"revenge saving", also known as saving.

This creates frankly bonkers outcomes. If one parents works an hour less a week- their child gets $13,942. In fact 1 parent can work 11 hours less a week and the household is still better off. Secondary benefits (like accom. supplement) are likely to stretch that gap even further

Since the election there are 37,243 fewer 15-19 year olds in filled jobs. The jobs market for young people is as bad - if not worse - than the GFC. So adding 6% to the cost of tuition fees and halving apprenticeship boost support makes like even harder. Brilliant work National.

Just move bro. Sure you'll have to pay for expensive short-term accommodation, transport and food costs while you compete with hundreds of other applicants for even entry-level work but you'll just have to figure it out. We're back on track BTW.

Shameful day as the government progressed its Marine and Coastal Area Act amendments to restrict the ability of iwi and hapū to have extant customary recognised, despite the Crown winning its Supreme Court appeal of the Court of Appeal’s statutory interpretation of the 2011 Act

Arena Williams & Steve Abel in particular totally dismantling the bill clause by clause, though, perhaps because of the opportunistic move the opposition MPs seem much more across the detail than the minister in the chair

In a letter to Paul Goldsmith, obtained by The Post, ACT’s Todd Stephenson suggested that it may be time to “reconsider whether the BSA continues to serve a useful role”, and raised the prospect of scrapping the authority entirely.

Some sort of investment fund? This economically illiterate approach pales in comparison to my strategy: spending all of our money on 10 roads

it's not privatisation, it's balance sheet decluttering

The customary use of this meme is that the right turn is the joke / destructive choice

If the Golden Mile doesn't go ahead this intersection will be seen as everything wrong with Wellington.

A lot of Waka Kotahi's actions in recent years make more sense when you consider its board chair is somehow even less numerate than me

lmfao

If I was WCC Mayor I would not be appointing Calvert and Chung to chair committees

Unreal

It took a long time, but today I published this Spinoff Cover Story about my visit to Sen̓áḵw – and why it matters for iwi-led housing in New Zealand. thespinoff.co.nz/atea/03-11-202…

it's genocide (Amnesty International) it's genocide (Human Rights Watch) it's genocide (B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم) it's genocide (MSF International) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide (Al-Haq | الحق) it's genocide (UN Human Rights) it's genocide (UN Human Rights Council) it's genoicde (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR) it's genocide (Al-Mezan الميزان) it's genocide (War on Want) it's

The next quoted section reads “New Zealand deciding not to join those recognising Palestine risks being seen as tacitly endorsing Israel’s illegal acts.” The Minister is dangerously out of touch. thepost.co.nz/politics/36088…