It’s pretty simple - stopping Kainga Ora building houses, slashing funding for Community Housing Providers and making it harder to access Emergency Housing will increase homelessness. The Government were warned and did it anyway. They don’t care. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Since the election building consents have fallen 26%, there are 6,000 fewer jobs in building and construction, and business confidence in the sector has collapsed. An international survey has said NZ’s building sector is the most depressed in the world. #goingbackwards

David Seymour’s new gold-plated regulation bureaucracy shows his hypocrisy. His new regulation ministry will have more than 90 staff earning on average over $150,000 a year. I guess it’s just everyone else who needs to tighten their belts eh David…

Answering on behalf of the Prime Minister in the House today Winston Peters just suggested he was open to changing his mind on the Second Reading of the Treaty Principles Bill. If David Seymour and Winston Peters don’t take Christopher Luxon at his word, why should Kiwis?

NZ has an abundance of renewable energy. We have a current electricity shortage because a) there’s been less rain and b) electricity companies have prioritized shareholder dividends over investing in new generation. There’s plenty of unbuilt new generation already consented!

The mixed ownership model for the big electricity generators introduced by National has failed. It’s resulted in profit-maximization at the expense of new generation and lower power prices. Returning to fossil fuels won’t fix that problem.

The current govt say climate change is an existential crisis for humanity at the same press conference they announce new fossil fuel electricity plans 🤦‍♂️ We have enough renewable energy in NZ, the market has prioritised profits rather than supply

According to Christopher Luxon, a Minister calling a judge a “communist” is “descriptive” and doesn’t breach Cabinet requirements that Ministers don’t criticize the judiciary. The standard he sets for his Ministers is so low you’d need a sickle to find it.

Christopher Luxon is quite comfortable with his Minister saying nicotine is as harmful as caffeine. And this is the Minister tasked with reducing smoking 🤦‍♂️ 🚬

Winston Peters likes to flirt with conspiracy theories at home, but traveling to the Pacific as our Minister of Foreign Affairs and effectively denying human induced climate change is a national embarrassment. PM needs to pull him into line asap.

The National government cut $2billion of school building projects to pay for tax cuts. Now they are spending millions on new Beehive offices for 3 ministers. As usual, they have a good-plated standard for themselves and offer crumbs for everyone else.

Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters today rejected the scientific evidence around climate change saying nobody agrees with NIWA data on the subject. His chasing of the conspiracy theorist vote is undermining his role as our chief diplomat and making NZ look like climate deniers

Finance Minister Nicola Willis used a patsy question in parliament today to complain that the pay rises teachers, nurses, doctors, police, firefighters and other public sector workers got under Labour were too high. No wonder those workers are heading off to Australia!

Climate change denial, attacks on judges, adoption of tobacco lobby policy, more attacks on Māori - just another week in Christopher Luxon’s #coalitionofchaos New Zealanders deserve better.

Sending our heartiest wishes to our NZ team of 25 Para athletes who begin their #Paris2024 Paralympic Games quest today. Let’s gooo! 🇳🇿🌿🖤

Shane Jones now says his own comments criticizing a judge were “treacherous territory” yet just last week the Prime Minister said he had no issue with them. Amazing to see a Minister back down yet the guy whose job it is to actually enforce ministerial standards does nothing.

Even Winston Peters is now saying Shane Jones was wrong to criticize a judge and call her a communist, but the Prime Minister, the person whose job it is to enforce standards in ministerial conduct, thinks it’s OK and does nothing. It’s pathetic.

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