He's right. Domestic violence now highest level since 2018 but National excluded DV from their crime statistics. And National cut paedophile hunters last time in their front line cuts. This time 25% of customs & conservation officers are all on the line. Ditto fisheries, MPI etc

He also protected a pedophile. Contemptible barely describes him

Every 10 minutes a female is killed by a family member. 74% of Kiwi women killed by partners. Cherrypicking to make it look like transgender are a huge issue is your culture war. David Seymour pressured cops to go easy on Polkinghorne when his wife died. Don't talk to me about caring about women.

Anyone remember when David Seymour pressured cops to go easy on Philip Polkinghorne during a live investigation? Seymour wrote 1012 words to defend a murder suspect who was the ONLY suspect in his wife's death. Don't tell me Seymour cares about the safety of women

Bernard Hickey "This is a clear income transfer from state tenants to private landlords of ~$500 million and this is on top of the $12.5b tax breaks that have been handed to landlords in the last 2 years, and that was taken from the Climate Emergency Response Fund" www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5u0...

Activists onboard Gaza-bound flotilla recount abuse in Israeli detention - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/activists-onboard-gaza-bound-flotilla-recount-abuse-israeli-detention

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending May 22

The cancer of multi-billionaires who want to realise a white supremacist, libertarian haven is eating you from within New Zealand. Given what I study daily, the country has no fit-for-purpose defences, & now has a Govt which provides permissive environment, & enables this decay.

Useful to know who, & what the far-right wants silenced, in addition to who funds chilling effects. Capture of individual behind The Centrist published by RNZ in Oct '23 www.rnz.co.nz/news/electio..., & Feb '24 www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept... Big oil connections www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-bu...

I fear we are in the worst kind of fight—one that most of us don’t realise we’re in.

Call me naive but couldn’t we raise corporate tax by 2% over a certain threshold (& cut MP’s accom benefit) instead of squeezing money out of people in social housing, cutting sexual abuse prevention services, forcing schools to choose between a heat pump & a teacher aide (as per the Press today)?

YOU ARE VERY MUCH NOT ALONE. Build community. Reach out to someone. Allow yourself to feel connected. These actions are nourishing, but also the antithesis of the individualistic, everyone for themselves modus operandi currently in play. It's part of how we fight back.

Today’s scoop (viz: did officials maybe finally say the quiet bit out loud, re the staggering unjustified cost of mega-motorways?) has really hit a nerve! If you value our work daylighting info in the public interest, we’d *love* your help to do even more: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/support-our-...

What have LNG distributors and electricity gentailers effectively won? What have landlords effectively won? What have tobacco companies effectively won? If state housing is likened to the proverbial "big one", how the fuck do you describe what your backers got?

All the political news this week has been absolute garbage. It feels overwhelming and that’s on purpose. So it’s more important to seek out the people and causes that give you hope. And give them your time, money and attention. It can be better. We just have to work together.

There are no depths to their (National ACT NZF) personal greed and cruelty. #nzpol

#nzpol Dunno ... pretty sure (certain) it wasn't in any economics textbook that I read and learnt from🤔💔.

They usually argue fiscal discipline something something credit rating something interest rates, but that's fucked and getting worse. The other argument is returning the resources back to private sector where it's more productive, but it's not it's just going to roads and landlords...

Man, I don't even know how they could use textbook economics to justify their cuts. Obviously the first order impact (unemployment) is bad, and the second order impacts (reduced consumer confidence and spending) is also bad...

Ambulance boss says Budget must deliver more than ‘short-term Band-aid’ to broken funding model newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/a...

Analysis: With ageing population and out-of-control fuel costs, a $35m pre-Budget announcement serves only to highlight the existential threat to ambulance services, writes Jonathan Milne.

David Seymour, NZ Broadcasting Minister, calls TVNZ a "bad actor" for covering Mark Cameron's comments about hanging those he disagreed with a "short rope". He later says TVNZ caused ACT to do more poorly in the polls than it could have

The Manifesto was titled "The sons of Tarrent" Inspired by the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, they targeted Muslims but laid the blame for "mass immigration" with Jews, who they also blamed for LGBTQ "ideology" www.i24news.tv/en/news/inte...

Max the entitlements, who cares about a moral compass!

This grift has been going on forever: Nat MP owns BUT DOES NOT LIVE IN Wellington apartment. Nat MP RENTS their apartment to ACT MP (who ALSO owns but does not live in a Wellington apartment) Nat MP rents NZF MP's Wellington apartment. All claim $1000/wk allowance while bashing beneficiaries.

Listening to Chris Bishop, it's obvious their new policies are about a transfer of wealth from public hands to private landlords. Bishop was key driver in giving $3b of tax cuts to landlords but this is bigger - it's about privatisation as Bishop stops & sells state land/houses

Listening to Chris Bishop, it's obvious their new policies are about a transfer of wealth from public hands to private landlords. Bishop was key driver in giving $3b of tax cuts to landlords but this is bigger - it's about privatisation as Bishop stops & sells state land/houses

This gvt's reduced the brightline so they can sell their rentals & pay no tax earlier. It's given landlords $2.9b in tax breaks. And now landlords will be subsidised further by taxpayers on behalf of the poor. Most gvt MPs own rentals yet no media pt out these chgs benefit their incomes. Corruption🤬

Leading NGOs slam 'Board of Peace' for 'failing' to deliver Gaza aid pledges www.middleeasteye.net/news/leading...

Leading NGOs slam 'Board of Peace' for 'failing' to deliver Gaza aid pledges - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/leading-ngos-slam-board-of-peace-for-failure-deliver-gaza-pledges

How not to fire 8700 people www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

I need people to understand that this is not ok. This is not normal. We should be able to take aid to Palestinians. We should not be in a detention center for immigration issues. We should not normalize punishing people and children for losing work or getting sick. Genuinely what the fuck I can’t.

Also I hate to be the person that connects everything to Palestine but we have been completely desensitized to how human beings should be treated over the last few years. You are now expected to be perfect or face rape/torture/indefinite detention for the smallest transgressions - THIS NOT NORMAL.

Reading the updates on the everlee wihongi case will make you want NZ to cut off all diplomatic relationships with the USA and expel the ambassador because what the fuck.

new zealander everlee wihongi - kidnapped by ICE 41 days ago - was meant to take the stand today in front of a wisconsin judge. but ICE had other plans. webworm has the latest on this story - please RT, and share: www.webworm.co/everleemay21/

New Zealand’s democracy operates on an implicit social contract. A government that repeatedly destabilises workforces, reduces services and creates widespread insecurity will find that contract beginning to erode, #nzpol

#nzpol 😲🤬⬇️

Looting and destruction are Israeli army’s ‘primary mission’ in Lebanon, soldiers say - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/looting-and-destruction-are-israeli-armys-primary-mission-lebanon

This makes me so angry. Maybe come to my neighbourhood where people who have “won the lotto” living in very old state housing stock and are now being given 90 day notices to be moved away from our community while new homes built (where there were state houses) nearby are sold to market for $$$.

This seems like a positive move by Pharmac, proposing to fund the adjuvanted flu vaccine for over 65s and expanding flu vaccine funding to children 6 mo - 5 years among others consultations.pharmac.govt.nz/medicines/va...

This is the new map of Gaza. Nearly 2 million people — most of them displaced — are now crammed into just 133 square kilometers. That is nearly 15,000 people per km².

this is what they're going to try to do in south lebanon

This ⤵️ So Louise Upston owns a Wellington apartment but claims a $52,000 year tax free accommodation allowance for the city But she wants accommodation allowance cut for the poorest Kiwis. This is the same Upston who relied on the benefit & now maligns beneficiaries www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

So Louise Upston owns a Wellington apartment but claims a $52,000 a year tax free accommodation allowance for the city But she wants accommodation allowance cut for the poorest Kiwis. This is the same Upston who relied on the benefit & now maligns beneficiaries www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

never forget to notice wins!🌿 We can be so intellectually cynical we miss actual changes right in front of us The NZ Coalition govt may not have wanted to ratify the ICJ ruling, but it had to NZ voter attitudes/expectations really helped that, legal challenges & Pacific strategy made it happen 🙏

I argue NZ's coalition government didn't have much option but to sign the UN ratification of the ICJ, thanks to the strategy, diplomacy & leadership of the Pacific & 64% of NZ who still want NZ to act on climate, despite all the new costs & risks we face! www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2026/05/21/u...

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🔥 Tamatha Paul @greens.org.nz 21 May #nzpol