Quick Hit — Taxpayers Union — Tourism — Major Events Fund — World of WearableArt — Election 2026 — Political Intelligence — NZ Politics
Quick Hit: 880,000 Costumes
TPU puts a red price tag on $880k from the Major Events Fund for a World of WearableArt exhibition. Upston sells visitors and Kiwi creativity. Major Events Fund. Minor accountability. Eight hundred and 80 thousand costumes. One line on the invoice.
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Quick Hit: Silence Is Not a Right
National would make staying silent about a child’s killing a crime, with up to 10 years in prison. The Greens are open to it, ACT has doubts and Labour has yet to say on the record which silence it wants to protect.
Quick Hit: The Only Hand Not Raised
Four leaders raised their hands for diversity at TVNZ’s debate. Winston Peters didn’t. RNZ’s expert rebuttal ends by conceding his “disunity” warning “could indeed fit”.
Quick Hit: Labour Wants Google to Pay for News Kiwis Don’t Trust
Labour’s Reuben Davidson says the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill will be revived with urgency, but won’t commit to the first 100 days. The bill would make tech platforms fund the legacy media only 37 per cent of Kiwis trust most of the time.
Quick Hit: Stuff Checked Labour’s $6,000 Bill and Found the Credits Missing
Stuff fact-checked Labour’s “Cost of Luxon” line by line. Some numbers hold, rates come in at about half and the document counts every cost while leaving out tax cuts, mortgage savings and FamilyBoost. Chris Hipkins admits it “does not account for changes in income”.
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Thinking About Race and IQ
We seem destined to continue the equality thesis, the persistent gaps in IQ and other test scores behoove us to acknowledge that our efforts have not worked. In some sense, DEI efforts are an admission of that failure, as they seek to reapportion society’s spoils based on race rather than merit.
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