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This is utterly inexcusable. Yesterday, HDPA revealed that Chloe Swarbrick wrote directly to the European Union’s Trade Commissioner, complaining that New Zealand is not cutting emissions sufficiently and asking him to launch a formal investigation into whether we have breached the Free Trade Agreement. Her actions risked exposing our economy and exporters to the very real threat of sanctions — or even worse. That Swarbrick and the Greens attended the National Agricultural Fieldays in Hamilton without disclosing any of this to farmers or the media, even though she held a stand-up directly mentioning Free Trade Agreements and export markets and called on the govt to be honest and transparent — is nothing short of disgraceful and deeply hypocritical. It simply beggars belief that the media aren’t all over this.
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Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens have declared that anyone earning over $160,000 a year is rich. It doesn’t matter if you’re a single parent with a big mortgage and children to support, or a single-income family doing their best to get by—you’re rich according to the Greens, and you will be worse off under their policies. Incredibly, Swarbrick then claims these same people—who stand to lose the most—are more than happy to pay even higher taxes.
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On a much lighter note… David Seymour was in fine form in the House yesterday, delivering a trifecta of witty supplementary questions. It’s an open secret in Parliament that every time a govt MP mentions Chloe Swarbrick flying business class, it sends her and the rest of the Greens into paroxysms of gnashing teeth and foul language muttered under their breath.
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Another train wreck interview that perfectly exposes how out of touch the Opportunity Party and its leader, Qiulae Wong, are with reality. Wong is now openly admitting that many retirees will be worse off under their proposed Land Value Tax. This punitive policy could force tens of thousands of retirees out of their family homes or bury them under hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt — effectively confiscating their children’s and grandchildren’s inheritance. After copping significant backlash on social media for suggesting retirees should simply downsize, Wong has now doubled down even further, implying they just “take the hit for their kids and grandkids.”
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Train wreck interview for Qiulae Wong and the Opportunities Party as they declare war on pensioners — punishing lifetime savers and those who are “asset-rich, cash-poor”. Wong effectively tells them: Downsize the family home you’ve scrimped and sacrificed for your whole life (essentially forced displacement), or defer the tax and rob your children’s inheritance by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wong then doubles down, arguing that those whose properties have risen by a million dollars or more should be taxed on those gains — seemingly blind to the fact these are mostly unrealised paper gains that have already driven up their rates. In reality, this policy could pressure thousands, if not tens of thousands of pensioners into selling their family home. Every dollar paid in Land Value Tax (or deferred) is money taken from healthcare, daily living costs, or gifts to the grandkids. The Opportunities Party is sacrificing pensioners for their housing redistribution experiment.
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This morning, Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson insisted she is not a greedy person — despite admitting she earns around $200,000 a year. Yet she and the Greens routinely frame high earners and the super-rich as greedy for taking more than their fair share and more than they need. Green MPs enjoy generous six-figure taxpayer-funded salaries and multiple perks while lecturing the rest of us about “greed” — then devising new ways to punish anyone who succeeds beyond their level. Their “super-rich” tax targets the productive Kiwis who actually create jobs and wealth. This farcical policy is envy dressed up as compassion. New Zealand doesn’t need more taxes. We need more growth.
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Good to see Luxon calling it straight. A vote for TOP is a vote for Labour and the Greens and as Luxon warns, this is the party that literally wants to make every New Zealander a beneficiary - hooked on their Citizens’ Income. While their destructive Land Value Tax would wreak absolute carnage, potentially forcing tens of thousands of retirees and pensioners out of their family homes or burying them in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, erasing the inheritances their children and grandchildren were counting on.
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And there you go. Te Pāti Māori and the Greens are effectively doing a deal. Less than 10 hours after I called on the Greens and Te Pāti Māori to stop playing games and be upfront with their supporters and the public, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has essentially confirmed the deal. Ngarewa-Packer says Te Pāti Māori will “swallow their ego for the good of the nation.” She’s made it crystal clear that her party is focused on securing the candidate votes in their electorates and in doing so, has all but confirmed an arrangement with the Greens. According to the RNZ-Reid Research poll, 49.6% of all voters believe Labour should rule out any deal with Te Pāti Māori. Even worse for Labour: 38% of their own voters want Labour to reject Te Pāti Māori outright. A Greens-Te Pāti Māori deal increases the chances of a chaotic Labour-led coalition and makes Hipkins continual refusal to confirm if Labour will or won’t work with Te Pāti Māori almost inconsequential.
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Labour’s election policies have quickly descended into farce. Chris Hipkins has now admitted that the party’s flagship promise of “three free doctors’ visits a year” might not involve seeing a doctor at all. According to Labour’s own policy, these so-called “free doctors’ visits” can be used with nurse practitioners instead. The party openly admits this, yet it cannot even say how many of those visits will actually be with a real doctor. Meanwhile, Labour is marketing the policy as “free doctors’ visits” to win votes, only to quietly concede it’s just another primary care appointment. What doesn’t change, however, is that taxpayers will still be forced to pay for it through the party’s proposed capital gains tax.
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Here we go again. Appearing on Q+A, Labour’s Transport spokesperson Tangi Utikere told Jack Tame that their public transport fare cap policy will be funded by taking money from road maintenance — including the repair of potholes. Under the last Labour government, potholes became such a serious problem for road users that National campaigned heavily on the issue and since the coalition government took office, there has been clear and significant progress. Labour taking money from road maintenance will undo all that work.
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Frightening naivety and incompetence. Chloe Swarbrick, who wants to be Minister of Finance, is confident the IRD — the same department that sent cost-of-living payments to dead people and French backpackers, can successfully implement an incredibly complex new tax system in just one year. When asked what happens if the policy fails to raise the expected revenue, given you would have ready promised the tax cuts, Swarbrick replied: “The public will see we’re honest and transparent.” This is precisely what a clueless Finance Minister looks like: No contingency plan, zero realism, and nothing but empty slogans. The Greens policy will drive significant capital flight, impose massive compliance burdens, and trigger a tsunami of disputes and litigation. This is pure empty virtue-signalling from the Greens.
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Green Party candidate Tania Waikato has declared all-out war on New Zealand’s billionaires, calling them “freeloaders”. Waikato says she’s fine with these billionaires leaving if they don’t want to pay the Greens’ 2.5% wealth tax on assets over $10 million, and claims the majority of their assets “were stolen or confiscated in the first place.” Most NBR Rich Listers built their wealth through modern entrepreneurship, manufacturing, tech, investments, agribusiness, and other sectors not land or resources. Ironically, Waikato boasts about the flourishing Māori economy and iwi success while failing to mention that many iwi and related organisations operate as Māori Authorities. These entities enjoy a concessional 17.5% income tax rate — well below the standard 28% company rate — along with other tax advantages. Concerningly, Waikato also seems to believe the resulting capital flight will simply be filled by iwi: “We will fill those spaces in a heartbeat.”
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Last week, Marama Davidson was filmed by a colleague happily speeding. Now Te Pāti Māori General Manager Kiri Tamihere-Waititi — wife of party co-leader Rawiri Waititi, has outdone her by some margin. She filmed herself driving on an uneven open road with one of her children in the car, all while creating social media content. In the alarming and nerve-wracking footage, she repeatedly takes her eyes completely off the road to speak directly to the camera. Two weeks earlier, Tamihere-Waititi was filmed driving again — this time without a seatbelt — while creating more social media content. Ironically, during the Christmas break, Rawiri Waititi shared road safety messaging featuring the Te Pāti Māori logo. It is beyond hypocritical for the party’s General Manager to then film herself openly and recklessly flouting the very laws and rules they promote.
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This is farcical. True to form, Labour has once again demonstrated staggering incompetence by announcing a $65 million public transport fare cap without any modelling on how many passengers will actually take enough trips to exceed it. Transport spokesperson Tangi Utikere was asked a straightforward question. “What proportion of commuters will take enough trips to exceed the cap?” Utikere: I think a number will… it’s unknown at this stage” Unbelievably, there is zero modelling on this critical detail. Typical Labour incompetence. Announce the giveaway, skip the basics.
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I mean come on. Seriously. Chris Hipkins has no problem funnelling his superannuation — plus generous taxpayer funded contributions, straight into his own beach house, while lecturing hard working Kiwis that savings must be redirected into “productive investment.” In his State of the Nation speech he declared: “For too long, too much capital has been locked up in housing speculation – driving up prices, while businesses struggle to find the investment they need to grow.” Pure hypocrisy. Do as I say, not as I do. Labour’s elite always exempt themselves.
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Serious questions need to be asked about the Green Party’s standards after selecting Michel Mulipola as their candidate for Māngere. His social media is full of vile abuse: calling police “cunts” and “pigs” while laughing at them, labelling a minister “a piece of shit,” and sharing grotesque cartoons that depict one minister with faeces streaming from his eyes and an anus for a mouth, while another is shown as a baboon with the minister’s face on its rear. He has incited outrage against a Samoan woman simply for volunteering with the IDF, celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination, issued threats, promoted his own “Death, death to the IDF” t-shirts, edited a video purporting to show Israel shooting a small child, and casually referred to Hamas as “armed resistance” and “a misnomer” — ignoring its designation as a terrorist organisation, its structured military wing, and its tactics and ideology. He has even labelled democracy itself a “red flag” and dismissed peace in Gaza and a two-state solution as a “cop-out.” The list goes on and on. It simply beggars belief that the Greens consider this kind of violent, toxic behaviour suitable for a potential Member of Parliament. How can a party that claims to stand for compassion, justice, and democracy possibly endorse someone who so brazenly glorifies violence, dehumanises opponents, and rejects the very democratic values he would swear to uphold? This is not political passion; it is poison.
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Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens in an unofficial deal with Te Pāti Māori? Full-blown rumours are circulating that the Greens are now quietly cooperating with Te Pāti Māori to secure enough seats between them to form part of a Labour-led coalition — while applying collective pressure on Labour for more ambitious, progressive change, rather than risking handing those seats over to Labour. For a political newcomer Tania Waikato sits at a very strong number 13 on the Green Party list. That makes a split vote highly appealing in many Māori electorates: candidate vote for Te Pāti Māori (e.g., Rawiri Waititi in Waiariki), party vote Green. The same strategy applies across other Māori seats — Te Pāti Māori for the candidate, Green for the party. This approach feels especially obvious in Tāmaki Makaurau, where the Greens’ candidate, Florence Te Ohaere, remains a virtual unknown. Here, a party vote for the Greens paired with a candidate vote for sitting MP Oriini Kaipara (Te Pāti Māori) makes perfect strategic sense. As the election draws closer the Greens seem to appearing with Te Pāti Māori MP’s more frequently in social media. Chloe Swarbrick, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori owe their supporters and the public full honesty and transparency. They should come clean about any collusion or coordination between the two parties
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Outrageous Gaslighting. Labour’s health spokesperson Aysha Verrall has boasted that “we ran one of the best public information programs on myocarditis in the world.” Verrall then doubles down and says that the risks were made public and communicated clearly. Her extraordinary claim is completely unsupported by any credible evidence, contradicted by official records, repeated implementation failures, and the total lack of independent scrutiny or benchmarking of her claim. But what makes Verrall’s statement truly repugnant is that the known risks of myocarditis to teenagers appear to have been deliberately withheld from the public while the government aggressively rammed through its “Two Shots for Summer” campaign and pushed mass vaccination in schools. To describe this as “one of the best in the world” is just delusional and a disgraceful insult to every affected family and a shocking abdication of basic honesty. How on earth can she look at this failure and call it world-class? Clip via New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party
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Tova O’Brien is just two weeks into her role as co-host and the direction of TVNZ’s Breakfast show has become crystal clear: ramp up the attacks and criticism of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the government at every available opportunity. Fresh off Tova’s combative “gotcha” interview with the PM, the show capped off the week with its “People’s Panel.” The guests were former TVNZ presenter Brodie Kane, widely regarded as left-leaning and Labour Party member and Auckland City Councillor Richard Hills. This panel stacking occurred just weeks after TVNZ political editor Maiki Sherman issued an internal apology to the Minister of Police over the broadcaster’s unbalanced reporting on crime and gang numbers. It is deeply concerning that TVNZ either cannot recognise such blatant bias and compromised content, even from an optics point of view — or simply doesn’t care. It can be argued that a Labour led govt is significantly more friendly and less demanding of the broadcaster. Seven months out from the election, TVNZ appears to be signalling exactly who it would prefer to win.
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