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Do you think more should be spent on something usually generates a high % of yes answers
Ask do you think we need to spend more on defence and LESS on Health/Education/Police....and see what answer you get then.
Luxon: What I will say to you is I was never going to listen to what the public had to say anyway
This is what happens when you back yourself into a corner through bad political judgement. You keep a divisive issue alive, you make a lot of people really angry by denying their voice, and you corrode confidence in the political system. Way to go Luxon. What a complete embarrassment of a PM.
RNZ · Prime Minister doubles down on allowing exclusion of Treaty Principles Bill submissions
Politicians and media are constantly talking about living in a “more volatile world”. Just a platitudes with no detail.
Can somebody please explain the specific threats that are greater now than they have been in the past?
It seems like we are jumping of the cliff because other countries are doing it... or we are being told to by our ‘allies’.
The country making biggest threat to global stability right now is the US, are we going to go to war with them?
New RNZ-Reid Research poll: Half of Kiwis want defence spending to increase https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/poll/556896/new-rnz-reid-research-poll-half-of-kiwis-want-defence-spending-to-increase
RNZ · New RNZ-Reid Research poll: Half of Kiwis want defence spending to increase
in which we see, once again, just how concerned about ‘principles’ this government actually is:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/556877/prime-minister-doubles-down-on-allowing-exclusion-of-treaty-principles-bill-submissions #nzpol
RNZ · Prime Minister doubles down on allowing exclusion of Treaty Principles Bill submissions
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more information on the clearly ideological conservative government's changes to New Zealand school curricula:
E-Tangata · Ideology is pushing Māori knowledge out of the curriculum | E-Tangata“Elizabeth Rata often equates the inclusion of iwi, hapū and whānau knowledge and values into teaching with an emptying out of academic knowledge. She has been instrumental in shaping the new English curriculum.” — Jessie Moss.
three Te Pāti Māori MPs who performed a tense haka in the New Zealand Parliament during the first reading of the racist Treaty Principles Bill last year say they are refusing to attend a hearing with Parliament's Privileges Committee over concerns their "fundamental" legal rights are being ignored.
RNZ · Te Pāti Māori MPs refuse to attend Parliament's Privileges Committee hearing over haka protest
a queer New Zealand MP for the Green Party who uses they/them pronouns is getting death threats, and one of the conservative coalition government's most prominent cabinet ministers may have been a part of the problem
RNZ · Green MP Benjamin Doyle away from Parliament this week after death threats
"So, really what we're experiencing from a board level, from a teaching level, from a leadership level is a total whitewash of Te Tiriti out of education,"
— Bruce Jepsen of Te Akatea, the Māori principals' association
RNZ · 'Educational violence' - Lack of Te Mātaiaho in English curriculum slammed
Shane Jones wants to make changes to the Fisheries Act. 
They are great for the fishing industry, but not good for those of us who want healthy oceans. 
One of the lowlights is removing access to footage from Cameras on Boats, reducing transparency and accountability of the commercial fishing fleet. 
Submissions are open until April 11, and we want you to have a say! 
So we made a handy tool to build a submission in no time!
https://greenpeace.nz/jdc51t
greenpeace.nzFor the oceans! A handy submission generator toolUse this tool to help write a quick submission for ocean protection!
A major part of why New Zealand has bad infrastructure is the political culture is highly sensitive to capital expenditures and generally ignorant of operational expenditures. We can see this in the ferries - Everything is about reducing CapEx in the port. The implications of smaller vessels and outmoded infrastructure on OpEx just aren’t being considered.
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For anyone not paying attention #NZPol political influencers who have been recently convicted for pedophilia include Seymour’s bestie and former #ACT Party president Tim Jago and Brian Tamaki’s Destiny Church youth leader Kiwa Hamiora-Te Hira yet apparently a non binary Green MP’s social media account has been presented as a national crisis by our government and its Trumpian sycophants.
Paul the other one on #NZPol media and right wing hypocrisy again being on display when it comes to reporting facts about NZs right wing sexual predators while hateful ignorance being being used to target indigenous Green Party MPs who dare to put their heads above the parapet.
OH:
"If you're clutching your pearls about a queer person making a 'sex joke' on a photo with their child, wait til you find out what the straights put on their babies' t-shirts."
The Government accidentally added us to their group chat - https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/04/01/leaked-ministerial-transport-group-chat/
Greater Auckland · The Government accidentally added us to their group chat - Greater AucklandIn events eerily similar to what happened in the USA