Democracy is not self-executing. It requires active protection. Yesterday, Doyle’s speech reminded us that we failed that test. The right to participate in the political process without fear is a universal human right—and we will defend it with all our strength www.rightsaotearoa.nz/yesterday-we...

Following months of death threats & public safety concerns for themselves & family, Green MP Benjamin Doyle leaves NZ parliament. Sadly for Doyle many voices, already primed to hate differences, brayed as one, when Free Speech Union's Ani O'Brien amplified false accusations 🧵

This is hilarious. I challenged Winston about his role in the online violence toward Benjamin Doyle. He responds: WELLINGTON AND ITS CITY LEADERS SUCK! Peak old man yells at cloud. #nzpol www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/welli...

Gross, disgraceful, and utterly predictable. Nash following a line of men in politics weaponising and stoking the flames of misogyny and transphobia. Where are the consequences? Nowhere. He'll be rewarded. That's how patriarchy works. Grim state of affairs. #nzpol

Peters, Nash, Williamson, Chung... These disgusting men are causing very real harm to not only Doyle and myself, but those we represent. I would love to see other men in politics speak out against this behaviour in the strongest terms. I know Waititi has and it carried significant weight. #nzpol

This is what hate looks like in policy The coordinated attack on green MP Benjamin Doyle and their child, is what hate looks like in action #WRATH End. Hate.

Note the casual racism in the video too. Our discourse on these topics cannot just be WTF when NZ First hoovered up Advance NZ. Our conversations have to be on showing up politicians & entities platforming certain issues & positions as centerist when clearly they're not. 4/ #WRATH End. Hate.

FYI #NZPol ManaWahineKorero anti-trans campaigner Di Landy continues her and Rhys Williams gross defamation attacks on Green MP Benjamin Doyle With 'Holyhekatuiteka' Landy co-authored NZ First's party policy removing diversity & transgender ed from NZ RSE guidelines in schools #WRATH End. Hate.

Rhys Williams @2ETEKA why did you not share with media when you attacked Green MP, high school teacher & sex positive advocate Benjamin Doyle that you are also the author of NZ First's policy that has seen the removal of relationship & sex ed guidelines in schools? See next tweet

FYI #NZPol Gaye Stradwick, aka Gaye Ess on X continues her defamation against Green MP Benjamin Doyle, trying to whip up outrage about the MP, who is set to make a return to the House today #RhysWilliams #HolyHekaTuiTeka #NZFirst #RSERemoval #RSE

Resigning NZFirst MP, Tanya Unkovich in a post from Sept 24, is seen with anti-trans group, ManaWahineKorero members Unkovich states "We will continue to listen to all New Zealanders." Please note Rex Landy (of ManaWahineKorero anti-trans group) pulling a finger to the camera inside Parliament

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"Unhinged political hit jobs and transgender obsessions" Green MP anonymous accuser Rhys Williams is also the author of NZ First party 'Remit 23' a campaign policy which has seen the removal of Relationship and Sexuality Education guidelines (RSE) from New Zealand schools A thread: 1/11

I am deeply saddened that Benjamin Doyle made the decision to step down from being an MP. Parliament is the "House of Commons"; it is for all us! When we allow kafka-esque inquisitions to occur we cease to become a real democracy. Go well Benjamin and your family. Do not disappear—we need you.

This (although it’s premium and it shouldn’t be)

Once again, better reporting in international press #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Hey, have any of our journalists picked up on the fact that less than 24h after a sitting MP has had to resign because of death threats fuelled by a transphobic hate campaign driven not insignificantly by Winston Peters, two anti-trans organisations are speaking at the NZF conference today?

Ray Chung's ghost neighbour

Studied VFF's handbook for the upcoming local govt election. Unaware of any mainstream political party that's done a comparable production to mobilise partisans. A far-right, white supremacist ideological signalling is written into handbook which weaponises democratic processes against democracy.

Also had great fun crashing Speak Up For Women’s handing over of their piddling petition of 2,000 signatures to Unkovich. Caught Suzanne Levy of SUFW’s face right as she realised who I was 😂

Resigning NZFirst MP, Tanya Unkovich in a post from Sept 24, is seen with anti-trans group, ManaWahineKorero members Unkovich states "We will continue to listen to all New Zealanders." Please note Rex Landy (of ManaWahineKorero anti-trans group) pulling a finger to the camera inside Parliament

#NZPol Good riddance Tanya Unkovich. NZ Parliament is no place for hateful terfs NZFirst MP to leave parliament

A refresher of the Canadian funders spreading of misinformation in NZ #NZPol and wanting influence businessdesk.co.nz/article/medi...

'Not in our name' "Those who continue to target this minority group do not speak for us or represent our interests. They never have. They never will." Women Rejecting All Trans Hate supports this kaupapa & asks Aotearoa to sign NION's letter, share & if possible please donate #WRATH End. Hate.

To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement: I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings. Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️

Please share far and wide. Send it to your mum and your sister, your aunt and your gran, your niece and your wife, the women you work with, the lady next door. Let’s show our government and the world that most UK women support trans people and are appalled by anti-trans measures made in their name.

As with all fledgling groups issues are arising that we’re dealing with on the hoof. My post’s already been shared abroad…since we don’t say in the letter that we are solely UK women and we are only making a general statement not making demands of a specific body, then foreign signatories are ok.

I found a political compass from 2008. Looks like ACT has always been authoritarian, just larping as "libertarians" #nzpol

Unpaid women doing the work that governing MPs wouldn't do before deciding that women should remain underpaid for doing women's work ...

Check out the ghastly way that the FSU leverages fears about Muslims grooming and abusing young girls in the UK in its newsletter last week. Whether ethnicity is related to these crimes is, at best, unclear, and perpetrators are predominantly white: www.bbc.com/news/uk-6517...

It's disgusting the way coalition mps repeatedly weaponize benefits as 'being funded by the tax-payer'. The government should fund our services, end of. They put the boot in & inflame anti-beneficiary sentiment because they've funded private interests rather than social good. #nzpol

This is the worst punishment handed down EVER in our history. The worst on record was 3 days! When Tangata whenua resist, colonial powers reach for maximum penalty. This is a warning shot to all of us to fall in line. E kore rawa matau e tuohu! #toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori #NZPol

Suspending MPs removes the representation of their constituents from Parliament. Serious democratic consequences, not just personal. Maybe that’s why the previous maximum over many many decades was 3 days? #NzPol

Any media picked up on Collins retweeting that 'Actually, Irish Slaves' bullshit? I know it's been a busy day, but still.

Julian Batchelor’s family and the violent colonisation of Kenya #newzealand #nz #PoliticalFYP #Māori #atlas #nzpol #newzealandpolitics youtu.be/qLLX6E0_YHs?...

The 'she' here is New Zealand Attorney General and ex-National Party leader, Judith Collins ..

Warnings about serious risks to over surgery outsourcing blanked out by minister #nzpol

Video by Dr Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social on current debates around misogyny in the context of drastic changes to pay equity legislation. V. useful frame of ref. in study of commentary targeting journalist Andrea Vance, & also MP Willis. 1k+ views on Instagram. Worth posting here.

Join us at Parliament on Budget Day to stand up and fight back against the Government’s decision to gut the Equal Pay Act. #ProtectPayEquity