There seems to be a cone of silence around climate change in the AoNZ media. All the better to spread misinformation and denial. Here's a piece on the looming El Nino. It's Australian but still relevant for us. #climatecrisis #biodiversitycrisis #nzpol

go follow @news.abc.net.au@abc-news.bsky.social · last wk.

Why this El Niño is different from all the others: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/unprecedented-el-ni%C3%B1o-will-drive-global-weather/107106624

Going through my usual desire to move back to Dunedin and saw this beauty - first time on market since the owner built it in the 60s. I’d buy it and keep the wallpaper forever www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...

97A Wickliffe Terrace, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago

What an opportunity for home buyers. Built by the current owner in the 1960s, this sunny home is for sale for the first time. There is plenty more about the ...

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Last day, thank you for the stunning weather Karitane, -2 when I got up to see the sun rise and now it’s t-shirt weather

Beautiful as the sun sets on the coast #karitane

Mānawaita a Matariki from Karitane (way down in Te Waipounamu) Staying in an old 1920s hospital for shell shocked soldiers, hope this view soothed them, it’s doing wonders for me

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Andrew@openpolicy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So, it’s great to see the huge number of people who want to participate in the democratic process besides voting in elections. It’s also justifiable to say this disproportionate amount of submissions reflects the controversial/awful bills introduced. But there are broader issues. A thread🧵 #nzpol

Sun’s out, and out for brekkie

Had a couple ants in the house yesterday and I was ‘it’s the end of May shouldn’t you be hibernating or something?’

Nz’s “democracy operates on an implicit social contract…a government that repeatedly destabilises workforces, reduces services and creates widespread insecurity will find that contract beginning to erode.” A great piece walking carefully through issues in a way that jo-public can understand #nzpol

Barbara @barbara-nz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-... Thoughtful and insightful analysis

Just found a brownie in the bottom of my handbag I forgot I bought yesterday but it was gluten free and not the good kind so the evening just took a downturn

Nice calm sunset over Kāpiti tonight #Raumati

Standing in the same place spot in Raumati Beach looking south and north, like a curtain rain being drawn behind us

Balmy sunshine before that dark band of weather from the south (where usually you can see the silhouette of the South Island) hits us #kāpiti

Don’t understand what is going on or where things are at re fuel/the conflict? This will help. Nathan Surendran analyses the situation including global responses (energy chain and govts) and the repercussions for AoNZ. We need to be at Alert Level 2. And we need more communication of the issues.

Laurie Winkless@lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 6mo ago

An essential read for anyone in #nz - the fuel crisis is far, far worse than the govt is letting on energyandresilience.substack.com/p/every-coun...

To Jan 20th 2026 there have been 1779 paid ACC claims for vaccine injury from 14 million doses. We know this already. side effects are no surprise, but they are rare. e.g. there were 73 vax site infections. But knowing facts does not publicise "angry bloke in pub's reckons" for ACT & NZF

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

The rolling of PMs when parties are doing poorly is yeah, ok. The warning is that the media will salivate over the rolling, not dissect the policy that lead to the bad polling and pivot to any new leader with breathless ‘new energy’, ‘turning the tide’ without addressing the policy issues. #nzpol

IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.

That Gen X urge to never be torn apart

Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The fuel of ‘last resort’: How imported gas became New Zealand’s first choice

It's expensive, vulnerable to price shocks and terrible for the planet. So why are we importing gas?

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“Journalism is not just another profession. Society’s right to be well informed rests on our work. Freedom, equality and democracy depend on our work..” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel

Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

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Took one look at Stuff’s reporting on Waitangi and closed the app. Bloody hell. Until we get a media that isn’t immature and partisan we are not going to see any adult conversations about politics or the massive challenges facing this country yes I was a dumbass for reading Stuff #nzpol

I’m seeing Aucklanders complain about the humidity and I stuck the heater on today wtf

I’ve been reflecting on GP care. Went the other day. $85 (10 mins) It’s always the same pattern. Kinda response to issue.. (small but not resolved), ask me if I want prescriptions renewed, then check when my mammogram/cervical smear is due. 1/3

Key dates for the general election. #NZPol #Vote26

'The idea of Māori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Māori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' Peter Meihana's 'Privilege in Perpetuity' is reprinted and back in bookshops! www.bwb.co.nz/books/privileg...

There’s a lot of talk about political parties, policy and positioning - usual election year articles starting to ramp up. But there are two things that are pivotal that will drive any election result 1) Will the mainstream media hold the govt to account? 1/2 #nzpol

Going outside to clean out (again) the two large lasagne dishes I intended as bird watering stations which they use as swimming pools as apparently they quite like to swim and shit at the same time

In spite of everything, at flaxroots there are so many people going amazing work everyday to support others. Marae and [good] churches and mosques and temples and community groups and just good bloody people quietly holding the threads together best they can. You can’t break it. It perseveres.

It used to be like the media was ‘I don’t remember what the govt did ten years ago that relates to this very thing happening now’ and now it’s like ‘ I don’t remember what the govt did last year that is directly responsible for this thing I am horrified about’