BOOM! Greenpeace Aotearoa has won its greenwashing case against Fonterra. Fonterra — NZ’s biggest polluter — was found to have broken the law with misleading butter packaging falsely claiming its Anchor Butter was ‘100% New Zealand Grass-Fed’. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Great to see such strong public support across the political spectrum for current indoor smokefree laws in pubs. 🚭

In light of the news that Ngaro will be standing for NZ First at this years election, I'm taking this 2023 article out from behind the paywall. Ngaro previously led the Christian Nationalist Party 'NewZeal' after leaving National www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/the-christ...

Ah, so RNZ went with the sanitising headline, followed by quoting all the dishonest dogwhistles without a skerrick of fact checking, finally noting NZF is "rising" in the polls. I presume while wearing a hot dog costume.

nz's political gallery are going to be pushing NZF HARD this year - this is an insane thing to say about Peters and his party given the *decades* of evidence and the VERY recent stochastic terrorism that Peters has taken part in - from "Stuff reporter" lmao

This should be career-ending for Ms Willis 🤬🤬🤬 #OneTermGovernment #NZPol

We’ve joined ACOSH, QUIT, and the Cancer Council Vic to back Assistant Customs Minister Julian Hill, who at the National Illicit Tobacco and E-cigarette Symposium yesterday questioned why tobacco products were so readily available.

The man who stood up on the tiles to add to the witch hunt against a green MP because of their personal life and specifically appeals to conspiracy theorists tells us he doesn’t want to deal with personal stuff and to stop spreading disinformation.

Fuel shortages and rising prices. A proposal to import expensive and dirty LNG and impose a gas levy. And then there’s Methanex, sucking up 45% of our natural gas. My #cartoon today #NZpol #Fuel #FossilFuel

#nzpol Methinks #nats & #lyingluxon have underestimated the gratitude kiwis have for dodging a bullet from covid

Under Jacinda Arden’s leadership the Labour Government’s Covid response was one of the best in the world in the circumstances, and likely saved over 20,000 lives. The second Covid inquiry concludes:

Huge shoutout to @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social for raising awareness on this. Amazing use of her platform. See the stats: nzpt.cjs.nz #nzpol #onetermgovt

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer

Truly toxic. 💔😢☹️😠😡 What's next? Reduced chemo therapy for cancer treatments? ED only avail 8a-10p Mondays-Saturdays? Ration asthma inhalers? Ration ... ... we can't afford it RUBBISH ... we have chosen to prioritise other "things/people😡" ...

Ōtepoti: Centre for Medical Humanities at Otago Uni is funding Chronic Illness & creative writing a free Ōtepoti Dunedin community workshop programme for people with ME/CFS or Long Covid Applications open till 13th March 2026 (will put link in following reply) image: poster, same info as above

So who pays ex-cop Rohan Pike to travel nationally & globally advocating tax reductions on tobacco, a position in lockstep with all tobacco companies? Melissa Davey in @australia.theguardian.com investigates www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'ullo, 'ullo, 'ullo? Now why was Pike's name removed from the under oath in-person evidence schedule from the NSW Enquiry into illegal tobacco trade in the 2 days before he was due to speak? Probably a perfectly ordinary explanation

Compulsory reading. @ASHorg's new report outlines 14 concrete recommendations for ending the harms caused by nicotine products: ow.ly/53Hb50Yfkih We've reached the limits of trying to manage an industry built on addiction. #TobaccoEndgame

Astonishing how Costello recalls events from an evening nearly 15 months ago (www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...), yet still can't recall the source of the tobacco industry friendly "mystery document" she passed on to the MOH to inform tobacco policy.

NZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones

Oxford University Press has lifted the paywall on the entire 40 year archive of @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of our flip to fully open access! Check out the amazing work of our authors - free to read - here: academic.oup.com/heapro

🧵1/2 Important new study published in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social examines impact of sales bans in two US cities: tinyurl.com/mr4yk52v

Very proud of my hard-working summer students (Amelia and Jade) who explored young people's views of oral nicotine pouches: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo... Watch this space as we finalise their research studies and submit their work for publication!

Ravie de faire partie de l'équipe dirigée par @karinegallopel.bsky.social. Notre nouveau article ici: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mXOF3PEro...

In today’s NZ Herald

New Zealand Election Study, 2023. Question C12e: Big business in New Zealand has too much power. Demographically weighted responses: Strongly or Somewhat agree 52% Strongly or Somewhat disagree 16%

Literally thinking about this in the NZ context today, why is it always "the Greens should try to appeal to dairy farmers and people who drive Humvees" and not "NZ First should try to appeal to people who went to university and believe in human rights"

In today’s NZ Herald

Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science

🧵1/2 If Winston Peters is worried about funding membership of the WHO, here's a simple solution: end sales of duty-free tobacco.

Apparently it's $3m we pay WHO. The taxpayers pay. Not Winston, but us, and I'm happy with that. Three million dollars is probably the cost per minute for running this idiotic and wasteful luxon government #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Oh, what a surprise, NOT! 🙄 #nzpol

You can in fact pretty quickly find and access the original WHO constitution. You could even, for a lark, ask Winston Peters to specify exactly which part of its mandate he thinks WHO has forgotten, and as a treat compare that to the weird fringe bullshit the Parliament occupation types spouted

"Labour's Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said she was deeply concerned "that I see that sort of rubbish about the WHO & international health regulations on the internet, and all of a sudden it's in a coalition document." Archive of deleted TVNZ 1News [ web.archive.org/web/20231211... ] #nzpol

“Withdrawing from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is scientifically reckless,” says R. G. Nahass, president of Infectious Diseases Society of America. “Global cooperation is not a luxury; it is a biological necessity” (for healthy survival) #NZpol #USpolitics www.nzherald.co.nz/world/formal...

Our own Green Party is a partner in the Global Greens with the Green Party of England. And this brilliant ad is just as applicable here as there

Would explain the capriciousness and overconfidence :)

We need our own version of this ad. #nzpol

The public said fuck off, so they tried an underhanded way & now MickyDs have a 24 in Wanaka without public input. 'new proposal was approved through a non-notified process, meaning the public had no opportunity to comment.' www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa...

Remember the 38yo unexpectedly pregnant woman who had to deal with a terrorist massacre, a volcanic eruption and a global pandemic while raising a baby? Did anyone cut her one tenth of the slack this POS is getting?

1. Aotearoa New Zealand friends and colleagues 🇳🇿, Logistics for my February trip are coming together. I'd love to meet more of you and/or talk with groups of interested colleagues about AI course and teaching in a ChatGPT world (thebullshitmachines.com). Right now, my schedule is as follows:

Well, someone recognizes rape culture when he sees it

On Friday the Greens provided journalists a ‘prebuttal’ of the PM’s forthcoming speech. Today I feel we deserve some kind of prize (I mean, not the Nobel) for correctly predicting about 90% of the content, betting it would continue the relentless pursuit of the interests of the wealthy and sorted

Important, thoughtful and perceptive analysis, thank you.

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