Headline reads "The Covid immunity cycle: Why catching the virus is basically our new booster" below picture of glived hands preparing a wooden syringe or something honestly the picture is weird I can't even tell what it's meant to represent
Dangerously stupid headline.
(It implies catching Covid is a neutral alternative option to getting a booster. It is not).
Solar panels as standard are on their way. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526775...
AAAAAGH they're still going to have to replace the entire Picton Portside because it was munted and that's what iRex was doing, they're still going to have to build temporary buildings while they do that and that's what iRex was doing, they're going to need mor shit at Wellington and that's what iRe
Above a video of Trump signing the EO, Cartmell writes: "Restoring freedom by shrinking the U.S. federal government one Executive Order at a time. 👏"
The new donor to TOP is very much aligned to the Trump/Musk view of the world. Here he is on X celebrating Trump's EO that dismantles the Dept of Education. #NZpol
We dumped $671 million in the toilet ditching iRex, so add that to the $1.8 billion this wasteful vandalism has cost AND YOU GET TO ABOUT WHAT IREX COST IN 2023. AND THE WORK HASNT PROPERLY STARTED YET. AAAAAAAAAAGH
😆😆😆God he's a turnip
Luxoff's (not very) extensive engagement with "iwi up and down the country"
He often says he regularly meets iwi leaders up and down the country, because I can I OIA'd it
As per usual, utter bollocks
To Jan 20th 2026 there have been 1779 paid ACC claims for vaccine injury from 14 million doses. We know this already. side effects are no surprise, but they are rare. e.g. there were 73 vax site infections. But knowing facts does not publicise "angry bloke in pub's reckons" for ACT & NZF
In a sane political environment, the iReX debacle would have the current government unelectable this November.
In a term chocka block with monumental cock ups, this has be pretty much in the no. 1 position. #nzpol
Not to mention all the lost revenue as company's move to road transport to move their goods due to the uncertainty all now facing higher transport costs and the impact on the wider economy. Absolute muppets for petty political point scoring.
What a shambles.
Luxon and Willis are wasting money and endangering the Cook Strait crossing.
Cook Strait ferry project $167m over budget — and key port deals still unsigned
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Calling all cookers #nzpol
The Post asked Hipkins’ office why he had ignored health officials’ advice, if he accepted Aucklanders endured restrictions for longer than necessary and if in hindsight, he would have done anything differently. A spokesperson contested that Hipkins had ignored official advice. The spokesperson said Cabinet papers ‒ generally written a week in advance ‒ contained preliminary advice and the director-general would give the final public health risk assessment the day Cabinet met. “The most up to date information often came in a couple of hours before Cabinet,” they said. “The director-general’s post-Cab transcript from that day sets out his advice: ‘So our view, and our advice, is that another week in alert level 4 in Auckland gives us our best chance to really finish the job off here.’”
So the main point that Nats have gleaned to kick Hipkins/Labour with from the Royal Commission into Covid is that Hipkins/Labour ignored official advice to keep Auckland in lockdown a week longer isn't even true? lol #NZPol
NZ'ers are paying $3 a litre for petrol. Did Luxon's Govt make this situation worse? Let's check the receipts:
1) They collapsed the EV market in NZ by killing the clean car discount + making fees to import gas guzzling cars nearly 80% cheaper. EV sales dropped 70% in NZ while globally sales rose
This kind of crap is why we need to get donations out of politics. Money is not speech. The rich do not merit more influence than the rest of us.
#nzpol
The real lesson from Covid is that our media with print absolute bullshit like it is truth and post truth social media amplifies all kinds of bollocks at the rate of a wild fire #NZPol
Meanwhile, here's Brinks' Chicken giving a $100K bribe to ACT, so if you see any holdups in food regulations or animal welfare standards, you can connect the dots:
And while we're ont he subject of dodgy donations: coalition parties get $100K each from Greymouth petroleum, a dodgy oil & gas company. LNG bribe?
The need for reform to political donations in Aotearoa is screaming in our faces. Even if these are not quid pro quo donations, this is corrosive to trust in our elected officials.
Repealing the fast-track doesn't magically solve this either, we need some serious work on this. #nzpol
Essential read on this govt’s reckless gaslighting:
“It’s election year, I get it. But implying science & health advice was routinely being ignored fuels the distrust that erodes social cohesion—something the report is at pains to emphasise must be restored.” #nzpol
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Political parties elections campaigns need to be funded by the state. Decide on a reasonable expense amount per MP and they will get according to the number of MPs they currently have. If they can't win with it, tough. It means your message is not appealing to the public.
Hey look these "high value" fast tracked new residents of Aotearoa want to use their piles of money to influence our politics. Call me surprised! #nzpol
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The ONLY surprising thing about the covid inquiry and the weaponising of selective findings is it wasn't pushed out until say Sept or Oct so National could bang on & on about it & try to save their election.
I was expecting that.
Cartoon. Title: “Energy Drink” Picture shows Methanex president and CEO Rich Sumner sucking the dregs out of a can labelled “NZ” and saying, “Just a minute - nearly done” On the can, in small print it says, “Consumes 45% of NZ’s Natural Gas. Pays $70m to Canadian Owner. Receives high ETS subsidies. Too broke to pay taxes”
Fuel shortages and rising prices. A proposal to import expensive and dirty LNG and impose a gas levy. And then there’s Methanex, sucking up 45% of our natural gas.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #Fuel #FossilFuel
Luxon's social media video on the Covid inquiry is all lies. The man has no shame.Talk about desperate #nzpol
National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic.
Labour saved 20,000 lives.
National are saving landlords and tobacco
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
Dr Shane Reti is retiring after this year from politics. We love this for him! We're so glad he is able to CHOOSE what happens to his life and the current government is not forcing their will on him. Wow, CHOICE is amazing, eh, Dr Reti! #nzpol #abortion #NationalNZ #abortionishealthcare
The National Party's Facebook ads about the Covid Inquiry report are absolutely shameful. Cherry-picked lies and they're posting them over and over again #nzpol
