Look what I found in my mailbox today. #nzpol

Flip Grater has nailed it. “This Government’s decisions - in a shockingly apparent and unapologetic way - are focused entirely on short-term gain and greed. And the result is an economy in tatters and an environment in grave danger.” #nzpol

Wonder what this heat map of Australia will mean for AoNZ weather in the coming days / weeks?

With the asbestos laced play sand debacle, NZ is getting a case study of what a low/no level of regulation means for pushing cost onto consumers and tax payers … in realtime. User pays. www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/17/m... #nzpol

Until govts prioritise funding public health systems (pay well, realistic resourcing and invest in workforce planning and training), there will be a dependency on overseas trained staff to fill gaps. And even they are going to leave for better places. In NZ’s case that Australia and beyond. (1/2)

Here's weekly jobs data as per. Sliding sideways, ready for a quick summer boost, then what?? There is not enough demand in the economy. Lower interest rates are terrible stimulus. If only we had a Govt with half a clue. (2/2)

NZ govt going hard out on not wanting to deal with impacts of climate change. <Looking wistfully at the Port Hills> “The PSA said FENZ wanted to cut four wildfire jobs just as the smoke was clearing from the big blaze at Tongariro National Park.” #nzpol #otautahi

An indictment on the limping state of the NZ media ecosystem. “A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.” #nzpol

Lovely. 👏👏👏

A pretty major omission IMHO. #ClimateCrisis #nzpol

NZ’s climate law to change – Expert Reaction

interesting viewpoint that has touched a chord. The enemy of cynicism and passivity is curiosity, optimism, agency and possibility.

Meanwhile NZ struggles with an energy-price crisis ... a little policy creativity and innovation could make a massive difference to cost of living and productivity. #nzpol

This event should be in our headlines all around the world #COP30 #LastChance

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

and not a single one of them in the south www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This thread puts the NZ NACT govt proposals around Modernising Conservation Land Management into a more alarming perspective. thespinoff.co.nz/atea/20-08-2... #nzpol

“It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation.“

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our public service workers today ✊ #nzpol

The more countries wean themselves off oil imports, the harder it becomes for the United States to push them around and impose its will on them. In that sense, renewables are also about national security and a country gaining more of a say over its own affairs.

Roche is the living embodiment of that Upton Sinclair quote “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” (In this case the 600K part time salary pays for A LOT of not understanding.)

Please check here before heading out to any mega strike activities. The predicted severe weather has significantly impacted events across the motu. Stay safe everyone! #nzpol

Same data added up. Note that Govt is having to spend (and tax) more to subsidise the living costs of people that can't pay their rent or afford the basics (even if they're working). Our unequal, landlord loving, uberised workforce dependent economy relies on govt getting bigger. The irony! (2/2)

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

NZ earns enough to pay more. It’s just making choices.

A worked example of the definition of insanity.

Attached is a list of strike locations across the motu for anyone keen to support our valuable yet exploited health & education superstars! #October23 #nzpol #Rally #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand www.psa.org.nz/campaigns/23...

Prior to the fee increases, the ministry was only able to undertake “limited” consultation on the changes, she says, due to “time and Budget sensitivity”. So they rushed it without sufficient analysis or due process. What a bunch of shysters are this current NZ govt. #nzpol

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

More water bills rises announced today, on top of those already planned. Privatisation without competition, arguably the worst of both worlds

The data in this article is absolutely damning. In the face of this, Nicola Willis’ response is idiotic. It’s a long article. If you don’t have time for all the words, the graphs tell the story. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

I am from the generation that has childhood measles vaccination that may have been rendered ineffective due to poor storage practices back then. As soon as I found that out I got ot sorted. Easy.

This story came out after I finished writing mine but it's a really interesting point: agrivoltaics have a potential role in land management, especially in very hot / dry regions. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NEW: I spoke to the owner of a solar grazing business in the US to find out why agrivoltaics is getting big over there. Plus, solar panels are increasingly coexisting with crops, too. atmos.earth/climate-solu...

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184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time. This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

“Motherfucking wind farms. Loud, ugly, harmful to nature,” the Pulp Fiction actor says. Then, shaking his head knowingly and shifting his tone, he adds, “Who says that?"

Proposing a digital ID rushed through when there is a very real possibility of an authoritarian Govt that will take us out of the ECHR and seek mass deportations and the roll-back of other rights - frankly insane. For that reason alone I will oppose digital IDs for as long as it takes to stop them.

“Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#BHN Are you serious Chloe Swarbrick? Can you please introduce me to your new best bud so we can have a chat 🤣🤣🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl_L...

A hugely underreported scandal. Those responsible still not adequately held to account. An important, but infuriating watch.

Email to former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming led to arms vetting policy change

“It was a way for me to let out my frustration and to feel like I was doing something, even if it was just a little part. Chanting genuinely gave me a purpose, a way to keep going.” — Nadine Mortaja, who led last week’s March for Humanity in Auckland.

Farage squirms as Rep. Jamie Raskin obliterates the "Putin-loving, free speech imposter, Trump sycophant". Let's share this video so much that our wretched news media and hapless politicians are forced to tell the truth about Farage.

"The mainstream media... is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." - ‪George Monbiot‬ Amen, brother. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/2 A Treasury document was released showing that this government has created more debt in 2 years than the last government did in 6 years. It has given away so much money to landlords, tobacco companies, oil & gas corporations, and the wealthy, that there isn’t much left to run the country. #nzpol

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The decision of the Luxon Govt to cancel the NZ Battery Project, which would have underpinned security of the nz electricity network, sure looks short sited as we watch the wave of industrial closures driven, in part, by security of supply and high prices of electricity.