Luxon says the answer to his Chief Policy Advisor telling Fonterra & Z to take their anti-climate wish list (Which they got) into private emails is: "We're going to take it very seriously" But Erica Stanford did the same for one year. Last year Luxon said: "I'm very relaxed about it" #nzpol #kiwi

Incredulous that Luxon is saying "I didn't know corruption is happening in my office, from one of my closest advisors - Atlas Network NZ Initiative's Matt Burgess" What's the bet they wanted to pass this anti-climate law under urgency too?

Looks like NZ Press Gallery is finally standing up to this despotic Government after National threatens to ban journalists from Parliament: "If any MP has concerns about the editorial content of a story, that should be dealt with through the usual channels...." This photo was the offence

why not name it, #AtlasNetwork Matt Burgess of the fossil fuelled #AtlasNetwork ‘partner org’ New Zealand Initiative. This is how it works everywhere there’s private oil MNCs, elections & Atlas orgs. Step (1) propganda ‘eg solar/Waitangi will wreck the economy’ Step (2) seize state power

We now know that within the Prime Ministers Office there was a political lobbying pathway operating via the PM's Chief Policy Advisor's private email. Fonterra says it was told to send the lobbying docs via this pathway. It may still be operating via other staffers private email addresses.

Is it even a surprise the Luxon staffer who secretly accepted law change orders from Fonterra & Z is Matt Burgess, NZ Initiative? Of course he was also a guest speaker for Taxpayers Union. Both Taxpayers Union & NZ Initiative are registered partners of Atlas Network

How many records is this now? Highest unemployment in 12-15 years. Highest business failures in 13 years. Highest youth unemployment NEET in 20 years. Highest gun related homicide in 20 years. Raging cocaine & meth crisis. Record homelessness. Record domestic violence #newzealand #nzpol

New Zealand's Gender Bill not only categorises transgender women as biological females, it makes some species of lobsters biological males Submissions on NZ First's bill, which will be supported by ACT & National, are open now

What's most interesting about "SuitandTie9999" and Jordan William denials the account is linked to the Taxpayers Union & Jamie Ross is that Williams just confirmed the OIA in question IS a Taxpayers Union OIA And SuitandTie9999 confirmed the OIA was one he personally filed. How peculiar #nzpol

David Seymour's 63% pay increase for Paula Bennett is on form. Last year, the Coalition government quietly increased Crown Board pay scales by 80%, paying $160,000 for multiple Board members. This is what National, ACT and even NZ First now stand for #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

NZ Government disestablishes the Ministry of Environment

Pete Hegseth meets NZ Defence Minister Chris Penk meet in Singapore to discuss "rising China military concerns" After this, Penk tells Bloomberg it would be "interesting" to review NZ's nuclear free status #nzpol #auspol

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

Luxon says National's post-natal stay announcement was 'incorrectly characterised' and it's not the case all mothers get 3 days of post-natal care But Government Ministers, including Simeon Brown, Casey Costello and Louise Upston, were unequivocal just days ago

X Suitandtie9999 account is likely James Ross from Taxpayers Union (OIA Lead), a Jordan Williams employee. Interestingly the same account was the one that fed micro fringe blogger Ani O'Brien her Maiki Sherman hit job that spared Lloyd Burr. O'Brien is also an employee of Jordan Williams #nzpol

Director and largest shareholder of media company NZME would like the media to stop reporting on him. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

If I was a journalist I would have also mentioned how funding for wilding pine control was cut by two thirds by the same government in 2023/24. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

“Regular people don’t get to give secret documents and have backroom meetings with the Prime Minister and then have the law changed in their favour” - Chloe Swarbrick. #NzPol

Good news Lan Pham's bill drawn in Parliament to stop mining on public conservation land "Conservation land belongs to all of us. It is set aside to protect native plants, wildlife and the places New Zealanders love, not to be dug up for private profit," Pham said.

Of course they did. NZ Government scrapped English requirements for all Golden Visa applicants i.e. the wealthy Not only that, these wealthy don't have to stay in NZ much at all, but are allowed to buy our sensitive lands, houses and farms

In NZ, central government takes 90% of all public tax revenue. Councils across NZ are struggling. The most significant cost drivers are: water infrastructure, roads & other infrastructure. Councils have few revenue options and National is pushing them to sell assets & privatise

David Seymour's new Ministry of Regulation cost ~$20 million every single year - that's $200 million over a decade & 4 times bigger than the Productivity Commission Seymour was also given $153 million for private schools which he gave to Jamie Beaton, John Key & FSU's Jonathan Ayling etc

I'll admit I don't have a huge degree of time for people who focus only on costs. Look Ma, I cut $1000 on the forks! Costs generate returns - social, health, community & economy. A govt isn't a business & it should never be run like one. We should be thinking for the generations to come as well

Aussies are now eyeing up NZ property as the low NZD and lack of CGT here makes it a speculation bonanza. National have transferred $13 billion of income to landlords in the last 2 years

Nicola Willis admits AI plans put Kiwis and our data at the mercy of offshore companies and overseas regulation

I've seen the media repeat Nicola Willis' comparison of the number of ministries & public service here vs other countries and not one of them has pushed back on that narrative more than... two random people in the letters of the Herald. Why are the paid journalists doing less work than the public?

It's funny cos National, ACT & NZ First have transferred $13,000 million to landlords over the last 2 years, incl. from social housing - benefitting mega landlords like National MP Carl Bates & ACT's Parmjeet Parmar. But Nicola doesn't say these people "won the lotto" - Why?

Congratulations to Maiki Sherman, Political Journalist of 2026: "I won this award for my coverage of TPM.. I am courageous, and I am fearless when it comes to holding politicians to account, but that’s across the board, and I make no apologies for that." National took her out for covering coups

Bernard Hickey "This is a clear income transfer from state tenants to private landlords of ~$500 million and this is on top of the $12.5b tax breaks that have been handed to landlords in the last 2 years, and that was taken from the Climate Emergency Response Fund" www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5u0...

So the biggest Auckland Council collects rates of ~ $2 billion but local government has to do most of the work - road maintenance, 3 Waters, services, libraries, garbage Central government gets $130 billion and just has to fire half of its staff and replace it with AI

David Seymour, NZ Broadcasting Minister, calls TVNZ a "bad actor" for covering Mark Cameron's comments about hanging those he disagreed with a "short rope". He later says TVNZ caused ACT to do more poorly in the polls than it could have

Auckland Council expects to face $25 - 50 million in extra costs from fuel and inflation rises. Local councils have no major revenue apart from rates, unlike central government which takes in $130 billion a year, but LG takes on a lions' share of work

Listening to Chris Bishop, it's obvious their new policies are about a transfer of wealth from public hands to private landlords. Bishop was key driver in giving $3b of tax cuts to landlords but this is bigger - it's about privatisation as Bishop stops & sells state land/houses

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...

Anyone remember when David Seymour pressured cops to go easy on Philip Polkinghorne during a live investigation? Seymour wrote 1012 words to defend a murder suspect who was the ONLY suspect in his wife's death. Don't tell me Seymour cares about the safety of women

Every 10 minutes a female is killed by a family member. 74% of Kiwi women killed by partners. Cherrypicking to make it look like transgender are a huge issue is your culture war. David Seymour pressured cops to go easy on Polkinghorne when his wife died. Don't talk to me about caring about women.

He's right. Domestic violence now highest level since 2018 but National excluded DV from their crime statistics. And National cut paedophile hunters last time in their front line cuts. This time 25% of customs & conservation officers are all on the line. Ditto fisheries, MPI etc

Pay attention to who the media call "expats" vs who they call "immigrants" (hint: it's normally about class). Also Ryan looks fucking miserable and this is his own team choosing that picture.

Spot on Chloe

When I do a web search, I do not want Google to go to the websites for me, pull the information, and interpret it for me. I want it to give me a list of websites that I can read and evaluate myself because AI is frequently wrong: techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...

This is hilarious! So NZ Initiative's "AI" piece Nick Mowbray etc was sharing is full of errors And, you have to look at context OK? Finland has 12 Ministries but they oversee 42 departments - just as NZ has now. Incidentally Canada has around 40 Ministerial departments too #AISlop #NZPOL

So......AI costs more than employees - did Nicola & NZ Initiative check with Grok before they and the National Party came up with this brain child?

The Heritage Foundation that wrote Trump's pre-planned coup against US democracy #Project2025 is one of 550+ orgs in 100 countries that forms the #atlasnetwork. Heritage Foundation & Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU #nzpol #uspol #eupol #canpol #auspol #ukpol globalextremism.org/project-2025...

Public sector growth under Labour ranged from 0.7 to 5% - reasonably commensurate with population growth. But even with a view to efficiency, slash & burn has never worked - you lose your best & brightest to Australia while retaining dead weight & political players. Not smart.

This frontline services line is getting old, man, National/ACT/NZF used it in 2024 but instead diverted money to folks like Luxon's "dear" neighbour Cecilia Robinson & foreign smoke corps They cut $2b from public health while shovelling it to private investors & foreigners

Hey Pak n'Save, good news, you don't need any one in the back rooms stacking or counting inventory or checking quality or scheduling transport. You can all be replaced with AI and we only need a greeter at the front door and a few stackers - you know, the "front office"

How the heck does National say they are now doing AI & digitisation when they literally cut half of the IT workforces in sectors & slashed years long worth of digital investment projects? Bringing in US tech isn't the answer & security concerns abound

National speed running economic crash & private tech displacement in NZ: "We're going to bring AI and digitisation to the public sector like private businesses are doing"

It's odd cos not only are gangs at record high numbers, they're doubling profits too. With raging meth & cocaine crisis = more crime. Overseas cartels now established themselves here for easy drug money. Last time, govt cut paedophile hunters & frontline customs, now more will go

Erica Stanford says she has done more for Māori than any Education Minister in NZ, and blames the "left" and "media" for her actions, and ignorance. She also didn't know school boards are crown entities, and boasts the MoE requires micro-managing Quite extraordinary stuff #nzpol #kiwi