Following on from his nonsense about studying one leader a year, I want a journalist, straight-faced to ask "Which leader did you study in 2025 and what lessons have you learned for your leadership of the coalition in the run up to the election?".

Can kiwis retweet this until a journalist asks what Prime Ministerial thing has Prime Minister Chris Luxon done since he started back at work on the 3rd of January. The country is back working but I’ve just seen so far this year his Spotify picks. He has not made any comments on events a PM should

#nzpol “Dr. Breman’s signature on the statement indicates the support of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, which is statutorily independent from the New Zealand government”. Tired old self-serving populist piece of shit should stick to his fucking lane.

@henrycooke.bsky.social

NON-consensual sexual images made using Grok are to become a criminal offence in the UK from this week. New Zealand should do the same. www.thenational.scot/news/2575982...

Flagging Grok’s popularity in New Zealand is a dangerous distraction from stark reality: this surge is driven by tool's weaponisation to nudify women, & create CSAM. Celebrating moral failures that prioritise engagement over safety is so emblematic of Twitter/X. @legallyfeminist.bsky.social #nzpol

@henrycooke.bsky.social in your political editor hat do you know if the PM has done anything Prime Ministerial in 2026? Just wondering as it appears the majority of NZ is back at work and I’ve yet to see him. I could be very wrong but am interested as I imagine the media would be as well. Cheers 👍😃

Comment: New Zealand may not be directly affected by the Trump administration's military manoeuvres – but it is eroding the international order we rely on.

It’s Tuesday 13 January 2026 and I’ve yet to see PM Chris Luxon in the news talking about anything remotely Prime Ministerial. Is that really the case? For all I know he has gone swimming with ex (drowned) Australian PM Harold Holt. Seriously though - I feel all of NZ is working bar him.

After eating a particularly spicy curry Jesus asks if she has a match so that she can safely come in to the en-suite 😆.

2025 Donald Trump study ticked off - 2026 David Brent study started.

He knows David Brent is a fictional character right?

March 2025 - Winston Peters travelled to the US to ask the US “what it wants from NZ”. In July, Kash Patel opened the FBI’s first ever office here. In October, Judith Collins caught up with her “friend” Kristi Noem, also meeting with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. NZ cannot be friends with this👇

This medical data breach is hitting close to home: 45 Northland GP practices directly affected, 400k private medical documents dating back to 2017, 130k patients affected. Highlights the need to view healthcare IT systems and data personnel as important investments rather than just expenses/costs.

Incredibly angry about this free advertising for Ikea, Spotify and other overseas companies Hey dufus why don't you use your voice to highlight Aotearoa NZ companies and all the good things they are doing Maybe charity organizations You're the PM of NZ, not some overseas companies lackey🤦 #nzpol

@chewienz.bsky.social Seems the perfect slogan for #BHN as it’s a new election year

Kick out the pricks in '26!

It’s not great how much clearer it keeps getting that the younger half of the right has no politics at all and is animated purely by a hatred of women (and the non-white men they believe stole all the women, naturally)

Why don’t we have a ubi when all the studies show it would work and set us on the right path and that is already accepted as far better for communities than trickle down. So why don’t we have one?

Get fucked Elon Musk Take him down

Does anyone know how to find out if your own data has been hacked?

This ICE shit is gonna be here one way or other if we don’t nip this shitshow in the butt this year.

Hooray for WFH Ching ching

Really simply thought experiment here. Ardern in Govt at this time, is she working from home, is she staying silent on some of the biggest geopolitical events of the last decade, like fuck she is.

Luxon is "working" from home, yeah right.

The hilarious thing is Luxon being on holiday now, even in fucking Te Puke/Hawaii would be just fine as paint, no one would have thought anything if A) He hadn't ended last year saying we take too many holidays & B) there wasn't an international incident he should have commented on WFH or not #NZPol

Is Luxon following Willis' new WFH rules? #NZPol

And as we know he was on Waiheke it should be "working" from holiday home * * which has rates subsidy. Everything he does is hapless

Kicking the shit out of WFH and lazy kiwi workers taking a summer break then pulls this bullshit #nzpol

Luxon sighting reported

How's the 10 week holiday going? #nzpol

Betcha Luxon does some kind of press release on Sunday the 11th of January and tries to act like he isn't back later than he said, is unaware of Venezuela only wants to talk about National policy in election year #NZPol

@rachelbrooking.bsky.social With the PM back working this week (yeah nah) can you ask the media to ask for his thoughts on what’s happening with Venezuela and closer to home with our medical data being hacked? Especially as he said he would be back working by now, unlike apparently everyone else 😜

Hey NZ news outlets, would you like to demonstrate some journalistic intentions? How about an article headlined "Where is the Prime Minister?" with the byline "The world is on fire and nobody in government is answering the phone." Or do we only dig into parties on the left? #nzpol

Media in the last week of december: "Do kiwis take too long off in summer?" Prime minister: "I'll be back to work on the 3rd or 4th of Jan" January 7th (and counting): Prime minster: *crickets*

Exciting new year spot the ball contest!! Mark the place where you think hard-working laser-focused Prime Minister Luxon has disappeared to!! Guess closest to the right spot, and win an extra day off!!

it's actually absurd that the nz presspack isnt running constant stories asking where the PM is rigged game in so many ways haha

A very fair point tbh. There have been significant matters both internationally and domestically and as far as I can tell Luxon has been completely unavailable to media or public? Surely someone in our press gallery wants to put it to him, when he finally emerges, that this is not ideal.

100% Agree @sarah4ilam.bsky.social 👍. I detest that word (among many others)

Can't have one without the other. 😥

@chrishipkins.bsky.social @maramadavidson.bsky.social @greens.org.nz @whaeadeb.bsky.social @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social @sarah4ilam.bsky.social Duncan and Sarah are awesome here but please all potential left leaning coalition (after the election) please interact here. It’s quiet without you all.

Most Labour MPs that came have ceased to post, sadly To be fair, so have Green and TPM It's a shame because Bluesky is largely left leaning, it's just not driven algorithmically like Xitter or Meta so it takes effort to gain traction Even if there was a Labour party account it would be great

Still no Luxon? Weird, thought he'd be back at work by now...even my local charity shops are all open again and back at it, but no word of the PM...

There's a lot going on here. An entirely absent PM and the entirety of our public response so far being a post on Twitter from the foreign minister - a post which doesn't even mention the US by name. Just incredibly haphazard and lackadaisical. #nzpol

A former PM tells us what’s what while the current PM is too busy to comment as he plays golf on the Hawaiian island of Te Puke #nzpol

However, I do remember the opposition banging on and on about it and then the media ramped up. Opposition here has to be noisy

On #Venezuela: @IntlCrimCourt is the right court for Maduro to be tried in for crimes against humanity following due process & findings from @UN_HRC Fact-Finding Mission. What has happened this week is illegal under international law: ref Art 24 UN Charter/ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The New Zealand Labour Party condemns the US attack on Venezuela including kidnapping its president as a blatant violation of international law.