Wow - hating on Elsevier makes mainstream news in New Zealand! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It bears remembering that this woman, according to the IPCA report, sent at least 36 emails to media outlets, presumaby including NZME, as well as the PM, Police Minister, and police command in Dec 2023 & Jan 2024, and they did fuck-all about it too www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath...

No country should have a 'population problem' when there are 123.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 40% of whom are children www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how...

On NRT: Ratfucking our democracy - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/11/ratf...

For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.

National's bill gutting clean vehicle standards is back from committee a month early. Another example of the systematic lying to parliament about report-back dates of this regime selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/89adf773...

It’s very clear that billionaires and other wealthy people are paying to commit crimes like killing people for sport and raping children. Here in NZ they pay to hide their crimes from public view. And according to the media, we are supposed to aspire to be these people. No thank you.

Nothing to see here (literally!). Just the US State Department secretly deleting 15 pages of declassified official documents published in 2021 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series about a 1983 NATO nuclear weapons exercise that unexpectedly increased the risk of a nuclear war.

Just gonna keep saying it: There is no point growing the pie if the wealthy keep eating all of it.

In today’s NZ Herald

Counting down to Public Domain Day 2026 The New Classics Collective turned Fire!!, a 1926 Harlem magazine for young Black artists, into a play at Philadelphia’s Quintessence Theatre, featuring works by Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston. via @[email protected] #books

National's talk of using overseas credits has driven the carbon price below $40, which means the only thing it incentivises any more is trees.

We appointed multiple people to statutory positions in the Police and to statutory positions or senior positions in other agencies who were massively deficient in personal ethics. One person can fall through the cracks, but this was a large number of different people and a larger number of roles...

Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.

That means that if we'd followed the 2023 policy track, we could have avoided over $1 billion in offshore mitigation to meet New Zealand's 2030 Paris Agreement NDC (>20Mt at say ~$NZ50/t). /ends

The projections from 2023 are shown here (green dashed line): a rapid reduction in emissions was projected, with the gap to the NDC only 58Mt... 26Mt better than now projected. 4/-

As New Zealand Minister Hon. Simon Watts heads to #COP30, here's some remarkable new information from an Official Information Act response I received today. 1/-

The Greens will repeal the Regulatory Standards Bill. But ACT won't give up. They will spend millions into fooling voters that free market capitalism is the only future left for New Zealand. However, you can help stop ACT from getting even more power. (1/2)

You will all be shocked, shocked! to learn that, contra Andrew Hoggard, MPI has no plans to use flamethrowers against the invasive Portuguese millipede, and that Hoggard was simply making shit up in #nzqt last week www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

haven't seen anything about this in NZ, despite this being DIRECTLY relevant to NZ's security state and relationship with the US, particularly in relation to government/ministerial PR and rhetoric about closer US ties and transnational crime. This should be a red alert for NZ's current direction

On NRT: DPMC's secret guide on how to be a minister - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/11/dpmc...

Relaed by the Ombudsman! The complete, unredacted "Induction Handbook for New Ministers" #OIA www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Further fallout in wake of damning IPCA McSkimming report

NEW POLL: Labour has surged to 38% support following its CGT release, per a TM poll obtained by The Post. But it would still need TPM to govern. - Labour: 38% (+3) - National: 33% (+4) - Greens: 9% (-1) - NZ First: 8% (-4) - ACT: 7% (-1) - TPM: 2.4% (-1.2) www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

New “prominent New Zealander” alert. #nzpol.

There's a mention in the IPCA report of how McSkimming told them he'd declared his affair to the SIS when obtaining his security clearance, but the IPCA wasn't able to verify this. The SIS refused to tell them because its illegal www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2...

Now this is a protest that might change things if it a larger number of cities and states joined Chicago.

Unlike previous police commissioners, he didn't attempt to pull rank and get out of it at least www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

That time people thought an armed bank robbery near the University of Canterbury was just KAOS (!) paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...

“It’s not corruption, it’s a ‘cultural integrity problem’ of not being able to manage conflicts of interest” was an actual real thing that was said in New Zealand media today.

Carmal Sepaloni still hasn't got the memo about not asking the PM questions on Thirsdays when Luxon isn't attending Question Time. FFS! Stop giving Seymour opportunities to spout nonsense as the acting PM. FFS! It isn't rocket science. #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Question for old NZ SF fans: anyone go to KiwiCon or Confalgration in Auckland in 1990 who can tell me about the Star Trek game mentioned in this article/ Was it a larp/ paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...

In celebration of @thepress.co.nz extending its Papers past coverage to 1995: the time NZ police shot Jim Anderton in front of 5000 people: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...

Big Fresh. Billy T James. Big Snow. Aramoana. Ruthanasia. Oh, and Radiohead, and Servalan from Blake's Seven. Yes, it's the Nineties! You can now dive into The Press from 1990 to 1995 with Papers Past. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/1... ^DR #Christchurch #Ōtautahi

And it was hours after 12 major airports banned private jets that the Democrats caved.

The public almost missed out on learning of the police hierarchy’s cover-up of its disgraced deputy commissioner’s behaviour – because until the 11th hour the Crown wanted a permanent suppression order of his identity. - Newsroom Pro - $

Unless things change between now and ~midday, it looks like the Regulatory Standards Bill will have its third reading this afternoon, starting at around 3.00, and then be passed into law in the coming days. Because it's a Thursday, the Prime Minister almost certainly won't be there for it. #NPZOL

In today’s NZ Herald

Is any Government agency doing any due diligence? or has the gutting of public service rendered it incapable of doing so? I don't care that there has been retroactive action to "fix" this. The contract needs to be cancelled.

It's interesting that NZ Police can be so proactive and decisive about pursuing charges for digital harm and harassment of a senior male police officer, yet find pressing charges when the victim is a woman almost impossible...

Don’t worry, come January and the annual Corruption Perceptions Index release, we’ll have figures like the Commissioner and Ombudsman back to saying our declining score is still high and nobody’s complacent.

Releasing the Epstein files could have a chilling effect on future presidents' ability to hide their history of raping children on a private island owned by a convicted sex offender.

Only 5 days to makes submissions on Govt Fast Track legislation which will make the law even worse for the environment and community engagement. Make a submission @greenpeace.org.nz is one guide on the crucial issues in the Bill. #FastTrack

Finally, an NZ solar company trying to raise money through crowd equity. Now to read the documents and see if they're any good. www.catalist.co.nz/businesses/9...

The admission that the police are deliberately siphoning off correspondence to the PM and the Minister of Police from members of the public to make sure it is never seen sure strikes at the heart of a democracy. Corruption at the top level. Heads must roll.

Plur1bus has me sold from the first episode. Watch it. Join us.

Good to see RNZ naming names here. Now fire and/or prosecute them (some have already resigned) www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

So I didn’t ask that question, and the Commissioner wasn’t there (surprise), but I did ask another question: ‘In the 24 hrs ministers have repeatedly referred to a few bad apples. Is it not time to recognise that the barrel holding these apples are part of the problem? How should the systemic…