Good morning Wellington Green team, I'm trying to organise a fundraiser for Tamatha Paul's campaign but not great at the promotion bit, If you have an interest in seeing The Devil Wears Prada 2 at 5:45 on Monday the 25th at Lighthouse Cuba for $25, search your inbox for Green province emails 💚

My first paper is out! Co-authored with @falkscheidig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

Matthew Horncastle. ICYMI: caught in the reel posted by Tamatha Paul on 12 May #nzpol

"Ryan has entered not guilty pleas to a number of other charges, which include threatening to kill and strangulation." What a cool guy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

With all due Roy Morgan caveats, the demographics here are striking. National is polling 14% with women under 50 and 18.5% with men under 50. We're heading towards being a retirement village. www.roymorgan.com/findings/102...

This risk has always existed because Parliament can do what it wants. But the risk has always existed in the same way that there has always been a risk that you'll be killed by a homicidal clown. It's just that now like four people you know have died to homicidal clowns in the last two years.

All litigation carries risk. The risk that Parliament might legislate to end your litigation.

I'm just remembering how sometime last week I posted on Instagram about Drury’s allegations, and "Xero" was suddenly looking at my Stories. Like the company Xero's Insta page. I didn't tag them or mention them in my post. I don't follow the account. It doesn't follow me. Odd. 🤔

Two major conversations about online abuse are happening in Aotearoa right now! Let's talk about it 🧵 cross posted from Instagram. #nzpol

I'm just remembering how sometime last week I posted on Instagram about Drury’s allegations, and "Xero" was suddenly looking at my Stories. Like the company Xero's Insta page. I didn't tag them or mention them in my post. I don't follow the account. It doesn't follow me. Odd. 🤔

Honestly PISSED OFF Xero’s CEO sent out “personal apology” email this morning about some tech issues when most of us are highly aware founder Rod Drury is facing at least four women’s allegations of sexual harassment and assault. That kind of behavior doesn’t exist in a vaccum. So fucking tone deaf.

Watching this govt racing around making threatening noises re state broadcasters, removing the right to seek legal remedies for harm, disdaining evidence/ public feedback/ peer-nation advice etc etc... It's hard not to wonder, what exactly are they so *afraid* of? Truth? (And consequences?) #nzpol

FREE EVERLEE WIHONGI "WE MUST SHOW UP! 📅 Sat 16 May ⏰ 1pm 📍 Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade – 23 Quay St, Akld DEMAND answers for Everlee. Demand Minister Peters ACT NOW. CAN’T ATTEND? Email the Minister immediately: 📧 [email protected] Tell him: Find Everlee Wihongi." @toitu_te_aroha

Pōneke, looks like I'll be in your town for a day in early September. Hit me up for a (non alcoholic) beverage before I fly back to a very tired bub (probably)? ✨️

Every damned day is fresh hell for anyone who cares about life, human and non human alike #nzpol Government changes climate law to prevent lawsuits www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Labour had announced policy, they're just weird and you've forgotten them. Like small grants for GPs, and the future fund. Good? Maybe. But regular people don't remember them. The 3 free GP visits is neat, but long forgotten as EVERYTHING costs more now #nzpol

I am incensed about this. What is it about having an educated population that ‘does not achieve any goals’? What were they? Scrapping Labour’s first year fees free policy was bad enough, but promising this only to rip it out from kids currently at uni who were 💯 relying on it is VERY BAD. #nzpol

#nzpol @misswhanau.bsky.social doing incredible mahi here for wāhine Māori leaders and future leaders. ttps://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tory-whanau-testifies-at-waitangi-tribunal-racism-sexism-and-women-hating-abuse-drove-me-out-of-the-country/premium/TDL5EFPNQBH47IZL7ULB6BYCCM/

This is par for the course in terms of what is happening to legal residents of the US, who have literally done everything by the book. Is the Big Fat Nothing that the NZ govt is doing to help her - other than letting Winston lie about it - par for the course for what we can expect of our own govt?

At a time of collapsing trust, misinformation, and politicians increasingly communicating through personalised social media channels, attacks on journalists and public media should concern all of us. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Jordan Wiliam's employee Ani O'Brien now admits she knows what Lloyd Burr said to Sherman & while claiming she covered the whole story, now say she couldn't repeat Burr's slur because they aren't up to standard. This entire story could never meet journalist standards but that never stopped her

The coalition know they're going to lose the election. It's the only explanation for their "burn everything" approach. #nzpol

-Move fees free to the last year and then dump it all together -Reduce govt Kiwisaver contribution until there’s no contribution -Get rid of personal grievance claim at salaries over $180k then slowly make it for no one -Turn sickness beneficiaries into jobseekers Anti-universalism sucks balls.

Metiria Kiritapu Nanaia Jacinda Golriz Tory Hana-Rawhiti Maiki … What needs to be understood is that in a democratic world? You are not penalising them, for whatever reasons. You are disenfranchising US

As Andrea Vance said yesterday, think of the sectors the NZ govt could reform. Banks, supermarkets, big tech. But no, they're in a huff about media. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If they are opting out, what you are offering is not enough. And the big thing? Who is it that that lets down? These women can and should, choose to have careers outside politics. It is the rest of us — women at large — who are DENIED REPRESENTATION. #democracynow #nzpol #kikorangi

🎯 Correct take. The gap between what is officially captured, and what actually exists as threats, and risks to especially wāhine Māori, and woman MPs is, in the fullest sense of the word, incredible. Has been so for years.

If no one is engaging in what you're offering, what you're offering isn't making women feel safe. Ask me pls 🙋‍♀️ #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

InternetNZ is once again being faced with a hostile takeover by lying right-wing nut jobs. You can stop this from happening, if you want.

I'm still covering signups for people who can't afford it! DM me!

How a coordinated far-right network — The Platform, NZ First, ACT, Free Speech Union — took down NZ's only media regulator with statutory teeth. An excellent article by Mohan Dutta, who is frequently attacked by the alt right in NZ: culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-... #nzpol #auspol

'The democratic question raised by the BSA's destruction is not, in the end, about broadcasting law. It is about whether Aotearoa retains the institutional capacity to constrain, even modestly, the merger of disinformation and political power.' @mohanjdutt.bsky.social #NzPol

🫠🫠🫠 (Also, I'll only just pay off my student loan this year. I finished all my studies in 2015. I don't wish that on the next gen. Free fees all day every day)

I've seen other queer folks who have said something similar, and I want to speak up as a lesbian too. Nothing excuses using the f-word against a gay man. There should be consequences for doing so. And I'm really disappointed that some of you have used "But" in response to such.

Dirty politics aside, I'm side eyeing anyone on this app that is defending the use of a homophobic slur towards a colleague. #nzpol

The sourcing of the Sherman allegation are very obviously politically motivated. And if Burr accepted her apology at the time and didn't want to take it further I think it should have been left there. I also think it's *extremely* unacceptable to call a work colleague a faggot to their face.

Turns out the people going on about data sovereignty and the risk of chucking everything on the servers of massive overseas companies were entirely onto something and our institutions probably should have listened to them. Who could have imagined? (quite a few people, in fact)

"The post, which Stuff has obtained, included a photo of a passage from an English translation of Hitler’s 1925 autobiographical and political manifesto Mein Kampf." www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Whānau, I’m presenting on privacy, disinformation & the safety of women in public life, exploring how this shapes democratic participation and discuss solutions to ensure we empower and protect our next gen of leaders in the long run. Register at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8b883d... #nzpol

This will include the same pattern I’m seeing with politicians like Tamatha Paul, Moko Tepania and Jyoti Gondek (former Mayor from Canada). Huge thanks to @legallyfeminist.bsky.social and @sanjanah.bsky.social who continue to do crucial research in this space.

It's wearying.

I'm also confused on the Government’s position here. Stanford said she's interested in wider social media regulation, and yet Goldsmith is against them. I guess they are making a discernment between content and design, but lots of the harm is produced by both. #nzpol

I've always said is that we don't actually live in some freedom of speech utopia. The absence of regulation in online spaces has resulted in misinformation, racist and misogynist hate speech, and online violence. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

It’s very funny how this man spent years attacking mātauranga Māori for being taught in NZ schools, falsely claiming Māori spiritual belief was being promoted as science, and is now convinced the plagiarism machine is sentient with no evidence to back this up other than he fancies his AI girlfriend

Many New Zealanders would be unable to pass this test because it's not about if people fit in here it's about making it harder for them to qualify to be here. It's racism. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Abolishing a media regulator in an environment of increasing mis- and dis-information seems like a bad idea for democracy.

In summary: “… they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it… and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.” - Sarah Kendzior #nzpol

This is starting to become a "throw everything we can into the shredder before we are thrown out" government.

They call them "data centers" because “mass-surveillance centers” would be harder to sell.