New Zealand for sale - the Seymour/Luxon/Peters Govt has been flogging Kiwi citizenships to cashed-up foreigners for some time. Now it plans to open up our vast conservation estate - 5 million acres - for sale or exchange #nzpol mountaintui.blogspot.com/2026/06/new-...

I'm old enough to remember what happened to Clare Curran after a couple of undiarised meetings with Carole Hirschfeld (who also lost her job). But here we have Goldsmith just doing whatever he pleases off the record, with no repercussions. #nzpol

This convention is a huge milestone for platform workers around the world - so why were we one of the few countries along with the U.S. to vote against it? At home and on the global stage this Government is doing everything they can to attack workers. #nzpol

The cloud is someone else's computer, in a rogue state.

Concerns raised over minister's replacement of Medical Council leadership

Are we so indoctrinated into the cult of real estate that a trained journalist seriously doesn’t know that these are different things? And, wow, quite the choice of interviewee. An 18-year-old “small model train business owner” who is going to stay out of the market for “at least 3 months.” Tragic.

“We are not biting at the chomps," the gibberer gibbered www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How likely would it be for an air force bomber to crash before takeoff?

newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/16/m... Vote them out in November #nzpol

Aotearoa now holds 26 billionaires, which is 26 too many for Aotearoa to keep or sustain. Being a billionaire involves being ACTIVELY AGAINST working class interests, not only just ignoring them. Billionaires will bet (and donate) to have your work, living, and voting rights taken away. #nzpol

🧵A few times, I've been asked to share the best advice I have ever received. I always give the same answer: "If you go out on a limb, don't saw it off." I got from my father, Michael Klein, back when I was a student journalist. We lost him Wednesday. everloved.com/life-of/mich...

The long and winding cycleway thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...

Good piece with some very good points. I always wonder if hard and fast, all ocassion, curfews for sports teams are a bit of arse-covering for the bosses - modern management 101 www.wisden.com/cricket-news...

#nzpol Sign our open letter calling on MPs to stop this dangerous Bill: www.together.org.nz/not_one_more...

#nzpol Bookmark this excellent explanation @bernardchickey.bsky.social gave as to why Aotearoa does not have a debt problem. It will become useful in the coming months as Willis will keep on screeching about the debt Labour left us. www.instagram.com/reel/DZEC8bc...

You can expect further attacks on RNZ and TVNZ, both directly and via sympathetic coverage of attacks from hard right politicians.

#Stuffed. A move straight out of the Murdoch playbook -bypassing journalists for Right Wing political activists just in time for election #nzpol Hooton joins Luke Malpass whose days as paid NZ Initiative activist seem to have been scrubbed from all his Stuff profiles www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

New Zealand’s real challenges stem from that underinvestment: infrastructure decay, productivity stagnation and social distress. These are the real debts that can legitimately be described as crippling. anuncommonland.substack.com/p/deconstruc...

“The public deserve to have confidence that we have the appropriate level of specialist skillset involved with their precious blood and biopsy samples,” -the Govt Health NZ response continues to be ‘nothing to see here’, despite very public professional warnings -this is an unsustainable . #nzpol

Which begs the question of why cut off the ability to enrol to vote two weeks before election day www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

#nzpol When 29 miners died at Pike River, New Zealand made a promise. We said, “never again”. We said, “every worker deserves to come home safe”. But now Brooke van Velden is trying to undo that promise. Sign our open letter calling on MPs to stop ACT's Health and Safety Bill in its tracks:

The billionaire's party - much like Reform in the UK & Trump in the US - One Nation is a stalking horse for the rich and entitled www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

NZ @radionz.nzcow.com listeners just heard a NZ Minister thinly vailed threats Ingrid Hipkiss held her ground when Minister Jones told the ‘state’ broadcaster to be ‘careful’ She pointed out a story he complained was ignored was covered, asking if his complaint was that he wasn’t interviewed? 🙏

BREAKING: This ICE flight has just landed. Central African Republic becomes the 27th country to take third-country nationals from the Trump administration. The Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

Vote Green! www.greens.org.nz/greens_to_pr...

This should be the angle, surely? "Uber NZ paid $97.2m in inter-company service fees in 2025, effectively avoiding New Zealand tax on nearly 90% of its income #nzpol

And so it continues. Everyone understands how this system works. newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/10/d...

a few hours ago, a judge in wisconsin ruled that everlee wihongi's 2014 marijuana charge has been vacated. this means ICE now have *zero* legal grounds to keep her detained. please RT, and thanks for carting about this story: www.webworm.co/hugewin/

'Constitutionally abhorrent': Expert reveals advice to government on climate law change

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Rough sleepers, beggars should not be subject to move-on orders - Auckland Council

Seymour really is the hypocrites' hypocrite #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08-...

Government slashes millions more out of Warmer Homes fund as temperatures plummet

#nzpol #Election26 #DitchThePricks

Bernard Hickey with some practical common sense the Seymour-Luxon-Peters govt has chosen to ignore mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...

FIFA President Infantino gave Mexican President Sheinbaum ticket number 00001 to the World Cup opening match. Sheinbaum gave it to Yolett Cuaquehua, a 21-year-old Indigenous woman from Veracruz. Sheinbaum will watch the game in the Zocalo, the public central square in Mexico City, with the people.

How about some coherent, alternative policy? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Also, Craig Rennie ranked 51 is worrying, to put it mildly

If you poured a litre of poison in the Fonterra CEO's pool, you'd be arrested and jailed. The dairy industry contaminates whole rivers and aquifers, but that's just business. Everyone should be able swim in rivers and trust that the water from their tap is safe to drink. Join the call for action👇

corruption allegation facing NZ 2 NZ firms draft a law to stop a Māori leader challenging their climate inaction. A senior staffer to NZ PM received it in undisclosed, private email Govt defence? they’d have drafted a law anyway OECD: NZ lacks lobby regulation www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Prince in mid air, London, 1986 Photo by Michael Putland

“Especially if he thinks your country was mean to him” Well, That means pretty much every country

Trump fires another volley in long-running US war on Cuba english.elpais.com/internationa...

In the interest of ideology, plots are being lost #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/a... Has this bloke ever heard the term, digital sovereignty?

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.

While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

New report feats. worrying insights into billionaire funded lawfare against academics, & mainstream media. Worth noting that Grennon's support of Chantelle Baker's ongoing lawfare is against Founder of The Disinformation Project, & Stuff. This isn't just about my case. SLAPP's threaten NZ democracy.

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

The biggest attack on Conservation Land in NZ"s history is underway. The Luxon Govt. plans to open the door to selling off 60% of our public conservation land - around five million ha. It is the final move in their coordinated agenda to hand the keys to NZ to foreign mining giants. Read more here