US Tech guy, Brian Cartmell, donating $100,000+ to #Nat #Act #NZF & #Opportunity party. He moved to NZ in 2010. His former professional background includes working for the Internet Entertainment Group, an online pornography company www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Pike River families have different view of Workplace Safety than Coalition of Cowards #CoC and most of the commentariat - wonder why that is #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/26/p...

Excellent knock from Maddie Green, at Hagley. Been brewing for some time, probably deserved her hundred #WhiteFerns

Yes! They've been absolutely consistent and up front about this transfer of wealth from the beginning of their govt. And have faced very little pushback even so. They've achieved what they set out to achieve and will be able to go forth with their riches, leaving us to clean up #nzpol

Just saying #nzpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

When a war is as deeply unpopular as the one Trump and Netanyahu started with Iran, those promoting it have no other option but to lie johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...

Communities push back against proposed alcohol reforms

Luxon’s leadership in action 😳. FFS he’s ENABLING fringe views tooverride AoNZ’s future pandemic preparedness. Vote them OUT. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/26/t...

Some people say the OIA is fundamentally sound. I ask them, ‘How is it that 44 years after the OIA was passed the Police is still misusing the Act to claim that it would unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of Netflix to reveal it is working with them?’ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

So bad they had to reel it back but there are still plent of fish hooks in this Bill. The National Party has truly given up on our environment by allowing Shane Jones and his mates to re-write the Fisheries Act at the expense of public interests.

Actually. It's called #Trumpflation for a reason

The US is spending more than $1 trillion on the military for the first time in history. That apparently isn't enough. Now, the Pentagon wants $200 billion more for an illegal war in Iran. The answer is NO. We need to invest in the American people, not endless war.

A transformational shift in public opinion is happening in Germany, France, Canada and the UK, away from the US and towards China www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Here we go again: This is what war profiteering looks like. Refinery margins are being pushed to the sky again. We need windfall profits taxes for oil extraction and margin caps along the value chain all the way to the gas stations.

“Switzerland has said ⁠it will not issue licences for companies to export weapons to the United States due to ⁠the ongoing war on Iran, citing the country’s longstanding principle of neutrality.” No shipments of weapons to countries during an armed conflict.

Not on my watch says Winston Peters who has aligned NZ with the worst fringe elements in the USA over pandemic preparedness and the PM hasn’t a clue. #nzpol

A year ago, ministers met to consider tightening NZ’s pay equity law. Their decisions went further than officials had advised, hardening the policy to the point some groups were cut out from ever making a claim. Why? And on what evidence? They won’t show us. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nuff said! popular.info/p/a-war-base...

Israel changes rules of its 'game' by moving from military to economic targets. It must have had US green light for this. Unsurprising, perhaps, with US a lot less vulnerable to energy prices shocks than most of us #Trumpflation www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The irony of the government being taken to court for cutting climate policies that would have significantly reduced NZ’s oil consumption from cars - our biggest user - and freight, just as the country faces an oil shock is ... difficult to ignore www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Seems IREX was cheaper after all (hint, it always was) 👇

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...

"We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war ..." thttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/uk-security-adviser-attended-us-iran-talks-and-judged-deal-was-within-reach

Compare this with the cowardly, frankly dishonest, statement from New Zealand and Australian Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministers #nzpol New Zealand and Australia seem determined to side with aggressors who have sidelined the UN that both nations still pretend to respect #auspol

Submissions on New Zealand’s new planning system called for more emphasis on mitigating climate change, rather than responding to its effects

Jared's at it again popular.info/p/kushner-br...

One of my friends got her medical degree for free in Cuba on condition she would work in poor and underserved communities when she returned to the US. She appears briefly in Michael Moore's excellent 2007 film Sicko.

Our interests are not subservient to those of major powers, economic or commercial, and we do not have to be part of their alliances newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/16/i... #nzpol

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

#nzpol 🎯💯⬇️

I do not see how European democracies can survive being complicit in the war on Iran plus the escalation of the cost of living crisis this war causes. This is the perfect storm to bring the far right into power.

Green Party warns of 'perfect storm' as ferry breakdowns disrupt travel and freight

Sneaky Seymour strikes again? #nzpol

Matthew Hooton's column should have been illustrated with this. He talked abt Sweden's death toll without mentioning it was NINE TIMES bigger than ours. He dismissed deaths in other countries as mainly being older people, so it would have been ok for us to have heaps of older folks die? Ghoul.

“Keat maintained the current global energy shock should be viewed as a strategic gift by the government.” www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Fingers out, Kiwis!

Chloe Swarbrick calls on New Zealanders to increase their economic literacy so they understand the "utter BS" most politicians spout on the economy. Here, she deals with the purely ideological 30/30 Rule that has held New Zealand back for decades #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/a-mini-hoo...

"it's really critical that across society people increase their economic literacy to understand the utter BS that so many politicians particularly the legacy parties are spreading when it comes to the appropriate size of government or debt as opposed to ... the purpose of those two things." #nzpol

While Simeon Brown was happy to play fast and loose with Royal Commission facts, David Seymour opted, once again, to deliberately misled #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

Market system won't protect New Zealand's sovereignty newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/05/o... #nzpol

I must admit I'm surprised at how little the Royal Commission gave to vaccine opponents, some of whom saw this process as the thing that would vindicate them. Can't get much clearer than this.

Hi hello what your article does not mention is that studies consistently show that private sector involvement in public health lead to poorer health outcomes and perhaps, as a novel idea, we should just adequately fund our public health system as a 101 requirement for a functioning democracy 🤔

The vile absurdity of it all.

Or Albo

Macron declares "fear" the only route to security. A self-fulfilling prophesy if ever there was one. What happened to the promise of nuclear-armed states to do everything in their powers to limit nuclear weapons? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

“Christchurch Hospital has started rationing dialysis to two sessions per week from three because of a Government-imposed sinking lid on spending to ensure Crown spending to GDP gets down below 30%, 1News reported last night” #nzpol

TVNZ Sport is woeful - no news sense at all - zero

Why Luxon and Peters are not pressing Trump to justify war -https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-war-bush-twentieth-anniversary-b2302031.html

Suzanne McFadden does some great work, but, Australian Mike Moroney? I'm inclined to blame subs, or the lack of them #racing newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/06/l...

Over two/thirds is how I would phrase it