Mary-Ann De Kort

Happy New Year 🎉 In today’s NZ Herald

Mōrena everyone & welcome to 2025 New Zealand

Rod's kicking off the year with, of course, an absolute banger

NZ tight-lipped over membership of space network Analysis - Operation Olympic Defender aims to protect space from the likes of exploding satellites, but NZ is keeping quiet about its involvement.

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#BHN Pre-election Luxon has some pretty harsh things about post-election Luxon on being in recession YouTube video by DOC Studios

#BHN Pre-election Luxon has some pretty harsh things about post-election Luxon on being in recession
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Media Council upholds inaccuracy complaint against column about Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau - NZ Herald Council finds column contained inaccuracy and attempts to correct it were inadequate.

"A complaint against a column by Newstalk ZB’s senior political correspondent Barry Soper has been upheld by the NZ Media Council on the grounds that it contained a serious inaccuracy and attempts to correct it were inadequate."

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Historical revisionism on Covid threatens NZ's pandemic preparedness Comment: The Royal Commission report fundamentally validates the strategic and tactical choices made during the acute phase of the pandemic

Conventional wisdom in 2024 seems to dictate that the Covid-19 response was an overreaction, but that conventional wisdom is wrong.

My analysis on the Royal Commission report and the response to it:
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World losing half a trillion to tax abuse, largely due to 8 countries blocking UN tax reform, annual report finds | Tax Justice Network Multinational corporations cheated more after getting tax cuts, largest inadvertent real-world testing of corporate tax policies reveals Countries are losing US$492 billion in tax a year to multinatio...

World losing half a trillion to tax abuse, largely due to 8 countries blocking UN tax reform, annual report finds. The countries blocking are: Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the UK and the US taxjustice.net/press/world-...

David Seymour is gaslighting you into thinking that one of the most underprivileged groups in New Zealand is unfairly advantaged, despite all social and economic indicators, across health, education, housing, corrections etc proving otherwise.

It shouldn't be this easy but David's got a pretty good play book on how to divide and conquer, right?

#hikoi was just the start, let's keep it going.

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#NZPol So they've been instructed to, while negotiating a treaty to help coordinate response to a pandemic, deprioritise responding to a pandemic. This government is not even remotely working in the interests of the people it nominally represents.

Impeccable comic timing:

< When asked, “Will the coalition implode before 2026?,” without missing a beat, Finlayson and Henare replied, in unison: “Yes”.

Roy was more circumspect: “Probably”. > #nzpol

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The $1m deposit only a landed gentry can afford Listen now (6 mins) | Derek Handley's Aera points out first-home-buying couple will have to save a $1 million deposit by 2048 to buy in Auckland; Who is kidding who?; Marrying into wealth or Lotto onl...

"Residential land prices in NZ are overvalued in the market beyond the social role that housing provides, to a point where it only benefits the elderly/estate sellers, mortgage providers & real estate sales industry.
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Meanwhile the real estate & banking industries keep talking up land prices."

Chart shows dwelling consents relative to population. Rate of consents surged during the covid years, but has fallen since then.

NZ house building surge is over? Planning rules, infrastructure and low interest rates (not necessarily in that order) really helped during the covid years. Rising immigration/population growth and slowing supply will increase housing costs and housing insecurity.

What's Shane Jones going to do when the Seabed Mining industry applies for fast-track status?

The Fishing Industry is vigorously opposed to Seabed Mining and have their lawyers in Hāwera at the EPA hearing right now to oppose it.

A conflict of conflicts?

#nzpol

this is why vaccination is not a personal decision but a matter of public health

Landlords can charge more rent due to the accommodation supplement
Theyll get tax free capital gains
Govt proposes another payment if they rent their houses to those in emergency housing but then evict without reason
Then interest deductabilty
Taxpayers are exceedingly generous to landlords
#nzpol

I can’t remember seeing a NZ politician get so wrecked in an interview as Luxon does in this one

#NZpol

Gotta say, that's where my inner-Pacino comes into play...

The key job is to steer our fury at the avalanche of bad decisions, corrupted processes, and worst of all the mindless, future-destroying desertion of the environment, our most vulnerable, Māori into *kicking this govt OUT in 2026*.

It's only deteriorating because the #coalitionofchaos has made an ideological choice to put landlords needs ahead of anybody elses

Why give breath to the coalition? | E-Tangata “The absolute boldness with which this government has shown their distaste for Tiriti justice is unmatched. And even when they stand, axe in hand ... we still give them the mic and say ‘take it away’....

“The absolute boldness with which this government has shown their distaste for Tiriti justice is unmatched. And even when they stand, axe in hand … we still give them the mic and say ‘take it away’.” — Eru Kapa-Kingi.

Yet they think it's ok to ram their bigotry and racism down your throat
You are right
We all need to stand up for our tangata whenua

#BHN Professor Margaret Mutu talks te tiriti and the government relationship with Maori Professor Margaret Mutu joins us to educate us about te tiriti and shares some opinions on the relationship between the Crown and Māori at the moment.=======...

Many of us growing up in New Zealand had minimal education re Te Tiriti, this is an important korero from Prof Margaret Mutu and the OB's at #BHN

TIL the vast majority of Rangatira signed only the Te Reo Tiriti...

#nzpol
#tangatatiriti
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Government to roll back rules restricting pay-day lenders The government is rolling back lending rules and requirements brought in by the last government including restrictions aimed at predatory pay-day lenders. The Commerce Minister Andrew Bayley is outlin...

WOW!
We accept that some in the "Coalition of Chaos" have shoddy mates involving shady money, but this is LOW!
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Nice graphic to share

I thought a lot of the MRI facilities were privately owned now

Free RATS until 30th June 2024
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