Ben McNulty
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Wellington City Councillor for the Takapū/Northern Ward. Proud Dad. Occasional good tweets.
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1. Johnsonville, Newlands, Paparangi, Woodridge, Churton Park, Grenada Village, Glenside, Grenada North, Tawa, Linden
2. Hataitai
3. The rest
@FoxyLustyGrover
@johnnycleaver
@dimsie
I need to rank the Wellington suburbs for the Spinoff or Scoop so that you Aucklanders can understand
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New Zealand has the highest youth suicide rate in the world. Every National MP just voted against a measure that would materially improve this stat. That's repulsive.
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"It's all very good to call a local swimming pool a nice to have if you have a swimming pool in your own backyard".
@chrishipkins
bringing some much needed discussion around values to LGNZ.
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At the risk of offending the entire Horowhenua District, Waitārere Beach is a gem, but the car culture on the beach is pure garbage. The last thing I should be worried about when building sandcastles with my son on a beach is him running into oncoming traffic.
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Going to make an audacious call here. These are the best Salt & Vinegar chips in NZ ergo these are the best in the world.
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Out in Newtown last night and I thought this was such a fantastic example of density done well. These houses are lifting the character and value of Newtown, not taking away from it!
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Let us collectively put aside our differences when it comes to Favourites and agree that Cadbury Roses are absolutely abysmal.
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Unconfirmed but hearing solid reports from my cousins best mates brother in law that Clarke Gayford stole the cookie from the cookie jar.
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Nothing I can add that hasn't already been said kindly about Jacinda today, just a massive thank you. What I am left with is the question of why would any woman want to run for office in this country? The misogyny and abuse is unreal.
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The vote on those agreeing to retain the Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Māori ward within WCC.
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If I were the government I would simply not underfund the health budget by over $1.5bn a year.
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Good thing the right-wing of this country haven't spent the past two years on a prolonged scare campaign to convince the public there is no need for water reform...
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Johnsonville is currently being terrorized by a group of errant peacocks:
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Pēpi
#2
joined the world last night. Mum was a champion and the midwives were (as always) just amazing.
Taking some time off for a while. ❤️👨🍼
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What an absolutely short-sighted kick in the balls this is for the Wellington region.
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Absolutely stoked to announce I'll be running for Labour in Takapū/Northern Ward this October. As someone who has started my family here in Johnsonville, I want Wellington to be an exciting, vibrant place for my son to grow up.
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Excellent members bill pulled out the biscuit tin by Ibrahim Omer.
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Luxon's speech to LGNZ shows that central government are basically pissed off their tax cuts have been eaten by rates increases and their solution is to belittle them instead.
No understanding of the underlying inflationary pressure on fixed costs. Short on vision.
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I have a standing apology for council meetings over this month due to being on paternity leave and this morning Cr Chung voted not to accept it. Geez, I wonder where the 'dysfunction' in this council originates from?
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"Flaccid vision", couldn't have said it better myself.
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This is the Wgtn Green Gecko (Moko Kākāriki). Native to Wgtn but found especially in Johnsonville & Tawa. Wgtn Zoo want to make this guy a symbol of our city, 100% on board.
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Peters literally helped repealed Fair Pay Agreements which would've represented the biggest step forward in workers rights in over three decades.
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Not basics according to our PM:
❌️ Libraries
❌️ Pools
❌️ Community Centres
❌️ Social Housing
❌️ Climate Change Resilience
Ratepayers expect local government to do the basics.
What they don’t expect to pay for are the laundry-list of distractions and experiments that are plaguing council balance sheets right across the country.
So, today I challenged those at the Local Government New Zealand
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Fun fact about why they say Wellington is unbeatable on a good day. Scientists have proven that a good day in Wellington is anywhere from 10-20% gooder than anywhere else in the world, hence unbeatable.
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PSA to any parents with a Mocka crib out there. The ACCC issued a warning about potentially dangerous mould last week. Checked the bottom of ours and yup gross. Baby has been sleeping on this for 6 months.
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Holy moly is that an increase in our cycle counters across Pōneke in a year. Up 35% from June 2022.
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There are 5,000 carparks in Newtown. The proposed cycleway takes out less than 200. It's the parking management plan which is trying to balance needs of residents, visitors, hospital staff and patients that is the issue. But hey, who needs context?
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A cycleway ate my baby.
A chain of three cafes closed down and the owner blamed cycleways. But none of the cafes were anywhere near one. How is that possible?
I investigated the mystery. What I found shocked me to my core.
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I'm sorry but who gives a flying fuck? The Post is scraping the barrel at this point.
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They already have:
Will humanity ever produce something like this again?
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Wayne Brown urbanist arc is my favourite bit of 2023.
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Surely changing the name of Waka Kotahi should've fixed this?
Anger over the "laughing stock" State Highway 1 potholes, with some mayors calling for urgent upgrades 👇
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If an MP from any political party had shown up in an ambulance last year when I was hospitalised for campylobacter, there are not enough swear words in the English language for what my reaction would've been.
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Combine this with the move to build less housing units by focusing on greenfields over density as well as gutting our biggest single housing builder (Kāinga Ora) and the Nats are simply not credible on housing policy this election.
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We waited and it's exactly what we expected, a massive backtrack from enabling the housing Aotearoa needs. Recommence boot.
@CityforPeopleNZ
Why don’t you actually wait for our alternative before sticking the boot in?
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Having only one nationwide broadcaster who are reliant on state funding doesn't sound like a healthy basis for a media ecosystem to me. Terrible news for those at Newshub.
This is very bad. Newshub will be shut down at the end of June.
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If I were any other city I would simply not attempt to beat Wellington.
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Here are the actual flyers being delivered for
@GregOhariu
in Ōhāriu. I should know given I'm delivering 850 of them.
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It has been a very annoying morning. I was woken up early by Mr Toddler, got my shoes wet walking to the bus, forgot to disclose $168,335 in political donations and then I had to run for the bus!
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Jerry crossed the rainbow bridge today after 20 happy years on this 🌎. I'll miss your lovingly aggressive headbutts and gentle demeanor my friend.
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Can't wait for the bill to ban woke insurance companies from considering climate change factors.
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BREAKING: WCC spending billions on cycleways.
Source: random page on Facebook.
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We're pretty awesome at short-sighted decisions in Wellington but Kiwirail have really taken it to the next level. Let's see how things look in a year inside the station.
#StationNews
: Today marks the final day of operation for New World Metro at Wellington Railway Station.
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All 10 properties succesfully delisted (as long as
@cjsbishop
signs off).
Debating now through my amendment whether to retain heritage listing of the Gordon Wilson Flats as well as 9 other listings in the city.
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This comment hits it on the head. Public investment WCC is making with ratepayer funds is the best of Johnsonville, while stakeholder capitalism leaves the commercial heart to rot.
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Fun fact about Te Araroa (where last night quake was off coast of). NZ's oldest & largest pohutakawa lives there. He's a pic of Te Waha O Rerekohu I took last year on a visit.
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Instead of replacing the ferries we should fill in Cook Strait/Marlborough Sounds with a bunch of concrete and then we'll have a real cool road instead.
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My $0.02 to the Wellington sux discourse. My wife and I could've started our family in Sydney. We'd have had higher pay, more relatives, better climate etc. but we moved because we knew we'd have a fundamentally better quality of life in Pōneke. This city is fantastic.
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The vaxathon is symbolic of all I love about this country. Really proud of what we came together to do today 👏
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Underwhelming. More (incredibly) expensive greenfields, adding congestion with an extra 5200+ cars in the Wgtn region and no demonstrable PT improvements.
LGWM is not perfect, but at its core it tries to move more people in fewer vehicles. This is the opposite.
So, National intend to blatantly ignore how Wellingtonians vote and impose their 20th century ideology on said voters - overturning the outcomes of previous consultations and undoing years of work - all at the tipping point of a climate crisis
#LGWM
#Wellington
#ClimateCrisis
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This election result really is going to pit Wellington against the direction of the new govt. Hard to say Wellingtonians haven't endorsed Labour/Greens given electorate/PV results.
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An amazing letter to recieve just now! Because of the changes under the District Plan, Forma Group are building a 132 unit building on Vivian St @ 130% NBS and also working on a new development in Mt Vic.
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A small but powerful takeaway from visiting the local foodbank yesterday: they cannot get enough paper supermarket bags. The bags allow their customers to walk away with dignity as it looks like they've just been to the supermarket themselves.
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Officers have just confirmed that WCC is unable to alter the Golden Mile design without putting at risk millions of dollars of government funding and timing for water renewals. That means removing the cycle lane, retaining bus stops etc. are completely off the table.
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Dropping the balcony requirement for apartments is a gamechanger, $70k on average for a balcony adds a substantial cost to the bill.
Also good to see clear rules coming about rapid transit to avoid another Johnsonville Railway Line debate.
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Resolution of the Regs Committee to rename Epuni Street to Hōniana Te Puni Street passes with almost unanimous support.
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And it's up, only councillor of 15 contacted for comment was Cr Chung. Also my last name is misspelt. Sloppy stuff.
Another incoming Post hit job on the mayor due shortly that apparently requires the input of city councillors. This time it's for Tory having the audacity to fly places to represent Wellington.
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The Johnsonville Line is officially mass rapid transit. Choo Choo 🚆
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This was a real moment of leadership from Andy in the last triennium. For him to now attach himself to a party that is actively demonizing the trans community is a major fall from grace.
Winston Peters confirms former Wellington Mayor Andy Foster will be contesting the Mana electorate for NZ First.
He has been an NZ First candidate in the past, most recently 2017
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Good thing we've got a project underway to replace these...
Mechanical fault on Interislander – three sailings with passengers cancelled today
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Just to check in, we're all unanimous about raspberries being the GOAT berry here right?
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Another incoming Post hit job on the mayor due shortly that apparently requires the input of city councillors. This time it's for Tory having the audacity to fly places to represent Wellington.
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If you told me two years ago that the next Mayor of Wellington would lead the charge on spending $320m for the Town Hall, bailing out a multinational and fully privatising our airport, I'd have asked you which right-wing candidate won.
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Another huge month of growth across the cycle network but I want to call out the incredible growth at the Basin Reserve now the new pathway is in, over 90% growth year on year!
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Geordie by 45.
Just went and asked nicely* of our democracy services team for an update on Pukehīnau. Soon they hope.
*harassed
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Evergreen reminder that govt spending on unemployment benefits equates to a grand total of 8.5% of all welfare spending.
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Shout out to the all the young political activists that've worked relentlessly to ban conversion therapy the last few years. This is your victory! 🏳️🌈
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Not going to lie, walking into these chambers today was a pretty amazing feeling. Day one, done!
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Judging by Twitter right now you'd think the left won the election. The parties forming the new govt outpolled Lab/Grb/TPM by 318k votes and the high of the Greens was more than offset by the collapse in Labour vote. Not much positive in there IMO.
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Awesome news for Wellington, we're getting a Lego store. Bye bye 💰
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If I were the incoming Prime Minister I would simply form a government.
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One more huge thank you to the people of Takapū for your support. Making this a city that's affordable, accessible and resilient is going to be a hell of a job but I'm 100% up for it. Taking a day to relax today before the hard work kicks off. Ngā mihi!
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What’s the most overrated tourist attraction/landmark in your city?
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@IsaPearlRitchie
My assumption is it must be MIQ. I think most overseas places have had open borders during omi (US/UK/VIC/NSW) so that has seeded extra chains of transmission. With 60/70 a cases a day in MIQ atm that's 60/70 individual chains of spread we're currently avoiding.
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Council by-elections can traditionally be a bit boring, but with Wellington's Green dominance, this one's proving quite intriguing.
Will the Greens once again be victorious, or could a successful businessman shake things up?
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@RichardHills_
@kapiti_coaster
"Just get a job" while actively firing thousands of people from their jobs.
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Cute email alert. A resident emailed me saying their 7 yr old read my name as Ben McNuggets on my election flyer and was happy to hear I was voted in. He wanted to know what I do now I've made it in. Free nuggets for all?
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If I didn't want a major media campaign against my party leader which highlights said leader referring to people as "bottom feeders" I would simply refrain from nominating a person that calls people "bottom feeders" as my party leader.
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@nealejones
I took this as a prop to a MtC recently because our ward has plenty of candidates making promises they are unable to keep.
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Can someone check in on Australia and make sure they're okay.
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Why is our Prime Minister so negative about New Zealand? This is hardly the first time.
NZ PM Luxon calls business leaders on Labour-led delegations as “tagalongs” and “C-List”. Scoop from
@Jasonwalls92
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Cannot stress the absolutely gigantic amount of work happening in WCC (& others across NZ) to prepare for 3W. The least National could do is get their policy into the public so councillors can make decisions in less of a vacuum. Cowardly stuff.
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To the surprise of absolutely no-one, Foodstuffs have applied for a judicial review regarding the Molesworth/Murphy St cycleway.
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That was... a day but I am really happy to get the Golden Mile revitalization underway. Want to thank Mayor Whanau for leading it all,
@IonaPannett
for fighting the good fight and all the watermelons 🔴🟢
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I am now officially a Wellington City Councillor for the Takapū ward!
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I'll just make two points:
1) WCC has a AA+ credit rating, Venezuela has a C. I know which one of those I would classify as a crisis.
2) The LTP budget isn't adopted until June 2024 so I really struggle with how we're "too late".
These pieces are bordering on hysteria.
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@RichardHills_
I'm ambivalent about whether Tākina is a good long-term investment but it was pushed for by Wellington businesses and supported by many conservative councillors on that basis. Much of its rates funding also came from the CBD (downtown) levy. Complete lack of awareness from PM.
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⚠️📢 Update from WCC on how we're supporting Auckland flood efforts:
1. We've offered 6 staff today to help the National Emergency Management Office grapple with need for surge staff. 10 from the Wgtn Emergency Response Team have also volunteered. More may follow.
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Chch results in, despite Mauger win a 9/8 left majority in council. Kāpiti, Labour mayor. Hutt, big left wins. Auckland, split despite big Brown win. Maybe not quite the right-wing landslide the media was playing it up to be off the back of progress results on Sat?
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Have double checked with our staff what this means for cycle/pedestrian and bus upgrade projects already approved. They should all fall into the contractually obligated bucket. It will however impact our long-term plan with projects still to be approved.
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Apparently the 'heritage' is that a flying boat service was run from this wharf for three years in the 1950's. That's the bar for binding a future council to limited flexibility if something goes wrong. Sometimes this is a deeply unserious city.
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