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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is just awful optics for Chris Hipkins and Labour. Excluding the COVID years, this appears to be the first time in at least a decade that the Labour Party has not had a stall at Fieldays. This will come back to haunt them on the campaign trail. National Fieldays is more than a farming event it’s a major exhibition and celebration of small business, technology, the environment, innovation, investment, and rural New Zealand as a whole. By turning up with little more than a token appearance, Labour is effectively sending a clear message to the rural community: we don’t really care about you. It will be interesting to see whether the media presses Hipkins on this when he makes his brief visit today — assuming he actually turns up.
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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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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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Chris Hipkins continues to get absolutely roasted for his arrogant, completely out-of-touch comments he made yesterday about Aucklanders and Labour’s brutal COVID lockdowns. Now Mike Hosking has weighed in… and he does not miss. “Is Chris Hipkins missing a gene? Does he have a self-destructive predilection? Or is he just a pillock by nature?” “The home handyman from the Hutt, telling Auckland what’s what. What an arrogant twat."
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Pretty funny. Clearly, Chloe Swarbrick was angling for a viral TikTok moment with her question to the Prime Minister. Unfortunately for her, the “Trust me, bro” gambit not only flopped and needed repeating, but was utterly eclipsed by Luxon’s quick witted response. Swarbrick was reduced to lamely shouting “Trust me, bro” after her questions.
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Chris Hipkins fronting the media over the troll account run by a former staffer is anything but convincing. Last year, The Post reported Labour’s insistence that the account had no links to the party or its social media staff — a claim that’s utterly farcical. It was one of the worst-kept secrets in Labour Party circles.
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More rumours and allegations about Maiki Sherman have surfaced. On the left-wing podcast Big Hairy Network (BHN) the hosts discussed Maiki Sherman's departure, with co-host Magenta commenting: "I think in general, you know, she has that kind of reputation….Um, l've also heard from people that she has a reputation for getting ministers drunk to get stuff out of them - which, you could argue, like ethically….I'm not sure how I feel about that...Allegedly, these are the things that she does.." While unsubstantiated, the allegations raise legitimate questions about journalistic conduct in Parliament that warrant investigation. If true, deliberately plying politicians with alcohol to loosen their tongues or impair their judgment would likely be ethically problematic and could be seen as manipulative subterfuge which would seriously undermine journalistic integrity.
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Tania Waikato’s softball interview on Q+A would have been a full-blown train wreck if Jack Tame had been hosting. Simon Mercep was absolutely woeful, failing to challenge anything Waikato said, essentially turning the interview into a promotional video for the Green Party candidate. Waikato proudly displayed fresh “Never ceded” tattoos on her hands right. These explicitly reject Crown sovereignty — the very foundation of a unified, democratic New Zealand — yet at the same time she is seeking election to Parliament under that same system. In effect, she is declaring the nation illegitimate while running for office within it. Waikato then went further, stating she wants to transform New Zealand’s legal framework by making Te Tiriti the supreme constitutional law. She claimed “more and more New Zealanders” support this radical shift, citing her own Treaty education petition work with schools while ignoring consistent public polling that shows majority opposition to elevating the Treaty above parliamentary sovereignty and equal citizenship.
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Chris Hipkins with a train wreck of an interview as he attempted to defend Labour’s Fees-Free policy, of which he was the chief architect. At a price tag of more than two billion dollars, the scheme funded training for DJs, scuba divers, real estate agents, yoga instructors, and aromatherapy practitioners. The programme failed to meet three of its four stated objectives, with independent analysis showing enrolment barely budged, lower-income access didn’t improve, and the wealthy captured most of the subsidy while overall numbers even dipped in places. Yet, Hipkins still insists it was better to burden the taxpayer than to expect individuals to contribute towards their own training, which many would have undertaken regardless.
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An outrageous claim from Chris Hipkins: New Zealanders don’t “really care” about the details of one of Labour’s flagship election policies — the Future Fund. The Herald’s Jamie Ensor appears to be one of the few gallery journalists actually holding Hipkins and Labour to account. It’s absurd that Labour cannot — or will not — provide even a basic estimate of the jobs the Fund will create, while aggressively promoting it as a major job creator.
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