Elizabeth Rata sat on stage with Erica Stanford and said she was proud to be the lead writer of the senior English curriculum, and that she wanted to use curriculum to "end decolonisation's success".

A good backgrounder on "Dame" Elizabeth Rata honoured today by our racist government.

Heads up ya'll! with Bluesky rolling out moderation crack down in their new update, please consider enabling "adult content" under your moderation tab in settings. Not so you can have porn on your feed, but to ensure that you can still see posts with the word "stupid" and "hell" in it-

I spoke before the select committee, and it was obvious Gerry Brownlee and co had no idea how copyright law work and the effect this would have on museums, libraries, and archives. “Why can’t you just upload it all to the Internet?” Because that’s illegal, Gerry.

This term extension was handed over by incompetent negotiators of free trade deals with the EU and UK, without consulting the groups who had been working on copyright law reform since 2018. It gave away our bargaining chip that could have guaranteed numerous fixes and improvements to the 1994 Act.

We’ve known this was coming. By 1 May 2028 the NZ copyright term will be extended from 50 to 70 years after death, benefiting a few publishers and ensuring nothing will enter the public domain for 20 years. Worst case, it will be retrospective, clawing back things currently freely shareable.

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

A small unicameral legislature. No states. And soon, unitary councils.

(cartoon Steve Sack) #politics

Who needs a multi-room sound system when you've got a toddler who will follow you around the house carrying a Bluetooth speaker.

Like honestly, cancel our orders, withdraw from RIMPAC, and pull out of 5 eyes. Hegseth is acting like a mafia capo, extorting us with zero regcognition of what NZ has done.

When Australia did this it cost the federal government millions, ruined untold lives, and drove multiple people to suicide; but sure, let's learn nothing and do Robodebt here too

It's pretty funny watching my normal allies on the left strenuously arguing against workers' rights. Workers' rights except for people we don't like apparently.

This is quite a bizarre change. I can't think of any rationale for HNZ to be excluded from the capital charge regime (that wouldn't equally apply to other agencies). It doesn't even offer any particular PR opportunity. How did the Treasury boffins let this through?

This is a fine use of resources.

Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages. Alex Crawford reporting from Lebanon today

Remember, a government which intentionally runs a surplus by definition has a contractionary fiscal policy. They're celebrating a deliberate contraction of the economy. It's ghoulish behaviour.

Good websites cost money and government should have good websites. But this isn't one. It's pretty - but does nothing. It's just a static content brochure site. All actual functionality lives on other sites. The most dynamic thing is an event calendar. On top of that, the navigation is poor.

Key budget message is a bit on the nose. But fair enough - I appreciate the honesty.

Israel has killed nine paramedics in just 72 hours in southern Lebanon and it’s business as usual. Now imagine the outrage if that was nine Israeli paramedics. The entire world would be screaming and condemning it as terrorism.

oh gross, I just got an email about the Keith Locke memorial lecture and honestly I just don't think Keith Locke would have been that into M*rtyn Br*dbury going full gammon-mode in Anjum Rahman's face about his ❄️🍑, he might've been more like 'hmmm this 'debate' is just enabling fascism now'

New independent police watchdog will get the power to initiate investigations - https://lawnews.nz/criminal/new-independent-police-watchdog-will-get-the-power-to-initiate-investigations/ - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news

I think they are going with the precedent set by Israel on Gaza, that it is permittable to blockade a country of the essential requirements of life and no one will stop it.

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

Minister Costello: I don't know where the documents on my desk in my private office came from Minister Mitchell: I didn't know about the emails repeatedly sent to my office PM Luxon: No one in my office knew about the documents that were delivered to my office I'm starting to see a pattern

Holy shit. This is quite serious. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

How is "strikes pummel" and "killing medics" and "paramedics killed a day earlier" a "truce"? Why does the New York Times think the words "truce" or "ceasefire" apply to such a situation? How much military force does it take to move from a truce that is "fragile" to no truce?

'You cannot govern a society as though it were a failing business to be restructured.' - Rebecca Jayde. #NzPol

'Ben-Gvir’s influence on Israeli politics extends far beyond the limits of his ministry...he has forced into plain sight the racist undercurrents of Israeli politics that have been present since the state’s foundation, but which have largely been reined in for the sake of international audiences.'

Chippy cynically thinks left wing voters are in the bag. He feels safe pandering to the right; saying no to undoing many hateful and destructive govt policies In doing so he's burnt off the army of door knockers and phone bankers he needs. He needs to go. Now. #nzpol

I've been using Freshdesk for support ticket management on @fyi.org.nz but they're ending the free plan and won't offer any meaningful non-profit discount. Can anyone recommend a similar service with any decent discount for an organisation with basically no money?

The fact that Seymour is announcing the decision is chilling because a basic foundation of Pharmac’s integrity and success is its independence and commitment to evidence-based decisions. Politicians should not be deciding which medicines get funded, or who should get access to them.

My two data points are: 1. that as an MP he helped us save our pub from turning into a Tesco; 2. 13 years later as Mayor he stopped Scotland Yard shoveling money at Palantir. So he's ok in my book. I'm going to assume everything in between has been good.

Once again: if your job needs you to work from another city three days a week, your boss should pay for the accommodation.

Australian teens impacted by the social media ban are getting less news: new research theconversation.com/australian-t...

Sorry, National MPs, history will judge you by the vote you cast, not the sad face you made while doing it

Expel the Israeli Ambassador. Now.

4. Back to data protection: while John Edwards stepped aside to allow an HR investigation to do its course, the ICO are also being restructured into a Commission, due to the UK data protection reform. We have a unique opportunity to fix a failed institution. www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026...

1. The UK Information Commissioner stepped aside from his role this February. Under John Edwards' tenure, the ICO performed so badly that nobody noticed his absence until late April. This is why @openrightsgroup.org are launching a campaign to reform it. 🧵 www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-ico...

The Ombudsman is completely correct here. Will parliament listen to its own officer? Or will the regime force through another BORA violation to please a corrupt minister and his pet industry? newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/18/o...

In today’s NZ Herald

In fact the GFC, nearly 20 years ago proved decisively that countries with governments that did austerity fared much worse than those that, you know, helped people and understood that a country isn’t like a household

Days like this when you realise that Government Ministers, their reckonomics advisors, and the ghouls in the lobby groups, are *fking dangerously ill-informed* about how Govt spending actually works. Let's have a look why this matters... [🧵 1/n]

The Law Commission has been asked by Paul Goldsmith to undertake review of legal issues related to use of automated decision-making by government. It can't be a coincidence that the Govt's thinking of cutting more public sector jobs, & introducing AI to sector. @legallyfeminist.bsky.social #nzpol

If a pie is growing, then it's probably mouldy. Also, you can't make a pie bigger by reducing the amount and volume of ingredients in the recipe.

Turning the corner #NZpol #sketch #cartoon

This is absolutely reckless.

- teacher-student classroom ratio **12:1** - teachers all have masters degrees and are paid well - very limited standardised testing, emphasis on pedagogy - school starts age 7, cos education, not childcare, is the motivation - heavily subsidised high quality daycare/childcare & ECE