Tom Pullar-Strecker
@PullarStrecker
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No longer active on Twitter. Posting on Bluesky.
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Joined October 2011
Deja vu? Amazon's statement in 2021:
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Investment will take place over 15 years and create more than 1000 jobs, company says.
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Is there any way to filter out tweets that contain the phrase ‘let that sink in’? I read it. I don’t need time for it to ‘sink in’.
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Seem to have brought back an unwanted souvenir from Rarotonga this week. Tremendous care provided today by the great people at Wellington A&E.
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Just dredging this one up in case anyone is confused about what a 'capital income tax' is likely to be
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Former NZ tax consultant Eugen Trombitas says tax policies in Ireland are well thought-through.
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I mean this piece, sorry, wrong link before:
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Nations such as New Zealand should have the confidence to double down on sanctions on the Putin regime but we are still trading and granting visas to thousands of Russian nationals.
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Ok, just got banned from entering Russia 'forever'; ie until the fascist regime falls I suppose. Guess it was this piece:
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Blimey. Just discovered Keir Starmer grew up in my home town. No, don't know him. He is a several years older than me, thank you. As surprisingly, also found out there must (have) be(en) a factory somewhere near Oxted... https://t.co/1al61EB0K9.
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Thank you all for coming here on a Bank Holiday Monday. At least we’re by the seaside. And we are in Sussex, this is a part of the world I know very well. I have family here – close family. Both my...
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Media & Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith responds to RNZ boss' backing for a levy to help fund the media:
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‘I’ll be meeting with the sector first before I rule things in or out’, Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith responds.
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DOC job ad for senior communications adviser: "You'll need to be a strategic thinker, someone who can see the bigger picture and make connections ... and comfortable with ambiguity." Um, what? https://t.co/CQsQ1nU9oB
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Seems fair imo EVs pay same RUCs as average car would. Could argue unfair efficient petrol cars pay less than inefficient ones, but convenient system and petrol efficiency not bad proxy for axle weight. EVs still save heaps in fuel. Scaring people unhelpful. Time to move on, imo.
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Come on @countdownnz, if your Crofton Downs store is closed for 2.5 days due to a flood, surely you could message on your website to stop people driving there?
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In case anyone thought cutting public service jobs was going to be easy:
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The ministry’s staff numbers have jumped 55% over a period when teacher numbers have risen only 5%.
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Home solar systems or solar farms? The economic arguments seem pretty clear.
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In the wake of the collapse of rooftop installer SolarZero, how worried should we be about the future of solar?
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A reminder why scrapping the Clean Car Discount shouldn't make a lot of difference if the Clean Car Standard is still in place (in a nutshell, 1 or 1 = 1)
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Motoring body labels scheme a ‘success’, but says Clean Car Standard would do the same job if the feebate scheme was axed by National.
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Union and BusinessNZ commissioned reports go head to head on ‘greedflation’
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'We just want the costs of managing inflation to fall where the benefits lie,' says Council of Trade Unions economist.
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News that merits attention from my colleague Rob Stock
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Fox News helped former United States president Donald Trump spread the Big Lie that the 2020 US election, but that has not stopped big bank KiwiSaver funds investing savers money in the company.
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Cabinet agrees to keep supermarket break-up option in back pocket
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Risk of break-up backfiring weighed heavily on ministers, Cabinet papers show.
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Brookfield will have made ~$1b from its $1.7b investment in Vodafone/One NZ in four years, not a bad return:
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The purchase will take its ownership of the telco from 49.95% to 99.9%.
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