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🚨🚨🚨 LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENY: If your home or business is on the waterfront between Ōwhiro Bay and Breaker Bay you MUST evacuate before 9.00am Tuesday

Same applies to Luxon #nzpol

Feeling proud for my #opera singer daughter Emily Mwila who is finally getting breakthroughs in her career - this is her hitting the high notes in #CarminaBurana's #Dulcissime - it's a hell of thing doing Olympic-level breathing training for years so you can sing like this youtu.be/NuVlYoYHowc?...

Whatever beneficiaries get as an accommodation supplement should be what politicians get. If they don’t think it is enough the. They need to raise the benefit allowances. #nzpol If people earning 6 figure salaries can’t afford to live on that then people earning under $25k a year certainly can’t.

Tax is largely a way to stop rich people from hoarding all of the money and resources and associated economic power. It should primarily be a way to balance things out between groups of people with a secondary function of incentivising and disincentivising behaviours in the economy.

It's worth noting that despite careful technical analysis that strongly indicates a connection between Viory and Ruptly, they both vigorously deny it, which rather makes it look like they'd really prefer the connection wasn't public.

Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]

Cool story bro but from the cheap seats it sure looks like Labour saved lives and did its best to save businesses in extremely trying circumstances and all you’ve ever done is blame them for responding in a way that put the community first.

AoNZ: this is your public service announcement in an election year that you should absolutely be following @musicalchairs.bsky.social if you want to know how the economy actually works, and seeing through the nonsense both major parties preach #nzpol

Oh dear God!!! This is exactly what happens when dogs and cats lay down together. 😳 #Caturday

Kegsbreath says we're freeloaders? Come here and say that you fucking war criminal

I thought I'd grab a coffee, and it turned out to be a coffee and a mate kit

As far as I can make out the current govt has raided everything with the sole aim of propping up unsustainable businesses. Faking growth via keeping housing inflation stratospheric, propping up fossil fuels by defunding alternatives, and lollies for the offshore tobacco industry

The sooner everyone gets shot of the delusion that you can have a civil society based on the rule of law, while letting the lawless rich and powerful say "LOL, fuck you, make me" at every turn the better.

More stories about how the Housing market, the reliable engine of GDP which does nothing for the actual economy, is stalled out. That's this governments problem, they're cutting shit and hoping suddenly we go back to 6% house price p/a. Nobody can afford that, they've hit the ceiling. Uh oh

Every time she says that - I disagree - increasing the accommodation supplement - that's a massive sugar hit for landlords - it's a huge transfer of tax $ and manipulates the market in their favour #nzpol

Literally EVERYTHING we are fighting about & for could be solved by taxing the rich. EVERYTHING Fucking housing, fucking energy, fucking social inequality, fucking environment, fucking cost of living, fucking everything. STOP VOTING NEOLIBERAL SOCK PUPPETS FOR THE MEGA RICH End of transmission

Its not my govt. Luxon has a puppet govt with strings pulled by lobbyists, donors and people with so much money that no political party can compete with. #nzpol

It says a lot for how desensitised we've got to naked venal corruption that the mainstream are pretty chirpy with the CoC's money for access to writing policy and money for landlords like us in the CoC. And as I recall, tobacco policy mysteriously appeared on the Minister's desk from who knows where

These were pretty much adjacent today - Nicola Gaston and

MPs from National, New Zealand First and Act have purchased or built at least 25 new rentals, investment properties or second homes since changing tax and tenancy laws to favour landlords. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...

Mark Mitchell has bought a new holiday home in Bali? Alright for some... thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...

Opinion: Some MPs leave us to conclude they come to Parliament not to serve the people but to squeeze them for as much as they can. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/27/s...

Tonight I was approached to sign a petition. Turned out is was to reduce the number of people in Parliament to 65. Unfortunately my immediate reaction - oh hell no! - meant that I missed the opportunity to pin him down with questions. So that's one electorate MP per 85,000 voters?

In need of lashings of queer joy a big catchup purchase of Wellington queer speculative writers from Unity with Rem Wigmore, Tamsyn Muir's, M Darusha Wehm and Marie Cardno. I'm hoping for a new Andi Buchanan soon @remedy.bsky.social @mariecardno.bsky.social @darusha.ca @andiwrites.bsky.social

Who could have guessed that slashing your tax base by 1) slashing swathes of tax payers 2) reducing tax on landlords and further subsidising them 3) reducing tax from tobacco and backing off harm reduction and 4) throwing half a billon in money for ships down the loo www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

#nzpol "These basic facts inevitably lead to very serious claims of corruption ... Regular people don't get to give secret documents & have backroom meetings with the NZ Prime Minister & then have the law changed in their favour." Chlöe Swarbrick @greens.org.nz 24 May www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA26...

Aotearoa timeline cleanse #ToitūTeTiriti ✨61,855✨ "Register now. Don't say I never told you." @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social ✍️ forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Mike Smith's case reminds us the lengths CoC will go to to withhold docs. eventually forced to disclose -> led to this ⬆️ Urgent Inquiry!

I know most of my bluesky folks know this, but we live in wealthy coutries, and we should be doing better in sharing that

new zealander everlee wihongi - kidnapped by ICE 41 days ago - was meant to take the stand today in front of a wisconsin judge. but ICE had other plans. webworm has the latest on this story - please RT, and share: www.webworm.co/everleemay21/

I can still be surprised that 75% of Kentucky GOP voters are desperate to protect a paedophile, crime and treason network. Just ew

Last time National flirted with transphobia by voting against the BDMRR, I happened to be at a cafe with a number of Young Nats. They were not happy. As I recall, it was raised at their conference a few days later. And they were not happy with the dismissive scornful response

National thinks the definition of "woman" is someone you pay less because otherwise the economy falls down

Let's test this. Tutira mai nga iwi

I'm not sure anyone has juxtaposed our new 'chop the public service and replace 'em with AI' public sector policy with AI poster boy policy advice. Where did Trump's tariff rates come from? Who decided a 15% tax on exports by the Heard Island penguins was going to make a new Golden Age? AI

"Kiwi Proudly" managed from.... 🧐 🤔 #nzpol

Great stuff National; Things are so much better when we fail children starting at 5yo

I don’t think most pakeha realise how protective Te Tiriti is for them and for our country. #nzpol

You know that sneaky-arsed work around to backdoor undermining Te Tiriti? Well there's something that you can do about it. There's a Treaty Clause Review Claim 'if you are of non-Māori descent you will be added to the list of kaitautoko / supporters of the claim' forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Underrated post. I was always keen on going along to the "preserve our heritage and traditions" chest beatings with a brass band, and morris dancers and giving them an extended burst of the Floral Dance

I do expect the nation under whose passport I'm travelling to care about my wellbeing at least to the level of keeping me out of a concentration camp. Perhaps I'm hopelessly naive. #nzpol

A MASSIVE part of NZ's cultural identity is being the brave kid on the playground who stands up to bullies despite their size, and letting Donald Trump abduct one of our girls for absolutely no reason other than cravenly sucking up to power is not something "ordinary Kiwis" will buy into

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

On Thursday I received my paper copy of the Far Right Playbook, and it's a goodie. Only problem is that I might need an epub version to be able to read it easily as the font is a wee bit small, and holding it open is a bit of a struggle for the munted thumb joint. farrightplaybook.nz

This country had a smaller tax base in the past, so how did we build hospitals, rail, roads and bridges and at the same time have world class education and healthcare? We taxed the wealthy hard. They were still wealthy, and society was better off.