Bonsai awakens for another Summer. So comforting to know it will probably out last so many of the bastards around the world who are making misery a part of so many people's lives. Looking at you , coalition of crap.

Excellent cartoon by fellow Listener cartoonist Anthony Ellison #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

At the height of the rail compatible vs not rail compatible argument when Nicola Willis was still talking about Toyota Corollas, Don Braid from Mainfreight was on RNZ explaining that if the ferries were not rail compatible it would mean 10,000 more trucks on the roads #NZPol

At a time when everyone is seeing straight through this government, her take is completely outdated and irrelevant. Time to retire Audrey.

Rob Campbell's piece in the Newsroom today is one of the best essays yet on our current politics It is both clear and easily understood, but also one of the most chilling assessments of where we are and the direction being taken.. we have one brief window of opportunity to stop this. ELECTION.

Politics is giving me heartburn. Taking a break to make tables for my bonsai trees. Creative acts helps with keeping perspective. Come Spring, trees will be proud to sit on these.

Elizabeth Rata is coaching Erica Stanford on how "to end de-colonisation's success" Rata is a regular on Plunket's 'The Platform' and has previously written a Decolonisation Essay for 'The Democracy Project' (now "Integrity Institute) #nzpol

To all the kiwis of the world, from someone actively planning to flee the u.s. by any means possible, GET THE F.B.I. THE FUCK OUT OF AOTEAROA.

Well said, Toby Moore. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/01/l...

I think this is probably the kind of thing that needs more public buy-in, eh? Especially in the current climate. An office upgrade and a permanent position?? Wtf are the FBI even doing here in the first place? This is institutionalised foreign interference.

This is incredibly petty and wasteful. All so they can do a bit of racist posturing for their most revanchist base. The headline calls it a small change, but it actually carries a large symbolic and cultural weight. The changes won't come into effect until 2027, so get in before then. #nzpol

Interview with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Q&A #nzpol

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

More topical stuff, in case NZ Labour think of backing out... #nzpol

Share widely. The facts are damning. #nzpol #warriors #upthewahs #fightfacism #onetermgovernment #kiwi #nzbirds #nzfashion #toitutetiriti

Each to their own, but few things are less comfortable than an inner-circle heavyweight government Minister letting rip while liquored up in public. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

One of Mountsin Tui's best - and most damning - blogposts yet. This is the kind of insight and analysis missing from msm. open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

A must-read. Well done again, Andrea Vance. "C... is an incendiary word. But that doesn’t mean its use is indefensible — especially where the point is to expose entrenched misogyny and political betrayal." www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...

Rangitoto Island ( Auckland NZ) watching over two very important women. Grandma and granddaughter . This old man is so lucky to have such women accept him as a friend.

Prisoner voting ban to be brought back - Paul Goldmsith Politics 9 mins ago As voting is an intrinsic right of every citizen , surely he must first pass bill that prison sentence includes loss of citizenship. Right to vote is not dependent on anything except citizenship.

When need to be with myself gets strong.

Participate in Democracy. With all the issues by this coalition, govt admin should setup website for citizen response. Standard form-issue id(dropdown box)- yes/no/ don't know.- comment 200 chtrs

What's even more disturbing is imagine paying $155 licence for an AI generated image. Might just hang up my camera now, no point taking another photo ever. There is NOTHING original or honest about ACT.

So Seymour has finally fizzled out in a whimper. Wasn't able to get to see it . If I had been choreographing the scenario, I would have had the entire opposition silently stand to do the Bayley "loser" hand signal. Seymour didn't even get to hold hands with his partners in law .

We keep getting the Trump Tariffs nonsense daily. I think someone tried to explain history but he hasn't grasped the details. When he talks of how other countries are going to make US wealthy, he is using the wrong word. He means tributes as in empires demand tributes .

David needs to be reminded of this by all the other parties ⬇️ #nzpol

I see Duncan Garner using the Listener to pile in on the left political parties. How ironic. Yesterday's mouth screaming at today's youthful confident exposure of fig leaves held up by our Government wrecking crew. Once a long time ago he would have aspired to be her, but alas never was or could be.

When private equity takes over a hospital, patients suffer—and sometimes die. In “Margin over Mission,” James Kelly tells the story of what happened at Lovelace Women’s Hospital in New Mexico.

NZ cannot afford to keep bowing to the US. This is fucking insane.

There's a lot of work done to conflate the "far right" with the "far left" in the media/pol space - predominantly it seems to be used as a way to dismiss even quite anodyne leftwing critique... but I just genuinely don't think you'll see this kind of thing on the left almost at all.

Heaven forbid! ACT looks to stand candidates in local council elections: www.1news.co.nz/2025/03/18/a...

"Havoc"? These Bills, currently or historically, aren't responsible for that. *Reactionary biz's and poli's* often are though, *attacking initiatives like this* (or workers directly 🤬) No workers *ANYWHERE* need the clocks turned back to a Dickensian existence *no matter what CONservatives crave*.

Yes, their entire schtick is based on this big lie. It's not about providing better services or indeed any services to the public. They're simply in the business of transferring public money to the private sector. Tax cuts and rebates for landlords and the wealthy are the most obvious examples

As soon as Seymour walked through their door they were doomed. Seymour: Can you make a lunch for 0.01c? Libelle: sure David but we may have to change our promo pictures. Seymour: no one will notice anything

I notice the Free Speech Union have not released a statement about Mahmoud Khalil, so weird, it's surely coming though, considering they're definitely a nonpartisan organisation

Fekkin brilliant! Post that, media.

Time for an election Chris Hipkins overtakes Christopher Luxon as preferred prime minister in Taxpayers' Union-Curia poll www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Reading Chris Hopkins Q&A interview. He is making the right noises but still leaves me uneasy about what he sees as "good tax reform results." The party will have to eventually nail their colours to the mast if they want followers. Cautious optimism

Get the goddamn pitchforks out. Get them out NOW. Whether Musk in the US, or our own shitty Government right here, right now in Aotearoa, the story of the veneration of wealth is the same: *Wealthy Person = "Leadership" Credibility*. How long must people put up with *absolute BS propaganda*?!

I’d like Luxon to do it. You know, be a Leader. What came out of Winston and Shane’s mouths was worse than what Goff said. Rules for thee but not for me continues with these clowns.

“It’s very dissapointikg & does not reflect the views of the NZ government” It reflects the views of millions of Kiwi citizens though & most of the free world, doesn’t it dickhead?! 🤨 #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I seem to have heard the phrase "against official advice" a lot in the past year and a bit. So I did a bit of Googling. In the past year, ministers (about half of these are Simeon Brown) have gone against official advice on: 1) The appointment of John Carnegie to the EECA.

A very good analysis. And to think we lost him from Health. A must read. #nzpol

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