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Yup, all they have is to lie and insult anyone who dares call them out or oppose them.

I use to enjoy watching #NZQT but it has become impossible to view. Speaker, Gerry Brownlee, has become an embarrassment to himself and the parliament of NZ by allowing the government’s behaviour to decline to childish name calling and personal attacks in the house.

Yesterday we had Winston Peters, being repeatedly echoed by Shane Jones, calling an opposition MP a moron for believing the Global Tobacco Control rankings, going on to discredit #RNZ for reporting on this hugely embarrassing drop in NZ’s anti-smoking policies and taxes resulting in an, albeit small, increase in NZ youth tobacco consumption for the first time in over 20 years.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579431/absolutely-ludicrous-casey-costello-defends-plunge-in-global-tobacco-control-ranking

'Absolutely ludicrous': Casey Costello defends plunge in global tobacco control ranking

The country plummeted from second in the world in 2023 to 53rd in the 2025 Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index.

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This speech makes clear some underlying assumptions here - particularly that us having more pay equity settlements than Australia must be a bad thing #nzqt
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Absolutely wild objection from BVV here? Interrupting a speech to point out that not all women can get pregnant is WILD when your coalition is TELLING Te Whatu Ora to NOT use inclusive language that would reflect that #nzqt
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Props on the opposition party for taking their time in these votes. You can see the coalition party members burning to get out of those seats. They should sit with that discomfort. #nzqt
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Well, she's getting a lot of time to sit there and reflect on her life choices while her colleagues shut down every attempt to preserve pay equity for women in Aotearoa. Hope she's appreciating the opportunity. #nzqt
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BVV saying this rushed process is only not robust if the opposition feels their contributions haven't been robust, totally ignoring the massive interest we've seen in the last 24h from the general public in having their say on this #nzqt
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"energy is an ongoing problem" says Shane Jones pushing for more coal mines, ignoring the fact that we disincentivise new renewable generation and could fix that so fast #nzqt
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Talking about Kristine Bartlett in the past tense feels very weird, right? #nzqt #nzpol
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I've uploaded a very low res video of Chlöe Swarbrick and #NZPol PM #Luxon today in #NZQT that you can watch here:

https://mastodon.nz/@jeremy_pm/114306842251256141

Jeremy Buffer Jones :tinoflag: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video Shot Chlöe Swarbrick to PM on govt defunding Police. Question 8 #NZQT #NZPol Chaser https://mastodon.nz/@jeremy_pm/114306702504187166

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Chlöe Swarbrick to PM on govt defunding Police. Question 8 #NZQT #NZPol

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https://mastodon.nz/@jeremy_pm/114306702504187166

Jeremy Buffer Jones :tinoflag: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video #NZTwits need to listen to this raw political honesty about the treatment of #NZ Police and who is really #DefundingDaPolice! Tamatha Paul lets parliament know she has the biggest balls in #NZPol when it comes to challenging the treatment and defunding of NZ Police by this #Luxon led #CoalitionOfIncompetence Apologies for low res but in the interest of Mastodon NZ have downsized video to in res.

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