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PoO’s interest in this laudable exposure of the perks of being a politician was heightened by our awareness of a stoush between Stuff and the Speaker.
And what was the focus of the story that prompted the Speaker’s ire?
Accommodation allowances. #nzpol
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“Mark Mitchell built a career on the cosy traffic between cops and a political party. Now he is shocked - shocked - that Labour has done the same.”…
By Grant McLachlan on Klaut
#nzpol
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As of March 2026, there were 4,537 people held on remand. Each is costing the taxpayer about $414 per day. This means the large share of the remand population that poses no threat to public safety is costing taxpayers nearly $1 million every single day.
#nzpol
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“He earns $320,600 a year. He owns six properties. He was offered a free apartment inside Parliament. He said it wasn't comfortable enough. Then he billed you $237,000 to sleep in his own home - and threatened the journalists who found out.”…
#nzpol
I got some cool gifts for my birthday yesterday. The Green Party tshirt was an awesome surprise. Perfect timing for the election 🥹
Upston is effectively arguing that ordinary people asking for help with rent or housing costs are a burden on taxpayers, while her own taxpayer-funded accommodation support is somehow legitimate and untouchable. That’s the moral contradiction. #nzpol
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Our country is rapidly becoming an oligarchy - a system based on government by and for the super-rich.
A key indicator of emergent oligarchy is growing control of the media and the political system by the super-rich.
#nzpol
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“Why is it that entitlements won over years via union activism can be challenged by employers who wish to change the goal posts to suit themselves, whilst those of the ruling classes remain largely untouched?”…
#nzpol
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“Stuff’s Glenn McConnell asked New Zealand’s biggest political donors why they give. He should have asked what they got.”…
#nzpol
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Mark Mitchell built a career on the cosy traffic between cops and a political party. Now he is shocked — shocked — that Labour has done the same.
Bob Edlin writes – Checking on what’s doing in the country today, PoO spotted this on The Post website, on the top row of items on the menu under “News / Ā-motu” –
Budget 2026 spends $503 million on expanding prisons. But 41% of the prison population are people on remand and more than half are released once their case is heard.
