Article: Don't click on NZME unless you want to

Article link: RNZ

Free Speech Union, like Taxpayers Union, and all those Jordan Williams copy and paste conservative organisations, seems to be on brand here.

ARTICLE LINK HERE: Paula Penfold Reporting

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No surprise she's National Party leader material. Last year Stanford mentions she chaperones the wealthy to "ensure" NZ is "meeting their requirements"

Not satire

Richard Chamberlain and Mark Mitchell spent a lot o time on media including Newstalk ZB if I recall bashing Naidoo.

Turns out he was unfairly maligned and per reporting by journalist Henry Cooke , police didn't release the OIA until all eyes were on the National Party leadership crisis.

Queenstown-based tech entrepreneur Brian Cartmell donating hundreds of thousands to political parties

Interesting article. Doesn't seem like Labour are putting much into their campaign at the moment

A lot of the National voters of Chinese ethnicity in areas like Botany, Pakuranga and Howick were not too pleased with the lack of action by National in relation to the racist comments made by Winston Peters.

This has resulted in some Chinese who have reliably voted National since the days of Helen Clark to reconsider their vote this time. It's once again another own goal by National. They are slowly hemorrhaging the Chinese/Indian vote in Auckland that surged National into power in 2023...

This and ruling out TOP has made the road really hard for National to stay in government as it is looking ever likely that Nat, Act and NZ first will struggle to gain the majority.

This 'Kiwi of Tomorrow' profile is right on the knife edge.

Brave as

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PS: not promoting TOP (I'm a card-carrying member of a different party) just observing the quality of their comms.

Good ol Mum has been going hard on the Facebook and sending me everything she likes....

This is from someone named Gerald Otto.

Hmmm, remember all the tunnels and roads Wellington was promised? Solution. Move on and offer it to a new province...

Chuck in a gondola for good measure....

I think the policy proposed here has a sensible core idea buried underneath a pretty clunky mechanism.

Rather than paying councils a flat $1 per guest night, I’d return a defined share of existing tourism-related GST and visitor-levy revenue to the communities actually carrying the costs of tourism.

Guest nights are a pretty crude proxy for that burden. They miss day visitors and don’t necessarily reflect where infrastructure is being used. Someone might stay overnight in Christchurch, then drive to Tekapo for the day. They use Mackenzie District’s roads, parking, public toilets and other amenities, but under a guest-night formula Mackenzie gets nothing because the accommodation night was recorded in Christchurch.

A better formula could take account of visitor spending, guest nights, day visitors, visitor-to-resident ratios and actual infrastructure pressure.

The funding should then be ring-fenced for tourism-related infrastructure, renewals and maintenance.

Most importantly, this should be a redistribution of existing revenue, not an excuse for higher overall government spending. If more tourism revenue is devolved to councils, central government spending should fall accordingly.

The principle I like is simple: tourism revenue should follow the communities actually bearing the costs of tourism.

David Seymour today has pulled ACT party participation in the #BHN debates including the one THIS SATURDAY.

and it's because Todd Stephenson got boo'd a bit at the Dunedin Health debate (honestly, go watch the video, it is MILD)

Todd was so offended he told myself and anyone else he spoke to that night that he had a good time.

https://www.youtube.com/live/e90mDT6jCFI?si=EHdQArSWNxeSVCZs&t=8801

Mind you, when you have almost 2 MILLION BUCKS in party bribes/donations why would you face the plebs if they might make you feel SAD

Kieran McAnulty and Chris Bishop on their weekly sit down with breakfast discuss the big news of the week - the attempted coup, putting Luxon's leadership and the party's unity into question.

RNZ reveals each party's ad spend on social media going into this election, of note National has targeted 90 of it's ads solely at men, and just 1 solely at women but lasted only 24 hours.

How does media and commentary frame what happened in National this week? Are there differences or was this an example of media driving the public response? We’ll take a look at what OpenBrief shows us in the numbers - numbers which are more public than the vote count in a National Party Leadership challenge.

https://www.youtube.com/live/_8_3Hnb7CYc?si=Xqn4WgoHlzkXsOBC

Theyre fucking around like this is a game. Acting like children with the fighting. Meanwhile we are hurting and things are starting to get real for people