Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

latest Curia poll Party vote ▪️Labour 31.2 percent, down 2.6 percentage points ▪️National 29.6 percent, down 3.5 ▪️Greens 12 percent, up 1.3 ▪️NZ First 10.6 percent, up 2.5 ▪️ACT 6.6 percent, down 0.1 ▪️Te Pāti Māori 4.4 percent, up 0.1 Meanwhile on Stuff's latest web poll.... #nzpol

Make your position known. [ www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... ]

"Marine Environment 2025, produced by The Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ, highlights how climate change and human activity are putting increasing pressure on our coasts and the ocean." #nzpol 🐬

If Willis is claiming the Greens are responsible for Winston's broken window, then will her Coalition be taking responsibility for "their" right-wing? In 2023 Te Pāti Māori Hauraki-Waikato candidate, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi Clark's home was invaded, vandalised, and left with a threatening letter. #nzpol

"The badges on our caps, have you looked at them? What? No... A bit. They've got skulls on them. Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them? I... I don’t, er... Hans... Are we the baddies?" #nzpol

If Willis is claiming the Greens are responsible for Winston's broken window, then will her Coalition be taking responsibility for "their" right-wing? In 2023 Te Pāti Māori Hauraki-Waikato candidate, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi Clark's home was invaded, vandalised, and left with a threatening letter. #nzpol

🎶God only knows God makes his plan The information’s unavailable To the mortal man We’re working our jobs Collect our pay Believe we’re gliding down the highway When in fact we’re slip slidin’ away🎶 Who says the information's unavailable? #Kikorangi #Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZ #Landslides

Did When did we last land men on the moon? When did we last have a supersonic commercial airliner? When did we last produce mainstream automobiles, sans electronic ignition etc, that a well versed amateur could fully service at home? When did we last have fully peered scalable social media (Usenet)?

Belated "Disclosure" [ web.archive.org/web/20251005... ] [ theconversation.com/nicola-willi... ] Dennis Wesselbaum article seems to have fiscal holes even larger than the National Party's 2023 election tax plan. Stagnation is caused by a lack of confidence in the economy by austerity. #nzpol

Belated "Disclosure" [ web.archive.org/web/20251005... ] [ theconversation.com/nicola-willi... ] Dennis Wesselbaum article seems to have fiscal holes even larger than the National Party's 2023 election tax plan. Stagnation is caused by a lack of confidence in the economy by austerity. #nzpol

The battle is going to be much harder than I thought. Support your parties and their leaders; it's not going to be easy - RNZ publishes an opinion piece from NZ Initiative fellow on its front page #nzpol

#nzpol 20 Economists have penned an open letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance - asking for change. The contents and signatories to the letter are at: craigrenney.substack.com/p/open-lette...

"Be the person who finds the signal in the noise and shares it." #nzpol

Also available via YouTube. "As an academic, and before her appointment as Commissioner, Derby had publicly questioned the impact of notions of systemic racism, particularly with regards to Māori. Q+A asks her about these views and her opinions of affirmative action. " #nzpol #Kikorangi

"As the former Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund, Keen shaped the institution's policies on tax. He praised NZ's broad-based GST system and questioned why that same logic didn't apply when discussing the possibility of a Capital Gains Tax." #nzpol

What! "Does pet wine contain alcohol? No, Muttley's estate pet wine does not contain any alcohol." #Kikorangi #nzpets

What! "Does pet wine contain alcohol? No, Muttley's estate pet wine does not contain any alcohol." #Kikorangi #nzpets

How much more would Kiwis be worried if they started drawing connections between Trump's Team Project 2025 objectives & the actual actions of the National, ACT & NZ First coalition since the 2023 NZ election? #nzpol

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New from 404 Media: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells me "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

All journalists based in the USA need to take note. Please chat forward to any "foreign" journalists currently in the USA. #nzpol

All journalists based in the USA need to take note. Please chat forward to any "foreign" journalists currently in the USA. #nzpol

Hmm #nzpol

Not only in the UK but everywhere, including Aotearoa. The only "code of practice" & "guidelines" should be do not provide that service. #nzpol

Not only in the UK but everywhere, including Aotearoa. The only "code of practice" & "guidelines" should be do not provide that service. #nzpol

S.N.A.F.U. "FENZ spent millions of dollars and five years shipping the 28 medium-sized fire trucks - called a Type 3, the fleet workhorse - to Britain to get them fitted out. They have now returned to New Zealand, with stations with old trucks that keep breaking down expecting them." #nzpol

#nzpol CTU Economist @clrenney.bsky.social on The Panel last night: "The best energy systems around the world are publicly owned. In NZ, are you feeling the benefits of partial privatisation in your electricity bill or in the economy or in wider society? The answer to all those three things is no."

*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST* The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...

From Dec 11, 2023 [ drive.google.com/file/d/1xXDU... ] "The updated report finds that in 2023, the Generator-Retailers distributed $1,108 million in dividends to shareholders – from net profit after tax of only $521 million – an excess dividend of $638 million in just one year." #nzpol

Excellent indeed from @marcdaalder.bsky.social As always.

Listen "Critics have called for major reform, ranging from structural separation of the generator-retailers - to re-nationalising those three gentailers." [ www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... ] If %51 of dividends to gentailier shareholders are going to the Govenment, shouldn't it be called a tax? #nzpol

"Mohan Dutta, distinguished professor of communication at Massey University, quoted Farrar's Post and said the attempt to honour "a far-right white supremacist ... should give you a full list of who the backers of the far right are in NZ mainstream politics"." [ x.com/mjdutt/statu... ] #nzpol

"Clark said the government's rationale about the present and future governance of Gaza didn't make sense."

"Clark said the government's rationale about the present and future governance of Gaza didn't make sense."

A shameful repeat of 1976. This will damage New Zealand's reputation far more than Winston considers. #nzpol

50 years.

"It is time to unify as a whole profession & speak out - no to violence, no to hate, no to defaming any class/race/gender - and it is time to call out your colleagues, journalists & commentators who remain silent or shield others with sophistry." [ bsky.app/profile/nzhe... ] #nzpol

It is a decades old long term problem & both Labour & National led governments have repeatedly chosen to delay or just ignored repeated working group reports. #nzpol

Or, we could just introduce windfall, wealth & capital gains ( non-place-of-residence ) tax reform, see thread. #nzpol

"Former RBNZ economist Michael Reddell told RNZ's Morning Report officials "clearly had to go outside the Reserve Bank after the chaos… in the last few months" rather than hire from within." ... However maybe new thinking is needed.

Would it be too impolitic to consider that maybe some doing the guest selection might have considered the former deputy prime minister a D.E.I hire? #nzpol

Groan - Too early in the year. #nzpol

Austerity & low national debt Page 82 "Commercial bank economists have criticized the government’s austerity measures. Swedbank's former chief economist Anna Breman has called the low national debt “fiscal madness” and called for expansive “green” fiscal measures in the event of a recession." #nzpol

"We tend to think of misinformation as a universal problem, with all sides of the political spectrum equally guilty of bending the truth or spreading falsehoods. A new study shows otherwise." Misinformation isn’t just a problem — it’s a political strategy.

okay i better never get banned then

Twist Facts To Open. Newsday.com/matt

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