This should be required reading for everyone in Aotearoa #nzpol #FarRightPlaybook farrightplaybook.nz/shop/

Aotearoa, we’re going through a seismic, systemic shift. Whether it's the courts or the classroom, the goal is the same: bypass the "middlemen" of expertise and local autonomy to create a direct line of Ministerial control.

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - Winston Peter's is firing up at National even though his criticism is around Government policy, which he is also responsible for - Luxon's coming for your Kiwisaver - Seymour v Marama on suing big business #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social youtube.com/live/G-BVHff...

Who ever put this up, well played. 👏🏼 #nzpol #rangatahi #studentsknowreality #Nationalnotfittogovern

#nzpol Government has been advised the LNG terminal is more expensive than helping industrial gas users change The government in bed with USA and fossil fuels, funded by Greymouth petroleum

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

An OIA document delivered up by MBIE after 54 working days. It shows MBIE officials advised that the cheapest response to gas decline is to help users switch, not to import LNG. Based on more recent EECA information, this overstates the cost to government of a switching programme.

when Purchasing my first home, Kiwibank didn't want to know me, but the mainline foreign owned banks would, this is not to knock kiwibank, just pointing out that the deck is stacked against them so the aussie owned banks just extract profit from us.

"Austerity still isn't working so we are going to do more, and harder" - local idiot, Chris Luxon

With all due Roy Morgan caveats, the demographics here are striking. National is polling 14% with women under 50 and 18.5% with men under 50. We're heading towards being a retirement village. www.roymorgan.com/findings/102...

FUCKING BOOMERS are going to ruin us all! We to need to mobilise the youth (< 40) to vote this coming November, and we need to mobilise HARD! #nzpol

Could City Rail Link have been built for less, as CRL’s ex-CEO now says? Maybe – but skimping on stations would likely have raised costs across the whole network. Matt Lowrie outlines how shortcuts aren’t always cheaper in the long run (or the short run!) www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/05/13/t...

Last night my wife asked me if I'd consider moving to another country. her reasoning being that everything seems to be getting worse, harder edged, meaner. while the things that make new zealand a unique and desirable place to exist erode away in front of us. 1/

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

no lessons learned from selling off NZ banks in years past.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social effortlessly dismantling a caller who doesn't believe in a wealth tax #taxtherich

Is Jenna also investigating who 'Suit & Tie' is? #NzPol

CAN EVERYTHING STOP BEING SO FUCKED UP New DCC council now is RW climate denying fucking looney bin stuff. Anyone Anti-Cycleways in 2026 should be declared unfit to stand for public office. Un-fucking-believable

this cannot be correct. endorsed by our worst existing councilors (lund and vandervis), gave an answer to a interview question so racist she panicked and freaked out over it getting out, this is a really backward step for Dunedin. www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Winston Peters lying to the public is bad. But his lies are supported by media that not only doesn't challenge his lies, it *boosts them instead.* And grants them the legitimacy of being published 'in the news,' unchallenged. Lying MPs with media machinery behind them is SUPER TERRIFYING #nzpol

Paywall now lifted: Analysts from the world’s foremost economic forum have rebuked the Government’s plans to import liquefied gas and spark a renaissance in domestic fossil fuel production. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/11/o...

In his latest, @connorsharp.bsky.social looks at another cost of the government's RoNS mania: deaths and serious injuries that could have been avoided with low-cost safety improvements that were sidelined by "a myopic focus on over-scoped highways". www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/05/12/t...

Once more for those in the back: THERE IS NO LEGAL REQUIREMENT OR EVEN A FORM AT THE BORDER FOR GREEN CARD HOLDERS RE-ENTERING THE US TO DECLARE A PREVIOUS CONVICTION, WINSTON IS LYING & SPREADING DISINFO ON PURPOSE

FREE EVERLEE WIHONGI "WE MUST SHOW UP! 📅 Sat 16 May ⏰ 1pm 📍 Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade – 23 Quay St, Akld DEMAND answers for Everlee. Demand Minister Peters ACT NOW. CAN’T ATTEND? Email the Minister immediately: 📧 [email protected] Tell him: Find Everlee Wihongi." @toitu_te_aroha

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - Shannan Halbert live on losing 'fees free' - Christopher Luxon on retirement age - Mariameno Kapa-Kingi exits TPM - NZ Herald poll of polls #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social youtube.com/live/_3AOmSt...

NZ Debt rose from about 40% of GDP to 49% of GDP under National But internationally speaking, NZ's debt to GDP is very low - and explains why NZ has such a big infrastructure deficit and standards are lower in builds #nzpol #newzealand #debt

Every person on wages and benefits pay taxes diligently and government services keep dwindling and deteriorating not just for the people paying but also for the community as a whole which includes children. If the social fabric is fraying, it is because of this reason.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

This country had a smaller tax base in the past, so how did we build hospitals, rail, roads and bridges and at the same time have world class education and healthcare? We taxed the wealthy hard. They were still wealthy, and society was better off.

These fucking pricks are not listening to us. Next on the chopping block will be the retirement age and I am SICK TO FUCKING DEATH of being the generation and income bracket that gets rug pulled in favour of the weathy property owning class

Every single person who, after decades of evidence disproving the fact, believes that neoliberal austerity is the way forward and that, somehow, all debt, no matter who creates it, is caused by public spending, is a dunce.

BREAKING NEWS: People who voted against centralised three waters are angry that they now have to pay for three waters themselves. Very "I didn't think the leopards would eat my face" vibes here. #nzpol www.odt.co.nz/regions/nort...

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when u tax the rich

NZ’s right wing government wants to saddle uni students $10k + additional debt having given their landlords approx $3 billion in tax cuts at the expense of govt coffers. This is Boomer death drive politics

@paulbarlownz.bsky.social makes some very good points in this 5 minute video around the dismantling of the BSA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkaq... #nzpol

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Oh and spotted fu-fu @chewienz.bsky.social at WOOF! 🤙🔥

🧵My take here is that the coalition government has decided to abolish the BSA because it has advice that the authority's assertion that the Broadcasting Act gives it jurisdiction over online broadcasting is well-founded and would prevail in a court. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Well, this is a terrible move. Good for disinformation merchants though

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - Some concerned that ACT immigration policy will bring an ICE style of tactical teams - Stanford pushes back on Seymour's immigration ideas - Simeon Brown fighting for NZFirst votes #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social youtube.com/live/2gzmYrH...

My complaint about this headline has been upheld by the Media Council — they have found it to have been misleading and not accurate. I understand that Stuff has been instructed to publish a summary of the ruling today, but I have not yet spotted it. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/john...

A fun test for how popular AI actually is would be giving us the option to opt out of it

Compass dropped from the 2026 school lunch contract after mouldy meals, 170 complaints in one month, and the main supplier in liquidation owing 500 staff. The new 2026 supplier list includes the University of Canterbury Student Association. A student union out-catered a multinational. #nzpol

"But in New Zealand, the up-front expense of installation remains a hurdle – the average household solar system costs $16,500." newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/04/i...

I see you metservice, and your star wars references

oh me? I'm just day dreaming of nicola willis reading this and then just hearing a faint "pop" as her brain detonates

A colleague of mine brought up her piece from last week and I was like "urrrgh Verity" but didn't really articulate why....so I just sent him this weeks column by way of explanantion