97% of NZ teens go online several times a day, and 60% spend over 5 hours on social media. This results in extensive exposure to marketing for alcohol, vaping and gambling , and also a in host of mental health issues. Sign the petition if you think social media are harmful to young people.

Young people in NZ are proportionally most affected by current unemployment rates (13.9%). Therefore, this move by the government to means test their benefits is a double punishment for the young people affected and their families. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Where is the solar plan? And why are we proposing to import huge quantities of LNG, skewing our trade deficit and climate budget, when there are so many alternative options?

An explainer why the US govt needed to be shut down for a limited time.

$500,000 in political donations to coalition government are associated with fast-track projects. Surely this is a serious conflict of interest. These projects should be immediately eliminated from the fast-track list on that basis. share.google/eGpcZCT8cxf1...

Looks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵 ❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌ Seriously, no, for lots of reasons. 1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]

Losing ever more of the fantastic reputation we had under the humanitarian prime Minister Jacinda Adern. Peter's actions are deeply shameful. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ex-race-r...

Another fail by this government, showing clearly what it lacks: courage and moral fibre. 'Sad charade': Former PM slams Govt decision on Palestinian statehood www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/27/s...

#NZpol Several times now Winston Peters has not represented *NZ’s* position in some pitches at the UN, but a (tiny) minority who helped his party get over the threshold into parliament. That’s misrepresentation. Surely a party’s internal politics should not be lead NZ foreign ministry work?

“Our brain never changed, only our technology did. We may have acquired new clothes, customs, careers and gadgets, but our brain’s factory settings, our inherited traits, still belong in the Stone Age” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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The "common good" is a set of shared values about what we owe one another as citizens who are bound together in the same society. A concern for the common good—keeping the common good in mind—is a moral attitude. It recognizes that we’re all in it together.

Every country has its big lie moment. This was the right's - the economy. National inherited a AA+/AAA credit economy, one of the lowest OECD debt to GDP ratios, “better than expected” finances & positive growth expectations. Importantly Treasury always forecasted inflation drops & no recession.

Christopher Luxon thinks that the best way to increase the value of a home is to invest less and less in its upkeep

$20mil is a huge amount for the Fund, and a pittance to the govt. This ain’t about saving money or balancing the books or whatever bollocks NactF want you to think. This is a deliberate and sustained attack on science, scientists, and the entire concept of thinking and knowledge.

More pine trees, less native trees, more foreign private profit, less local land ownership, more slash, less climate mitigation, more damage to native flora & fauna (biodiversity) MORE CORPORATE EXPLOITATION OF AOTEAROA NZ. #OneTermGovernment #nzpol #Election2026 www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...

Totally agree. Once again, we are selling NZ off to foreign investors.

Who is our government really working for? Is it for every new Zealander or is it corporate profit? newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/23/a...

Labour borrowed to save lives, invest in infrastructure, healthcare, education etc. National's borrowings are going to fossil fuel companies, tobacco, landlords, tax cuts. The former provides return on investment & helps the economy - the latter is depletive (3 of 3) #nzpol #debt

I give high marks to Ardern, Roberston and the party for how they handled Covid irrespective of "hindsight economics" from Treasury Here's my reasoning -

Wow. NZ First - Winston and Shane in particular - have insulted and abused other MPs and the general public incessantly for the last couple of years. Now follows this weak excuse by Winston, following Chloe's expulsion for calling other MPs merely "spineless". Brownlee's double standards.

This law was put into place with cross-party support in 2019. That does not seem to mean anything once ideology takes over a government. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

What's to be gained by a second Covid inquiry other than taking up an inordinate amount of time and money, to generate the results politicians want? The first inquiry was good enough and judged as balanced. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Banned from parliament for the rest of the week for refusing to apologize for calling other MPs spineless, as they refuse to do anything meaningful about war crimes against civilians in Gaza What a fucked up world we live in

A very accurate description and analysis of the mess this coalition government has turned NZ into (sorry paywalled). www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/simon-wil...

FBI now operating in NZ. They have no business here.

Isn't it funny how destinies change: a short while ago the Aussies were jealous of Jacinda Adern. Now it's our turn to be jealous of Anthony Albanese.

Atlas Network is a billionaire-funded disinfo machine, waging narrative warfare to undermine democracies worldwide. It spreads lies under the guise of “freedom”—they are the GOP’s disinformation playbook in action. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue bsky.app/profile/digi...

I wonder why the msm,including RNZ,continually approach the faux, Atlas Network,front group, Taxpayers "Union" instead of Tax Justic Aotearoa? Or at least approaching BOTH for comment/analysis? www.tjanz.org

And here they are: 33 claims lodged under pay equity legislation that this coalition government ditched under URGENCY, to the detriment of 10,000s of NZ women. No amount of silly posturing and diversion games by the coalition government in Parliament can hide this fact.

I loved that haka too, and so did half of the rest of the world. Punishment for inconvenient cultural expression.

Stories like this jar with robotic, risible pronouncements from PM, & Govt. If all’s well, why are so many leaving home, one of the hardest things anyone will ever do? | ‘Hollowing out’: New Zealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

These are the pay equity claims that the government wiped out in just two days to make its budget balance. It's appalling that tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay. (Also listed in alt text)

I think people in NZ need to come to terms with how far along this pipeline we are with the current govt and its corporate cronies and fellow travellers. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Every single meeting I had today contained some form of dire commentary on pay equity. Women know. We see what this is. Don’t obey in advance - amplify those writing about this, the politicians fighting back, tautoko activists and unions organising. Sign petitions, join protests - fight back. /

How did we go from the country that was first in the world for Women’s Suffrage, to this destroying pay equity for women bullshit???

Circulate this, please. (I will be at the Rolleston one) Anyone got any other venues? #PayEquity #Protests #nzpol

If you care about pay equity and wellbeing for women in NZ, sign this petition!

The main problem with evolution: our dna does not pass on learnings like this.

Is this really who we are? Making budget gains on the backs of women who largely serve everyone of us - nurses, carers - while pretending this is an urgent matter. You can't go any lower than this. National could have said No but they haven't. Complicity in action. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Chippy sounds genuinely fired up. Good. Hopefully this teaches Labour to act like a real opposition party. "They're stealing money from nurses and teachers and giving it to landlords and tobacco companies" is the easiest, slam-dunk election message to take into 2026.

Yes, I am fuming over this. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Excerpts from Nicola Willis & Erica Stanford’s third reading speeches in FAVOUR of the landmark Equal Pay Amendment Bill. The government should be ashamed of this surprise attack on women under urgency in their fight for equal pay. Link to speeches here: www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansar...

Let's learn from Australia and throw our NZ government out at the next election and revert to normality. It won't be too difficult - this govt alienates just about every segment of society. Kieran McAnulty was in Aussie watching it all: let him copy what they did! www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

New Zealand coalition government looking more like MAGA every day. I thought they couldn't go any lower but they have: repealing pay equity legislation under urgency. The reason: balancing a debt-heavy budget with 2 bio saved. Certainly not women's wellbeing. 😡 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This woman's story is pretty remarkable. "Ali France, the Labor candidate who is the first person to unseat an opposition leader at an election, is a disability advocate, former journalist and world champion para-athlete. France lost her eldest son, Henry, to leukaemia last year."

$10B for planes & bombs over the next 4 years yet they can't find the money to build hospitals or schools I hate this govt

Many of you might know me as a former Secretary of Labor. Or from my TikToks. But my true passion is teaching. When I decided to retire, I wanted to do it quietly. Instead, my colleagues at Inequality Media Civic Action decided to make a film about my last class.  https://www.thelastclassfilm.com/