37% seems like the latest for NZ.
After the search I found:
the most meaningful measure comes in the annual report on trust in the news produced by the AUT's Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD).
This RNZ story covers it (if we can even trust them), which says:
"In 2026, New Zealanders' trust in news in general improved significantly, with 37 percent of New Zealanders trusting the news, compared to 32 percent in 2025," said the 2026 report.
Thanks Dave!
Interesting post history. You seem passionate about a single topic. Almost to the point of spamming it.
Ugh, they have the worst thumbnails.
$0.46 NZD 😮
There's quite a bit of fuckery with the billing. When I take the dollar amount listed as "Total Charges" and divide it by the total kWh listed under "EA Levy" I get $0.27 per kWh. That includes day rate, lines fees, and all the other easy-to-understand charges.
"I'm very disappointed - I don't mean to scold New Zealanders - but disappointed that they feel that way."
"It's important that you care as much about your defence as we care about your defence, and that does mean increasing spending."
He's either stupid, naive, or malicious. Whatever the case he can fuck off.
I mean, if we're going back in history, it's relevant to point out: Labour passed "New Zealand Superannuation Act" in 1974 with a compulsory combined rate of 8 percent of earnings. If we had this since then we'd be quite a rich country and we wouldn't be worried about super at all.
Muldoon’s National Party campaigned on undoing it because it was socialist or communist; and he undid it and then instead rolled out the pay-as-you-go system that we have now which is guaranteed to fall over right about when I'll be ready to retire, based on numbers from Stats NZ.
The reality is the US empire dying in a death spiral is already creating a power vacuum and further destabilising global economies that were already facing existential threats. At some point, many countries will turn to conflict as a way to restart their economies. Not sure if you read my message but you may have missed "the economies" which means many countries; not just China. Nobody was suggesting aligning with the USA. Thanks for joining the conversation.
This kind of goes along with Gary's ideas that wealthy people support far right groups to protect their assets. I always give $10 or $20 to the ones I support. It's mostly so they can say they got donations from X number of people.
I just finished his book, btw. Thanks for the recommendation.
You are right. Labour and National are both neoliberal parties. Labour just seems to make life a bit less painful for people while still refusing to make any meaningful changes. I don't want three free doctor visits. I want nurses to be paid fairly. I want affordable housing. I want a system that taxes unproductive stuff (land banking) and reduce taxes on productive stuff (income). Labour will never actually do it.
Opportunity says they are into "evidence-based policies" instead of "the same old thing that got us into this mess". So, they support things that are sensible instead of just left or right. Opportunity and the Greens are the only ones putting forward tax policies that will fix the crappy "nobody can afford anything" situation we've gotten into after the whole Rogernomics thing.
This is much more sensible than everyone uploading their IDs and face scans to untrustworthy social media companies; or worse: shady 3rd party identification companies that don't seem to properly protect them: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo