henry cooke
@henrycooke · wellington · joined 28 Feb 2009
political editor at @the_postnz. tipline: 📞021 241 1398 📧henry.cooke@thepost.co.nz 📧henry.cooke.post@proton.me
31 458Followers
2 224Following
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145.9KViews on collected posts
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@henrycooke 'Hipkins noted that changing interest deductibility alongside a new CGT would complicate settings and risk driving up rents'.
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@henrycooke Hipkins is an unbelievable hypocrite.
You’d be blowing up the keyboard if Luxon flip flopped like this.
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@henrycooke Good.
If they want to tax landlords as a business. Then landlords should be able to claim what other businesses can.
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NEW: Hipkins says Labour will not change interest deductibility rules.
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@henrycooke A piece of correspondence I shall cherish for some time.
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@henrycooke @essigna After 2 years as Min of Finance you’d think someone in her office would know how parliament works.
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@henrycooke Nicola Willis won’t like that but good on him.
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Nicola Willis sent a letter to the Speaker excluding Parliament from a savings target but suggesting efficiencies would be appreciated. He delivered a handwritten note in reply saying this was improper, as the Parliament Act makes the House control its funding, not exec. https://
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MSD internal review into the benefit mess first revealed by The Post finds it impacted:
-16k WEP recipients
- 12k Supp assistance recipients
- 2k main beneficiaries
The first complaint was made to MSD about the matter in April. https://t.co/ZJvq08axIo
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I am struck down with the flu (I think) so there will be no political newsletter from The Post this week. Worst I’ve felt since Covid round 1!
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Louise Upston's office has pushed out an OIA on the bungled benefits situation until the thick of the election campaign. This is despite MSD preparing a supposedly fulsome review of the whole thing for this Thursday. https://t.co/Bq3UaTHfHX
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@henrycooke Luoise has not lost her entitlements.🤔
Upston claims taxpayer-funded accommodation of $1,000 per week ($52,000 a year) to live in a Wgtn apt she owns mortgage-free.
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NEW: 15k pensioners had their winter energy payment wrongly suspended this winter thanks to an error in a bill rushed through the House last year. https://t.co/lIICemGpF6
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And a full story on this here https://t.co/Pb9ZFf3ITE
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@henrycooke Just as greedy as the teachers. Pathetic.
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Pic from Bruce Mackay/The Post. https://t.co/k3tDkIvnwh
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NZNO nurses are quite literally turning their back on a speech from Health Minister Simeon Brown at their AGM https://t.co/zV3eov6mbT
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Against accounts of the same size
14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.
Median views1 358this account995median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.32%this account3.92%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.80%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 358 | 995 | 1.37× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.32% | 3.92% | 1.10× |
| Engagement rate | 1.80% | 1.54% | 1.17× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
14.6K17 Aug
1K
336
8.2K8 Sep
5K9 Sep
4.2K10 Sep
15.9K
1K
1.1K11 Sep
1.6K
45.4K21 Sep
417
315
340
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.03%17 Aug
0.80%
7.74%
1.29%8 Sep
1.65%9 Sep
2.83%10 Sep
1.72%
1.08%
2.79%11 Sep
1.89%
0.30%21 Sep
3.60%
5.71%
4.12%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.
What the audience does
Likes69.2%1 343 in total
Reposts10.5%204 in total
Replies15.5%301 in total
Quotes2.5%49 in total
Bookmarks2.2%43 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
12 Sep
Daily snapshots since 12 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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