Least popular PM in decades thinks it's a killer argument to pour shade on the most popular PM in decades
Out of touch, out of ideas, (soon to be) out of office
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Live: 'They're the guys that put Jacinda Ardern in power' - Christopher Luxon bites back at Winston Peters

They are also the party who put you into power you ridiculous little man #NZPol

Luxon does not want to talk about how he cancelled Labour's climate resiliance fund, or how little he's spending on protecting us from the weather his donors are causing.

State of local emergency declared in Ruapehu District amid possible ‘life-threatening’ flooding Civil Defence made the declaration at 4.43am after heavy rain caused slips and flooding overnight.

Over the past ten years NZ has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, NZ averaged only 13.4 days per year.

Consider the implications of central government continuing to refuse to believe in climate change.

Greens issue warning in 'State of the Planet' address The Green Party is calling for a national plan to electrify homes, transport and industry with natural energy, as a response to the fuel crisis....

Heartily endorse the Greens state of the planet address & policies for transition to electricity (homes, transport, industry) as a home grown response to fuel crisis/global context.

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There are over 2,500 state & state integrated schools in AotearoaNZ.
There are now 6 additional state or integrated state schools that have asked for more information about converting to the Charter School system in the last year…hardly a raging success. 🙄
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

Precision targeted fuel relief for [checks notes] the ultra wealthy horsey people

Privatising public hospital eye care by stealth, not diagnosis

Comment: The Govt’s tender to outsource ophthalmology services is startling and significant – the first time a country-wide public hospital clinical service has been privatised

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

That's because their work has, in fact, been stolen.

What did I miss? Ah, just another miss. We've had a couple of years of over-optimistic RBNZ forecasts now - same with Treasury. Their optimism is dangerous - it makes the Govt complacent.

National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic.

Labour saved 20,000 lives.

National are saving landlords and tobacco

Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Iran burns, Lebanon and Gaza crumble – Not a ceasefire Day 149 "Apocalyptic" scenes in Iran; Trump in denial; $600M in weapons to Israel fast-tracked; massacre in Lebanon; another settler killing of Palestinian in West Bank

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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Disabled people tried to warn you.

We said the “better off dead” narrative being weaponized against us would be used for other groups of people.

The fascists won’t ever stop. They see everyone else as less than. Expendable. Not worthy of life.

Its eugenics on a massive scale

This is what ecocide looks like.

The Luxon government’s ethos has been making it easier for the privileged to extract money from the rest of us, and making Aotearoa attractive as an asset to be stripped by global elites. It’s long past time for the public to lose trust in a man whose only work is to deflect and “hustle”.
#nzpol

Every day it feels more important to make the distinction between 'The world is falling apart' and 'The world is being ruined by a small number of people with names and addresses.'

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Covid hospitalisations climb as New Zealand enters new wave There’s been an increase in hospitalisations and in wastewater detections, and it’s expected to last another month or two.

Still absolutely adamant you do not want Covid. Long Covid is still a crisis and is the worst health impact I’ve ever personally experienced.
Our health system is much worse than it was in 2020 - you do not want to navigate it with Covid impacts.

Book a booster here: app.bookmyvaccine.health.nz
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The United States of America and Israel has just bombed a school full of students in Iran.

~40 students killed and 48 injured.

This violates Article 52 of Additional Protocol (I) Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn't apply to the U.S. and Israel.

Labour is not the problem, capitalism is Political analysis that fails to grapple with the social and economic conditions in which Labour is forced to operate is unhelpful and misses the point

Ryan Ward who is pro Green Party always worth a read.

"Political analysis that fails to grapple with the social and economic conditions in which Labour is forced to operate misses the point and shifts the focus from the real change that is needed"

#nzpol

Defence Force to test air, land, and sea drones from Mount Maunganui company The government said the trial of the combat-proven tech would strengthen capability while growing local industry.

Oh, fantastic! So NZDF wants to be like the US and Israeli defence forces even more than before. We’ve been watching the psychological and brutal torment that drones have brought to the lives of Palestinians for the last few years. It’s criminally inhumane. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... #nzpol

The pattern is clear. This Government is secretly locking New Zealand into deeper alignment with the US without ever putting it to the public, whether it's critical minerals deals, AUKUS Pillar 2, or now handing over our biometric data.

Govt embarks on sale of 900 state houses, old and new Kāinga Ora sells rundown one bedroom demo-job for $1.37m in now-affluent seaside suburb of Pt Chev – and there's much more to come, reports Jonathan Milne.

When John Key sold 1000 state homes, it made headlines & sparked debate

Now Chris Bishop has cancelled 3500 builds & selling 900 houses (with land extra) in what's been called a private developers' lolly scramble, it's hardly making a splash

How #NZ has changed #nzpol

Government announces homeless move-on orders - for all town centres, not just Auckland Police can move on rough sleepers or people displaying disorderly behaviour as young as 14-years-old.

This is a stupid and cruel change, not to mention that telling police, "You can tell people they have to leave an area with minimal justification and get to decide for yourself how large that area is" is not the sort of thing most democracies allow.

Funny, the mafia also operates as an interlinked organisation designed to generate profit through extortion, is not held accountable by officials, and also makes billions of dollars each year 🤔

Graffiti seen in Melbourne denouncing the Israeli President Issac Herzog who is on an official State visit to Australia