Fire crews battle blaze at Christchurch Hospital

'War on nature': Forest and Bird says govt changes put wildlife at risk

www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3... Oh boy the orange man aka US president is really petty about that peace prize

#nzpol The Prime Minister spent longer managing his Spotify Playlists than writing that speech. Nothing new, nothing to help manage growing unemployment, more cuts signalled to government investment. That wasn't a State of the Nation - it was asking people to forget the past two years.

One can assume this was not an error given the going ons the past 2 years and the system reform bill going through parliament right now

Lucky to be alive

A massive "Hands off Greenland" protest is happening right now in Copenhagen to demonstrate against Trump's threats. "The aim is to send a clear and unified message of respect for Greenland's democracy," organisers said. “Respect for Greenland, respect for Greenlanders, respect for Denmark.”

Fuck these people. #NZPol #NZ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Nobel Peace Prize given from an atlas member to trump 👀

“Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants” via @npr.org: www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Can confirm lots of lightning between 4-5 this morning

Another sign we need to invest in the people and services making our country tick.

Can anyone confirm that the price of groceries is coming down, this is taken from X. 👀👀

This is potentially quite problematic for the people and potential victims in the cases involved. step up luxon, mitchell and co, fund these services properly 👀 #nzpol #nzpolice

Um, growth growth growth in the economy

Where "delete your account" is valid and legit. #nzpol Love your work @marcdaalder.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/14/p...

An Austrian NATO official sent a blunt warning to Washington: Touch Greenland & Europe seizes US bases. Gunther Fehlinger says if the US annexes Greenland, every American base in Europe—from Germany to Italy to Romania—would be confiscated, ending decades of U.S. military power on the continent.

But is currently busy using it on his own citizens.

Firearms Safety Authority executive director Angela Brazier retires following McSkimming report www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... This is another follow up piece to the scandal,a few good tidbits of information amongst it, well worth the read #nzpolice #nzjustice

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... Simeon Brown and co time to up your game and comms now 👀 #nzhealth #nzpol #nzICT

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... I have to agree with verity here although I think NZ first will be closer to 10% than 15%

GOOD.

open.substack.com/pub/melanien... #nzpol #rsbtalk

This article many years later says a lot about the types of operations that luxon likes to run, very revealing

I want to make something really clear 2026 will be nastier than 2025 without cool heads, calm minds and clear thinking. We've already seen big things happen within the first 10 days with more expected soon. NZ's leaders are missing in action so everyday people are standing up. #globalpol #nzpol

www.nzc.nz/news-items/d... Be interesting to see if they do any changes with injury beforehand, Robinson quite unlucky, needs to make a good go in the matches beforehand if injury requires a change

Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.

youtu.be/wrRujQMOzTA?... This is one of the most disturbing videos I've seen from a top USA official, no sugarcoating at all, this'll be an interesting year #globalpol

The New Zealand Labour Party condemns the US attack on Venezuela including kidnapping its president as a blatant violation of international law.

So ....When Netanyahu congratulates Trump over his "historic and decisive action" .......We have a problem!! #auspol #uspol #cdnpol #nzpol #ukpol timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/his...

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... Can recall the last time I went into hospital and it was a quiet day apparently and it was still a bit of a wait, over 200% capacity in ED that day according to the article. Simeon brown do better 💩🤬

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

Venezuela attack: New Zealand 'concerned', expects everyone to follow international law - Winston Peters www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises not its voice Except to praise conquerers And acclaim the bully as hero And aims to rule the world By force and by torture - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

This is also a huge ATLAS play, the venuezalan nobel peace prize winner was an Atlas member, atlas is also backing JD Vance to continue after Trump. There is more than oil and taking a leader in this. #globalpol

Maybe something for NZ to think upon 🤔🧐

As someone with some knowledge in this area, this is a big fuckup if the client portal was exposed by the Dev and management teams, health data access points needs to be double-triple checked

Shameful New Zealand opts not to join international statement warning of deteriorating situation in Gaza #nzpol

A thought leading up to new years Eve, if you're in a position of power do yourself a favor and allow bad press to be made or aired, the alternative is much worse, thinking the 60 minutes episode pulled in USA, the release of recent files here in NZ. #globalpol #nzpol

The fall of Destiny and Brian and Hannah Tamaki continues. Two trusts owing 5M+ much of which is owned to the tax department and last minute name changes. Why don’t they just pay their tax like the rest of NZ? Ironic given their donors still get tax rebate on donations made to Destiny? #nzpol

#nzpol What could have been for Aotearoa with courage and good governance. 😔

Seems like ISIS is on the rise again, are we in NZ prepared or even contemplating such a possible attack somewhere. #nzpol #globalpol #nzsecurity

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-... A little something disturbing closer to home #nzpolice #globalpol

Sunday afternoon doing the accounts. Here's the average annual deficit spend in NZ over the last ten years by sector. Add the numbers up. What is the total? Zero. Yes. It has to be. The balance of sectors has to sum to zero. The economy runs on double-entry book keeping. [🧵 1/n]

Officials say transparency key to build trust in govt data system, release heavily redacted docs

Parliament's year in numbers www.rnz.co.nz/news/thehous... As a political geek there are some interesting details in here outside of the word counts. #nzpol

Do i need to say more then the byline, react below #nzpol #nzhealth

Bloody hell, more the reason for change then, local elections certainly not without issues especially with the regional council mess to come through too

#nzpol HYEFU shows that the OBEGAL deficit is no longer in the same postcode as the National Party Fiscal Plan. We never get close to the surplus being promised - to the tune of -$48bn across the period to 2027/28