If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

Found on twitter. Natalie from Oamaru taking Luxon to the cleaners. That last sentence - oof. #nzpol

I misread this chart as including landmines and was trying to figure out the connection, landlines makes much more sense.

Still boils my blood that they forced Michael Wood to resign over a few forgotten shares while NAT MPs get away with undeclared houses, donations and other 'interests' 🤬 #NZPol

Why does anyone with half a brain and the ability to read know that will happen but people in government and the farming industry apparently don't? www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...

Coalition Government ministers insist their reform of regional councils is "not a power grab" – but all the evidence suggests the opposite, to democracy's detriment.

💧💙 In case you missed it: We hosted a powerful online conversation to celebrate the launch of Is A River Alive?, featuring its acclaimed author @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, river guardians Ramiro Ávila and Viviana González, moderated by Natalia Greene and Tosana Töben. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/A-vVyQ5PyvQ

What the hell is going on with the new New Zealand school curriculum, and what does it have to do with the Atlas Network? (No, really!) A thread: #nzpol #kikorangi

Tāmaki/Auckland folk - come along on Monday from 3.30pm at @aucklanduni.bsky.social (Level 10, Fisher Building, 18 Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland) to hear an awesome panel discussion on #AntarcticRights and the global launch of the Antarctica Declaration.

NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989 As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane

So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?

This is such an important point. We can't get off this path by tinkering around the edges; we need a radical revisioning of how our government and society function. #nzpol

Going out on a limb here to suggest that the PM doesn’t understand what it is that regional councils do

If you are a parent, and your kids' school is not on the list, email the board of trustees and ask them to join it.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Something I learnt today…

Since #TheHollowMen & #DirtyPolitics were published, I haven’t had much respect for Matthew Hooton, but his opinion piece in the latest - and possibly last - edition of Metro Magazine, was both balanced and incisive - this line sums it up: “No cash or operating surpluses are forecast ever again.”

This is JAWDROPPINGLY funny

Of course it’s not failing landlords and the propertied class to cut social housing - less social housing generally means higher rents and house prices.

150 years since the battle at Waerenga-ā-Hika www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Well done #Ecuador! Another victory for Nature with @garnglobal.bsky.social ✊🏼 insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...

Look. What I say to you is this. We said yesterday that we're cutting the cost of gas guzzlers for kiwi battlers on struggle street. Our Mitsubishi ASX example costs $1,600/yr in fuel more to run than an EV. When we shift all cars to RUC it'll be $1,900/yr more. Luxon maths in action. #nzpol

Certainly some healthy ‘surplus value’ in the mining sector: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

I have no trust in Public Trust - www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

It just keeps getting better, doesn't it? BTW. Sarcasm. #nzpol #onetermgovtnz www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

“very clearly, it has been shown that the National Party are happy to sign up to these things when they’re in opposition for the sake of looking as though they’re constructive, and when it comes to holding the reins of power, their word isn’t worth anything,” newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Rod Carr calls it: Govt’s ETS changes are a gift to polluters, not people. By unlinking the carbon market from NZ’s climate targets, they’ve crashed prices, gutted credibility, and handed control to vested interests. Strong & stable? Try weak & captured. #nzpol www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/35966/g...

It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither? #NZPol

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #AtlasNetwork @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social @exxon.bsky.social @notexxonsbitch.bsky.social @leftcoastnv.bsky.social

Despite all the evidence subsidies work perfectly well in practice, The Treasury knows full well they’ll never ever work in theory #nzpol

Of all the cultures/values in the world, the largely secular and sustainability-focused, #NewZealand & #Germany are the countries that #ChatGPT is mostly closely aligned with according to this @harvard.edu study: scholar.harvard.edu/sites/schola...

This absolute buffoon held an international summit for investors and nobody invested 🤦

Huge victory for Rights of Nature & Ecocide at the #IUCN World Conservation Congress... ALL five #RightsOfNature motions, and Motion 061 on recognizing the crime of #ecocide, have passed. 🌿⚖️

MPs should have to do this all the time, it would reduce emissions, improve #nzpol relationships and likely lead to more bipartisan/multiparty legislation. @jantinetti.bsky.social www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Some background on the use of 'remigrate' now being used by an administration that openly declared those who tried to resist Nazism in Weimar Germany the bad guys. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Yesterday Luxon Govt embraced climate science denialism by stating they will never have regulations or pricing to drive down methane emissions, NZ's largest climate gas. Next day scientists state climate change has led to tipping point for corals. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today’s scary story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

“The Government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis” newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...?

Methane makes up 48% of NZ's climate pollution. The Luxon Govt's Trumpian announcement that they’ll never penalise methane pollution, along with moves to INCREASE the dairy herd, is a huge slap in the face for our Pacific neighbours and many NZers already facing the impacts of the #ClimateCrisis.

youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA @thejuicemedia.com nailed this honest govt ad. The next one just need to include successive NZ governments sucking up to @rocketlabcorp.com and it’s military clients making the world safe for genocidal regimes to inflict maximum damage on innocent civilians. #nzpol

I love the 70s design, but love Sir Geoffrey’s recipe for saving democracy even more… www.transparency.org.nz/blog/how-to-...

This Govt has got nearly everything wrong, but is this one use of public funds they have got right. Looking forward to seeing what comes of biodiscovery when kaitiaki & taonga/taiao are centred instead of sidelined. Māori mā: step up & run with the opportunities. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

What The Absolute Fuck? No money for health. No money for education. No money for housing. Attack helicopters?✅️ Alcohol and tobacco companies? ✅️ Landlords?✅️ Tennis venues?✅️ Tennis venues!! Priorities are fucked, bro. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

With deep sorrow, GARN mourns the passing of Jane Goodall, one of the greatest defenders of life on our planet 🍃 🐒 Her tireless commitment to animals, ecosystems, and a more just and harmonious world with Nature has been a profound inspiration to our movement.

74 countries have now ratified a landmark treaty to protect the high seas. Why hasn’t NZ? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...