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eh?

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Pure arrogance and hypocrisy from Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson, happily filmed speeding along the motorway.

It’s worth noting that the Greens launched a petition against the coalition’s planned blanket speed limit increases.

“The Government is ignoring the emphatic evidence that safe speeds save lives. Applying blanket speed limit increases will result in more deaths and serious injuries. We have very clear evidence of the benefits from the early evaluations of speed limit reductions. What they will notice is if a loved one doesn’t make it home because of a car crash.”
— Julie Anne Genter, Green Party Transport Spokesperson

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The same country that put humans on the Moon in 1969 now takes an average of 4.5 years to approve major infrastructure permits.. longer than it took to build the Panama Canal. 

Transmission lines average 10 years from permitting to completion. The bottleneck to abundance is not technology, but BUREAUCRACY!

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Want your house to be worth up to 20% less than what you paid for it? Vote for the Opportunities Party.

TOP wants to drive property prices down by 10–15% through their 1.75% Land Value Tax, but in reality the policy could easily trigger a sharper correction of 20% or more — hammering retirees on fixed incomes and first-home buyers who stretched to get into the market.

For the 100,000+ Kiwis who bought near the 2021–2022 peak, imagine a deliberate 10–20% policy-driven drop layered on top of any correction your property has already suffered, plus a permanent 1.75% annual tax on the land value.

The Opportunity Party calls itself centrist, but this is classic left-wing, Green Party-level interventionism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They should change their name to the Southern False Flag Center!

[Musical Chairs @MusicalChairs14]

There are currently around 10,000 job vacancies on Trademe and we have over 400,000 people wanting work or more work. For decades, this would have been viewed as an abject failure of economic management. RBNZ will be weighing up whether to increase unemployment next month....

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink

[Ro Edge @rosey_nz]

Has a full enquiry been launched into how so much Wellington rate payer money was wasted on a website?
It's amazing how much disrespect is shown by bureaucrats spending money that's not their own!

[David Baker @Dbakernz]

https://t.co/WCgfb3hXsy

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

📣MEDIA RELEASE

$30.7 million committed to enforce a law that does not exist

This morning the Children's Commissioner and a cross-sector coalition called on the Government to build an independent online-safety regulator. They are too late to ask. The Government is already building one, and it has not waited for a law.

Budget 2026 allocated $30.7 million to the Department of Internal Affairs over four years to "develop policy and possible regulatory options to improve children's online safety, subject to future policy and funding decisions." That is the language of scoping: options to be considered, decisions not yet made… Continues online. 

📌 Read the full release here: https://t.co/iTOTIfIcnE

[Jake 🇵🇸🔴🟢⚫️ @Jakeruruku]

Kiwifruit grown in Italy and shipped across the world is cheaper than Kiwifruit grown in NZ

[Joseph Mooney MP @JosephMooneyMP]

Pretty interesting. In NZ the left has claimed for the last 2.5 years that National only delivered “tax cuts for landlords” which many in the media have happily parroted without context (it was in fact reversing Labour’s policy - which had overturned decades of all businesses being able to claim tax deductibility on the interest costs of their bank loans).

Labour only stopped interest deductibility for residential tenancy properties - leading to higher bank costs to service loans for residential properties, which in turn drove rental costs higher for tenants (in order to service the higher interest payments to banks on mortgages) - as officials had warned Labour would happen.

What they completely ignored is the inconvenient fact that National delivered the first adjustment to tax brackets in 14 years - to address the outrageous situation of the poorest workers paying almost the highest tax bracket for some of their earnings because inflation had steadily eroded the value of their wage.

The previous government - which made out it was on the side of the working man and woman - had allowed inflation to push them into higher and higher tax brackets - which meant the government could tax them more without them even realising it.

The technical term was “bracket creep” - the practical effect was “tax-it deep.”

You’re unlikely to learn that from the mainstream media.

[The Salty One @the_salty_one_]

If the @nzpolice were serious about road safety, they wouldn't let people ride motorbikes without helmets for religious reasons.

Facts.

[William McGimpsey🇳🇿 @TheZeitgeistNZ]

New Zealand’s nuclear free policy is irrational. Perhaps you could make a reasonable pacifism-adjacent argument for opposition to nuclear weapons, but treating nuclear power/propulsion as if it were the same thing makes no sense. All it has done is needlessly damage our defence and security relationships with our most important traditional allies.

With Australia now in talks to acquire nuclear powered submarines, it is completely appropriate for Defence Minister Chris Penk to open the conversation on this issue.

[Dane Giraud ✡️ @Dane_Giraud]

Nuclear power is the answer to whatever climage crisis we may have. We need real leaders. He ain't one.

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

Smart leadership really can have an outsized impact on a country and its peoples fortunes. ( Singapore )

[8 @knersis]

@RusselNorman Why can't you count?

[Wired-one @Wired__One]

@RusselNorman No, they really didn't.

They used unrealized gains to calculate their effective tax rate. But they didn't include unrealized gains when calculating the average Kiwis.

Here is an actual fact. 45%+ of Kiwis don't contribute net tax once entitlements have been factored in.

[Eric Crampton @EricCrampton]

I asked GPT to figure out which countries would be best for Immigration NZ to target. Places where young people are completely screwed by demographic change and pension burdens.

Then I asked it for a few Immigration NZ posters to target those markets.

The prompt:

[David Baker @Dbakernz]

Fuck me sideways,

About to do a hit peice on Gisborne council...fuck me look.

$10,000 to actually build the speed bump.
Up to $150k in bullshit managment + design cost.

We are getting fleeced.
#dodge

[8 @knersis]

@Dbakernz Not to mention there's already a Wellington Libraries website: https://t.co/mjHx2Te7bV . Looks a lot like a vanity project.