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Kent Duston

@kentduston.bsky.social
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AuDHD Boomer, tangata Tiriti, LGBTQIA+ ally, spending my professional life working on wellbeing - and Toitū te Tiriti.

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 9h
And then contract Ben Ross to do the planning work for the high speed rail network we need and deserve
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 9h
All it needs is a snappy marketing campaign. How about: ‘Travel in comfort from Auckland to Wellington for less than the RUCs on your WankPanzer!’ #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today a friend memorably described the Hon Christopher Luxon as ‘the horrifying result of a bout of hate-sex between a windup cymbal-clapping toy chimpanzee and a roll on deodorant’ … and now I can’t get the image out of my mind #nzpol
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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whare Wairua opens in Whangaparāoa, blending te ao Māori and neurodivergent-led care for holistic whānau wellbeing.
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‘Finding a home for our spirit’: New whare for neurodivergent whānau opens in Auckland
Whare Wairua opens in Whangaparāoa, blending te ao Māori and neurodivergent-led care for holistic whānau wellbeing.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chippy is sounding like one of those old-timey factory bosses that’s critically dependent on his highly skilled workers, saying to them “I can fire you people any time I like” … technically he’s right, but does he want to give it a whirl and see what happens? No Greens, no government #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Translation: the government has put the boot into the economy and has made the books look better at the expense of every struggling family in the country #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Incredible speech from Steve Abel - @abelsteve.bsky.social - and a shining example of what principled political leadership looks like #nzpol
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For a bunch of people who are meant to be the government, they’re exceedingly shit at the actual business of being a government #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great idea, until these exceptionally talented and undoubtedly smart people take one look at the state of the cratering AoNZ economy and disastrous job market and ridiculous cost of living and go, hahahahaha OMG no #nzpol
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DMs open
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s a relief to know that despite years of incompetence and dishonesty over these failed projects, no MBIE senior executives are likely to lose their jobs. I’m so glad we have a world class public sector #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apparently our "business leaders" have signed an open letter opposing the pro-consumer policies of all the parties except Act. Which is a roundabout way of saying – based on votes at the last election – that they are going against the wishes of 92% of NZers www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...
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Corporate heavy hitters tell MPs: ‘hands off our businesses’
Fifty-one business leaders sign open letter protesting political promises to break up power companies, supermarkets and force the sale of a bank.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow, wouldn’t it be fabulous if we had sun and wind in little old AoNZ as well. Still, there’s no use in idle wishes - best fire up Huntly again, I guess #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The trouble with Willis’ hatchet job on RBNZ is that the Reserve Bank is genuinely a deeply-dysfunctional organization that’s in need of urgent reform - just not for any of the reasons she thinks #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think the government waste we should all focus our attention on is the financial and social cost of sending yet another low-value self-opinionated Boomer blow-hard to Parliament. Let’s be fiscally responsible and avoid that unnecessary expense, people! #nzpol
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provision is there for a reason! I chat more about Supermarket Sweat week over at my Substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-week-t...
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
National is definitely alienating its business base with this policy. I can tell, because I went along to the launch party for my supermarket owning mate’s brand new Waiheke helipad outside his second-favorite mansion, and he didn’t smile once #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Faced with a global oil shortage, David Seymour will reduce regulation on big business, Winston Peters will attack the rights of transgender people, Nicola Willis will freeze like a deer in the headlights, and Christopher Luxon will blame Labour. Buckle up, people #nzpol
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wonder if the National MPs frantically calling David Seymour includes Scott Simpson, whose family owns supermarkets? Might there just be a teensy bit of self-interest behind this, perhaps? #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
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Seymour says National MPs are asking him to stop supermarket policy
Nicola Willis says her caucus is behind supermarket decision, but David Seymour disagrees.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Prime Minister David Seymour overrules off-the-cuff remarks from Junior Associate Minister Outside Cabinet Christopher Luxon. "We've discussed these outbursts before", says PM Seymour, "and I've told Christopher to keep his mouth shut unless I give him explicit permission to talk" #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You know that old saying, money can’t buy happiness? Apparently money can’t buy a spine, either
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m convinced that an IQ test should be an essential requirement before anyone is allowed to use Facebook. If they fail the test, they’re immediately included as a valuable contributor to the Facebook community
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Matthew Hooton nails it: "The fall in the main parties’ support through 2026 seems to reflect growing recognition that neither is much interested in exercising power to deliver change but simply to hold office for the personal status it brings." #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
thepost.co.nz
National, Labour lose grip on voters over cost of living, economy and health
ANALYSIS: Back in February, columnists could speculate about the mathematical possibility of a two-party Labour-NZ First coalition government. While now ruled out by both sides, there’s no longer even...
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It probably won’t happen prior to the election, but post-election I wouldn’t be surprised to see National + Labour at less than 50% combined - which really will signal the end of the old guard and the rise of true coalition politics in AoNZ #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The problem for young Lloyd and the intellectual lightweights he travels with is that the climate system and Mother Nature absolutely do not give the tiniest little shit what they do or don’t believe #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This really is the best government that money can buy #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“We destroy your environment to grow food you can’t afford to buy” Welcome to clean green 100% pure capitalism
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More evidence - if any was needed - that the two main parties are functionally indistinguishable from one another, and neither has any long term vision or strategy for AoNZ beyond fiddling with the accounting rules #nzpol
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Act leader David Seymour carries on his campaign. (Those are quotes from DSeymour about the Tribunal) My #cartoon today #NZpol #WaitangiTribunal #Māori
Cartoon. Title: “The Campaign” Image show Act leader David Seymour talking to the media, with a Waitangi Tribunal document under his arm. He is saying, “Activist! Ideological! Expansive! And an affront to every New Zealander!” In the background PM Luxon is walking away, and looking back nervously, saying, “Gawd! What’s he talking about now?” And Nicola Willis is saying, “The Act Party”
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Of course, if this government had pursued the electrification of our transport fleet we could all have gone “who cares” about the oil supply. But that would require we have a government that’s something more than a compliant lap-dog for fossil fuel lobbyists #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Come for the Chaucer, stay for the ridiculouslye wondirful lute riff
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I had a thing or two to say about the utter lack of any economic strategy from the two major parties, because – like everyone else – I'm tired of listening to them bang on about the government deficit as if it's the only thing that matters #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...
thepost.co.nz
Major parties’ obsession with arbitrary deficit figure is not an economic strategy
OPINION: We’re continuing to talk about the government deficit because we’re refusing to talk about a national economic strategy, says Kent Duston.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This will not, of course, stop people on Facebook who've never driven an EV in their lives telling me that the batteries have to be replaced in 60,000km and cost at least a billion dollars each arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09...
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EV batteries last longer than drivers feared
Study suggests used vehicles can retain about 90% of original usable battery capacity after 150,000 km.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m expecting Brian Roche to turn up any moment now and tell us how we have a world class public sector #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Having spent a bunch of time in the front lines of the Oligopoly Wars alongside people like Tex Edwards and Ernie Newman, there’s a prettt straightforward way to achieve what the Greens are proposing - with high effectiveness and low commercial risk A brief 🧵 #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is a brilliant policy. Now do the banks #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why is electricity so expensive? Because it can be. The gentailers are sociopaths
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why pay good money to clean up your environmental damage when it’s just cheaper and faster to buy a politician? #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you’ve been waiting for the meltdown of the current economic system and an explosive end to the AI bubble, here it comes
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is an absolute banger of an op-ed from Peter Hubscher (Stuff paywall, sorry): "We cannot expect our standard of living to improve if we continue relying on policy approaches that have repeatedly failed." #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...
thepost.co.nz
What New Zealand is missing, more than anything else, is sound, courageous leadership
Alignment about governance structures, long‑term strategies, and expectations for politicians, business and community organisations simply isn’t there, and the country is suffering for it, says Peter ...
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yep, making the business loans and credit cards and mortgages of New Zealanders more expensive and putting more people out of work is definitely going to bring down the international oil price #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Methanex may be departing and 150 jobs going, but Treasury won't notice as the company hasn't paid any tax in AoNZ for years www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...
thepost.co.nz
Methanex to close NZ operations next year due to ‘unsustainable’ gas supply
The country’s largest gas-user will close its Taranaki methanol production facilities next year saying NZ’s declining natural gas supply made continued operations unsustainable.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh look, another corporate donor writes cheques to National, Act and NZ First and - magically! - two fast track consents are granted. The reports that he also seems to be a creep are just the icing on the cake #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We have the very best government that money can buy #nzpol
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Seymour’s blatant pitch to crypto-bros underlines my key premise: Act’s policies are clearly and obviously for sale. So instead of opposing him politically, we should just pass the hat around and purchase the little weasel
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wonder if the excessive margins being extracted by the largest bank have anything to do with this #nzpol
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