registered “job done” or felt slightly misled. now that a very real threat is before us in the MCA amendments the organisers are infighting, and the anger and sense of threat has entirely dissipated. no doubt the amendment will now pass easily
i maintained at the time the historic march against the treaty principles bill would have the inevitable effect of actually demobilising people: it misdirected organising energy and collective anger toward a bill that was designed to fail. when it failed as was always intended many people either
while the amendment is before parliament rawiri is on his way to an arts festival in china, debbie is defending a “fact sheet” attacking the former whip and her son, takuta moved a motion of no confidence in the party president only days ago. just not a serious party
the government is reforming the legislation that TPM was born from, reverting it to a position closer to the foreshore and seabed act than the marine and coastal area act finlayson intended. this is the most significant reform to māori rights in a generation, yet:
sorry i know i’m TPM’s biggest hater (rawiri packing a sad because maiki asked a legitimate question lol) but the american style psychobabble about believing in yourself is so weird. people are starving man
so bad eh. he’s taken the worst edges of nationalism (racism against outsiders) and quadrupled down on it. we’re not down south anymore but when rino was the MP you knew he was working out in the electorate, not on social media
Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna
"Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications"
Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?
this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol
the party portrays itself as the only legitimate representative of māori, and by implication any māori who doesn’t support it must be plastic, a 5 minute māori etc… the rhetoric they deployed against labour in the tamaki byelection (takuta’s racism aside) was truly shocking
hate to say it but people like sina and i who’ve been around more than 5 minutes have been warning about the direction TPM’s been travelling in since at least 2023. it’s a highly divisive party, especially within māori society itself. solidarity with eru www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Govt takes a billion in revenue each year in dividends and tax from the electricity sector. This is a regressive form of taxation that causes factories to collapse. Why cant we just tax capital gains like a grown up country
in short: the government’s interest as a majority shareholder in the gentailers is stronger than its interest as a national policymaker. you can trace almost every national issue back to this basic truth. the tax base is too narrow and the settings too low
