Maxine Boag

Napier City Councillor.
Ko au te kaikaunihera o te Kaunihera a Ahuriri.
Tangata Tiriti. DNA 77% Scottish, 19% Irish, 2% Welsh, 2% Norwegian.
Views are my own.

[Rebecca Matthews @RebeccaJEmm]

Had a busy day at work, and a community board meeting, then back home to really deal with the awful news about rent increases for the people least able to afford them. All to justify inaction on building more public housing or funding more places. It’s bleak out there eh.

[pamnz @pamnz]

Let's see what Winston Peters makes of the Pope's definition of "Woke"
@winstonpeters

[ALL @AotearoaLib]

The Silver Fox of Dunedin, Aaron Hawkins, with a near perfect submission yesterday. Watch unill the end to also see Tod Stephenson (ACT) get wrecked.

[Vincent O'Malley @vomalley]

Here is the full list of parties giving oral submissions to the Justice Committee on the Treaty Principles Bill next Monday, along with the livestream link to watch it.
https://t.co/2o11MMFjKL

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

One people? So let's all be Māoris!

[Just be @Debmeister65]

Now there's an idea!

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

Time to write yours if you haven't already. It doesn't have to be long - one or two reasons why you oppose the Bill is quite sufficient!

[Vincent O'Malley @vomalley]

I have posted my submission on the Treaty Principles Bill here. Submissions close at midnight on 7 January and I have included a link to where you can make your own in the post.
https://t.co/N2jCEC7lLi

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

1/2 “If a small party with only 8% of the vote is allowed to introduce a crude, misleading bill on key constitutional issue, those who did the deal should accept responsibility for the disorder” says Anne Salmond: https://t.co/PhRrV5TNsp

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

@RawiriTaonui At least he will be back when the hikoi arrives at Parliament. If he has any integrity he will come out and tell us the Bill will not go through.

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

Here's @GuyonEspiner grilling Luxon on his government setting aside $216 million to cut taxes on Heated Tobacco Products by 50% despite there being no solid evidence they help people quit smoking.

Luxon: "Look, I haven't seen the advice."

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

"This is a time when we should be strengthening our democracy, not forcing through policies which destabilise it and threaten our nation’s sense of social cohesion." Sir Geoffrey Palmer

[Vincent O'Malley @vomalley]

"What a grotesque effort to produce retrospective legislation  to damage the interests of Māori in such an unprincipled and discriminatory way."

https://t.co/9kNt4G5pHg

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

https://t.co/qAUpBc2N0v

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

And that doesn't take into account the cancers caused by alcohol and the Fetal Alcohol children...
Time to treat it like we did tobacco: put the price up, stop advertising, put health warnings on bottles, reduce availability (take it out of supermarkets).

[Newshub @NewshubNZ]

Alcohol causing 20 times the harm of meth, police float tighter regulation https://t.co/RcMqF0YpE7

[Eileen Kiffin. @KiffinEileen]

Slane …. Brilliant

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

It's our Treaty too!

[Moana M @moanatribe]

Love our allies #TreatyWontGoAway

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

@NZQandA NZ is against Israel. Winston Peters said in UN: "Palestinian civilians must not be made to pay the price of defeating Hamas. They continue to bear the brunt of israel's military actions. Humanitarian and Medical workers are being killed and vital infrastructure destroyed."

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

6km hi-viz tie-downs, 960 j-hooks... what an amazing installation! Gold medal much deserved...

[Marian Evans @7R4SM]

Warmest congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, with their Takapau (2022), Polyester hi-viz tie-downs (6km), stainless steel buckles, 480 rachets and 960 j-hooks. What a delight!

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

Good explanation of Māori wards. https://t.co/KSgP9er7qM

[Maxine Boag @MaxineBoag]

@PureBloodKiwi @chrisluxonmp @edenparknz The last census also showed that 48.2% of the New Zealand population identified with no religion. Times are changing.