"Christopher Luxon’s Government has intentionally increased homelessness. ... They must make different political decisions to stop the growing problem, and instead ensure that everyone in this country has access to a safe, warm, dry, and affordable home." action.greens.org.nz/stop_homeles...

Love to see it!

The Government is negotiating a WHAT with the WHO that would grant access to WHAAAT?!

1/2 The timeline that led to Winston Peters and NZ First bending the knee to ACT, letting down New Zealand workers, and lying to the media. #nzpol

This is our regular reminder that - according to IRD in 2023 - the richest 350 families in AoNZ pay an effective tax rate of only 8%. The reaction of the government to this news was to tell IRD to stop collecting the data, and give the families a tax cut #nzpol

I beg your pardon some WHAT systems are not operational due to an internet outage?

Running the government is a lot like playing recorder – it doesn’t work if you suck. #makeitstop by letting those in power know just how many people care about primary education in NZ. Share this film, sign our petition, or just make some noise for teachers & educators at makeitstop.co.nz

There is no way we can rates cap our way out of an intergenerational infrastructure deficit.

Our Draft Annual Plan will go out for public feedback from Friday 27 February until Friday 27 March 2026. If you have reckons about defunding the Climate Resilience Fund (and the Environmental Partnerships Fund) you might like to submit. www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/d...

Who cares about state of origin when we have states of emergency...?

Rules for thee but not for me. Incredible.

I wonder if anyone at Lyttelton Port Company, CCHL, or Christchurch City Council is following this news? Top Canadian pension fund halts deals with DP World over Epstein ties.

I'm unsure if this 👇 is about a specific country, but irregardless, I think this is a pretty universal vibe right now.

FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...

The Government spending $2.7 billion of our dollars on a one billion dollar climate change acceleration project must surely be the thing that finally swings voters away, right? ... ... Right?

This is one of the best analogies I've seen.

Reminder our first event is tomorrow at Tūranga at 11am to 3pm. See you there. There will be tea/coffee and snacks!

Yikes!

Under the National ACT NZ First coalition, more people are without jobs than at any time in over ten years. The highest unemployment rate in a decade 🫤 Food banks are overwhelmed. Homelessness is rampant. Even those with jobs are struggling as groceries and bills rise faster than wages 💔

Kahurangi Carter has become the first candidate to announce their bid for the central Christchurch seat at the coming general election.

"strengthened targets would help with efforts to limit global warming. There also would have been co-benefits from a stronger target, including greater energy security and improved health outcomes ... However, its analysis showed that would come at an economic cost to New Zealand." How's that going?

ICYMI - Lianne Dalziel (who know what she’s talking about) on our Government’s inexplicable silence on matters which we should not be silent on. #nzpol

I’m trying this: I’ve set up a Ko-Fi account & will be choosing a supporter at random to ‘win’ my girl (& future pieces). Any donations of $25 or more from now till 10am Monday 19th Jan could have her. PLEASE share widely & often 💗🫶🏼. #nzpol #Kikorangi ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch

Another article in @thepress.co.nz today covering our cycleway network, great to see we are being recognised for our efforts in Christchurch!

I never agreed to Luxon working from home. Get back to the office bro.

Hey NZ news outlets, would you like to demonstrate some journalistic intentions? How about an article headlined "Where is the Prime Minister?" with the byline "The world is on fire and nobody in government is answering the phone." Or do we only dig into parties on the left? #nzpol

"Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms, the reinforcement of bias and generation of racist output, the cognitive harms and AI supported suicides, the problems with consent and copyright, the way AI tech companies further the patterns of empire, how it’s a con..."

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

These people definitely understand how tough it is for everyone right now.

The Government of strong fiscal management has spent $150k removing just two hundred (200) road cones. Well done.

I've been doing a bunch of media about Australia's social media ban for under 16s this week. NZ looks likely to follow. Before we copy-paste a ban, here’s what actually matters (imo) 👇 #nzpol

"...looking through live jobs, to see whether an aerial presence can be of use... No other jobs were forthcoming." Other concerns aside, what's the climate impact of helicopter-based overpolicing of our suburbia?

The NZ Govt is doing everything it can to obstruct climate action domestically and globally. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Important thing to remember in this rates cap beat-up by the government: the very same government is a freeloader, because it’s exempted itself from paying rates at all #nzpol

the CoC has swung for the fences, disregarded criticism, and just plain got on with implementing their vision. experts? fuck 'em! public opinion? aint got time for it! damn the torpedoes, start smashing foundations. the left bloc needs to bring that same energy to fix it all

In a way it's kind of funny that the govt thinks it's ok to just, immediately after local body elections, announce that the regional govts we voted for are for the chop, and the people we elected as city and district mayors are going to have different jobs to the one we just voted them into.

So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?

Puberty blockers are safe and proven - the THIRD PARAGRAPH acknowledges that children WILL still be prescribed them, just not if they're trans This is an attack on trans children, full stop This government does not care about children, full stop

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Oh my!

#nzpol The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of: - Food prices up 4.7% - Fruit up 11% - Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2% - Bread up 11.4% - Cheese up 14.8% - Eggs up 16.2% - Electricity up 11.8% Laser-focused on the cost of living

If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what does it mean that we're getting this 👇 and also the tens of thousands of false/erroneous breath tests?

Richard nails it here:

There's a Red wind warning for Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains tomorrow ‐ fasten your trampoline, and limit travel.

Every "Christchurch is cool now" article is illustrated with a photo of a pedestrianised street with a tram, meanwhile every local election the discourse is like "rip out the cycle lanes, then turn the botantic gardens into a car park? It's worth a least considering" www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

It’s amazing to me that the Covid period was less damaging to jobs than the current economic policies. #nzpol

"So many of your daily problems are caused by council. They get away with it because everyone thinks they’re boring and irrelevant. Sneaky! False! You need to put a stop to this. Put the letter in the red and white box’s mouth." Or, of course, the orange bin - especially after Tuesday.

This question needs to be asked.

Biggest 6 month rise in youth (15-19) unemployment this millennia, Q3 2023 - Q1 2024 + 6.9% (28400 unemployed to 42100). Biggest Annual 2008-2009 (+6.8%, 26200 to 35200 unemployed), 2nd biggest annual 2023-2024 (+5.4%, 30500 to 38800 unemployed). This is not caused by youths playing video games.