Lol, Minister promises to release data showing gas plan will lower power bill when she finds a way to get Craig Renney out of the country OR after the next election #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

#BHN Tonight 9pm - Craig Renney on the hidden truths in the LNG proposal - Chippy on Moa Point - Is it a tax? Is it a levy? - Not so Sunny after all as the ministerial advisory group charged with tackling retail crime is to end #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social youtube.com/live/QM1hcb8...

Wuthering Heights review: too hot, too greedy adaptation guarantees bad dreams in the night

ONE BILLION DOLLARS. IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX. No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.

First long review in a long time. Unsung Cinema: The Faculty (1998) moviefinatics.com/2026/02/08/u...

2021

By defeating seabed mining in Taranaki, the green movement has created the option of large scale, low carbon, reliable, cheap offshore wind, which will actually make a real difference to NZ’s energy system. Unlike an LNG import facility which is expensive, polluting and small.

If only there was some centralised water management agency that could prioritise risk, allocate resources and manage decades of underinvestment before the shit hit the literal fan was in place. Oh something something 3 something is coming to me ... something about Waters... #nzpol

But National promised us it would be cheaper or "status quo" - not $9bn more than expected loaded onto ratepayers www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol #Kiwi

We checked on #kakapo Flossie on her nest on Pukenui/Anchor yesterday, and found her on 3 eggs. We'll return later to determine if they're fertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

Taking dogs for walk

“People are tired,” says Edward Ellison, an esteemed leader from the southern tribe Ngāi Tahu. “We’ve been beavering away on submissions, select committees … and the pace, rate and persistent aggressiveness on the treaty – it hasn’t lowered the passion – but there is that exhaustion.” #nzpol

As a Queenslander, I’ve been haunted by the spectre of Pauline Hanson for 30 years theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

The government’s attack on workers rights continues. This noxious new Bill undermines fundamental rights & is part of an extreme agenda to strip back the employment relationship & turn human labour into just another commodity. #nzpol #nz #newzealand #aotearoa #politics

"Horror in Wellington as millions of litres of untreated sewage flow into the sea" Big clap for 👏💩👏 Jordan Williams & NZ Taxpayers Union for generating anti-Maori bigotry to kill the 3 Waters reform forbidding water privatisation for his #AtlasNetwork investors www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The eternal mystery…🤔💭 (Courtesy of Steve West) #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

Morning all! I recently did an interview with NBR about why I took legal action against my employer despite knowing I was going to lose money. They’ve just made the interview free to view so here’s the link if you are interested www.nbr.co.nz/toil-and-tro...

Massive win for moana as Taranaki seabed mining application rejected www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

#nzpol We need to adopt the dispassionate clarity and truth that Kermode has mastered. This is exceptional youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?...

Gee I didn't know @publicaddress.bsky.social wrote like this. Homage #nzpol #kiwi

I’ve written about Jason Walls before, but really can’t get over how it feels like I’m watching a Newstalk ZB Mike Hosking segment every time he’s on 1News. Anyone else feel the same way? #NZPOL #kiwi

Shane Jones needs a new title - minister for exploitation and grift. He is doing generational damage to our country - as much and as quickly as he possibly can in this term. How can he be stopped? #nzpol

After all the climate-amplified deadly weather, the Luxon Govt claimed it is taking action on climate change. But is it action to make it worse by increasing emissions? Here is the evidence: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Not long ago, they made movies about being stranded on an island signaling distress. Now they’re outside a large continental city signaling distress and PM’ing our island for refuge. Makes you wonder.

Sigh. #nzpol #epsteinfiles

Can we get this guy a Nobel Peace Prize? #NZPol

I endured the Melania film so you don’t have to – my only regret is not buying popcorn so one of my senses was entertained | Caitlin Cassidy

NO! No. No no no no no. Is THIS what you voted for? 6% of the votes does NOT give NZF permission, let alone a mandate, to destroy our precious whenua for the USA. ESPECIALLY NOW. #nzpol

GenAI should be banned from use in political campaigning. What's next? Generating political opponents saying things they didn't say? (Aside from the fact this is the sloppiest AI slop that ever slopped. SHAME). #nzpol

Protest songs don’t offer easy answers. They create space—to pause, to listen, and to ask hard questions we might prefer to avoid.

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - Labours Camilla Belich joins us straight from the Mt Maunganui vigil to talk new anti-slavery laws - Eru Kapa Kingi and Bianca Ranson on Toitū Te Aroha - Ilhan Omar attacked at podium #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social youtube.com/live/F4STmE_...

#BHN So we now officially say ACT is pro slavery. Who had that on their BINGO card for 2026? #nzpol #nzpolitics

As my first talk at Devonport Library filled up very quickly, I have agreed to do a second session a few days later, on 22 February. Link to book free tickets here: events.humanitix.com/dr-vincent-o...

Nicky Hager says Judith Collins is “clearly and demonstrably not” fit for the Law Commission role www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

#nzpol There is only one solution, vote Green

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"I hope that Paweł Sawicki is right, and that it will be possible to create a scaffold of human feeling around the fading human presence, one that can be preserved when the last of the survivors have gone."

Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

You politicised climate change CERF to general spending - fuckin' whoops Nicola! #NZPol

The heartbreakingly beauty of Amanda Gorman’s words for humanity. Be the light. Save a soul.

finland.fi/life-society... “Traditionally, housing has been seen as the final goal of a social recovery process. Housing First turns idea on its head & puts housing at top of list: when you have a safe home, it’s easier to get back on your feet & start getting your life in order. This means sobriety

#BHN Tonight at 9pm Pat and @chewienz.bsky.social are back for 2026 - Phil Goff LIVE on Winston Peters' silence on Trump shitting on NZ soldiers - His name was Alex Pretti - The PM on Mt Maunganui and pledge towards addressing climate change...yup, he said that #nzpol youtube.com/live/fQdqDMH...

Couldn’t stop crying so I wrote about the tears