Wanakawitch

Nutty middle aged woman who thinks she is still 20. Aspiring nonconforming hippy, who is hoping to save the world, or die trying!

[Wanakawitch @wanakawitch]

Beware..this is what happens when try to fly while on twitter for UFB in WNK #gigatownwanaka

[king of the west II @meco78526]

671 million dollars for NOTHING

[Pazienza @Pazienza82]

Nicola Willis has borrowed more than the Labour govt she criticises so vociferously.
The worst finance minister since Ruth Richardson.
@NicolaWillisMP

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

Luxon promised his government would lower the age of bowel cancer screening to match Australia’s age, which is 45.

He lied.

Earlier this year, his Government announced it would lower the screening age - but only from 60 to 58.

[rabble @rabble]

@Liquid_Times I’ll take the price they charge consumers overseas. That’s almost always cheaper than what we pay for NZ products in NZ.

[Pazienza @Pazienza82]

Labour's Tangi Utikere told RNZ additional costs associated with the cancellation of iReX would cost $1.16b when including the cancellation of the deal and ongoing maintenance of the current ferries.

He said the decision to cancel iReX was reckless.
https://t.co/Ker9C53Q1F

[Andrew Frame @NapierinFrame]

As if the billion$ handouts weren't enough...

White collar crime ahoy!!

Property developers, investors fail to pay $150 million in tax https://t.co/LCDdlT7A3l

[Ms WonderOutLoud @MsWonderOutLoud]

Here are the workers who are losing future pay rises, because the government can't balance their books. The one thing they overwhelmingly have in common these jobs are predominately occupied by women. But Brooke van Velden reckon she's on women's side?

[Kelvin Morgan 🇳🇿 @kelvin_morganNZ]

“Karma is a bitch, and she votes”

From Auckland to Invercargill, crowds braved the rain today to express their anger at changes made to the Equal Pay Act, gathering outside the mostly empty electorate offices of MPs and Ministers.

Our tone deaf Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaking from Tauranga insisted the changes ensured the pay equity scheme was workable.

Do the following changes sound very ‘workable’ to you?

•Increasing the threshold for when a claim can be brought
•A greater emphasis on ‘market factors’
•No ability to review a claim for at least 10 years
•No ability for workers to be paid equally any sooner than three years after a claim is settled

Meanwhile, rather than front up to their angry constituents, those MP’s facing protests argued they were battling ‘misinformation’ about the reform spread by opponents.

Here are some scenes and commentary, captured by the NZ Herald, from the hundreds who marched on Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden’s office in Tāmaki Makaurau and the 200 or so who gathered outside Tama Potaka’s office in the mighty Waikato today.

#nzpol

[Scott Nickerson @totaraforest]

A real doozy from Verity Johnson this week. “this is terrible for women’s rights. But we did it anyway to save money”
https://t.co/moRhFnQe7o

[Mark Jeffery @MarkJeffery4]

This 👇

"I am incandescent with rage at this Government’s cynicism and dishonesty. They are trashing our democracy, and destroying so much of what is good about New Zealand."

Anne Salmond: She won't be right, mate https://t.co/PsChmgJfZN

[Fleur Fitzsimons @FleurFitzsimons]

Hi @cjsbishop, big crowd outside our office in Lower Hutt to oppose the Government's destructive changes to pay equity laws! #PayEquityNow

[murray pearce @pearce_murray]

Simeon Brown has an established record of dishonesty. The Medical Council has every right to be worried.
Medical Council fears political interference over doctor shortage https://t.co/DF2uW9UdJQ

[Edward Willis @edwardmwillis]

I cannot condemn in strong enough terms the National-led government's use of urgency in the House to retrospectively invalidate 33 existing pay equity claims. In my view it amounts to constitutional abuse of the legislative process. We deserve better.

[Maxine Gay @GayMaxine]

From the marvelous Bernard Hickey
"Pay equity grab wrecks wage rises worth up to $17b over 4 years, paying for $14b of tax cuts for NZ's wealthiest

[Maria Sherwood @MariaSherwood2]

Succinct

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

Prevention is always better than cure? So why as part of upcoming #austeritybudget is #NZ Govt cutting spending on programme that aims to prevent the need for people to end up in emergency housing? Makes no sense financially or morally. Par for the course? https://t.co/5h9X98NL6X

[trish @trishpuharich]

Yup. I’ll listen to and support the Doctors - not Simeon Brown - who is already starting to privatise our health system. So much for being a government for all NZers.

[Ginette McDonald ONZM @McDonaldGinette]

Deliberate engineered austerity by an unprofessional self serving coalition comprised of the the vain, the amateur and the cruel.Shame.

[Liquid Times @Liquid_Times]

The health professionals I know are deeply offended by our deceitful health minister who keeps lying about how they don't care about their patients.
I think we're likely to see more strikes, unless Simeon Brown grows up, starts being respectful & pays them what they're worth.