@Antigrav
Exactly. I expect it of #Act but I thought #Luxon advisers would have had a quiet word with him. Sometimes the #NationalParty seems to deliberate ignore it's own history

Shorter version

Right wing Nzers: "Labour and Greens just want to take away your freedoms, National and ACT are better"

Meanwhile National and ACT literally pass a bill that allows the spying on NZers, even Snowden acknowledged it
#nzpol #newzealand #actparty #nz #nationalparty

To all of ya'll who think a vote for National or ACT is a vote for freedom and liberty you have a short memory considering they both passed legislation to allow spying on NZers, this evidence was backed up by Snowden himself.

#nzpol #newzealand #actparty #nz #nationalparty #nzpol #spying #labourparty #greenparty

Antivaxxer Ryan Hamilton went into politics in oppostion to his mother Mavora Hamilton's support for sex workers to be treated fairly. His views apparently align with groups like #DestinyChurch. Now he's running a a #NationalParty candidate for #Hamilton East in #Election2023
https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/101626168/prostitution-bylaw-a-catalyst-for-city-councillors-interest-in-politics

I’ve been watching Senate Estimates (Education and Employment Legislation Committee). One of the hot topics has been #Labor policy to have same pay for the same work.

It seems that most of the staff who “work for” Qantas don’t work for Qantas! They work for one of the 38 (that’s THIRTY EIGHT) labour hire firms used by Qantas; half of these organisations have been setup by Qantas, the rest are external organisations.

It seems that most large private sector organisations use labour hire rather than employ their own staff - they do this to screw their workers, the people who generate their profits.

#auspol #LiberalParty #NationalParty

#Albo and #AustralianLabor no better than #LiberalParty and #NationalParty both addicted to pork barreling

#Dutton and #Albanese unite to block teal transparency demands on $120b of projects

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-and-albanese-unite-to-block-teal-transparency-demands-on-120b-of-projects-20230524-p5daw6.html?utm_content=clare_nowland_dies_after_officer_charged_over_nursing_home_tasering&list_name=E2446F7A-1897-44FC-8EB8-B365900170E3&promote_channel=edmail&utm_campaign=am-smh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=2023-05-25&mbnr=MzA1NTY1NTU&instance=2023-05-25-06-56-AEST&jobid=29662805

“In managing consultants, it’s essential the public service appreciates that the motives and values of the consultants are quite different from those of public servants. Their loyalty is to their employers and, while delivering what the contract for services requires, their interest is in their company’s profits.”

In my many years of public service the use of consultants seemed to be much greater during terms of Coalition government. It was always easier to get “the minister” to agree to a proposal if you could attach “an independent” report from one of the big four consultancy houses that was favourable to the proposal. The minister (and his staff) never read the reports, just used them as a comfort blanket. They also never seemed to understand that the consultant was not independent but wrote what he was told to write. The whole process was a fiasco brought about by #LiberalParty and #NationalParty inability to work effectively with their public servants.

https://theconversation.com/consultants-like-pwc-are-loyal-to-profit-not-the-public-governments-should-cut-back-on-using-them-205920?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2022%202023%20-%202633526510&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2022%202023%20-%202633526510+CID_adb22c43943e50298636f68c7a73f0cb&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Consultants%20like%20PwC%20are%20loyal%20to%20profit%20not%20the%20public%20Governments%20should%20cut%20back%20on%20using%20them

#auspol

I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
I will vote YES at the #Voice referendum.

It shames me that the #LiberalParty & the #NationalParty have seen fit to use the referendum for furthering their right-wing conservative, out of touch, damaging & racist politics.

I hope history condemns them.

#UluruStatement #TheVoice #Referendum #auspol #VoteYes
#Yes

My cartoon in today's Dominion Post & online @NZStuff

A little light reading...as in light on detail for the newest 'proposal' from the National Party.

#Luxon #NationalParty #NZPol #3waters #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Aotearoa #NewZealand

My concerns, #NationalPartyNZ? Well, the fact that everyone that either registers to #vote or updates their address receives this kind of snailmail spam from you!

Why is personal info given to /shared with a political party?

Any political party that uses/abuses this kind of data will NEVER get my vote!

#newzealand #nz #national #nationalparty #dataprotection #privacy

John Barilaro’s NY trade appointment showed signs of a ‘job for the boys’, NSW inquiry finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/06/john-barilaro-new-york-trade-role-job-appointment-nsw-inquiry #NewSouthWalespolitics #NSWelection2023 #NewSouthWales #Nationalparty #Australianews #JohnBarilaro #Liberalparty #Coalition

“he actually delivered quite a racially-charged attack at #Rātana Marae. My question is, does he have the courage to push on with that through #Waitangi this weekend”

Why does #PaddyGower think it’s brave to launch #RaciallyCharged attacks?
#ChrisLuxon #NationalParty #NZPol #political #racism

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/01/voters-might-think-panicking-christopher-luxon-s-the-next-don-brash-patrick-gower-says.html

@Rjdlandscapes Lifting incomes for the rich by cutting taxes = good ✅
Lifting incomes for the poor by raising the minimum wage = bad ❌

Can it be any clearer what a #NationalParty-led government would be like?

@aethylred Lifting incomes for the rich by cutting taxes = good ✅
Lifting incomes for the poor by raising the minimum wage = bad ❌

Can it be any clearer what a #NationalParty-led government would be like?

Lifting incomes for the rich by cutting taxes = good ✅
Lifting incomes for the poor by raising the minimum wage = bad ❌

Can it be any clearer what a #NationalParty led government would be like? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/483135/minimum-wage-too-high-to-increase-further-without-fuelling-inflation-national-s-nicola-willis

As I drive around #NZ on holidays I see dozens of #NationalParty billboards promising to "repeal and replace" #3Waters. All are overgrown & abandoned, many unreadable.
Feels like a metaphor for something. #nzpol #Aotearoa l

@nickofnz

Wasn’t Taxpayers Union initial registrant of Groundswell’s domain name? Quickly changed to coy with Jordan Williams as sole shareholder when discovered. All quasi-National Party there to disrupt our NZ

Read they are telling farmers to boycott Agricultural Production Survey. Shortsighted, politically manipulative old men

Plz get friends & whānau in Hamilton West to vote

#nzpol #nzpolitics #Groundswell #NationalParty #HamiltonWest #nztwits

RT @rkd993@twitter.com

More delusion. It wasn't just about the #CensuredDickheadExPM
It was about the entire sordid #Corrupt #Rorting #Incompetent #LiberalParty and it's twin #NationalParty, neither of which can hold government in their own right. Hopefully the #ToxicCoalition is also on its way out https://twitter.com/juliahbanks/status/1600240396344647681

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rkd993/status/1600310744217964544

@CraigKendrickNZ #NationalParty & #Luxon wanting local bodies to remain in control of water resources/infrastructure and remain independent of central govt puts water resources and infrastructure at immediate risk. Up till now local bodies have used water resources/infrastructure as security to *borrow $. This leaves local bodies vulnerable and one bad debt away from losing these assets. *$Billions required to repair failing water quality and infrastructure.
#nzpol #NeverTrustATory

Marcia Langton re The Voice
“This is too important to play nasty electoral politics about … it would be terribly unfortunate for all Australians”
Sadly we have reached a low point in our democracy where, for the political class, NOTHING is more important than electoral politics. Especially when it gives them chance to be nasty.
#TheVoiceToParliament #AusPol #NationalParty #LNP
https://twitter.com/peters_malcolm/status/1599862808514289665?s=46&t=MfxdyoccpJ9HfwKkFYX4Kw