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Maybe Kiwibank should start serving all the Kiwis in Australia!? After all the stated purpose is: "Kiwi making Kiwi better off" www.kiwibank.co.nz/about-us/who...

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Australia's population by country of birth, Jun 2025

Reminds me of the fact that ~12% of all New Zealanders live in Australia alone: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p... (~637,680 as at June 2025 with even more since) #nzpol

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Statistics on Australia's estimated resident population by country of birth

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Another reason why European car manufacturers are under pressure from Chinese ones outside of protected markets. Organisations declining to compete get outcompeted. Ask Nokia.

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A well-researched article from Politico on one of the major climate risks: the linked tipping points of the subpolar gyre #SPG and #AMOC in the Atlantic. "There’s a substantial risk that it can happen within the coming 20 years,” says @swinda.bsky.social from Utrecht Uni about SPG collapse. 🌊 1/4

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From six months ago. Holding up pretty well.

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh this is excellent news! At last we MAY be able to hold polluters and approves of more pollution responsible. Very important to ALL support #ClimateAction in #politics. Our lives may depend on it. #auspol @greens.org.au @davidshoebridge.bsky.social #independents Thank you for posting

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t understand how hiking our OCR will bring GLOBAL oil prices down!?

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"We blamed Labour for all the international shit but now its international shit on our watch we cant do fuck all about it also we nuked the scheme they had to fix this, and the dog ate our 4 point plan Did I mention the lie about the 10,000 EV chargers?" #nzpol

No government can control international oil prices. We’ve cancelled the planned rise in fuel tax that was due on 1 January. It’s great to see electric vehicle sales increasing - we’re backing that by partnering with the private sector by rolling out EV chargers around the country.

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Charlie @ichaber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Hipkins said Labour would also freeze petrol taxes for a whole term…” Why is Chris Hipkins subsiding fossil fuel? That’s the wrong signal! #nzpol

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The reality here is we can change and change quickly we have money $56bn scheduled for roads, we buy a lot of new cars Renewable energy is cheap to install, EVs are affordable etc We've seen this work elsewhere

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For more years than I'd like to count, I've been noting that the transition to clean energy is being driven by favorable economics. It's simple math and Fed Ex did it.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution

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Charlie @ichaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Grassy trams are the best! Let’s go and build these! 💪

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Charlie @ichaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Drives engagement! Just need to link to some videos and get them to hate-watch it! 😉

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Charlie @ichaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wonder what immediately benefits more people in a wider area. 🤔 #nzpol

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"National leader Christopher Luxon did not want taxpayer funding going into a "white elephant" that was not commercially viable. "Of course we're very committed to our 17 roads of national significance and we make no apology for that." Hmmm which one is a white elephant? #nzpol

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

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Charlie @ichaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Surely we must have plenty of fossil gas left and there is no coming shortage or need for an import terminal, right? It’s a long-term commitment after all where supply security plays a big factor. Oh, wait…

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 28/09/2026

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Consumer fossil fuel subsidies disproportionately benefit high consumers while stalling clean energy transitions, according to researchers in @science.org. With 90% of subsidy reforms failing within three years, experts urge policies focused on reducing fuel demand instead. mongabay.cc/CalZVt

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Fossil fuel subsidies are the ‘worst energy policy in the world,’ researchers say

In an editorial in Science, U.S.-based energy policy experts Paasha Mahdavi and Michael Ross argue that governments creating consumer fossil fuel subsidies in response to rising energy prices is the…

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Yes, that would need to be split out then though, because that's currently collected by the electricity provider (imports) If you choose one only an export provider and leave as is currently you'd use the grid, but not pay for it's use If you add it to both you'd pay double Sure, it can be sorted

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So you'd leave them with ~$500 million?

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Number 3 looks interesting. Splitting buying and selling power could enable some interesting opportunities. How that'd work with lines charges and daily fixed-charges is a bit up in the air though.

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That would be taxed, right? With a ~30% tax rate, that would result in ~$1.35bn in tax. If the rest cycles once that would give another ~$470mn in GST. With that logic you’d get ~$1.8bn back, right?

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I hope so, but they found an argument people accepted last time. 🤷‍♂️ Maybe they’ll just lower the petrol tax with the same effect instead? Although they may not have the money for that.

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I missed that the Model YL supports this now. At least some progress.

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I just wouldn’t buy it new because they don’t have V2L/V2G, CarPlay or Android Auto, charge kinda slow now (400V), nor sonar/radar sensors. Other newer cars have advanced now! They’ve proven to last though. 🤷‍♂️

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EV market share is only 16.3% though! In June we had a much higher share of 20.9% already, but that seems to have dropped off.

Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This makes me fear the government hikes the RUC for EVs again to kill uptake once more. Making them more expensive and fossils cheaper worked like a charm the last time around. 🤷‍♂️

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5.34 degrees above normal. Ouch.

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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glaciers need a bigger y-axis.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade thinks the reversal of the oil and gas exploration ban breached the EU Free Trade Agreement. How do we know? Because they accidentally leaked their own legal opinion in Sep 2024. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/01/g... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Yet what actually happened: www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

Stats NZ quarterly and annual GDP growth since December 2022: https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/gross-domestic-product-june-2026-quarter/

🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Our economy heading into the 2023 election was doing fine, yes some inflation from global things but overall GDP 24 - 0.3% 25 - 0.2% 26 - 2.1% Unemployment 24 - 5.1% 25 - 5.4% 26 - 5.6% CPI 24 - 2.2% 25 - 3.1% 26 - 4.1% OBEGALx 24 - $12.9b 25 - $13.9b 26 - $6.8bn etc #nzpol

2023 treasury pre election Key economic and fiscal indicators

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 30/09/2026

The fossil fuel share of final energy has already peaked across most of China’s industrial sectors. In light manufacturing, electricity now supplies THREE-QUARTERs of the sector’s final energy consumption ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat...

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That’s interesting. Worth a further look when considering similar legislation. #nzpol

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Christina Hood @christinahood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“NZ’s gone nuts” Couldn’t agree more, that’s why we need to replace this government with a sensible one.

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Lindsay Wood has more background on the complaint about NZ's compliance with the EU-NZ Free Trade Agreement climate obligations here:

climatemattersnz.substack.com

“NZ in the Dock” Climate Matters Special

Guilty as charged?

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.

David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com

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The one in *Waimakariri District*?

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Interesting, thanks. Good to know that this is enforceable now.

Is that a new thing? Not sure about the bus, but the 1.5m away from bikes was already law.

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Maybe Chris wants to enter a coalition with Chris? Is that what he’s telling us?