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bernardchickey.bsky.social
Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
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Covid Inquiry staff resign. @paulapenfold.bsky.social

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605... The school lunch programme is an absolute disaster. From the start it's been clear that money is all that's important. The contract by the Compass Group hoovers up hundreds & thousands of dollars. That's it. That's all that matters.

This does a jujitsu on the false idea that governments use taxpayers' money. It's the other way around.

Global surface temperature anomalies have fallen a bit in recent weeks, making it very likely that February will not set a new record after a record January. However, its still on track to be the 3rd warmest at 1.56C above preindustrial levels in ERA5.

This pitch is full of fantasy math. No you are not going to get a new highway through Remutaka for a couple of gold coins a trip. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

How long do you wait before selling below CV? 3 years? 7 years? Ryman couldn’t wait any longer. It has just slashed its building plans by 70% & is about to dump some of its land bank valued at $338 million on the market. It says it may have to lower its properties' values by as much as $300 million.

Domestic violence advocates have been warning that Destiny’s Man Up programme is dangerous for years. Police and the courts keep using it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Hang on a minute. Wasn’t the Government trying to reduce inflation? Govt set to hike insurance costs $400/year thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-set-t...

One bright spot this week was watching a live recording of @thespinoff.bsky.social podcast The Fold last night. Lucy from @shityoushould.bsky.social and @bernardchickey.bsky.social shared really interesting insights on the topic of Substack.

Here’s our Hoon from last night with Peter Bale, Robert Patman, Cathrine Dyer, Helen Clark and Elaine Monaghan on an epic shift this week in the global political order. Donald Trump throwing Ukraine under the Russian bus changes everything. thekaka.substack.com/p/the-hoon-a...

#nzpol Child poverty costs us morally, economically, and socially. It is corrosive to all that is good. Our children deserve security from the ills of poverty, and we can deliver that. We had an agreement to get there once. We can do it again. craigrenney.substack.com/p/its-a-sin-...

It's Thursday - it's a weekly jobs 🧵 News ain't good. We're still bumping along at around -1% job growth, running on about 25,000 fewer jobs than at the same time last year. Our working-age population has increased by about 35,000. Unemployment is obviously increasing. [1/n]

#nzpol Stats NZ measures child poverty on three measures – before housing costs, after housing costs, and material poverty. All three central estimates of poverty rose last year. This is the second year in a row in which the data is heading in the wrong direction. A 🧵

And thus ends America

A few thoughts on the MPS today - it is painting a picture of a soggy economy for New Zealand. We have to actively choose something better. craigrenney.substack.com/p/banking-on...

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Has Trump moved that bust of the dictator Winston Churchill out of his office yet?

Trump is no Chamberlain - he’s a Quisling.

Blinking heck. We really are a housing market with bits tacked on now.

How many more of these until someone in a position of power admits it's not working?

FYI. As expected, the RBNZ cut the OCR 50 bps to 3.75%, with “scope to lower the OCR further through 2025.” www.rbnz.govt.nz/hub/news/202...

Let's hope he isn't lost and can keep doing his great work somewhere in public. Jamie does brilliant work.

Bloody hell.

Mayhem in a number from the President's lips.

Cluck, cluck, cluck...

Sky just notified me of a 10% increase in the monthly cost for SkySportNow to $54.99/month from $49.99/month. That’s my $50 threshold breached after a bill shock of 5 times the inflation rate, so I’ve cancelled.

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

When even your natural allies are telling you you're dead wrong, maybe it's time to listen? Nope, it seems. As the Govt says, everyone must go.

Please read this enlightening and ultimately hopeful piece from Rebecca Macfie. My story is remarkably similar….1/n

In which the CEO of Engineering NZ calls bullshit on the Government’s claims it is ‘going for growth’ with infrastructure investment. It’s not, and that’s clear in the numbers, with hundreds of engineers now migrating to Australia. thekaka.substack.com/p/the-funds-...

thekaka.substack.com/p/recession-... Thank you @bernardchickey.bsky.social it feels like we are moving to a tipping point, there is perhaps change in the air with such strong tangible effects of the current austerity measures not getting the desired results.

Great Hoon by Bernard Hickey - particularly Ann Marie Brady & Prof Patman on Nz geo politics in pacific Most kiwis think we have an invisibility cloak down here - but we have a bully in our neck of the woods - actively being expansionist. AoNz #nzpol www.youtube.com/live/bT8YzaT...

FYI. My apologies.

Not sure whether to be worried or happy. He’s unlikely to want visit or buy a third world country.

Very good question.