Excellent point
The PM makes $316k/yr after PAYE tax as PM. He has also just made $460k in income from capital gains. He was asked if he should pay tax on the income from capital gains. He said he didn't see the point of the question because wealth creators needed the incentive. thekaka.substack.com/p/i-dont-kno...
Asked about $460,000 in tax-free income from capital gains on rental property sales, PM Christopher Luxon says a capital gains tax wasn’t up for debate as it would remove incentive for wealth creators
They are doing enough bad things to keep us going for quite some time.
Also Claire Curran's 2 un-diaried meetings and Michael Woods $15k shares, for which both were hounded out, seem very small fish beside Jones, Costello and Nicole McKee's conflicts of interest. Nothing is a step too far for this government.
It's actually not personal. It's directly related to suitability and competence, and the extent to which he either chooses to reject or is not able to absorb the detail and research underpinning good and democratic decision making on his portfolio.
Oddly that church leader/bank worker CV isn't really working in the role.
Excellent piece of policy research on what the actual policy context is around vehicle speed limits in a number of comparable countries.
If you received advice as an associate minister, you damn well should be keeping a record of it, and it should be public info. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Despite a long list of problems identified by officials, Casey Costello claimed she had got her own "independent" advice.
Especially if you RELY on it to inform policy. Otherwise that policy should be considered invalid.
“Such is the monstrous corporate nihilism under which we live. But sadness will not arm us in the fight against it. To defeat a force of such malevolence, we need to be angry, to own our buried rage, and then act on it, with cool discipline, common cause, decency and valour.”
Very powerful essay by Tim Winton ‘Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are