so much economic growth and productivity on Pakuranga road just as Simeon Brown has envisioned #nzpol

OH COME THE FUCK ON.

Holy shit. This is quite serious. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Perhaps someone should tell Nicola Willis.

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

"an ebike is a deadly weapon in a child's hands" We let 16 year old children drive cars and own guns

East Auckland delivers again by fucking the rest of Auckland up

Grim. National and ACT backing a bill - at least at first reading - which fundamentally undermines the self-ID law both parties voted for *unanimously* just a few years ago.

Re-upping this, penned almost exactly a year ago. | Institutional collapse: How 10,000 public sector job cuts threaten New Zealand’s national, and human security sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i... #nzpol

Breaking News: Atlas Network Think Tank celebrates as former Director announces that overworked Public Sector is not overworked enough. #nzpol

Please provide a detailed list of these claimed duplications. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hey what happened to identifying the ideology of lobby groups, media? Why did that only apply that one time to the 'left wing' tax reform group? Forget the headline, you're not even telling your audience the TPU is right wing.

I can't believe the damage cycle lanes are gonna do to wellington businesses if this plan to cut 9k public sector employees goes ahead.

Any more reasons to feel bad about investor landlords? Cause i have fuck all #nzpol

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Catching up on an old favourite. Tax revenue is a decent indicator of economic activity. Look at that flaccid, trailing off into slumpy-slumpy. Image 2 shows the annual change in the data in image 1. Early-2026 signs of recovery? My arse.

Upstairs on bus 70 this afternoon provided an opportunity to see the progress on Eastern Busway. First photo shows the new Koata / Riverhills Station, which will serve the immediate area around the intersection with Gossamer Drive.

If you wanted to know what Simeon Brown as campaign chief meant, now you do.

Ex-Labour staffer from years ago does social media skits & is called a troll by Stuff's Jenna Lynch, wife of ACT Chief of Staff. But ex-National staffer & current Jordan Williams employee Ani O'Brien consistently runs troll campaigns against media & opposition MPs, but is legitimate? F*** Stuff

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

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...

So this govt removed the reserve bank’s ability to consider anything except inflation in setting interest rates, so a super dumb tightening is baked in for the coming recession? @musicalchairs.bsky.social

Research shows that if a political left party tries to win votes by adopting versions of radical right policies, they lose votes to the right. It doesn’t work. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I remember going to the launch of the KO accessibility policy in 2019 (iirc). We had high hopes that the large KO building programme would lead to universal design and adaptable design being more normalised in NZ. Even thought that the 15% target might increase eventually. This govt are bastards.

InternetNZ is once again being faced with a hostile takeover by lying right-wing nut jobs. You can stop this from happening, if you want.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/persona... "worst result since 2022" "worst reading since early 2022" Why are we pushing that lower house prices, high supply of good housing, and lower overall demand for housing is a bad thing for Aotearoa? fuck off. #nzpol

How a coordinated far-right network — The Platform, NZ First, ACT, Free Speech Union — took down NZ's only media regulator with statutory teeth. An excellent article by Mohan Dutta, who is frequently attacked by the alt right in NZ: culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-... #nzpol #auspol

It was actually Shipley *and* Winston Peters, who championed the bill in his Budget speech and co-signed the draft code with her. I had some salty words at the time about the idea of being morally contracted by *that* guy. www.tehaorangahau.msd.govt.nz/assets/bibli...

I’m imagining RNZ editors saying “nuh uh” after approving this headline.

The sooner democratic societies can get on top of “big money buying elections” the sooner democracy survives.

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

In summary: “… they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it… and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.” - Sarah Kendzior #nzpol

🧵My take here is that the coalition government has decided to abolish the BSA because it has advice that the authority's assertion that the Broadcasting Act gives it jurisdiction over online broadcasting is well-founded and would prevail in a court. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

NZ has a Broadcasting Standards Authority to set & protect the standard of broadcasting in NZ. When some wannabe shockjock says something offensive enough to break/breach the standard of broadcasting in NZ (& that standard is pretty fucking low), they should be censured by said authority.

🎯 "Why is the NZ govt using a fund meant to promote social cohesion to instead promote illegal settlements & ethnic cleansing?" + "The fund explicitly requires political neutrality." ngā mihi nui Avigail, Justine & Dayenu: NZ Jews Against The Occupation whanau #nzpol www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO26...

This is fundamentally undemocratic, just like central government rate-capping is. This government has done many things to harm democracy in Aotearoa, but this is one of the worst. Wasn’t in their manifesto. Will centralise power, not disburse it, and is hostile to public participation. #nzpol

"We, like you, believe in localism and devolution, not centralisation and control" Luxon 2024 “Centralism over localism doesn’t work” Luxon 2023 "Central government shouldn't be running roughshod over local communities" Luxon 2021 #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-...

b A c K o N T r A c K #nzpol

'Come up with a plan within 3 months or the govt will do it for you.' Extraordinary. There is no way communities can have a meaningful conversation about the future shape of local govt in 3 months. They're being set up to fail, at which time they'll have the decision taken out of their hands.

"Then-Minister ... David Clark said it was a vote of confidence in the country's economic recovery from the pandemic." "Then-National Party digital economy spokesperson Melissa Lee said the investment would encourage more young people to pursue careers in the tech sector." lol. lmao even #nzpol

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...

Correction: This would introduce American style ICE, create a migrant underclass in poor housing, set arbitrary rules around language for visa applications and make migrants pay more for services that will mostly be used by older New Zealanders rather than migrants themselves.

In 2023 IRD research found the wealthiest 311 families paid an effective tax rate of 9%, while ordinary people who earn their income from work or welfare pay 20% on average. #nzpol 2/n www.tjanz.org/wealth_tax_r...

Govt doesn’t want to talk about it, but businesses are getting ready for the international tourism slowdown.

Would you like to travel by rail from Auckland - Hamilton - Tauranga? A May 2 run sold out without promotion. Sign the petition for more. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/go...

This is quite the graph (from newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/30/t...)

in a shocking twist, Seymour aims to take the moral high-ground Ministry for Pacific Peoples bomb threats be damned

Dysfunctional coalition is dysfunctional, and that's good. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...