Keep this receipt for when supermarkets moan about the breakup of the duopoly (assuming any government ever has the backbone to do it). #nzpol

The Press@thepress.co.nz · 3h ago

The regulator called the activity, which is illegal and known as “resale price maintenance’ as ”far-reaching anti-competitive conduct that deprived customers of cheaper prices“.

The good economic managers have created high unemployment again lol who was in govt 11 years ago? Yeah that’s right.

Kick this foreign warmonger company out of Aotearoa.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 19h ago

🚀 ROCKET LAB JUST WON A $397M SPACE FORCE CONTRACT. $RKLB will build, launch and operate multiple Flatellites for the SB-AMTI tracking program, with Neutron handling deployment. Rocket Lab is becoming a defense space prime, not just a rocket company.

Let them eat sauce. No, wait, that’s too expensive. #nzpol

BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · yesterday

As schools reported throwing out nearly one in three Compass lunches late last year, the Ministry of Education looked into adding sauce to make the meals more appealing but shelved the idea over cost.

Point taken Andrew, but my study of the Hansard from 2024 onwards is a clear record of how Winston Peters, far more than any other MP, is responsible for the decline in the standards of the House, which ironically he so often decries. The Speaker appears to be complicit in enabling this. #nzpol

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 3d ago

The wrong, dishonourable MPs: Targeted harassment in New Zealand’s legislature sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/t... (WordPress) www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrong-... (LinkedIn) #nzpol

"I’m not apologising on behalf of all those people who are victims [of] the way they are treated during Covid.” Peter's is a rotisserie chicken that's been in the oven for 6 months and is now a cooked shriveled husk of a human #nzpol

This is terrible news for Aotearoa. If the super El Niño plays out, forests are going to be very dry and pine plantations are especially flammable. We need to be building capacity, not eroding it because homes, towns and infrastructure are also at risk. #NZPol www.odt.co.nz/news/nationa...

Fire protections drop in NZ as wildfires rage overseas

Fire protections drop in NZ as wildfires rage overseas

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Lo I am Luxon the great champion of efficiency I am a CEO so I know all about being more efficient Lo I am Luxon the great champion of efficiency I have come back a second time to explain what I meant before Me again back a third time to apologise and explain Yo, it's ur champ of efficiency again

Ultimately, he knows that applying logic to his positions is insulting to everyone involved, therefore if you try to do it, he'll insult you.

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 3d ago

Winston is a coward who cannot answer a logical question about two positions he holds which are contradictory. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

This is what Erica Stanford's reforms will do to children here in Aotearoa #nzpol

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm glad to see this. It's what many of us have been arguing for a long time, but until now no one in government seemed ready to listen. Let's hope we will begin to see an education policy which works for children, and for the 21st Century. In The Times today.

'Hey let's have a catchup when our schedules sync about the racist remarks, cheers' CEO Luxon #nzpol

David Seymour quoting Kanye West is not the cool take he thinks it is #dipshit #nzpol

Luxon drowning on RNZ #nzpol

I can't believe our news media have to cover today's policy announcements like this is all very normal and not totally batshit crazy. What the fuck is going on?!! #nzpol

Children: as problems in schools to be controlled; financial benefits to the state, but also burdens that must therefore be incentivised, for parents to have them; not in need of decent nutrition but still to be shamed for their bodies; & oh btw the Children’s Commissioner is sacked. FFS #nzpol

Kate@knhannah.bsky.social · 4d ago

In times like these, it’s important to pay attention to the grand unifying narratives ideas are hooking on to. Like that children are there to be controlled by adults, like babies and birth are commodities to be controlled by the state, like citizenship is a state more valuable than non-citizenship.

#NZpol Geoffrey Palmer: Be careful what you wish for – MAGA “is not a good formula to be copied in New Zealand.” – “It treats institutions built to check power, such as the courts, the press, the public service, as suspects rather than safeguards.” newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/01/g...

Geoffrey Palmer: Be careful what you wish for, New Zealand

Kiwis wanting to mimic the anti-establishment, anti-elite, anti-media aspects of Trump's America risk dangerous implications for our rule of law and constitutional safeguards

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This country sure loves finding the most heinous men and giving them the biggest microphone available. #NZPol

Also, this coalition govt’s ‘spending spree’ is well documented after giving all the money to (their donor) Landlords 😳. They cancelled Pay Equity yet are still borrowing more than for the pandemic… 🤔. Austerity is reckless & dangerous for the future of AoNZ. 20% of young women r unemployed 😳 #nzpol

Honestly, I get so tired of hearing “Labour’s Spending Spree”, especially by people who say they’re economists, when we had a goddamn pandemic & everyone was screaming out for $$ support. They also went a LONG way to get our social housing builds back on track. SOOOOO fucking fed up 😣

Odd strategy by ACT Party to double-down on their tolerance for child abuse as an election policy. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students

ACT wants to give teachers the legal power to remove "seriously or persistently disruptive" students from a classroom.

rnz.co.nz

Hang on, if businesses aren’t interested in what the government is doing, then why are big businesses giving you and Seymour so much fucking money, Christopher?! #nzpol

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 5d ago

The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Small local Manhattan newspaper is reporting - hope no one notices... #NZPol

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago

China has lodged a formal complaint after New Zealand’s top diplomat on Wednesday told a Chinese-born lawmaker to “go back to your own country.” His comment has also prompted calls in New Zealand for the minister’s dismissal.

We need to stop talking about the financial debt of NZ - govt has net positive assets - & talking about debt just helps Neo-liberalism We need to talk about our: Loss of community Loss of fairness Growing Poverty Loss of Government services Lack of Infrastructure Growth in inequality #nzpol

RBNZ have decided that the answer to high oil prices is to stop the party before it starts. They want to push that blue line back negative and increase unemployment. It smells like recession. What a way to run a country. Unelected ghouls sacrificing workers to the false gods of reckonomics. [Ends]

Sad thing is if Luxon loses in November he will jet off to his Hawaii house with his lifetime taxpayer benefits and benefits from his "did you know I was the CEO that fucked up AIRNZ". And who has to carry this country. Us, our kids, our grandkids paying off this debt mountain he created #nzpol

Luxoff's response to this is "Party vote National" He's incapable of being a leader, he's using this as an electioneering opportunity Absolutely sums up him and his awful party VOTE THEM OUT #nzpol

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago

China has lodged a formal complaint after New Zealand’s top diplomat on Wednesday told a Chinese-born lawmaker to “go back to your own country.” His comment has also prompted calls in New Zealand for the minister’s dismissal.

Lovely work @andrewdickson13.bsky.social... andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/luxons-wea...

Luxon's Wearing Daddy's Pants

The Prime Minister goes to Rotorua, tells drowning businesses to swim harder, and confesses

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Time's running out if you're interested in enrolling on the Māori roll Register by midnight August 6th #nzpol #kikorangi

Time is running out for Māori voters to make their roll choice

If you want to change between the Māori roll and the general roll before this year's election, the clock is ticking.

stuff.co.nz

As one of the top 2 most divisive politicians today, this smarmy cockwomble 🤡 has the audacity to say Te Pāti Māori had a “heart of darkness” and “stoked division”, while trying to divide us by beating down on Te Tiriti o Waitangi and instigating policy to enable his Atlas donors at our expense.

'Heart of darkness' put me in a bulletproof car, says Seymour. The division's your fault, says Te Pati Maori

The use of NZDF aircrew for security on Waitangi Day was revealed in documents about the prime minister’s use of aircraft, obtained by Stuff.

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