Daily review 30/10/2025

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    Team 'National' party – ‘government’ by the sorted, for the sorted – nACTurally.

    National’s capital gains tax needs to go
    “The National Party’s capital gains tax is causing stress and uncertainty for families and it needs to go”, says ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden….

    The party’s decision to exclude farms from its proposed capital gains tax is just the latest overture in parliament’s most long-running one-sided love affair.

    https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-10-2025/labours-desperate-doomed-decades-long-effort-to-get-farmers-to-like-them

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      The party’s decision to exclude farms from its proposed capital gains tax is just the latest overture in parliament’s most long-running one-sided love affair.

      Well… yeah. Quite Unrequited. Spurned. Jilted. By Bride Farmzilla. : )

      Could be worse….they might have offered Climate as dowry..like NACT1.

      2026.. A cool change coming. New Zealand….hope for the Future

      : )

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    Ignoring the stockpile of coal and Shane Jones.

    Genesis is buying a site from solar farm developer PGP, complete with consents and connection approvals to the national grid.

    Genesis head of renewable development Craig Brown said this removed risk, and the purchase was expected to be completed by the end of the year, subject to certain conditions.

    Once completed, Rangiriri is planned to supply electricity to Genesis' 200 megawatt hour (MWh) battery, currently under construction at Huntly power station.

    "It leverages the flexibility of our assets at Huntly Power Station, specifically our new grid-scale battery, in addition to making our hydro schemes more valuable as flexible, long-duration storage that balances intermittent solar generation and battery discharge."

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/577320/genesis-energy-announces-plans-for-487-million-waikato-solar-farm

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      That Genesis-led grid-scale solar farm is brilliant news SPC, but really needs to be one of a couple of dozen of such developments.

      Things are finally moving on the grid-scale solar with battery storage front.

      I can’t see why Genesis is waiting until mid-2027 to make its final decision on the investment-we need this renewable power now. Labour should push them to speed this process up.

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    For those of you who have some knowledge of and/or experience with Protestantism, I highly recommend this excellent article on Max Weber’s book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905).

    Weber summarised how collective and cultural habits have shaped and continue to live on in our contemporary capitalist world stripped from their original religious underpinnings and spiritual aspirations and meaning where meaning [of life] is hard to find and likely doesn’t even exist.

    And it [Weber’s book] reminds us that systems don’t need belief to keep running. At base, they only need compliance.

    https://theconversation.com/why-do-we-think-hard-work-is-virtuous-max-webers-protestant-ethic-gives-a-sharp-answer-257826

    It would make for an interesting discussion how that compliance is achieved, in this time of mega strikes and accelerating creep of authoritarianism.

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