Some of us will remember attempts by Jenny Shipley to create a formal binding Code of Social & Family Responsibility in the late 1990s, which would apply to those who qualified for benefits. It's in the Right's DNA to try to deny people access to their rights under cover of "responsibilities".

"Seymour attacked RNZ's recent appointment of John Campbell to its flagship Morning Report programme, saying that should have been "out of the question" given "the kinds of things" Campbell had previously written." Free speech party, everyone. #nzpol

Abolishing a media regulator in an environment of increasing mis- and dis-information seems like a bad idea for democracy.

hi #nzpol give this a moment of your time and a signature campaigns.consumer.org.nz/retirement-v...

Luxon on NZ rejecting WHO pandemic rule changes #nzpol

Dr Bex reflects: “The distress came from having something which worked really well suddenly ripped away, replaced with instability and fear and worry. It was the instability of not knowing what we could do now, the fear of not being able to trust official responses, and worry for the future.” #nzpol

So $716m for the 2 new worse ferries plus the $670m we lost canceling iRex means the 2 new ferries now cost us $1,386 million Thanks better business managers! /s #nzpol

Fast track concerns. 4000 homes. On rural land. With no planned infrastructure. A large part of it in a flood plain. Strong opposition from council. Still approved. Interview here: Papakura Chair Kelvin Hieatt speaks for the first half and me in the second half. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Luxon seemed completely out of the loop when asked by journalists about this at his presser today #nzpol

“NZ is now one of just five countries to have rejected the post-pandemic changes to the WHO’s global health rules without providing a reason.” Does this government do anything except enrich itself, align with corrupt states, erode democracy, undermine public health and consistently be the bad guys?

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... "Raising the threshold is not something I am looking at right now, my focus is on getting people off the jobseeker benefit and into work." How are they meant to live in the interim, Louise? #nzpol

Man I wish someone else would write an article about the Moa Point Green Party lies going around The lies are insane #nzpol

Resene factory workers walked off the job yesterday for a Living Wage. E tū members at Resene have been fighting for a Living Wage since September. They're struggling to pay bills and put food on the table. Resene needs to do the right thing and pays its staff enough to live a decent life. #nzpol

With unemployment rising, health services struggling, and young people fleeing NZ we should see this most recent attack on our Indian community for what it is - the ageless, wretched use of blame and distraction by a cynical populist. (1/2)

So just to be clear Luxon wants Kiwi families to pay a new tax on their power bills to build an LNG terminal that we don’t need & that will cook the climate, so that Methanex, a company contributing 0 dollars in tax themselves, can keep sending their profits offshore. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/30/m...

The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.

Watching him stumble and be laughed at is really cathartic. "The problem is whiteness is a big lie told by powerful people subscribed to by losers" youtu.be/jaCo8UdOwRw?...

NZ must reckon with the grim reality of our future: more storms, floods and heat. This is a confronting situation. And yet, if we are to shield our communities, our infrastructure and our economy from the worst excesses of climate change, it is one we must confront. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/18/c...

Winston's racists, being told to tune in for racism, are instead getting a debate about select-committee report-back periods. And Winston is pissed about it. #NZPol

I'm watching the debate on the first reading of the disestablishment of the Ministry of Environment, and I'm glad to hear the criticism of the idea of 'blue greens'. It's a delusion (I'd argue it's always been wishful thinking) especially with the magnitude of issues we face today. #nzpol

A call to action!

"We've heard a lot of HYPERBOLE on the other side of the house" not even a sentence later "when WE ENDED THE WAR ON LANDLORDS" #nzpol

Today the ERA Bill passed, marking a dark day for NZ workers. This Govt has weakened YOUR job security. For instance, the door is now open for employers to ‘re-hire’ anyone as a ‘specified contractor’, lacking protections like min wage, holiday pay, sick leave and the right to join a union. #nzpol

This person who heckled Luxon is my new favourite

The shifting onto claiming ADHD and antidepressants are over prescribed was a feature of the British anti trans' media cheerleaders after the Cass Report. This article is by Ruth Hill, who anonymously quotes someone making the same claim, draw your own conclusions. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Just what the sector was begging for, AI marked tests.

When pressed on anything positive they are doing about climate change, the Luxon Govt points to fast tracking renewable generation. But solar farms are moving from concept to construction in less than 12 months WITHOUT USING THE FAST TRACK. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

this is a really important point.

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Today on NewstalkZB, Mike Hosking said it's a "reality check" for the Government to not have a proper response for climate hit areas. Some examples of his previous work that may point to how we got here.

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

Why does tvnz think we need a evening news segment on the Melania red carpet premiere?

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#nzpol In the house today, Nicola Willis said that in my recent book I thought the debt limit for the government should be 80-90% of GDP. As is clear in the book - that is the Treasury's position, not mine. See P.14 of www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/defaul...

nz media intentionally failed to learn the lesson that reporting PR verbatim is bad, now we're here neither Seymour, OR any people reporting on him, would have a career in a half-decent society. But that's not where we are. Both the far-right and nz media have been inching towards outright libel

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

Nicola Willis used 2 supplementary questions (from her own party) to review @clrenney.bsky.social 's new book #nzpol

An early Christmas gift from the nasty party.. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This one’s important e hoa mā - a few of our orgs are collaborating on this fund to ensure that no trans young person in Aotearoa misses out on lifesaving care. Alternative treatment pathways exist but are expensive and we need your help. givealittle.co.nz/cause/we-got...

David Seymour in a roundabout way implying that politicans (I wonder who) have allowed and encouraged antisemitism #nzpol

Uncomfortable at Luxon mentioning 'unchecked migration' in his parliamentary speech on the Bondi Beach terror attacks. Generally ok speech but that stood out. Hipkins stood against anti immigrant rhetoric #nzpol

For someone who won't answer hypotheticals, Luxon sure makes up a lot of them #nzpol

Does this government realise how little legitimacy it has to critise other parties for not having a plan? Because the only plan they appear to have is to repeal everything. What were their plans and solutions before the election? #nzpol

Okay now nz labour stop looking at uk labour and look at Mamdani instead of

"We are looking at a range of things in order to clean up the CBD" is a particularly putrid way to answer whether or not you're going to ban homeless people from city centres. They're people not garbage. #nzpol

Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night: - Decoupling the ETS from Paris - Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years - Delaying the public sector target by 25 years - Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

And just in from Seymour. This is the intent. Forget whatever flowery words Erica uses. They want your child growing up in a NZ that is blind to its history. That’s not learning, it’s indoctrination.

Hipkins made the point that this was Hobson’s Pledge policy. I’m pleased to see him being reasonably forceful about this and I’m pleased to see his words leading the article.

Does Erica Stanford have connections to school resource books, because she sure does think they'll solve everything. It is patronizing to act as if school books in reo absolves their actions against maori language, culture, history, ect, in our curriculum #nzpol