When you've lost Switzerland. Meanwhile Winston Peters, #NZ Foreign Minister, has spent days claiming everything is normal The rot is deep

I am expected as an elected member to respond nicely and help efficiently people who are rude to me, include attacks on council staff in their messages, make up stuff about me on FB, but if a homeless person simply exists on the street that's anti-social behaviour, what is this nonsense.

Ick ... Rocket Lab Launches What's Likely a US Military Imaging Satellite | Extremetech share.google/C9oorSVclyT9...

NZ Herald really downplaying the double tap operation on an elementary school, mass burning of the cities and temples, over thousand casualties so far, destruction of desalination plants that Iranians rely on for water etc. Wouldn't expect anything less from this lot

A long, personal and painful read for the minister they call Goldie At least 15 times in its urgent report on the Government’s proposed law to tighten Māori marine customary rights, the Waitangi Tribunal points to one powerful person for political and personal deficiencies #nzpol

Couldn't appear on Q&A. Couldn't care less about fuel prices accelerating or that the US just bombed 160 school kids and took out civilian drinking water for multiple Iranian villages / citizens. "Mr I'm Wealthy & Sorted", #NewZealand PM strikes again #nzpol #auspol

NZ First doubling down on fossil fuels while attacking Helen Clark for sharing valuable international expertise. Iran war illegality clear & WP should focus on the significant geopolitical & security implications we are facing. My last article on Substack: mountaintui.substack.com/p/nz-faces-m...

Such bullshit but what do you expect from NZME. Luxon crashed the economy from the start but predictable for them to pin it on the war. Wonder if they will blame inflation on the war too given they ignored Covid's causation for Labour. Wouldn't be that hypocritical would National/ACT?

And Steven Joyce former National Party Campaign Chair and Minister is chair of the board of NZME which owns the Herald and ZB

"It's dangerous" Reactions on TVNZ Board / Paul Goldsmith in 1News journalism - similar cases have seen other TVNZ Board Members & Ministers resign No surprise we've seen right wing pundits like Ben Thomas & Audrey Young downplay it but it shouldn't be forgotten #nzpol

Jenna Lynch, ACT Chief of Staff's partner, now reporting Luxon is "considering options" - hinting resignation on the table

NZ First's strength is all thanks to Luxon's frail and outsized weakness That is something not easily surpassed by .. anyone

Here's the poll they've been trying to work up all morning, yawn #nzpol

If this happened to the West, it would be armageddon US most likely struck Iranian school killing dozens of kids. Poor kids and their families #uspol #nzpol

Reddit always fascinates me, even if I delete a post, I get people posting on it up to 1/2 hour to even an hour later. Of course they are invariably right wing accounts. How do they do it? #reddit

Hey did you think the important story was government ministers interfering in editorial decisions of our state broadcaster? No, no, no. The story, according to NZME's Shayne Currie, is the state broadcaster wasn't sufficiently flattering of the government. Luckily, we have NZME for that.

I've always said Curia Market Research play political polls pretty close to the mark, but it's their other polls that reveal a history of issues, resulting in disciplinary findings Today's TPU-Curia poll showing Luxon has hit record low isn't surprising & prob. obvious to even Chuck & Mary #nzpol

In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

If you are an Immigration Minister, with access to the latest data and experts as part of your job description, and you're still peddling false and misleading over-stayer figures in an election year? You didn't "misspeak." You are a LIAR who got caught LYING. End of story. #nzpol

The new head of media company NZME’s editorial advisory board is Hamish Rutherford - former chief press secretary for Luxon and a current government lobbyist #nzpol

Yes I hate admin. Yes I hate technology stuff. But boy is Substack fucked Mountain Tui is leaving Substack #nzpol #substack

@chewienz.bsky.social Good work!

I was pleased to hear that the K-Road Business Association don't support the move on orders for the hineless. They noticed a big increase about the time ppl were moved out of emergency motels. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

"Asked whether the government was cherry picking statistics, Goldsmith said the CVS was the best to give an overall picture." In other words, 'we only pick the best cherries!' Source: Ministers say 'tough on crime' working as new figures unveiled www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

National still trying to claim some record breakthrough in violent crime despite MOJ & police data contradicting their SURVEY #nzpol #Kiwi

Chris Bishop said the Ministry of Housing was consulted on government's homelessness orders, but "they weren't supportive" Justice also opposed the move that will see kids as young as 14 targetted Bishop has delivered 45 social homes in Auckland while cancelling thousands

1News Board Chair Andrew Barclay, a former Goldman Sachs boss & Auckland Hospital Foundation Director appointed by National texted Paul Goldsmith to apologise after record gang story & "corrected" news - Newsroom @samsachdeva.bsky.social scoop

uh, here goes nothing

You're too impatient #nzpol

If anyone needed proof MAGA and the new alt right believes in their world view

Ironic how most of the most hardline "law and order" types are the same ones who want New Zealand and the USA to ignore international laws It appears that their real preference is not law & order, but to be judge, jury and executioner based on personal reckons & whims

NZME & Sean Plunket direct their angst at former #NZ PM Helen Clark for saying what everyone, bar USA & Israel, confirms: The war on #Iran - months after they said Iran's nuclear facilities had been obliterated - is illegal It is. Just 25% of Americans support it & next steps are even murkier

Anthropic is a weird cult who think their software has feelings and thoughts and now thanks to their recent marketing campaign (and the credulous participation of a huge number of progressives), a large number of people around you have joined the cult and are drinking from the fountain

I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions. Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018. Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.

Milei's government not only received a US $20-40 billion (NZD $33-$67 billion) bailout from Trump, his government is bringing in 12 hour work days, and stripping overtime which many Argentinians rely on Winston following in Seymour's footsteps with the Atlas Network leader

NZ Labour leader Chris Hipkins on point: Points out Pentagon briefings there was no intelligence Iran would have attacked first, and current war breaches international law. Respecting international law v. important for the security of a country like #NZ, he adds #auspol #nzpol

This is some real mind blowing shit right here from the #NZ government but what do we expect from Luxon & NZ Last's Winston Peters #nzpol

New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Luxon just appointed his reported Waiheke Island neighbour Cecilia Robinson, a New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) Her related companies, Aratataki Health / Tend, has also been awarded multiple contracts under his government #nzpol #Kiwi #aratataki

"Re-elect us, and we will reverse the damage done by these environmental vandals over the last 3 years. Some of it. Maybe. Two ticks blue! No questions please!" <scurries away>

National has announced that, if re-elected, it will ban ring-net fishing in some areas of the Hauraki Gulf, but the policy they’ve promised to reverse is their own Of course #nzpol

National's changes to Kiwisaver: taxed employer contribution, got rid of $1,000 kick-start, cut government contribution from $1,042 to $260. Labour: introduced it. Stuff: "We’ve seen how governments with different views are capable of diluting KiwiSaver over time to appease their constituents."

Checking on 1 day old #kakapo chick Waa-A3-2026 in Waa's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. We check the chicks twice in the first 4 days, and then less frequently as they get older. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

Female #kakapo Kohengi on her nest with a newly-hatched chick and an egg (unseen). We removed the egg from underneath her and gave it to another female (Phoenix) who had infertile eggs. We're trying to ensure each female on Anchor Island has 1-2 fertile eggs to hatch. #kakapo2026 #conservation

#NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters focusing on the big stuff - internal culture wars against NZ's #Maori people - as global war escalates, oil and fuel is at risk, and inflation fears heighten

Interesting analysis here of the structural limitations the left currently faces. #nzpol

Ardern is a national asset & remains extremely popular in #NZ. Unfortunately death threats & vitriol fanned by right wing accounts & media as far as Fox News meant her family isn't safe Australia's gain is NZ's loss. NZ has also lost ~3% of its citizens since the right took over #nzpol #auspol

Hold the line folks, still 8 months to go.

Cam Slater is losing it over there around Jacinda Ardern again

The National Party released most of its policies only weeks before the 2023 election, but demand Labour to release theirs now #nzpol Not only that, their costings didn't measure up - no surprise