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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbQS... Actually impressed with this detailed, well thought out strategy and the promised quick action to control prices #nzpol ...one of the things not often taken into account is considered here: distance. Making small local stores more competitive is great for many
Election Hoon: How should the supermarkets duopoly be broken up?
YouTube video by The Kākā with Bernard Hickey
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thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24-... Turns out the "tax bad" rhetoric isn't selling so well this year #tax #nzpol
"Tax Payers Union" (funded by tax avoiders, not a union) instigating their own takedown is poetry #nzpol
Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 2d agoHa ha.
FORMER ACT PARTY PRESIDENT AND CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER, SHIELDED FOR OVER A YEAR BY DAVID SEYMOUR PRIOR TO THE ELECTION, says he has "grown out" of his attraction to CHILDREN. He has been declined parole. #nzpol
Rob✅✅@robdickinson.bsky.social · 2w agoThey cant even put his name or former position in the title, still.. #nzpol
% of income spent on food Latest OECD data US: 6.7% Ireland: 8.4% UK: 8.6% Switzerland: 8.9% Canada: 9.6% Australia: 9.8% Austria: 10% Germany: 11.5% Norway: 11.6% NZ: 12.7% <--- us
Newsmedia is foolishly amplifying this hype train by the desperate AI industry who are desperate to sell AI as this scary doomsday thing... Because this helps them get more investor money. Anyone actually working with current AI models knows this isn't true. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...
AI extinction is only one way the future is frightening
Analysis - Over the weekend the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, published an essay with the headline We Must Pace the Frontier.
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I know a poll doesnt matter, but sheesh. If we want a change of government we need a real opposition. The "small target strategy" isnt working. @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/persona... @chrishipkins.bsky.social , please campaign on doing something about this. It would be a huge win for Labour, and for everyone.
Why renting retirees might be better to save nothing if they don't have $200,000
New Zealand's current settings mean renting retirees who do not have at least $200,000 saved may be better off to have nothing.
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It might be a rogue poll but how rogue is it? I amd many others have been saying for some time Labour needs to be speaking to non-voters instead of this weak centrist postioning. It just looks weak. #nzpol
May Dolly Parton's legacy continue to aid and inspire many generations to come. Welcome to Heaven, Dolly.
www.1news.co.nz/2026/08/25/g... 🤦 @chrishipkins.bsky.social 🤦 @chrishipkins.bsky.social is buying into National's spurious moral panic yet again. The only way social media giants can confirm age is more of our personal data. It's to their benefit, not ours. #nzpol
Govt says no time for social media bill after Labour backs it
Chris Hipkins said today he wanted a greatly improved version of National's legislation "implemented" by the next government after the election.
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A few years ago there was talk of how EVs could put "too much strain" on the electricity grid. Now it turns out the opposite is true: they could flatten out peaks in demand. Fascinating... www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
EVs could 'reshape' the entire energy system - report
A massive, co-ordinated effort to help more people into electric vehicles could reshape the country's entire energy system, a new report says.
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@chrishipkins.bsky.social is letting National set the narrative. He's going along with "tax bad". He calls it a "ute tax". Its so frustrating. New taxes can be good and useful. It's not a ute tax it's a clean car discount. Chippy, set your on narrative. #nzpol autofile.co.nz/labour-rules...
Autofile - News / Labour rules out ‘ute tax’
Leader dismisses suggestions it will reintroduce policy that hits high-emissions vehicles with fees.
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Labour MP Damien O’Connor has been handing out popcorn to the media who are waiting to hear what’s happening at Parliament *guffaws* #NZPol
Speaker will not take action over Winston Peters' 'racist' comments www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Speaker Brownlee should resign. Peters should be fired. #nzpol
Speaker will not take action over Winston Peters' 'racist' comments
The Speaker will not be taking action on a request from the Green Party that New Zealand First leader Winston Peters be asked to withdraw and apologise for his comments to their MP Lawrence Xu-Nan.
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This is exactly what i thought too #actnz #nzpol
Daniel Vernon@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 2mo agoBreaking out the emergency Paul Henry to distract from your former Party President! I dive more into how our media outlets seemingly continue to act as PR outlets over at my Substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
I don't like to play the blame game but in this case it's necessary. THIS GOVERNMENT IS KILLING PEOPLE. Kicking them out of social housing, underfunding an already overstretched health system. Please tell anyone you know planning to vote for them. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
'Christchurch is my tomb': From homelessness to hopelessness
Tormented by transience, Caitlin McDonald's life was as fragile and fleeting as the butterflies she saved from the street. Surviving less than two years homeless in Christchurch, she chronicled her jo...
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I've been saying this to anyone who will listen. #nzpol
Virginia Cattell@virgcatt.bsky.social · 3mo agoGo Susan #nzpol
NZ politicians except the Greens, every election: “We actually think people have an appetite for us to be conservative. We need to balance wild progressive ideas with being fiscally responsible. We’ll make tough decisions and look after middle New Zealand. Vulnerable communities do not exist.”
God@thegodshow.com · 3mo agoMamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could.
Another #davidseymour failure back in the news. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Porirua College discusses school lunch programme report
The auditor general has raised questions over whether the government's school lunch programme is delivering on its goals. Porirua College has been providing lunches at a loss in order to meet their ow...
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OH DO FUCK OFF YOU DISINGENUOUS TWATS You do everything to break the EV & Solar change & then months out from an election pull this stunt.
1News NZ (Unofficial)@1newsnz.nzcow.com · 3mo ago📢 The party says just 3% of New Zealand homes have solar power, far behind Australia and the US, and wants to fix that with cheap loans and fewer consents.
open.substack.com/pub/the307/p... Glyphosate concentrations 10,000 times higher than regular round-up sprayed soil. Add this to the list of heinous war crimes. #lebanon #israel #palestine
Lebanon Accuses Israel Of Violating The Chemical Weapons Convention By Spraying Toxic Herbicide Over Farmland.
Lebanon Says Israel Violated The Chemical Weapons Convention By Spraying A Cancer Causing Herbicide In South Lebanon.
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Nice summary here from alex falcone. It's especially galling that the guy who did indeed help crack the car market open for EVs and put starlink in space is just a scam artist now. On the biggest scale ever. #elonmusk
youtu.be/SUkLIAf3owo On RNZ yesterday Bernard Hickey was described as "left wing" because he "criticises everything the current govt is doing" ... that's not left-wing, that's just accurately describing the govt as unhinged, ignoring experts, taking us in the wrong direction. #nzpol
A mini-Hoon with Mike Casey on Sapere's dry year report
YouTube video by The Kākā with Bernard Hickey
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This is what i mean about #nzlabour. @chrishipkins.bsky.social "continuity" messaging is appeasement. It's bad strategy. It doesn't work. Be a real opposition. #nzpol
Jack Bailey@jack-bailey.co.uk · 4mo agoLast year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...
Excellent news! A huge 180 from National on renwables and sustainability. A welcome distraction also from the hiuge corruption scandal around this govt being lobbied and legislating under urgency to protect polluting corporations including fossil fuels. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...
Budget 2026: 30 million fund will see solar panels on 500 schools
The government is pushing ahead with solar panels to try ease the pressure of high energy costs.
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