Hey, Simon Watts! The world wants a word with you. #nzpol

NZ needs something like this too

Interesting that we have now reached US-levels of FB gagging even minor government critics. This appears a disturbing attempt to suppress dissent by Chris Bishop - why else would FB take down this account? I don’t recall the previous govt doing this. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The privatisation of NZ Health = US-style healthcare for the rich (only) has begun!! Increased, massive inequity will follow. Private healthcare alá the US is a tax on being poor, and a prime method of driving employee obedience (serfdom). #nzpol

I like that Pope Bob wakes up every morning and asks himself how he can kick the American Vice President in the dick

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

That is 1 point for Hipkins - he said Never Again for Winston. Obviously a limited promise but 1 point.

It's hilarious that accidents in the workplace costs us $5Billion a year but the government won't push for any change to this because that would mean facing up to the number of accidents on our farms #NZPol

Maybe putting Pentecostal Christian cishet men in charge of things is not good, eh?

HDPA needs to resign over this. Women don’t need to be perfect victims to speak up. This woman has been mistreated by McSkimming, the Police and now NZME because of her desperation at being silenced by the agency women are told they MUST go to in order to be believed.

Do you remember the early days of cellphones and how you couldn't use them at the gas station because of the RISK OF EXPLOSION AND DEATH that wasn't ever, ever possible and how now gas stations say please use our app to fuel up while you stand there? same vibe.

this should immediately have a commentator REMOVED from their roles, instead it’s a strong signal of just how decrepit and servile to power nz media is

The Wellington CCO director breaking into his neighbour’s house in a cat burglar suit and masturbating over her things. The predatory groomer and rapist Tim Jago operating as party president of ACT for years, crowing on a podcast with Seymour about ‘victimhood’.

Interesting OIA stat from Inland Revenue here, 56,360 over-65s had residential rental income for the year ended 31st March 2024.

Tautoko this. NZ Labour - any chance you would rule out going into government with a bunch of racist, anti-health, climate-denying conspiracy nutters? That’s *my* bottom line. #nzpol

No country should have a 'population problem' when there are 123.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 40% of whom are children www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how...

Still rocks me that Looney Tunes did a better job of handling this history than 99% of politicians, textbooks, and media

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

That means that if we'd followed the 2023 policy track, we could have avoided over $1 billion in offshore mitigation to meet New Zealand's 2030 Paris Agreement NDC (>20Mt at say ~$NZ50/t). /ends

As New Zealand Minister Hon. Simon Watts heads to #COP30, here's some remarkable new information from an Official Information Act response I received today. 1/-

It’s a little bit ironic that the conservative movement that bought us the classic line “Facts don’t care about your beliefs” is now at the very vanguard of ignoring science, actively suppressing science education, and doing everything it can to ignore facts in opposition to their ideology. #nzpol

By all means bring in flammable liquid and a device to set fire to it but do not bring in a thing with batteries that has very few moving parts that might cause disaster. Clap. Clap. Clap. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gated-ret...

Every ad now

Just gonna keep saying it: There is no point growing the pie if the wealthy keep eating all of it.

Coming up on another election where these are your options if you vote for either of the major parties

Perhaps we should set up a tracker of schools that DO take the opportunity to backslide on Te Tiriti? I suspect there will be a consistent pattern - private, conservative, charters, leafy (white) suburbs etc… Heartening to see Catholic Schools be strident on this one. #nzpol

Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.

Three waters anyone? #NZPol

The govt is considering banning homeless people and rough sleepers in city centres. My Stuff #cartoon today #homelessness #poverty #homeless

Well what do ya know, Aotearoa New Zealand? 🤮 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

Was gonna do a bike meme on NZ's climate policy, but decided no words were needed, it's self-explantory at this point.

Sideglance at earnings. Remember the ghouls screaming about out of control wage growth? Pleeeeease RBNZ crash the economy before workers earn an extra dollar an hour. Well, earnings responded to higher living costs. What did you expect people to do... move to Aus for higher wages?!? Oh, wait. [Ends]

Weekly jobs update... how's the hopium? I am guessing you could see we're back on track... if the track we're back on is one of those slow grinding uphill kinda tracks. When will the crappening stop? [🧵1/n]

From the plaques erected to scoundrels file. Edward Gibbon Wakefield - The Terrace, Wellington. The coffee place next door is excellent though.

NZ Employers: Hmmmm, this candidate is nice and likes to treat their co-workers with respect… Also NZ Employers: …nahhhh. Let’s pick the arrogant, arsehole that will make life miserable for everyone! Also NZ Employers: …and make them the boss! #noarseholepolicy www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Other countries introducing an age ban already have online safety regulations and an online safety regulator. NZ has neither.

I'm in the minority here, I know, but I don't think this move is the right thing to do about online safety (at least, as a first - and only - step). #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Russian new robot… LOL 🤖😄

There ain’t no trauma like just-watched-a-Canadian-safety-video trauma.

do you know any Canadians who got boiled to death at work? I bet you don't, because we've all seen this PSA about 400 times www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk2...

that PSA specifically aired on children's networks, I guess to combat the rampant issue of Canadian children running through improperly cleaned industrial kitchens with giant pots of soup

What the fuck is this shit from Audrey Young Ask any Māori or women

Because it is. Ask any Māori.

So it seems like Andrew Coster and Jevon McSkimming were church buddies. How utterly predictable.

Relevant to…our entire government climate policy and approach. It’s amazing what can be achieved by some determination (and authoritarianism, to be fair…) #nzpol

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

As we head into summer, remember to keep combustion vehicles away from dry grass as they have a tendency to do this.🔥 This happened in NZ and 28 vehicles were damaged. Hopefully combustion cars won't cause too many forest fires this season.

Just call it what it is: corruption. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Guess Casey Costello and NZ First will be able to claim a big ol’ bonus from the death industry for her good work. Shameful. But she is proud of her work - NZ First’s investment in alternative realities really paying dividends. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...