Cr Scott McKenzie

Big changes

My buddy sent me this photo from the Wimbledon final 🤩

Outnumbered but I like the grey

Magnificent afternoon of rugby in Whangārei

Exactly, interesting change of tune now that infrastructure commission have come out asking for bipartisanship.

Bishop just said that the last govt did a good thing is bringing all dhbs together. Talking need for bipartisanship for infrastructure management and RMA reform

I’d be amazed if Iran feel like that is the full reprisal. I suspect Iran will now rebuild their nuclear program having shifted their enrichment stores before the strikes on fordow. Playing the long game, Trump just strengthened their resolve.

PM open to scrapping regional councils amid RMA reform The PM says he's looking into council rates caps as well.

Big changes potentially afoot www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/... PM Christopher Luxon open to scrapping regional councils amid RMA reform - NZ Herald

Christopher Luxon concludes China trip: 'No evidence' of collaboration with Russia, Iran or North Korea The prime minister has wrapped up his trip to China, dismissing suggestions the superpower is working with Russia, Iran or North Korea - as alleged by NATO's top official.

Because meeting with china’s leaders for a couple of days is a definitive assessment of China’s relations with other countries..? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

But doctors and nurses have public support and that is huge leverage to bring about change.

A fantastic turn out for the hui for health public meeting last night. Heart wrenching accounts of our health practitioners going above and beyond and not receiving the support they deserve. It is an indictment on all of us that we’ve collectively let it get so dire.

Train wreak rnz interview with Mark Mitchell. He never knows his own numbers and says they don’t know but ‘hopes’ tougher sentences will mean a reduction in serious crime, despite numbers saying the opposite.

Yeh this one stays inside, got another one outside which has gone all woody

Pretty stoked with my supermarket basil growth 🌿

Yes the Blues!!

David Seymour debated at the prestigious Oxford Union, and lost In front of bright minds, including Noam Chomsky’s daughter, the bow tie-clad deputy PM opposed the moot “No One Can Be Illegal on Stolen Land”. At first he was nervous, but then his imposter syndrome...

lol seymour got dismantled www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Classic

After a number of amendments and votes it was suggested we take a short adjournment to catch our breaths, chair declined and put the vote. There was confusion and the vote was lost.

Was it you Simon who predicted there would be a fall out between the two months ago? I remember one commentator suggesting it would be likely as is the way with so many associated with Trump.

It was pretty messy and unfortunate

Whangārei District Council failed to pass a resolution on annual plan deliberations so currently don’t have an annual plan.

An emergency meeting has been called for next Tuesday 8.30am to go over it all again

The paketi: NZ’s spotty fish species that can change its sex The fascinating biology behind NZ's gender-swapping coastal fish.

Waiting for the populist backlash...
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...

I haven’t made a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill yet but after Seymour claimed it’s 99.5% bots I feel much more resolve to do so.

Yeh but more important that they're not in government

Left bloc would have enough support to turf coalition government out of power - poll And the leadership ratings in the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll - taken after the Budget - are also bad news for the government

Left bloc would have enough support to turf coalition government out of power - poll www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

RNZ poll has opposition parties with majority

Sea level will rise fast even if we limit global warming to 1.5°C Satellite observations show the ice sheets are melting faster than expected, and slowing sea level rise to a manageable rate would require lowering the global temperature below the current level

Oh ...
1.5°C won't stop sea level rise by several metres over coming centuries - review of all latest evidence.
World on course for 2.9°C of warming by 2100, loss of Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, 12 metres sea level rise.
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...

Sleepy Sunday colouring effort from my 7 year old 🐉

Te Pāti Māori's haka punishment labelled extreme, but Labour unlikely to filibuster Labour's not keen on a filibuster, while Te Pāti Māori's president says more tikanga Māori should be incorporated in the House.

*Haka punishment too extreme but we’re not going to take an opportunity to do anything about it
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...