Israel is about to do war crimes, including against NZ nationals, and I haven't seen a single NZ outlet livestreaming this. If they can somehow do a Charlie Kirk livestream, on multiple occasions, you'd think this would garner some journalistic attention

Luxon Govt stopped or blocked four key structural projects which would reduce fossil gas dependence: NZ Battery Project, Gas Transition Plan, Govt Investment in Decarbonising Industry, and Offshore Wind.

I will reiterate as someone with field and specific knowledge of New Zealand’s oil and gas sector, there is no giant untapped field out there. Even if Labour agrees to this, not a single drop of oil or gas will be produced in the next decade because it’s not there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Here are a couple of suggested polls for Stuff. Should our curriculum change process be guided by a small group of ideologically-aligned individuals who aren’t employed by the Ministry of Education? Should our curriculum be written overseas? Should we care if democratic process is violated?

#nzpol The CTU has today released its report on electricity in NZ. We are calling for electricity generators to be brought back into public ownership - and to recognise electricity for what it really is - a public utility - not just a source of profit. 🧵 www.reimagineaotearoa.nz/publicly_own...

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/david-sey... It wasn't even a 'Māori' course. It was 1 part welcome to uni, here's how it works. 1 part Te Tiriti/Te Ao Māori and why they're important, and 1 part degree specific stuff. It would have been good if it hadn't been rushed through to implementation.

How unempatheic can someone be in telling everyone to be "proud" in doing nothing to stop a genocide? #nzpol

Personally think we should consider making this not just the way it is

Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed

While this cowardly Government refuses to recognise Palestine, our Council has already signed an agreement with Ramallah and approved an investment policy that excludes Israeli companies and government bonds. Who's lamo now? #nzpol

Reminder When emailing MPs - be polite. NEVER make threats, of any sort. A template email is easy to be automatically sorted into a folder which will be ignored. Probably. Same goes for cc emails. Email your MP and say ‘I am a constituent’. Postcards (& letters) can be sent free to Parly.

Peters' claim that it's open to manipulation, and that the atrocities in Gaza preclude statehood, logically should have led to calling for sanctions, and more, to stop Israel's campaign of genocide. He didn't say this, because his statement was rhetoric he doesn't believe. A shameful day for NZ.

Worth expressly noting that the ONLY reason given in Peters' speech for why AoNZ should recognise Israel and not Palestine as a state is that Palestine "does not control its own territory". So, we reward Israel for its illegal actions + will keep doing so until it chooses to stop.

The Government's controversial voting law will result in a 411% increase in the number of votes being thrown out, according to the Electoral Commission. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Tune in! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/26/p...

The Govt's stated reason for restricting voter enrolment in the last two weeks of the election has been speeding up the final count. But the Electoral Commission just told the Justice Select Committee that wouldn't happen - with or without the law change it would take 20 days. t.co/N0vRXHMbMt

The local Mayor: "Since speed limits dropped to 80 km/h in 2022 these roads have been safer. NZTA Waka Kotahi data show us there have been no fatal crashes in this period, compared to an average of more than two deaths a year when the speed limit was 100 km/h,” says Mayor Wanden.

In April 2025 Chris Bishop increased the speed on the Otaki to Levin Road from 80 to 100kmh, against community opposition. Yesterday he called the road a 'death trap'. Yet he increased the speed on this 'death trap'. www.levinnews.co.nz/2025/04/23/c... www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Simeon Brown and the Luxon Govt seem determined to break the public health system- one of the things that makes NZ a good place to live - Thousands of senior hospital doctors on 48-hour strike www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

If you think these 'new' school projects sound familiar..

We do not generate more income as a nation by giving tax cuts to land lords or tax breaks for billionaires selling heated tobacco products - instead we generate inequality and deplete health #WrongTrack #nzpol

#nzpol Do we have to do this all the time? beehive.govt.nz/release/20-mil… It’s not new funding. “the initiative will be funded from Health New Zealand’s baseline”. So it’s actually being cut from somewhere else. We already underfunded the health system at the Budget. This is a further cut

this about 3% of what National gave to landlords in tax cuts www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

So Simeon Brown just announced $20m "investment" in ED frontline staff, immediately after it was revealed Christchurch hospital is in code red every single day. But it turns out it's just OLD money from the 2025 budget & already allocated. Brown strikes again #nzpol #Kiwi

1/2 A Treasury document was released showing that this government has created more debt in 2 years than the last government did in 6 years. It has given away so much money to landlords, tobacco companies, oil & gas corporations, and the wealthy, that there isn’t much left to run the country. #nzpol

Ardern resigned when her preferred PM poll numbers dropped to 30%, saying she clearly wasn't what NZ wanted anymore. Luxon is on 20% and still adamant he's doing a fucking brilliant job. Never send a white dude CEO to do a competent woman's job.

An ever-so-casual reminder that the bill for the leaky buildings deregulation fiasco is around fifteen to twenty times larger than all Tiriti settlements either finalised or in progress put together. www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/m...

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

there is just so much to love about this book - I hope every poetry fan gets a copy! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/17/p...

Breaking. "To count as genocide [under the 1948 UN genocide convention], at least one of five acts must have occurred. The UN commission found that Israel had committed four of them." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

Because there's misinformation around, here's the most readable and precise guide to local-election STV in NZ thespinoff.co.nz/local-electi...

‘Love demands action’ is such a beautiful slogan from the priests as they demand action from the NZ Govt over the Israeli Government’s genocide in Gaza.

This behaviour has lingered throughout council all term. I hope people can see why it seemed so chaotic at times. We weren’t dealing with decent people.

Why the fuck are all our news channels obsessed with Kirk and spending inordinate time on this development? Did they do the same for the Hortmann famiy who were brutally murdered in their own home by a deranged Trump supporter? There's something deeply off in NZ. #nzpol #kiwi

It's simply not plausible that every media outlet who repeated the lie that Kirk's killer wrote trans memes on bullet casings, was unaware that this was a vanishingly small possibility compared to the likelihood he was a far right extremist, ie the people who do almost all the assassinations

Our backwater state radio broadcaster just repeated this rumour omg the embarrassment

I don't understand Charter Schools, don't they just prove if you spend more per child they will get better outcomes? Where is Act in this whole thing saying the state should pay more per child? Lets just spend that much on all the kids #NZPol

Whose life matters?

The hypocrisy as an expression of power is a thing, so the contradictions don't actually matter, but if David Seymour really wants to commemorate people killed for free speech in parliament, there have been over 270 journalists killed in Gaza. But I understand David Seymour might object to that.

It is absolutely idiotic that far right free speechers in NZ (No consequences! Only incitement!) are having any success framing this as a 'free speech' issue when the actual cause is 'no gun control'+'rapid disassembly of US democracy into era of chaotic & violently repressive authoritarian fascism'

When you see David Seymour hand-wringing about political violence today, don't forget he called an opposition MP "a menace to freedom" and she received so many threats afterwards that she was provided with an extra security detail share.google/oNArcLhdfgbM...

The government has no plan to manage this crisis. More job losses are being announced every day, and the government does not seem to recognise the growing scale of the challenge. Thousands of working people and their families are paying the price. Do you feel back on track yet?

The other option is vote the Nats mob out #NZPol

Coming soon. 1066 from the women's point of view - Jeopardy: Three Queens, One Throne - and a Poet. Who were the women at the court of Harold Godwinson? This novel tries to give the answers. #fiction #amwriting #history #anglosaxons

$20mil is a huge amount for the Fund, and a pittance to the govt. This ain’t about saving money or balancing the books or whatever bollocks NactF want you to think. This is a deliberate and sustained attack on science, scientists, and the entire concept of thinking and knowledge.

That article is almost entirely devoted to speculation on the driving ability of the filmer. Criticism by fucking redditors, a feral mob at the best of times. Seymour appears to have been asked about the redditor reaction and not the fact he was speeding!

New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...