Job: self-employed IT consultant, favourite hobby: sailing and ridding the world of religion. Promoting knowledge based on secular rational logical science.
Otautahi (ChCh), New Zealand
Joined July 2009
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Duncan McCormack retweeted
Christopher Luxon chose November 7 as election day even though he was told by the Electoral Commission that the date was challenging and that other dates were more feasible.
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Duncan McCormack retweeted
NZ had the highest unemployment benefit in the OECD in the 1960s. Now we're 1 of only 2 out of 38 OECD countries with no unemployment insurance. 36 other OECD countries have it. Benefit is only 38% of avge wage vs 56% OECD average. We went from top to bottom
Duncan McCormack retweeted
I did want a flying car—when I was seven.
Now I want a stable climate, clean drinking water and for kids to not live in fear of being bombed.
Duncan McCormack retweeted
This is no accident and done deliberately by Brown to run down the public system so it fails to justify privatisation he has already begun by stealth in contracting out surgery to profit making private providers
Duncan McCormack retweeted
This lot couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. They freeze hiring nurses to save money, then cut back nurse training because they haven’t got nurses to supervise the students. Meanwhile children unnecessarily die from cancer. Talk about an incompetent downward spiral.
Duncan McCormack retweeted
The Greens are almost always right, they just do it too early. They were right about banning plastic bags, climate law, renewable energy, wealth inequality, medicinal cannabis, public transport, abortion, LGBT rights and overfishing.
They'll be right about AI and gangs too.
Duncan McCormack retweeted
It was not your call, Peters. Your job is to represent NZ’s national interests and the will of cabinet. Cabinet supported the declaration. You pursued your own selfish electoral interests. You horses arse!
The New Zealand Government has abstained today in the UN General Assembly on the Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.
Our explanation of vote ⬇️
mfat.govt.nz/en/media-and-re…
Duncan McCormack retweeted
Why National wants to abolish 5y census, its to dumb down society and prevent evidence based decisionmaking and be held accountable against empirical data.
Not the contrived anecdotes, feels rigged polling surveys and propaganda it currently relies on to pass harmful policies.
For a former govt statistician, this election counts more than ever - he can see the damage the Coalition parties have caused so is donating $20,000 to Labour
#PartyVoteGreen to #ChangeTheGovt 💚🖤❤️ newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/12/fo…
Duncan McCormack retweeted
For 50 years this politician identified as a future PM has derailed his own career with side show antics and his final act is to undermine our international standing.
God Defend New Zealand because our Foreign Minister has sold us out! newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/13/pe…
Duncan McCormack retweeted
A day of shame for New Zealand brought to you by our worst foreign minister ever and a very weak and confused prime minister.
This morning it has been announced that New Zealand did not support the adoption of the Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.
NZFirst is the party that ensured the National Interest Test was included in the coalition agreement to keep our sovereign decision making with New Zealand, not Geneva.
We believe it is essential to New Zealand that its sovereign decision making on health is protected.
Duncan McCormack retweeted
The result of Winston Peters getting his way in the coalition.
With the NZF coalition we can't participate in global #Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness & Response.
Backwards we go.
How low can #NZ go? UN General Assembly just agreed on a Political Declaration on #Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness & Response. 153 voted for; 3 against; NZ & Paraguay abstained. This results from NZ 1st’s courting of the anti-vax vote. Humiliating for NZ
news.un.org/en/story/2026/10…
How disgraceful and backward is this!
How low can #NZ go? UN General Assembly just agreed on a Political Declaration on #Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness & Response. 153 voted for; 3 against; NZ & Paraguay abstained. This results from NZ 1st’s courting of the anti-vax vote. Humiliating for NZ
news.un.org/en/story/2026/10…
Duncan McCormack retweeted
Nicola Willis actual $17b fiscal hole they and media don't want voters to know or talk about drives their lies, blame and scaremongering about opposition parties because they can't defend own record of incompetence.
Who’s the fiscal blowhard, Mr Luxon? newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/16/wh…
Duncan McCormack retweeted
Part of the reason for the organised vilification of the Ardern govt initial response to the COVID pandemic was that it was so effective in demonstrating how powerful decisive state intervention in the interests of the common good could be.
The far-right and its big business backers were HORRIFIED.
You want proof that Christopher Luxon simply does not answer questions and walks all 'round them?
See if you can find a direct simple answer in this lot.
The man's pathetic!
stuff.co.nz/politics/3610437…
The Greens wealth tax in NZ would surely be similar - and starting at 10mil - not a lot of people captured anyway.
Let's do it!
