"It's July 22, 2026, and plug-in solar panels are illegal in New Zealand. In 2012, WorkSafe announced a prohibition on the inverters required to make them work, citing "significant risks" of fire and serious harm. But advocates like Rewiring Aotearoa say that the 2012 ban was "written for cheap, unsafe devices that no longer exist on the market”.

With the potential to reduce electricity bills by $300 to $400 per year per household, National, Labour and the Greens have now all expressed eagerness to update the regulations.

Directed, filmed and edited by Isaiah Tour.
Written and presented by Robbie Nicol.
Made with the support of NZ On Air."

There's no doubt the dinosaur party is going to bring us some entertainment this election...

This Modi guy is the same guy who got a hero's welcomed by Luxon in Spark Arena...

Politicians across the spectrum are expressing disgust at NZ First candidate Stuart Nash as he attacks his National Party opponent in the Napier electorate for taking maternity leave - naming her as the “laziest MP I have ever come across”. Christopher Luxon called it "sexist" and Chris Bishop said the comments from Nash were “disgusting”

Finance Minister Nicola Willis says while inflation has been largely driven by fuel prices, rates are also an issue that needs attention and she, and National, are trying to sell the idea that it wasn't for the external pressures like the closure of the Strait of Hormuz then inflation would only be at 2,9%...funny I can't remember National giving Labour a pass on external pressures and allow them to celebrate what inflation WOULD BE if it wasn't for COVID.

The Climate Change Commission has found New Zealand is not on track to meet domestic climate change targets, but the Prime Minister says he disagrees. Mr. Luxon said that his Government would respond to the Commission’s latest emissions monitoring report, but “our position is really clear ... we’re on track to deliver EB budget 1, EB budget 2. There’ll be more work for EB budget 3, but we’re on track to deliver net zero and we might even deliver it a little earlier”

https://www.youtube.com/live/NraV4FV2NPU?si=KlEJlABQB4_wPxKE
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It's an election year, so this is definitely politics. I was watching Rick and Morty and look what I found.

He should be in NZ First, that would suit him better.

Mr Henry, presenting TVNZ's Breakfast programme told viewers two weeks ago that Ms Dikshit's name was "appropriate because she's Indian.

"Rewiring Aotearoa CEO Mike Casey says the Greens announcement today at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum (because as Chlöe Swarbrick said, that's where gas belongs) says this is "the most ambitious and comprehensive energy policy we've seen so far".

While many parties are backing loans for energy upgrades, the Greens are planning to offer zero percent interest rates through the Ratepayer Assistance Scheme, along with grants for low-income homes.

But, even without subsidies, it's still great energy policy and looks to permanently address affordability issues, rather than just applying another short-term band-aid and keeping us on the same expensive path.

This is also not fringe environmental thinking; it’s economic orthodoxy in a growing number of places around the world, and there is a lot of money on the table through savings.

See our full statement on the policy here ⚡www.rewiring.nz/news/media-release-greens-take-the-electric-election-up-a-notch-with-ambitious-and-comprehensive-energy-policy"

She's saying what I'm thinking. Marama is a goddamn queen.

We have no money to spend on anything - unless of course it’s corporate welfare for one of National’s big business donors.

This current group of vandals proving that there is no new racist low that they won't stoop to.

In just one page, right next to each other, 1News has managed to encapsulate the problems of this country. How can the current government argue that there isn't a real cost-of-living crisis?

The Green Party is proposing sweeping energy reforms, aimed at slashing household power bills and stripping market dominance from major electricity corporations with the establishment of a new publicly owned electricity entity named Kiwipower which would compete directly with the four major electricity providers, which control over 85% of both retail and generation markets, and build a more resilient network with the funding of solar power schemes.

Christopher Luxon was very clear on RNZ this morning that when their budgets changes because "we take our costings as best we can at the time" and that "construction costs bounce around a lot" that is fine, but if Labour's budgets say for ferries or Auckland light rail change then it's a mismanagement from a feckless government.

P aul Henry has announced his candidacy for the ACT Party list. He says while the decision came together quickly, he wants to be in parliament to create a better future for his ten grandchildren. He joined Jack Tame to discuss what that future might look like.

https://www.youtube.com/live/hEDhN6SK5_4?si=Iaaa5Oe7KAPxpZlu
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Not that a half dead corpse would know the difference.