Mark Hooper

Letter written to LTC to stop Luxon bestowment A letter has been written to the Lands and Titles Court to stop the bestowment of the matai title Tuisinavemaulumoto'otua on New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.The letter was written by To'o...

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Luxon to be bestowed honorary matai title in Samoa, at his request The title, which Luxon would receive on Monday, the Samoa PM said, was, ‘Tui-Sinave-ma-Ulumotootua’.

So let me get this straight - Luxon is going to fly to Samoa in the middle of a global oil shortage so he can receive an award.

An award that he *asked* to be given. Not one that was offered to him.

How very Trumpy of him.

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Crusher Collins wanting to be a Matai

I surmise someone who will be leaving parliament soon wished she had asked for a title from Samoa and will be very jealous now.

Can @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social or @chewienz.bsky.social use your connections to assist Samoa to get FIFAs help to give a participation trophy to the PM 😜

- fonterras greedy shareholders have sold “our” brands, watties sold out years ago, even our beloved local Barkers is now owned by the french. If success means selling our food security off shore to satisfy personal greed then tell me again about trickle down? #FoodInsecurity #NZPol

As we as having the same surname it doesn’t surprise me how often I repost you. I think we have very similar views as well as surname 😃. I’d only change one thing from your post - it’s that I (and I surmise you) think “Poverty is Actually Government Policy “.

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

THIS. If that lockdown had lasted another week, I wouldn't have been able to attend my mother's funeral on the East Coast - which was the day after she died.

But she wouldn't have had the grace of being able to die in her own bed if the "let it rip" goons had been in charge.

I surmise that their reading rates are better than the poor kids that died from Covid 😞. Forever thankful that NZ did such a fantastic effort to save lives. Forever angry by the conservative right, MSM, politicians and social media frazzled minds that value themselves over the lives of everyone else

Watched my dad get a 4 year sentence at a maximum security facility over blue collar crime while pedophiles are put on quick Home Detention stints.

Remember when National said their "Tough on Crime" was working?

Haven’t been watching much of the news lately but watching tonight makes me think a lot of the American government is made up of cosplaying losers who would have lived in their mums basement into their 30s.

A chocolate fish for the first journalist to ask Luxon or Willis "Will you take full responsibility for the rise in inflation this year due to Geo-political events, considering you demanded the same of Labour during the last election campaign?" #nzpol

A policy for progressives to package Yet another "cost-of-living election" yields an opportunity for meaningful change

The cost-of-living crisis is different from rising inflation.

Starting with food, power, & rentals, an incoming progressive government must signal that it has finished playing nicely with supermarkets, electricity gentailers, and landlords.

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AI is already creeping into election campaigns. NZ’s rules aren’t ready Months out from the next general election, political “AI slop” is spilling over social media feeds. Lessons from overseas could help electoral laws catch up.

#nzpol Heads up and pay attention Aotearoa NZ. There's going to be a deluge of dirty politics and lies thrown at us on social media this year. Please remember to go to party websites to read published policies. Do due diligence and watch out for each other. 💪

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We’ve caught on - in fact we caught on before America.

Legend 💯

Christopher Luxon - Stop growing homelessness!

Green Party petition regarding move-on orders for the unhoused.

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I want our greens to dominate Labour and the Right like Zack has in the UK. I think Chloe is awesome but she needs to channel Zack more. I want to see her dominant the news cycle and media interviews. I can’t help but think that if Zack was the leader of the greens we would be challenging Labour.

Why We Should Want Our Politicians To Be Flawed | Chlöe Swarbrick YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

This one is pretty good

@kevinhague.bsky.social Can you get @zackpolanski.bsky.social to do a little video to spark interest in the @greens.org.nz. I would love his X factor to help.

Green party homepage, the call to action to Join is hidden right in the page footer

Another thing that really needs immediate attention is the call to action to join the party.

It's hiding down in the footer and should be smacking you in the face

Ngā mihi

A graphic with a dark green background displays the text: “Power company profits in 6 months: $1.85 billion” in large yellow lettering. Below, on a white torn‑paper texture, green text reads: “How’s your power bill going?” Small fine print at the bottom notes authorisation by Green MP Scott Willis

Meridian, Contact, Mercury and Genesis Energy are reporting record profits. Meanwhile, are your power bills any lower?

Dawn Chorus: Luxon clings on as inflation shock looms Luxon won't resign after poll shock; Oil over US$90/bbl overnight; Petrol over NZ$3/l in some areas; Freight cost warning after diesel rises 44c/l; Pak n'Save buying US butter; Dialysis rationing

“Christchurch Hospital has started rationing dialysis to two sessions per week from three because of a Government-imposed sinking lid on spending to ensure Crown spending to GDP gets down below 30%, 1News reported last night” #nzpol

High-wealth individuals research project

It all starts with a short visit to the lovely folks at IRD, who in 2021 started a research project about high-wealth individuals and how much tax they actually pay. One of the outputs from that work was a report in 2023, that was pretty damning

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Maybe it's futile to ask conservatives to think a little harder, but the answer to "why are we bringing in immigrants when youth unemployment is at 15%?" Is actually pretty simple

Those unemployed 19 year olds are not qualified nurses, software developers, or engineers

Yes to Rio - please play him as frankly we’ve become very boring to watch. I don’t know if I’d pay to watch Liverpool if they are like that next season 😞

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows

I’m thinking Trump would not grab a fire extinguisher to help save people, but run through people to get himself out. He is the George Constanza President. The more I think of it, Seinfeld was a precursor of MAGA. All for themselves and as Hillary Clinton said - Despicable.

Government deciding whether US should get access to New Zealanders' biometric data Officials are in talks with the US about a new travel deal.

RNZ broke the story earlier this week and it has been almost radio silence since then. This is big news with limited media focus, and no interest from the NZ Government in responding to questions.

The NZ Greens are the only opposition party quoted in the story.

This needs much more attention, now.

Cartoon. title: “Behind Every Number” Eight frames. In each frame, except the last one, is a child holding up a number. Numbers 1-6 have smiling, laughing children. Number seven has a sad child with the number 7 forming part of a banned symbol over their face. The last frame says, “One in seven NZ kids live in hardship. Up 47,500 since ‘22”

Behind every number. Since 2022 the number of New Zealand children living in hardship has increased by 47,500. Seems like that’s by design.
My #cartoon #Children #Hardship #poverty #NZpol #families #whānau