Yes, this isn't new - National announced in 2025 that Luxon's beneficiaries & jobseeker KPIs would target cancer patients....We covered it on r/nzpolitics at the time

Yes, this isn't new - National announced in 2025 that Luxon's beneficiaries & jobseeker KPIs would target cancer patients....We covered it on r/nzpolitics at the time

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 3 days ago

Queenstown, Auckland and Canterbury Mayors call for an immediate pause of all Fast-Track Greenfield developments as Delmore housing approved without infrastructure

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 3 days ago

Auckland, Queenstown & Canterbury mayors ALL call for ‘immediate pause’ on fast-tracked greenfield housing

This comes as Chris Bishop admitted on Morning Report that their Fast-Track law, by design, allows developers to do as they want and infrastructure does not need to b in place for it to be approved.

Links: HERE and HERE for Canterbury

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 3 days ago
▲ 189 r/auckland

Auckland, Queenstown mayors call for ‘immediate pause’ on fast-tracked greenfield housing

The Auckland and Queenstown mayors are calling for an immediate pause on fast-tracked greenfield housing developments.Wayne Brown and John Glover made the request in a letter to Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop on Aug 1 - the same day a fast track panel set up under the Fast-track Approvals Act approved consents for the Delmore development on farmland north of north of Auckland.

Full article: HERE

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 3 days ago

Erica Stanford removes all references to climate change in NZ school curriculum - Shameful but on brand for Right Wing Coalition

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 3 days ago

Luxon speaks about firing Chris Penk while Mike Hosking promotes Luxon as a "great guy" & Luxon calls Newstalk ZB folks "legends"

Sorry, no vomit flair, but let's not forget, Mike Hosking has instructed and told Luxon to implement numerous policies and each time Luxon has obliged. One of those was the foreign home buyers repeal over $5million - Luxon put it in - guess what? Hosking owns homes over $5m and personally benefits.

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 3 days ago

"Citizens Arrest Law could cost lives & cause serious injury to customers and staff" - Paul Goldsmith ignores opposition from Police, Retail NZ and Business NZ

Full interview: HERE

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 4 days ago
▲ 996 r/palmy+3 crossposts

National Party has only hired 54 additional nurses in 2 years - public health system buckles while hundreds of millions diverted to private providers like Shane Reti and Cecilia Robinson's companies. Simeon Brown lies that National hired thousands of nurses

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 3 days ago

Talbot Mills Poll August 1-11 (RANZ certified poll unlike Taxpayers Union - Curia which "resigned" after it was due to be suspended from RANZ for its polling history)

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 5 days ago
▲ 213 r/Whangarei+2 crossposts

Another Chris Bishop Fast-Track Developer Application approved with no infrastructure. Shit will be transported to Whangarei - Delmore Development in Orewa, Auckland

Article link: RNZ

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 5 days ago

Free Speech Union (FSU) and TERF Ani O'Brien tries to censor Martyn Bradbury's "The Daily Blog". Says Bradbury personally attacked. her. This is the same Ani O'Brien who resulted in serious death threats against Green MPs and their family,and lost Maiki Sherman her job for comments in a private spat

Free Speech Union, like Taxpayers Union, and all those Jordan Williams copy and paste conservative organisations, seems to be on brand here.

ARTICLE LINK HERE: Paula Penfold Reporting

Note: Pinned comment below for explanation

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 5 days ago

Erica Stanford cherry picks data to justify golden visa changes that allow wealthy foreigners to buy residency and not live in NZ

No surprise she's National Party leader material. Last year Stanford mentions she chaperones the wealthy to "ensure" NZ is "meeting their requirements"

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 5 days ago

Luxon says he is focused on helping to increase demand as Wellington sex worker industry decimated by economic policies

Not satire

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 5 days ago
▲ 131 r/queenstown+1 crossposts

Petrol taxes to fund potential Queenstown Gondola - Election promise: National Party

Note petrol taxes will continue to increase over the next years

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 5 days ago

Police OIA on Rakesh Naidoo released FIVE weeks late - and when all eyes were on National Party leadership crisis - to reveal the Naidoo told police boss 2 weeks prior to candidacy

Richard Chamberlain and Mark Mitchell spent a lot o time on media including Newstalk ZB if I recall bashing Naidoo.

Turns out he was unfairly maligned and per reporting by journalist Henry Cooke , police didn't release the OIA until all eyes were on the National Party leadership crisis.

u/Mountain_Tui_Reload — 5 days ago