Question Time 18 November 2025

Watching with the sound off. Need to get my laundry soon... Personal explanations. Introduction of Bills. I'm neutral in the TPM dispute. Hoping to maintain that if I come to the AGM. Nobody comes out all that well from my POV. Seems like a clusterfuck. 30 minutes left. My sheets and towels are in the dryer. Sound on. 1. Chippy to Omelette C 5 PO 4 Food, cost of living. 'I have more faith in parents' - Luxon. Opening my second beer of the day. Cooper's Extra Stout. Tākuta as an independent MP. Support for retaining Te Tiriti in education legislation. 'If you actually think of upholding the Treaty ... we make no apologies for the no. 1 priority for our school boards to be get your kids to school and get them educated.' - Luxon. Jonesy. 'Such an improvement in their literacy' - Luxon. 2. Brewer to Willis CB 5, NW 5 Trading Services Act. Increasing the maximum penalty for breaches of the Fair Trading Act. Fines of up to tens of millions of dollars. That's quite ballsy. Not a wealth tax, but something. Last updated in 2014. 10,000 complaints this year. 'The gains can currently outweigh the penalty' - Nicola 3. Marama to PO M 6, PO 4 'Irreversible damage to our land, oceans and fresh water' - Marama. 'Their actions are economic vandalism and insanity' - Luxon. My brother was saying climate change is made up. How does Luxon register in the manosphere? 'We are prioritising economic growth above everything else' - Luxon. 'Backing them with long-term, sustainable industries that won't disappear' - Marama. 'Job security comes from not ripping up the rule of law' - Luxon. Jonesy again... 'Their rights will be expropriated' - Jonesy, the mining shill. 'We have a shortage of gas... this sends a chilling effect to all investors' - Luxon. How often does a PM talk about investors? CEO/Prime Omelette. 4. Edmonds to Willis BE 7, NW 4 'The management of conflicts of interest is a matter for the Cabinet Office or the Prime Minister' - Nicola It - river link bridge project - didn't go to Cabinet. Now she's talking about Melling... obfuscating. The project is in Bish's electorate. Winston's shouting at clouds. Chippy's sounding very good while talking to the Speaker. 'The Speaker's role is not to judge the quality of the answer' - Brownlee. 5. Wedd to Bish CW , CB 'A major milestone for Hawke's Bay' - Bish. New expressway. Gotta get my laundry... 6. Swarbrick to Luxon CS 6, CL 4 'Is the government conceding that we will not be able to meet our international commitment by our domestic budgets alone?' - Swarbrick 'It was a domestic policy tool created before the Paris agreement.' - Luxon. She wants to know how many offsets we'll be buying. 'There is no way we'll be sending billions of dollars overseas. Period.' - Luxon. 'NDC's tough; we're going to give it a good go. We're going to prioritise domestic action.' - Luxon. 7. Tangi to Bish TU , CB Transport infrastructure investments. Back on the river bridge... 'I reject the characterisation of that .. as Minister for Housing, not Minister of Transport ... I have acted in accordance with Cabinet Office advice throughout this' - Bish. Going to make my bed. 9. Mooney to Upston JM 5, LU 5 Tourism bs. 'Explore the special experiences NZ has to offer' - Louise. 'More visitors means more income' 10. MacAnulty to Bishop KMA 8, CB 3 Kāinga Ora total house sales. $53 million 2023-2024. 15 house sales. Written question needed. Have funds been redirected away from housing? 'Selling older properties in high-value areas' Ah, and the bridge pops up again. The Minister of Housing and Urban Development had advised him not to fund it. Bureaucratese. 'The Infrastructure Acceleration Fund .. this is still being spent on local infrastructure.'

78,000 KO properties is likely to be a consistent number. Going backwards by the end of the year. Bish hasn't looked good. Nixon vibes. 11. Bidois to Penk DB , CP There are no coloured people in National's front bench. 'The government's doing a lot' - building stuff. Speeding up building inspections. 12. Rawiri to PO RW , PO McSkimming case. 'It was appalling, it was shocking' - Luxon. How can we trust them on our streets? '30,000 less victims of violent crime' - Luxon. 'This is a government that is taking serious action against that leadership group.' Coster wasn't Luxon's man or National's man. 'Victims of crime are disproportionately Māori' ... then he says something racist!!! - look it up. 'It was a very good quality report' - Luxon on the IPCA.