Christopher Luxon, New Zealand Prime Minister 2023

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#3282801 16-Sep-2024 20:01

quickymart: What was the purpose of his visit? Haven't really been following the local political news too much the last few days.

Opening negotiations to beg for small updates to an existing free trade agreement. Other than that, giving away as much of NZ's diplomatic independence as possible seems to have been high on the agenda.

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#3282963 17-Sep-2024 09:15

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Then staff lying or cheating need to face disciplinary action. It’s quite a bizarre position not to have targets because someone might cheat.

It's not a reason not to have them. It is a reason to be wary of them. You incentivise exactly what you measure. If your target is "do X or lose your job" then X is exactly what you get, no matter what. It isn't cheating, it's doing what you were told.

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#3283131 17-Sep-2024 12:50

SaltyNZ:

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Then staff lying or cheating need to face disciplinary action. It’s quite a bizarre position not to have targets because someone might cheat.

It's not a reason not to have them. It is a reason to be wary of them. You incentivise exactly what you measure. If your target is "do X or lose your job" then X is exactly what you get, no matter what. It isn't cheating, it's doing what you were told.

OR it incentivises people to take the "easy" jobs and push the hard ones onto someone else.

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#3284101 19-Sep-2024 16:29

Luxon hanging out with Trump-loving cryptobros, now.

“There is no reason American technology, economic, and military leadership cannot continue for decades to come,” the company declares on its website.

I'm sure they want what's best for New Zealand though.

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#3284285 19-Sep-2024 23:38

I'm not sure why this reminds me of Monty Python..

NZHerald: Brown said the fleet of five vans, formally known as “Consistent Condition Data Collection (CCDC) survey vans” will travel the country hoovering up data to monitor the state of our roads and work out when they need maintenance. Brown said the Government will now require automated pavement condition inspections of all sealed roads at least every second year, while surveys of high-class roads will be undertaken annually. One van will cover Auckland and Northland, another will cover the central North Island, while a third will cover the lower North Island and the top of the south, and a fourth will cover the rest of the South Island. There will also be a fifth van, whose remit is currently unclear. “These vans will provide consistent, high quality surface condition data at a scale never seen in New Zealand before, replacing the inefficient and manual on-the-ground inspections currently happening in many locations across the country,” Brown said.

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#3284316 20-Sep-2024 07:39

gzt:

I'm not sure why this reminds me of Monty Python..

NZHerald: Brown said the fleet of five vans, formally known as “Consistent Condition Data Collection (CCDC) survey vans” will travel the country hoovering up data to monitor the state of our roads and work out when they need maintenance. Brown said the Government will now require automated pavement condition inspections of all sealed roads at least every second year, while surveys of high-class roads will be undertaken annually. One van will cover Auckland and Northland, another will cover the central North Island, while a third will cover the lower North Island and the top of the south, and a fourth will cover the rest of the South Island. There will also be a fifth van, whose remit is currently unclear. “These vans will provide consistent, high quality surface condition data at a scale never seen in New Zealand before, replacing the inefficient and manual on-the-ground inspections currently happening in many locations across the country,” Brown said.

Got a little naming thread on Mastodon. My suggestions so far:

Holey Pavement Batman
Simeon Brown's Day Off
Good Intentions
Bad Vibrations

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#3284324 20-Sep-2024 08:37

"I want targets"

"It's not about the targets!"

PM Christopher Luxon visibly frustrated over questions about gang list; says it’s not about ‘frickin targets’ - NZ Herald

But when a reporter questioned Luxon and Mitchell about police removing gang members off the national gang list as part of “sanitising” it – including the removal of deceased people – Mitchell and Luxon appeared to become visibly frustrated.

The reporter suggested it was “convenient” for the Government for gang numbers to reduce and questioned if the Government had asked police to do it.

“Guys, guys, no disrespect,” Luxon said.

“It’s not about the frickin targets, it’s about outcomes.”

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#3284414 20-Sep-2024 11:38

That's one of the problems with our adversarial system. Wariness about the actual outcomes of setting targets aside, they do serve a purpose. But just as the then-opposition trashed Labour failing their KiwiBuild target so spectacularly, they are in turn going to be eviscerated when they either fail to meet or are found to be fudging their own targets.

There's never going to be a collegial, whole-of-parliament, friendly sit down to look at why the target was missed. Just an endless seesaw.

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#3284476 20-Sep-2024 14:41

We can replace targets with a concept of a plan. :-)

No problem with age and maintenance of Ferries we can wait for a random second hand boat to come onto the market.
Lucky the weather was favorable, as you wait hours for a tug.

Bluebridge ferry loses power, adrift in Cook Strait for two hours
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350422897/bluebridge-ferry-loses-power-adrift-cook-strait-two-hours

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It departed Wellington Harbour at 9.38pm and made it as far as Ōwhiro Bay on Wellington’s south coast before losing power shortly before 10.30pm, according to MarineTraffic.com data.

It was picked up by tug ships shortly before 1am Friday.
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Its not like its a vital link, and potentially very challenging dangerous seaway.

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#3284559 20-Sep-2024 16:15

SaltyNZ:

That's one of the problems with our adversarial system. Wariness about the actual outcomes of setting targets aside, they do serve a purpose. But just as the then-opposition trashed Labour failing their KiwiBuild target so spectacularly, they are in turn going to be eviscerated when they either fail to meet or are found to be fudging their own targets.

There's never going to be a collegial, whole-of-parliament, friendly sit down to look at why the target was missed. Just an endless seesaw.

The insurance against batshit coalition partners was meant to be the spectre of a grand central coalition.

We just don't have the stones for it.

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#3285649 24-Sep-2024 08:05

In a few months, National will announce a new project to buy ferries, paying more than we had already agreed with the cancelled ones and paying for infrastructure changes, which will be more than planned before.

But it will be labelled as a "victory" and "planning for the future."

Interislander: Winston Peters wants rail on ferries, National isn’t so sure - NZ Herald (archive.ph)

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#3286383 25-Sep-2024 18:46

I see University staff around NZ are going on strike tomorrow afternoon.

The governments "increase" in funding has followed many years of tradition (by all parties) in being below the rate of inflation, ie in real terms a funding cut.

Academic standards, subject areas, whole departments etc are being gutted, international ratings are slipping, and research funding is falling.

I gets worse, even though the universities have done their bit by doing the actual teaching, if the student drops out (non complete) they get claw backs

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#3286405 25-Sep-2024 20:28

I was driving today when these news came on the radio Luxon takes crack at ANZ boss Antonia Watson over capital gains tax support | RNZ News

ANZ CEO says it's time to think of CGT.

Luxon replied, "I love it that the CEO of a big bank from Australia wants to take more money off New Zealanders."

And he laughed—like someone who didn't understand what he was talking about. I want to know how ANZ would take capital gain tax money away from New Zealanders. It's a tax, not a bank fee.

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#3286406 25-Sep-2024 20:30

Kāinga Ora doing what government asked, Bishop says | RNZ News

Ministers say hundreds more job cuts at Kāinga Ora will not affect its performance.

The social housing provider is set to cut 321 roles, on top of those announced in a previous restructure, which takes the total to 553.

Across the public sector, more than 6500 jobs are proposed to be disestablished.

Minister of Housing Chris Bishop said he was advised many of the cuts were associated with the agency's "project velocity", which had been around for about five years and was tasked with making the delivery of houses more efficient, now known as the "housing delivery system".

Kāinga Ora said the proposed cuts would hit roles across urban planning and design, commercial, construction and innovation, and investment management office teams.

Nothing like destroying a department's ability to execute its function, to then say it'd be better for private enterprise to take over.

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