For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:

It's hard to say you're struggling with this level of profit from a small country like NZ ASB: $1.617 billion BNZ: $1.509 ANZ: $2.171 billion Westpac: $1.184 billion

I agree with removing surcharges especially for those with disabilities but I think the banks should be forced to stop charging businesses, businesses shouldn't have to change prices to cover those surcharges they can no longer charge for or swallowing the costs and the banks get off scot-free!

Love to see CEOs/execs shitting over Luxon & Willis in the Mood of the Boardroom survey but remember these same ppl brought this Govt to power & were its vocal cheerleaders right up to the moment they realised the savage cuts & reforms were harming THEIR businesses, not just poors & mowries. #nzpol

"You would have seen us move some pieces of legislation with more pace" without the coalition partners. Oh, you mean you would have taken LESS THAN A DAY to steal women's money??

Excerpt: Frequent comments are he is “not a good listener”, “doesn’t take feedback well even if delivered constructively” and “needs a stronger Prime Minister’s Office behind him” www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bus...

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Kanohi ki te kanohi Rae ki te rae. NZEI Te Riu Roa is a powerful union and we stand for free quality public education for all our tamariki. We can not do this though without standing up for principals, teachers (ECE, Kindergarten, Primary, Area Schools), support staff and MOE workers.

The local Mayor: "Since speed limits dropped to 80 km/h in 2022 these roads have been safer. NZTA Waka Kotahi data show us there have been no fatal crashes in this period, compared to an average of more than two deaths a year when the speed limit was 100 km/h,” says Mayor Wanden.

In April 2025 Chris Bishop increased the speed on the Otaki to Levin Road from 80 to 100kmh, against community opposition. Yesterday he called the road a 'death trap'. Yet he increased the speed on this 'death trap'. www.levinnews.co.nz/2025/04/23/c... www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

RNZ newsreader still referring to genocide against Palestinians as an 'offensive against Hamas,' in the very same report that featured a doctor's descriptions of horrific wounds suffered by Gazans. Where is their critical literacy and their humanity? #nzpol

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

Mood of the Boardroom: 86% say they would replace Nicola Willis with a self-driving Corolla

Shamubeel Eaqub is speaking to NZEI Te Riu Roa's Hui-a-Tau about how we could have a better New Zealand. Better is possible and requires us to pay it forward. Stop believing in the myths and lusting after unicorns. What we've done for the last forty years has not worked!!

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If part time workers really are taking “too much” sick leave, could that possibly because they are disproportionately mothers and using up all their leave caring for other people?

Live on RNZ Kieran McAnulty just challenged Chris Bishop to a trailer backing contest and Bishop ceded because he admits he can not This is how elections should be settled #NZPol

Love that the Senior Doctors are correcting Simeon Brown and taking back the narrative. Tautoko. Striking senior doctors hit back at Health Minister Simeon Brown's message. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

FFS, how long are we going to have to put up with this complete idiocy? This idiot is getting people killed with his stupidity!! Trump links autism to paracetamol use during pregnancy, despite decades of evidence it’s safe. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

A privilege to hear Eru Kapa-Kingi speak at Hui-a-Tau for NZEI Te Riu Roa today regarding #ToitūTeTiriti.

Disney is losing too much money from people pissed off with them for cancelling Jimmy Kimmel for saying the truth rather mildly. In 10, 20, 50 years time, people will look back on the 2020s and wonder why we repeated the fascist mistakes of the 1920s.

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Seriously, why do people who (correctly) don't tolerate shenanigans from their children keep swallowing the most rank piles of equine manure from politicians? #nzpol

Is it really "fast-tracking" or "accelerating" when it's basically restarting some of the 100-odd projects you iced a year ago, putting the construction sector into a nosedive? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

We are a hateful nation.

Is this not just restarting all the stuff they stopped in 2023 and 2024? You know, when they stopped projects with builders literally on site to save money for their tax cuts?

#nzpol Yep. And, this won't stop the Tokoroa plywood factory from closing because the damage has already been done. This CoC-up government has pushed our nation's manufacturing companies to the wall. 🤬 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Aotearoa NZ produces enough food to feed 40 million people. We only have a population of 5 million, and 27% of the kids in that 5 million are going hungry. That's absolutely disgusting.

People will tell you Myanmar and New Zealand have little in common but in fact they're two of just a few world nations that don't recognise the State of Palestine

Scarcity of labour means their costs will ramp up ….

Pulling the handbrake on ALL of the school building programs is one of the things they did to bring construction to it's knees. What cha gonna ramp up with now that everyones shifted to Australia? #NZPol

Today's email to Luxo in its entirety: "Recognise Palestine you lying, ethics-free, Christian nationalist weirdo." #nzpol

Honestly who cares how much doctors do or do not make, doctor’s shit working conditions are DIRECTLY related to quality of care we receive. Always support medical and allied health staff industrial action. Always.

😂 #NZLabour #nzpol

'Not a race' Tell that to those experiencing geno/c!de you f**ken incompetent spineless COWARD. I'm guessing this f**ker believes in the Rapture 😬 www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

“We will not shop at your stores. We will not tune into your TV and radio stations. We will not send our kids & our money to your universities, or use your services if you are going to enable our slide to authoritarianism.” — Representative Jason Crow

I think it’s really great we engineered a recession to bring down inflation but food prices keep going up. The one thing we need to keep being alive. It’s great I love it we can go to space but we can’t solve this. It just has to be this way. There’s enough food but some people have to starve.

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Spending the morning with a class watching Despicable Me 3 while the kids stuff their faces with soft drink, lollies and junk food. Im glad I'm only with this class for one block today.

We are the only OECD Nation with negative GDP Growth since 2023 Given we had GDP growth under Labour this marks abject failure of National, and also those economists and monetary policy theorists who also have been getting it constantly wrong. It was, is, and always will be fiscal policy

Bad bet. #nzpol Listener cartoon from early 2024

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So... October General Election 2026? #NZPol

Talbot Mills Poll Labour: 35% ⬆️1% National: 31% ⬇️1% Greens: 10% ⬇️1% NZ First: 10% ⬆️1% ACT: 7% ⬇️1% Te Pāti Māori: 4% ↔️ Left bloc 49% vs Right bloc 48% New question for Sept: Is this CoC government worse than the previous Labour one? 45% Worse 20% Better 21% About the same 4% Unsure #NZPol

A major constraint on the daft GDP measure since the mid-2010s has been the increasing gap between our exports and imports. Basically, we had 30 years of imports getting cheaper in real terms... but the party stopped around 2015 😢. So, how come we didn't see a slumpy GDP in 2015? [5/n]

Actually, that's not totally true, Estonia are doing their best to keep us company. Tänan teid guys! Govt appear to be banking on people thinking that there is some kind of global crunch thing going on. Maybe they think we're idiots? Maybe we are!! [4/n]

Now, GDP. Here's the components that are used to calculate GDP (expenditure method). Very clear that we are experiencing a major scarring event - like 1990 (the roger and ruth show) and 2009 (global financial crash). However, we are *properly* going it alone this time... [3/n]