Exactly. This makes as much sense as saying we're firing people and replacing them with Excel The tool might help with their jobs but it doesn't mean it can do their jobs

A reminder that this year is an election year. - Public service cuts are NOT inevitable. - Depriving the Public Sector to get "efficiencies" and "savings" is NOT inevitable. - Privatisation of our public resources is NOT inevitable. Register to Vote. Get your whānau to Vote. #nzpol

Clearly they're just fans of the illuminating sci-fi novel "Don't Turn the Country into a Torment Nexus"

GET THEIR ASSES FRAN

Breaking: the Government is attacking disabled people and their carers. Again. #nzpol www.emilywrites.co.nz/breaking-the...

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

try my patented "couch-to-20-mile-bike-ride" training program. simply get off your couch where you have been rotting for three years and ride your bike 20 miles

In fairness, the "one" solution can also be played as a fill-in-the-blank: ___ the rich

Choo choo choose a better way than $50bn of Roads of National Party Significance Vote @greens.org.nz 💚

I'm always dissapointed how well immigrant bashing seems to work in nz politics. NZ is small, like without thinking too hard, my dad, my grandparents, my sister in law, many colleagues and friends. All immigrants. Everyone has immigrants in their lives, it's just disappointing people fall for it.

Select committee report on the Conservation Amendment Bill isn't due till after the election. So the message is clear: if you want to save nature, vote out the regime. bills.parliament.nz/v/6/bd7d0f89...

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

i think i figured out why the term "cost of living" bothers me so much—it's completely supplanted the word "poverty" it's a term that refers to the comfortable being a little less comfortable, and not the uncomfortable being pushed to the brink

pretty wild that Seymour directly threatens RNZ, both he and Luxon claim he didn’t, and then RNZ publishes that mostly verbatim without response from media OR free speech experts of any kind, let alone opposition MPs do they STILL really think they can appease their way out of this??

Under Luxon's New Zealand, democracy is where 5 submissions are considered in support of dissolving the Ministry for the Environment, while 583 submissions OPPOSING its dissolution are put aside and noted as a statistic. Aotearoa deserves a better government than this. #nzpol

On the left we should be glad to see someone more radical than ourselves, even if we don't agree. It tells us that we're not last hold-out of our own overton window

"These are roles that have been chronically undervalued for decades. A year on, workers are no closer to justice...This isn't about one claim or one sector. It's about whether the law itself now creates a system that structurally disadvantages women." #nzpol

Lyin' Luxon continues to lie #nzpol

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

I know it's my thing but GOD DAMN the ferries thing is so fucking emblematic of this government. While they're being implored to spend more money to prop up horse racing they've fucked the key infrastructure project linking the mainland to the north, come on man this is mental

upskilling for the industrial revolution by training to be steam

The next Breakfast PM slot should start “Previously the prime minister Christopher Luxon would have been joining us. But he’s a coward. Joining us instead is Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson. Kia ora Marama.”

Thats great but he really should've known how to do these things before becoming Prime Minister.

We are a deeply unserious country

Look. At the VERY LEAST they should be asking us to conserve fuel and stop going on unnecessary trips. They should be making public transport free. They should be doing something about rationing diesel for food transport. DOOOOOO SOMETHING YOU FUCKING LOOOOOOOOOSERS #nzpol

The government is cutting the Total Mobility subsidy — transport for disabled people with no other options. Down from 75% to 65%. From July 1, card holders pay 35% out of pocket. One councillor voted no: “This is not efficiency. It is isolation, a missed appointment, and lost independence.” #nzpol

i’m mostly optimistic about the growing left media ecosystem, but when one of the bigger & more successful outfits, BHN, tows an incoherent party line against a sex worker collective it indicates a commitment to parliamentary access that is incredibly disappointing. I expected much better than that.

The NZ Association of Scientists rightly highlights the damage being done to research funding & institutions by the government. Taking Aotearoa down the path of researcher exodus, short-termist ‘do applied research that can immediately be monetised’, & lack of capacity to do research for long term.

the OTHER thing about this is it means the track is WIDE OPEN for Labour or the Greens to just be INCREDIBLY forthright on economic populism, really take it through the roof and compete in rhetoric with NZF "Oh yeah, we'd do that but BETTER, you can actually trust us AND without the weird shit"

Yeah it's fucked that taxpayers paid for the equipment for them to generate electricity cheaply and cleanly and they turn around and just use it as a way to extract money from us again

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

maybe we shouldnt have fucking AI anymore jesus christ.

This might help explain why this lot are so bad at their job: they think that actually governing would be “communism”.

No amount of vetting stops misogynist, racist, homophobic disinformation campaigns against candidates/mps. What stops this is standing by your candidates. Preparing them. Protecting them. Calling it out. Gah!

Heads up that the trailer for the new hbo Harry potter series cinematically evokes conversion therapy targeting trans girls from the very first moments (a woman viciously cutting Harry potters hair while reminding him that he's just a normal boy and nothing special while he winces in pain)

I would actually pay to have him moved further away.

"What would you do different?" The Greens' offer to support the Nats if they did some specific decent policies was (imho) brilliant.

Yip Hipkins couldn't bring himself to do something entirely sensible because it would be a tacit approval of what the Greens had already done. He is not popular as is shown by the fact that he only polls slightly ahead of the worst PM in my memory (which goes back to Holyoake).

*cries in Aotearoan*

I'm an alumna and an ex-staff member, and am shocked that they'd even consider this.

It cannot be repeated enough that we need to rapidly decarbonise our economy, particularly transport. This has benefits for climate change as well as energy resilience. Policy support for more buses, trains, ferries; protected cycleways; safe walking; e-bikes; e-cars; e-trucks.

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Interesting comparison.. #nzpol

Union folks, now is the time to talk to your reps about nudging your employer to allow increased remote working as fuel prices rise.

New shorter ferries: $596 million. Paid to Hyundai for zero big ferries: $222 million. Total cost of ferries: $818 million. So we're paying $409 million per smaller rail enabled ferry. We would have paid $225 million per larger rail enabled ferry. Saving money? Pull the other one.

Don’t forget to spread your legs instead of using the petrol car

"fiscally responsible" n. Choosing to lose money on infrastructure by refusing to invest in it until absolutely forced. (+another reason to be mad about iReX)

This is ludicrous #nzpol NZ must fight for fuel security says the person who won’t invest in people, public transport, solar, wind power, renewables, cycleways, or any solutions not wedded and embedded to the oil and gas industry. You can’t austerity your way out of this you headless chook.