The NZ Political Right are strangling the common good for their donors interests and mates rates
This anti-women, anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-disabled, anti-renter, anti environment Government is strangling the common good for their donors interests…
Growing calls for independent watchdog to keep politicians honest
…the last election as a bitter post-covid grudge fuck against Labour with voters electing a hard right Government they didn’t fully comprehend and this malaise of crony capitalism is everywhere…
Wayne’s mate’s rates – $300k a year contract
…the corrosion is everywhere…
Alcohol lobbyists given input on health policies, documents reveal
Booze industry lobbyists have been granted input into the development of alcohol policies, including how to deal with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Documents obtained by RNZ also show that references to a review of safe drinking guidelines were removed from an Health New Zealand website after an alcohol lobbyist complained to Ross Bell, a manager with the Ministry of Health’s Public Health Agency.
The papers, released under the Official Information Act and sent anonymously to RNZ, show the booze industry has been given input into several government initiatives to tackle alcohol harm.
An October 2024 email from New Zealand Winegrowers to Bell, which copies in a lobbyist with the spirits industry, shows the extent to which alcohol lobbyists are involved in the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) strategy.
…Labour is starting to fight back…
Labour proposes law to restrict big tobacco lobbyists influence on government
Labour has taken aim at big tobacco lobbyists with a proposal designed to severely restrict their influence on government.
The opposition party has repeatedly accused the coalition of being in thrall to the tobacco industry after it rolled back Smokefree laws early this term.
…but look at what National did last week when no one was looming, appoint a Dairy Polluter as the Chief Science advisor…
Greenpeace slams PM’s science pick: “Polluters are running the show”
Greenpeace says the appointment of a former DairyNZ scientist as Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s Chief Science Advisor shows the Government is handing power to polluters.
“For years, DairyNZ has ignored science and lobbied to weaken protections for rivers, drinking water, and the climate,” says Greenpeace campaigner Amanda Larsson.
“We’re facing a climate and nature crisis. The dairy industry is New Zealand’s worst environmental polluter, and science shows we need strong limits on it to protect the environment and our future. But instead of taking action to restrict intensive dairy’s pollution, Luxon is allowing industry lobbyists to sit at key decision-making tables.”
Larsson warns that the appointment could further undermine action on climate change. She says DairyNZ has led efforts to promote misleading methods for measuring methane emissions from livestock – methods that downplay the need for real cuts to climate pollution from intensive dairy.
…appointing a climate denier for the Dairy Industry to be the Chief Science Advisor is like appointing a pedophile to run a kindergarten FFS!
The NZ Political Right are strangling the common good for their donors interests and mates rates and you are allowing them.
For shame Kiwi.
For shame.
How bitter are you at Jacinda for this to be acceptable?
Take a look in the mirror Kiwi. Take a look in the mirror.
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“How bitter are you at Jacinda for this to be acceptable?”
She fail, she gone, she history, you need to put the torch back in your pocket.
She succeeded when you line it up against this monstrosity of a government.
Ian Taylor sums up the latest fiasco…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360683636/sir-ian-taylor-rushed-legislation-forgotten-women-and-triumphant-return-word-pillock.
Yeah that Ian Taylor item is brilliant
Along with the renaissance of the work pillock, we need to bring back the pillory in which we can place the pillock for an appropriate session of public abuse and scorn.
The linked Tod Niall piece on Chris Mathews is interesting, he is an ex Labour Party contractor too-ordinary NZLP members tell me his nickname was “The Lizard”.
Mathews always manages to add further chapters to that huge tome called right opportunism. While political engagement remains low crooks like Brown and Mathews will get away with it.
And your Parker’s beloved TPPA is one on the tools that gives corporations more leverage over government to ensure they cower to corporate interests.