If the price you are willing to pay to stay in power is to keep working with a racist member of your cabinet, even if he is the leader of a different party, then that ultimately shows you can accept racism as the price of doing business. 2/2 #NZPol
Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi
@bikerchiwi.bsky.social
Green Party member. Foot soldier in the Army of the Witch-Hunter General. Left wing. Economist. A fan of motorbikes. "Māorification", good times! Sweary (sorry, Mum). Tau iwi.
National backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high because it drives down wages and conditions and that’s all in the plan says Willis. #nzpol
National backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high
National is backing its economic policies while Labour accuses them of "actual disregard" for struggling families as unemployment reaches the highest in over a decade.
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Brownlee is a hypocritical partisan shit. He was useless in government and is useless in Parliament. We need reform that makes the Speaker unbiased and independent of party. #nzpol
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 8h agoThe Speaker’s selective severity: Rules for Swarbrick, rank for Peters www.linkedin.com/pulse/speake... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/t... (WordPress) #nzpol
💔 17 killed. 44 injured after tonight’s ballistic attack. I live in Kyiv. Night after night, I watch my city being destroyed one civilian target at a time. Not military bases.
Hello NZ govt 👋, maybe this is a better approach than building more prisons & punishing beneficiaries? Hard to argue with the numbers #nzpol
Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 14h ago
Now the English is an official language of New Zealand I expect all posts to use your, you're, there, their and they're correctly.
"I just got a job as a waiter." "The pay isn't great, but it puts food on the table."
Party who has categorically shit their pants doubles-down on refusing to remove their shitty pants, and in fact sit down in them.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 20h agoNational backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high
This has aged worse than sour milk. "Luxon rejected suggestions that a Defence Force flight allowed greater flexibility." #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Christopher Luxon commits to flying commercial if elected
Opposition leader Christopher Luxon says he will not use Defence Force planes to travel internationally if elected as prime minister.
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We've spent 40 years worshipping at the altar of neoliberalism and market forces. A majority of New Zealanders do not understand that they are being exploited by corporations to pad their returns to shareholders.
Dylan Reeve@dylanreeve.com · 13h agoAt some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.
One of the most powerful songs ever written, direct, to the point and oh so tragic. youtu.be/VZt7J0iaUD0?...
Suzanne Vega - Luka
YouTube video by SuzanneVegaVEVO
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With the news that snow has been falling in Wellington, I think back to the massive dump in Welly in 2011 when I used to live there ...
My theory is that these are people who are essentially conservative in nature, who recognize the core bigotry of the RW but fail to see the link with conservatism.
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz · 20h agoSadly I wish this characterisation was true. I know academics from the left disillusioned by Labour who are excited by TOP Two close friends are voting TOP Baffles me
#nzpol … and kudos to Xu-Nan for keeping his focus on the important issues and not getting sucked into Winston’s vile narrative 💚
Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland@patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 23h agoRaybon is a national treasure, perhaps even a New Zealand first treasure: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ive...
Raybon is a national treasure, perhaps even a New Zealand first treasure: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ive...
Raybon Kan: I've never talked about it, but Winston Peters also told me to go back to my own country
OPINION: Could it be a Chinese thing not to want to cry racism? To be stoic?
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11-year high of 5.6% unemployment. Fixing the basics, like fuck. Absolute economic vandals. #nzpol
ACT whole schtick is misinformation this is more of the same. They have more than enough resources to put out factual data and graphics. The visual lie is a choice. #nzpol ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a lie or an untruth.
ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a graphic or a graph?
An ACT Party post about the gap between new medicines funded in Australia and New Zealand is "visually misleading," according to a statistics professor.
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Just imagine, for the sake of stable government we have to allow Nazis our education and military. I'm sure there wouldn't be a problem. That's MMP.
Imagine going down in history as the worst dressed, most poorly spoken, least preferred PM whose strings were constantly pulled by other parties.
Cringe Awkward
ALT: Cringe Awkward
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Lew@lewsos.bsky.social · 2d agoWe've been saying Luxon’s impotence makes him prime minister in name only www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
Some of us pointed this out before the 2023 election
Terry Baucher@trabaq.bsky.social · 2d ago#nzpol Front page of today's Herald. More interestingly, the story (continued in second photo) starts to pick apart his pre-Air New Zealand business experience. (Also of note is that the print story doesn't tie up with the online version). www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Back peddling to follow his backtracking - doesn’t seem to know if he’s coming or going on a lot of things #nzpol
Luxon backpedals after office says 'official' data centre advice actually 'media talking points'
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has landed in another controversy about the OIA.
nzherald.co.nz
As an FYI Luxon has also used “replacement” language and when I criticized it on Twitter I got The Post editors telling me off cause I was a columnist at the time. And then of course they cancelled my column. People who have the power to stand up against white supremacy never want to.
Good question not answered: why say you'd rule out Nash but won't say if you'd rule out Peters