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We need to push back on this shit, with extreme urgency

So Newsroom put out a bit on the economic policy too, and they more broadly echo some of the points I made in my previous post on it.

>Ross said the biggest need was the investment in more staff, more teachers and more support structures for students. She was cautiously optimistic to find out more detail on how the $80m funding would be allocated.

This is an important point, and I am definitely here for providing more funding to any level of education as we have seriously underinvested in all sectors for too long (under both flavors of neoliberal government). However this speaks to a greater worry that I had after reading the policy - there are no worker rights discussed. In order to have stability, we need to strengthen our labour laws to give workers power.

>"I thought overall it’s an incoherent document, they talk about somehow transforming us into a high-tech economy. The tech that we’re using, in terms of say the transformation of artificial intelligence, is entirely being driven overseas. It’s not being driven by anything that is happening here, and Opportunity won’t change that."

Here Robert MacCulloch really hits the nail on the head - nothing in their policy will actually transform our economy into this vision of a high-tech industrial nation. There is no way that we get a TSMC out of this, or anything like that.

>However, Rashbrooke questioned the way in which the policy would be funded. >Wong said the $1.33 billion price tag associated with the economic policy would be paid for by its tax policy, which was calculated to result in a surplus of $4b.

>If a tax reset wasn’t on the cards with a potential coalition partner, its economic policy would be the priority, Wong said.

This is also another very good point. TOP seem to be pinning everything to their Tax Reset policy but also aren't committing to getting it through. That even their messaging around their own policies seems confused.

>A blanket sum of $20,000 would go to every New Zealander, regardless of their income level – which he deemed unnecessary for the country’s millionaires and insufficient to make the country’s poorest any better off.

Just reiterating here for all those who will be coming in again to state that the UBI is actually progressive and transformative. No it isn't.

Yet more fantastic news from our rockstar economy that's definitely turning around any day now.

They just cannot stop the bleed.

I'm not a huge AI fan for various reasons but this video (11m) makes great clear points for everyone re representation and AI in Government.

Is it time we start handing around the koha bucket? Hawke’s Bay isn’t doing too good, where is our MP to stand in when she should?
What’s her face, National, I stupidly voted for her. I don’t even think I’ve seen her in those Wellington chambers.
Is it not her job to represent the people of her electorate, to ensure jobs and housing?
All our food factories closing I cannot help to imagine the harm this will cause on our children, we might be alright for now but what about future harvests?
If we are not canning and freezing our excess, if our excess rots on the vine, or if apple trees are not planted at all. It will be our tamariki that will be left starving.
Headlines in Hawke’s Bay are warning signs for the whole country, our fruit basket is rotting.

Im no fan of the author but any coverage of this bill that calls it what it is should be shared.

30 June, 2026

AMI, State and NZI 2026 climate poll: New Zealanders call for stronger Government leadership on climate hazards.

New Zealanders do not have confidence in the country’s ability to manage climate risks, according to the latest climate change poll from AMI, State, and NZI.

Just 27% of New Zealanders say they are confident the country can reduce climate impacts, compared with 42% who are not, making this the fifth year in a row that more people are pessimistic than optimistic about how the country is tracking on this issue.

Phil Gibson, Chief Executive AMI, State, and NZI warns: “It is clear we cannot continue as we are. New Zealand must take stronger action to reduce the impacts of climate hazards.”

I spent way to long trying to pick a flare.. is it health? is it law and order? is it political? is it opinion/analysis?

Read it, Its worth the read. Well written but horrible topic.

I am not about to pretend like I know where National voters are going to go, whether to the Left or further Right. What I do know is that running on "more trade in the next 5 years" while the entirety of NZ has been suffering under a cost of living crisis for years is going to make them wish for the days when they were still polling 30%.

They've tried nothing and they're all out of ideas.

Judging by overseas trends, the legal medical availability (cannabis) is usually the fore runner to the recreational availability.

It is really great to see options open for New Zealanders to be legally prescribed a plant based medicine such as cannabis under the current Medicinal Cannabis Scheme.

Hey but likewise I think its time to take a much more mature approach in regards to recreationalising cannabis in New Zealand also.

We are in a prime time now to legalize and control cannabis in New Zealand, the black market continues to control the large availability of cannabis in New Zealand and for first time user of cannabis in New Zealand the black market options are not always safe. We need to control how we use cannabis, like age limits similar to the drinking age limits, dispensarys where you need identification etc....

Its time to bring this kaupapa out into the open ...

Kia ora

Changes to the Pay Equity Act saved the Government an estimated $12.8 billion, but the producers of a new podcast, Shortchanged, argue that our economic system has long discriminated against women in the workforce.
By Angela Meyer & Tania Domett

On May 6, 2025, the Government wiped 33 pay equity claims overnight. No warning, no consultation, no press release to the 180,000 workers affected. One day the claims existed. The next they didn’t. Ministers called the existing framework “loose and unworkable” and moved on.

Read more

https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/30/womens-work-gets-the-middle-finger/

I am not a Newsroom shill! Just answering Tui's call for more info sharing :D

Tertiary education minister ignored warnings of student dropout risks

Fees paid to non-executive directors and chairs overseeing Crown and local government-owned organisations have increased 9 and 13 percent respectively over the past year, a new report shows.

One thing I'm surprised how little I've heard/read about so far this election year is almost anything regards certain electorates that could play a big part, definitely not an area Labour excelled in across the country last time around.

How's the vibe/situation in your electorate? Any changes or specific noticings since last time? Unfortunately my electorate is a pretty safe National seat, even in the direct lead up there's never anyrhing to be heard from the competition apart from their names on the voting forms 😔 bit boring as well as our mayoral election often being a one horse race lol