Here we go again. Appearing on Q A, Labour’s Transport spokesperson Tangi Utikere told Jack Tame that their public transport fare cap policy will be funded by taking money from road maintenance — including the repair of potholes. Under the last Labour government, potholes became such a serious problem for road users that National campaigned heavily on the issue and since the coalition government took office, there has been clear and significant progress. Labour taking money from road maintenance will undo all that work.

National is the party of economic responsibility. New Zealanders deserve a government that takes its economic responsibilities seriously, not one that hides the bill.

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YOU'RE WEEKLY REMINDER OF WHERE YOUR MONEY WENT UNDER THE LAST GOV. ( a few of thousands of examples) 1. Wallaby eradication — $2.7 million to kill 18 wallabies. $153,000 per wallaby and 26,000 labour hours. Cheaper to fly them home business class. 2. Virtual job expos — $835,000. 126 people attended. $6,626 per Zoom attendee. 3. Global health recruitment campaign — $514,000. Result: 3 interviews. $171,000 per interview. 4. Let's Get Wellington Moving — $35m on consultants. Just $250k on actual construction. You read that right. 5. Auckland Light Rail — $229 million. Six years. Not one metre of track. Burning $1.2m/week on consultants at peak. 6. Three Waters — ~$1.2 billion torched on a policy nobody wanted, scrapped before delivering a single pipe. Included $14,500 to write a job description for a CEO who never existed. 7. iReX ferries — $500m sunk. Ballooned from $551m to a projected $3 billion before cancellation. (NZ First also had fingerprints on the original deal — worth being upfront about.) 8. RAT tests — $531 million sitting in warehouses. Storage at $100,000/day. Approved over a year late. 9. Mongrel Mob meth rehab — $2.75 million. $239k catering. $157k marae hire. $100k hiring a van. 10. Shorter shower campaign — $2.8 million. Printed in 7 languages. To tell you to take shorter showers. 11. Auckland Harbour cycle/walking bridge — $51 million on planning before scrapped. No bridge. 12. Lake Onslow pumped hydro — ~$100 million on feasibility studies. Not a shovel in the ground. 13. Workforce Development Councils — $65 million/year for bodies critics said delivered little tangible value. Disestablished. 14. RNZ/TVNZ merger — $20 million. Abandoned by Labour themselves. 15. Ethnic women in politics research — $842,000. A university grant could've done it for a fraction. 16. "Ulu Cavu Wig Tour" — $73,000 in taxpayer funding for the Arts Minister's husband's tour. 17. Abandoned China immigration office — ~$3 million in rent on an office closed for over a year. 18. Promoting Australian citizenship to Kiwis already in Australia — $10,000. Funding the brain drain with our money. …and we could keep going. We should never FORGET Labour. Just a small fraction of their wasteful ways. @NZNationalParty @actparty

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

A wee ask for one of our own tonight. If we all could donate a little to help Lea on the way to the Olympics would be fantastic. givealittle.co.nz/cause/my-o…. Let us all help her dreams come true #SDWS