Exorbitant power prices but sub par services. This is the outcome when shareholder dividends are put ahead of investment in infrastructure and maintenance. #nzpol

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

So let’s get this straight. Lifeline is unfunded by govt & needs $2 million. But govt just hands $24 million to Gumboot Friday and is happy to give millions to the bloody Michelin Guide for tourism puffery of dubious value. Everything this govt does is run on vibes. www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/06/l...

Or: we aren't even taking our full ten days so we're saving you a gazillion. Also: fuck off

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

I fully support this, noting that the skeleton of the Social Security Act is still buried in the original 1930s meaning, and has significant catching up to do.

I have been saying for years, due to the unique nature of the disabilities, a pension is more accurate and just allow those of us who can do intermittent part time work to not lose out on that either

#NZpol Imagine that. A government, a society, that actually acts like... a real govt (y'know, that whole "tackling issues in the interests of everyone" thing, weird right?) and an actual society (same vibe). It'd be a yuge change from *whatever the hell it is we have now*, that much is for sure.

What if we did tho, what if we didn’t means test disabled people on the SLP and just paid it like we do for NZ Super? Not related to your partner’s income, not related to your income, and just, well, supported people?! #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Thanks @drbex.bsky.social for a dose of hope and thoughtfulness before I head into the rest of my day. #nzpol Finding hope and keeping joy under neoliberalism Despite (or perhaps because of) it all - DR BEX

Excellent article by @jennaprice.bsky.social in the @canberratimes.bsky.social giving a real solution to the #ChildCare crisis. 12 months paid parental leave + get rid of the profiteers

Please help if you can. Beckie is always supportive of others and needs a hand at the moment.

God this guy is full of shit. He did nothing about the MP with 25 houses, the idiot in New Plymouth with a donor rort and the Uffindel allegations which were proved true. The lying starts AT THE TOP #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Yeah that's a solid "nah" from me too. Fund schools better. Fund more teacher aides. Give EVERY kid an education plan which supports them to learn and thrive! This is an excuse to keep underfunding the public education system by segregating autistic kids and it sucks.

A tale in three links: 1) Govt promises police $72 million in incentive payments for meeting new road safety (including breath testing) targets. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Why are random citizens consistently, and continuously, turning up major scandals by the government that NZ media are both *incapable of finding* AND refuse to report on even when they learn about it via citizen journalism???

Also has the NZ media even reported on the OIA by NZATE (I think it was) that returned evidence that David Seymour logged in to a Google Doc of the English curriculum rewrite and started making his own edits to it, completely outside the chain of responsibility and Ministry procedures?

If Erica Stanford has any sense of self preservation, she would throw this smug self-serving fail-upwards Pakeha statue guy under the bus. He has potentially wrecked her political career.

For those tracking the efforts to steal Kelston and give it to a dodgy trust, note who appears to involved in setting up the legal structures around Bangerz: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/struck-of...

Good LORD

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

''This isn’t education reform. This is ideological warfare against mātauranga Māori, dressed up in the language of “knowledge-rich” curriculum and “science of learning.”'' #NZpol

If you ever wondered how amazingly short sighted the NZ fishing industry is, get this: as orange roughy numbers collapsed, fishing companies targeted spawning events to catch their quota. They deliberately disrupted the production of the next generation of fish. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/30/g...

Everything this coalition have done has been an ideological waste of money; School lunches Curriculum changes Cancelled ferries Hospital and healthcare projects cut BUT MORE ROADS They are just the worst government ever

This government enshittifies everything #nzpol #nzed #supportTeachers 'Ironically, the 2023 curriculum was just what we needed. The 2024 version was almost as good. This 2025 curriculum seems to have been written by an offshore consultant who knows little about the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.'

The complete elimination of the Understand strand (the "big ideas") also means there is no clear sense of how all this content fits together, which, I guess, is convenient if you don't want your overarching narrative (basically celebration of Western Civilization) to be explicit.

The Te Tiriti content (which isn't introduced until Year 4) implies the English text was signed in Feb 1840, that the Māori text is a "translation", and that Te Tiriti was primarily a response to the Musket Wars. This is all nonsense.

The NZ Govt spent $183bn into the economy in the year ending June 2025 and took back about $170bn in taxes, charges and dividends etc. This left the private sector $13bn better off. If more people understood this basic reality, we could have sensible Govt spending discussions.

the guy leading this is in 'player development' and it seems like they created an 'athlete management' company(?) and website in 2024 to launch alongside this attempt?? Like super grifty PR stuff and STILL completely full of filler text a year later. Something is OFF about this entire thing.

Many moons ago, for 4th form social studies, I learnt about the Japanese Samurai from a Mr Whitehead. This so-called "new" curriculum is literally taking us back to 1989 with flattened out histories and stale stereotypes from half a world away 👇🏼

Did a Roman statue avatar write this

"Takes politics out of history" because no politics ever happened in history, can they even hear themselves

NZ Agribusiness disrupts all efforts to cut climate pollution, meaning more disruption for food production from extreme weather in the future. NZ Fishing Companies target spawning events to catch quota, which means fewer fish in the future. These industries need public oversight not self-regulation.

Even for MacCulloch, this is wild stuff.

NZ educators are not having it.

The new curriculum is cooked. It treats teaching like it's just standing at the front of the class making kids learn an endless series of facts for 6 hrs a day. The science lists of bullet points all end w a dead western scientist they (presumably) need to learn abt & cram for an assessment. Cooked.

Unsurprising but outrageous. The voice of workers, their wages, their livilihoods, their safety have all been sidelined and/or been diminished by this Government. The government are intent on making NZ less safe, less equitable and less fit for people’s lives and well-being every day. #nzpol

I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record? newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Rewriting history is common a fascist pastime, alongside starving the poor and fuelling hatred against minorities. Now they’re crowing about it. But they got there through a concerted control of the cultural narrative and this is just the start.

Just had a brief look through the new Science Curriculum draft and...wow. And wow, not in a good way.

We have *got* to vote this government out before they cause *even more* harm to our tamariki. #nzpol

This is happening in New Zealand. Worldwide, we are seeing a sprint to Fascism and a rewriting of history towards the original Fascist period. Also god, even 80 years after its death, Nazi Germany is still a guiding light worldwide for Fascists and their sympathizers.

When Seymour said "Keep politics out of History", he didn't mean his politics of course. Goebbels will be smiling in his grave #NZ #education #nazis

The new Social studies curriculum is atrocious in general, but I just want to shine a spotlight on the explicit retreading of literal Nazi propaganda that is woven through the year 10 content! Buckle up this shit is shocking!

Jesus fucking christ on a bike. This is really REALLY BAD. This isn't history, it's propaganda.

I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People. "But what if they're on drugs?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "Or not really THAT poor?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "What if they have a phone and nice nails?" SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE