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Meet Qiulae Wong, the leader of TOP 2.0 Qiulae (pronounced queue-lay, just 'Q' to her friends) has spent her career fighting for better ways to do business. As a mum of two, business founder and climate leader, Q knows what it takes to build policy that puts people first.
Let's build it.
Let's build it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Meet Qiulae Wong, the leader of TOP 2.0 Qiulae (pronounced queue-lay, just 'Q' to her friends) has spent her career fighting for better ways to do business. As a mum of two, business founder and climate leader, Q knows what it takes to build policy that puts people first.
Let's build it.
Let's build it.
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Another "Basic Income" experiment that was deemed a success and will be made permanent.
TOP will bring a Universal Basic Income to Aotearoa, working in tandem with a land value tax switch to lower housing costs and welfare system reform.
Economic stability and social cohesion for all New Zealand
TOP will bring a Universal Basic Income to Aotearoa, working in tandem with a land value tax switch to lower housing costs and welfare system reform.
Economic stability and social cohesion for all New Zealand
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Another "Basic Income" experiment that was deemed a success and will be made permanent.
TOP will bring a Universal Basic Income to Aotearoa, working in tandem with a land value tax switch to lower housing costs and welfare system reform.
Economic stability and social cohesion for all New Zealand
TOP will bring a Universal Basic Income to Aotearoa, working in tandem with a land value tax switch to lower housing costs and welfare system reform.
Economic stability and social cohesion for all New Zealand
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FYI I’ll be on TVNZ Breakfast from 7:05am to talk about the age of eligibility for NZ Super. I say don't extend it. It’s not fair on manual workers, Maori, Pasifika, the disabled & those in 30s/40s without the unearned wealth those in 60s/70s are now sitting on. Land tax/wealth tax better. #nzpol
September 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
FYI I’ll be on TVNZ Breakfast from 7:05am to talk about the age of eligibility for NZ Super. I say don't extend it. It’s not fair on manual workers, Maori, Pasifika, the disabled & those in 30s/40s without the unearned wealth those in 60s/70s are now sitting on. Land tax/wealth tax better. #nzpol
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Politics is broken because the hard decisions keep getting kicked down the road.
Future generations deserve a democracy with the courage to do the right thing.
TOP's plan for Citizens' Assemblies, lobbying reform, and commitment to cross-party consensus on the big issues is where that starts.
Future generations deserve a democracy with the courage to do the right thing.
TOP's plan for Citizens' Assemblies, lobbying reform, and commitment to cross-party consensus on the big issues is where that starts.
September 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Politics is broken because the hard decisions keep getting kicked down the road.
Future generations deserve a democracy with the courage to do the right thing.
TOP's plan for Citizens' Assemblies, lobbying reform, and commitment to cross-party consensus on the big issues is where that starts.
Future generations deserve a democracy with the courage to do the right thing.
TOP's plan for Citizens' Assemblies, lobbying reform, and commitment to cross-party consensus on the big issues is where that starts.
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Ngā mihi to Dr. Bloomfield for raising the call for a thoughtful, long term, non-partisan approach to health care delivery in Aotearoa. TOP would use tools like Citizens' Assemblies to support this mahi.
As the party that works with all sides, we can make "the 10 year plan" a reality.
As the party that works with all sides, we can make "the 10 year plan" a reality.
August 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Ngā mihi to Dr. Bloomfield for raising the call for a thoughtful, long term, non-partisan approach to health care delivery in Aotearoa. TOP would use tools like Citizens' Assemblies to support this mahi.
As the party that works with all sides, we can make "the 10 year plan" a reality.
As the party that works with all sides, we can make "the 10 year plan" a reality.
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Stats NZ estimates unpaid work contributes over $40 billion to the economy each year.
TOP backs policies that honor work, whether its paid or unpaid. Policies that give people the freedom to study, retrain, start something new or care for family without falling into poverty. Universal Basic Income
TOP backs policies that honor work, whether its paid or unpaid. Policies that give people the freedom to study, retrain, start something new or care for family without falling into poverty. Universal Basic Income
August 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Stats NZ estimates unpaid work contributes over $40 billion to the economy each year.
TOP backs policies that honor work, whether its paid or unpaid. Policies that give people the freedom to study, retrain, start something new or care for family without falling into poverty. Universal Basic Income
TOP backs policies that honor work, whether its paid or unpaid. Policies that give people the freedom to study, retrain, start something new or care for family without falling into poverty. Universal Basic Income
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National is shedding compassion and showing its mean streak #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
National is shedding compassion and showing its mean streak
OPINION: The National of today has drifted a long way from the party’s compassionate traditions.
www.thepost.co.nz
August 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
National is shedding compassion and showing its mean streak #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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Why Universal Basic Income will be a net benefit to New Zealand's economy...
August 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Why Universal Basic Income will be a net benefit to New Zealand's economy...
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The answer imho is to purposefully restructure our economy to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, tackle offshore rent extraction (banks, mega tech firms etc), and invest in infra that makes it better/cheaper to live and do business in NZ. But, no, let's do ecocide and hopium instead (End)
July 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The answer imho is to purposefully restructure our economy to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, tackle offshore rent extraction (banks, mega tech firms etc), and invest in infra that makes it better/cheaper to live and do business in NZ. But, no, let's do ecocide and hopium instead (End)
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We are the ones we have been waiting for.
"The right wins when people believe that a hero is coming to save them.
If the left is going to win, we have to provide an alternative: one that empowers people through collective struggle, rather than the false promises of powerful men."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...
If the left is going to win, we have to provide an alternative: one that empowers people through collective struggle, rather than the false promises of powerful men."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...
No One is Coming to Save Us
Building collective power in the age of individualism.
graceblakeley.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
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"I interviewed myself". That's what MP Shane Jones said after handing himself the power to decide unilaterally who pays to clean up after oil and gas companies.
TOP believes in transparency, accountability and polluters paying their fair share.
#KiwisDeserveBetter than one man talking to himself
TOP believes in transparency, accountability and polluters paying their fair share.
#KiwisDeserveBetter than one man talking to himself
July 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"I interviewed myself". That's what MP Shane Jones said after handing himself the power to decide unilaterally who pays to clean up after oil and gas companies.
TOP believes in transparency, accountability and polluters paying their fair share.
#KiwisDeserveBetter than one man talking to himself
TOP believes in transparency, accountability and polluters paying their fair share.
#KiwisDeserveBetter than one man talking to himself
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Lower taxes for the richest among us is nothing but a fortification and perpetuation of the extreme income inequality that now causes so much pain.
December 20, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Lower taxes for the richest among us is nothing but a fortification and perpetuation of the extreme income inequality that now causes so much pain.
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It's also an economy where 18,761 people were recorded in the 2023 census as either sleeping rough or in tents, boarding houses or marae, up 62% from 11,574 five years ago. Any wonder 220 residents a day are migrating? 2/2 thekaka.substack.com/p/a-housing-...
A housing market with bits tacked on doesn’t need many (if any) pure scientists
Government shocks scientists and universities by halving funding for blue-sky research, raising fears it will worsen the brain drain to rest of OECD, which spends double on R&D that spent by NZ
thekaka.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:09 PM
It's also an economy where 18,761 people were recorded in the 2023 census as either sleeping rough or in tents, boarding houses or marae, up 62% from 11,574 five years ago. Any wonder 220 residents a day are migrating? 2/2 thekaka.substack.com/p/a-housing-...