Imagine Liam, if this govt had accelerated, even just continued, energy transition, getting NZ off the oil&gas addiction, liberating our economy from this vulnerability they would have something real to offer. But no, they chose the exact opposite, for reasons.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ira...
NZ politicians from *all* parties should recognise that science is not something to 'conveniently' repackage to suit your government’s short-term goals, but a long-term driver of good for the country.
When you cut at it, you cut at *everyone’s* longer-term future.
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And then she joins TOP which espouses a flat tax rate that will make the rich richer and the poor poorer
She simply wants a cushy MP job again
Designed to pay for the services Kiwis want from government
Rather than designed to get votes and donations
The Greens wealth tax would have taxed their capital gains at about 40%
Assuming a very conservative 5% gain each year
Whats better for Northland, a gold plated four lane $4,000,000,000 expressway between Warkworth and Wellsford that, checks notes, ISN'T EVEN YET IN NORTHLAND
Or 80km of right sized improvements to SH1 In-between Warkworth and Whangarei done in a fraction of time and cost?
This is the thing I can't get my friends to understand - scientists are inherently conservative
So if a scientist says there might be a problem - they really mean run for the hills - now
'Goldsmith said he had separately contacted TVNZ journalists directly to raise concerns about the original story, which he described as something he did regularly when unhappy with coverage.
"We certainly do remonstrate and argue with journalists over stories, and we do that on a regular basis".'
This is a real problem
Those journalists depend on access to parliament for their jobs
So Ministers "remonstrating" with them is a big deal - effectively threatening their livelihood
So I absolutely think students should be paid for their work, teaching assistants etc etc
But I'd note that when I did some of that work for free I was also paying a pittance for my education
I suspect that current students are seeing a net loss given their stupidly high fees
Doesn't this coincide with our failure to tax companies that operate in AoNZ but engineer their profits to only occur in tax shelters
I saw Gary Stephenson speak tonight and the message was clear... If you want your children to have any chance of owning a home, we must address inequality, and that starts with taxing the wealthy
So Luxon is a misspoking misspoker
Useless misogynistic TVNZ sports reporters
An entire bulletin without mentioning the women's cricket team is playing an international match that is broadcast live on TVNZ tomorrow
So many men not actually playing sport but all more important than a women's international
Right-wing commentators were *obsessed* with what they fancied was the former Labour govt's control of the media. Yet now we have what looks like direct political interference with reporting that ministers didn't like. Far out. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/t...
Ditto
So ... not an issue you are particularly exercised about ... right?
IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.
It should be an election issue it is that large a commitment
This issue can't just be left to highly-focused nerds like Connor. My current Listener column (written before Connor's new post, obviously) is about these same infrastructure choices, but it should be all over the bloody news pages.
This one road wouldn't just starve the rest of the state highway network of funds to keep it operating, it would sharply narrow our infrastructure choices everywhere. This is EXACTLY what the Infrastructure Commission warned about less than a month ago.
Try and find some time to read @connorsharp.bsky.social's excellent work here on the ways the government is trying to make its $22,000,000,000 Northern Expressway fantasy real – including refusing to release its own cost estimates. It's just reckless. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/03/03/2...
Dude it's a science meme
I resemble that remark
Also, this plan is a really great piece of work. And kudos to Chris Bishop for actually pushing it to happen.
But now you gotta take its advice (and not, ya know, build $22,000,000,000 roads)
Decided to live blog this... for some reason. Check out the thread
But Trickle down economics ...
Of course they'll use different words but it will all still be trickle down economics
Begging @barbedmonds.bsky.social to revisit the taxation policy and the diluted, weak sauce, everything is exempt CGT that Labour have proposed
People want stronger action, the country (world) needs it. Be like Nike and JUST DO IT
It's not a "cost of living crisis", it's an inequity crisis
#nzpol
Here let me send you a pdf of our latest paper
We've already cured cancer ... in mice
