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Slowly buying every Tom Waits record in the world…

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@shanebacon How about in regulation play? Can’t be many…?

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@clashreport Except Iran…

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@flushingitgolf Clear violation- he walked around the clump walking back to check his aim point, then stood right on it to take the shot. He knew what he was doing.

[truereckons1 @truereckons1]

Corrupt.

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@Skratch By beauty you mean sand dunes and wild grass…

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@RadioFreeTom Ask him what LOAC stands for…

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@jacknicklaus @TheOpen Yup I was there watching!

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

I’m absolutely dying 🤣

Old Australian newspaper ad gone wrong.

Guy selling his house writes what he thinks is a normal line at the bottom. Reporter sees it, shows up to confront him… and the interview is pure gold.

You’ll see what I mean 😂😂

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@crockpics Abbey

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@davidcapie There goes the defence budget…

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@consequence I’d say that’s pretty close. Maybe MMT slightly higher…

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

The Opportunity Party is increasingly looking like a Labour project to destroy the Green Party.
Let's join some dots.
1. The General Manager of the party is Iain Lees-Galloway
2. His business partner is Toni Grace, Hipkins' partner
3. The number 3 candidate is Kayla Kingdom-Bedd, an author of the He Puapua report that Labour secretly adopted
4. She is the partner of James Shaw, the ousted leader from the Green Party
5. James Shaw is said to be doing a lot of the heavy lifting policy wise
6. There is at least one union linked candidate
7. The media luvvies are in on it.

Do not be hoodwinked in to thinking this is some sort of teal centre right party, it is not.
It is a project designed to destroy the Green Party, aised and abetted by Labour linked people and a former Green Party leader

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

YOU'RE WEEKLY REMINDER OF WHERE YOUR MONEY WENT UNDER THE LAST GOV. ( a few of thousands of examples)

1. Wallaby eradication — $2.7 million to kill 18 wallabies. $153,000 per wallaby and 26,000 labour hours. Cheaper to fly them home business class.

2. Virtual job expos — $835,000. 126 people attended. $6,626 per Zoom attendee.

3. Global health recruitment campaign — $514,000. Result: 3 interviews. $171,000 per interview.

4. Let's Get Wellington Moving — $35m on consultants. Just $250k on actual construction. You read that right.

5. Auckland Light Rail — $229 million. Six years. Not one metre of track. Burning $1.2m/week on consultants at peak.

6. Three Waters — ~$1.2 billion torched on a policy nobody wanted, scrapped before delivering a single pipe. Included $14,500 to write a job description for a CEO who never existed.

7. iReX ferries — $500m+ sunk. Ballooned from $551m to a projected $3 billion+ before cancellation. (NZ First also had fingerprints on the original deal — worth being upfront about.)

8. RAT tests — $531 million sitting in warehouses. Storage at $100,000/day. Approved over a year late.

9. Mongrel Mob meth rehab — $2.75 million. $239k catering. $157k marae hire. $100k hiring a van.

10. Shorter shower campaign — $2.8 million. Printed in 7 languages. To tell you to take shorter showers.

11. Auckland Harbour cycle/walking bridge — $51 million on planning before scrapped. No bridge.

12. Lake Onslow pumped hydro — ~$100 million on feasibility studies. Not a shovel in the ground.

13. Workforce Development Councils — $65 million/year for bodies critics said delivered little tangible value. Disestablished.

14. RNZ/TVNZ merger — $20 million. Abandoned by Labour themselves.

15. Ethnic women in politics research — $842,000. A university grant could've done it for a fraction.

16. "Ulu Cavu Wig Tour" — $73,000 in taxpayer funding for the Arts Minister's husband's tour.

17. Abandoned China immigration office — ~$3 million in rent on an office closed for over a year.

18. Promoting Australian citizenship to Kiwis already in Australia — $10,000. Funding the brain drain with our money.

…and we could keep going.

We should never FORGET Labour. Just a small fraction of their wasteful ways.
@NZNationalParty @actparty

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

Do we think there will ever be a labour policy without the word free in it ?

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@truereckons1 That grey paint is really expensive…

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@FullTwatforward @Julie_nzkiwi @_AAAP_ @1NewsNZ Not shopping at Farmers then…?

[Jack Reacher @justinb24448577]

@Maddyson2021 If this is true...? SFO need to be informed

[Te Pigeōn Juliē @Julie_nzkiwi]

Just arrived into the office at my bureaucrat job in Wellington.

They've run out of oat milk. Sent an email to HR with my they them pronouns in email signature.

I'm now having a mental health break for an hour, before the trans Maori treaty karakia hui begins.

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

WILD.

Comparing the NZ government structure to Finland’s. A picture says 1000 words !!

Both countries have similar populations (5.5M). The structures behind are very different.

Finland:
• 12 core ministries
• Clear vertical accountability
• Defined ownership
• Built for speed, clarity, and execution

New Zealand:
• 40+ departments
• 80+ ministerial portfolios
• Layers of overlapping responsibility
• Super-ministries reporting across multiple ministers

The result? Accountability blur. No improvement. Massive waste.

In any high-performing organisation, if everyone is responsible, no one is.

NZ has exceptional people. But we need systems designed to deliver outcomes, not a birds-nest structure that creates no improvement or efficiency.

Fixing this will be a HUGE unlock on NZ long term. All parties should come together in a bi partisan way to sort this out.@actparty @NZNationalParty @nzfirst @nzlabour

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@GlobeEyeNews BS.