Oh what a coincidence this should come out on the same day Act announces a new high profile candidate. Its almost like that was a distraction or something 🤔

it's coming very very soon™ #auckland

#BHN Just to be clear, trickle down/neoliberal economics is designed that the rich get richer while doing nothing, and the poor get poorer while doing more and more #nzpol #nzpolitics

The discipline of distinguishing Hinduism, which filled that arena with legitimate joy, from Hindutva, the political production that harvested it. A multiculturalism worthy of the name, 1 that engages minority communities as internally plural & politically alive, with their own struggles over power.

it should be the bare minimum that Sam Neil's resting spot is draped with the future flag of Australia

as people rightfully lament some of the press releases being sent out by RNZ on Modi's visit this morning, I was glad to belatedly see that @thepost-nz.bsky.social published this op-ed by my Massey colleague @mohanjdutt.bsky.social last week www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

The following consultation from digital.govt.nz is now open for submissions Digital Accessibility Standard (DAS) — Have your say

we're so back on track like we've ever tracked before /s #nzpol

there is something in New Zealand Brain that cannot think seriously about transit while kiwis argue about bus lanes, over in North America (famously horrible at transit) Montréal built the REM, a new train network with 26 stations supplementing an already-great subway. Took ~10 yrs, nearly done

Share the unedited version... #NZPol

Anyways as I said last year: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/11/06/t...

Pretty weird he found one that looks just like the health minister

Auckland rail network closed as underground CRL loop gets last push to finish line https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions/691547/auckland-rail-network-closed-as-underground-crl-loop-gets-last-push-to-finish-line

imma just repost this just to cleanse my brain from RNZ's new editorial direction #nzpol

Well well well, turns out we can fund functioning cities with thriving public services, and not scare the unicorns…. www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

a reminder that the previous version of the school lunch program was made fresh, made local, and employed locals. feeding school kids is something that just happens in many countries and isn't something contentious or politicised it's worth paying for because if *done well* there are MANY benefits

OMG

Rare Baltimore Light Rail W.

Auckland just had its biggest ever May for cycling and the bulk of the traffic was on separated bike lanes so it's a good thing we haven't banned new NZTA investment in cycleways or anything

This is a great way to paint a target on Aotearoa. My thanks to the government for enabling and encouraging this.

given he was investigated at a previous workplace, then installed by Goldsmith AGAINST advice of selection committee this is wildly unsurprising slightly more surprising this government continues to blunder around like this without consequence Yet another case that should have Goldsmith resign

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Logically, populists in the true sense of the word, parties like NZF, should be wildly into this too, instead they fight for its reverse, corporate asset stripping of the public realm, and further enrichment of the already rich, go figure.

Hi RNZ, appreciate you trying to cheer us up, but good grief!

Sometimes you see something cool, and you want it for yourself. Inspired by Anthony Castrio's nyc-cartogram, I made an Auckland version: drop a pin and the city is redrawn by public-transport travel time instead of distance, with a couple more modes and a few extra features. warp.tfwelch.com

Image A: "Take a walk on the beach or along the waterfront" Image B: the Beach and Waterfront that's highlighted #auckland

East Auckland (fails) to deliver again #nzpol

"Achmad said the mokopuna agreed that more needed to be done to censor content and hold tech companies and social media platforms to account, rather than shift the issue onto the children themselves through restrictions."

That's great but can we have some vision for *more* PT so that people can take advantage of this: more frequent services, more routes, more under-used railways revitalised, any light rail at all Becoming a broken record but cheap fares don't replace cars if there's no usable PT in the first place

This is a terrible response to black people having their homes torched by roaming bands of masked racists, from anyone, let alone a sitting New Zealand MP Crossposted with @openvibe.social

really interesting parachuting of Rakesh Naidoo into a high labour lost position other than being a cop, ive also heard hes quite islamophobic AND entrenched with the hindutva movement 🫣 really not the kind of guy you want in the party, let alone in cabinet with security access

Hindutva links with prominent Indian NZers have been pointed out to Labour over and over again they do not care because a lot of Indians vote for them and support Modi. Unless other Hindu Indians point it out to them and threaten their votes it’s not gonna make a difference.

A tale of cycling projects in 2 pictures. Pic 1 a proposal for Greville Road Pic 2 what will get built following 30 people saying they didn't support it

#NZpol Capturing this "for the record", esp. as I haven’t seen anything about it elsewhere. The National party fairly quickly deleted their post. On the face of it, deleting the post tacitly admits they made a false claim.

“it's difficult to find the money to be able to reverse stuff.” Words for a gravestone.

“it's difficult to find the money to be able to reverse stuff.” ---- Well, here's a starting point. There are currently no higher tax bands for people being paid more than $180,000 per year. There could be another rate for people earning $140,000 per year. Source: www.ird.govt.nz/income-tax/i...

Terrible report out from the ghouls at TPU today - including this blatant lie. Remember, if Govt run a budget surplus of $84bn, the private sector by definition has to lose $84bn in savings ($ or Govt Bonds). Equating a Govt surplus with extra money in household budgets is off-the-chart misleading.

fuck Pete Hegseth www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/30/p...

trying to find the tweet about stephen miller and the AI thinks im talking to it

Golly gosh. A real shame this bill is being pushed through under budget urgency because automated decision-making regimes like this should be subjected to close and sceptical scrutiny in select committee — with experts and the public able to make submissions on this dramatic administrative turn.

'"People died in Australia because of automated systems that ruined people's lives and made mistakes, put people into debt," [Greens MP Ricardo] Menéndez March said. It was "extremely concerning" that the bill was being passed without consultation or scrutiny, he said.' #NzPol

@musicalchairs.bsky.social is going to love this page because it's all "government is run like a household" bullshit describing poorly how government funding works. #nzpol

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