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#3455112 22-Jan-2026 16:21

michaelmurfy:

Was shocked with how much car registration is now so I went back on previous years (Tesla Model 3) -

2023: It costs $102.90 for 12 months.
2024: It costs $106.15 for 12 months.
2025: It costs $135.84 for 12 months.
2026: It costs $241.59 for 12 months.

Tell us. How exactly is a 78% increase taking care of the cost of living?

But didn't you get a tax reduction? I got about $12...

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#3455213 23-Jan-2026 07:53

GV27:

November 7 Election Day.

Do we need a new all-purpose NZ politics thread?

Perhaps a policy announcement and discussion thread, all parties policies can be put there along with discussion?

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#3455267 23-Jan-2026 08:50

michaelmurfy:

Was shocked with how much car registration is now so I went back on previous years (Tesla Model 3) -

2023: It costs $102.90 for 12 months.
2024: It costs $106.15 for 12 months.
2025: It costs $135.84 for 12 months.
2026: It costs $241.59 for 12 months.

Tell us. How exactly is a 78% increase taking care of the cost of living?

Ouch, I have to do mine next month too. Still - for a car the same class in NSW it would be either $579 or $835 depending on the exact weight (I think it's the former, for a RWD Model 3, and the latter for a long range or performance).

Coincidentally I was at the BYD dealership in Wairau Park last weekend looking to test drive a Seal. They have none there, and there is one in Newmarket but only for looking at. He said they expect to get a test drive vehicle in the next shipment at the beginning of March.

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#3455327 23-Jan-2026 09:47

michaelmurfy:

Was shocked with how much car registration is now so I went back on previous years (Tesla Model 3) -

2023: It costs $102.90 for 12 months.
2024: It costs $106.15 for 12 months.
2025: It costs $135.84 for 12 months.
2026: It costs $241.59 for 12 months.

Tell us. How exactly is a 78% increase taking care of the cost of living?

78% seemed a heck of a lot to me - how on earth did that happen?

There is a combination of two factors here.

#1 - Petrol / Diesel vehicles have different rates. Electric vehicles were previously charged the same as Petrol - now charged the same as Diesel (RUC administration?)

#2 - Price rises as of 1 Jan 2026 (https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2024/0211/latest/LMS991673.html#LMS991669)

Registration price changes recently: (Thanks Wayback machine!)
The price in Bold relates to EVS:

March 2025: Petrol / Electric in seperate category but have the same price: $135.84 / $203.67
July 2025: Electric & Diesel in the same category: $144.22 / $212.84

Current (Jan 2026): $172.08 / $241.59

So it is a combination of being charged the higher rate, and then getting a price increase on that rate.
Add RUC charges into the mix and the cost of running an EV has increased quite significantly in the last few years.
Almost by stealth? Or death by 1000 cuts.

None of this makes it more palatable of course

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#3455379 23-Jan-2026 10:45

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RUC administration?

And here I thought the ridiculous $12 fee on top of my tax was for RUC administration. Hey Chris, if you want some back-end savings on unnecessary red tape I think I know where there are some to be found.

EDIT: from those links, the serious answer is that previously EVs paid the same ACC levy at registration time as petrol cars, but there is also an ACC levy component in the per/L price of petrol. So EV ACC levy has moved 100% into registration.

As with the RUCs themselves this makes sense.

However, they've still done it in the laziest cheapest way possible which entirely coincidentally encourages people to keep buying petrol-based vehicles which is great for the coalition's donors.

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#3455386 23-Jan-2026 10:55

Given how the Luxon government campaigned on managing the cost of living and crowed about how they got inflation down (inflation was already falling in the quarter before the election), this is not good news for them.

Stats NZ data shows annual inflation was at 3.1 percent in the three months ended December, following a 3 percent increase in the September quarter.

That means headline inflation is now above the Reserve Bank's 1-3 percent target band.

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#3455477 23-Jan-2026 18:10

Ladies and gentlemen: Winston Peters.

The United States has officially exited the WHO, a year since President Donald Trump gave notice via executive order.

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In a post on X, Peters commented on the US' withdrawal.

"This is what happens when a bunch of unelected globalist bureaucrats are not accountable or responsible with worldwide taxpayers money," he said.

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"With the US withdrawing its membership it puts into question the current state of the WHO, its effectiveness, and if our taxpayers money is being responsibly spent overseas instead of here at home," he said.

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#3455478 23-Jan-2026 18:14

Would love to see him lose at this year's election eh, can't stand the guy.

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#3455479 23-Jan-2026 18:16

JFC. uS statement says they left because of bad management of COVID-19. Trump saying someone else did it wrong. And Peters siding with Trump. What a joke.

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#3455480 23-Jan-2026 18:18

Here we go:

"The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the U.S. and globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the U.N. health agency's management of the COVID-19 pandemic."

And Peters's sidiing with these idiots in the US administration?

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#3456717 28-Jan-2026 16:23

Collins announces her retirement in mid-2026. She looks like a weight has been lifted from her shoulders already:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/alert-top/585206/national-s-judith-collins-retires-from-politics-appointed-law-commission-president

Collins holds seven portfolios in the current government. Those are big shoes for Luxon to fill.

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#3456833 28-Jan-2026 22:02

Massive shift to the right for the Law Commission.

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#3456977 29-Jan-2026 13:21

ACT Party, the Party of 'No Slavery Like Modern Slavery' ?

So ACT can't even bring themselves to support 'wet bus ticket' anti slavery legislation.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/585319/watch-national-and-labour-mps-team-up-to-get-slavery-bill-heard-after-act-objects

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/workplace-relations-minister-brooke-van-velden-s-lack-of-support-for-modern-slavery-bill-sees-national-team-up-with-labour-in-parliament-first/

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along with fines up to $200,000
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Civil action may go up to 600K but victims hardly likely to have resources to sue?
Directors via their insurance as we have seen with Pike River and Mainzeal, get the very best lawyers.
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Luxon did make strong statement on supporting this concept at least.

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Luxon in 2022 - the year after being installed as National leader - told RNZ's Guyon Espiner the topic was what he would have marched in the streets for.

His daughter had visited children in the Philippines who had been rescued from trafficking, and he had joined Tearfund, a charity which tackled the problem.
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We do also have free trade agreements which obligates us too.

More effective though if fines had a very high maximum, but I expect that's not ACT objection.

Better leave it open up to scale of the gain by owners, damage to victims and free market.
Taking into account.
Financial loss and other damage to those enslaved.
Damage to other business, the free market.
( If a restaurant develops a chain across Auckland, others lose if go bankrupt )
( Contract RSE picking pruning, good companies fade or go to the wall )
( Construction, you are a hard working builder but can't compete with bonded labor )
( Fishing ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-02-23/the-fishing-industrys-cruelest-catch )

Punishment fit the crime as Gilbert and Sullivan would say. Kill the risk/reward.
Most importantly some rectification for victims.

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#3457143 30-Jan-2026 09:40

National: weak on disasters, weak on the causes of disasters.

Despite those warnings, funding and planning for climate adaptation has been scaled back by the current government …

Since its election in 2023, the government has removed or reduced most forms of dedicated climate adaptation and resilience funding.

In Budget 2024, Finance Minister Nicola Willis ended the ring-fencing of Emissions Trading Scheme revenue for the Climate Emergency Response Fund. The government also dismantled a $6 billion national resilience fund created after Cyclone Gabrielle …

Drill baby, drill.

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