It's funny because it is true #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/14/t...

I wonder if any of our politicians had read this before granting Fast Track approval for an AI Data Centre to become NZs second largest user of electricity... www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Numbers Willis is happy with: Most unemployed since 2015 30,000 people fleeing the country Billions wasted on cancelled projects Fat landlord tax cut paid for by ripping off women's pay equity

If there was any doubt that PM Luxon was out of touch, fining homeless people and beggars $2000 dollars for being homeless and begging would be it After seeing how banning gang patches was ineffective, we are now going to do the same with homelessness #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

This is going to become my daily affirmation.

I am continuously amazed to see pieces like this While so many kiwis have given up on getting their own home, and an increasing number of people have nowhere to live, here is an opinion piece about about what the best kind of vacation home is that should appeal to the one percenters

Meanwhile, in NZ businessdesk.co.nz/article/infr... Sadly, the man who has said "No to renweable energy" over a desire to commit us to buying LNG is happy to admit that Australia is wealthier and more productive than us, but just can't quite join the dots. Darn you #nzpol

After a review requested by the Teaching Council finds the Teaching Council is going badly: - the Ministry of Education orders a review of the Teaching Council - the Minister of Education orders a review of the Teaching Council No wonder nothing gets done #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

I don't understand business sentiment surveys - a 12 year high at the same time as nearly half of owners considering giving up thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin... www.nzherald.co.nz/business/sma...

Ah yes, the double standards of the libertarian: You must calmly and rationally discuss your existence & basic rights, but how dare you call us bad names.

Is this why the police were not investigating any crimes under $5K & this govt can't even recruit 500 frontline officers Or is it because gang numbers have climbed to never seen before levels while they are making double profits - or maybe the raging meth and cocaine crisis in play? Which is it?

People in the US are seeing how unpopular their President has become But our own PM Luxon would love those kind of approval ratings #nzpol www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

For anyone who thinks AI is bad...

Things would be much better for homeowners if the NZ Govt tied house prices to electricity prices - then homeowners could all have certainty, and great capital gains now we are back on track #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

During the 1970's, Copenhagen introduced car-less days (like NZ), discovered it was good and changed paradigm (unlike NZ, which made up car ownership easier). And now we have a Govt talking about building $250 billion of road and cutting out cycle lanes... #nzpol grist.org/biking/one-m...

Finance Minister Willis won't be very pleased with the latest fiscal hole. Maybe writing off the $1.2 billion previously spent on Affordable Waters (aka 3Waters) under urgency isn't a great example of the fiscal responsibility the Coalition keeps mentioning

Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand - if only because it's an election year for #nzpol 👀⬇️⬇️⬇️. This article is about a new tool to track the hidden economics of bot armies. eastangliabylines.co.uk/technology/p...

This is a bit inconvenient when the PM and Civil Defense Minister are both "working from home" - what happened to the traditional politician photo ops? #nzpol #CycloneGabrielle #northland www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Why is it that the "Free Speech Union" in every country follows the approach of suppressing free speech about them?

The forestry industry doesn't actually have to be this evil. It's a choice

It's unbelievable to think that a mainstream web site is fully accessible to anyone who wants to create child or fake porn. When did this become mainstream? www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Meanwhile, the NZ PM, busy working from home, has been unable to comment on multiple international situations, but has proudly focusing on the key issues he thinks kiwis care about #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christoph...

It's a sign of the times to see Elon Musk has turned pedophilia into a chargeable service “Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe to unlock these features.” www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Holy sh*t 🫣 Security can be hard - but that is no reason to fail the basics of checking who you are talking to. Highly recommend reading the whole thread. And then think about how many checks and balances have failed (or been circumvented) to get to this point, and how that differs from the PR

NZ has a dearth of business reporting, with just a couple of exceptions. We have more journalists covering sport and entertainment than sport, and (seem to) take more stories from social media than the business world Which makes www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com... a complete (shallow) embarrassment

This is a good read, and should be a reminder as we go into an election how a vendors public statements can be meaningless Lets hope there are repercussions, not just for 126,000 kiwis, but for the business that claimed it took security seriously in public, and short changed us in private

A long shot, but if anyone might know anyone that works for the Parliamentary Service: Please consider removing the Radware protection from your RSS feeds. These feeds are designed to be read by computers and shouldn't require a Human JS challenge every time someone wants to access it! #nzpol

Why can't NZ have politicians like this, who look beyond the next 36 months, who consider the implications, who can express the issue and the solution in a rationale way? We don't even have this calibre of politician in Central Govt. And to do it all with an Australian accent? Awesome!

If they’re not careful the FIFA Peace Prize is gonna mean nothing

I don't think many kiwis will be surprised by the cynical misleading of the NZ public outlined in the article It's worthwhile remembering it is the exact opposite of what Ministers said in Parliament - www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ivl-...

In today’s Weekend Herald

You know it is a slow day in #nzpol Thank goodness opinion writers also value their opinions on religion

"The increase in the cost of registering a car kicks in from January 1 with a 12-month licence fee is going up by a fifth from $144.22 to $172.97." (www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...). Our Govt seems determined to stamp out those green shoots of economic recovery with a 20% tax increase #nzpol

This the the Fast Track bill in action. A decision made by a group (of which only 1 lives in the area) has overruled the people who live in the area #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/queenstow...

A lot of kiwis have felt uncomfortable about where our democracy is headed, despite the claims of the Govt that they are about evidence based policies and better quality regulation. @cjs.nz takes it further and provides evidence that we are loosing our democratic rights. It's nice work #nzpol

#nzpol copies other countries a lot - but somehow seems to ignore this kind of thing In Jul-25, only 45% of graduate nurses got employment offers Health NZ has said that by Jul-26, it will make an offer to 80% of graduates. It doesn't say what those graduates will do for a living while waiting

This is my question…..doesn’t just apply to the USA… As a country that installed an Atlas 2025 govt and all we got was wasted money, landlord welfare, incompetence and bigotry. And all of it added to our debt and degraded our lifestyle. All for pointless corporate ideology.

I'm guessing Police Minister Mitchell didn't know this was happening because <insert todays excuses>. I doubt the PM will be making any comment about "wasted money" or "poor delivery" just because one Govt Dept is now having to investigate another Govt Dept. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

After Shane Jones watching so many mills around provincial NZ go bust in the last 18 months, it's interesting to see strong support from Shane Jones, and the money funneled in by Cabinet Shame those decisions are kept opaque #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

On 1-Jan-26, the EU is starting to penalize products that produce greenhouse gasses, especially from countries from weak climate regulations via CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism). The UK intends to introduce CBAM in 2027 NZ has weakened it's climate regulation, missing the point #nzpol

some theorists posit that #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay seems to happen on different days each year. and to them, we would say: yes

Ridiculously, this government is going to give the Commerce Commission the power to take information outside the scope of the OIA for TEN YEARS. Completely unacceptable and unnecessary as there are already provisions protecting this kind of information. #nzpol legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

This flip-flopping is what happens when politicians ignore evidence, and direct based on ideology. So what did the PM do? He made Simeon Brown Minister of Health - a domain where evidence based decision-making is even more critical. It's not going well. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Asking for a friend: Is this the same Julian Batchelor that used to talk about "“the elite Māori takeover” of the country and co-governance being a “coup by stealth”? He seems ok with hiding money he received from "billionaire elites" www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

These articles always talk about the billions of dollars of gold - but that is effectively the money that is going overseas, leaving kiwis with pennies in the dollar. In 2024/2025 the NZ Govt received a total of $143 million from all mining, all sources. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

While Luxon’s taxpayer funded limo glides over the hills, transport options and accessibility for disabled NZers is further reduced. Luxon weeps with frustration as he leaves the belt way. “I needed the massive tax cut” he wails at his chauffeur. #nzpol

Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'. Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!) We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

govt spends $750 per road cone to appease people who think $5 per road cone is excessive just normal everyday NZ shit now.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... misses important information - how much did it cost us? But BvB is probably right “This pilot has done exactly what we needed it to do," she said, in a statement" - it distracted people from the real issues we face as a country #nzpol

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.