#shanejones — Public Fediverse posts
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From Darien Fenton on #Facebook (with hashtags added here):
'What Andrea #Vance said in The Post today:
'Andrea Vance: If a foreign diplomat can stand up to Peters, why can’t #Luxon?
'OPINION: ...
'Only weeks ago, #NZFirst proposed stripping around half a million permanent residents of voting rights. Last month its #Mumbai-born Upper Harbour #candidate Bernadette Soares suggested temporarily closing the border to migrants.
'...In April deputy leader #ShaneJones dismissed a trade deal with #India by saying he didn't want a “butter chicken tsunami” coming to New Zealand.
'Do not diminish any of this as empty parliamentary theatre.
'This is the exact playbook of Donald #Trump’s #MAGA movement. That is precisely how the rhetoric took root in the United States: first non-white #migrants were scapegoated and their #loyalty questioned, #voting rights were stripped, then border control was militarised, ICE raids become routine, and the civic fabric of a nation was torn apart.
'To secure his own #political survival, Peters is dragging New Zealand down the same toxic path as the US and the UK, actively importing hyper-polarisation and fracturing social cohesion until the country becomes as divided and ungovernable as Washington or Westminster.'Its also straight out of another playbook: Peters’ own campaign manual.
He has long understood the value of provoking governing partners into overreacting and then presenting himself as the aggrieved victim.
'Which leaves Christopher Luxon with a problem of his own making.
'By failing to draw a line early in the coalition, he allowed Peters to define where the line sits. Sack him now and Peters claims martyrdom. Keep him, and Luxon owns both the behaviour and the message it sends.
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From Darien Fenton on #Facebook (with hashtags added here):
'What Andrea #Vance said in The Post today:
'Andrea Vance: If a foreign diplomat can stand up to Peters, why can’t #Luxon?
'OPINION: ...
'Only weeks ago, #NZFirst proposed stripping around half a million permanent residents of voting rights. Last month its #Mumbai-born Upper Harbour #candidate Bernadette Soares suggested temporarily closing the border to migrants.
'...In April deputy leader #ShaneJones dismissed a trade deal with #India by saying he didn't want a “butter chicken tsunami” coming to New Zealand.
'Do not diminish any of this as empty parliamentary theatre.
'This is the exact playbook of Donald #Trump’s #MAGA movement. That is precisely how the rhetoric took root in the United States: first non-white #migrants were scapegoated and their #loyalty questioned, #voting rights were stripped, then border control was militarised, ICE raids become routine, and the civic fabric of a nation was torn apart.
'To secure his own #political survival, Peters is dragging New Zealand down the same toxic path as the US and the UK, actively importing hyper-polarisation and fracturing social cohesion until the country becomes as divided and ungovernable as Washington or Westminster.'Its also straight out of another playbook: Peters’ own campaign manual.
He has long understood the value of provoking governing partners into overreacting and then presenting himself as the aggrieved victim.
'Which leaves Christopher Luxon with a problem of his own making.
'By failing to draw a line early in the coalition, he allowed Peters to define where the line sits. Sack him now and Peters claims martyrdom. Keep him, and Luxon owns both the behaviour and the message it sends.
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" ... one of his own ministers who publicly accused the PM of giving the Indian PM a blow job on his recent trip to #Aotearoa #NewZealand."
NZPol still has so much to give the world.
"The next time you go to an ethno-nationalist rally to receive a foreign leader, take off your knee pads," Jones bellowed."
Anthony Albanese take note!
#Modi #NZIndia #India #ShaneJones #EthnoNationalist #AnthonyAlbanese #AusPol
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" ... one of his own ministers who publicly accused the PM of giving the Indian PM a blow job on his recent trip to #Aotearoa #NewZealand."
NZPol still has so much to give the world.
"The next time you go to an ethno-nationalist rally to receive a foreign leader, take off your knee pads," Jones bellowed."
Anthony Albanese take note!
#Modi #NZIndia #India #ShaneJones #EthnoNationalist #AnthonyAlbanese #AusPol
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CW: Did God send a message to Shane Jones?
Shane Jones spoke to 250 party faithful in Oamaru yesterday, promising that NZ First would abolish the Waitangi Tribunal, scrap regional councils and take the country out of ‘‘climate change hysteria’’.
Within 12 hours Oamaru flooded because of climate change.
Coincidence?
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CW: Did God send a message to Shane Jones?
Shane Jones spoke to 250 party faithful in Oamaru yesterday, promising that NZ First would abolish the Waitangi Tribunal, scrap regional councils and take the country out of ‘‘climate change hysteria’’.
Within 12 hours Oamaru flooded because of climate change.
Coincidence?
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CW: NZPol - Shane "Trougher" Jones caught again
Both Shane Jones and Winston Peters are avoiding difficult questions about Jones' outrageous expenses for his Toronto mining junket.
So Stuff is now querying why he chose to fly Qantas rather than AirNZ, even though Kangaroo Air costs three grand more. Jones replied in gobbledygook.
So Stuff is running a competition, but it's for registered users only.
* Be Shane for a day! WIN your own private limo on standby for a day *
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CW: NZPol - Shane "Trougher" Jones caught again
Both Shane Jones and Winston Peters are avoiding difficult questions about Jones' outrageous expenses for his Toronto mining junket.
So Stuff is now querying why he chose to fly Qantas rather than AirNZ, even though Kangaroo Air costs three grand more. Jones replied in gobbledygook.
So Stuff is running a competition, but it's for registered users only.
* Be Shane for a day! WIN your own private limo on standby for a day *
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CW: NZPol - Shane "Trougher" Jones caught again
Following criticism of Shane Jones having a limo on 24/7 standby during a Toronto mining conference, Stuff has been doing some digging.
Not only was Jones' hotel next door to the conference centre, there's internal access between the two buildings. But no... Jones wanted to play like a VIP and arrive by limo, dropping $4k Canadian... at our expense.
It seems like he spent all three days at the conference, because Jones' office refuses to supply his schedule and the man himself claims he can't even remember which hotel he stayed at. You'd have to hope that the $1,674.69 per night room rate included complimentary porn.
And nice touch Stuff headline writer referring to "Shane ‘Stretch’ Jones".
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CW: NZPol - Shane "Trougher" Jones caught again
Following criticism of Shane Jones having a limo on 24/7 standby during a Toronto mining conference, Stuff has been doing some digging.
Not only was Jones' hotel next door to the conference centre, there's internal access between the two buildings. But no... Jones wanted to play like a VIP and arrive by limo, dropping $4k Canadian... at our expense.
It seems like he spent all three days at the conference, because Jones' office refuses to supply his schedule and the man himself claims he can't even remember which hotel he stayed at. You'd have to hope that the $1,674.69 per night room rate included complimentary porn.
And nice touch Stuff headline writer referring to "Shane ‘Stretch’ Jones".
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@zl2tod/116768413826108017
"Controversial #fisheries reform led by New Zealand First minister #ShaneJones is being abandoned.
'Jones, appearing before a select committee in his role as #Oceans and Fisheries Minister, told MPs his “much-beloved bill could use some more panel-beating” and as such, would not be progressed in this term of government.'
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@zl2tod/116768413826108017
"Controversial #fisheries reform led by New Zealand First minister #ShaneJones is being abandoned.
'Jones, appearing before a select committee in his role as #Oceans and Fisheries Minister, told MPs his “much-beloved bill could use some more panel-beating” and as such, would not be progressed in this term of government.'
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Remember, Shane Jones didn't always support white nationalism.
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Remember, Shane Jones didn't always support white nationalism.
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Also, is it just me, or has Shame Jones started looking like one of the skeksis from The Dark Crystal?
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/hon-shane-jones
I wonder where his gentle mystic half is hiding out, maybe Golden Bay or Coromandel? Maybe there's a Motherstone we could find and return the missing half of, so we can save old Otis Claw from this half-man state of being?
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Also, is it just me, or has Shame Jones started looking like one of the skeksis from The Dark Crystal?
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/hon-shane-jones
I wonder where his gentle mystic half is hiding out, maybe Golden Bay or Coromandel? Maybe there's a Motherstone we could find and return the missing half of, so we can save old Otis Claw from this half-man state of being?
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CW: Santana Bendigo mine fast-track / Shane Jones is a wanker
The Minister of Environmental Destruction Shane Jones doesn't like critics. After several prominent Otago people opposed Santana's fast track to Hades, Jones offered to debate Ian Taylor in public.
The gauntlet was thrown and Taylor agreed. The debate was scheduled for April 8th at Taylor's studios and would be streamed by the ODT and Stuff.
Today Jones pulled out of the deal, saying he would not take part in any debate ‘"controlled by the Otago media".
Since when has Stuff been an Otago media company?
Santana plans a cyanide-leach gold operation storing arsenic-bearing tailings in a dam located in a seismically active region at the headwaters of major water systems.
It's a project which would never be approved under 'normal' conditions and Jones has realised that he'll lose any public debate with Taylor. So the blowhard Minister is running away.
This reminds me of the time Shane Jones got caught charging hotel porn to his ministerial expenses. The guy's been an utter wanker for decades.
Taylor says the debate will go ahead anyway using a cardboard cut-out of Jones.
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CW: Santana Bendigo mine fast-track / Shane Jones is a wanker
The Minister of Environmental Destruction Shane Jones doesn't like critics. After several prominent Otago people opposed Santana's fast track to Hades, Jones offered to debate Ian Taylor in public.
The gauntlet was thrown and Taylor agreed. The debate was scheduled for April 8th at Taylor's studios and would be streamed by the ODT and Stuff.
Today Jones pulled out of the deal, saying he would not take part in any debate ‘"controlled by the Otago media".
Since when has Stuff been an Otago media company?
Santana plans a cyanide-leach gold operation storing arsenic-bearing tailings in a dam located in a seismically active region at the headwaters of major water systems.
It's a project which would never be approved under 'normal' conditions and Jones has realised that he'll lose any public debate with Taylor. So the blowhard Minister is running away.
This reminds me of the time Shane Jones got caught charging hotel porn to his ministerial expenses. The guy's been an utter wanker for decades.
Taylor says the debate will go ahead anyway using a cardboard cut-out of Jones.
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Once again we see #National using a party with only 6% support (#NZFirst) to justify screwing over 100% of us
#ShaneJones shut down #NZ involvement in 'road map' away from #fossilfuels https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/585632/shane-jones-shut-down-nz-involvement-in-road-map-away-from-fossil-fuels
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Once again we see #National using a party with only 6% support (#NZFirst) to justify screwing over 100% of us
#ShaneJones shut down #NZ involvement in 'road map' away from #fossilfuels https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/585632/shane-jones-shut-down-nz-involvement-in-road-map-away-from-fossil-fuels
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Central Otago mayor Tamah Alley takes issue with Shane Jones' claim that the region was ripe for mining because it's "largely empty". Her response?
"Largely empty is not available everywhere."
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Central Otago mayor Tamah Alley takes issue with Shane Jones' claim that the region was ripe for mining because it's "largely empty". Her response?
"Largely empty is not available everywhere."
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day ...
"No one will be any doubt that the days of treating energy prices as a private commodity and expecting the market to save New Zealand jobs and regional New Zealand, that type of folly in our view, has run its course."
#ShaneJones, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572613/shane-jones-calls-for-renationalising-of-power-market
The solution though is not fast tracking more coal and gas, but taking advantage of how easy and *cheap* it is to decentralise renewables compared to building thermal generation.
(1/?)
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day ...
"No one will be any doubt that the days of treating energy prices as a private commodity and expecting the market to save New Zealand jobs and regional New Zealand, that type of folly in our view, has run its course."
#ShaneJones, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572613/shane-jones-calls-for-renationalising-of-power-market
The solution though is not fast tracking more coal and gas, but taking advantage of how easy and *cheap* it is to decentralise renewables compared to building thermal generation.
(1/?)
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Has Shane Jones gone on a bender?
OceanaGold wants to expand its Macraes mining operation. However based on scientific assessments, the Otago Regional Council has recommended the application be declined in full.
So the Minister for Masturbation let fly, suggesting the council is packed with communists. He referred to the ORC as "the Kremlin of the South Island" and claimed the council was full of "KGB green zealots"... "Politburo apparatchiks destroying hundreds of jobs".
Poor Shane. As he sees it, his role as Minister of environmental destruction is being challenged. Poor snowflake.
The ORC maintains the moral high ground. "It is a technical, evidence-based assessment — not a political statement." "Our staff are simply doing their jobs within the law as it stands. Name-calling only undermines confidence in both central and local government."
Jones wants to kill the regional councils so all mining decisions stay with him. He reckons other mining companies should simply use the fast-track process to bypass these silly environmental laws.
Shane Jones is still an utter wanker.
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/%E2%80%98kremlin%E2%80%99-councils-need-go
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Has Shane Jones gone on a bender?
OceanaGold wants to expand its Macraes mining operation. However based on scientific assessments, the Otago Regional Council has recommended the application be declined in full.
So the Minister for Masturbation let fly, suggesting the council is packed with communists. He referred to the ORC as "the Kremlin of the South Island" and claimed the council was full of "KGB green zealots"... "Politburo apparatchiks destroying hundreds of jobs".
Poor Shane. As he sees it, his role as Minister of environmental destruction is being challenged. Poor snowflake.
The ORC maintains the moral high ground. "It is a technical, evidence-based assessment — not a political statement." "Our staff are simply doing their jobs within the law as it stands. Name-calling only undermines confidence in both central and local government."
Jones wants to kill the regional councils so all mining decisions stay with him. He reckons other mining companies should simply use the fast-track process to bypass these silly environmental laws.
Shane Jones is still an utter wanker.
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/%E2%80%98kremlin%E2%80%99-councils-need-go
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The oil-sniffing oik who is NZ's "resources minister" wants to break up the Department of Conservation and open up protected land for exploitation.
Luxon's leadership failure bestows these fringe extractionists with more power than they deserve. While acting like the fifth horseman of the apocalypse, Shane Jones only received 18% of his electorate vote and came in on the list for the 6% party.
Unless Luxon grows a spine, it's 'Burn baby, burn' for NZ First.
All the way to hell.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/24/jones-says-he-wants-to-break-up-doc/
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The oil-sniffing oik who is NZ's "resources minister" wants to break up the Department of Conservation and open up protected land for exploitation.
Luxon's leadership failure bestows these fringe extractionists with more power than they deserve. While acting like the fifth horseman of the apocalypse, Shane Jones only received 18% of his electorate vote and came in on the list for the 6% party.
Unless Luxon grows a spine, it's 'Burn baby, burn' for NZ First.
All the way to hell.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/24/jones-says-he-wants-to-break-up-doc/
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This ODT editorial has the intriguing title of "A moth in the night", but it's really about Shane Jones.
One little rare and "nationally vulnerable" native moth has thrown a spanner in Macraes' gold mine expansion plans.
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This ODT editorial has the intriguing title of "A moth in the night", but it's really about Shane Jones.
One little rare and "nationally vulnerable" native moth has thrown a spanner in Macraes' gold mine expansion plans.
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Shane Jones and a large entourage flew to the Chatham Islands today to see what the islanders need.
While nobody asked for one, Jones himself suggested they should get a “mobile abattoir.” He told them to put in a pitch, with urgency, to his $1.2 billion Regional Development Slush Fund.
"He (Jones) dismissed questions about the propriety of the minister in charge of judging funding pitches giving his own idea for a pitch."
Of course he did.
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Shane Jones and a large entourage flew to the Chatham Islands today to see what the islanders need.
While nobody asked for one, Jones himself suggested they should get a “mobile abattoir.” He told them to put in a pitch, with urgency, to his $1.2 billion Regional Development Slush Fund.
"He (Jones) dismissed questions about the propriety of the minister in charge of judging funding pitches giving his own idea for a pitch."
Of course he did.
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This "assault" on Shane Jones' wife Dot sounds almost manufactured.
Yes, a man yelled abuse at Shane Jones. Who wouldn't, given the chance. Dot claims she "went to place her hand between the two and told the man to go away." Yeah, right. 'Go away, man!'
But the next piece is probably more accurate.
“His nose hit my palm and he said I assaulted him and he wanted my name.”
“His nose hit my palm..."
The security footage will be revealing.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360642633/dot-jones-wife-nz-firsts-shane-jones-assaulted-airport
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This "assault" on Shane Jones' wife Dot sounds almost manufactured.
Yes, a man yelled abuse at Shane Jones. Who wouldn't, given the chance. Dot claims she "went to place her hand between the two and told the man to go away." Yeah, right. 'Go away, man!'
But the next piece is probably more accurate.
“His nose hit my palm and he said I assaulted him and he wanted my name.”
“His nose hit my palm..."
The security footage will be revealing.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360642633/dot-jones-wife-nz-firsts-shane-jones-assaulted-airport
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The Minister for Not Giving a Fuck Shane Jones is still ignoring the law. He met with three SI mayors and it's not recorded in his ministerial diary. Dunedin Hospital was discussed. Jones claimed "it was a meeting with NZ First members" but ODT calls that a lie.
Oddly, the ODT appears to have pulled this story as I'm writing. "You are not authorised to access this page."
Legal threats, anyone?
ODT original URL:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/more-questions-over-jones-ministerial-diary -
The Minister for Not Giving a Fuck Shane Jones is still ignoring the law. He met with three SI mayors and it's not recorded in his ministerial diary. Dunedin Hospital was discussed. Jones claimed "it was a meeting with NZ First members" but ODT calls that a lie.
Oddly, the ODT appears to have pulled this story as I'm writing. "You are not authorised to access this page."
Legal threats, anyone?
ODT original URL:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/more-questions-over-jones-ministerial-diary -
"Can you also contemplate the appropriateness of recent immigrants telling Māori what the name of our country should be?"
#ShaneJones, 2025
This is such a weird comment. On the face of it, it calls into question calling the country by a label on a map made by a Dutch guy, who never even set foot here. Yet Jones is saying it in defence of that historically very recent naming convention.
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"Can you also contemplate the appropriateness of recent immigrants telling Māori what the name of our country should be?"
#ShaneJones, 2025
This is such a weird comment. On the face of it, it calls into question calling the country by a label on a map made by a Dutch guy, who never even set foot here. Yet Jones is saying it in defence of that historically very recent naming convention.
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When Shane Jones says "I've had some of the most exciting nocturnal experiences with the Latin American people," is he talking about watching Brazilian porn?
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When Shane Jones says "I've had some of the most exciting nocturnal experiences with the Latin American people," is he talking about watching Brazilian porn?
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NZFirst are channelling their inner-Trump & doubling down on Shane Jones' attack on immigrant MPs.
Winston Peters reckons Green MPs Lawrence Xu-Nan and Francisco Hernandez should "show some gratitude" for being in New Zealand. Negativity, meet ignorance.
And where's our PM when he's needed? Is he terrified of criticising his coalition partners, or is he just way out of his depth again?
Xenophobes Peters & Jones truly are yesterday's men.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/540319/nz-first-refuses-to-back-down-over-xenophobic-comments
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NZFirst are channelling their inner-Trump & doubling down on Shane Jones' attack on immigrant MPs.
Winston Peters reckons Green MPs Lawrence Xu-Nan and Francisco Hernandez should "show some gratitude" for being in New Zealand. Negativity, meet ignorance.
And where's our PM when he's needed? Is he terrified of criticising his coalition partners, or is he just way out of his depth again?
Xenophobes Peters & Jones truly are yesterday's men.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/540319/nz-first-refuses-to-back-down-over-xenophobic-comments
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The problem is that #ShaneJones is a wanker, & wankers love to vote for other wankers so they can vicariously enjoy the wankery.
Unfortunately #GerryBrowlee, the only person who can really do anything about the wanking is, himself, a wanker
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The problem is that #ShaneJones is a wanker, & wankers love to vote for other wankers so they can vicariously enjoy the wankery.
Unfortunately #GerryBrowlee, the only person who can really do anything about the wanking is, himself, a wanker
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My cartoon in today's https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350442881/cartoon-october-8
The fast-track bill has 149 projects on it... some good, of course, but some... definitely not good. Not good in the slightest.
#Government #NzPol #Caricature #ShaneJones #ChrisBishop #FastTrack #PoliticalCartoon
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My cartoon in today's https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350442881/cartoon-october-8
The fast-track bill has 149 projects on it... some good, of course, but some... definitely not good. Not good in the slightest.
#Government #NzPol #Caricature #ShaneJones #ChrisBishop #FastTrack #PoliticalCartoon
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Shane Jones is a blustering fool. In a May meeting with his seafood industry mates, Jones demeaned High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn, who has awarded Customary Marine Titles to Māori. Jones called her a “Communist Judge”.
The Cabinet Manual states that ministers should not express any views... reflecting adversely on the impartiality, personal views, or ability of any judge.
Luxon "doesn’t believe it is a Cabinet Manual matter".
Meh!
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Shane Jones is a blustering fool. In a May meeting with his seafood industry mates, Jones demeaned High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn, who has awarded Customary Marine Titles to Māori. Jones called her a “Communist Judge”.
The Cabinet Manual states that ministers should not express any views... reflecting adversely on the impartiality, personal views, or ability of any judge.
Luxon "doesn’t believe it is a Cabinet Manual matter".
Meh!
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"I am the Minister of Resources. I look forward to leading the debate, changing the law, enabling gas and oil exploration - wealth development - to take place yet again in NZ. Mining is coming back as well, and if there is a mineral, if there is a mining opportunity, and it's impeded by a blind frog, goodbye freddy."
#ShaneJones, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018940142/destroying-the-seabed-for-green-reasons
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"I am the Minister of Resources. I look forward to leading the debate, changing the law, enabling gas and oil exploration - wealth development - to take place yet again in NZ. Mining is coming back as well, and if there is a mineral, if there is a mining opportunity, and it's impeded by a blind frog, goodbye freddy."
#ShaneJones, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018940142/destroying-the-seabed-for-green-reasons
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Oh and PPS;
“It’s not lost on me that there are inordinately large competing demands on our infrastructure spend, but there are other ways to boost resilience, not the least of which is getting the oil companies working with Channel to increase onshore holding capacity.”
#ShaneJones, 2024
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/08/nz-firsts-doomed-deal-to-reopen-marsden-point-refinery/
Another way to boost resilience is to reduce the fossil fuel dependence of our transport infrastructure as quickly as possible. Which the new govt is doing nothing much about.
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Oh and PPS;
“It’s not lost on me that there are inordinately large competing demands on our infrastructure spend, but there are other ways to boost resilience, not the least of which is getting the oil companies working with Channel to increase onshore holding capacity.”
#ShaneJones, 2024
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/08/nz-firsts-doomed-deal-to-reopen-marsden-point-refinery/
Another way to boost resilience is to reduce the fossil fuel dependence of our transport infrastructure as quickly as possible. Which the new govt is doing nothing much about.
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See what I mean about #ShaneJones #NZFirst
