Another one who recently ‘misspoke’, I.e., lied. If Nats hope she’ll be their Ardern they’re very much mistaken. The crap she’s pulled over the curriculum, shows her up for what she is.

And this, this is the reason why we have no chance if this coalition of muppets are in power, no matter who is their leader, "and all available actions are outside the tiny parametres of their ideology". Their ideology, no matter how they wrap it up, is the issue

Begging @barbedmonds.bsky.social to revisit the taxation policy and the diluted, weak sauce, everything is exempt CGT that Labour have proposed People want stronger action, the country (world) needs it. Be like Nike and JUST DO IT It's not a "cost of living crisis", it's an inequity crisis #nzpol

🍃🌹🌿meanwhile #NZ #Greens “Green Budget” is fully costed & fantastic. Free GPs, Dentists & childcare. Less tax for over 90% of NZers, a little more for the richest few, who mostly avoid paying now, & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia’s! #nzpol #PartyVoteGreen www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...

Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.

Flushed with success of prohibiting homeless people, the Luxon govt moved on to prohibit poor people. By Xmas we were the richest fuckers in the world

This morning in (heart)breaking news: New Zealand: Multiple states of emergency, right now Prime Minister Christopher Luxon: State of Origin footy match, 2027 🎉 NZ: Wellington cut off, digging out from huge storm PM: Yeah gidday from Auckland, it’s raining here too ☂️ NZ: Help? Luxon: Catch! 🏈

Reflecting that tawhitimatea is angry for very good reasons 💨 ⛈️ 🌫️🌬️🌨️ 🇳🇿

It certainly doesn't sound like the "suddenly new covid enquiry" setup to provide a report to the government a few weeks out from the election has a lot of space for nuanced analysis of the "while lessons can be learned we need to keep what was happening elsewhere in mind" variety.

NZ building a fossil gas import terminal in the #climatecrisis could be Luxon’s most STUPID idea yet. Why not spend that BILLION dollars on household solar and battery installation? Would be safer, more resilient, provide cheaper power and climate-friendly. #nzpol

I know this is about the press conference that Labour held, but also funny to read this with the firm belief that Labour being more progressive instead of centrist at best will be the only thing that wins them the election - and the hint of fear in the headline may indicate others believe that, too.

Waitangi 2026. A government of Atlas Network slogans confronts a complex nation unwilling to be neoliberal roadkill. Toitū te Tiriti Toitū te Taiao

Guys I enjoy hating on National's shitty economy as much as anyone but I just want to once again say that the racism, climate denial, stripping the country for parts, destroying education, screwing over women plus loads more should still be a massive problem even if the economy was great #nzpol

2020 is an anomaly precisely because the Labour government put public health ahead of everything for a hot second. People felt cared for and also like their lives mattered. We reverted back to our factory settings once that was taken away.

Definitely worth voting against it. 🗳️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

How is it that infrastructure can age to breaking point, www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/health-nz...

What an absolute BS headline www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Can’t get all the way through the Springsteen song for Minneapolis because heart breaking. To quote Bob Marley - so much trouble in the world! Please Aotearoa let’s vote for a better world. One where we are not complicit in global atrocities and genocide #NZPol #USPol #Kikorangi

But looked at their shoes and mumbled when asked for an example

When it comes to an agreement between a people and The Crown (represented by govt), it doesn’t particularly matter what the general public thinks Te Tiriti o Waitangi is either honoured, or the government of the day are scoundrels, those are the options

Alternative headline: "51% believe Treaty has the right amount or not enough influence" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Next in series of posts on why we need to make learning more authentic and meaningful moves more closely to the 'how' we can do that - by focusing on our learning design principalpossum.blogspot.com/2026/01/how-...

Once again, I dive a bit more deeply into The Disengaged Teen which champions the need to increase student agency alongside student engagement so that our students learn more deeply. principalpossum.blogspot.com/2026/01/how-...

Two observations: maybe the anti-road-cone can zip their lips for a few weeks while the road crews fix the roads; secondly, I don't see Hobson's Pledge out and about helping anyone with a warm kai, clean clothes and place to rest. Just say'in.

This follow-up from yesterday's post explores how school leaders can actually take action on those things that lead to deeper learning and engagement principalpossum.blogspot.com/2026/01/how-...

My Principal Possum blog has come out of hibernation in an attempt to help school leaders focus on what is important in an environment that is very messy at the moment. The next post will look at how to take action principalpossum.blogspot.com/2026/01/how-...

Listen no one is "vilifying" rich people. They ARE villains. If you run a multimillion or billion dollar company, give yourself millions in $$/shares &/or benefits, but pay your directly employed or contracted workers less than a living wage what are you if not a villain? #nzpol #NBRrichLIST

The winner of FIFA's first World Peace Prize bombs Venezuela.

This man must be a walking existential crisis. Ultimate realization of a politician whose entire career is delivering shit news about what his party is not going to do in the face of human catastrophe. #nzpol #climatecrisis #tool www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

We have just got to keep pushing back the best ways we can. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

Erica Stanford wants to link your child’s academic performance to their teacher’s ability to make their mortgage payments.

I can't believe that in the middle of a climate crisis TVNZ1 news that 25 minutes into their premier news bulletin that this gutting of the Carbon Zero Act has not yet been mentioned www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Seems like a problem with the rules if you can have a financial benefit from 25 properties but structure it so you don't have to declare that interest #nzpol

Check out the latest School News magazine promoting the Refresh Reconnect Refocus (RRR) Derek Wenmoth and I are offering school leaders next year. Find further information, including how to register, here futuremakers.nz/services/ref...

Why yes, the way to improve education is to launch an all out assault on the independence of the teaching profession and curriculum and assert political control over it all. Just ask any despot, they’ll agree. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Also worth noting this is being slid in at the last minute to avoid scrutiny through submissions and select committee. A purely anti democratic move.

And it’s not like we didn’t know it was coming.

The destruction this govt will leave in their wake when they finally go is immense.

That's not all she is doing...Treaty and schools: Government to remove requirement for boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi - NZ Herald share.google/PuillpQnHEzl...

It's starting to look like a lot like the only ACT line item in the "coalition agreement" is "erase Māori" #nzpol

Blows my mind that people think that it doesn’t damage our nations soul to not honour Te Tiriti The coalition is taking our soul and trading it for military equipment and a low wage economy. That’s Seymour’s dream and it is awful for us and our children

And just in from Seymour. This is the intent. Forget whatever flowery words Erica uses. They want your child growing up in a NZ that is blind to its history. That’s not learning, it’s indoctrination.

#NZpol "Why does this curriculum bear no relationship to their words? The students know. One said afterwards that this curriculum shows the system doesn’t care about them."

Once you hear from anyone with experience of trying to engage with this Govt over their magic beans curriculum rewrite, you understand that what they’ve presented is something written by people too ignorant to understand how much they don’t understand but possessed of the confidence of fools.

Yeah, the curriculum Stanford has released is #notourcurriculum and shows is exactly who this govt is, but as the @aec.org.nz gather in Wellington today to set up for conference, just know that we are strong and united in fighting for an education that doesn’t erase our kids’ pasts and futures.

I'm reading the new Social Sciences curriculum content and I wasn't prepared for how sad I would feel. We spent thousands of hours working with the previous iteration and the NZ history content and all that enthusiasm and excitement was just killed for something so bad.

One of the reasons I’m excited to teach high school Social Sciences and History in Aotearoa New Zealand is the curriculum that integrates the value and lessons to be drawn from ALL of the country’s past. But this government ruins everything it touches and I’m too furious for words.

aecnz.substack.com/p/recolonisi... I am angry, sad, disappointed, shocked, in disbelief but also not surprised.

The wholesale gutting of the curriculum shows enormous disrespect to all those who engaged in the development process in good faith.