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)_/¯

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.

At some point Luxon is actually going to be infringing copyright by doing this Brent from The Office bit

The NZ Govt has announced that it will be reducing support for the Total Mobility scheme that subsidises travel for some disabled people That money being taken from disabled people is 25% of the tax rebates that were introduced for a tobacco company #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Chris Bishop: "I am reluctant to use urgency to avoid select committees outside of the standard Budget urgency process, and it is only done so when there are good reasons." 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

How it started: "Everything we're doing is about driving economic growth so that we can lower the cost of living we can create higher incomes for New Zealanders" How it's going:... #nzpol

"a move meant to dodge Parliament rules about what can be included in a bill, so as to include measures in the Crimes Amendment Bill that had been ruled outside its scope and therefore not allowed" The Coalition Govt shows what it thinks of our democracy #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/thehous...

Thanks Minister Simmonds I imagine getting new Board members isn't that much of an achievement really @nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

The handling of Health NZ feels like it sums up modern #nzpol - Commit to not outsourcing - then outsource - Implement cost savings - which increase costs - Lay of hundreds of people in Data and Digital - while implementing telehealth and digital health initiatives www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

This is a great reminder (for anyone who needs it) about the dangers of politicians without vision "the third firm to exit in the past 14 months" - while the Govt has made hundreds of millions available for oil companies wishing to explore. "Drill baby drill" is as stupid as it sounds #nzpol

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Remind us why the similar regulation had to be repelled under urgency, before being replaced by something substantially similar, again under urgency...? Each time loading costs as Councils and trade professionals have to deal with the impacts of the 750+ pages of quality legislation... #nzpol

Criminal. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/10/g...

We're not gonna get evidence-based policy making if people keep voting for vibes-based policy makers. This entire government is composed of "Well, I know the advisory group recommended x after thousands of hours spent studying the issue, but I *feel* y so we're doing y."

The Natural and Built Environment Act and the Spatial Planning Act being addressed under urgency by the Coalition Govt is intended to replace regulation passed by the Coalition Govt under urgency in 2023 At the same time, the Coalition Govt is telling us: - we need better quality regulation

BAU in NZ, from a Coalition that both created Ministry specifically to check regulation and introduced a bill to (supposedly) improve the quality of our policy (the RSB) Shows how little confidence the Govt has in Minister Seymours work that they have bypassed those mechanisms #nzpol

But he'll still get his knighthood for being a one term PM right? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...