Soldier On, amirite? #nzpol

At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

typical MSM news Crossing live now to our Prime Minister. "squeal, squawk, hoot, hoot, scream, growl" And there you have it, all our questions have been answered, remember to vote for National. #nzpol

lol lmao I hope rimmer, winnie, and flakes are having that uneasy upset tummy feeling that comes when you know you might be a bit fucked. #nzpol

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#nzpol 20 Economists have penned an open letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance - asking for change. The contents and signatories to the letter are at: craigrenney.substack.com/p/open-lette...

💻Online hui about #measles for Deaf and disabled people, their whānau, carers, support services, about the measles outbreak. Link to event details: facebook.com/share/1CJX5y15DT/ NZSL interpreters will be provided. 👍 Info on measles in alternate formats/NZSL: info.health.nz/measles#measles

Except that these 1/2 wits couldn't spell doctrinaire.

Just out there throwing decades of progress and goodwill onto a trash pile and setting fire to it. Absolutely the worst of us on display from the Beehive.

▪️Trumpist ignoring expert advice; ▪️Trumpist circumvention of checks& balances; ▪️Trumpist blind cost cutting; ▪️Trumpist erosion of legal rights; ▪️Trumpist unfunding legitimate research; ▪️Trumpist unwinded environmental protections; ▪️Trumpist denial of reality; ▪️Trumpist pardoning terrorists... #nzpol

So if the state has a duty, but it repeals every law requiring its components to give effect to that duty, that kindof suggests it doesn't think it has a duty at all, right? It's treating te Tiriti like it treated climate change targets pre-Zero Carbon Act.

Brother to another mother of Luxon.

"We should also look at the fact that New Zealand teachers are the third most stressed in the world, work the second longest hours in the world. If we're going to look at the TALIS data, let's look at all of it, not just cherry pick it like this minister is doing."

After 25 years employment in the environment & education sector, today is my 1st day working as a freelance ecologist, facilitator, & educator! I'm really excited at the start of this new journey - please do drop me a line if you have any bird survey, facilitation, or environmental education needs.

i know this is too long a headline but it would be so cool to highlight that this school *followed* ministry advice which led to 900 close contacts of student with measles. Our government is not serious people. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Simeon:

According to Forbes magazine, Jeff Bezos is $24 Billion richer. If I could give away 23 Billion and still be a billionaire, I would. That's a lot of people's healthcare bills, eh.

"The Prime Minister reported good progress in putting words together. 'I used nimble, agile and flexibility in one sentence' he said. Adding that meeting Homer Simpson was a big surprise and that he thought Mr. Simpson wouldn't be as tall as he was."

Yes, please and thank you. This would seem entirely sensible, but we've gone for minimising and denialism instead. #nzpol

If it requires speed they dawdle and trudge, conversely anything needing careful planning and design - like say a curriculum - is done headlong at a full sprint. Many examples: fair-pay agreements; ferries; school lunches; cancel KO builds; public sector cuts; smoking unban; yellow-legged hornets.

Now we know how National would have handled the Covid pandemic. The 20,000 we saved would be dead.

Does anyone know of any car boot sales (or similar) happening in the Wellington (NZ) Region in the next couple of months?

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It's 2025 and my law firm is still beating Trump's voter suppression in court. We fight hard and we usually win.

Wait. What? #nzpol

Emily (Emily Writes) and I drafted a letter to Andrew Little about his decision to appoint Ray Chung as chair of the CCO Review & Appointments subcommittee. We think this is unacceptable given his past behaviour. Here's a template for a letter if you agree: sites.google.com/view/really-... #nzpol

Western civilisation school is jumping the gun a bit, eh. Also Socrates himself is particularly missed.

I usually to a bonsai forest Friday but may as well do a Fill your feed with Fundraiser Friday this time Not close to my trees today but maybe later Meanwhile have a look at the long list of wonderful ways to help raise funds for Dr Siouxsie in the quoted post below. Cheers 🇳🇿🌱 #NZpol

"Keep rates affordable" means not keeping them affordable. Someone else always pays for the penny pinching. The ratepayers pay in reduced/cancelled services; constant restructuring at their councils reduces customer service; less spent on the things that make a community like parks, culture #nzpol

Those 30+ general population here who've been rigorous about 6 monthly covid vaccines and never had covid will be due sometime now or soon. This post brought to you by checking my dates after a Tuesday exposure event that (based on daily testing) doesn't seem (at least yet) to have infected me.

Tautoko #nzpol www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

What's even more wrong is the other countries that want to emulate the US privatised healthcare system - Britain and New Zealand, for example. We can all see how broken and unaffordable it is, why the hell do our governments seem hell-bent on copying other countries' failures?! #NZpol

Fucking lunatic old men are going to incinerate the world to prove their fucking manliness and white males over 35 think that feminism is to blame for the world's problems.

It is NOT ok to test #NuclearWeapons in the Pacific. It is NOT ok to test #Nuclear #Weapons at all. It is not ok to make or use Nuclear Weapons! 🕊️ 🕊️🕊️ Fight #ClimateChange NOT each other! #nzpol #NuclearFree #NZ www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Looking forward to our government strongly condemning this. <tui_ad.gif> #nzpol

Letter to Stanford from The NZ History Teachers’ Association about that complete fuck up of a social sciences curriculum #nzpol

Two ghouls in a fountain.

This is blatant political interference in rge New Zealand Curriculum that shouldn't be tolerated. Education professionals should be deciding what is in the NZ Curriculum, not politicians from 8% parties pandering to the worst of NZ society to the detriment of our students.

And here was I thinking it was a cockamamie idea designed to line the pockets of various high paid condultants and wouldn’t ever be made real. 🤦‍♀️ #nzpol

I think "Marxist" is like Woke and Politically Correct and Pinko and Commie and Hippie: yet another in a long series of buzzwords the RW like to stamp on shit they don't understand, don't like and desperately need to disparrage somehow without ever having to resort to thinking

“A message built on fairness, community and national purpose resonated with voters, and a comfortable majority voted for it. That matters not just for us in Wales, but for progressives everywhere. The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future.” #nzpol

The vision that has to be sold is that wealth will inevitably concentrate in the hands of the already rich unless we do something drastic to alter that. Not the mildly well off - that category of people is rapidly disappearing anyway. The megawealthy are getting megawealthier.

"The New Zealand government is now basically a road-building authority with bits tacked on." thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

I will say that due to the NZ Herald's reporting, there will be a non-zero number of people who will still believe an electric bus caught on fire and it was a toxic & dangerous result, potentially causing them to be concerned about EVs. For the record: ICE vehicles are more likely to catch on fire.

Farage: epic grifter

Week in Review: Opinion: Despite a pre-election promise of devolution and a commitment to subsidiarity, the Government has done nothing but dump on local government since taking office

Aotearoa , new Zealand - MMR vaccine is free for anyone aged under 18, and for people over 18 eligible for free healthcare. please visit your local chemist that offers vaccinations & see if you had 2 doses. If not please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and people who can’t get vaccinated #nz