Irony is lost on Minister Bishop - a senior Minister in Govt who has passed more regulation under urgency than any other NZ Govt ever when he realises people have to follow regulation #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/14/u...

"Charter School Agency signed sports school contract with non-existent trust" More great work happening under Minister Seymour. He really does have a special knack for not getting things right #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

For those people saying it was just the previous senior management, and an email policy that hide anything incriminating from the Minister: "Over 100 police officers investigated after 30,000 breath tests falsified" www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

breathalyser reports. I mean, we're not all paedophiles preying on the general populace from positions of power, but maybe we need a cold, hard, look in the societal mirror. Note: it is not drag queens or women doing this stuff so maybe men should take the longest, coldest look.

"Aotearoa plummets from 2nd to 53rd in Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index ranking" NZ getting back on track - to those times when tobacco lobbyists had free reign #nzpol www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/aot...

"It’s about keeping our cities moving – whether you’re a parent on the school run, a tradie heading to a job, or a truckie delivering exports to port" But no, Minister Bishop didn't mean cycleways or improved public transport. He means a new tax. auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/11/traf... #nzpol

"Technology will solve it" is the blind faith "Jesus will save us" used to have the monopoly on.

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

National Party spending ~$4 billion on a Wellington tunnel so they can get to the airport faster. Meanwhile they cancelled ferries & two new ports for the North-South link which would have cost half of that. Consultant fees to date: $700m #nzpol #kiwi

My friend @suburbanennui.bsky.social with his epic sign #nzpol #nzstrike

#nzpol NZ is tired of hearing the denigration and blaming language of BvV, Brown, Luxon, Bishop etc towards Public Sector unions, doctors, nurses, teachers & other critical workers who they refuse to pay fairly or at least in line with inflation. Meanwhile check out politicians' pay and %pay rises

Under funding our services is also politically motivated.

Auckland unemployment 10 year record high. Auckland business failures 10 year record high. #backontrack #nzpol

Judith Collins laments the financial situation in her “open letter”, claiming it's due to Labour. She ignores the fact that John Key left a $60b debt 22% of GDP while privatising assets & by 2023 it was 18% GDP with a nominal increase. Debt isn't bad in itself but National's lies are #nzpol

Meanwhile, the regime's "redress scheme" for abuse in care - a crime against humanity - requires criminal background checks and a presumption against any redress for serious sexuala nd violent offenders (which the state created with its abuse) www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

Alternatively, people could realise that road cones are a red herring, and are not the reason NZ has increasing debt, increasing unemployment, low productivity #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

“Shane Jones throws a tantrum that anyone else or any other body can make rules for the fishing industry that is bribing the shit out of him, and demands that all authority over fisheries be placed in his hands so he can make more money” - Corrected the headline

“With COVID, vaccines, Lyme disease, any of it — I’m not your enemy,” I told my seatmate as we were getting ready to disembark. “And I know you’re not the enemy, either.” “True,” he agreed. “But they always want to make someone your enemy.” www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...

Two lessons I have learnt from the local body elections - sometimes in a democracy there is no real choice - being able to use AI made selecting candidates so much faster than previous years of reviewing to try to figure out which of them is a nut job

A comparison: 20% reoffending vs 70% reoffending No prizes for guessing which one our PM supports Our kids are too important to be political pawns. Our PM needs to realise that some of them may not actually move to Australia, and these are our future citizens #nzpol #bootcamps

ACT sinking to TPM levels in the latest Curia poll at www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance #nzpol

PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia. Here’s my daily Chorus email newsletter, video and podcast. The newsletter is open to all, while the full video and podcast are for paying subscribers. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/pm-tells-j...

Hey remember when Brooke van Velden pretended she was really shocked to be called a cunt about stealing women's money and made a big song and dance of it in Parliament? But it didn't work and none of us forgot that she stole our money? Thinking about that for no reason in particular #nzpol

If you will be 18YO by NZ Election 2026, or know anyone in this category, please remind them to enrol to vote. Make sure they have a say on NZ Govt proposal to remove social safety net of Unemployment Benefit for 18 + 19YOs. Excuse is that parents can pay 🙄 #NZpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"We are not embracing enough technology " (source: NZ PM Luxon) "We've had no practice on the Parliament by Zoom" (source NZ Minister Collins, justifying why she traveled during pandemic lockdown, prior to becoming Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology) #nzpol #goldfish

You can't fit thousands of job seekers into tens of jobs. And while Luxon might call himself sorted, the country isn't, even if he doesn't want to do anything about it.

Musical Chairs sums up the stupidity of Coalition Govt beatifully. "The world does't owe you a living" says the man who has killed off 10's of thousands of jobs. And then suggests teens need need to get themselves sorted. He is incapable of considering himself at fault

Wright Family Foundation receives over $300 million of taxpayers' funding & posts $41.6 million op. profit. The business was converted to a "charity" & pays no tax. The Wright Family bankrolled Sean Plunkett & The Platform, which regularly attacks govt 'handouts' #nzpol 🧵👇

Plans for 18,000 more dairy cows in Canterbury have been revealed. In a nitrate emergency, the there should be a reduction in cow numbers, not MORE dairy expansion.

Google AI search miss-identified me and another Māori man www.taiuru.co.nz/ai-miss-iden...

This is the best summary of this I have read. If you don't read the research, remember this when people reject ideas, and discredit experts. Trolls invoke this approach a lot

There’s a lot wisdom in here, thanks @haydendonnell.bsky.social thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-...

Weird how we could say the exact same thing about Seymour here too. 🤔 #nzpol

Rich man buys shorter prison sentence www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wealthy-n...

Be Honest Minister Stanford #NZPol

Simeon Brown is funding private equity telehealth companies up to ~4.5 times ($65/appt) more than community GPs. These same companies e.g. Tend Health are then charging Kiwis $80-100 for a call. #kiwi

Motherfuckers www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/19/g...

For all those people calling for the PM and / or Finance Minister, just take a moment to consider David Seymour is currently Deputy PM #nzpol

Dear What Used to be the Middle Class in Aotearoa, If you vote in the interests of the poor, the chances of you doing better is almost 100% If you vote in the interests of the rich, your local community will be worse off. You can’t afford what the rich can, and you will get poorer trying

China is dumping peaches into the NZ market resulting in Watties dropping contracts with kiwi growers Also Fonterra continues to charge kiwi consumers more than their overseas customers Time to review our approach to international trade, so kiwis are always coming out as the loosers? #nzpol

Are there adult nappies for the economically incontinent? Features I'm looking for: Can absorb $671m pissed away on zero ferries. Can contain a big jobs dump. Won't leak tens of thousands of Kiwis to Australia. #nzpol

🎶 if Jesus Christ came back today as he threatened he will, which poor group of people do you think that he would kill? Who would he allow to starve if you gave him a chance, and if he saw a genocide, would he take a neutral stance? 🎶 youtu.be/hE-yXDsmaKQ...

Straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, the Finance Minister who has bought the NZ economy to it's knees finds herself intimidated when faced with representatives from God #nzpol

So just to be clear, these businesses would be uneconomic if they had to pay for the cost of cleaning up the damage they are doing, and can't just leave it to ratepayers to fix? And that is a bad thing?

"The minister has said donning an adult nappy and chaining yourself to a door was not the way to get an audience with her." So they should have done the usual thing of offering a big donation instead?

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

If you want to know how the NZ health system is functioning (or not functioning), someone deeply unwell I know who requires health support has just been assessed as not needing that support - which means untrained family (women) are picking up unsafe situations in an unpaid capacity. Much like this👇

More performative politics as NZ First claims publicity from a members bill. A party that thought renaming Govt departments was so much more important that it became a part of the Coalition agreement P.S. How about the Coalition just funds public health properly? #nzpol

The mask has slipped from Better Wellington www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/better-we...

Maybe the NZ media should be asking Rimmer now why he wanted Aotearoa's parliament to align itself with a particular side in a US far-right gang-war?