“The months ahead may not be easy.” What a change, hearing a leader talk in terms of preparedness for months, not weeks, and hearing them outline immediate actions taken by the government to protect the country from the current crisis rather than blaming the last lot at every possible opportunity.🫠

What do you want to bet that our PM is not addressing our nation because doing “woke” things like widening support for struggling communities, encouraging work from home, providing free public transport etc is way too much to bear for a govt unable to grasp what governing in a crisis actually means.

it's difficult to overstate how dramatically the scientific climate has changed in new zealand in the last 3-4 years I've previously referred publicly to our science policy as 'batshit' and to our prime minister as 'an idiot' for overseeing it this report is solid evidence for that word choice

Yo why are both PMs of UK and Australia addressing their nations this evening 👀 where’s our CEO goddamnit

We are now 80% of the way through this Parliamentary term, and still more than half of the bills passed by the 54th Parliament have been rushed under urgency. The latest stats are live on nzpt.cjs.nz now. Do you think it will drop below 50%? #nzpol ⬇️🧵

Dr Bex asking the vital questions as always 👇

Politicians across the board have let vulnerable communities down when it comes to MSD “policy”. I firmly believe the abysmal benefit levels and a clear culture of disdain for those MSD are supposed to support directly contribute to negative physical and mental health outcomes - it is unacceptable.

See the comments and quotes for a very clear constituent demonstration for progressive politicians who may be tempted not to act in line with the values they say they have. People won’t buy what you’re selling if you can’t back up your words with tangible action.

It’s been 5 weeks since NYU Langone ended care. Mamdani’s office has not directed H+H to absorb patients or enforced NYC human rights law against the hospitals stopping care. He also has not answered multiple trans journalists questions on if he will commit to doing so.

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I have so many questions about this but mainly why is the Prime Minister of New Zealand behaving like he’s prepared talking points en route to a community barbecue where they are wheeling him out for an obligatory two minutes before they announce the raffle winner.

Why is this in the Times. Why does this take 13 paragraphs to say absolutely nothing and at the same time consist entirely of stupid potshots at Labour. Why does this do absolutely nothing to address the multiple issues at hand. Why does this fail to mention the fuel levels which also make no sense.

FUS said they'd still work with Greens if they took ownership of the issues Actually pretty sickened by the response from Davidson and the Party here, the main issue being FUS *accepted* the candidacy decision - but the Greens focus solely on litigating that rather than the disrespectful process

Another example of ideology & austerity prioritised ahead of people by the current ‘govt’ &’Health’ NZ

Fabulous news 🎉💚🎉

"A Frank Advice report released in late-2024 showed keeping dental out of the public healthcare system was costing the country $2.5 billion in lost productivity each year and $3.1b each year in reduced quality of life."

I research online harassment and abuse, and the way the Greens have responded to the stochastic terror campaign against Benjamin Doyle seems to be structural victim-blaming in ways that will shut out a wide variety of vitally diverse voices. #nzpol

Highly recommend this reading from Fired Up Stilettos. BTW to the Chair of the committee, it is not a serious offence to consensually send nudes to other consenting adults. If those were leaked in any way, THAT is a serious offence. #nzpol

Kia ora @greens.org.nz please sort this. Side note but I’d trust someone with lived experience of sex work any day to fight fiercely on behalf of women and NB folks in Parliament. I firmly believe candidates from vulnerable communities see policy gaps faster and more clearly than those who aren’t.

Ask them why they’re there…and they’ll tell you it’s as a consequence of your decisions.” Watch this and you’ll see why nonsense articles in the flavour of the NZ media’s usual misogyny are starting to appear. Tamatha Paul is the kind of force that generates change - no wonder they’re terrified.

“Red tape” presumably meaning “the rules that prevent us from descending into the kind of chaos that invariably means wealthy people get wealthier and the rest of us just have to manage or not manage in a crisis situation and the government doesn’t care either way as long as the wealthy are happy”.

Imagine if a left coalition had been voted in at the last election - we’d have - an electric hybrid ferry - be 2.5 years further into renewables - a better economy to face this fuel crisis - less poverty & homelessness - a govt taking proactive steps for the crisis - a more positive outlook

Great to see the Greens backing this kaupapa, and solidarity with everyone supporting today.

Wonder which young Māori woman in the political sphere will now be targeted by the NZ media now that Tory Whanau has moved to Australia (in part due to being targeted by the NZ media) 🤔

possibly good or outright fascist? Who could possibly say, and why not present this as an absolute dichotomy with an utter extreme on one side? - nz journalists apparently

Greens have been amazing. Govt in waiting vibes Long may it continue

In crisis situations it’s vital to have leaders who can make immediate calls based on expert advice and lived expertise, and communicate those calls with clarity and empathy. If you’ve never seen @maramadavidson.bsky.social speak, she has this in spades, and Chlöe alongside. We deserve good leaders.

They are building the lifeboat while the ship is taking on water.” Clear advice on the current crisis - and a very strong argument for why New Zealand should be at Level 2 already in preparation for a move to Levels 3 and 4.

I just read this all the way to the end and oh god #nzpol

With the fuel crisis , this cut couldn’t come at a worse time for disabled people. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/590...

i've been trying to work out why the whole 'we want people to decide for themselves' thing during this crisis makes my skin crawl. i realise now it's because rich people have far more options in what they decide leaving poor people with no choice. Wealthy, sorted and not panicking.

Thanks @maramadavidson.bsky.social and @greens.org.nz for pushing this.

Some good news is that Covid numbers look like they’re trending down - obviously stay vigilant, get boosted etc but putting this a little lower for now on the fun list of crises all happening at the same time.

Purely based on Covid vibes I wonder if they are emphasising level 1 in preparation for a move shortly to level 2. From there we can get to 3-4 more easily pending what the US coterie of psychopaths does in the coming days. Of course we’d need to work out how levels 1/2 and 3/4 are different first🤔🫠

Mate, the public figured out the fuel crisis was scary when petrol prices crossed $3 during a cost of greed crisis The problem is, none of us believe the _government_ have worked it out yet.

“It’s a scary prospect and I’m not 100% sure the public have quite worked it out yet.” My dude, it is literally your job to inform the public. If anyone hasn’t worked it out I’d suggest it’s because you’ve just introduced four response levels that all say similar things which is… not a comms plan.

Phase 1 is the same as Phase 2. Phase 3 is the same as Phase 4. No one knows how the latter will be implemented

“NZ’s rejection of near-unanimously adopted changes to global health rules was decided by just two ministers without Cabinet approval.” Thank you to Marc and Newsroom for staying on this story - a clear & despicable abuse of power that absolutely has harmful implications for the New Zealand public.

The exclusion of trans women is always a bellwether for greater exclusion. The #Olympics is yet another sphere in which the constant pathological drive to exclude anyone who isn’t a privileged white cis man has become louder than lived experience voices, experts, common sense, and human rights.

The focus, as usual, will be on trans athletes here to get buy in from everyone but the real impact will be on all female athletes and will disproportionately fall on intersex athletes. It's going to be a horror show. I expect legal challenges will eventually overturn this but it will take decades.

Men do not have to take these invasive tests. They don't have to pay for them. It's inherently discriminatory to female athletes, and especially intersex athletes who for all other purposes remain legally female.

Misogynists using trans women as a stick to beat all women.

People don’t line “wealth distribution” cause it seems like we are taking other peoples hard earned wealth and distributing to random people when the wealth is acquired off the backs of workers, public infrastructure, public education, public health, social services, regulations, trade agreements.

The wealthy people are not SELF FUCKING MADE. No one is self made you need economic stability, certainty of goods/quality/delivery, you need people in good health, with good education to execute. You need people to iterate on your vision. You need roads, you need governments to regulate everything.

NZ could well clean up their donations act. At present it is loosey-goosey and suspect as. We deserve much better. #nzpol

“Over the past ten years New Zealand has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, New Zealand averaged only 13.4 days per year.” Quick Q - how does recovery work with a rates cap in place and no govt. support🤔

Petition for journalists to stop reporting the current situation as a cost of living crisis when it’s actually a distribution of wealth crisis.

This seems like a very bad sign that should influence current warning levels about travel to the US.

A red weather warning is in place in Northland, with the worst of the downpours expected to hit on Thursday afternoon.

Absolutely this! 👇 #nzpol