Heavy rain hits Dunedin, surface flooding across city

$430m in supermarket excess profit. State Insurance sold in 1990, premiums up 500%. Kiwibank at 7%, big four can ignore it, government wants to sell that too. Power: $2.41 in dividends per $1 in new generation. We sold the public option. Prices went up. Every time. #nzpol

@victorbillot.bsky.social with the Moana Chief at Lyttelton yesterday. The last NZ-flagged, NZ-crewed container ship on our coast. Swire pulls it from service in months. After that, a country this remote moves nothing on its own coastline without a foreign ship and a foreign crew. #nzpol

#nzpol When 29 miners died at Pike River, New Zealand made a promise. We said, “never again”. We said, “every worker deserves to come home safe”. But now Brooke van Velden is trying to undo that promise. Sign our open letter calling on MPs to stop ACT's Health and Safety Bill in its tracks:

Simeon Brown declined to keep the Medical Council's chair and deputy. Both were eligible to stay. The council wanted them kept. His reason was that he disliked the questions their consultation documents asked. A politician deciding who regulates our doctors. #nzpol

It's been a big few weeks for the Alliance Party. New candidates announced, meetings held, party registration underway after we zoomed above the 500 members required, and an affiliation from one of New Zealand's most well known unions, the Maritime Union. Find out more at allianceparty.nz