This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).

There has not been enough $ to properly fund the system for at least 40 years. This govt. has made it clear that it wants to extract money (commercialisation) from a chronically underfunded system. If we are to see improvement in public good services, we need to organise politically. 1/2

As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!

Reposting with alt-text because it feels good to share wonderful news!

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

The “debate”. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Landlords do not provide housing they’re in a shoddy business that offers very little protection to those who need to rent. Yeah yeah not all landlords, not all men either but lens.monash.edu/@politics-so... A great post on Instagram by Sophie Labelle. www.instagram.com/p/DRc7BI0DEZ...

Fossil fuel companies were given confidential drafts of legislation during their (successful) two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban - new reporting from me via the OIA www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Remember they have already changed how our vote are counted excluding up to 400k voters and removed voting rights from prisoners who tend to vote against this gov They've put major powers in the hands of ministers And now they continue war on Democracy, centralizing power away from locals #nzpol

Your household water bill brought to you by Veolia, GE Water, and minority shareholders Coca Cola Amatil. Your local hospital brought to you by SERCO. Your local primary school brought to you by Crimson Education, Google and OpenAI.

Democracy for sale. Most corrupt government ever

The abuse Julie Fairey copped after being HIT BY A CAR is exactly what happens when we treat online harm as background noise. Women in politics bear the brunt, especially women of colour. Until NZ actually regulates platforms properly, this will keep happening #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Applying systemic and sustained misogynist bullying and intimidation to keep talented women in their place then weaponising any reaction to demonise them for being "angry", "crazy" or "emotional"; just everyday normal life for the tragic mediocre old boys network.

Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never. If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.

The deep disgusting irony in putting a child through all this, asking them "have you had enough time for yourself lately?" and "have you had fun with your friends?" and when they say no using it to take away their right to healthcare

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA." This is what's happening in epidemiology.

wait lmao why would i believe national are going to increase kiwisaver contributions when *this term* they cut them. And it was a policy, not "oh something had to be cut to pay for something more important", they said "we don't want to pay this anymore. for the budget"

Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National. Don't believe National on Kiwisaver. #nzpol

A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities. #COP30

Stop worrying about terraforming Mars and start preventing the venusification of Earth.

Test Cricket is a boring slow five day event that ends in a draw The Ashes: Hold my beer

Wassup with asset sales? Why is a wealth tax a bit meh? Quick 🧵 Glib analogy, but life in the neoliberal economy is like monopoly. You work, earn cash, and pay for things you need as you go round the board. If you earn more than you spend, you can buy an asset - some shares, a house etc... [1/n]

I’m loving this movement taking off in the UK. 🇬🇧 Proof that being super wealthy doesn’t automatically make you a super wanker! Props to Gary Stevenson for putting his money where his mouth is. 💸🤑 #nzpol #TaxWealthMore #TaxWorkLess #PatrioticMillionaires

Imo this is on the same spectrum as the PoliceNZ scandal. Attacking women should be a disqualifier for any role and definitely an sppoitment that gives you power over others #nzpol 1/2 Women’s lives, our reputations, our safety are discounted. Misogny in action. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Bullshit alert: some NZ politicians (dishonestly) claiming that the puberty blocker ban is about "saving" kids from "unnecessary" medical interventions and "letting them make up their own minds" No, that's *what puberty blockers* do. It gives those kids time to work out their own identity.

Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa: sexualwellbeing.org.nz/puberty-bloc...

Professional organisations and medical bodies are already coming out strongly against the ban. The NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses: www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/med...

Jaimie Veale, the founding president of PATHA and Director of the Trans Health Research Lab at Waikato has written an excellent op-ed for the Conversation: "The government has placed a burden of proof on puberty blockers that we do not place on other paediatric care."

Weird how this works EVERY SINGLE TIME

The key to tax isn’t - how much tax will people pay for xyz its if we print money ( as we did through covid) we have to tax to bring it back otherwise ( Gary’s economics) it will all end up in the hands of the wealthy & they will out bid us on assets - it has to be tax targeted at the wealthy.

PhD student looks at the lie behind the political line: 'NZ can't afford it' #economy #health #payequity #education #infrastructure #publicservices #jobs #Neoliberalism #austerity #AtlasNetwork #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Half the emails alleging serious sexual offending by former deputy #police commissioner #JevonMcSkimming went to MP #MarkMitchell’s electorate office -& at least one was answered by his sister-months before the minister says he was told anything #SackMitchell #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

NZ Human Rights Commission: “It is a clear breach of their human rights and will cause unnecessary harm and distress to vulnerable young people”

Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial, according to results published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

The Andrew Little situation strongly implies he just confidently assumed he could manage Chung fine, and put zero thought into it beyond that. Which means he also just assumed Tory Whanau was doing a bad job when he could cruise through. And that's disrespectful/racist/sexist as shit. #nzpol

Auckland’s traffic is bad because we built all our houses in Massey and Papakura to avoid upsetting the inhospitable residents of our inner city suburbs thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-1...

an MP pushing for this is literally the science minister, Shane Reti (he's in the district the road would service, obviously). Any journo can quote me: Chris Luxon is an idiot if he thinks the country needs a single road more than it needs an entire science establishment. Reti too. #nzpol

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

Yes, but what about the cost of new PORT inftastructure?? Journalist Nick James hasnt put that question. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This was always a great radio programme. Informative, well-researched. I always learned something. It's disgraceful it is being cancelled. The UK govt's attitude to the World Service is profoundly stupid. The BBC is one of the greatest projections of soft power for the UK

It really is depressing what an old bully Peters is

NZ’s electric car sales dropped 70% last year while global sales rose, but the Transport Minister says his policies aren’t to blame. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/18/g...

If only NZ was as ambitious as... any country other than Iceland.

So, a breach of confidentiality, improper access to official information, and potential misuse of office for private or political advantage. Should trigger: an immediate investigation KC or OAG?

"The obstacles to limiting warming to below ever-more-dangerous levels remain political, rather than physical or technological." But it won't be done with CO₂ removal (CDR) technologies because the obstacles to scaling CDR are political, social, financial, physical, and technological.

Its always the Women leaders in Labour who do any substantive progressive change while the cis white men, Cunliffe, Little, Hipkins get to play it safe through milquetoast centrism even though their privilege will make it so they wouldn't suffer attacks as severe as Helen or Jacinda received. #nzpol