The latest polls show the Coalition is failing to capture the hearts and minds of voters. Roy Morgan tells the story: support for National was down 2 percentage points from a month ago to 29 percent, ACT was unchanged on 10.5 and New Zealand First dropped 2.5 to 7.
In comparison, Labour increased 3 to 34, the Greens were up 2 to 13.5, while the Maori Party dropped 1 to 2.5 percent.
In other words, if an election was held tomorrow, Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party would be in government with 50 percent of the vote – up 4. The Coalition would be relegated to the opposition benches with 46.5 percent, down 4.5 to its lowest level of support this year.
So, what’s going on? Why aren’t the Coalition’s efforts to repair the damage created by that disastrous two-term Labour Government resonating more strongly with voters?
More importantly, why aren’t voters terrified of the prospect of being governed by the toxic trio – the grossly incompetent Labour Party, the extremist Greens, and the racist Maori Party?
The legacy media’s left-leaning bias has a lot to answer for – but so too does National’s lack of leadership. Media coverage is now much more politically charged than ever before, with, ironically, the State-owned TVNZ and Radio NZ amongst the worst offenders.
Why the Coalition hasn’t dealt with this absurdity, nor terminated Labour’s Public Interest Journalism Fund – a taxpayer-funded vehicle designed to advance their radical He Puapua agenda to replace democracy with tribal governance – which doesn’t expire until 2026, remains a mystery.
Overall, it appears the public are losing trust in the Coalition because they are not doing enough to address the deep concerns of voters who elected them in 2023 to rid us of Labour’s appalling legacy.
And that’s the problem. In spite of all their assurances, the economy is still failing to fire, cost-of-living pressures feel as bad as ever, and the tribal takeover continues its rapid advance. Exasperated voters are now pointing an angry finger at National and its leader.
A further problem is that all around the world we are witnessing real reform. In comparison, like Nero, the Coalition appears to be ‘fiddling while Rome burns’.
In Argentina, President Javier Milei has taken a chainsaw to government, introducing sweeping reforms that are transforming the country from a basket case into an economic powerhouse. By dramatically reducing the size of the State bureaucracy, he’s not only eliminating wasteful spending but slashing regulation and red tape in the process. Lower taxes and fewer barriers to growth have led to an economic resurgence, resulting in annual GDP growth of five percent and a budget surplus – eliminating Argentina’s fiscal deficit for the first time in over a century.
While there’s still a long way to go to “fix” the deep systemic problems caused by decades of tax-and-spend socialism, support for the President and his transformational reforms remains strong.
In the US, President Trump has also introduced sweeping reforms. Aimed at increasing economic resilience, he’s rejecting the socialist de-industrialisation agenda of the UN Paris Agreement, increasing tariff revenue in order to lower income tax, and eliminating government waste by purging ‘woke’ ideology from the State sector to stimulate growth and create work for Americans.
In the UK, the Reform Party is sweeping aside the traditional political establishment, with opinion polls showing it would decimate both Labour and the Conservatives if an election was held tomorrow. The appeal is its straight-talking common-sense approach.
Emulating Presidents Milei and Trump, Reform plans to pull the country out of Paris, as well as eliminate the dangerous social justice and woke agendas that are dragging the UK down.
Against this backdrop, our government’s failure to deliver reform in key areas of public concern, is creating disillusionment.
Not only has it failed to significantly cut Government spending, it has neglected to materially reduce the bloated public service which rose from 49,000 employees in 2017 to 65,000 under Labour. Since most of the increase were “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” hires, not only is the Coalition’s refusal to act costing $1.5 billion a year, but unproductive socialist activists, who are standing in the way of reform, remain embedded throughout the public sector.
It is these extremists who are pushing back against simple things like ensuring front-facing official communication channels with the public through websites, emails and letters, are in English, not Maori. They are also, no doubt, the reason taxpayers are still funding an organisation like the New Zealand Council for Educational Research that has “Decolonising education” as its primary objective!
Making matters worse, instead of being laser focussed on delivering their election promises, the Coalition has now become a cheerleader for Labour’s misguided attack on supermarkets. Instead of admitting government policy is largely responsible for escalating food prices, they too are blaming a lack of competition.
The key decisions that set the food price crisis in motion were made by Labour. Framed as bold climate leadership by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, her 2018 Captain’s Call banning offshore oil and gas exploration, and the 2019 Zero Carbon Act introducing the harshest emissions restrictions in the world, came with predictable consequences: energy shortages and rising fuel prices, as the cost of carbon soared from $17 in 2017 to $88.50 in 2022.
To deflect attention away from their own culpability for the inevitable escalation in food prices that followed such a dramatic rise in costs at every step of the supply chain, Labour orchestrated a high-profile crackdown on supermarkets. Under the guise of protecting consumers from price gouging, they shifted public attention to retail margins, claiming they were protecting consumers from higher prices, when in reality, their own policies were to blame.
Even at today’s carbon price of $56 a tonne, the costs on households is significant. A 17 cents per litre carbon levy on petrol adds around $10 onto the cost of filling an average car, while a 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour levy on electricity adds around $20 to an average monthly power bill.
While carbon charges are clearly putting direct pressure on households, the acceleration in operating costs on businesses – coupled with rising gas prices and relentless minimum wage increases – has not only forced up the price of all goods and services throughout the economy, but it has led to widespread business failure.
Such factors contributed to Fonterra’s decision to sell off its much-loved iconic Kiwi brands including Anchor, Mainland, Fresh’n Fruity, Kapiti and De Winkel.
Milk, butter, cheese, and yoghurt are all energy intensive, requiring heat, steam, and refrigeration. But as the gas shortage bit and ETS charges escalated, consumers – already struggling under the cost-of living crisis triggered by Jacinda Ardern’s reckless Covid overspending – turned to cheaper house brands.
With Fonterra’s consumer division losing NZ$164 million after tax in 2023, despite strong brand recognition, while the ingredients business posted a NZ$276 million profit, showing stronger returns and growing global demand, the Board announced their sale to the global French food giant Lactalis for up to $4.22 billion. Securing long-term milk supply agreements, and a capital return to farmer-shareholders, the company is pivoting to its strengths: ingredients, foodservice, and global B2B partnerships.
This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator, former Federated Farmers President and MP Owen Jennings, reflects on what he believes is a lost opportunity for New Zealand:
“As a former dairy farmer, I was shocked to learn that Fonterra is selling its brands’ business. For all my dairy farming years I heard that we needed to be closer to our consumers, that branding was an integral part of extracting profit from product sales and that we needed to better understand what our customers wanted. We needed to own the food chain – ‘plough to plate’.
“Then I read the explanations from CEO Hurrell. They made sense. Why keep on investing into the black hole that is marketing? A return of 4 or 5% sounded lame compared to double that for ingredient sales. It sounded even more lame in comparison to the return from organic product sales which are in the 40% return range.
“I just hope that the future doesn’t come down hard on the sale as short-sighted, a lost opportunity and lacking imagination.”
While the Fonterra Board has agreed to the sale, it still needs to be ratified by shareholder farmers in October, then receive regulatory approval.
When the Coalition was elected, instead of recognising the damage the zero-carbon agenda was causing the economy and taking their foot off the “de-industrialisation” accelerator, National ploughed on.
No doubt hoping they too could deflect attention from the impact their policies were having on food prices, they not only continued Labour’s attack on supermarkets, blaming rising food prices on a lack of competition, but have even talked about imposing structural changes on the sector – which is an astounding development given they like to think of themselves as champions of the free market.
What’s worse, is that in their haste to press ahead with their climate agenda, National is now involved in a misguided attempt to force farmers to use genetically engineered methane inhibitors on livestock – including as bolus drenches, vaccines, and grasses.
To facilitate this, they are now rushing ahead to liberalise the use of GE in New Zealand not only by ditching the requirement for all GE food to be labelled, but also through the Gene Technology Bill, deregulating gene editing itself.
Preventing New Zealand consumers from being able to tell whether or not they are buying GE food is, however, a step too far that is almost certainly undermining trust in the Coalition.
In fact a recent Farmers Weekly poll asking whether all food products should state on the label whether they have been genetically modified resulted in an overwhelming 95.4 percent of respondents saying ‘yes’, while only 4.6 percent said ‘no’.
Meanwhile with New Zealand’s food price rises largely driven by the impact of Labour’s gas shortages and National’s failure to halt UN de-industrialisation, there’s more pain to come. Business NZ has warned that a raft of major manufacturing company closures is on the cards as escalating energy costs force operational cutbacks, staff layoffs, and price increases.
While the Coalition has responded to the natural gas shortage by overturning Labour’s exploration ban and rolling out the red carpet to attract investors and incentivise new development, this is not a problem that has a quick fix.
In contrast, reducing the cost of carbon could be achieved relatively swiftly through regulatory changes. Although New Zealand’s climate targets under the Paris Agreement appear daunting on paper – with half of our reported emissions coming from methane from agriculture – the picture is distorted by the continued use of a flawed metric that significantly overstates the warming effect of methane.
As the Chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition and former Minister of Science and Technology Barry Brill explains: “If methane will cause only 25 percent as much warming as previously expected, then we won’t need those huge reductions, that appear in the now-outdated scenarios.”
In other words, if the equivalence values for methane are corrected, most carbon restrictions could be removed.
With climate policies decimating industries and causing real hardship for families, to prevent the situation from spiralling further out of control, National should announce a pause on all climate-related restrictions while the methane metrics are reviewed, and a recalibration of targets undertaken.
With the climate consensus now visibly crumbling around the world, sacrificing New Zealand’s economic wellbeing for over-stated Paris goals is impossible to defend, especially with China, India, Indonesia – and soon America – all charging ahead creating growth and prosperity on the back of affordable energy.
The Coalition has a lot on its hands, but it is in danger of throwing away the next election because it is losing the respect and trust of voters. ACT and New Zealand First are reading the room and both are raising legitimate concerns about the Coalition’s direction. National needs to listen and learn, before it’s too late.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Should the Coalition press ahead with the UN Paris Agreement’s de-industrialisation agenda, or press pause?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| This is unaffordable the cost to producers, NZ and particularly farming | Neville |
| Out of the Paris Accord and out of the corrupt UN. Time to do what is best for NZ and not answer to foreign despots | Carole |
| And also follow President Trumps lead and get out of the Paris Accord for the sake of making NZ strong again. | Willam |
| It’s a forlorn hope that this will make any difference. Let’s face it, it would be a miracle if this Coalition Government actually stood firm on anything. Watching weak-kneed Luxon and his three party ‘c\Coalition fumbling along trying to unravel the nightmare that Ardern, Hipkins and Robertson left behind turned into a continuous battle that they couldn’t handle. God knows what sort of a mess New Zealand will be in after Chippy and his shabby mates take control again. It’s highly likely to be a Maori-dominated He Puapua-focused sh*t fight like last time. | Phil |
| The impact on our tiny economy is immense and unacceptable particular as the big world players are not interested in the PA | David |
| Courage is the virtue that is required for all others. Of course PM Luxon does not have the courage to stop the UN Paris Agreement rort. | Monica |
| get ride of the agreement, its B/S | Chris |
| Leave now. What is the benefit for New Zealand ? Answer, NOTHING. Just sending us all broke along with the whole country. National seems ok with this. | Kevin |
| Climate change is not based on scientific fact. It was created to protect European markets from competition, | Elaine6 |
| the man made climate change cult is a distructive rort that cannot be substantiated in any way | Gordon |
| Pause, scientifically reassess, withdraw. Simple. | Rodge |
| NZ needs to withdraw totally from all this climate nonsense which is slowly destroying the New Zealand farming & manufacturing sector. | Warren |
| Press stop! Press leave! | jan |
| Leave permanently. Every person in NZ suffer higher prices on everything. We are all poorer. Food, power, petrol, diesel, natural gas running out. What the hell are our govts thinking ? Clearly they are in fairy land. Luxon needs to go if he thinks we need to stay in. We need a govt for the people. Unfortunately National, labour, greens and the treasonous maori party are not there for all New Zealanders. | Allan |
| should be pull out not pause, paying for all the fat corrupt cats that run this paris agreement would instead be better used for the benefit of the people of NEW ZEALAND | Richard |
| It’s a rort, an EU grift. Ditch it totally. | Laurine |
| The Agreement is a disaster – as it is ignored by the world’s worst polluting powers. | mary |
| One Law for all equalllity for everyone | Brian |
| The entire Agreement et al is a huge rort | Mark |
| C02 is plant food!-When are people going to realise this? | Derek |
| Get out of Paris totally | Roger |
| We need to play this game with caution. New Zealand is not the only country that is or will be hurting due to signing up with the UN Paris agreement. It will probably slowly disintegrate under it’s own weight of an unachievable end result. We need to proceed forward with much thought without scaring the horses. It would look likely that a lot of other nations are feeling the weight bearing down on their resources so we only need to read the room and prod the fire of pragmatism when more nations will eventually see the light of national bankruptcy. | Garry. |
| there should be a withdraw from the accord button! | Giles |
| Scrap it!! No Paris. | Kim |
| And then lose the remote. | Robert |
| What is wrong with Luxflake? | Richard |
| Bin the stupid thing. There is nothing man can do that will have any useful effect on the climate. | Brian |
| It doesn’t appear to really concern New Zealand | Denis |
| Just more nonsense. Get rid of it before it bankrupts our country – come on National – wake up before it’s too late!! | Don |
| From my understanding we continue to follow outdated & penalising targets. | Cedric |
| Too Much Hysteria. Too little rational thinking. | Bruce |
| Stop! Stop! Stop! | Jenny |
| Definitely press pause until the corrected recalculation of methane is factored into our carbon emissions calculation is actively pursued. Also it makes no sense to jump on NZ’s agriculture evaluations when NZ is probably the most efficient farmer in the world and any reduction in NZ production will need to be replaced by less efficient countries thus effectively increasing world emissions. It defies logic. | Keith |
| NZ should never even have entered into these agreements. Just woke BS and posturing. | Brent |
| Let NZ decide what`s best for NZ, not some foreign, remote organisation with its own agenda | Pieter |
| NZ should only press ahead with the climate change initiatives at the pace shown by the key countries in the rest of the world OR because we need to make progress to maintain access to markets for our products. The methane issue must be resolved. | Gary |
| Pull out and fight to have it removed altogether | Owen |
| Stop it now, Get out of Paris. Get rid of the Political Parties who participate in this SCAM. Just because PM Luxon states it will affect our trading, in reality does not make it so. it suits their/Globalist agenda not New Zealands needs. | Sam |
| We should kick the whole darn thing to the kerb. Whats the point when the biggest emitters in the world wont stop. | Wayne |
| Climate change is a giant fraud to keep you poor and under control. The UN is massive scam controlled by the billionaire elites to keep you poor and under control. No one in NZ government has the guts to pull us out of the Paris agreement. if you think our politicians are in control you’ve gotta be dreamin! | Alan |
| We should not be part of the Paris accord because the cost is to great and is slowing growth and prosperity. Natonal under Luxon have not improved the outcome and are too slow to make radical change and that it reflected in the polls while ACT and NZFirst are gaining in public support. | Ken |
| As soon as possible! What ever happened to good old common sense? | Albert |
| Not just pause! Cease and desist! I’m oldf and near the end of my time, howeer, I fear for the future of my grandsons and their offsprings! | Michael |
| A costly unnecessary exercise. | Murray |
| More than press pause, just scrap it | Peter |
| DITTO! Check-out the elitist globalists running Fonterra – the sale of parts of it will have millions flow into their pockets. Plus, wait for the new owners to shut these businesses down on a whim! No country on the planet will achieve prosperity by de-industrialisation. Industrialisation created the modern economy that gave us prosperity. The politicians who rushed to China to trade away the soul of the economy should be publicly named for the policy actions that have resulted in what we have today. Aided and abetted by following fraudulent socialist science. Both carbon dioxide and methane are microscopic gases that mathematically are incapable of affecting a 5,000 trillion-ton atmosphere. One question that uncovers the fraud is: Where does the planet get its oxygen from? The answer is the planet gets its oxygen from carbon dioxide. When the planet is doubling its population every 50 years it is obvious we need more oxygen! (Oxygen amounts are slowly depleting). Carbon dioxide is a friendly natural gas and the contribution from human endeavours is vital for human existence in the future. There is also insufficient evidence to disprove that increases in carbon dioxide are the result of global warming – not its creator! Prime Minister Luxon is an elitist globalist who we believed would change for the betterment of NZ politics – but he has not! He is likely to become the first PM to become a teenager – that is, his popularity will fall below 20%. The biggest fear must be that the political system itself, driven by socialist climate policies, has become a collection of Watchers they just watch as the only fuel refinery shuts down. They just watch as a 100 companies shut-down throwing whole communities into despair. The possibilities of civil unrest keeps rising everyday as impoverishment grows. Australia is no safe haven as socialism is ripping the heart out of the national economy. | Frederick |
| If Luxon doesn’t press pause on the UN Paris agreement, he’ll be as responsible as Jacinda’s Captain call for destroying NZ’s economy, either he gets this call right to pull out of the Paris accord or National need to roll him & replace him with somebody that has balls. | John |
| Shouldn’t just press pause, they should press cancel. | Shane |
| climate change agenda is another excuse to impose an unnecessary tax on us hard working tax payers!! | David |
| Absolutely | ken |
| Exit Paris agreement immediately | Chris |
| Press pause and pull out | Denise |
| The whole con continues with wars raging, weapons being endlessly manufactured, people’s lives being destroyed, cities trashed, tourism being promoted with emissions through the roof, consumerism at an insane level so where is the direction? Out of our control, of course. One huge volcano eruption will do more damage than humans ever could. The farmers are hammered while wild herds of wilderbeasts, reindeer, buffalos, elephants etc emit much more methane than our small herds. | Susan |
| Not press pause, press get out altogether. What is the use of paying millions of dollars to that bunch when we don’t get anything back for the money. Keep the money and use it to improve our problems. | Peter |
| The difference to Global Warming is negligible and not worth ruining our economy over. Drop Paris altogether given that’s what the big players have done. | John |
| Better yet, withdraw totally asap. | Fletcher |
| We should quit Paris altogether. | Glyn |
| QUIT PARIS altogether. It’s a huge scam to defraud us of Billions of dollars that NZ NEEDS doe its own purpose. Simple Simon Watts, VOTE HIM OUT North Shore. | Coral |
| just BIN the stupid bloody nonsense!!!!! | Brian |
| There is no need to get out of Paris, but modify our commitment. There should be no money paid for planting pine trees. If farmers can make money planting and selling pine, that should be allowed, but they should not be paid by the government | Chuck |
| Not only pause but withdraw totally | Stan |
| It is Obvious! | Keith |
| We should leave the Agreement as soon as possible. It is based on a fraud – CO2 does NOT drive the climate. | Trevor |
| Not just a pause do away with them totally | Chris |
| Lets evaluate before jumping. | Chris |
| get rid of it all together | Gerhard |
| Excellent article Muriel. From comments it is clear many believe net zero is nonsense, a scam, a transfer of wealth. It is a race to the bottom. National are not that stupid, thus it must be deliberate. ACT and NZ First are ready to talk, support them, because National are NOT listening, refusing to engage. National, Labour, nutty woke parties, think we the people are stupid, Prove them wrong. | Sam |
| the sooner the better | john |
| this blind obedience to the paris accord & zero carbon, all based on flawed modeling, is cripling NZ’s economy. It needs to be thrown out, along with this ‘He Papa’ and public interest journalism propoganda. If te coallition dont act, they will be out next election. | Andrew |
| We should not continue with the Paris Agreement – the large countries are not party to it – we do our best and would continue to without the Agreement | Trinda |
| Pull out of the Paris accord | Peter |
| PA is a rort. | Sandra |
| They should not only press pause but withdraw from the Agreement completely. It is a waste of time and money and will achieve absolutely nothing. Once again it has nothing to do with climate but a scam designed to shift money from the richer nations to the corrupt nations of the world. | Allan |
| STOP IT | GORDON |
| DO IT NOW.!!! | GORDON |
| The Paris Agreement was based on garbage science and lies. CO2 is a blessing to the planet and has led to a 30% increase in plant growth and a huge greening of the planet equal in area of the U.S.A. This area used to be desert until recent years. | ross |
| It’s a nonsense and ruining our country | Tony |
| Stop completely | Kylie |
| The country’s political leaders should never have signed such a shonky deal. Leaving immediately would be the best outcome. | Gavin |
| I doubt they will though, | mike |
| To me it is so obvious that they should press pause that I wonder if our PM has been captured by the globalists agenda in the U.N and just how much control these people have over our country. Nothing would surprise me. What I have heard is they want control over countries soverenty. I can’t believe what short memories some people have over just how badly the left wing parties treated us during Covid and what disasterous decisions they made with so many things, I can only come to the realisation that there are in fact an awful lot of extremely unintelligent people with little to no common sense who sadly reside in this country. I believe it will be a disaster for this country if the left regain power next election. It is truly quite frightening. | Paul |
| Should stop the Paris Agreement at all costs. | Wendy |
| Unfortunately, National is stuck because they really do believe they are doing the correct thing with climate policy and as long as they continue things will only get worse. | Liz |
| N Z needs to pull out of the Paris Accord. The country is already buried in debt. Stagflation alive and well in N Z today. Hyper stagflation will surely follow. Who in Govt can lead us out of this mess? Not the current P M thats for sure. | Lawrence |
| we need to protect and improve our standard of living. Too many costs and too many regulations and rules arfe dragging us down. | Margaret |
| Common sense is a luxury these days! | Caroline |
| Havve NO FAITH or TRUST in this Agreement it can be ALTERED TO SUIT THERE OWN AGENDER”S | Bill |
| Scrap all that BS completely | Laurie |
| Pause should be permanent! This is the biggest scam ever inflicted on mankind. | Warren |
| There is considerable discontent world wide about the likely effectiveness the Paris Agreement . I think we need more time to discuss and debate the likely outlook for NZ | Frank |
| dont they read the latest peerreviewed papers? They akl need a “think” pill. | murray |
| There is no such thing as “climate change”, it is called WEATHER. To commit and waste taxpayers money on this scam is criminal and the actions of idiots. Withdraw yesterday! | Terry M |
| The paris cost is in billions. If such a decision was to be to the detriment of farm produce prices..then use the billions to compensate farmers. This is an industry making billions out of nothing. How come the climate crisis is growing fast…because there have been ice ages and droughts for ever, and the ‘industry of carbon’ is just rorting the world. Dumb people who will not seek the truth are ridden roughshod by the oligarchs at the top who promote climate change is man made. | John |
| Coaltion needs to wake up…. and ACT | Gill |
| get out of the Paris agreement and the communist dominated UN altogether | bill |
| One in all in . Same rule for all. If all do not join scrap the farce of accord. This has to be the small countries being bullied by the large none compliant countries. | Steve |
| Yes they should and cut the bullshit & also get on to do what the people of this country voted them in to do regards the Maori problem, as you say before it’s too late. National wake up and pull finger. | COLIN |
| In a country as small as NZ and not very industrialised I cannot understand why we are paying such a huge price. | Doreen |
| We must immediately remove NZ from the Paris Agreement. Luxon and Willis’ loudly affirmed reasons for staying in the agreement are false. They say removal would affect the status of our food exports. What a load of rubbish! Luxon, especially, is wedded to the UN . NZ First and Act are committed to push for our removal from the Paris Agreement. | Mary |
| Call out the climate scam for what it is, a scam. It’s outrageous our idiot Politian’s are so stupid or so evil (I haven’t worked out which but it’s probably a combination of the two). | Richard |
| Time to stop and reassess the position. | COLIN |
| Get out of the Paris Agreement asap | Lenice |
| The loony left’s scare tactics have largely run their course, and people are starting to realise that we can survive this ‘crisis’ without destroying our economy. It’s high time that Luxon understood this and acted upon it! | TOBY |
| Pull out now. | ARTHUR |
| No need to continue if major countries no longer support the Paris agreement | Wayne |
| we don’t need it | Grant |
| We don’t need it | Carol |
| The Paris Agreement is a Climate Cult Agreement. New Zealand should get out of this cult. | Kent |
| National hasn’t understood the background history of the Paris scam otherwise they would have dumped it immediately on gaining power. | Rex |
| This only eating up Resorces and money. End it | carl |
| It is insane to continue on.If they wont change coarse It will be disastrous for the economy,but what are the alternatives???? | ray |
| After changing the government at the last election we thought we had set the country on the right road but now we are bogged down with disagreement and lack of decision by the National and time is slipping by. Major sales by the companies we depend on for exports are abandoning ship. We need the Government to wake up to what’s going wrong. | CHRIS |
| Not pause but get rid of it altogether. Anyway what sort of Agreement is it ?? ie what documentation did any Country sign ?? Also get rid of the UN and whilst about it dissolve the EU. | Alan |
| The analysis of how and which emissions influence climate change needs very well informed decision making. I.e.the farmer usually takes the blame but how about the emissions from all those planes taking politicians to very important meetings and half the country overseas to escape winter. So let’s not hobble industries large and small with misdirected costs.Allow that money to help the domestic economy. | Anne |
| We are clearly on the wrong track | Bruce |
| There is no benefit to either NZ or achieving the supposed reduction of methane to continue with this farse. | Allan |
| It should do more than press pause. It should remove us from that agreement. | Murray |
| Rather bow out altogether as it is completely unnecessary. | Steve |
| Cancel altogether. | Phil |
| crippling our economy when the major emitters are ignoring the agreement is ludicrous | Gordon |
| I’m sick of saying this WILL LUXON EVER LISTEN to others who read the room & know better. | Cindy |
| Get out now | Neil |
| We need to be truthfully given the facts as to the real cost of trying to be world leaders in the doubtful climate change emergency as mandated by our dear Jacinda. | Barry |
| We should endeavour to protect our complete environment, but not to the extent that we destroy our economy. | Alan |
| The Paris Accord is a farce and a dangerous tool being used by the socialist dominated UN to crush democratic nations. We need to reject it immediately otherwise NZ is doomed to third rate economic mediocrity and Third World status. | John |
| Press pause – otherwise we’re stuffed! As if we haven’t got enough problems to deal with in NZ at the moment. | Scott |
| ITS A JOKE | Noel |
| Biggest scam in modern history and will take 20 years to rectify | Mike |
| this should actually be stop not pause. we need to get out of it now. human influence on the climate is a scam using data that is less than 100 years old, the planet has been around longer than that and the climate has been in constant change for 64 Billion years | Alastair |
| Luxon needs to listen more to his coalition partners ers | Gail |
| Much of the theory behind Climate change continues to be debunked. NZ cannot afford to remain a party to this farce | Rob |
| If this is not happening immediately , we will go down in flames. | Michael |
| Press cancel | Penina |
| Get out of the accord all together! | Trevor |
| This again is very divisive . Racist as well again ! | RUSS |
| National should be looking after the people of nz and be realistic instead of the woke crap | Alan |
| The MADNESS must STOP. | mike |
| there is absolutely no valid scientific basis for this giant rort and should be stopped | j0hn |
| New Zealand industrial footprint is relatively small in global terms and mainly serves local supply and demand. removing our industries would force us to seek products and services externally at inflated prices and a larger carbon footprint. Doesn’t make practical or economic sense unless that is the intention! | Martin |
| Unbelievable we even to ask this question – climate change” in all its guises has always been and continues to be a giant scam. | Roy |
| How do we get a rational debate on Climate Change in front of the public? Why is state media not instructed to be bipartisan? | Mark |
| Get rid of it entirely | HARVEY |
| This government should draw a big fat red line to the paris accoord bull shit. There is NO climate change at all. Just read Ian Bradford’s essays. | peter |
| As in pause to give us time to evaluate. Before stepping off the cliff edge. But for those farmers reliant on Paris start producing Paris equivalent produce as their standard. | Bob |
| Press pause with a view to leaving asap | Ray |
| All our parties are globalists | Mark |
| conditions have changed and the whole process needs revaluation | ARTHUR |
| We should pull out until China and others contribute to the ETS according to their pollution levels. | Malcolm |
| It is a lot of money we can use for our country. I cant see any good for us to go along with this agreement. | Barbara Goldstone |
| Actually Press the STOP button. Both Luxon and Watts are NOT working for New Zealand’s Benefit and should both resign as they are unable to comprehend the science information that has been handed to them . Maureen Pugh knew this from day one but the Poor Manager demoted her . | Noel |
| We should never have been blindsided by unfounded data presented by so-called experts who clearly knew next to nothing about the subject. | Bruce |
| Luxon is a hopeless waste of space all part of the W E F plan to make NZ broke | Ian |
| No comment do as Trump has done | rob |
| Our grandchildren will look back at the first half of the 21st Century and be staggered by how much they will still have to pay for the self inflicted economic destruction “we” caused from an obsessive, almost religious, belief in a pseudo scientific scam that gripped our generation of the ruling elite in near mass hysteria and fervour to be seen to be compliant with the EWO regardless of the collateral damage to the long term health of our country. | Francis |
| I would go further and suggest we should pull out of the Paris Agreement. Based on past statistical information presented by the UN. I seriously doubt the accuracy of their claims. Or, we could carry on as the last government did and import dirty coal from Indonesia to power our electricity supply. Sinical perhaps but true. Then you have the serious economic impact to our country which could be better spent at home to achieve better results. | chris |
| We are far too small a country and far from the end of our food production to be in the Paris agreement. We simply cannot afford to keep on with the current direction. I think National has dropped the ball and needs to wake up before its too late. | Ian |
| The risk of negative response from trading partners is less than the real danger of the economic and social sabotage inherent in pursuing the Paris Agreement flawed obligations. | Peter |
| It’s a scam | Greg |
| Get a reality grip National, you are holding NZ back, cut funding to carbon focused agencies and disestablish all jobs that focus on it. | Gaye |
| NetZero is a delusion. It is a physical impossibility – and therefore will not occur. But it is costing us dearly pressing ahead on an impossibility | AndyE |
| About time to pull out of it ! | Patrick |
| As a member of 50shadesofgreen and the Methane Science Accord, I have donated many thousands of dollars to removing ruminant animal emissions from the Paris Accord. | Derek |
| Definately | Barbara |
| We should protect New Zealanders and the New Zealand environment first. Stop sending our taxes overseas, use it to prevent issues such as ground water pollution, hospitals, roads, etc. | Donald |
| Definitely press the pause button! We, as a nation, cannot afford this moneymaking scam being inflicted upon Sovereign Nations! We make our own decisions, we do not need some overseas, unelected entity telling us what to do or not do. | Heather |
| Press pause, and decouple which will stop the money flow. Socialists love enslaving us with our taxpayer’s money. Stop being conned. | Donald |
| NZ should pull out of the Paris Agreement.Luxons excuse we will lose custom from overseas buyers is utter nonsense. Our biggest trade partners, China, US,, India no longer belong. The bigger reason to lose custom will be going ahead with GE. Overseas countries do NOT want product from a GE country. Noone wants their food contaminated and unlabelled somwe dont know what we are consuming. Madness. | Gail |
| very definitely | Paul |
| Press pause Bruce | Bruce |
| I push the wrong button | richard |
| The biggest waste of money this country has ever committed its self to. It needs to end now | Owen |
| Should really press Full Stop. | Allan |
| We should pull out of the Paris Agreement totally as have the USA. | John |
| Read articles by Profs R Lindzen and Prof William Happer of MIT and Princeton as an example. | Stephen Field |
| End the scam. | Mick |
| Pull out of it altogether. | Chris |
| Luxon is fiddle faddle and not stepping up to the tough stuff we wanted him to action. Only choices to turn the tide are Act or NZ First now. | Mike |
| Common sense must be applied, not idealism. | Peter |
| They possibly should have left it where Labour signed up for | Ngare |
| It is scandalous that NZ officials and parliamentarians continue to use outdated metrics in regard to methane’s impact on the climate. | Terry |
| time they got a reality check!! | Chris |
| Better still- just leave Paris – it was a stupid idea to begin with and looks even sillier as time goes by -LEAVE! | Roger |
| Get out of the Scam altogether. | Kevin |
| NZ should totally withdraw from the stupid Paris agreement & get on with getting moving this country forward. Luxon is useless. David Seymour is the only one I trust. | David |
| this country is stuffed if it doesn’t pause | k |
| Get rid of netzero completely | Graeme |
| It is obvious, the government has no understanding of natural science, and the people don’t understand it is all about money and world control. | Peter |
| and take a deep, deep breath | Jan |
| We make no difference with our tiny emissions | Lindsay |
| Get out of Paris Agreement. It is stupid for New Zealand to be part of that nonsense. | Dianna |
| NZ needs to remove this deadline of Two Thousand and Thirty it will destroy our industry and farming | Leo |
| Focus on real productivity and real markets such as China, Asia & US. Forget about the losers in the EU and their bullying tactics, it is collapsing regardless. The world has already moved on & so should we. | Greg |
| And scrap this absurdity. | John |
| People need to see the “Cold Truth” video. Explains about carbon being esential for life on earth. Man made global warming is a hoax. | Geoff |
| Don’t just pause but pull out | Gareth |
| I do not want to live in a third world country thanks. Drop the Paris accord in the bin. | Mark |
| Press (full) stop! | Tony |
| Should get out of it completely | Trevor |
| We should get out of the Paris agreement now. How much more are we to suffer form this wrought system | Rod |
| The Climate Crisis is a gigantic fraud – same as the Covid scam! | Donna |
| For God’s sake National start growing some common sense. You’ve done a lot of damage to NZ along with Labour in the last 30 years now listen to your coalition partners and get rid of that stupid Paris agreement and get rid of the Waitangi Tribunal as well. Then maybe you will see more support . And while your at it, start doing what you promised prior to the election of winding back the maorification of NZ or your going to be toast come the next election. | Peter |
| To avoid economic disaster | Mike |
| Is it too late with the indoctrination of the public well advanced. Compare with the same problem on tangata whenua issues. | Tony |
| Causing the country too much financial grief | Edward |
| get out NOW | peter |
| Not pause – just delete! | Dave |
| The Government should go further and get out of all UN mandates to do with the ridiculous narratives about climate change. | Ronnie |
| Stop completly | Ranald |
| Pause is NOT good enough. Dump it completely is what is required.. | Bryan |
| And then reject it totally ASAP | Geoffrey |
| Continuing in the current direction is sheer lunacy. | Lucy |
| Completely exit from this commitment. | kevin |
| National party has lost out vote as they have not taken the voters concerns on what Labour did to our country seriously but just set up their own agenda. Bad news | Heather |
| press ‘stop’ | Susan |
| It is my view the NZ should withdraw from both the Paris and Kyoto agreements. Both serve no purpose whatsoever as far as New Zealand and New Zealanders are concerned. | pdm |
| Remove ourselves from this nonsense of the Paris ‘agreement’ | Peter |
| Or better still pull out now! | Dallas |
| Asleep at the wheel! | Rob |
| Climate change is a huge scam and what carbon emissions NZ produces is a miniscule drop in the ocean compared to any other country. Get out of The Paris Accord , The UN, WHO Etc immediately. | Wayne |
| Get out of the Paris Agreement now! | Rod |
| It is beyond my comprehension why voters continue to vote National when it was that Party who got us into the climate scam by signing the Paris Acord, and who got us into an even deeper hole by approving the signing of U.N.D.R.I.P. Now, instead of supporting either ACT or NZ First, a recent Poll indicates disgruntled voters are likely to allow the absolute disastrous LEFT to have a chance to even more quickly destroy our democracy. This is probably assisted by the indoctrinated younger generation coming through as a numerically powerful voting block, who’s lack of life experience persuades their voting preference. | A.G.R. |
| press pause now!! | nevkath |
| NOT JUST PAUSE! STOP STOP STOP! | Murray |
| Luxons view that international customers will drop our products if we do is pure crap. | Nick |
| Sorry I do not understand the question. Get out of the Paris Accord? Yes, Immediately. | Allan |
| Carbon Zero is absolute nonsense. Their New World Order is no new it is Communism. | Michael |
| We need the guts to stop this carbon nonsense | Doug |
| Paris agreement is all UN bull s—-t | clint |
| We need to get out of the Paris Agreement now. Surely National and their party advisors can see what’s happening | Judy |
| Better still, Completly withdraw from the agreement. | john |
| We need to do this now and also pull out of the Paris agreement before it is too late. Energy prices are soaring thanks to Labours policies and it has become an expensive country to love | Lawrie |
| There is NO global warming.. Do the research. | Linda |
| Leave it | Stephen |
| Do it now.press pause! | Ann |
| Not just pause – pull right out – it is destroying our economy and Australia’s. Luxon knows it – he’s a globalist! Only explanation. | John |
| very costly this Country for no reason | frank |
| Or better get out. The Govt’s pronouncements are just rubbish. CO2 is plant food and is not a danger. The bigger issues are over popuation and plastic pollution. | Gerry |
| Careful consideration is required. National has shown no ability at that. | malcolm |
| We are on the slippery slide and National is acting like the proverbial frog, not aware of the danger of failure to move on important issues..At 80, will be the first time not to vote for them! | Ken |
| Drop this Nefarious Scam of the UN Paris Agreement for Carbon Reduction. Basic Science tells us that without Carbon Dioxide all the Plants would Die followed by us..Change the wording to Environment and most of us would be onboard as that’s something we can change, the Climate no way. | Geoff |
| Carbon Zero is not possible as all living organisms use carbon in their metabolism and therefore their growth. Does carbon zero mean getting rid of all living matter ? Only an incorrectly functioning brain cell would say that. Carbon dioxide is not a climate change (global warming) gas but in actual fact an integral part of the animal plant food chain. If no carbon dioxide then there is no food, no food then famine and death – extinction. The climate change scientists need to go back to what they should have learnt in year 13 science. It is so basic and yet the principle is forgotten. Ask the question “Why do many greenhouse growers inject carbon dioxide into their green houses?” The answer is to promote better plant growth and therefore better food production. The climate change narrative is nothing more than an industry trying to get their feet into the government feed trough. | Kevin |
| We add next to nothing to it, let the large polluting countries pay for it | Laurie |
| Press stop. Flawed science modelling. Cost of living could be reduced by reduced Carbon prices. Ask the Public if saving Household costs by dumping carbon pricing embedded is important to them. | Glenn |
| It is time that Luxon listened to the people of NZ and pull us out of the Paris agreement. There are some intelligent National Party MPs and they should get together and tell Luxon to pull his head in and listen to what the majority of people want and not listen to his cunning Maori advisers who appear to have him brainwashed. Luxon also tries to undermine NZ First and the Act Party every time they try to introduce a policy that would benefit all the people of NZ | Steve |
| NZ cant afford to take a self-sacrificial virtue signalling position when leading industrial countries are doing the opposite. We need to be pragmatic and have the courage to own our decisions. | Geoff |
| A big fat NO, go back to the science and don’t do a Jacinda just to make us look good…we’ve got our economy at stake! Therefore people/taxpayers and without “real” taxpayers our country is shooting itself in the foot. By “real” I mean genuine workers & businesses not people on taxpayer handouts, dispensed by Govt departments. | Heather |
| It should never have been signed in the first place.It has been a con job all along with many too stuoid and poorly informed tosee the obvious.Why have we so many useless idiots in out midst?My guess is that we have been dumbed down by our education system for too long. | galem |
| But can Luxon change direction? Might Maureen Pugh give him some books to read like Steve Koonin’s ” Unsettled” or the US Department of Energy’s latest report by the likes of Judith Curry et al.. The game is over, and National needs to get on the right side of history. | Tony |
| get rid of the carbon credit schemes | Norm |
| You already quoted one very good example – “Why the Coalition hasn’t dealt with this absurdity, nor terminated Labour’s Public Interest Journalism Fund – a taxpayer-funded vehicle designed to advance their radical He Puapua agenda to replace democracy with tribal governance – which doesn’t expire until 2026, remains a mystery.” In my whole life I have never seen National as weak as it is appearing now. Some commonsense moves like de-funding counterproductive areas of taxpayer expenditure would be easy – but is obviously lost on this Coalition partnership. Kiwis need stronger leadership in parliament along with significant improvements made to MMP. | Andrew |
| Do not pay Paris a cent. | Arthur |
| We are sooo thick…isn’t this an obvious rort? | Bill |
| Pull out of the Paris agreement ASAP. If not this, then remove methane from the calculations for greenhouse gases. | Laurence |
| Destroying the NZ economy is not going to save the planet. | Grant |
| The sooner the better | ray |
| It’s going to collapse – New Zealand adds no value due to our miniscule emissions compared to larger economies. The BRIC economies are going to press ahead with urgency building more genersation capacity using fossil fuels. | Peter |
| First thing they need to do is dump Luxon he is a WEF stooge and is a globalist who does not have the interests of NZ in mind | Chris |
| Pull out of the Paris agreement altogether. | Colin |
| There is no factual truth in the formats they are using, so they are using false info. | Robyn |
| Needs to get facts right before continuing-at their peril if they don’t start to listen! | Carol |
| Not only press pause but cease the Agreement altogether | Graeme |
| The UN are living in cloud cuckoo land, about time we recognise this and disconnect from them | Gareth |
| The nonsense needs to be stopped now. The Paris agreement is the biggest heist of a cuntries funds imaginable. Daylight robbery and sold to the muppets who seem unable to sort the chaff from the wheat. The world climate is well able to administer itself without donations from poor battling Kiwi’s. | John |
| It is time for the Coalition to think very carefully about every action the take before plunging in and drowning !!! | Murray |
| The UN is another of Humanities failed fantasies. Needs a total flush . | Chris |
| If I had another million dollars I would leave this country for good! Luxon needs to wake up, harden up and man up to get NZ on the right track. | chris |
| Defiantly press pause | Tony |
| National have stuffed their opportunity as they always do. | evans |
| It’s ridiculous to carry on with it | Kate |
| Get us out of this ASP | Colin |
| Not just pause but delete entirely and start a programme to prepare the country for the inevitable climate change. | Rob |
| Just get out of Paris | COOKIE |
| We should never had signed such an accord | Dominique Greenslade |
| It’s time to stop funding the Paris so called accord. Where is the money going to? and used for??? | Dominique Greenslade |
| Withdraw Withdraw 100% | SIMon |
| PAUSE TODAY WITHDRAW THE NEXT DAY. Government has ALL the science to make the correct decision. | RICHard |
| about time | Ian |
| Definitely pause UN Paris Agreement commitments pending proper understanding and acceptance of methane validity | Peter |
| New Zealand doesn’t produce enough emissions to be concerned about | Gavin |
| Stop involvement with the climate nonsense, full stop. People need to read actual science. | Grant |
| Probably best to at least renegotiate the terms we agreed to as this affects our exports. | Brenton |
| Press STOP. Get out of the Paris agreement. Abolish the carbon tax. | David |
| NZ should get out of it. We’re stupid destroying our economy for nothing. Of course, this is to be expected with the headless-chook LUXON at the helm. He needs to go. | Simon |
| It’s a total waste of time – bin it. | Andrew |
| They need to get out of that agreement YESTERDAY! | Brenda |
| This whole man-made climate change is a socialist scam, propagated by leftist media. | rodge |
| Press the “eject” button on everything UN related. Losing Trust in Milei!! At a time of extreme fiscal austerity, the allegations that his powerful sister and secretary general of the presidency, Karina Milei, profited from a bribery scheme in Argentina’s disability agency have exploded onto the headlines here, threatening to sully the government’s reputation ahead of national midterms at the end of October. Milei denies the claims. https://apnews.com/article/argentina-javier-milei-karina-milei-scandal-55f0124e6ba94874229ce3cb009db805 Argentina: Will Milei change course after landslide defeat? https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-will-president-javier-milei-change-course-after-landslide-defeat-in-buenos-aires-elections/a-73937964 Argentinians deliver electoral blow to Milei’s scandal-rocked government https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/argentina-election-javier-milei | neil |
| Trouble is that Luxon and his cohort fail to read the room and are basically ignorant and incapable of critical thought. | Alan |
| Ditch the Paris agreement. Muriel’s synopsis is bang on. Luxon has failed all round. He is not a leader so why does he not have competent advisors? Purge the Public Service of UN and woke ideologues. Stop believing climate change crap. Stop inventing Maori wonderfulness. | Peter |
| When are the sheople gonna wake up, it’s never been about the climate or the enviroment, it’s always been a trojan horse from the beginning to push global socialism, control and transfer of wealth. They have even stated this themselves from the CEO of the IPCC, 10 years ago. The only reason Luxon is bowing down to the UN and IPCC is to keep trade going in the big boys club. It’s a house of cards on the brink of collapse. He needs to grow a pair and stand up for actual science, not pseudo science and the welfare of the farmers and citizens of this country otherwise they will look like the biggest fools. | Steve |
| Absolute no brainer | Doug |
| Pull out of the Paris charade immediately | Gordon |
| NZ should never have entered the Paris Agreement – the whole thing is a left-wing scam. It is incredible that it has been so successful in convincing people the world is about to end given how daft the whole proposition is! | Don |
| Better late than never! | Murray |
| I can’t believe Luxon is so stupid that he can’t see the writing on the wall. Paris is falling apart. New Zealand should be retreating not doubling down! | Paul |
| At last people are waking up to the fact that man-made global warming is disinformation on steroids! | Helen |
| Press pause, sort out the models and remove the useless costs we are all having to pay. | Simon |