New from me: Health officials said there was ‘no evidence base’ about the likely impacts of the Government’s decision to ban puberty blockers for transgender youth. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/22/c...

This is a really significant ruling - it’s some important that commissioners, especially human rights commissioners, aren’t just installed because they align with the current regime’s political positions. Today an Aotearoa court has ruled it illegal.

#TransportNews: Auckland Transport have begun rolling out an updated design for the train departures screen. The new design features larger text and moves some elements to other locations.

Imagine finishing your benefit forecasts for HYEFU, closing your laptop, and heading to floor 8 for a few miserable xmas treats... then the actual data comes out and blows your calculations out of the water! [NB: Actual data varies slightly from forecast data, but not by much)

F u c k

Narrator - She did not resign #nzpol

More stupid theatre being quietly closed down amid the Christmas rush. The road cone hotline is to end, having achieved basically nothing. What was the cost per cone removed? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Billionaires do fuck all for Aotearoa #nzpol Exhibit Z:

This should be a much, much bigger story. Commitments of tens of billions of dollars are being made to dubious projects without us being allowed to know anything about how decisions are being made. It's literally the future of the nation.

"Support was politically polarised, with significantly higher support from NZ First..." well that's funny for the "war on woke" political party

Very glad to see this result. #nzpol

And the "economic growth" government will continue to do fuck-all in supporting and expanding the sector. RIP Toi Mai and the NZ's Creative Industries

Australia is about to meet its overly centralised-department naming kiwi match. #nzpol

The sucky thing about being right when it comes to predicting an incorrect policy course, is that when it's bourn out that you're correct, the situation is still terrible. Not that the leading opposition party is offering an alternate vision or even aspiration mind you newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/15/y...

⚠️ Public submissions on proposed Plan Change 120: Housing Intensification and Resilience closes this Friday 19 December at 5pm. You can find out more, including how to have your say here: akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/aucklands-fu...

OK, Tāmaki Makaurau, the hornet army is on the march. Time to saddle up, cut up some bottles and trap the little bastards before they do any more damage. MPI has bumped up the zone so if you're inside that purple line it's time to get busy. More info here: www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-r...

lol what

The thing is. THE THING IS! Aspirations, values and visions are free! That’s the stuff that inspires people, and reminds us what (and who) politics is for… …so then we *can* have those realistic conversations about what’s important and how we’ll fund it. Let’s not pre-emptively sell ourselves short!

The first IREX ferry would have been online THIS WEEKEND if Nicola did not cancel them Now we have 4 more years of dodgy shit while we wait for the TEMU option....

r/auckland being r/auckland pathetic keyboard warriors. #auckland

nz media have, by and large, joined the fight against fascism... on the side of the fascists

This is NZME's first story on the UN report. They lead with attacks from right-wing politicians. What in the report is laughable? What are the facts? Always tone over substance.

$9.23 billion over 3 years/2% of the economy lost to car crashes And NACT want us to go faster, on more roads, with less safety www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

📚 Flat Bush Pop-up Library coming soon! In our Howick Local Board open workshop today, staff presented an update on temporary library. Community has waited a long time for library & while this isn't permanent & still work to be done, thrilled to see that we're closer than ever.

I can call it now, they are both the worst! That was so easy. We live in a world of abundance, and that includes titles and crowns for shit politicians who would rather use their power to punch down and entrench poverty in this country.

Not-In-My-Street-Parking #nzpol

I have a medium junior associate who is about to have a fair amount of time off school and is looking for interesting places to visit in AKL - they will do Ikea tomorrow. Interested in day trips to spots on the fringes to explore (have HOP card will travel). Done Hamilton already. Ideas pls!

Imagine Richard living in the human world. There he is, seriously telling a village chief that he will need to sell off the exclusive rights to the village well before the villagers will be able to build a flour mill. The chief is like 'my guys are sat waiting to build the mill, ghoul. Do one!'

If National and Labour agree on a 'bipartisan' policy to follow Australia's social media ban Aotearoa will be fucked #nzpol

Everyone please, think of the poor asbestos suppliers who had their sales reduced and businesses shut down because of the woke mentality of not dying from Asbestosis. #nzpol

I can't think of a more stereotypically-kiwi quote that's somehow resonating and relevant to Aotearoa than "They're killing our native birds and not shagging them.”

Wait, what?! Yesterday, it emerged that Auckland Transport plans to re-open Queen St to all night thru-traffic. Boy racers, start your engines!🏎️🏎️🏎️ But why? And who on earth asked for this? Is this Project K all over again? @connorsharp.bsky.social has the scoop - and a campaign to restore sanity.

I really think a lot of centre-left Labour-supporting people, if they truly want to change the government *and* get genuine progressive/left policies over the line, need to brush up on the history of the ACT Party I'm quite serious

This is what banning under-16s from social media looks like for EVERYONE

"Consumer spending is up, especially on big-ticket items like cars and electronics..." which anyone in tech industry can attest it'll be short lived, given that an AI-hyped global memory shortage is fucking things up atm. So stock up on that greenshoots copium i guess... #nzpol

Reminder this event is on tonight

The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.

As we are now in a period where one party has, in the past two months, bought enough political ads on YouTube to have shown 1 to everyone in the country if they were evenly distributed, just a reminder that the Google Ads Transparency Centre is still a thing & the Political Ads tab tracks showings

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Cowboy hat wearing cycleway sabatour putting these signs up all over Grey Lynn Shops and Surrey Crescent today, based on some completely deranged idea of whats happening. Interesting whos hoarding (cough cough Mike Lee) was used to make these signs...

Erica Stanford is becoming the biggest promoter of Make It 16 for next year's election. #nzpol

Successfully define 'social media' before the next election and I'll eat a Compass school lunch

Luxon has never tried to ask a European to do anything in the month of September and it shows

Mirror Mirror On The Wall Who's The Most Cowardly Poli Of Them All? Luxon, Peters and Upston compete for Political Dunces of the Year #nzpol #kiwi

Queen Street - A Street for civic and Civilised action 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #citycentre

Week in Review: Opinion from the University of Auckland: Arts funding is not simply about revenue, there are 'spillover effects' that benefit sectors such as tourism and youth development

"I am in my mid-50s and have spent my career being financially responsible" "When I was made redundant 13 months ago... I lived off my savings, scrutinising every spend..." "After 100-plus applications and only two interviews over the past 13 months, my savings are almost gone..." #nzpol

One of the obvious impacts of Govt not investing into a downturn is tanking taxes (= higher deficits). Countless examples across the world, but sadly most of our reckonomics commentariat are small island caveman monetarists, so, prices going up? Ug. Throw kiwis on the dole, ug, crash economy. [🧵1/n]