Julie Anne Genter

@julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

MP for Rongotai. Green Party of Aotearoa NZ.
Māmā working for healthier, happier cities and climate justice. 🚲🌏🌱💚🍉
Auth by M Ross, L5, greens.org.nz

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Now that everyone agrees the CRL is a success, it would be a good time to discuss where Auckland's next new railway stations and lines should go.

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The @savesciencenz.bsky.social election policy scorecard is out. Responses were requested from every party invited to the SSC pre-election forum. We think it makes for pretty clear reading. A PDF copy and a recording of the forum itself are linked at the top of our website - scientists.org.nz

A scorecard showing the responses of all parties in Parliament and Opportunity to science policy questions based on the Save Science Coalition's pre-election asks. ACT and National provided no responses, NZ First and Te Paati Maaori provided two, and the Greens, Labour, and Opportunity responded to all questions.
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Graph of ED wait times (benchmark is six hours) posted by Simeon Brown last night versus a graph of the same data on the Health NZ website. Managing to abuse both X and Y axes in the same graph is almost impressive.

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A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.

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The mayor just moved an amendment that guts Brooklyn cycleway including introducing a clearway for part of the route. I argued strongly against largely on the impact of women and young people who are more likely to travel outside peak and be more safety conscious. Sadly it passed

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Reading "Life After Cars" and was blown away by this fact. A light rail station being added to a rural area in Japan reduced health care costs in that community to the tune of $600 per person per year!! 🤯

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"National leader Christopher Luxon did not want taxpayer funding going into a "white elephant" that was not commercially viable.

"Of course we're very committed to our 17 roads of national significance and we make no apology for that."

Hmmm which one is a white elephant?

#nzpol

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@juliefairey.bsky.socialReposted by @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

Looking through some old stuff and found this cartoon I cut out c1996. They just never really have new ideas, just new packaging. (For younger readers - right wing think tank the NZ Initiative formed out of a merger of the NZ Business Roundtable and the NZ Institute in 2012.)

Photo of a black and white cartoon with a bunch of men sitting around an executive board table. A sign in front reads “Quiet please, Roundtable in session”. From left to right they are saying: “The govt should get out of education and health…” “We need more contestability in social welfare…” “the govt should sell ACC and the post office…” “We should privatise electricity and roading…” “Seen the polls? Winston could be the next PM” “That’s disgraceful. What happened to the New Zealand we all knew and loved?”
@tzemingdynasty.bsky.socialReposted by @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz

Luxon's media advisor: Okay boss, be a bit patronising, question the costings Luxon: We do not have enough people to fill a train! Never have done. Just no people. This is why we have roads, because it takes way less people to fill up a road, we are building them for billions of dollars.

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