Concern Govt's fast-track legislation may breach Treaty rights 👇 1news.co.nz/2024/04/19/con…

In 2010 the whole of the public sector made up 19.7% of NZ’s total workforce. In 2023 it made up 18.8%. Claims there has been an explosion in the public sector are pure spin to justify sacking hard working Kiwis to pay for unaffordable tax cuts. This govt has the wrong priorities

Christopher Luxon and David Seymour - so in your haste to get kids to stay in school and do well, you remove funding for transport, school maintenance and repairs, lunches, and now specialised SUPPORT FOR DISABLED KIDS?

Own up. Which one of his seven social media managers did this? Bc it's going viral!

This is disingenuous claptrap. The best maths and science brains in the world are already telling you what needs to be done - in fact some have been telling you for decades. The problem of global warming has *not* been solved because there is simply no will to solve it

Check out this website! stopthefasttrackbill.com

🧵The huge chunk of NZ news media we've lost this week isn't going to be the last of it. The two projects that received the larger part of the PIJF funding, Open Justice and Local Democracy, are disappearing. We will know much less about what happens in our courts and councils.

This is all about changing the way NZ measures methane warming from the international standard (GWP100) to the industry non-science standard (GWP*) which meat and dairy lobby is pushing. It’s Climate science denialism. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

🚨NEW Report presents findings from a review of Long Covid to guide New Zealand’s Public Health response.

Report concludes that “preventative action is urgently needed”.

Let’s dive into the details as the findings are relevant for ALL countries.

🔗 phcc.org.nz/briefing/long-…

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#TransportNews : Auckland Council is warning that funding reductions to transport could see entire suburbs without public transport services, after approving its submission for the government's proposed transport policy.

By Finn Blackwell via RNZ: rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Why the transport network in Auckland is close to collapse.

Simeon Brown⁩, you don’t have to engage an expensive consultant to tell you what you need to know. ⁦Simon Wilson⁩ has done all the work for free! Now you can do your job properly. nzherald.co.nz/nz/simon-wilso…

RNZ points out that each kilometre the Waikato Expressway cost nearly as Te Huia's entire whole five-year operational budget.

rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

todays the day we got our country back on track

Ideology like this can result in perverse legislation like Christopher Luxon's Fast-Track Approvals Bill.

It's designed to sidestep vital environmental protection to put profit ahead of everything else.

#WarOnNature

'Predation on a Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) by a Barred Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica) in Great Britain' by Rose & Bonthron (2024) has recently been published in #Reptiles andAmphibians : doi.org/10.17161/randa… #Herpetology #Reptiles #Snakes

Exactly how corrupt is this government?

The NZ govt is proposing a number of changes to environmental legislation which will negatively impact biodiversity.

NZ EcologicalSociety joined nine other societies to call on the govt to slow the pace of these changes and consult more widely:

newzealandecology.org/open-letter-co…

Councils are warning proposed cuts to rail would push ‘super heavies’ onto regional roads that weren’t built to handle massive trucks. The Coalition's transport policy will mean more potholes, not less.
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The tax cuts for landlords are obscene: half a billion to just 346 megalandlords. 346 landlords own over 200 properties each; they get avg tax cut of $1.3m over 5 yrs; ie $464m. While funding of conservation, climate, environment, poverty is at risk as Govt is short of money!