A useful piece, but the lack of self-reflection on RNZ news itself is dire. The closest it comes is this from Watkins: "Here in New Zealand, RNZ is at the top of the trust tree. But we're still only getting about half of the people reliably trusting us. I think that speaks to a burning platform.

You know what shouldn’t happen ‘on the taxpayer’s dime’? The unnecessary Ministry of Regulation, a vanity project created to purge government of things to which its creator is ideologically opposed.

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

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YOU NEED TO READ THIS! Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Wouldn’t be so many homeless if Bishop hadn’t paid Bill English $500k to lie about The state house build and they stopped THOUSANDS of houses scheduled to be built, and handed billions to landlords. They made homelessness exponentially worse on fucking purpose. To make their mates richer.

"New Zealand has always been a country that, what is the expression, punched above its weight. In human rights terms, in solidarity terms, you know, by holding the line on a number of very fundamental questions. Right now, this is not what is happening." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

Hey, just making sure you're paying attention @chrishipkins.bsky.social

Take note PM Luxon et.all: Ppl DON'T LIKE the #antiabortion or #antitrans BS! We do not like injustice like pay equity removal, Te Tiriti removal, RSE guidelines that erase LGBTQIA, not paying teachers & health workers & selling off our oceans & land &, tax cuts for tobacco & more. #nzpol #aotearoa

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.” Farage - the foghorn of failure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I can't get over the transit here - it cost me $4.65 NZD to train ~1.5hrs from Osaka to Kyoto. It costs more than that to get from Tawa to Welly station 😅

A visual summary of inequality. Cartoon from last year. #wealth #poverty #inequality

Sign this whānau - withdraw the RSB bill #NZPOL ‼️

Important article about the ideology underpinning the curriculum changes. It includes this absolutely jaw dropping quote from a speech by Elizabeth Rata (a Pākehā woman who has a lead role in the rewrites). She hopes the reforms will be a "circuit breaker" to "ending decolonisation's success" #nzpol

National so far this term: Getting to your meeting 30 seconds quicker is a higher priority than protecting kids from cars on their way to school Keeping school attendance up is a higher priority than protecting kids from measles Saving a few bucks is a higher priority than a decent lunch

Re sharing these posts for a reminder of what Ray Chung did and the impact of this kind of behaviour (from my instagram) #nzpol

Emily (Emily Writes) and I drafted a letter to Andrew Little about his decision to appoint Ray Chung as chair of the CCO Review & Appointments subcommittee. We think this is unacceptable given his past behaviour. Here's a template for a letter if you agree: sites.google.com/view/really-... #nzpol

I DID IT! I successfully travelled from Nikko to Osaka through 5 train stations without getting on the wrong train! 🏆

The complete elimination of the Understand strand (the "big ideas") also means there is no clear sense of how all this content fits together, which, I guess, is convenient if you don't want your overarching narrative (basically celebration of Western Civilization) to be explicit.

Funny to hear David Seymour tell RNZ today that we have all the money we need for everything. Last year he said NZ is broke and we couldn't afford the ferries Spoiler: they threw away ~ $1bn to break i-Rex #charlatan #NewZealand #nzpol

A list of notorious left-wing organisations supporting a CGT in New Zealand - NZ Treasury - OECD - IMF - Chartered Accountants Australia & NZ - CEO ANZ - Former CEO BNZ - The New Zealand Public when recently polled: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#nzpol Labour is proposing to create a Capital Gains Tax on property - excluding farms and the family home. That income will help make GP visits free for the majority of people. Is that a better policy than continuing tax-free profits on, say, someone's seventh property? Absolutely. A🧵

For a girl that loves a wrong turn, looks like the Japanese train stations are where I'll be doing most of my tourism 😂 My train is meant to be here in 5 min. Pray with me that I'm on the right platform 😅🙏

"People will leave the country" scream National To where, fuckers? Australia that already has CGT? Where 90k kiwi's have already left because of your policies and mismanagement? #nzpol

John Key left NZ with ~$60 billion debt Nicola Willis admits Labour borrowed ~$80 billion over 6 years w/ a global pandemic & post Covid inflation And Luxon's National are on track to borrow $120 billion ($100bn with pay equity stolen) in less time & no pandemic #nzpol #kiwi

The MMR vaccine is also freely available to most people eligible for public health care in Aotearoa born after 1969 Many chemists even offer it, so no need to have or see a GP info.health.nz/immunisation...

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

A timely read. "We have now taken to putting the number of times the patient has been cancelled on the operating list to ensure the patient doesn't get cancelled for the fourth, fifth or sixth time. Non-clinical managers were cancelling planned care because they could not fill rosters."

While I'm not really surprised this increasingly Christofascist government is applying their 'worthiness test' to acknowledged victims of state abuse, I am really disgusted. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Why do Americans believe they can’t have nice things? Stellan Skarsgård nails it.

This Labour Day, Aotearoa, try to live up to the dignified and respectable example of those worthy workers who first banded together in 1840 and politely requested to work only an 8-hour day. Then threw anyone who crossed the line into the harbour

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

Go Ireland 🎉🎉

🧿🧿 Today I got sun, so many big chores done (because of sun) & am leaving for 2 wk solo holiday in 30ish hours AND was upgraded and all day I've been just episodically shouting AAAHHH and I'M SO LUCKY and I'M SO EXCITED all around the house like I'm 8 Welly weather, pls it's been 6 yrs, I beg 🙏🧿🧿

YIKES! #nzpol

HRC point out that MoH's evidence brief did not include any evidence of irresponsible and concerning prescribing. I have in an OIA request that the Ministry KNOW there is no irresponsible or concerning prescribing, and have known since April 2024.

Tika Tangata are right to point out that Manatū Hauora should be consulting directly with those most affected by these decisions - trans children. MoH have said they won't because they don't have time. They've spent the last few months traveling Aotearoa to talk to doctors, instead.

Really strong submission from Tika Tangata on puberty blockers 🧵

Luxon admits their fast-track is corruption #freudianslip #nzpol #kiwi

Can’t explain it really,God. I just like awful people

This story was devastating to write. Imagine what it was like to live it.

Security source tells Al Jazeera Israeli drone fires missile directly at a car, causing vehicle to catch fire.

🧵 In 1996, the #Smithsonian 📜 partnered with the fledgling #InternetArchive 🏛️ to create Web Archive 96. A venerable institution & a digital pioneer joining forces to preserve the 1996 U.S. presidential election online. Get the full story ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/20/ #Wayback1T

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