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The full of shit prime minister #NZPol
Back in December 2024 in a social media post on LinkedIn, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blamed spending on cycleways for driving increases in local government rates. The problem? It turns out he didn’t have any objective data to support this claim. In response to an Official Information Act request lodged by Local Aotearoa, all Luxon’s office could come up with as evidence to support his statement was a link to a Wellington Chamber of Commerce poll from October 2024 that found people thought Wellington City Council was overspending on cycleways. Now, it’s all very well for people to oppose spending on cycleways if they want. But that doesn’t automatically make cycleways responsible for local government rate increases. In fact, Local Government New Zealand commissioned Infometrics to look into the drivers of rates increases and reported the results in March 2024 and, unsurprisingly, cycleways aren’t to blame. What Infometrics identified as being the primary drivers of rates increases were infrastructure costs - bridges up 38 percent, sewage systems up 30 percent, and roads and water supplies being up 27 percent. It also saw local government labour and interest costs increase too.
January 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Please share far and wide. We need to put in submissions for both bills. Links are at the end of the article
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The ‘dangerous’ bill flying under the radar | E-Tangata
“Individually or together, these two bills would entrench libertarian preferences in New Zealand’s constitutional framework. They would also obstruct the consideration of Te Tiriti in future lawmaking...
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December 14, 2024 at 10:50 PM