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TVNZ Breakfast skipped past the shocking revelation made on NewsHub that a leaked draft cabinet paper shows Chris Bishop ( Big Tobacco - Minister of Housing ) is trying to flog off as much New Zealand land as possible to foreign landlords - as long as they build a single house on that land.

While Newshub maintained this was the fifth leak Luxon's Government had made to Newshub in a very short time - Luxon said he's not worried about it while goofing off doing publicity work and skipping Question Time.

Instead of grilling Chris Bishop about how he's going to get this past Winston who will "dead on arrival" the proposal, Jenny May at TVNZ preferred to talk about the fires raging in the Port Hills - allowing Bishop to kick back and relax about Mark Mitchell is down there with Brooke Van Robot - both just standing around.

Jenny May asked Kieran what the way forward is? Naturally Bishop sat back and listened to Kieran do all the practical thinking here - as Kieran said he hoped the Review ( led by Sir Brian Roche ) would make some recommendations about the structure of Civil defence. Kieran said there were many restrictions on Government during Gabrielle and all Government could do was lend support - and they could not take over when things went wrong locally. After Kieran said nobody wants people from Wellington telling them how to do things but a balance is needed, Bishop agreed, and Jenny May wanted to know if Bishop enjoyed the Halberg Awards...

"How very look the other way when it comes to Bishop", said an organic punga, "Bishop keeps saying we have a range of options to duck answering".

"The Nats all say that but Kieran is the man", said a flax bush, "Jenny May takes too long to ask simple questions and runs out of time".

"There's a Range of options", warbled a majestical Tui, before yelling "YEAH RIGHT!!!" and flying off to peck at Chris Bishop.

"All of this is just part of the Atlas Network design to break down what is New Zealand and open it up to foreign investors at the expense of the ordinary Kiwi", said G from G News.

For some reason Anna dumped on Chris Hipkins this morning on Breakfast suggesting he did not want to go there about managed retreat while Anna was interviewing Sir Brian Roche ( Chair of Cyclone Recovery Review ) - but here at G News we went back and looked at the transcript and all Chippy said was he did not want to name specific areas because there are people in discussions at the moment and there will be some tough decisions in future - which is also pretty much what Sir Brian told Anna. Is Anna anti-Chippy? Why would she mischaracterise this?

In other shocking news, 7,000 children will be forced back into poverty by Nat MP Louis Upston and her callous, ideological stance on indexing benefits to inflation - according to advice to the minister which said her changes would mean by 2028 beneficiaries will likely be getting $18.15 less than they would under the current settings and that they would see 7000 more children living in poverty.

Upston tried to use the "there are a range of policies" technique in parliament yesterday that Bishop was using over the leaked Foreign Landlord job - and the "range of" is being used to avoid answering the real questions across National MPs - all of whom have no idea what to say.

Yesterday was another shocking day for Gerry in Parliament as he screwed up and was led around by the nose by Winston and Seymour in what is rapidly becoming a complete circus.

Nobody Reading this is Gerry Brownlee !!!

Hooray !!!

Associate Education Minister David Seymour (Alumni from the Atlas Network ) wants to crack down on truancy by prosecuting and fining more parents whose children are frequently absent from school.

Fines already exist but Seymour wants them applied much more frequently.

Chronic absenteeism (students who attend less than 70 per cent of the time) is still high at 12.6 per cent after sitting around 7-8 per cent in earlier years. Māori and Pacific students were worst affected. The Ministry of Education analysis said the figures were largely due to winter illnesses and the Covid-19 isolation period...but Seymour scoffed at that - as you do when you are Atlas Network trained and groomed ...

Seymour also wants truancy data published every week rather than every term, something yet to be agreed in Cabinet.

Once again Thomas Coughlan at the NZ Herald is the go-to reporter for Atlas Network messaging and refers constantly to a single Atlas Network Poll when he reports that "The Treaty" is now the number three issue for New Zealanders.

"The most recent Taxpayers Union-Curia poll asked voters what was the most important issue influencing their vote. The poll found the Treaty tied for third place, equal with “health” and “law and order” wrote Coughlan.

"Given the Treaty Principles Bill was the ONLY topic going into Waitangi Weekend in our news, Doubting Thomas is just amplifying influence for the Atlas Network here. He's speaking about a solitary Atlas poll taken in the first week of February", said G from G News ( that's me ).

It's another beautiful day here on Waiheke - and I need to go to the pharmacy soon, leaving Monty to "Kitten the fort". Monty says, "There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope" as he waits by his bowl for something extra.

If you are anything like me - it's been a shocking performance from the Three Headed Taniwha - so evasive, so regressive and not a single progressive policy that will actually help people in the most need - quite the opposite.

These people are destructive and covering up with their evasive tactics - and somewhere out there John Dory repeats in a straight jacket how we voted for change.

I'm glad for people like you...

Have a fabulous morning

G News - the Good News

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