Christopher Luxon, New Zealand Prime Minister 2023

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#3511177 14-Jul-2026 09:19

A big part of the growth in building in Auckland was the 2016 UAP process which forced Auckland Council to be more flexible in terms of where building happened.

The mucking around with the different zoning rules in the last few years (including the freeze Auckland Council was able to implement on the central rail corridor because it was a "work in progress") has been shameful. The same old voices who think the development should happen 50 minutes away from the CBD getting what they want, even though the land in those areas has now by and large been developed.

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#3511183 14-Jul-2026 09:28

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A big part of the growth in building in Auckland was the 2016 UAP process which forced Auckland Council to be more flexible in terms of where building happened.

The mucking around with the different zoning rules in the last few years (including the freeze Auckland Council was able to implement on the central rail corridor because it was a "work in progress") has been shameful. The same old voices who think the development should happen 50 minutes away from the CBD getting what they want, even though the land in those areas has now by and large been developed.

I have to say, though, that even though I did not vote for Wayne Brown I do have to respect his battles against the National Party (as well as a particular couple of councilors) to have more housing zoned in Auckland. luxon definitely no shame about on the one hand saying "we believe in more localism" and on the other hand overriding what councils decide and then threatening to merge them on his terms if they couldn't do it themselves in a whole 3 month period.

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#3511243 14-Jul-2026 13:08

And in election-related news (maybe needs a new thread?) former TV and radio personality Paul Henry will stand for ACT in the election this year:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/715192/paul-henry-to-stand-for-act-in-this-year-s-election

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#3511247 14-Jul-2026 14:02

Now we just need Sean Plunkett replacing Shane Jones as the NZF deputy (sorry not sorry, Shane) and Hosking to launch the Common Sense Reckons Party, and we have the Four Horsemen of the Wokeopalypse.

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#3511339 14-Jul-2026 22:13

ACT's Parmjeet Parmar rejects Brian Tamaki's free speech defense:

which makes me wonder what Parmar thinks of Paul Henry's continued free speech defense of his jaw dropping 2010 comments:

which itself followed earlier comments about a different person of Indian ethnicity.

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#3511952 16-Jul-2026 18:56

Luxon gave a good speech at Modi's welcome with the crowd chanting "Luxon!, Luxon" at one point:

Luxon may have a problem in the next coalition negotiations with NZ First's new policy to remove voting rights for permanent residents. Permanent resident voting is long standing NZ law already in place several years before Peters was first elected to parliament in the 1970's.

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#3512599 19-Jul-2026 15:12

Peters wants NZ$1b spent on an oil and gas exploration survey next term:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2026-nz-first-leader-winston-peters-to-unveil-new-policy-at-campaign-launch-to-conclude-convention/ZA3PMUUM7JDOTPOWJCM62BE7XU/

What an embarrassing backward looking maga style policy.

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#3512604 19-Jul-2026 16:17

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/739026/i-was-blue-until-i-woke-up-national-defectors-on-why-they-re-backing-nz-first

Jeez, a bunch of (many) has-beens wants yet another turn. Can NZ First not find anyone fresh and new instead of recycling other parties rejects and cast-offs? 🤷‍♂️

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#3512607 19-Jul-2026 16:54

Winstone supports climate change...

Supports, being the operative word...

Disgraceful.

As the movement shows, whether that be MAGA or its offshore equivalents, its not about the country and the population. My bad, I thought thats we we vote for

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#3512608 19-Jul-2026 16:56

quickymart:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/739026/i-was-blue-until-i-woke-up-national-defectors-on-why-they-re-backing-nz-first

Jeez, a bunch of (many) has-beens wants yet another turn. Can NZ First not find anyone fresh and new instead of recycling other parties rejects and cast-offs? 🤷‍♂️

They don't do recycling... That is organic efficiency, cannot have that. Maybe we can level the West Coast, drill, baby, drill

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#3512611 19-Jul-2026 17:02

Back in the day when I was a nipper, you had National, its about businesses, stuff the workers. And you had Labour, its about the workers, stuff the businesses. Reality is, businesses need workers, workers need businesses.

It seems that we are going the US way, divisive.

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#3512618 19-Jul-2026 17:30

tdgeek:

Winstone supports climate change...

Supports, being the operative word...

Disgraceful.

As the movement shows, whether that be MAGA or its offshore equivalents, its not about the country and the population. My bad, I thought thats we we vote for

New Zealand uses, and will use for the foreseeable future, oil based fuel for transport and for some peaking generation. There is no way to eliminate that.

If there was oil and gas to extract it would make sense to do it locally and have jobs locally. The problem is there hadn’t been an oil or gas field found for 20 years prior to the largely oil and gas exploration ban.

Just like that ban this is largely performative but it’s worse because it comes with a price tag.

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#3512622 19-Jul-2026 18:01

Handle9: If there was oil and gas to extract it would make sense to do it locally and have jobs locally. The problem is there hadn’t been an oil or gas field found for 20 years prior to the largely oil and gas exploration ban.

There is the small matter of a refinery which I'm sure NZ First will want to rebuild. It's pretty obvious they want to do Think Big all over again without updating it for the 21st century.

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#3512702 19-Jul-2026 21:12

gzt:
Handle9: If there was oil and gas to extract it would make sense to do it locally and have jobs locally. The problem is there hadn’t been an oil or gas field found for 20 years prior to the largely oil and gas exploration ban.

There is the small matter of a refinery which I'm sure NZ First will want to rebuild. It's pretty obvious they want to do Think Big all over again without updating it for the 21st century.

Marsden wasn’t refining NZ crude. It was largely exported.

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#3512726 20-Jul-2026 09:44

Handle9:

New Zealand uses, and will use for the foreseeable future, oil based fuel for transport and for some peaking generation. There is no way to eliminate that.

Yep. ~4.7m light vehicles and ~95% require fuel to operate.

So, I would guess ~200B to replace all of those with BEVs. And that's just the registered light vehicles. Doesn't include unregistered road-vehicles, vehicles solely used off road or trucks.

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