According to a 2022 MBIE report, 110,000 #NZ households cannot keep warm. Meanwhile, the 4 big power “gentailers” (who generate electricity as well as sell it) make collective profits of $2.85 billion per year = $7.8 million every day. Re-Nationalise #Power Companies #nzpol

When Judith "apologised" for saying teachers earn $147k, she then got another dig in by saying that teachers get 3 months holiday a year. By that measure, do MPs only work on the days parliament is sitting (about 90 days according to Google)? #NZPol

Kings of this world by Elizabeth Knox out next month. Best news!! www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/... @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #booksky #pukapuka

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... this speaks to me of someone who is so out of touch with what it is like to live in NZ they think maaori words aren't a part of NZ English. or worse speaks to the NZ they want to create; one absent the language that has been with this land for centuries.

bevanholloway.com/2025/08/08/a... Well, this is revealing.

BREAKING TODAY - As much of the country faces yet another damaging climate-fuelled storm – and amid a cost of living crisis – the Luxon government is pushing through changes to overturn the ban on new oil & gas exploration to MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE. #NZPOL #ClimateCrisis

I don’t know who needs to hear this but this whole renters don’t pay rates “at all” thing is just silly. We make this weekly payment called “rent” to our landlords, who then pay rates on the homes we live in. These people ⬇️ and about half the city.

Wobbly Wellington!!

what kind of fashy newspeak is this - rolling back worker rights = "a more effective and efficient bargaining environment"

Lovely Christmas cheer and sustainability story from Aotearoa New Zealand. Retirees restore old bikes for kids [photo of three older people, two of them in wheelchairs, with three young people and one other person and three as new bikes] www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

❤️‍🔥 Jasleen Kaur, on winning the Turner Prize: “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down” youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY

As a New Zealander currently overseas, what I really want New Zealanders to know is: Inflation was high everywhere. Skyrocketing unemployment and business closures are a uniquely NZ thing. The first was due to global economic conditions, the second is a direct result of NZ government policy.

My full comments on the cuts to the Marsden Fund of the @royalsocietynz.bsky.social are now up here:

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

"Let's keep pushing forward while we are currently facing a storm, there's no need to worry. In this storm we are strong. Together. The wind in our sails is kotahitanga, and with that we will reach our destination."

Next up, Louise Upston, NZ’s champion of child poverty reduction. My Stuff cartoon today. #nzpol

The consumer-owned Network Tasman Trust was formed 30 years ago. It has no debt and one of the lowest lines charges in NZ. The community model resulted in $300 million in discounts and dividends which all stayed in the region. Disclosure: I'm a Network Tasman consumer.

He FINALLY said the quiet bit out loud. This whole thing is about deprofessionalising teaching and union-breaking. It was never about the kids.

Seymour is focused on making charter school business investment opportunities very attractive to sponsors, this move has nothing to do with student outcomes. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

We need signatures whanau

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3503... At the weekend we saw over 20,000 people from all walks of life demonstrating that they do not want this bill to be passed. The hubris and nonchalant attitude towards our people and the environment is breathtaking. #NzPol #Aotearoa #Nz

From the people that brought you: There's METH in the WALLS! Comes: Kāinga Ora ran up DEBT by building HOUSES!! #NZPol

I will never understand why we run a vital emergency service as some outsourced semi-charity?! Imagine seeing Facebook ads from the police wanting to fundraise for police stations. Nationalise the fucking ambulances!

Two government corruption scandals in one day: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Cannot stress how much this will fuck social services in New Zealand. These organisations are setup with a profit incentive to deliver results, and having worked at many corporations, all of them commit fraud to reach their KPIs.

Oh, the UK paperback of @cursesmcd.bsky.social McDougall's marvellous She's a Killer is out from @gallicbooks in a couple of weeks! gallicbooks.com/product/shes...

I support paying essential service workers like teachers and nurses to have paid internships. Sign the petition if you do too! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/gr...

CEO Luxon chunking down the big rocks #nzpol #cartoon for NZListener ( Fyi: the politics column by the esteemed Danyl McLauchlan )

Warmest congratulations to our former colleague, the brilliant Emily Perkins, winner of the Acorn Prize for Fiction with Lioness🥂🥂🥂

Whilst the media is full of debates abt whether sushi is woke, this slips on by newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/08/m...

This government. 😡

Absolute legend - Mike Smith for PM!!! Mata Season 2 Episode 4 | Mike Smith on Climate Change & commentators Khylee Quince and Matt Tukaki www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/m...

NZ's free school lunch programme, Ka Ora, Ka Ako, is under the threat of cuts yet evidence shows these programmes improve learning, reduce financial hardship and enhance wellbeing. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/evi...

Wellington peeps… want to support Poua Hurricanes… Get a season pass for only $39!! Retweet, post, bleet. hurricanes.flicket.co.nz/memberships/....

Kidman was being accurate. David Seymour wants to destroy many of the good things about this country, and create some v bad things in their place.

Under the Education and Training Act 2020 NZ universities are required to act as 'a critic and conscience of society'. A senior government minister publicly announcing plans for retribution against an academic because they don't like the opinions expressed by them is deeply troubling and sinister.

Full solidarity with Prof. Kidman and Prof. Te Morenga. It's the government who should be apologising - to all of us! - for their populist, non-evidence based, and frankly cruel policies. Not the brave academics being bullied for calling them out. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/professor...

How to use the word “entitlement” in a sentence. My Stuff #cartoon today. #nzpol

Pot….kettle

North Gaza: "1 in 6 children under 2 years of age are acutely malnourished" I can't emphasize enough how much worse this war is than *anything* we have seen in recent memory, how quickly conditions deteriorated, and how comprehensive the humanitarian crisis is.

This is an excellent article from Susan St John about National's dehumanising treatment of beneficiaries since 1991. I suspect with Act's encouragement they will be even more draconian than before. www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/21/o...

Out today, @cursesmcd.bsky.social's She's a Killer – on audio! You can listen to an excerpt here too shop.bolinda.com/aus/search/n...

Still the best ending of a film ever youtu.be/grGiq0yTaj4?...

Live animal export lobbyist on RNZ this morning actually saying out loud that animals do better on a long boat ride to death than they do in normal living conditions? Which is why they must throw $1mill at getting the practice allowed again.

Scrapping Clean Car Discount will cost twice what it saves - this advice was not presented to the new govt because "because the new government suspended the need for regulatory impact statements for undoing Labour-era policies." I didn't know my contempt for this govt actions could get more intense

It's one month until applications close for our permanent, full-time position in Māori literature and creative communication! Please spread the word to academics and writers who might be interested in this role 👇

"NZ is high on the list of best places to ride out the zombie apocalypse" begins this OZ review of @cursesmcd.bsky.social's She's a Killer, going on to say "(her) brisk speculative novel takes a clifi premise and moulds it into a bizarre and bracing thought experiment" www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

"...I think we’ve valued things wrongly. We’ve mistakenly given money & profit more value than a healthy river. We’ve made stupid hierarchies in our cultures: this family is better than that family; 2 legs are better than 4" @cursesmcd.bsky.social on SAK www.crimetime.co.uk/shes-a-kille...

Between Wellington losing 45% of water to leaks, and telling Lower Hutt residents 'not to poo' because a sewage treatment plant needs maintenance, tell me again why people hated Three Waters so much? I am sure local Minister for Infrastructure Chris Bishop will be straight onto fixing it 🙄 #nzpol