While it's good Stuff took the ad down it would have been better if they had upheld Tā Mātou Pono and never published it in the first place www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/30....

I got my hoodie! And of course I voted #KeepMāoriWards shop.greens.org.nz/collections/...

300 bike parks, 222 car parks in a ground-floor basement and outside, a rooftop solar farm and an 8000 sq m central courtyard with about 7000 shrubs and trees...tenanted by people who want the certainty of a lifetime rental. Love this is my KiwiSaver investment! www.nzherald.co.nz/property/fir...

Putting aside whether this is in anyway workable, the saddest thing is the attempt to remove the richness of foreign cultures from entering the US. Hollywood has a lot to answer for but it has always been best when it has woven together its foreign influences. www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Our close allies - Australia, Canada, UK - all said recognising Palestine is essential for maintaining a two state solution. NZ is a small outlier but stays with the US and Israeli arguments #nzpol

The leaders of this government may be cowards but there is still time to persuade your local government MP to have the courage to become one of six to support action for Palestine and demonstrate Aotearoa does care www.greens.org.nz/just_six_gov...

I'm so disappointed about this Palestine decision and so deeply deeply ashamed of this government

Also, this claim: "Go look at other Western economies around the world and how fast they count their vote. We must be the slowest folk on the planet." Australia - voting day 3 May and final results 12 June (37 days) NZ - voting day 14 Oct and final results 9 November (26 days)

When did Hipkins define women as biologically female? I feel like that would have been pretty big news if he'd gone down the NZ First transphobic track www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Are you looking for the coolest local body elections merch to have ever existed and possibly ever will exist?? shop.greens.org.nz/collections/...

Cumulative returns for local body votes in Wellington still only 8% 😭 Have you spoken to the people around you to make sure they're voting? And #VoteKeepMāoriWards www.electionz.com/LGE2025_reso...

And a gift link to the NYT's current liveblog, which has quite a lot about the autism announcement – much of it furious – if you scroll down. Health reporters are much better at being straightforward than political reporters. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

youtu.be/XBoWeDE4FfQ?... WCC candidate @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social is committed to better cycling in Wellington. She is the only Councillor in the Wharangi / Onslow-Western ward who has supported this work. @cyclewgtn.bsky.social

@cyclewgtn.bsky.social and Bicycle Junction hosted WCC candidates. Candidate for Pukehinau/ Lambton Ward, @geordierogers.co.nz says "My vision for the city is where people can get around safely, no matter what time of day or transport mode. We need a dedicated cycling network." youtu.be/4fP8RlU3TjQ

It may be grey in Te Whanganui-a-Tara but you can still get out the vote to #KeepMāoriWards

Tie your trampolines down folks

Voting has been open almost 2 weeks and only 4.2% votes returned in Wellington 😭😭😭 Don't forget to vote. You can cast a special vote if your papers haven't arrived. And of course #VoteKEEPMāoriWards

Continuing the theme... #TeWikiOTeReoMāori and #BOTY Ka ngaro reoreo tangata, kīkī e manu

Another amalgamation of my favourite things this week: #TeWikiOTeReoMāori and Bird of The Year Ka koekoe te tūī, ka ketekete te kākā, ka kūkū te kererū

"Every life is precious" says one of the clergyman outside Nicola Willis's office, speaking to RNZ. Imagine if that basic statement could be the non partisan approach that sees us through the next decade.

I'm soooo excited. The papers are finally here. After some very serious deliberation about how to cast my STV preferences I will be voting KEEP the Māori ward (City Council) and KEEP the Māori constituency (Regional Council). And then I will be skipping to the orange wheelie bin to drop them in

It's not a coincidence that our bus patronage numbers are hitting all time highs. This term we've delivered more bus lanes than the seven previous councils combined

Celebrating #TeWikiOTeReoMāori, a phrase a day and one that dovetails with Bird of the Year: Whakarongo ki te ruru e koukou ana.

Was going to report them but was bowled over by their artistic expression and walked on.

I know everything's terrible but did you know Whittaker's has a recipe section on their website & everything looks amazing? Whatever the chocolate equivalent of doomscrolling is, this is where to do it. www.whittakers.co.nz/en_NZ/recipes

The doubling down from Better Wellington “It just so happens in this instance that the post was a woman, we’ve made similar posts about male candidates. They all cry victim when questioned ... that’s how precious and sanctimonious these candidates are." We can do better in local politics

Tomorrow, or should I say āpōpō, people 😊

Whether you attended the March for Humanity today or not, please sign this petition calling on the Government to sanction the Zionist settler colonial state for engaging in a genocide in Gaza. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/nz...

Playing Prince of Persia on the Amstrad as a kid and peaking so young that I have a forcefield in my veins

Need some help choosing which birds to vote for in the 20th Bird of the Year? Download our handy flowchart. Voting opens Monday! 👉https://f.mtr.cool/euvawqrgje #BOTY2025 #BirdoftheYear2025 #BirdoftheYear

We here at Team Hākoakoa are opposed to all forms of state violence - procedural, structural, and rhetorical - including Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Act 1953, which gives the thumbs-up to profile and shoot us.

Kilbirnie's library doing the Good Lord's work by printing out and highlighting how to do a special vote. #vote and #voteKEEPMāoriwards

There are now 238 Kakapo in the world and there will be a breeding season this year. A city-wide trapping programme here in Wellington has seen an explosion in native bird populations in the last decade. I'd lived for 40 odd years without seeing a kaka in the wild, now I see and hear them most days.

Has your ballot paper arrived in your mailbox? If not, keep an eye out. It should be on the way. You can still enrol to vote. Find out more at www.greens.org.nz/local

Hoiho! What a lovely story of industry doing the right thing voluntarily 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧 www.thepost.co.nz/environment/...

Have you spotted the best wheelie bins yet?

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Do it 💚💚💚💚

Wait, what "It's what happened when they arrived at the military camp that she remembers just as vividly. “A gentleman came on and said, ‘If you’re not prepared to kill a baby, don’t get off the bus,’” www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nz-army-c...

The only reason I would accept robots in my house

We're at a really pivotal moment with a lot of people saying stop using AI become it's inept and only produces slop whereas sometimes it's incredibly proficient, just in a really unethical way. But history shows that just shouting at individuals to stop doing something unethical rarely works and...

Feels like if they repeated the question today it would be 90%+ of Green voters And that's not a sign of the country being in a good place.

The New Zealand Election Study data for the 2023 general election is now out, and available publicly at dataverse. I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.

Nicked off Facebook. A salary comparison between an MP and a teacher in NZ. #nzpol

Just saying www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don't want poor electorate names... wellingtoncentral.greens.org.nz/restore_our_...

Here's the Speaker's Ruling Brownlee is now relying on in order to justify requiring Swarbrick to withdraw and apologise today for what she said yesterday. It is a flat out wrong, completely unjustifiable, untenable application of the precedent. He acted from pique and now is backfilling the reasons

This is so sad. My daughter learnt to read with the kupu Māori in these books - simple, easyto understand and such a tiny step considering how little reo there is in her education. Multilingual countries must be shocked by the paucity of our language diversity www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/569...