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NZ MAGA'fuckation | December 2025 Edition

A month of MAGA'fuckation importation by the New Zealand Government

Robin Capper

Robin Capper

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NZ MAGA'fuckation | December 2025 Edition
MAGA'fuckation: Usage suggests the term is meant to describe the perceived adoption or importation of MAGA-style politics or rhetoric into other countries, in this case New Zealand, with a strongly negative connotation. (Copilot)
Parents horrified children ate mouldy mince in government-funded school lunches
A government-funded lunch provider says it’s investigating a “food quality issue”, while parents are watching for food poisoning symptoms.
RNZJessica Hopkins

And Seymour fights back with personal attacks on the school staff.

‘It’s uneconomical’ - iwi provider of school lunches withdraws from programme
’You can’t be providing a service that costs you more than what you’re getting in terms of funding”, says the iwi.
RNZSamantha Gee

Seymour's shite lunch programme strikes again

Government announces 4% council rates rise cap
The government’s long-awaited rates cap is likely to start with minimum increases of two percent and a maximum of four percent, and would take effect from the start of 2027.
RNZRussell Palmer

Thought they favoured local autonomy?

Relying on forestry for carbon removal is placing ‘eggs in one basket’, MPs warned
The Climate Change Commission says there are risks with relying on forestry for the country’s carbon removal.
RNZKate Newton
Public Service Commission’s social media advertising under independent review
The Commission purchased the adverts with a small amount of public money and ran them during the public sector strikes.
RNZCraig Mcculloch
Ministers were warned against removing schools’ Treaty obligations
The Education Ministry advice preceded the decision to delete a clause in the Education and Training Act that required schools to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi.
RNZJohn Gerritsen
Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission’s emissions target recommendations
It comes despite a Climate Change Commission warning that New Zealand is being hit sooner and more severely than expected.
RNZKate Newton
Impossible to meet Paris Agreement targets without buying offshore carbon credits - experts
The government’s claim it can meet emissions targets without writing “billion-dollar cheques” is implausible, experts say.
RNZKate Newton

But Nicola aint buying that

Govt needs to buy carbon credits or come clean on emissions commitment - opposition
Nicola Willis has cast fresh doubt on whether New Zealand will pay for the offshore carbon credits needed to meet its 2030 promise to halve emissions.
RNZKate Newton
Emissions Trading Scheme: Year’s final auction fails to sell a single carbon unit
An experienced trader says government back-tracking on climate change has tanked the price that emitters have to pay for carbon units.
RNZKate Newton
Health select committee erupts into heated debate over roll out of oral tobacco and nicotine products
Costello assured MPs she remained focused on achieving the Smokefree 2025 goals.
RNZRuth Hill

The Minister For Philip Morris

Ministry signals another boot camp could be around the corner for young offenders
The first pilot boot camp last year was with volunteers.
RNZPhil Pennington

Yet there is no evidence Boot Camps work

Landowners to get more compensation from councils as major RMA overhaul revealed
The Resource Management Act is going, and the government has revealed what will replace it.
RNZRussell Palmer

"We do want to make sure we avoid situations like people in Auckland submitting on whether or not there's a McDonald's in Wanaka." So you now have to live in an area to have any opinion on its preservation?

Too many laws passing without ‘proper scrutiny’, Geoffrey Palmer says
Sir Geoffrey Palmer says the government is increasingly pushing through legislation under urgency and skipping consultation.
RNZNinetonoon

Palmer said the Fast-Track Approvals Act 2024 - and its amendment - was a classic example of a trend that "ministers know best" and was "ministerial dictatorship".

Minister raises concerns over fish heading south due to warming waters
Shane Jones says there has been a drift into the South Island of fisheries resources that have historically been located in the North Island.
RNZLillian Hanly

The Minister doing his best to fuck the environment: Hon Shame Jones, Minister of Regional Environmental Destruction

Local Water Done Well: Council plans to cost $9b more than expected
The plans under the “Local Water Done Well” model now been signed off.
RNZRussell Palmer
Government’s pig farming law changes passed through Parliament under urgency
The legislation cancels an upcoming ban on farrowing crates, which keep mother pigs confined to avoid them accidentally crushing piglets.
RNZRussell Palmer
Parliament debates climate targets under urgency
With bipartisanship ended, farmers will now face “the rollercoaster experience” of changing targets every political cycle, a Green MP warns.
RNZKate Newton
Infrastructure Commission calls for government business cases, budget submissions to be public
The Commission is due to hand over the first National Infrastructure Plan to ministers by the end of the year.
RNZRussell Palmer
Transport subsidies for elderly and disabled people reduced
The Total Mobility scheme provides discounted taxis and public transport fares for those with long-term impairments.
RNZRussell Palmer

They did this to save money, while cutting excise tax (est to be $216 million) on heated tobacco, something tobacco giant Philip Morris has lobbied for in the past.

Chris Bishop can’t say how many jobs could be lost to multiple ministries merger
A plan was unveiled today to merge housing, transport, and local government functions into one ministry.
RNZLillian Hanly

The new Ministry of Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport (MCERT) has a name that only could have come from Utopia

David Seymour promises to reignite Treaty principles debate in 2026
The ACT leader made the comments in a sit-down interview with RNZ reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead.
RNZCraig Mcculloch

Arsehole

Finance Minister Nicola Willis not standing for electorate seat at election
The finance minister will stand as a list-only candidate at the election and says she will campaign across New Zealand to re-elect a National government.
RNZRussell Palmer

On the list her entire career, has never won an electorate seat.

First mining project gains fast-track approval
Waihī North extension of OceanaGold’s Waihī mine has gained approval.
RNZRNZ News
Primary principals warn new year-by-year curriculum won’t work for mixed-level classes
The Principals Federation says most schools have at least some multi-level classrooms and it would take a much larger workforce to avoid that.
RNZJohn Gerritsen
Plan to ditch flu tracking tool will leave big data gap, epidemiologist says
The Ministry of Health is not renewing its contract for the FluTracking tool, which surveys about 40,000 people year-round, in a bid to cut costs.
RNZPretoria Gordon

I have been doing this for several years. FluTracking was administered in Australia and cost the ministry about $57,000 a year. They will save fuck all and lose a valuable resource as it is independent of any other health contact. Reverting to reported cases will degrade the coverage, do you go to the doctor for every sniffle?

Emails reveal Marlon Williams, Paul Goldsmith Treaty principles exchange
The acclaimed singer-songwriter brought up the 2023 email to Paul Goldsmith during his acceptance speech at this year’s Silver Scroll Awards.
RNZKatie Todd

Wasting his time asking Paul Goldsmith...

Winston Peters makes u-turn on Chorus debt sell-off
Winston Peters previously said the government’s plan to sell-off Chorus debt was “creative accounting of the worst sort”.
RNZRussell Palmer

Winston flip-flop, what a surprise...

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