It is good to see the Government listening but the sale clauses are but one of many flaws in the Conservation Amendmt Bill. Other issues include: the introduction of requirement for "economic opportunities... to the greatest extent practicable" on conservation areas; www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

After subsidising the problem ($200million for oil and gas exploration; $8billion for LNG) Nats look to support the solution a tiny bit ($7m for solar). So that is something positive I guess, but so small compared to the fossil fuel subsidies. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Today the streets of Auckland echoed with the sound of people power! ✊🏽 From Aotea Square to the US Consulate on Customs Street, we marched shoulder-to-shoulder because we refuse to let our beautiful Aotearoa become a supply chain for global conflict.

Simeon Brown thinks it’s okay to waste up to a billion dollars of taxpayer money on a terminal NZ clearly does not need but using taxpayer money to make PT more affordable for everyone is ‘wasteful’. “Officials redacted advice showing 'low need' or no need for LNG imports”

The man who was happy to provide the home address of investigative journalist Nicky Hager so others could attack him is now responsible for protecting journalists at The Post. Truly the fox is in the hen house. More ‘Andor’ style post-truth society for Aotearoa. #nzpol

#GoodNews for the Waikato river and catchment. Finally a court decision to stop the pollution by farming, industry and landowners. Over time. And not guaranteed as the government's proposed Natural Environment and Planning Bills could override it. Sadly. #nzpol share.google/hQPGI5wQFsHV...

Am I reading this right? The NZ Govt is not proposing to properly protect endangered dolphins, in order to access the US market, rather it plans to continue the killing but sell the fish elsewhere? newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/11/g...

The Luxon/Fonterra strategy of being a global climate freeloader may have consequences. Let’s be part of the solution not part of the problem: Government facing up to $5 billion bill over carbon credits, Treasury reveals www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

LNG import terminal will make NZ energy more expensive, more polluting, less reliable. It is a desperate attempt to lock us into fossil fuels. No wonder they are trying to hide the evidence: Officials redacted advice showing 'low need' for LNG imports www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is a minister for a party hell bent on reducing costs and increasing efficiency Efficiently shoveling funds into their own bank accounts #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

This is solid policy - it sits in the sweet spot of climate and cost of living policy. It cuts emissions, makes cities more liveable, and makes it more affordable to get around. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

And so it continues. Everyone understands how this system works. newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/10/d...

The massive multinational agribusiness corporation, Fonterra, and its fully owned subsidiary, the NZ Govt, have moved to retrospectively protect Fonterra from legal claims for the harm that Fonterra's climate pollution causes. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Fonterra, and the Govt it owns, plan to retrospectively change the law to protect Fonterra from legal claims. Claims arising from the harm that Fonterra's massive climate pollution is causing people. This is not rule of law. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

OECD in May: “A publicly announced govt strategy to break the dependence of the electricity market on gas could bring immediate gas and electricity price relief to households and industry, if backed by minority stake Crown co-investments in non-gas firming.” (p.60) NZ Govt today: Let's subsidise LNG

The OECD concluded that a NZ LNG import terminal was likely to drive up prices leading to deindustrialisation: “For many internationally‑exposed industries, LNG‑linked energy prices would likely be too high to sustain competitiveness, risking further rapid deindustrialisation.” (p.57)

The OECD thinks the LNG import terminal will make electricity more expensive more polluting and less reliable as it risks locking in fossil gas. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

OECD in May: “A publicly announced govt strategy to break the dependence of the electricity market on gas could bring immediate gas and electricity price relief to households and industry, if backed by minority stake Crown co-investments in non-gas firming.” (p.60) NZ Govt today: Let's subsidise LNG

The OECD concluded that a NZ LNG import terminal was likely to drive up prices leading to deindustrialisation: “For many internationally‑exposed industries, LNG‑linked energy prices would likely be too high to sustain competitiveness, risking further rapid deindustrialisation.” (p.57)

ETS auction fails with no bids again www.etsauctions.govt.nz/public/aucti...

The OECD thinks the LNG import terminal will make electricity more expensive more polluting and less reliable as it risks locking in fossil gas. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

LNG Import terminal - will make NZ power more expensive, more polluting and less reliable. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Political donations, influence and elections. My #cartoon today #NZpol

Instead of hospitals and schools, NZ Govt spends $2.7 billion on military, to lock us into the US war machine. This US war machine is currently closing one of our key energy access points driving the global cost of living crisis, to make oil companies richer. Let’s have an independent foreign policy

Enviro NGOs called for end to destructive fishing for years. But MPI and the fishing industry did not listen, and actually targeted spawning events as stocks collapsed. Fishing industry is incapable of thinking long term and captured regulators do their bidding. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

A complete shambles The government cut a $30m funding program, setup by the previous government to put solar panels on Marae. Low and behold, they then announce a $30m scheme to put solar panels on schools just prior to an election. Are people too blind to see?🤦🏻‍♂️ #nzpol

The biggest attack on Conservation Land in NZ"s history is underway. The Luxon Govt. plans to open the door to selling off 60% of our public conservation land - around five million ha. It is the final move in their coordinated agenda to hand the keys to NZ to foreign mining giants. Read more here

I was in Tiananmen Square in 1988, a year before the democracy movement, as a 10yo diaspora tourist with my family. What happened the following year hit very very deep for us, 10,000km away. Sometimes I feel completely pinned by the Shi Tao line - 'My whole life will never get past June'.

"It's my duty"

We now know that within the Prime Ministers Office there was a political lobbying pathway operating via the PM's Chief Policy Advisor's private email. Fonterra says it was told to send the lobbying docs via this pathway. It may still be operating via other staffers private email addresses.

In a country with an Independent Commission Against Corruption, all the Prime Minister's key staff private email accounts would likely already be subject to a court ordered search warrant and Fonterra would be called in to give evidence. But in NZ...

Current NZ Govt is behaving as a corporate protection racket: www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...

"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.

We now know that within the Prime Ministers Office there was a political lobbying pathway operating via the PM's Chief Policy Advisor's private email. Fonterra says it was told to send the lobbying docs via this pathway. It may still be operating via other staffers private email addresses.

This is a small but positive change of direction for National. After two years of subsidising fossil fuels (billion$) and cancelling solar marae program, they are putting $30m for solar and batteries at schools. Solar/batteries should be rolled out across the nation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...

Lest we forget: The Salvation Army - an organisation that deals in evidence - warns NZ families are starving, the poorest are doing it the toughest & the Govt’s ‘cost of living’ response is to put rents up for those in state housing by $30 a week, that’s food off tables into govt coffers. 1/3 #nzpol

A couple of quick reckons on the move to oust non-elected committee members from local authorities. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/coun...

The current NZ Govt wants to drag NZ into Trump military alliance against China. The nuke free policy is an obstacle thank goodness. NZ’s most powerful geopolitical position is its independence, its soft power, its moral authority. We are weaker as a cog in the US military machine aimed at China.

In PAYE alone for context: Someone on jobseekers pays 12% The full time training wage earner pays 13.5% The full time minimum wage earner pays 14.3% The full time median hourly wage earner pays 19.3%

The Government has dismantled a New Plymouth research and development centre set up by Labour to investigate new energy sources and help Taranaki transition away from oil and gas. newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/02/t...

Simeon is an absolute liability

The Right is attacking free press everywhere. Israeli Govt murdering journalists; Trump using licensing laws to silence; Act Deputy PM threatening RNZ and then RNZ CEO resigning; Nats cutting RNZ budget etc. No free people without a free press.

The Govt weakened the Clean Car Importers Standard in 2024 & 2025. The Standard creates financial incentives to import vehicles meeting an average carbon efficiency standard. The direct fiscal cost of the weakenings was about $1 billion in penalties waived on car importers breaching the standard.

The Right is attacking free press everywhere. Israeli Govt murdering journalists; Trump using licensing laws to silence; Act Deputy PM threatening RNZ and then RNZ CEO resigning; Nats cutting RNZ budget etc. No free people without a free press.

Radio NZ competes with NZME (owner of NZ Herald and ZB). They compete for listeners and website readers. When the National led government cuts funding to RNZ, making it harder to deliver a better product, it benefits NZME.

Just a reminder that the IRD found that the wealthiest 311 families in NZ only pay 8.9% tax on income. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ird-...

Given the National Party has very close ties to the Board and senior staff at NZ Herald, the cuts to RNZ are really an attempt to weaken a competitor and reduce media diversity.

I love that Michael Joseph Savage turned Premier House into a dental clinic for children.

Just a reminder that the IRD found that the wealthiest 311 families in NZ only pay 8.9% tax on income. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ird-...

My goodness even the regime’s semi-official organ thinks the illegal antidemocratic behaviour has stepped over a line