Repost/Quote/Message/SMS the link to this YouTube video to EVERYONE you know. Keep on asking them to watch it in full. [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD3v... ] #nzpol

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

We're calling out the National-ACT-NZ First Government for abandoning Northland's workers, as Juken NZ's Kaitāia Mill looks likely to become the seventh major wood processing site lost on their watch. Over 800 jobs lost since late 2023. The Govt has until the 16 July decision date to intervene.

From noted Marxist newsletter, Forbes

What id say to you is the kākāpō generates no profits. Everywhere I go everyone I talk there’s profits, millions and billions, except the kākāpō. We cannot prioritize kākāpō sex over profits.

I endorse every word of this thread. And the observation about how the coalition government is making a big show of forcing councils to amalgamate having done the opposite with water entities – for purely political reasons – would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious.

Some myth-busting about NZ Superannuation #nzpol Can be found at assets.retirement.govt.nz/public/Uploa...

pathetic, what a useless, absolute failure of a man.

"For days, officials across France have scrambled to cope with the searing heat, shutting down three nuclear reactors after the surrounding cooling waters became too hot..." So much for nuclear as a climate solution.....

This s/b compulsory reading for pollies + media. eg "Socrates likened this condition to a leaky jug: No matter how much water one pours into it, it will demand more. For some, the desire for money extends only so far as is necessary to cover their needs; for others, the desire is infinite." #nzpol

I am blown away with these Incredible photos by Beth Chapman., Tiritiri Matangi Island The Kokako eating the flowers of the Tecomanthe speciosa / Three Kings vine / akapukaea it was very special. This is one of the many why we have and need conservation

“…Rather than engage with the content of the Greens tax package this week, their political opponents have tried to dismiss it out of hand. Thankfully, that gambit isn’t working any more.” “On Being Thankful That Someone Is Talking About Income Inequality” Gordon is and so am I 💚💚 #nzpol

We’ve all seen a lot of visualizations and graphs, we know the data is bad. But this is really something. Made my heart sink.

We have 87% renewable power in NZ why are we paying so much and increasingly more for our electricity ? Also,unrelated news, gentailer record profits.. #nzpol

Classic case of "Something must be done! This is something, therefore it must be done" with the classic followup "why do you hate children?" for anoyone who questions the merits of "something"

The rich threatened to leave New York and take their business elsewhere if Zohran Mamdani became mayor, but the Manhattan office market just recorded its best first quarter in a decade. "Yes doing things takes tax revenue, but IT RETURNS." For everyone. @moreperfectunion.bsky.social #nzpol

The work we did with kākāpō is now not possible because the govt has said that our funding should go to science that makes money. Members of our current govt have said that if an endangered species is in the way of a mine or a new road then it’s goodbye #nzpol peterkdearden.substack.com/p/on-kakapo

saw this question posed, checked the map, immediately burst out laughing

I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.

A global chart we should be proud to be at the bottom of.

Yes. The desperate complicit wankers on the media boards strike again. We made it through Covid ALIVE & better off than most other nations on earth ffs. It should be celebrated,not demonised as some outrageous & irresponsible fanfare of waste. It grinds my gears to still see this BS 6 years later.🙄

Disgraceful. Their political bias is showing

#NZpol On X, Jack Tame has posted – “Internal documents show multiple tiers of staff at MSD are being assessed on whether they keep emergency housing grants below the government's targets, and threatened with performance management if they don't.”

Back when I was in Parliament I exposed the fact that ACC staff were receiving bonuses for stopping compensation for people with long term disabilities. MSD seems to now be taking this model further: punishing staff for housing people in need

"Despite what you may have heard, the Conservation Amendment Bill has NOT changed. Here's what actually happened." 📢 Important fact check from @gen-toop.bsky.social @greenpeace.org.nz #nzpol Submissions due by THURS 2 July at 11:59pm. See resources in pinned post.

Helen Clark: Keeping people out of emergency housing seems to be #NZ government policy - and #homelessness has soared as a result: #nzpol #PartyVoteGreen ✅ + 💚❤️🖤 www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/28/p...

NZ’s wealthiest donors set to 1) rethink giving, 2) or leave the country, or 3) get their minions to write articles saying 1&2 in a myriad of ways, or 4)donate to a political party that will reverse anything that has them paying a fair share. 3rd & 4th options already in action. #nzpol

This, except I VERY MUCH CARE and I really want my taxes to go to things that help feed, clothe, house, and keep everyone healthy. 😤💯

"A vote for NZ First is not merely a choice for a domestic political party; it is a direct, deliberate vote to import the most divisive, anti-Indigenous tactics of American Trumpism into the heart of New Zealand politics."

An amazing inventor and an amazing life.

We have just launched a parliamentary petition calling for mandatory AI transparency in the public sector. If AI is going to be used in the delivery of public services, it must be AI that is worthy of our trust. Sign: petitions.parliament.nz/7bfe1c60-b99... Read more: www.trustworthyai.nz

But the numbers, just by themselves don't tell you what you are, or aren't, getting with that tax cut or increase. 🤷‍♀️ I'd be happy to pay, say $20 a week more in tax but have all of our health, welfare and education systems fully funded and operational, than get a tax cut of $20 a week and have none.

Q+A this morning doing excellent reporting on homelessness and move on orders. OIA documents reveal MSD is incentivising denying emergency housing #nzpol #tvnz

No consequences, name suppression. A consequence for committing an offence would be unfair to yet another man. #RapeCulture #Impunity

This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗 So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old! @55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius

Tamatha was right

The NZ public health system paying for massive expansion of private hospitals. Coalition govt. Americanising our health system by stealth. We cannot afford another 3 years of this Coalition of Chaos. #nzpol #healthnz #nzpolitics www.nzherald.co.nz/property/auc...

Media owner Sinead Boucher told by a senior MP regarding survival of the industry: ‘If you were nicer to us, maybe we would care if you lived or died’ alongside consistent showboating by Seymour & Peters celebrating media job losses & threatening reporters yet Stuff et al become MORE subservient

this is predominantly the fault of nz’s fourth estate, such as it is, and secondarily of opposition parties failure to understand the environment they operate in and build alternative information delivery we are a deeply corrupt country when it comes to capital control of institutions and narrative

The case for voting Green “I’m not a member of the Green Party, but they're getting my vote. Here’s why.” #nzpol simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

This got a snort

I already sassed this but I have to say, as a sixth-generation lily-white Pākehā, my people need to knock this shit the fuck off. You do not lose anything by acknowledging other people were here first. You don't get to appropriate indigeneity just because you're too lazy to learn your Euro whakapapa

#nzpol F*ck this awful govt. 🤬 The overseas investment office 'approved' a rich American intending to create an intensive cattle pen farm in Kenepuru Sound.🤬 Animal cruetly, noise pollution, and disastorous cattle waste runoff will pollute the/our sounds water. 🤬 www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

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If someone is killed by some lunatic Destiny cult member, or a mosque or place of worship attacked, will you be "interested" then, Mr Prime Minister? What a pathetically weak response by Luxon! #nzpol 'I'm not interested in anything Brian Tamaki says' - Prime Minister www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

By not pushing towards the inevitable transition to electric buses and ferries we’re missing significant opportunities to reduce emissions and delaying the modernisation of our fleets, writes @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz.

#NZpol I mean... JAG actually knows her stuff and perhaps, maybe, juuuuuuuuuuuuuuust maybe it's *time we had actually had a government with some of these thoughts not just percolating away but... being put into action*? Just a wild stab through the increasingly toxic atmosphere of this election 🤷

Look, if DoC really won't be conserving that land, it goes back to tangatawhenua, not your rich buddy donors.

Misleading people Winny? Isn't that what you do?? I mean, you made up shit about Everlee.... and now you want imprisonment for misleading MPs? Pot kettle black much? #nzpol www.webworm.co/winstonpeters/

Feels like the coldest take but: trying to prioritise scientific research by its profitability is how you tank actually profitable scientific research