Christopher Luxon, New Zealand Prime Minister 2023

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#3471116 17-Mar-2026 14:22

New cheaper ferries are turning out to be even moar cheaperer than previously expected. Only $167M over budget and almost one deal with port companies finalised.

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#3471132 17-Mar-2026 14:50

SaltyNZ:

New cheaper ferries are turning out to be even moar cheaperer than previously expected. Only $167M over budget and almost one deal with port companies finalised.

This government is sooooo good at delivering things, like those new ferries we're riding through all the new tunnels we have.

And isn't the economy doing so well under their care? Just like they said it would be , everything is awesome now.

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#3471134 17-Mar-2026 14:55

What a bunch of incompetent people.

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#3471151 17-Mar-2026 15:38

elpenguino:

This government is sooooo good at delivering things, like those new ferries we're riding through all the new tunnels we have.

And isn't the economy doing so well under their care? Just like they said it would be , everything is awesome now.

Everything is awesome indeed

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#3471202 17-Mar-2026 21:01

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/16-03-2026/are-luxons-struggles-special-or-is-he-a-victim-of-a-global-incumbency-curse

An interesting look at how well Luxon's doing compared to other incumbent world leaders (spoiler: the only one with positive numbers is Mark Carney).

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#3471881 19-Mar-2026 23:09

NZH "Defence Minister Judith Collins says New Zealand will still “make our own sovereign decisions” over Defence Force personnel engagements as it works with Australia on “an increasingly integrated, combat capable Anzac force by 2035”

I don't like the sound of that. Australia has taken up some very belligerent positions from time to time and recently in blind support of the Trump administration.

Australia also has a very bad relationship with China for those reasons.

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#3472441 22-Mar-2026 19:36

I am not sure that it was wise for Luxon to align us with others who align with the USA (i.e. UK).

It's great to be principalled and Iran is a horrible regime but I think we as a country are too small to be other than neutral and silent in regard to the US actions in the Middle East.
Even Australia which is usually "USA lite" in this case stayed silent. Especially with Tankers from "non involved" countries like Japan and India achieving passage through the straits.

But I may be wrong ?

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#3472474 23-Mar-2026 08:16

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/590347/rnz-reid-research-poll-labour-extends-lead-over-national

Another poll showing Luxon not doing so flash - but this result would give a hung parliament.

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#3472477 23-Mar-2026 08:43

Winston will flip for Deputy Prime Minister, not shared with ACT?

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#3472505 23-Mar-2026 10:00

I'm a generally pretty centrist voter and I struggle to genuinely figure out what this government has accomplished that is actually beneficial to the average person. Hospitals are effed, prices on everything are increased and their management of the fuel thing is boggling my mind. Yet they're still polling enough together to form government...

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#3472507 23-Mar-2026 10:08

Wait, people don't feel better off, but the PM says people are saying we are better off?

Which is which?

This PM's difficulty in communicating anything is astounding.

Luxon points to Hamilton Saturday night to explain what matters most to Kiwis | Stuff

“I was in Hamilton on the weekend, on Saturday night, and I can tell you people were wanting me to talk about what was happening with Iran and the fuel implications for New Zealand,” he said.

Asked if those people were coming up to him saying they felt better off, he said people didn't talk about polls but instead about what is going on for them.

Asked again if people were telling him they felt better off, he said: “No, many are acknowledging the fact that things have got better with lower inflation, lower interest rates.”

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#3472518 23-Mar-2026 10:50

That is such a lie too. My home loan interest rate was 4.69% for four years in 2022. It sure as hell isn't that low now.

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#3472523 23-Mar-2026 11:05

So much depends on timing, our mortgage went from low 3% to high 5s when it rolled over a few years ago, then we were then able to get it back to late 4s last year, so not so much as a lie, as many people would have been coming off of high fixed rate mortgages, but the messaging was certainly accentuating the positives (which isn't the exclusive strategy of National)

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#3472531 23-Mar-2026 11:41

Reanalyse: I am not sure that it was wise for Luxon to align us with others who align with the USA (i.e. UK).

Especially in this case because Australia did not sign we should have definitely taken the opportunity to go with that and not sign. It's very easy to condemn the attacks on shipping and we can do that diplomatically behind the scenes as we usually would.

At the moment it's more the Trump administration in USA needs clear messages to end the war it started and get things back to normal.

Unfortunately that won't happen until the Trump administration reins in Israel. That's not going to happen unless there is more pressure. Trump seems to think he can end or pause USA's part and let Netanyahu carry on until Netanyahu is 100% sure he has won the next Israeli election - end of October. That is going to be a lot of war and destruction. Even worse, Netanyahu (and even most of the opposition) have now fully and formally embraced a "Greater Israel" policy. For Netanyahu and his extremist allies that means ethnic cleansing and dispossession in the West Bank which they are currently doing. For some of the opposition parties it may be a slightly different version.

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#3472628 23-Mar-2026 15:28

Still full throttle on the LNG import terminal. But now, of course, we're taking money that was previously allocated to decarbonising industry to move forwards.

The Government has spent and budgeted $8 million to purchase facilities to import liquefied natural gas, $4m of which was recently redirected from a pot of funding previously earmarked for “decarbonising” industry.

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