It's funny cos National, ACT & NZ First have transferred $13,000 million to landlords over the last 2 years, incl. from social housing - benefitting mega landlords like National MP Carl Bates & ACT's Parmjeet Parmar. But Nicola doesn't say these people "won the lotto" - Why?

Seems positive until you read the article and it's a merger because there's not enough staff or capacity to keep MPs safe. A week after powerful testimony from wāhine Māori about online threats, harassment and feeling unsafe as a politician. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

In today’s NZ Herald

Traitors’ Payday

new zealander everlee wihongi - kidnapped by ICE 41 days ago - was meant to take the stand today in front of a wisconsin judge. but ICE had other plans. webworm has the latest on this story - please RT, and share: www.webworm.co/everleemay21/

So the biggest Auckland Council collects rates of ~ $2 billion but local government has to do most of the work - road maintenance, 3 Waters, services, libraries, garbage Central government gets $130 billion and just has to fire half of its staff and replace it with AI

For perspective, as a ‘developing country’ (which white nationalists in NZ frame as a a “pajeet shit hole”) Sri Lanka’s ambulance service is available islandwide, has an amazing response time, is fully state-funded, & totally free. Now takes patients to any hospital of their choice. We are lucky.

Tell me we living in a developing country without stating it: Aotearoa relies on charity funding and volunteers for an ambulance service. The report linked to in this thread will be an interesting counterpoint to today's government media release about ambulance services.

The same billionaire who bankrolled lawfare against me, and TVNZ for reporting Julian Batchelor's anti-Māori racism, now directs advertising to far-right accounts, & platforms trafficking in the same register to amplify his own media. In the lead up to November's poll, this completely tracks. #nzpol

I have never seen that many people turn up this far out from election day and this is now my fifth political campaign. So let this be the sign to get out there and get active. Can sign up to join us here: www.greens.org.nz/volunteer

I just trained over 60 volunteers, a good 80% of who have never been involved in a campaign before, to get out there knock on doors and connect with community and support Tamatha Paul. That’s the most volunteers I have ever trained before in one sitting and I worked on the 2017 Labour campaign.

Tamatha was right #nzpol

One thing is certain. You cannot fight back against this insane destruction of Aotearoa by being quiet and polite. We need shouting and rage. We need to organise! #nzpol

#nzpol And yet the NZ Gov is openly pushing AI despite all the evidence it's shit and costs more $ than saves/generates, rather like their bloody RONS.

Do we know these numbers for #nzpol?

Long term state housing provides people with stability, you absolute ghoul. It means people can become part of a community, children don't have to keep changing schools, they have enough left over from rent to afford food ... to frame this as "dependency" is as bad as Willis's lotto reference #nzpol

Flood address #nzpol [email protected] Telling them how #racist they are

Hey Nicola Willis!!! The Kiwis forced to live in social housing are neither "lottery winners" nor "the problem". The National Party & the greedy wealthy in NZ are! Recognize yourselves!! #NZPol

Great chats on this week’s ‘Hoon’ with Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer PhD, Robert Patman Jonathan Lyons and Tex Edwards from Monopoly Watch NZ (MWNZ) on Government spending & job cuts; Iran vs the rest; Limitarianism; and bank competition in NZ. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

THIS. I'm not joking when I say I'm a high-functioning misanthrope who gets the creeps from pretty much everything and everyone all the time. If I can deal with that without crying for Nanny State to make my ouchie boos go away, every transphobic arsebag out there can HARDEN THE FUCK UP. #nzpol

Helping Nicola Willis: How to tell a social housing tenant apart from a Lotto winner #nzpol

#NZpol Others have pointed out the definition of man/woman hearing is very unlikely to report back before the election. ⇒ this is about election campaign noise Cynical take: the coalition is desperate for the few votes from the 'anti' sector that might get them "over the edge" back into power.

🧵Also lovely people, I avoid talking politics because there are people articulating how I feel out there far more eloquently. But if you've followed me for any amount of time, you'll know that my philosophy is kindness first. This gender bill going through NZ parliament is truly horrendous. (1)

Oh, she will. #nzpol

These evil bastards. Robbing from the poor to give to the rich, again. They’ve built barely more than 200 social homes, told councils it’s not a core function to provide housing… it forces people into private rentals. Now this. They have to go in November. #nzpol #ditchthepricksin26

This sort of centralised control-freakery is holding New Zealand back #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/g...

This is white supremacy it kills and destroys lives, FOR GENERATIONS!!! More prisons in Aotearoa is just the continuation of the white suprematist colonial genocide of my people!!! #nzpol

Still not quit #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/15/n...

I find it both chilling and obscene that David Seymour is the person fronting media to explain Pharmac’s decision to stop priority access to Type 2 diabetes treatment for Māori.

Why is it important to criticise MPs for accepting an accommodation allowance for living in a property they own? Because accepting that allowance betrays a lack of sense of shame, which in turn betrays a lack of empathy, which should disqualify you from holding power of any kind.

Have you seen this? Citizens of New Zealand. This is what we can expect if we allow the building of these Data Centres!!! #NZPol

This quote is about sudden proposed homeschooling changes but you could use it to describe so. many. things this govt has done. ‘The <name of institution> called the amendments "underhanded and undemocratic", introduced "with no warning, no consultation".’ #nzpol

Guys. They’ve fixed the economic crisis. By… increasing the font size of the English words and making the te reo Māori words smaller. It’s just what you all were hoping was a priority right now. Imagine being new minister and this is what you think is important. How embarrassing.

National MPs, with their six figure salaries, who claim accommodation supplements that are more than some state housing occupants earn in a year, stripping away accomm support for state housing tenants is some next level hypocritical cruelty. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol

So Louise Upston owns a Wellington apartment but claims a $52,000 a year tax free accommodation allowance for the city But she wants accommodation allowance cut for the poorest Kiwis. This is the same Upston who relied on the benefit & now maligns beneficiaries www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Finance Minister Nicola Willis and one of her plans for saving her Budget. My #cartoon today #NZpol #PublicService

'NZ First is admitting that they do not care about science, which is 100 percent the basis of biology, thus, are creating a farce about science and forcing a legal definition where one is not possible - especially in medicine.' says Co-President Alma De Anda. #transrights #reproductivejustice #nzpol

Again. They're doing this again. The accommodation supplement is a subsidy to landlords that already costs us $2 billion annually. There's a sorry history here ...

Just found out that Seymour is going against solid science, data and clinical results and is removing targetted funding through Pharmac for diabetes drugs for Māori and Pasifika.

Latest job ads data is out for April. The tepid 'recovery' is stalling.

#nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... The comments show a caring and horrified public. Arohanui to the people. A pox on the CoC.

Time to court the women's vote, once we define what one actually is. I chat more about this over at my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth...

Sucks to live in a country whose government believes they should help the successful and punish the needy. I don't think I have lived in a country like that until the last couple of years. #nzpol

Here you go #nzpol

I’m sure their personal housing portfolios are totally irrelevant in all of this, as are the private interests of their largest political donors, of the mega-landlord kind. 🤨 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

Move On Orders, 4pm ▶️ videos.parliament.nz "On the day this Govt chooses to punish people for being homeless, we are choosing to make sure no young person leaving state care ends up on the street in the 1st place." @maramadavidson.bsky.social @greens.org.nz #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/bill_drawn_t...

BREAKING ‼️ My members bill has just been drawn from the biscuit tin that would draw a line in stopping any new mining on public Conservation land 🌳🦎🐧🐝🦋 ...with all the Government's attacks on nature, this could not come at a more critical time. Big ups to the original bill holder Eugenie Sage 🙌