At least 160,000 to be cut from NDIS amid concerns vulnerable people will be left without care Announcing a major overhaul of the scheme, health minister Mark Butler said it was costing ‘too much and is growing too fast’

The Albanese Labor Govt will throw a projected 300k Aussies off the #NDIS so it can buy more nuclear subs that will never arrive to fight our biggest trade partner who never threatened us, and support a genocidal ethnostate in the ME.

#Straya #auspol

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Trump Hits a Home Run for the Green Transition The shift to clean energy has been hyper-charged

Trump is sending the green transition into hyperdrive with his war on Iran deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-hits...

Documents reveal iwi hui cut from Treaty review, replaced by Minister-appointed group OIA emails reveal plans for regional hui with iwi Māori were cut from the Treaty review, replaced by agency engagement and a small advisory group ahead of new legislation.

Banger. After banger. She's amazing.

This is so bad. And she's fucking the only one going this hard.

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ANALYSIS: Government set to reduce Treaty in legislation to lowest possible standard - what it means Sweeping changes to Treaty clauses across 23 laws could lower te Tiriti to its weakest legal standard, reshaping how it influences decisions in health, environment and beyond.

yes we've all been frothing with the coup, meanwhile Mani Dunlop is out here reporting on this fuckery and what it means.

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Uh-oh. Do we need a new version of @magnets.eurosky.social’s brilliant observation about how climate change will manifest?

In a surreal twist, people are now doubting footage that is both very real and very close to home—a result of AI imagery poisoning the waters:
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'Day of Ordinary Terror': Israeli Attack on West Bank School Kills Man, Child "It does feel like if a group of Palestinians with machine guns broke into an Israeli school and shot a bunch of children, it would be breaking news in every outlet on Earth," said one reporter.

"It does feel like if a group of Palestinians with machine guns broke into an Israeli school and shot a bunch of children, it would be breaking news in every outlet on Earth," said one reporter.

Government's plans for LNG terminal didn't model international price spike A climate advocate said the decision not to model price volatility was "remarkable" and raised further questions about whether the planned facility was a good idea.

MBIE has now partially released a slide deck from Concept Consulting on LNG scenarios. BUT they witheld the first three pages in full as well as other key explanatory comments. We have gone to the Ombudsman as we believe the grounds used for withholding aren't appropriate or justified. 1/2

bigger, more detailed story here in the guardian than I've seen in any NZ media

why is that? 🤔🤔

From ‘butter chicken’ comments to graffiti, anti-Indian sentiment is a warning signal How did this language become imaginable?

My friend Manisha Bhikha calling for us to get our shit together. When she says "This is the first time I can remember seeing anti-Indian hate expressed with this level of visibility and confidence" be aware that *she's been in govt counterterror & preventing violent extremism for decades*.

The 40-year mining deal labelled unlawful by the Court of Appeal It involves a remote forest road and Hauraki District Council.

ever taken on a $10.5B mining company and won? neither. until yesterday.

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Yay, public access should trump mining
#nzpol

Cars and vans bobbing in flood water in an Edwardian suburban street.

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it"

Or till the background is the street you grew up in. Hits home.

Iran War Pushes Asia to Think Twice Before Doubling Down on LNG A record wave of new liquefied natural gas supply was meant to usher in a prolonged period of lower prices. Governments from India to Southeast Asia crafted energy strategies that would allow them to ...

“Gas’s reputation as a reliable and affordable energy source has taken a serious hit, and plans for its speedy adoption in Asia’s developing nations have been derailed”
This + storage + electrification = possibly the biggest energy story of the decade

And of course the deeply ingrained, unexamined value system where spending, debt and investing is “bad” and design, maintenance and care is “gold plating excess”, while asset speculation, hoarding, saving, and running down infrastructure is “good” and “responsible”.

I’ve said before that corporate restructuring is *the* national pastime, bigger than rugby.

There is a persistent belief—against all evidence—that if management and governance and political leaders ‘just get the settings right’ or ‘trim the fat’ in exactly the right way, things will work.

We are the place "talent wants to live". What we lack is the administrative understanding and management expertise to support funding and sustaining feedback loops to turn those individual successes into ongoing industries and long term programmes.

It's ok to go "this eighty year old wants to know about everyone's genitalia and make laws about it, his MPs take their advice from whoever leaves documents on their desk, his potential replacement is a wanker who thinks yelling is charisma, they're a party of grievances from the last century"

Half of Reform UK voters don’t believe in the Covid vaccine, poll shows Backers of Reform UK are significantly more likely than the general public to not have taken Covid vaccines, a poll has found

Half of reform supporters are antivaxxers. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Jonathan Pie asks if we trust America after what they did in Venezuela. It's a good question.

I do wonder how would our current government react if America did a "Venezuela" or "Greenland" to New Zealand and just came and took what they wanted (e.g. all our rare metals). I also wonder how our allies might react.

Jonathan Pie raises the question too.
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AMAZING!!! @christchurchlib.bsky.social councillors voted 12 to 1 to end discharging wastewater into Akaroa Harbour, to right a cultural wrong and to protect the blue tourism environment & economy by discharging very highly treated water to trees/land & not an ‘out of sight out of mind’ ocean option

dodikshneyerson wrote: I saw an elderly man at the grocery store struggling to read a soup label because he forgot his glasses. A teenager in a hoodie stopped, pulled out his phone, used the magnifier app, and read the ingredients to him. They ended up chatting for ten minutes about the best chicken noodle recipes. Good people are everywhere.

Road Snowfall Warning issued for Desert Road (SH1). Road Snowfall Warning issued for Lewis Pass (SH7). Road Snowfall Warning issued for Porters Pass (SH73). Go to https://metservice.com/warnings/home for more information

The Energy Shift is Underway Oxford energy expert Jan Rosenow explains why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen and still arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.

Energy disinformation is the new climate denial.

New interview with @wblau.bsky.social of Brunswick Review on why Europe is underestimating electrification, overestimating hydrogen & arguing about scarcity when alternatives are abundant.

review.brunswickgroup.com/article/europe-energy-transition/

The mainstream media is basically Billionaires and their paid shills trying to convince you that brown people are robbing you rather than, it being the the billionaires who are actually robbing you.

Science-folks: If we run 100 experiments, we might find 1 or 2 of them may have results that can make many dollars.

NZ Govt: Excellent. We will fund those 1 or 2 experiments.

See also-

Academics: If I research and publish for years I might end up with 1 or 2 articles that are so ground breaking that they make it into top journals in my field.

University managers: Great. So just publish those then. But also, more often.

I spent today at the hospital and didn’t see a single respirator (other than my own).

There were a few people wearing surgical masks.

Signs saying it was a “mask friendly” environment.

No free masks.

No mask mandates.

Tons of coughing & sickness.

Masks belong in healthcare. Period.

“Funding for resilience needs to not be a 'marketing exercise': Luxon”

When our 6pm news (largely watched by older viewers) fails to point out what this govt has done to plunge us into a far worse situation re; climate resilience/adaptation, it is a total failure of the 4th estate. Imho. #nzpol

'Urgency' needed over climate adaptation funding, Insurance Council says But the climate minister says decisions on cost-sharing arrangements are "complex" and won't be made until after the election.

Public rejection of National Party grows as lack of plans hits home! NZ Minister Watts admits no plans to work out who will pay to protect or move communities threatened by climate hazards, despite pleas of Insurance Council
"severe weather's not going to wait"
#NZpol
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