My main motivator for wanting to not see Luxon be PM again is that I can’t stand the idea of that guy earning FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND TAXPAYER DOLLARS A YEAR. Specifically him. No 😑

I’m gonna have to learn how to articulate this sort of thing into irresistible policy #study #nzpol

While there is work to be done to improve internet safety for everyone, we believe that people under 16 also have a right to freedom of expression and association - social media is where a lot of political education, activism and organising gets done.

99.4% of disabled learners now attend local mainstream schools. Back in Andrew's day they were shunted off to special schools and excluded. Funding for this has not kept up with need. On top of that, families are facing far worse material deprivation, drug use stress etc than 30+ years ago.

Are staff getting incentives to refuse them? Do they get bonuses if people cant eat? The govt declared its target of a 75% reduction in emergency housing placements has been met five years ahead of schedule – but housing providers say the need hasn’t gone away. Of course it hasn’t. #nzpol

Whenever conservative parties win, they typically try to see just how far to the right they can go before everyone turns on them. Whenever center-left parties win, they end up backing away from progressive policies and "moderating" in hopes of trying to appeal to people who didn't vote for them.

Lot of misspeaking going on for a government that had to pass an "english is an official language" bill

Vale Neville Peat, 1947–2026

Love the implication that we should all just automatically assume that the mongrel mob kid was shitty and disruptive. God he's just an irredeemably racist fuck, among all his other awful ideologies #nzpol

🎓We are advertising three 2-year research+teaching positions in applied maths or stats. These have a reduced teaching load (50 lectures a yr) compared to a standard academic position so applicants can gain teaching experience while having time for research jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"Misspoke" is such a weaksauce euphemism for "lied" and it seems like a daily occurrence that senior members of the government are having to admit to have "misspoken". Here is today's edition. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Another view of this morning-slow motion with music. Such a beautiful place I’m blessed to call home.

Nashiro (mascot of Hita City) is an alien with a see-through cranium, showing its brain, which is a pear.

Your own purrsonal assistant! 😬😺

Sinners. #grickledoodle #sloth #hell #cartoon #lazy #drawing #art #funny #horror

“Millions of years old and they look as if they were laid yesterday!”

Matt on Donald #Trump and Keir #Starmer #Iran #IranWar #MiddleEastConflict #TrumpWar @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

did anyone else get to see it ? Clouds disappeared for a few minutes around 11pm .

Data centers have a massive environmental impact. Today’s cartoon by @infiniteguff.com. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #BigTech #DataCenters #environment #climate

Still absolutely adamant you do not want Covid. Long Covid is still a crisis and is the worst health impact I’ve ever personally experienced. Our health system is much worse than it was in 2020 - you do not want to navigate it with Covid impacts. Book a booster here: app.bookmyvaccine.health.nz 👇

I’ve been entertaining myself/hiding from reality by binging the Ab Fab series on TVNZ. I missed a lot of this the first time around because I was living in Japan. Jeez, the dialogue & delivery is just mint 😚

As seen in the Nelson airport, a contest to make the best tiny chair out of a beercan. My cold hard heart softens

IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.

We could do something for every Kiwi, something that provides sustainable and comfortable transport and reduces costly dependence on a single mode, or we could… upgrade one existing road north of Auckland Oh well I guess we must give in to the car, better things aren’t possible

Given I wasn't going to shoot the #LunarEclipse #BloodMoon last night, but then eventually got to bed at 3am & despite the incoming cloud, I got a start to finish sequence & am happy with the results. Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ #Nikon Z7ii @stardome-nz.bsky.social

I got the new covid vaccine on Monday. My teens only have to wait another 11 and 13 years respectively until they can get another one in NZ. 🤯 Afterwards I pushed the high school, yet again, for clear comms telling parents to keep symptomatic kids home from school and school activities, noting this

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

You know what’s coming next, eh? They’re going to “relax the rules” so people we don’t want to come here can buy up land and build more unaffordable houses 😑 #nzpol

The funniest housing story I've seen in a while...

Rules-based order. My @smh cartoon.

Winston Peters born 1945

Column this morning is on the original sin of KiwiSaver - the fact we all empty it out to buy homes www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

When we look at data on who gets mortgages over the last 20 years, it's incredibly rare for the highest % group during any given period to be first time buyers. These are the only ppl who can access KiwiSaver to buy a home. They aren't the problem with our housing market #nzpol

Cartoon

Yahata Inu, the mascot of Kai City, looks like a cat but is actually a mix of a potato and a dog, with a leaf from a local zelkova tree on its head.

America’s and Israel’s military Operations (attacks). My Stuff #cartoon today #USA #Israel #War #Iran #Gaza #Ukraine

Lunar #eclipse from Hawke’s Bay, AotearoaNZ. 12.33am NZT, Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Before eclipse 😃 light wispy clouds are causing a bit of haze

“The information that we had from the Government was that this was correcting an anomaly,” he said of Labour’s initial support. 850+ submissions in the two days it was open, and only two in full support. #nzpol

I have a moon! #EclipseMarch2026

And another man found guilty of multiple child pornography charges also avoids jail time - and is not placed on the sex offenders register. Ha & Howard Temple should win jail. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Health insurance up, electricity up, gas up, petrol prices hiking, a loaf of decent bread approx $4.75, eggs over $12 a dozen. Lamb legs haven’t been under $17.99 a kg for three years. A block of good cheese is $17 on SALE. Veges in season are still high: peppers 🫑 $2.79, corn 🌽 3 cobs for $5

I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions. Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018. Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.

From the bus this morning but I forgot to post it here. Apologies for lateness. ☀️

Disestablishment of the Ministry for the Environment is another terrible bill emblematic of this government’s continual attack on our environment - it is now open for submissions - until 4.30 on 11th March.

"Why are you crying? It's just a kids movie." The movie:

Comment from Otago University: Why attack Iran now? What will China do about its oil reserves? Is NZ’s response sufficient? International relations expert Robert Patman shares his thoughts.