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National took power when average mortgage rate was about 5.6%. Latest figure at end April 2025 was 6% (on a bigger pile of mortgages) . Unsurprisingly, Kiwis are paying a lot more interest now than they were in late 2023. National are using figures for *new mortgages only*.

New Zealand MPs simply do not have to promise to uphold Parliament's rules. Maybe they should. But they don't. Could MPs stop please claiming in their speeches they do. (Collins, Rurawhe and Chhour have all made the claim in this debate) MPs also do not have a code of conduct.

This is a stain on Parliament. A vulgar triumph of prissy legalism and historical fabrication over justice and reality. Naked exercise of majoritarian power to punish those who insist that the truth of history is still the truth even if it is not popular rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Cycle lanes in Westmere do not appear to be killing the businesses

A magnificent takeoff!

my simple hope is that, within my lifetime, we will need to extend the vertical axis on this graph below -3%.

For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.

When his friend falls, this donkey lies down to hug him & waits for him to get up. Every being has a degree of understanding & knows kindness.

in recent years, housing policy reforms in New Zealand ("up and out") have led to more supply, lower prices, more choice, and better quality. We're now seeing articles like that below complaining about property investors being "caught in a trap". But it's not a trap, rather ...

currently writing an essay & doing research on how the 1918 flu directly led to the rise of fascism in italy & germany & eugenic legislation even in america and how we are repeating it all right now with covid and this shit is wild y’all….we really never learn from history

Ai is becoming so recognisable i feel like it will eventually give people the same ick they used to get seeing the comic sans font in the wild.

I feel like comic sans was so hated because it was trying to look like human hand writing but it was too clean around the edges.

Wellington's systemic challenges make a bit more sense once you understand that people from this faction have held the mayoralty for 18 of the last 30 years, and a balance of power on council for more than that

Empathy and learning to read.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

im the same age as orson welles was when he directed citizen kane and i feel like ive wasted my whole life

I subscribe to the notion that buildings like this (or higher) will become increasingly common across all of Auckland's beautiful isthmus. After all, if we can develop buildings to this height at Carrington, then imagine what we might build in more central locations if allowed?