Transport lobby, Property Speculators and the Big Polluters have all the power in NZ
Look at this!
Govt to weaken Hauraki Gulf protections over $14k in fishing revenue
Fisheries officials warned Shane Jones the changes might be ‘inequitable’ and reduce the effectiveness of long-awaited marine protections
Incredible isn’t it? NZF gets donations from the fishing industry and the Fishing Industry get legislation – NO MATTER HOW PETTY –
“It’s astonishing how far the Government is willing to go to pander to the demands of industry lobbyists, even if it means undermining more than a decade of work by the local community and tangata whenua and ignoring all the evidence.”
As the sheer scale of crony capitalism and corruption start to stink like a Wellington Harbour full of sewage, we need as Kiwis to acknowledge that the Transport Lobby, Property Speculators and the Big Polluters have all the power in NZ thanks mostly to National, ACT and NZF.
AI Bryce has presented a devastating critique of the Transport Lobby’s power over NZ…
A WINDOW ON TRANSPORT INDUSTRY LOBBYING OF THE BEEHIVE
New Zealand’s politicians like to point to the existence of published ministerial diaries as evidence that our system is open and transparent. Ministers now routinely say that anyone can see who they’re meeting with, so there’s nothing much to worry about in terms of backroom influence. On paper, the diaries are supposed to be a window into the Beehive – a way for the public to track who gets face time with ministers and who doesn’t.
In reality, that window has been fogged up for years. The diaries are dumped out every few months as messy PDFs, full of disclaimers and omissions, with no indication of who asked for meetings and was turned away. Until very recently, almost nobody had managed to turn this jumble into proper data capable of answering the basic democratic question: who actually gets into the room with ministers, especially on big-ticket issues like transport and climate policy?
For the first time, a group of public‑health and transport researchers have done exactly that for the transport portfolio. Their work, and what it implies about how power works in Wellington, deserves a lot more public attention than it’s had so far.
…it shows these pricks have total access at all times and that their interest are paramount when deciding policy. Note we never talk about the increased weight of the Trucks and their destruction to roads, WE NEVER TALK ABOUT THAT we only talk about mutilating Kiwi Rail and privatising roads to ensure the Trucking Lobby maintain total control on access minus the cost.
Even the new Infrastructure report only promotes more user pays to solve decades of neoliberal underfunding.
The Property Speculators donate millions…
- National Party: Received over 50% of the cash from the property industry.
- ACT Party: Received approximately 32% of the property industry donations.
- NZ First: Received approximately 12% of the property industry donations.
…and they get policy written for them allowing rich foreigners to buy citizenship in NZ and the ability to buy residential property…
Government touts $3.4 billion of investment through ‘golden visa’
The Active Investor Plus visa has delivered $3.39 billion of investment for New Zealand in less than a year.
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford announced the numbers on Friday in Auckland, during a visit to Hectre, an orchard‑technology firm that has received investment from individuals seeking the visa.
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…and then of course there are the bog polluters who simply have legislation written for them as the country gets smashed by claimed change storms that are getting worse and worse as we pollute more and more.
Your enemy isn’t som kid transitioning!
Your enemy isn’t some Māori wanting the Treaty respected.
Your enemy isn’t an environmentalist wanting climate change taken seriously.
Your enemy is who it has always been! The Banks, the Billionaire class, the big polluters, the Crony Capitalism and the property speculators who have manipulated your petty bigotries into supporting their interests over yours!
At some stage Kiwi, you are going too have to admit you have had your tiny hates used against you.
KiwiRail is a key player within the trucking lobby. The deliberate managed decline of rail (often well disguised on the peripheries) only benefits the largest truck companies, and has done since KiwiRail came into existence in 2008. Best railway practice is deliberately avoided by KiwiRail. Setting up IREX to fail under Labour for it to be cancelled under National was a master class in political manipulation.