The Kākā’s Early Bird out for paying subscribers: Govt begins review to replace fuel levies & RUCs with congestion pricing & fleetwide RUCs; Councils propose up to $2.4b of climate change land buyouts for South Dunedin, although funding unclear. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
The haberdashery and craft retailer has been facing mounting pressure from “low-cost international online competitors”.
How to create an $18bn fiscal hole - tank the economy with your ridiculous cut to grow strategy.
4.4 standard deviations?!
To put into perspective how strong this El Niño has the “potential” to be, I plotted it on the Bell Curve/ distribution of all El Nino, La Niña, & neutral months since 1850 (over 2K). The dynamical model ensemble median forecast peak anomaly is +3.3°C in Dec 2026 1/