As an educator, tautoko Emily for writing this. I have a young man close to 80% attendance due to illnesses spread across mostly Term 2, two days here, three days there. Going after him doesn't make sense. He was ill.

"Landlords are allowed". There, answered it for you. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dame-vale...

So first it was a briefing being handed over in hard copy. Now it is an email to a private email address. It's looking like this was a deliberate attempt to avoid information being recorded in official recordkeeping systems in compliance with the Public Records Act. #nzpol #lobbying

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…

Do these numpties have any idea how few experienced tradies want anything to do with teaching?

Considering they’ve done their very best to ensure our tradies head to Australia, who’s going to teach these kids?? Utter fuckwits in charge 😑 #nzpol

This is how you SHIFT THE OVERTON WINDOW BACK like come on, you make it not worth their while to pass extreme antidemocratic unpopular nonsense because the public will dig in for a start, and then you will just switch it back the second they are out.

Elizabeth Rata, who is guiding Erica Stanford on how to "stop de-colonisation's success" in Aotearoa, has been awarded Kings' Honours, along with notables like Barry Soper. It's clear what the agenda of the National, ACT and NZ First Coalition really is about from top to toe

C'mon, where's the "it comes as"?? Normally the press gallery only need two instances to say there's a pattern and you have at least four. I want a "it comes as National MPs have been caught out using personal email repeatedly this term" before the week is out!

Luxon's a corrupt wee sausage isn't he? A precooked crappy one

It’s only corruption when it comes from the region of developing countries. Otherwise it’s just ✨ sparkling “pay to play” or sparkling “hats” ✨

Quick, targeted response with a clear delineation between the parties, highlighting their moral weakness and your strength on an issue. Good. Now do it for more issues, loudly.

Mission Critical for schools in this budget includes desperately needed increases to Operation funding. We are double digits behind 2018 and it is only getting worse. #nzpol

So lemme get this straight #nzpol. High school students who follow the rules of NCEA to best suit their learning are “gaming the system”, which must be thrown out. But MPs taking taxpayer money as a living allowance for properties they own outright is an entitlement they’re comfortable with. 🤔

'this is not the story of haves and have nots; it's the story of have nots and have yachts' LMAO (rawiri waititi) #nzpol

tomorrow, new zealander everlee wihongi gets another chance in court in wisconsin (ICE foiled her last week): supporters are welcome to show up in person: may 28 11am 160 South Macy St. Fond du Lac, WI webworm series on her kidnapping and detainment so far: www.webworm.co/everleemay21/

Bloody good coverage of our corrupt government. Well done BHN. youtube.com/watch?v=mtuz...

When a politician says "there is no record or recollection", they're basically admitting that they're lying. That's all there is to it. Luxon is a liar. #nzqt

CHIEF. POLICY. ADVISOR.

So after a day of Ikea drawer building these are my reflections: Drawers are the trickiest part of the whole thing. Requires more organisation and you really need to mentally lock in. Invest in an electric screw driver if you can. Assembling them in order from bottom drawer to top helps too.

Absolute king shit, tbh. More of this please, Labour

Everyone talking about cancelling CBS over what they did to Colbert I’ve got a better idea get a list of advertisers for CBS in your area and text/Write/phone them and tell them you’ll be boycotting their products for advertising with CBS.

More battlefield shaping.

Definition of a Woman, NZ First - Someone who Shane Jones can enjoy watching on a hotel TV screen at taxpayer expense. ACT - Someone who is probably safe from Tim Jago. National - Someone who does not deserve pay equity.

Update from the IKEA kitchen mines: We've built 11 cabinets carcasses from the Metod range at a reasonable clip today. The draws pop together exceptionally easily so tomorrow's work probably won't take very long. Ridiculously cheap in comparison to Bunnings, Mitre 10 etc.

I find it desperately funny that the reason Chris Trotter gives for real concern about Stanford's new exam regime, that the half who fail will end up going nowhere, is a huge component of PPTA concerns about the changes, while he claims that the PPTA is opposition regardless of the policy.

Again. They're doing this again. The accommodation supplement is a subsidy to landlords that already costs us $2 billion annually. There's a sorry history here ...

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

one of the major clues that social housing tenants haven't in fact won the lotto is that they need social housing

So good

Dear public servants, if you aren't leaking the dodgy shit politicians are doing and how it is impacting normal New Zealanders then you are complicit. Where is your conscience?

Imagine being so bad at your job that the only way to 'balance the books' is to take money from poor people.

I see the 'Capital Strangler' has moved on to starving state housing tenants. Fuck Nicola Willis.

Why is it important to criticise MPs for accepting an accommodation allowance for living in a property they own? Because accepting that allowance betrays a lack of sense of shame, which in turn betrays a lack of empathy, which should disqualify you from holding power of any kind.

Goldsmith's a racist

National, laser focussed on the cost of living, have decided, in what will be a surprise to no one, that a major problem with tbe economy is that the poorest people have too much of the money.

Threaten the expulsion of the US Ambassador. Do it now!

Won the fucking lotto? Won the fucking lotto? This is such easy attack fodder but where are Labour?

pretty wild that the sturmabteilung straight up kidnapped a NZ citizen and sent them to a concentration camp without a trial, but our government is too busy fellating landlords to even notice

Having a tonne of fun educating year 13s about UNSCOP and their place in determining the Partition of Mandate Palestine. The kids were shocked by the exclusion of Arab nations, but the inclusion of British Dominions. 1/

It’s bad to be in social housing cause you are poor but completely fine to charge the taxpayer $52,000 to rent the house you already own. National party MPs are disgusting people and people who vote for them are disgusting too.

"I can't afford to buy" guy is a lying tosser. Much like the Minister of Housing who lied about renting while he was living in a family owned property and building in Eastbourne. They are crooks.

Rimmer now claims four houses in his pecuniary interests declaration. That's what being a minister means: an extra house every five years. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/act-leade...

So Louise Upston owns a Wellington apartment but claims a $52,000 a year tax free accommodation allowance for the city But she wants accommodation allowance cut for the poorest Kiwis. This is the same Upston who relied on the benefit & now maligns beneficiaries www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Let's take a moment to remember Luxon's KPI outcomes: 12-15 year business failure high, 10-15 year unemployment high, record job beneficiaries, record gang numbers & surpassing police #, higher sexual assaults & record domestic violence, 3500 cancelled state homes while 20,000 wait ...

Fark what a week. Lego temples building competitions for Greek architecture, RTLB interventions for a Junior class, and finding out Fix&Fogg are using school student labour when workers go back to the islands.

More tricks from Stanford in the House, this time to sneak in a change that makes all members of the Teaching Council ministerial appointees. What is taught, how it's taught, what counts as good teaching, and who is fit to teach — On 6 July, these are all under direct political control.

One of the reasons Stanford gives for ditching NCEA is the absolute bullshit about kids gaming the system by gathering credits from barista courses etc. We still don't have any evidence that students gaining credits outside of "subjects" is a major factor in NCEA. AND....

Me, when the govt cuts public sector jobs and the economy gets worse so they decide to cut more public sector jobs:

There might well only be 12 ministries in Finland, but there is also a massive tax take to support those ministries. If you are going to compare us on one metric, perhaps give us the whole picture you dumbarse.