Buried in the detail about reducing earthquake strengthening is the removal of requirements for disabled access and fire safety. You know who does that? Sociopaths.

This quote is from a few months ago but if we’re talking about the face of New Zealand, it’s never looked so small, and mean, and utterly bereft of a moral compass.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Yet another indictment of the current government’s decision to host an FBI base in New Zealand - this is disgusting and anti-trans extremism has absolutely no place here. 🏳️‍⚧️

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

"A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023" Any one of those five acts would be genocide www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Nat MP Joseph Mooney is trying to get a NZ academic fired for saying it's inappropriate to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk in Parliament. Does anyone else see the irony of the free speech proponents? Dutta didn't call for violence - Mooney encouraged a witch hunt & attacking academic freedom #nzpol

I see Shane Jones is telegraphing the same 'Great Replacement' narrative, & lie Christchurch terrorist used to justify massacre of 51 Muslims in March 2019. This is not political debate. This is violent extremist rhetoric fuelling racism, endangering communities, & ripping apart social cohesion.

The Local Govt Bill might sound dull but it’s anything but. It strips out councils’ responsibility for wellbeing, accessibility & inclusion. That means fewer safe footpaths, fewer inclusive playgrounds, fewer spaces where disabled people can belong. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

New Zealand lost its AA+ rating under Key, and regained it under Ardern. If political journalists were willing to include that sort of context it would be much harder for Nicky No-boats to lecture the left on fiscal responsibility. #nzpol

A reminder for anyone submitting on the Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill today, in the last few hours before the submission deadline at 1pm. The NZ media silence ahead of this deadline has been loud. Greens have done a template here: action.greens.org.nz/paeora_subsg... Here’s the link:

Would someone like to bring the TPU up to speed on what is happening to women's rights currently in Argentina - it's grim. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I've said it before but there is a cohort of National who are directly coordinating and aligned with ACT and that's partly why this government is so overtly subservient to ACT policy and ideology www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

“Of further concern was the fact that the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill, currently before Parliament, included a clause scrapping the requirement for the health plan to be scrutinised by the Auditor-General at all, she said.” Seems fine that there’s almost total radio silence on this Bill. 🫠

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

YASS WHAEA!!! #nzpol

Courtesy of Shamubeel Eaqub, Chief Economist at Simplicity... 74,000 jobs gone. SEVENTYFOUR THOUSAND JOBS!!!! This government is destroying AoNZ simplicity.kiwi/learn/resear... #NZPol

Remember Seymour played a part in derailing Jago coming to justice sooner than would have been if he’d sent the victim to the police instead of a connected lawyer. He was complicit. #nzpol #BHN #onetermgovernment www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Worth noting this is not a "research paper": it's an unpublished, un-peer-reviewed university research project—essentially a 10K word essay—on liberal economics written for a Master's degree in political science. No actual conservation biologists involved. The author is now a policy advisor for ACT.

Sometimes I forget because of how much clarity Alaa speaks about the situation in Gaza and how helpful she is to other people that she is still just a mom of three living through a famine and she needs help chuffed.org/project/help...

As a doctor who attends these sorts of things, I can tell you 2 things with certainty: 1) these are on a rotating schedule planned years in advance 2) no one considers advertising rules when planning these (e.g. Europe has conferences and strict rules) It's embarrassing that RNZ published this.

On June 24 I wrote to the PM complaining about David Seymour’s behaviour towards my academic colleagues, which I argued was in breach of the Cabinet manual. Today I received a reply - a big brush off that shows the PM will do nothing. #nzpol

“Some political analysts have suggested that the refusal to name the strategy is the strategy. This Government doesn’t need to tear up Te Tiriti on the steps of Parliament-they’re doing it quietly, clause by clause, commission by commission, until nothing remains but ceremonial language.” Important👇

THIS HAS GOT TO STOP 🛑 David Seymour could get someone seriously injured or worse! Police complaint has been made. Please sign & share 🙏🏻 #nzpol #NotMyDPM #OneTermGovernment #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #Aotearoa #NZ our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...

'Since the early 2000s, researchers have used the term "stochastic terrorism" to describe a way of indirectly threatening people. Nobody is specifically told "harm these people", so the person putting them at risk has plausible deniability.' Seymour knows exactly what he is doing. #NzPol

The last election where there were no women candidates for Mayor of Wellington was 1986.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

ICYMI: A Newsroom analysis shows the Government has passed more bills through Parliament via urgency without a select committee process than any since at least 1987. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/29/g...

ANYONE can make a submission, whānau!!! You don’t have to be 18. You don’t have to be a registered voter. You don’t even have to live in Aotearoa Anyone in the world can have their say on this bill Get it done whanau! It doesn’t matter how it gets in. What matters is that it does.- Takuta #NZPol

The withdrawal of Karen Wyld’s A$15,000 fellowship for a Stolen Generations novel, due to a Gaza-related tweet, is part of a recent pattern.

This Budget Day, a reminder that violence is a spectrum. Framing around “necessary” cost savings that does not talk about harm/impact to vulnerable communities is itself a form of violence and control. Media, consider the role you may be playing today in enforcing harm caused by patriarchal norms.

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

It needs to be amplified that people on benefits in NZ cannot endure four more years of this. The cruel, dehumanising treatment, the absolute pittance to live on, the constant commentary around value, the astronomical costs of food and power. It’s a thousand relentless cuts by this government. 🧵

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

Sorry I'm not available to be lectured on "caring about victims" from a lobby group that defended a man who chased down and killed a 15-year-old Māori boy, for allegedly tagging his garage door

Abortion care quietly shelved amid staff shortage #NZPol www.labour.org.nz/news-abortio...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/fa...

David Seymour "New Zealanders overwhelmingly want this" No we fucking don't you Atlas gaslighting fake Canadian shite Rimmer impersonator lycra clad twerking cockwomble racist, 90% OPPOSE the bill. Feck off Spanky, you're full of shit #NZPol

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold