Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #waateanews, aggregated by home.social.
"I don't have a problem with raising taxes, as long as I'm getting bang for my buck."
#CameronBagrie, economist, 2026
This is a very Scandinavian sentiment, and I get the impression this is how even many very comfortable people in Aotearoa are feeling now. Greens, TPM, and especially TOP, have all proved raising taxes isn't a vote loser, when paired with smart plans about how to use the resulting revenue.
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"There are two things NZ needs to change the government. First is, they need Labour to be the largest single party. Second, they need Opportunity to get over 5%, so that we are not reliant on Santa Claus Winston, selling snake oil."
#DavidCunlife, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SD0wtmOLaU
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#Opportunity #TOP #TheBradburyGroup #WaateaNews #Rova #podcasts
"I think we would be better served if there were more 10/20/30 minute long form interviews (but fewer of them) that did go into depth. Our politicians 'front up' all the time, but have developed skills in not saying anything."
#MatthewHooten, 2026
Hmm. I'm finding myself agreeing with with Hooten again. Do I need a slap to snap me out of it?
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#PoliticalReporting #NewsMedia #BradburyGroup #WaateaNews #Rova #podcasts #NZPolitics #politics
"Live on the Waatea Facebook page 10AM this Anzac Day"
Seriously? The only place Waatea News are streaming this Aotearoa politics show is via fascisterm media?
https://berjon.com/fascintern-media/
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#WaateaNews #TDB #TheDailyBlog #SocialMedia #NewsMedia #IndigenousMedia
"['Media out to get me' is] what politicians say when they're in trouble. And the media can be annoying. But that's the price of democracy."
#MatthewHooten, the #BradburyGroup, 2026
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/MEDIAWORKSRADIOLIMITED7682486290.mp3?updated=1776816575
Having a go at listening live to The Bradbury Group;
Firstly, there's no way to tune in to this online talk show without using one of a grab bag of corporate platforms. The embed on their own website is the FarceBook version 🤦♂️
Must contact them about offering an OwnCast option.
Bomber's digital rag has become so enshittified, I can't even link to episodes of the Bradbury Group podcast directly. The best I can give you now is a direct link to an edition on the MediaWorks account on MegaPhone (owned by Spitify), like the latest edition here;
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/MEDIAWORKSRADIOLIMITED6312414888.mp3?updated=1773781668
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#KieranMcAnulty loyally towing the Starmerist party line for Hipkins' ;
"If you're talking about the top end of town, then choose the other lot. If you're talking about everyday working NZers, then don't look at them, look at us. And if you give Labour the most votes then we'll have the most sway in govt, and we won't make the same mistakes that Luxon made and just give the small parties everything they ask for."
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"I think there's too much social journalism today and there's not enough business journalism."
#CameronBagrie, "boutique" economics consultant, Bagrie Economics, 2025
https://www.rova.nz/podcasts/the-bradbury-group/episodes/tvnz-poll-shock-and-nz-economy-laid-bare
Ok, Boomer.
Bagrie goes on to list a bunch of purely theoretical measures, none of which have anything to do with the purpose of an economy; getting shit people need produced, and distributed.
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Finally caught up with this week's edition of The Bradbury Group and it's a really good one, with NZ Herald columnist Simon Wilson, former Winston First and Nat MP Tau Henare, and Green MP Steve Abel;
They talk about the challenge of funding local government, and public perception differences between tax and rates. Again, I think both need to be collected by IRD and split between central and local;
"...it's certainly true that as a result of their tax cut package, and their failure to substantially cut spending, despite their rhetoric, they have widened the operating deficit, to more than it may have even been under Labour.
So if you want to call that borrowing for tax cuts, they have done that. Its certainly true that the amount of borrowing by the government is as bad as it was under Labour..."
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Bomber is running the 4-year Parliamentary term up the flagpole;
I hope this was a provocation. As @norightturnnz pointed out a few months back, NZ governments already have a default 6 year term. No MMP govt has ever been turfed out after one term, so the first election they face after getting Executive power is really just a sanity check. Any govt chucked out at this point would clearly deserve it (like the current one).
"...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
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
"It's worth following ... the brave voices of people like Breaking the Silence, who speak for former [IDF] reservists who speak out and give testimony to what they saw and what they were required to do. Whether in the detention centres or on the field ... in the war zones."
#HelenClark, 2025
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#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #Palestine #Gaza #BreakingTheSilence