Denying redress to abuse in care survivors who've committed crimes is unconscionable. Essentially they're saying the Crown will only show remorse for their failings to people who don't show their damage on the outside.

This is arguing about what equipment to kit the ambulance with at the bottom of the cliff. Stop unnecessary urgency, stop accepting rubbish bills that don't clear the quality bar, and you won't end up with a firehose of outrage from a disrespected public. 🤷‍♀️ newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/t...

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

#nzpol Sometimes a policy is so stupid it makes you question the very fabric of reality. Decisions so fabulously, almost wantonly dumb, you wonder if we actually live in a simulation. Welcome to the world of removing Jobseeker Support for 18 & 19-year-olds. craigrenney.substack.com/p/a-small-wr...

"The world doesn't owe you a knighthood" - Foxy Lusty-Grover #NZPol

The coalition is out of step with the people of Aotearoa New Zealand and out of step with the world. Shame on all of them. NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Luxon on Willis:

Don’t worry guys he is treating us as a bottomfull ATM it’s all good you see

Slightly diminish a book Cretaceous Park

Slightly diminish a band: Squadronwood Mac

After introducing dozens of policies to increase greenhouse emissions, undermining global efforts to cut the climate pollution which drives more extreme flooding events, Luxon says his Govt wants to take LESS responsibility for the damage caused by ITS OWN policies. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Jordan Williams (Taxpayers Union) pronounces hyperbole "hyper bowl". 🫢

No more of this "One rule for me, but not for thee" hypocrisy! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...

For crying out loud Stuff, this is NOT "tit for tat" ... this is one person (the deputy PM no less) using his platform & power to target academics & others who speak up from evidence against his proposals, and another speaking up to defend folks & ask him to stop. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"At a time like this, it is extraordinary that a Deputy Prime Minister here should initiate an online campaign of intimidation against university scholars, using Trumpian rhetoric and tactics to harass them for exercising their academic freedom." newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/23/a...

"Now is the time for peace!" shouts wannabe authoritarian dictator who just blew up parts of someone else's country to help out his genocidal ethno-nationalist extremist buddy.

Just lost my 5 year no-covid streak. 🤒

Suppose it were a woman MP who was caught on camera, maggoted and ranting at an event. She'd be gearing up for a fortnight-long news cycle in which she'd be forced to admit having an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, encouraged to divulge personal information, and made to apologise repeatedly.

I’m sure that everything feels like a “political smear job” when you’re an actual dickhead. #ChrisBishop

He's sorry he didn't keep his racist thoughts to himself. Notably, not at all sorry for having racist thoughts in the first place. Chris Bishop apologises for ‘crap’ comment at music awards www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/chris-bis...

"White women’s performance of fragility ... shifts the focus from structural critique to individual emotional comfort. It recentres their hurt feelings as the most important factor, and casts those who are resisting material oppression as the aggressors." e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

So here we have it, the Sherriff of Nottingham Budget, literally robbing Paula to pay Paul They've used the Pay Equity Fund to balance this budget and no one should accept that, no one should forget that! The extra funding that is happening is at the expense of women #NZPol

Yeo - ODT

We don't spend hours of our time on these things to be chucked in a sentiment analysis bucket by AI or dismissed for not being an academic. That is not democracy. Thousands of Regulatory Standards Bill submissions not read by ministry newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/19/t...

Dear Political Media, Yes, there is a dead c-word on the table. It is furry and it is dead. Brooke and her friends are pointing at it wildly. People whose pay claims were suddenly vaporised do not want to hear your reckons on the dead c-word. They want you to care about them instead. Please.

Emily Writes is such a treasure. Everything's shit and awful but it can still also be funny. The National Party Toxic Boyfriend excuse generator open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...

#nzpol At 5pm yesterday, the Treasury informed the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi (NZCTU) it has been barred from attending the Budget lock-up on 22 May. This is the first time the CTU has been prevented from attending a Budget lock-up in living memory

Explain your username: CV = control voltage (i.e. eurorack modular cv). Nicks = my first name is Nick. I came up with the name for a musical performance I volunteered to do for a small synthesiser enthusiast group. It's a play on the name of a slightly more famous musician, Stevie Nicks.

Here’s something I prepared earlier

Firm owned by Taxpayers’ Union boss behind Green Party attack billboards www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

That guy on the right is probably in some kind of 'freedom to threaten brown women with hate speech union' or something... actually, that's kind of long, maybe they just call it FSU for short...

So much for Luxon and Brown's song and dance about not reducing access to abortion. Those giving birth get their travel costs paid, while those who need abortion care must pay for their own. I guess this makes the anti-abortion PM and Health minister's preferences clear. #abortion #nzpol

"Neoliberalism seeks freedom for the extraction of profit. If democratic restraints get in the way, they must be undermined, or cancelled. Critics must be silenced." If you can get a copy of this book, I highly recommend it too. Anne Salmond: The Emperor’s clothes newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/24/a...

"I decided to “mark” a transcript of one of David Seymour’s interviews as if it were a 100-level assignment. It failed - badly ... the logic was flimsy, unsupported by evidence, and full of misleading rhetorical tactics." Understanding political ventriloquism e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Volodymyr Zelensky and Tiny Trump. #TinyTrump

"A few weeks ago we had a jalapeño curry which no children could eat, jalapeños are not overly child friendly." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It's looking less like teething problems and more like a shit show. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A lot of people are making fun of our Prime Minister for this look, but what you all don't realise is that from a certain ontological perspective, if Luxon doesn't wear that suit then he ceases to exist.

These two are deranged. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"I look forward to working with you, you know you want to" says David Seymour to a sea of turned backs from a mic that keeps turning off.

On the same fucking day. WTF.

The Inauguration of the Broligarchs. My Stuff #cartoon today #TrumpInauguration #Broligarchs #Oligarchs #Trump #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #MarkZuckerberg

#BREAKING, probably: Simeon Brown to introduce tolls on all hospital access roads.

Could it get any worse? Yes. 👨‍⚕️🩺 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Little Luxon and the empty suit that is Todd McClay. #LittleLuxon

🎾 #LittleLuxon

Moe mai rā e te rangatira. 😢 Dame Tariana Turia dies at the age of 80 www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/03/d...

I hate it that now, when I google a topic, I mostly avoid clicking any video results because I don't want YouTube recommending me videos about it for the next 6 months.

No Plan, No Idea, No Ferries. Today’s announcement by the Minister of Finance means we don't know: - where replacement ferries are coming from - how much they will cost - who will pay for them - how the port infrastructure will be delivered, - the fiscal or economic impact A 🧵

"A second bootcamp participant has absconded."