An email about official business sent to a Minister’s personal email address is still ABSOLUTELY covered by the OIA. Does this apply to a senior staff member also? I expect the answer is yes @openpolicy.bsky.social ?

Let's be clear. This isn't a rookie error. It's an intentional decision to bypass scrutiny & transparency. Luxon would've known & is now trying to move the blame off himself & onto his staff. This is unacceptable. Luxon needs to resign over this corruption. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It strikes me, on the balance of probabilities, that 1. Fonterra and Z sent their lobbying to Matt Burgess’ personal email address in order to try to avoid public scrutiny; 2. They were given that address to facilitate avoiding public scrutiny;

The implication here is that vGrid has a long-term ANPR database of vehicle movements, so we have private mass surveillance, which govt agencies can query at will www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

1 Luxon is the worst, least accountable, most entitled & most corrupt PM this country has ever had. He never answers a question with an actual answer. He has threatened a journalist for asking him hard questions. His government have threatened another journalist & got rid of another. #nzpol

If I’m reading this correctly, the federal government is now running its own phishing sites.

One MUST resist the urge to lolcow. I'd call it one of the most important urges to resist on the contemporary internet, actually

Tell me again dear RW voters, about how our Democracy has not become completely corrupted by a billionaire boys club coalition of cunts. 😠💰💸 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #AtlasNetwork

I’m sure I must be remembering, but I think in olden times it was considered a sackable offence to have meetings with lobbyists that weren’t in a Minister’s diary.

The sprinter that said he would "destroy" Bolt's 2009 World Record won the 100m in...9.97 seconds. This time would have seen him finish last in the Paris Olympics.

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...

The thing about “Bluesky is a bubble” takes is that they start with the false assumption that social media is our job or some sort of responsibility. This isn’t my job. It’s probably not yours, either. It’s not our responsibility to ruin our days on a Nazi hellsite or to talk to dummies here.

No record is not the same as not knowing, I mean just because you don’t keep the info and/or files on file or record meetings - which is of concern - doesn’t mean you didn’t meet or didn’t receive files Mr Luxon. #nzpol

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

Untitled, c2026.

"I can't afford to buy" guy is a lying tosser. Much like the Minister of Housing who lied about renting while he was living in a family owned property and building in Eastbourne. They are crooks.

Although they have had to worry if it will affect Washington's propaganda goals and therefore funding.

the kind of heartless & ignorant comment that in another time would lead to a resignation. but Willis has been more or less untouchable by the media, despite a litany of disastrous failures. What’s that about? Why cant publicly destructive cruelty be hounded at least to the extent wahine Māori are?

So this then

one of the major clues that social housing tenants haven't in fact won the lotto is that they need social housing

Having a group of hollow men who would sell their own souls for power in charge of the nation is devastating - thinking about the same ghouls having the votes to continue to do catastrophic damage to vulnerable communities, to the land, to anyone not protected by wealth is frankly terrifying. #nzpol

this week's post is about how AI doesn't even do the things people pretend it does margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...

A selection from speeches from the debates on the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Recognition Act 2021. Any journos reading this feel free to ask any of the speakers whether they stand by these comments made less than five years ago. At the second reading: Nicola Grigg:

What "socially liberal national party people"? All their MPs are religious weirdos and bigots, or people willing to work for them. There's no social liberal strand left there anymore. And the proof is that they're voting for this piece of shit hate bill.

Grim. National and ACT backing a bill - at least at first reading - which fundamentally undermines the self-ID law both parties voted for *unanimously* just a few years ago.

Is it just my pettiness speaking, or does every politician babbling about "unleashing AI" give off the energy of someone who is not terribly bright, really lazy and doesn't even have work friends?

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]

Have we considered that replacing kiwi human beings (public servants) with imported Artificial Intelligence in our public services, is actually just placing a group of roughly 4 or 5 American billionaires, the worst kind of Americans, in charge of how we get to experience LIFE in AotearoaNZ? #nzpol

Hahah, it's so much more ridiculous than you'd possibly imagine. Google has made their primary headline product so much more useless... for what?

Sometimes I think both Luxon and Hipkins are in a race to lose their parties the election

Is Nicola going to require the handful of American AI creators to pay the lifetime salaries of 9 thousand human employees that she’s just unilaterally decided to destroy the financial security of? Asking for humanity. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

i don't mean to be petty, but i get so bummed when links to mainstream outlets get shared, but webworm gets ignored - when we were first to report it and talk to those involved etc. a reminder all webworm stories exist on the webworm site, are sharable, and have zero ads running!

Addendum: AI use to justify this is just an absolutely ridiculous idea.

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

🔭 R3 PanSTARRS: An Orion Comet Image Credit & Copyright: Chester Hall-Fernandez ap260515

Ever since the whole FBI office in Wellington malarkey things have been weird and uncomfortable. The rare minerals stuff. The complete lack of opposition to the genocide. This partnership is deeply troubling. This should be a bigger election issue.

“No lessons learned” is the motto of the present government

Of course the Aussie banks who are all big donors to National want the government to sell off the only real independent competitor This government is corrupt

Sure , this is absolutely the answer to [checks notes] profiteering by Australian banks Has NZ not learned privatizing things costs us all more? www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Coming to a theater near you on Friday, October 16. I saw this once, after viewing two other Russell films, "Women in Love" (1969) and "The Boy Friend" (1971). Then it basically disappeared. Mostly I recall the towering, beige brick sets, which I found out later were designed by Derek Jarman.

Right-wing parties hate public broadcasting because its not owned by their billionaire friends and not subject to billionaire direction.

Robin knew #corruption #bribery #kleptocracy #transactional

This is Trumpian. So much for Seymour and Act being free speech warriors. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Easy! I know the answer! It's because she was being racist as fuck and they received a complaint that she was being racist as fuck.

This woman is an evangelical church member and an obsessive racist. All she posts is defamation of Indians, Muslims, etc – including clandestine photographs of people in public places (with a side of Charlie Kirk and Winston Peters and herself in a bikini). I can see why police may have had a word.

Saluting the flag is basically fascism, so no wonder Winston is keen on it.

in New Zealand #nzpol Oppose it? 🟩 Accept it? 🟥 Encourage it? 🟦

Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee, quite why people rate Bishop is beyond me. He's just a shit Boris Johnson and as bad as the rest (if not worse because he knows what he's doing)

Everything else aside, I’m too much of a control freak to write with AI, and too arrogant to let my name appear on an article that AI wrote. My weaknesses become my strengths.

Heads up, 2022 journalists: he was lying