Clint Fern
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Have you ever wondered where penguins go on holiday? To the beach. Here's a Tawaki / Fiordland Crested Penguin I saw on Whariwharangi Beach some years back.
#penguin
#birds
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On NRT: Time to end MPs' property rorts -
norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/06/time...
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Time to end MPs' property rorts
Last week we had the unseemly sight of Social Development Minister Louise Upston cutting housing for the needy, while being paid $1,000 a mo...
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/06/time-to-end-mps-property-rorts.html
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Ben Ross
about 10 hours ago
National are breaching the Fiscal Responsibility Act for starters. But Labour need to grow a set as we know Parliament can NOT bind a future Parliament and nor can its Budgets. Also Currency is Sovereign Also Constitutiional Reforms
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Revealed: Labour fumes as Govt 'secretly' spends $1b from next year's Budget
Budget documents reveal the Government has quietly spent a portion of next year's Budget.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/budget-2026-labour-fumes-as-government-secretly-spends-1b-from-next-years-budget/premium/TYUPVCNTPNGPFIA7BQD2RSUK7M/
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This can now be added to the Hipkins holiday home story.
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Do we not deserve a better option than "slightly less of a money grubber than the other guy"?
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Greg O'Connor to be announced as latest candidate for NZ1 this week.
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Labour's list has a number of oddities. Camilla Belich, Arena Williams & Deborah Russell dropping places. Craig Renney & Gary Payinda getting very low list places.
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Guy Body
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Give me the most 80s song you can think of
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Sharon Murdoch
1 day ago
Accommodation supplements. My
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#Accommodation
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Tova literally laughing in Chris Penk's face at his ridiculous explanation of his nuclear cockup is gold.
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#BHN Tova O'Brien "Explaining is losing Minister"
YouTube video by Big Hairy Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiwBI2Gkofc
2 days ago
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No wonder Gerry went after Lynch and Burr for photographing Upston, doesn't want the scrutiny on himself.
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TAB are refusing bets on this guy being the cause.
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3 days ago
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David Seymour approved school uniforms have been leaked.
3 days ago
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paulpro
3 days ago
@mackinnonart.bsky.social
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A short video of last nights lightning storm in Delaware Bay, Te Tau Ihu. Sound up for thunder and bird calls.
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Enzo Giordani
5 days ago
A firebird - AKA an Australian coot - rim lit by the sunset at Hamilton Lake tonight. 🪶🇳🇿
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Katya
4 days ago
We leave this branch long when cutting back the Cherry tree as it is a favourite launching pad for Tūī accessing the feeder. One day it will probably break from the combined weight
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Asher
4 days ago
Really gross that the govt is now recognising people in the King's Birthday Honours who were leaders of the antivax occupation of Parliament.
m.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO26...
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Outdoors And Freedom Party Founder And Author Alan Simmons Recognised In King’s Birthday Honours List
The prestigious acknowledgment highlights decades of tireless dedication to protecting New Zealand's natural heritage, advocating for public access to the great outdoors, and championing civil liberti...
https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2606/S00003/outdoors-and-freedom-party-founder-and-author-alan-simmons-recognised-in-kings-birthday-honours-list.htm
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AI thoroughly hated on a Stuff poll
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Rob🎸
4 days ago
'A former top Beehive staffer' ffs , a Senior policy advisor, for *years* Should know how government works and what is required of them to do government work This was no accident but a deliberate attempt to avoid consequences
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Alex
4 days ago
The argument that 'the increase is necessary to get good people in the role' fails because she is already in the role and signed up at the lower rate. So either the money isn't necessary to get good people, or she is an example of the bad people you get for less money.
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5 days ago
The FSU’s motto: “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to sue you or get you fired for it.”
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Vincent van Gogh
5 days ago
Wheatfield with cypress tree - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14719
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David Clegg
5 days ago
Document shredder overheated.
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Rod Emmerson
5 days ago
Life imitating art - cartoon from 2023
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Joe Hendren
5 days ago
The mainstream media appear to have the institutional memory of a sieve. It was only a year ago Minister of Education Erica Stanford was sprung for using her personal email for official business. (1/2)
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#lobbying
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Labour questions whether disappearing climate briefing note deliberate cover-up
But minister Louise Upston insists the debacle in the PM's office is an "isolated incident" and says it is "disingenuous" to say otherwise.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/597093/labour-questions-whether-disappearing-climate-briefing-note-deliberate-cover-up
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The cranky ideology of Hoggard and the ACT party, plus NZI, is set to cost food producers dearly. Hoggard wants farmers and food producers to be able to produce unhealthy products freely so they can make more profit, but it'll come at the cost of exports.
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Trans-Tasman food fight brewing over Health Star Ratings
Cabinet was warned Australia could block processed food imports if NZ opts out of a mandatory Health Star Rating system.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/02/trans-tasman-food-fight-brewing-over-health-star-ratings/
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Richard Hills
6 days ago
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…
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Anyone else think NZ1 is making trouble for itself in the next term with all these ego-driven dodgy guys it's picking? Winston has ruled with complete control since the tight five days. Will Nash and Ikilei be happy to keep their own opinions and ambitions to themselves? Seems unlikely.
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Party’s former leader to stand for NZ First in this year’s election
Elliot Ikilei, the former leader of the New Conservative Party, will stand as a candidate in this year’s election for NZ First.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360986875/new-conservatives-elliot-ikilei-stand-nz-first-years-election
6 days ago
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Andrew
6 days ago
If a country's tax policy is so off-putting that you don't want to move there, then don't move there. Emigration to any country means having to accept (at least in the short term) the things you don't like as much, as well as the things you do.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/per...
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'Financial suicide': Golden visa holder says tax rules risk deterring active participation in NZ
Courtney Andelman says tax rules deter her from deeper ties and investment.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/personal-finance/tax/golden-visa-holder-says-tax-barrier-has-stopped-further-investment-and-charitable-giving-govt-mulls-change/premium/JTHHJTGGTJCD3CRSRPHDBMF4XU/
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Adam Vaughan
7 days ago
England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this...
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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Guy Body
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Hayley
7 days ago
Are you enrolled to vote, NZ? Check (or double, triple check) here:
vote.nz/enrolling/en...
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿
8 days ago
#NZpol
Capturing this "for the record", esp. as I haven’t seen anything about it elsewhere. The National party fairly quickly deleted their post. On the face of it, deleting the post tacitly admits they made a false claim.
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GreenLeft Network 🍉
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"it's difficult to find the money to be able to reverse stuff." okay... so Labour can't commit to reversing the billions in tax cuts to landlords, billions in pay equity cuts for women, billions in cuts to the public sector (and their workers), because it's difficult? bullshit
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Everyday its clearer how much Luxon hates Ao / NZ and New Zealanders. He's - pro-nuke pro Roger and Ruth almost certainly pro-tour I wouldn't be surprised if his favourite rugby team was the Cavaliers and that his top Aussies were Greg & Trevor Chappell.
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Dry for ages and now this. Absolutely fantastic </s>
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Two weather systems set to unleash massive downpours across NZ
Significant heavy rain will fall in parts of the South Island from Sunday, and the North Island from Monday, MetService is forecasting.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360986166/orange-warnings-issued-bands-heavy-rain-sweep-nz
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Idiot/Savant
9 days ago
And this is another way National is out of step with the NZ public. We overwhelmingly don't want to be involved in US wars. National OTOH is eager to sign up kiwis to die in them. Other kiwis, of course - its never the MPs or their families who are volunteering.
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Phil Garnock-Jones
10 days ago
This is horrifying. I hope Labour, the Greens, and TPM will be unified about repealing this ASAP. I hope they are drawing ip all the repeal legislation now so that it's ready to go on day one.
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Yorrike.
10 days ago
Labour and the Greens should reverse all the laws the current government passed under urgency, under urgency, before passing a “bills passing under urgency now require a 60% majority, including revoking this bill”, also under urgency.
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Jordan Rivers
10 days ago
Crazy how these reforms saw mega landlords get richer at the same time as NZ reaching the highest number of homlessness in history. Its almost like the reason for the reforms was a lie 🤷
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Marc Daalder. Nail. Head. "When he landed in Opposition, Hipkins promised Labour would not play the role of the dog barking at every passing car. But in the absence of its own vision of what it would do differently, Labour has been something of a ghost in Opposition."
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Scrappy election campaign looms over short-lived Budget unity
Opinion: While coalition scrapping over Super may make headlines, the delivery of the Budget also puts the onus on Labour to unveil its own policies
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/29/scrappy-election-campaign-looms-over-short-lived-budget-unity/
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Orkney Library & Archive
11 days ago
You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.
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Adam Bienkov
12 days ago
Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry
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So people wanting Luxon blown up on a rocket win.
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12 days ago
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Incompetent policy making from Stanford, introduces an amendment and gets it voted through yesterday, scraps it today. Maybe she should listen to other people rather than just bulldozing through her own, poor, ideas.
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A ‘humiliating day’ for minister, Labour says, as she U-turns on bill a day after introducing it
“I very seldom see a minister having to eat humble pie that fast,” Labour leader Chris Hipkins said.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360984651/labour-labels-it-humiliating-day-erica-stanford-she-u-turns-bill-day-after-introducing-it
12 days ago
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Alex
12 days ago
This yarn about 'when did Matt Burgess stop working in Luxon's office and why did he do it' is the temu version of the yarn about 'when did Jason Ede stop working in Key's office and why did he do it'
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