I’ve just emailed Stuffs editor [email protected] about a follow up on the article of the PM working from about the 3rd of Jan. I suggest the only way we get media doing their job is if they are emailed by lots of people to write a follow up article, oh and ask about the health hack as well.

I haven't seen any official communication from the govt, te whatu ora or Manage my health about the likely uses of the stolen health data and how people can protect themselves from potential incoming scams. The best info has been coming from Bluesky. Pathetic response from Brown. #nzpol

AoNZ waiting for their Prime Minister to comment on current massive global events. I guess they dont have the internet or television or phones in Te Puke. #nzpol

Next Greenland? Canada? Perhaps the world needs to unite in condemnation rather than pussy-foot around. #nzpol #Caracas

Visited by a family of 3 kōtare. We were lucky enough to see dad spot and catch a worm before feeding it to 1 of the 2 kids. 😊

Our absent PM everybody:

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

Where's Luxon?

Gaza was the test bed. Even though citizenry around the world protested against it, governments went along with the US and Israel's illegal genocide. Now they know they can do it elsewhere without consequences... hence the attacks on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro. #nzpol

Waking up this morning and seeing all the leaders of the world happy that Maduro has been taken hostage illegally has thrown me. Trump even says the US is going to run Venezuela's oil reserves and other countries are just ... silently complicit. 🫠

The word they should have used is kidnapped. Abhorrent! Illegal! NZ needs to exit 5 Eyes immediately. #nzpol

It's more complicated than going after billionaires. Investment funds like Black Rock consist of thousands of silent small investors who expect a return. These investment companies have outsized influence and push infinite growth just like billionaires, but who do you target to stop/change them?

The buck stops with him. He needs to manage this situation, not just say he expects a private company to do something. All our health data is integrated. This system has links into MoH managed health data, for which Brown is ultimately responsible. This is serious and he is effectively absent.

It’s a shame NZ media don’t put this inconvenient truth directly to him during interviews, although I imagine it’s partly why he refused to do Q&A with Jack Tame this year… 🙄 #nzpol

Very pleased with my post-Xmas reads, courtesy of the Robertson bros.

Reposting this with alt text, taken from the fabulous @madhmstr.bsky.social who had shown us magic is still out there this holiday season. 🥰🎄🦌 (1/2)

the language through out is arms company / tech babble this is not a NZ success story - it's a story of US military industrial complex building a foothold here and NZ politicians and media FAILING to interrogate it effectively and give the NZ public the truth

So thrilled that Tania Waikato, lawyer and people's advocate, is standing for the Greens next year. Meri Kirihimete 💚🎄💚

it’s not a fucking build-a-bear you fascist potato

If a left wing govt did this it would be called fraud. #NZPol

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

Roadside drug testing in Aoteroa. I'm trying to work out a couple of things but need help. Police website links to this letter regarding the enforced limits for oral fluid lab testing. The European Std they link to doesn't work and I can't find the 2022 version they refer to, I can only see 2011.

I've collected a list of all the medical and healthcare professionals who have put out statements against the ban on puberty blockers. I'm sure I've missed some, let me know if I have. It is damning. I have yet to find a professional org that supports the ban, even tepidly. #nzpol

This Cockwomble 🤡! In typical Trumpian fashion this smarmy bastard choses to insult the messenger rather than acknowledge and fix HIS problem. If you pay $3 for to Compass for a kid's lunch, then they are going to have to cut corners. Vote this and his clown mates out! #nzpol

When will Labour get some std lines to counter media's regular "out of control spending" and "they're the reason for today's debt"? So easy to counter:saved 20,000 lives and tens of thousands of jobs & livelihoods. Compare to unemployment now, worst in a decade, that's real financial mismanagement.

Show your support for @nzpsa.bsky.social health workers on strike tomorrow! Share a tile to your page, use the hashtag #StandTogetherForHealth and tag us in your photos. #NZPol #AotearoaUnions #NZUnions #tradeunions

If by "unions" he means "every day New Zealanders" and if by "anti-government" he means "pro te tiriti" then, yeah, I guess he's right.

Thanks @publicaddress.bsky.social for letting us know about the launch of Not Given Lightly tonight. Loved every minute. Very special to see Chris made it.

It's their modus operandi - absolutely fuck things long term so they can fish a few millions from under the sofa cushions in the short term to fund their tax cuts for rich people and landlords. They're governing as if nothing exists after this 3 year term. Looting the place then fleeing.

Kick Back and Action Station have created this petition to demand the govt support people experiencing homelessness - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/de...

When you have to throw some of the most vulnerable populations in AoNZ under the bus with imported conspiracy theories, misogyny & racism to keep a clawlike grip to your waning political star & bolster the crumbling foundations of your increasingly irr. political party. It's time to go. #nzpol

Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) condemns decision by Minister of Health Simeon Brown to ban new prescriptions of GnRH analogues (puberty blockers) for transgender children and young people who are not currently on them. #NZpol 💗🤍💙⚕️ Full release at patha.nz/news

A couple of weeks ago, casey costello, in her capacity as Associate Health Minister, met with Irish anti trans activist helen joyce. ACT hosted the terf and the FSU at Parliament. This week cabinet made a decision to ban puberty blockers but only for trans kids, cis kids can still get them.

Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

“They don't realise that if you don't tax the rich, the rich will squeeze you out. "If you accept a situation where the rich grow their share every year, then, of course, your share and your family's share will eventually be squeezed to nothing," he said. #nzpol

The #Uber loss in the Supreme Court “highlights a grey area in the law”, says Brooke Van Velden. It’s been through 3 courts. The judges were unanimous. There’s nothing grey about it. The law is black & white. WORKERS HAVE RIGHTS! That’s the real “problem” this anti-worker govt wants to “fix” #nzpol

Our heartfelt congratulations to all of our Uber members and the four drivers - Nureddin, Julian, Bill and Mea’ole. It is not easy to stand up and speak out about a multibillion dollar multinational corporation that controls almost every aspect of your livelihood. You have done it. And won! #uber

But... the ACT party and Brooke van Valden KNEW this case was likely to lose, and has had closed-door meetings with Uber. ACT's Employment Relations Act (ERA) Bill is a Trumpian-dictator move that aims to conveniently nullify the Aotearoa legal system decision. The ERA Bill must be killed, now.

Luxon & Hipkins... who looks stupid and in la la land now . #nzpol

#nzpol Do you have any friends or family members you think might want to share (openly or anonymously) why they are leaving, have recently left or are considering leaving AotearoaNZ?

Another shocking record to mark up to the CoC's in power. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #NZPol

Women's health let down again. Ayesha Verrell asking why patients need to pay for cervical screening when every other regular screening is free. Seymour confirming the govt has made a choice not to fund it. #nzpol

#NZpol Seymour is doubling down on his and the ACT Party's followers intent to make this country some kind of Last Stand of The Eternally Victimized Whiter than White Dudes of the World... Who Somehow Still Have All The Power But Are Still The Real Victims™️. A manipulative, deceitful *racist*.

Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.

NZ governments sitting on their faces while electricity costs skyrocket, and Australia is looking at giving away electricity for free #nzpol

The bootcamps were rushed, the staff were under prepared because they were brought in late, ongoing therapeutic support was not assigned to anyone and didn't happen, whānau support came far too late. Community based circuit breakers work better than prisons! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The next government might make your power bill cheaper - and capitalism thinks that is a Bad Thing www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

The Spectator are confused. It's not going to be cost free. Billionaires are going to pay more. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Farming, Horticulture & Aquaculture Employers predominantly vote National who always slash MPI Customs & DOC staff which Labour govs then have to spend billions trying to fix while getting absolutely no acknowledgement from those industries. *Rinse Repeat.. 🐆 #nzpol