article just presents ACT's new business unicorn fairyland climate "policy" as is, without strongly emphasising how bat-shit crazily irresponsible and dangerous it is.
Have they heard of a thing called science?
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RE: https://mastodon.nz/@MichaelaKHulse/117221272278877297
Here’s my contribution to this well deserved meme format. #NZPol
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David Seymour would hate for anyone to boost this report of Seymour's influences especially during an election.
Think before you boost.
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Gawd it's nice hearing politicians who, know what they're talking about, have the research to back it up, answer the question asked.
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Coalition policy:
Try to bribe, using taxpayers money, another private supermarket chain.
What are the odds that will mean cheaper prices?
Green Policy:
A Govt owned supermarket to provide low cost food.
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Communism is when people can afford food, apparently. 🤷
