Cutting part time workers' sick leave entitlements from the 10 days everyone currently gets to being pro-rated based on how much they work.

*** Also covid vaccines will apparently no longer be free for most people after this month.*** EDIT: this was circulating yesterday, but isn't true so that's good.

And this during the biggest covid wave in 18 months, where hospitals and schools are having to close or reduce capacity because so many staff are sick. What a bunch of ghouls.

Add voter suppression to the list of disasters

Lol. Q3 here sets out what he (edit: allegedly) said (anything said in the House is protected by Parliamentary privilege)

https://bills.parliament.nz/v/11/59669ddb-f7b1-405a-0e5b-08dc696671a5

Lol

$10 billion for one tunnel, or three times what the scrapped ferries were going to cost. And that's just the initial estimate.

More economic vandalism from this government - unlimited money for roads, fuck everything else.

Posting mainly for the very good first comment on this article, which queries how they might actually achieve 50,000 fewer jobseeker recipients in six years when the population will grow, many recipients are either already working and can't get more hours, or have health conditions limiting or preventing them from working.

The answer of course is to game the KPI like a good CEO as it only measure numbers of recipients, not the actual outcomes you'd want as a result - people into secure and sustainable work.

Expect more hoops to jump through and more punitive measures to discourage people from getting support or kicking them off to juice the numbers.

Its particularly fucked up when you think about how as a system, we require unemployment to control inflation. So we're creating unemployment and then punishing people for being subjected to it.

Vandalised would be a more accurate description.

Posting this mostly to comment on the near daily culture war distractions being peddled by the government to distract from all the horrible shit they're doing, and the effect this is having to embolden bigots and fascists to commit more extreme acts.

Cool cool cool

Get ready for a GST rise

Another day, another round of vindictive and regressive policy from this government.

• registrations going up
• fuel tax going up
• public and active transport slashed by $1bn
• 15 new, uncosted roads announced

Remember when these guys campaigned on the cost of living?

Another good write up showing that the Government is misleading the public about the state of public finances and the economy, and also benefit sanctions.

Given the way they stonewall and just repeat their talking points when challenged suggests to me that they're simply lying about a crisis to justify gutting services for tax cut handouts