{"id":8503,"date":"2026-11-02T20:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/?p=8503"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:28:51","slug":"just-in-case-ya-wondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/just-in-case-ya-wondering\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in case ya wondering\u2026\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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rogirogi2<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Over the last three years <\/span><\/h3>\n

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Stopped work on Auckland light rail.<\/span>
Stopped all work on the Lake Onslow renewable battery project.<\/span>
Scrapped the smoke-free law to fund tax cuts.<\/span>
Scrapped Fair Pay Agreements.<\/span>
Gave $3 billion in tax cuts to landlords.<\/span>
Paid himself $52,000 to live in one of his own 30 properties, on top of his $471,000 salary.<\/span>
The so-called party of infrastructure … cut Cook Strait ferry deal, then paid $8 million for consultants to tell them they need new ships. $700 million wasted in total. Still no ships.<\/span>
Stopped the Clean Car Discount, after Luxon took an $8,000 discount himself.<\/span>
Blocked statistical reporting on who does and doesn\u2019t pay their share of tax. Think about that!<\/span>
Broke its election promise and didn\u2019t scrap the app tax.<\/span>
Scrapped Three Waters, pushing costs onto ratepayers and increasing rates.<\/span>
Used $4,150 of taxpayers\u2019 money to pay for his te reo M\u0101ori classes after saying, \u201cPeople in the real world should pay for it themselves.\u201d<\/span>
Halved the crayfish take for locals, but cut the commercial take by only one-fifth.<\/span>
Gutted freshwater protections so cruel intensive winter grazing could continue to pollute water ways.<\/span>
Took $80 million from hospitals.<\/span>
Cut DOC funding by $125 million.<\/span>
Scrapped the First Home Grant.<\/span>
Gave half a million dollars of taxpayers\u2019 money to their mate Bill English to do a “review”.<\/span>
Blew $8 million on consultants for a proposed tunnel under Wellington.<\/span>
Wasted $4 million on a six-person advisory group to talk about crime and reduce youth offending. They achieved nothing. <\/span>
Gave big tobacco a $216 million tax cut.<\/span>
Refused to reinstate Jobs for Nature while unemployment soared.<\/span>
Reduced the qualifications needed for relief teachers.<\/span>
Introduced new road tolls.<\/span>
Deprioritised police responses to mental health and family violence call-outs.<\/span>
Slashed $107 million a year from school lunches, costing more than 2,000 local jobs.<\/span>
Spent more than $6 million on the Treaty Principles Bill, despite saying it would not support it.<\/span>
Spent half a million dollars per child on boot camps despite it not to working for most kids.<\/span>
Stopped school rebuilds.<\/span>
Put $150 million towards partially privatising schools.<\/span>
Scrapped the Productivity Commission and set up the Ministry for Regulation, which is four times bigger and more expensive.<\/span>
Put a toll on a road that had already been built and paid for.<\/span>
Stripped $30 million from a programme funding teachers to learn te reo M\u0101ori.<\/span>
Cut the allocated $750 million for the new Whang\u0101rei Hospital.<\/span>
Broke its promise and downgraded the Dunedin Hospital rebuild.<\/span>
Allowed commercial fishing in highly protected areas. Yes you read that right.<\/span>
Increased ACC levies.<\/span>
Broke its pre-election promise to lower the bowel cancer screening age.<\/span>
Halved support for apprentices.<\/span>
Took away the first-year Fees Free scheme for tertiary education.<\/span>
Removed the Reserve Bank\u2019s mandate to support maximum sustainable employment.<\/span>
Took away support designed to help people back into work.<\/span>
Sacked 700 scientists.<\/span>
Cut the First Home Loan scheme.<\/span>
Halved the government contribution to KiwiSaver.<\/span>
Halved the Community Conservation Fund.<\/span>
Defunded M\u0101ori services by $757 million in one Budget.<\/span>
Changed the RMA to allow farmers to discharge pollution into rivers without consent.<\/span>
Gave $300 million to oil and gas companies.<\/span>
Went back on a law to ban cruel pig sow crates.<\/span>
Raided the Climate Emergency Response Fund.<\/span>
Put a tax on everyone\u2019s power bill.<\/span>
Spent money and time making English an official language, while saying there wasn\u2019t time to pass modern slavery legislation.<\/span>
Cancelled a 70-million-litre diesel storage facility, then had to build another one at a far bigger cost.<\/span>
Gave the racing industry more than $1 million in fuel subsidies.<\/span>
Let the fishing industry write rules that would have resulted in no size limits for them. Those changes are now on hold for if they get back in.<\/span>
Raided $100 million from the Tourism Levy that was meant to go towards conservation.<\/span>
Is trying to change DOC\u2019s mandate towards generating profit rather than protecting conservation land.<\/span>
Is stripping fisheries management powers from regional councils and handing them exclusively to Fisheries New Zealand.<\/span>
Changed the law so citizens can’t take polluters to court.<\/span>
Rigged the voting system so people can’t vote on voting day unless they’ve enrolled a month earlier.<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n

This list was fact checked and reported as entirely factual\u2026 if you can show anything here is not accurate then let me know, and I’ll correct it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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