Takahe population thriving - such great news! Rees Valley turns love nest as threatened takahē thrive www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

It’s not just early childhood. Generally preventative measures and investments whether education or health or anything early on yields better outcomes and more savings later. So when it’s govt policy to not do that explicitly, you can assume increasing costs and creating poor outcomes IS the goal.

My kids' school will be the third one to get a veloctobus. Not sure if they are more excited or me. They want to expand throughout Benelux. Get in touch if it might work for a local school.

NZ could do this.. #nzpol

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

How many records is this now? Highest unemployment in 12-15 years. Highest business failures in 13 years. Highest youth unemployment NEET in 20 years. Highest gun related homicide in 20 years. Raging cocaine & meth crisis. Record homelessness. Record domestic violence #newzealand #nzpol

Councils were being asked to carry a national problem on local balance sheets and that could not carry on. Delays on climate adaptation must stop now, mayor says www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Welp it seems taxing the millionaires (and making big companies pay their fair share) would solve our retirement problem. So what are we waiting for?? #nzpol #lyingluxon #crational #cruelition

You know what I haven't heard this Government mention for the longest time? JOBS. In fact no-one seems to be talking about jobs. Which is interesting given the dire state of employment/unemployment here & now. Is it only a big issue when National & its proxies are in opposition?

“Governance in New Zealand is becoming a farce. Theoretically, democracy offers government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’ Under this coalition Government, it’s government ‘of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.’ “ #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/16/a...

So I assume the government will now remove the NZTA board? They’re unelected people making decisions for our transport network including overseeing $32B budget over 3 years. Also isn’t the Health NZ unelected? Wait… does ACC board have MPs on it or unelected people? Wait…

1: strengthen/ tighten use of laws under urgency 2: reform into political donations, ban cryptocurrency donations if not already so 3: funding for Marae disaster response 4: locally sourced school lunches - provide good food and jobs. #nzpol 🇳🇿 3 things labour could put in manifesto

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The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

The deceptive PR put out by the Nacts (and headlines from media 👀) drive the false notion that committee reps have been voting on council decisions. But the committees just vote on advice, reports & recommendations to provide to council (who then make their own decisions) 🧵 #nzpol

⚡💚⚡Only COULD change bills? Since putting a battery in & upgrading my solar PV, my electricity use is all solar derived (no coal or gas), my power bill has gone down over 90%, that's with the increased load of an EV charging as well (=zero oil/ oil wars /CO2). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/15 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA'S QUIET HOME BATTERY REVOLUTION 🇦🇺 The nation is pioneering a radical shift in renewables. Massive home battery adoption is slashing power bills and reshaping the grid. Source: The Guardian #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Renewables #Grid #Solar

What an absolute mess and a complete disgrace!

Honestly, it's expected to make a bunch of people unemployed, destroy our data sovereignty, send more money overseas, and expose us to spiralling costs. It's not expected to "save the depleted public sector" by anyone who isn't completely entranced by big tech snakeoil. #nzpol

Filtering the air may help prevent your own infection from becoming more severe If everyone in a household becomes infected with the same virus, does it help to isolate from each other and can you be a danger to yourself? Read on to find out... 🧪🧵1/ #AirQuality #IAQ #Ventilation #Infection #COVID

I mean, I do it driven largely because it helps to fuel the sass that annoys the RW ghouls.

European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...

They carried bikes up 55 stairs for 40+ years. Then Sydney built a 170m ramp. Result in 10 weeks: 📈 +42% daily cyclists 🚴‍♀️ +76% women riders 👴 +8% older adults ⚡ +5% e-bikes Infrastructure shapes who shows up! Read the full story here!

@kahucarter @greens.org.nz 11pm, 29 May "12 hours into this debate... The govt is taking 13sec speeches. It's disrespectful to the people this law affects, people who would have had their say in select committee if it had gone through a transparent process."

"There's a myth that improving the economy will help but that never has, we've had high poverty rates even at times of very good strong economy." - paediatrician Dr Innes Asher. #NzPol

This is HUGE. HUGE. HUGE. I had been posting about it for ages. BRICS Plus Digital Cross Border Payment System going LIVE. Using local currency & Sovereign backed Digital currency. By passing USD & SWIFT. The end of US & the West Financial Hegemony youtu.be/YUX0tgemYrA?...

In the 1990s WINZ insisted every person receiving a sickness benefit see a “designated doctor” for a second opinion. Benefit numbers dropped by 37, out of tens of thousands. And that tiny drop was likely a normal fluctuation as ppl’s circumstances naturally change. So all that harassment? Pointless.

TVNZ urgently needs a climate editor (& its political editor!) I respect Jack Tame & Kate Nicole Williams So when I hear them reading lines like ‘some’ or ‘a’ climate scientist links Europe heat wave to climate when referring to the actual UK Met office it’s a problem www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Funny you should ask that www.greens.org.nz/donate And the only thing you can buy with a Green Party donation, no matter how big the donation, is the warm glow of knowing you are contributing to a fairer Aotearoa, grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi where everyone can have enough to thrive 💚

Homelessness reaches highest levels in history “New Zealand had the "programmes and the capacity" to end homelessness if there was political will to do so.” "We can solve it as a nation here in New Zealand. It really is a political choice," #nzpol

i've been working on site where a young guy watches me work all day. i don't usually enjoy ppl standing over me when working- this guy is in a chair tho, strapped in, and he's good fun. a lot of the time he speaks in caps: HIT IT WITH THE HAMMER!!, WHAT'S NEXT??, IT DOESN'T FIT!! He smiles a lot and

even as cynical as I am I certainly didn't predict this government would disestablish the *Ministry for the Environment* No NZ government should be able to survive doing something like this, given the values of the electorate enormous amounts of money, institutional & media backing have enabled it

So NZ’s biggest climate polluter, Fonterra, gave a paper to the PM’s Policy Guy, who used to be at the far right NZ Initiative, asking Luxon to block a specific common law case currently b4 court. And then PM’s office illegally kept the document secret. NZ Govt is a corporate protection racket

I argue NZ's coalition government didn't have much option but to sign the UN ratification of the ICJ, thanks to the strategy, diplomacy & leadership of the Pacific & 64% of NZ who still want NZ to act on climate, despite all the new costs & risks we face! www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2026/05/21/u...

Take a moment

As of today, firms linked to donations to National/NZ First parties are four times more likely to have received approval under the fast track process than firms not linked. Currently 7% of all 300 FT applications are linked to donations, but 30% of the 23 FT approvals are linked to donations.

If you walk or cycle #TeAraTupua, would you like to share your experience with the rest of us? Photos or description - what works best for you. Please include the hashtag above 😊

OECD gave Luxon and F for energy policy. Fossil fuels are expensive, unreliable and polluting. Time for NZ to embrace the energy inflection point that renewables provides. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Remember last year when the Free Speech Union signed up hundreds of their followers to try to take over InternetNZ? They're going to try again this year, but will be more organised. If you joined last year to vote but let your membership lapse, please renew and come to the AGM. internetnz.nz

"ELI said it appeared the Prime Minister's office withheld a document that now showed direct lobbying of PMO staff by the defendants in the Smith case. The document only came to light due to "discovery obligations" on the various corporate defendants, the group said." #nzpol

A reminder that we spent billions on new defence toys that NZDF didn't want in order to placate Trump and the US military industrial complex so that he wouldn't put tariffs on us.... and he still put the tariffs in place. The NZ Government is America First, NZ last yet again.

About halfway down the page this gets very juicy and I rather hope Luxo gets hounded out of office for this (but he won't) #nzpol

i'm very drawn to a leader of a political party who is constantly thinking of different ways to make accessible & real-world relevant What Is Actually Going On. & does a video from the couch at home on a Satdee night wearing an iwi hoodie. Chlöe truly cares about us all Getting It. 🙏💚 @greens.org.nz

Gotta love a marine heatwave 😬 Nothing I read abt the impending El Niño is good www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Anyone can sign on to this. Add your voice.

The current NZ govt is wrong, and the people know it:

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Politicians of the world, just copy this guy's homework

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