While the NZ gvt is fast tracking its LNG plans locking us into polluting ff, the Australian gvt is helping its citizens to less polluting & lower energy costs. It subsidises solar panels & batteries.

Suburb-wide electrification trials are set to be rolled out across the country ⚡🔌🏠☀️ Efficient all-electric homes are healthier, have lower bills & generate less pollution — so it's no wonder the shift is gaining momentum! Great work @rewiringaus.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It certainly doesn't sound like the "suddenly new covid enquiry" setup to provide a report to the government a few weeks out from the election has a lot of space for nuanced analysis of the "while lessons can be learned we need to keep what was happening elsewhere in mind" variety.

NZ has already had several big ransomeware attacks. Biz & organisations needs to step up their security.

UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯 Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election. Let that sink in.

My investigative piece today on Nicola Willis's surprise RBNZ Covid Inquiry announcement. She has set it up so that the results are released 6 WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION Please share where you can - between the voter suppression laws, and this, it could be a real killer come Nov 2026. #NZPOL #NZ

Anti-trans hate is an industry. Not a movement, not a moral concern, not an organic uprising of worried parents — an industry, deliberately constructed, lavishly funded, & strategically deployed to protect the interests of the powerful men who finance it culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Righto. I've read the papers released by MBIE on the LNG analysis. This will be a longish thread on my thoughts, which I'll add to progressively. Docs are here. 🧵 1/-

Clearly, Trump is using old tactics in violent ICE activities to shape & celebrate his power. '...acts of violence serving long-lasting symbolic purposes that shaped early societies.'

Renting in Aotearoa NZ? Please fill in the survey; if nothing else the results will help me with council decision-making! Own your home? Please share it widely to get max responses.

Using hydrogen as a fuel to replace natural gas has been strongly promoted by vested interest groups. Many including myself raised serious concerns about scalability, cost and efficiency. The more time passes, the more it looks like those concerns were well-founded.

AI will increase job losses, especially for women, while sexualising them for profit.

So these dipshits won't fund a *pair* of ferry terminals that'd get used several times a day, but will fund an LNG terminal that *might* get used once in a blue moon? One terminal, for the same price as two, and with zero (0) ferries?

FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...

Take a second and sit with this. If wealth keeps accelerating like this, what gets left behind? Tell us what you think the long-term cost is. #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich #WEF26

This is an excellent article on how Winston Peters's populist rhetoric ultimately endangers #NZ lives and health "WHO is most effective when it is least visible. When surveillance works, outbreaks are smaller. When standards hold, medicines are safe. When coordination succeeds, crises are quieter"

"Horror in Wellington as millions of litres of untreated sewage flow into the sea" Big clap for 👏💩👏 Jordan Williams & NZ Taxpayers Union for generating anti-Maori bigotry to kill the 3 Waters reform forbidding water privatisation for his #AtlasNetwork investors www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

There are wide-reaching lifetime impacts from inadequate supports. Disability should not - and doesn’t need to be - a precursor for hardship. Yet our statistics on this remain embarrassingly stagnant: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

'These deals represent the corporate capture of the UK state including, our cloud capacity, National Health Service, and now our military establishment. And the blindness, ignorance and ongoing denial is the most dangerous thing about this moment.' Our NZ gvt wants a rare minerals deal with the US!

“The risk of multi-breadbasket failure is increasing, and rises much faster beyond 1.5 C of global heating. … Such shocks pose grave threats — rocketing food prices, civil unrest, major financial losses, starvation, and death.” Climate change? Nah, she'll be right, says the NZ gvt.

"And when people demand bread, land, dignity, sovereignty, the security apparatus of extreme wealth answers swiftly: batons, prisons, sanctions, border walls, and war." Welcome to Luxon's paradise where the gvt is spending an extra $1.9b on prisons.

Luxon, Peters and Seymour, pay attention.👇 In today’s world disorder, neutrality is no longer prudence. It is complicity.

What I have called a coalition of the unwilling HRW describes more formally as an “alliance of rights-respecting democracies.” The labels differ, but the logic is the same: acting alone leaves countries exposed; acting together creates leverage open.substack.com/pub/worldbri...

"When the conversation is about peaks in emissions or fuel consumption, the climate community must always remember to ask whom the discourse serves." @noahjgordon.bsky.social on the politics of promises www.break-down.org/three-peaks/

It’s election year. We deserve better than this and we must demand better than this. Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Gee I didn't know @publicaddress.bsky.social wrote like this. Homage #nzpol #kiwi

“We are shutting Unrwa down.” Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen oversaw the disconnection of water and electricity to an Unrwa facility in East Jerusalem on Wednesday 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

PRESS RELEASE: The Luxon government is proposing to make it even easier to kill kiwi under its planned replacement of the Resource Management Act. #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

3K billionaires control $18.3 trillion, and this concentration of wealth is reshaping democracy itself. Billionaire money changes who gets heard, who decides, and who gets left behind. Read the evidence: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich

New interview! On the Epstein Files: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-G5...

This is what Santana s proposed Bendigo mine will do in Otago if it goes ahead … #nzpol

holy shit

This is a travesty. The Polluters Get Paid Plan: AKA Regulatory Relief / Regulatory Takings www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol

#nzpol NZ citizen, Thiel.

Israeli Embassy and meddling in the NZ police and courts over IDF case #asiapacificreport #PSNA #TDB #assaultcase #protest #GazaGenocide‌ asiapacificreport.nz/2026/02/02/i...

"... in contrast to ownership conferring property rights to use - ownership confers trusteeship responsibilities to protect and preserve. Such kaitiaki ... a primary responsibility to protect and preserve ... being held in trust for communities and community. open.substack.com/pub/ganeshna...

Anyone who tells you there is a 'ceasefire' in Gaza is gaslighting you and is an anti-Palestinian racist:

the stratification and segregation of nz society is one of the most destructive effects of neoliberalism in my view. policies which prioritise funding restraints above ensuring a child- every child!- is given an equal opportunity to fulfil their potential is an inexcusable violation of their rights

After the deadly climate change-amplified weather recently, the Luxon Govt claimed it is taking action on climate change. But their actions actually make climate change worse by increasing emissions. Here is the evidence👇

Press release for 28 January #NZPol www.psna.nz/press-releas...

"Its no longer about the truth.. it becomes about propaganda.. its trying to curate reality, that looks realistic, that doesn't necessarily reflect reality, but reflects what people in power want you to see" @marcowenjones.bsky.social on the US administration using AI images

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Since its election in 2023, the government has removed or reduced most forms of dedicated climate adaptation and resilience funding.

Great article from Jolisa about resilience, priorities, what things cost, and what it all feels like 💚

#RuthRichardson is rewriting the history of the 1990s & her role in the mother of all budgets & demanding #Willis implement more of her failed policies immediately to avert the so-called ‘crisis’. Various simplistic fiscal ratios are bandied about #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/susanstj...?

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think Destiny Church, Hillsong, Gloriavale etc... bsky.app/profile/sher...

#nzpol Today in FEC @barbedmonds.bsky.social asked MOF why GDP for 2026 keeps falling. The data from Treasury is clear - forecasts have fallen at every update year - down $14.4bn in just 2 years. Perhaps insanity really is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result