Start price, local details for electric Kia PV5 van confirmed Priced from $64,990

"Yeah but if we all switched to electric cars overnight, what would we do with all the combustion engines???" Well, here's one solution. 😁

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new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

NZ Labour, please take note #nzpol

A very good question. Funny how ‘top executives’ pay has to be ‘internationally competitive’, but not that of ordinary workers.

sinking sensation that the Justice Select Committee is going to do exactly the same with the Census-Killer Bill that no-one supports

Not 'to be fair' or anything, but the NACT approach to government is basically entirely incompatible with the select committee process, which assumes that a group of reasonable MPs will listen to a number of well-researched, carefully written submissions and then make the best decision.

But, hear me out, what if those 5 submissions were oral submissions at a $10,000 per table fundraising dinner, and the 583 where just written submissions from the plebs?

This is an amazing thing to read. I am hopeful, albeit with resignation that it may come to nothing, that this message picks up momentum across Europe.

I need to hear loud replies from Labour on this.

TPM plan: write off student debt, create a universal student allowance, restore support for part-time, postgraduate and long-course students, and make public transport free for tertiary students. Because education should build futures, not trap whānau in debt.❤️🤍🖤 #nzpol #aonz #education #students

Phew!

One for NZ to learn from.

🔴 Rick Wilson's Warning From America: Nigel Farage Will Be Your Donald Trump, Unless You Act Now The former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project founder has some hard lessons for Conservatives and Labour alike

This *is* good news. Find and reduce more sources of methane.

In today’s NZ Herald

This is beyond fucking dangerous! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

📚 For #Christchurch #NZ book people, there are copies at Scorpio 😊 – On the table-top displays of recent books on the left as you go in.

This is something else. Bloody hell. | ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

The Brits have got it. "media and vested interests... punch down at refugees and immigrant [because] the people at the top are terrified we’ll start looking up" 124 Likes 403 Shares I think other people agree. I know I do. #nzpol #DemocraticSocialism www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dt1...

OECD (which knows more than know National so therefore is woke) lampoons LNG Terminal idea. OECD also states to balance the tax system we should implement a Capital Gains Tax www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Selwyn rates submission in... poetry (sorta).

In tonight's tales of my headless dog, she's loving me gently pulling the fur on the centre line of her belly. Weird. #MinuatureDachshund #DaftDachshund

Post of the day! #nzpol

Ministers need to be careful about weighing in on matters that are within the constabulary independence of the Police etc. 👀

New Zealand values are when you are a pedophile and become the president of the political party and that political party starts talking about immigrants not adhering to New Zealand values 🙄

Good morning! The Climate Change Commission has just released the first National Climate Change Risk Assessment in six years – and I've read the key document. In short: Climate change is here, we're not ready, but there's lots we can do to prepare. For more: newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/07/l...

So then... "...Researchers aim to ‘smooth the way for future Pentagon satellite programs and give personnel important know-how’, states DefenseScoop. This know-how includes developing ‘critical capabilities for the next war’..."

it's been a DAY #nzpol @luxury_marmite_sandwich_ made us a little treat 🍿

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

Quite. #democraticbacksliding www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Sweet new vintage (2025) labels on the Frankenfurter Pet-Nat from Silver Wing (organically grown & hand-picked in North Canterbury) 😍 It's a little bit beloved around these parts Have you tried our Frankenfurter Spritzer? A low alcohol option to delight the soul 🍷

No. Next Are accelerated degrees the solution to higher education’s problems? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-ac...

Trees in Christchurch's parks and reserves have a replacement value of $386M. They store 90K tonnes C, sequestering 4K tonnes C each year. They intercept 165M litres of rainfall every year, reducing the burden on stormwater infrastructure. doi.org/10.26021/16387 #ecosystemservices #urbanforest

@christinahood.bsky.social I'm coming to see you! I decided a trip from Ōtautahi would be fun and I have some friends to stay with in Jacks Point. Now I need to figure out how to wangle a ticket for Day #2 (sold out). I really want to find out about two-way charging. #ElectrifyQueenstown

And it's not the Boomers who are emigrating. It's the tax base that supports the Boomers in the manner in which they are accustomed.

So the new SMART assessments mandated by the MoE are feeding Kiwi kids' writing samples into an LLM (according to my kid's teacher). The MoE "Guide to SMART" parent resource makes zero mention of this. I think parents might want to know whose plagiarism machine is hoovering up their kids' writing.

"if you don't like what is broadcast, turn it off" ... and .... "the the media will self-regulate" .... have to be the dumbest takes from Goldsmith in a while, and he's had AWFUL takes. this is another awful attack on NZ as we know it and should be stopped! #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

nzpt.cjs.nz/finances I have expanded on the @nzpt.cjs.nz site to have live party donation information. See the totals, top donors, and it’s live + easily shareable This site is still rolling out and will be fully integrated with the rest of NZPT in the coming days. Feedback welcome! #nzpol #AoNZ

Nationals new candidate for Auckland Central, anyone else spotting a red flag or two. #nzpol

If you use Chrome, you should consider disabling AI features to avoid unwanted and potentially illegal changes. Here's a guide for Windows 11: www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-disab...

The media reporting of the BSA decision has already moved to nostalgia pieces, I see. It's as if the conventions of the NZ journalism culture are unable to grasp the politics of the decision. Much like American journos still at sea about how to cover Trump #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3609...

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@pezmico/116452731656371846 Last call for submissions! 🚨 Closing at midnight tonight. Go tell Shane Jones his Amendment is regulatory capture and we do not want it. 🌊 🐟 #nzpol #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean

The Crown's Tribunal evidence confirms that two key members of the Curriculum Ministerial Advisory Group were not on the Ministry's recommended list and were appointed by the Minister outside the officials' selection process.

Lil scoop: Three in five respondents to a new poll say they are driving less due to the fuel crisis, as a majority lose confidence in the Govt’s response. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/04/n...

One of the long-term strategic failures of Labour is not having indelibly tied the disappointments of Brexit to Nigel Farage. He has incurred virtually no political cost for its failure to deliver the change and agency people were promised.

My complaint about this headline has been upheld by the Media Council — they have found it to have been misleading and not accurate. I understand that Stuff has been instructed to publish a summary of the ruling today, but I have not yet spotted it. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/john...