Nice radio gig you've got here. Shame if something were to happen to it under the new board my ministers are about to appoint www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

LET THESE GUYS OUT TO TALK

What a cartoon! Solidarity with Ella and all our trans whānau, friends and community members. ✊🔥❤️‍🩹

My cartoon in today's Sunday Star Times. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... Nicola Willis, finance minister for the coalition, said she's taking an axe to civil servants jobs! Nearly 9,000 of them... #Caricature #NicolaWillia #NzPol #Cartoon #NzBudget

Lovely suggestions below & dam right too! I've sent a fair chunk of complaint emails this week. And recently had my hair chopped off. Being who I am and saying screw you to the gender 'conformists'. Life's too short and people need solidarity to be who they are. Kia kaha ❤️✊

There will be times where our cartoonists are going to tell the absolute truth on a platform you may have many issues with. Cartooning, especially at a political level, is fraught with danger to the cartoonists but they do it anyway. The platforms are secondary but provide an income. Remember this.

Congratulations to @domesticanimal.bsky.social for winning 2026 Cartoonist of the year (used to be the Voyager Award). Bloody brilliant news and well deserved. Look forward for to seeing more wonderful creations this year ❤️❤️❤️

Bernard Hickey "This is a clear income transfer from state tenants to private landlords of ~$500 million and this is on top of the $12.5b tax breaks that have been handed to landlords in the last 2 years, and that was taken from the Climate Emergency Response Fund" www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5u0...

All the political news this week has been absolute garbage. It feels overwhelming and that’s on purpose. So it’s more important to seek out the people and causes that give you hope. And give them your time, money and attention. It can be better. We just have to work together.

The same minister stealing support from our disabled community is taking $1000 per week off the poorest, as she personally sits on a salary of $327,000 per year? GET FUCKING MAD ABOUT IT, JFC. 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

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

social housing tenants would probably feel more like they had won the Lotto if they could claim a $36,400 accommodation supplement to live in their own property

one of the major clues that social housing tenants haven't in fact won the lotto is that they need social housing

A selection from speeches from the debates on the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Recognition Act 2021. Any journos reading this feel free to ask any of the speakers whether they stand by these comments made less than five years ago. At the second reading: Nicola Grigg:

In today’s NZ Herald

The Government announces still more Public Service cuts, the impact of which will be wide reaching. My #cartoon today #NZpol #PublicService

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... Erica Stanford is hellbent on 'upgrading' NZ's educational system... and isn't fazed by who it hurts or pushes out... #NzPol #EricaStanford #Cartoon

So how many Supreme Court rulings is this the regime has or is trying to overturn? Pay equity, prisoner voting, disability carers, climate change... what a lawless pack of wankers www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

A announcement about the forthcoming budget (Thursday 28 May) My Sunday Star Times #cartoon today #NZpol #Budget26

'The violence that I experience is not casual': Māori women tell Waitangi Tribunal of abuse #nzpol The racism and misogny NZ chooses to ignore is vast. We are not a country that protects women, especially brown women, from abuse, DV, SA, or online harassment.

Jim Hubbard's hilarious cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... Make sure to see Jim's work every Thursday in The Post, Waikato Times and The Press. Oh and if you're far south The Southland Times! All Stuff cartoonist's are hard working and do their best to bring you the goods ❤️✊

American centric commentary here but definitely can be applied to Aotearoa New Zealand. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵. Matthew nails the points on the head.

That fabulous trio, The Coalitions, are changing the law to stop climate litigation. My #cartoon today #NZpol #ClimateChange #ClimateEmissions

This is excellent reporting by @manidunlop.bsky.social outlining the Mana Wahine Inquiry and the experiences of both political and business leaders. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/05/11/t... #nzpol

My cartoon on today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... A lot of people are feeling despondent & rightfully angry. The opposition needs to get its shit together as many don't believe they're doing anything to push back on the destruction of our motu. #NzPol #Cartoon #WheresWally

Everlee Wihongi jailed by ICE for a month now moved to another prison unable to communicate with family or lawyer. Labour is calling on Foreign Affairs Minister to advocate with US govt for her release or at least she should be told why she is being held and able to communicate with family & lawyer.

Stop looking at what Discount Mr Potato Head is saying and start looking at the pattern of actions. What goal is actually being signalled by "I'm going to be focusing on outcomes"? To my view, it seems the intent is to gear society toward a highly individualised, stack-ranked system of privilege.

I am incensed about this. What is it about having an educated population that ‘does not achieve any goals’? What were they? Scrapping Labour’s first year fees free policy was bad enough, but promising this only to rip it out from kids currently at uni who were 💯 relying on it is VERY BAD. #nzpol

Thank you Ella for sharing this. So many things get posted and I miss them from being busy. I will be using this! #SearchEngine

Yeah, that's 90% of the Gulf states' internet. Quite the additional bargaining chip.

Me! I even told my Uni Tutor I will never use it, & if I'm forced to I will leave the course. The shit thing is our big tech overlords make it near impossible to avoid accidentally pressing the bloody Ai search on google. They desperately want us to use it. Nope. I want a liveable planet!

My #cartoon today #NZpol #CostOfLiving #Fuel

For Adam Pearse's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Rumour is Lloyd Burr said to Maiki she was "Hangi Pants" Maiki asked "How would you like it if I called you a faggot?" Next day Sherman apologised & it was done and dusted for 1 year For that alleged exchange Free Speech Union & ex-Nat staffer Ani O'Brien got Maiki cancelled The FSU are hyocrites

@paulbarlownz.bsky.social makes some very good points in this 5 minute video around the dismantling of the BSA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkaq... #nzpol

I remember when I started out in journalism and my wonderful Producer Colin McRae said you have to remember to be fair, accurate and balanced. So for the government to not tweak but get rid of the BSA - with no meaningful engagement or robust rationale - is neither fair, balanced or accurate.

ACT’s 6-point plan for Immigration: 1. Deport. 2. Expire. 3. Stand-down. 4. Fees. 5. English. 6. Enforcement. My #cartoon today #NZpol #Immigration

I have got tears rolling down my face. It's only taken 4 Select Committee's , 2 of them under petitions in my name but finally we got the words we always wanted to hear. "The committee recommends to the Government that the public sale and private use of fireworks be banned."

Good thing to know though. Les Mills is on the side of people 🙌

Among the submissions was a letter from the Japanese ambassador to New Zealand, Makoto Osawa, which claimed it could “cause division and conflict within New Zealand’s wonderful multi-ethnic and multicultural society and between Japanese and Korean communities”.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... Seymour and the Ministry of cutting red tape sure as hell love adding as much bureaucratic levels as possible to people, communities and business. The man of 'small govt' my arse... #NzPol #Cartoon #RedTape

Please stop buying Zuru toys for your children (or yourself). Aside from the awful environmental impact they have, you’re also indirectly supporting the ACT Party. #zuru #mowbray #nzpol #act #aonz Via Tee To.

The Government is planning to weaken legal obligations to the Treaty of Waitangi. Seems it’s really about erasure. (The quote is from Ministers Goldsmith and Jones). Thought about calling this “Eraserhead” My #cartoon today #NZpol #ToitūTeTiriti #TreatyOfWaitangi #TeTiritiOWaitangi

Our buddy Jay was kidnapped by the IOF thousands of miles away from Palestine. He's in the hospital now with a concussion and a possible broken rib. The abduction was condemned by Spain, Türkiye and Brazil, but the NZ government has been silent. #GlobalSumudFlotilla

For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

So, what did happen to that plan to acquire a sea-going rescue tugboat for Cook Strait? My #cartoon today #NZpol #Infrastructure

Jim Hubbards cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... @thepost-nz.bsky.social Luxon has a voodoo doll next to his bed and snuggles soundly with his little teddy bear... #NzPol #Cartoon #Voodoo

Unbelievable. The Luxon government has now granted a prospecting permit within Te Wāhipounamu, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... META the biggest vulture of them all continues to allow scam adverts on their platforms. In 2024 they made over $27 billion (NZD). And are still getting away with it now... #Cartoon #Meta #Vultures