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Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:23 pm, August 21st, 2026
A water company does not primarily charge for drinking quality water used. There is the infrastructure of the water supply and there is also waste water. Tenants would only be billed for the water they use, landlords would be billed otherwise. Water meters ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:18 pm, August 21st, 2026
The National plan is for buy up of the water companies - this is the real reason the Three Waters model was attacked (the structure did not make for easy sell-off - the Maori veto). Thus began the programme to remove the Treaty in legislation, see off the ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:11 pm, August 21st, 2026
The impacted corporations If it was $B for a top rate it would only impact the 4 banks ANZ New Zealand Banking & Finance $2.3B – $2.5B Net Profit BNZ Banking & Finance $1.4B – $1.5B Net Profit ASB Bank Banking & Finance $1.3B – $1.4B Net Profit Westpac NZ ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:01 pm, August 21st, 2026
Our banking sector If you’ve wondered why the banks are still charging 20%+ on your credit card and mortgage rates are still double the OCR, the answer is simple: they’re profiteering. Bank profits are now 3% of the entire country’s GDP, and that our ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 2:48 pm, August 21st, 2026
Note the heavy lifting done by the word and Last week, The Post reported on a leaked internal proposal to see 10% of RNZ’s workforce cut as part of a cost-saving drive. “We need to do this to remain financially sustainable, and able to deliver our public ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 12:32 pm, August 21st, 2026
They have good conditions for their games and will return to hosting test matches. It's all good when 5 teams have (or win) the Shield in one season.Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:28 pm, August 20th, 2026
3 roads back into government 1.outlining what National's coalition did in the past 3 years that would end. 2.stating what will be restored such as a real food in schools programme (and support for food banks), better tenants rights and higher MW increases ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:19 pm, August 20th, 2026
Rob Campbell QFT Ours seem even to have convinced themselves that in the middle of looming shortages and escalating prices for various forms of energy, we have “abundant natural resources” to lay down as tribute and invite construction of the data ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:05 pm, August 20th, 2026
New Zealand Initiative is backing a return to FPP. Rather than mention Don Brash''s call for right wingers to vote strategically (National in electorate seats and their partners on the list) to guarantee winning the election, it refers to the MP not ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 4:46 pm, August 16th, 2026
POTUS 47 regime fast followers in so many different ways. Broad areas *a threat to the planet and the local region (Paris Accord, across the conservation estate to the environment) *the many being worse off *(above 5) the imposition of no values as a ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 10:31 pm, August 13th, 2026
There were conspiracy theories about what was destroyed 9/11 - this is occurring in plain sight. https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-ends-anti-corruption-rule-requiring-shell-companies-report-ownership/Written By: SPC - Date published: 4:32 pm, August 13th, 2026
Place this under Stranger Things Running Up That Hill (Billy Don't Be a Hero) Simeon Brown not wanting ideological people on the Medical Council and the two recent appointments made by him to it. The Free Speech Union (FSU) has condemned the actions of one ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:38 pm, August 13th, 2026
48 seats - it has 43 electorate seats and 5 list seats 32 seats at 30% It would have to lose more than 11 electorate seats to gain any off the list. It is not going to lose that many to Labour when they are at 30% as well.Written By: SPC - Date published: 3:26 pm, August 13th, 2026
Chris Penk MP for Botany 2027, after the by-election.Written By: SPC - Date published: 11:00 am, August 13th, 2026
I prefer we restore gift duty and estate tax (20%, 25% and 33% rates). We could also have a stamp duty on property bought over $1M and a land tax on property worth over $1M. If we went full-on wealth tax, the tax paid should be a debit on the future estate ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 2:35 pm, August 12th, 2026
The Post called the result at 4am. If the public statements of his most senior ministers can be relied upon, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should survive this morning’s emergency meeting of the National Party caucus in Wellington. Whether or not that is ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 1:03 pm, August 12th, 2026
Under Sue Wood, from Muldoon to McLay to Bolger. Under Sylvia Wood, Luxon 27-22 unanimous support to remain leader in April and now **-** unanimous support to remain leader in August. Two wingnuts also remain. What on the hoof statements will the PM make ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 9:28 am, August 12th, 2026
The ultimate motivator here is fear of loss of their own jobs - ministerial, not making it off the list, or back in the electorate. A natural consequence of an economic performance that consists of *rising unemployment and more job loss in the government ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 4:49 pm, August 11th, 2026
Seymour and Peters would clip the wings of any alternate (next victim) merely to warm up before the campaign itself. After absorbing the change, the public would be left with the same old policy continuance - starving the government and hoping to benefit ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 4:19 pm, August 11th, 2026
John Key probably only played a half round of golf - as he is making phone calls for the PM Josie Pagani suggests it is the time of the list ranking reality check. This is more pertinent when the National-Labour vote difference changes as much as it has in ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 8:10 am, August 11th, 2026
People who have moved address moved onto dormant roll. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/956884/labour-mp-sounds-alarm-about-115-000-on-dormant-electoral-rollWritten By: SPC - Date published: 6:57 pm, August 10th, 2026
Most teachers do not support the changes in Year 12 and 13 (changes away from NCEA 2 and 3) https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/education/951701/most-teachers-want-ncea-to-be-improved-not-removed-surveyWritten By: SPC - Date published: 1:24 pm, August 10th, 2026
EV. Phones can still be landline via fibre and a portable phone that is just phone and text (yup living without a smartphone can make things like two-factor authentication (2FA), mobile parking meters, or scanning QR codes tricky – society is being ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 11:56 am, August 10th, 2026
Verily verily, an invitation for parties to deal with the economy in which people live and businesses operate. That would mean working for people's well-being in the here and now and having a structural deficit plan. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/ ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 10:50 am, August 10th, 2026
It has this offer - the people now know who we are (failed to realise any improvement in the governments fiscal position and leaving many people worse off, it being unable to competently deliver a food in schools programme). Thus the people would be ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 10:00 am, August 10th, 2026
The Post allows Jordan Williams to provide the Taxpayers Union opine. National has billboards around the country warning that a Labour-led coalition will “TRIPLE YOUR TAXES”. Meanwhile, its finance spokesperson has just opened the door to National imposing ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 9:46 am, August 10th, 2026
She threw down a gauntlet of sorts to opposition parties ‒ saying it was “well past time” for them to set out their own fiscal guardrails, daring Labour to reveal new taxes while at the same time equivocating on National’s own approach to additional ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 9:41 am, August 10th, 2026
The response to National's declaration of their future governance. Every economist The Post interviewed after National’s Sunday announcement said the party’s fiscal rules were all bluster and simply maintained the status quo. Worse “Why would you believe ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 2:12 am, August 10th, 2026
GST. This has been a savoiur for government expenditure left right and centre ever since. A regressive tax, as good as it gets now is it. Voting was pointless till MMP (unless one moved to a marginal seat), but this attitude is why I have never voted ...Written By: SPC - Date published: 4:01 pm, August 9th, 2026
They made no promise not to charge for services, tolls and congestion charges have already been indicated. One wonders if they plan a Burnham tax (options include a levy or estate tax funded insurance scheme) or a health services charge. AI Discussions ...
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