“A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who challenge Peters’ conduct.” #nzpol

The Speaker’s selective severity: Rules for Swarbrick, rank for Peters

A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who c…

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Powerswitch and Billy give such wildy different results - the rankings aren't even slightly similar - that I'm not sure I should pay any attention to either of them. As far as I can tell, the best thing to do is to switch retailer every 12 months to get each one's new customer bribe.

Now it's using the cash pile to buy foreign currency assets - mostly foreign govt bonds. IE Our Govt is using tens of billions in spare cash to help the US, UK, Japan, Australia etc pay for their infrastructure and wars, rather than building houses and hospitals here. 2/2

If a police officer has a history of violence and abuse of power, that's vital evidence for a judge or a jury in judging evidence they give about the "necessity" of their using force against a suspect. But NZ police hide that evidence. They deceive the courts.

Star Trek saw this shit coming from 35 years away m.youtube.com/watch?v=hHxc...

computer simulated female

YouTube video by Angela Collier

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@openpolicy.bsky.social can the Ombudsman investigate a complaint (before the election) about this sort of policy decision by EC?

Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren't on the printed roll and who say they're unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/03/t...

Let me take a minute to tell you how bonkers this is. The first election I worked was (I think) 2008, before there was really any advance voting. At every election, if you weren't on the roll, we let you cast a special vote and then worked out if you were eligible afterwards. Two reasons: 1/2

Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren't on the printed roll and who say they're unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/03/t...

Talk about a vote of no confidence. Feels like a brutally specific indictment - not just of where things are at right now for young people, but also how they see the future. Can’t say as I blame them; but how do we win back hope?

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d ago

'Things are screwed anyway, why try?' Youth voter enrolment rate plummets

Just noting that the hypocrisy clock struck a few days ago when the Minister appointed people associated with the FSU to fill these positions. Apparently the FSU abandons its principles when developments are self-serving for their political benefit.

Kyle Matthews@kylermatthews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I look forward to the Free Speech Union's outrage at a government minister not re-appointing council members of a regulatory body because of their freely held (and evidential!) opinions: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... I'll start the free speech hypocrisy clock now?

There should be more news on Australia's plans to require Data Centres to be nett generators (and the degree of renewables) later this month, for legislation next year. NZ seems to have no such planning, opting for more of a US "let it hit the current grid" model. thenextweb.com/news/austral...

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

one road, not even long enough to run a marathon on, for the low low price of 42 times the entire 2027 budget for scientific research in new zealand #nzpol

Biggest-ever PPP: $3.6b Northland expressway deal signed

The 26km expressway will include twin tunnels through the Dome Valley.

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Nice. #nzpol

National getting in its corruption ahead of the election. Also, after the shitshow of Transmission Gully, you'd have to be a total mug to support PPPs www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Biggest-ever PPP: $3.6b Northland expressway deal signed

The 26km expressway will include twin tunnels through the Dome Valley.

nzherald.co.nz

Indeed. 96% of people would receive a tax CUT under the Greens’ policy

Wrath of Fox ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️‍🌈@wrath-of-fox.bsky.social · 7d ago

Today’s income tax comparison (now vs Green Party policy) - someone earning $69k. Use greenstax.cc to work out what your income tax would be under the Greens. This person would take home $576.03 more a year. The effective rate goes from 20.48% to 19.64% #NZPol #Greens #BHN #DTPI26 #TaxWealthNotWork

People are upset with Winston for his racist comments, but I have yet to hear the politicians protest at Winston for using the “R” word, a derogatory word to demean disabled, esp learning disabled. He used it to denigrate a colleague but it shows how arrogant it is to use that word & insult disabled

As an ethnic minority kiwi I need pākehā parties to understand that we are no longer standing for this stupid shit no matter how many fucking Desis they recruit to peddle their white supremacy. I don’t give a fuck. Rule out NZF right fucking now.

This is Israel’s deliberate policy of ongoing Nakba. To maintain business as usual with the genocidal state of Israel or any of its complicit companies and institutions is to be complicit too. We need you to channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS action now.

Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me

Know the signs, enroll online: vote.nz

Jodrell Bank and the huge steerable Lovell Telescope is one of the most memorable places I visited in the UK. The names were famous to this nerdy astronomer kid. Apart from its world heritage value, it still has a unique scientific role. Here's Tom Scott recently:

I cannot believe Jodrell Bank let me do this

YouTube video by Tom Scott

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Badassmutha@badassmutha.bsky.social · last wk.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Story paywalled, but key point: People are quibbling re the Greens’ proposed super-rich tax: will it capture 56% of currently untaxed wealth—or as much as 72%? Honestly, either would be great? A policy that achieves roughly 2/3 of what it aims for sounds amazing! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

The hundred-million-dollar question: Greens hit out at Treasury's wealth tax analysis

Greens want a 'super-rich tax' and say Treasury is out of step with overseas evidence.

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Protest against McDonalds in the UK, have NZ police spy on you here. Meanwhile the UK public pay the £2.5m bill for relocating the UK police spy from Auckland to Sydney, including a house four times more expensive than his New Zealand home, and compensating him for his lost income as a barrister.

Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2w ago

NZ police cooperate with English police in anti-democratic surveillance www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

NZ has - almost uniquely amongst our peers - tanked its economy and pushed 10,000s onto the dole (and offshore). We were told that this strategy would 'get interest rates down, tame inflation, and drive growth 🎉'. Yet, here we are, slumped and vying to be inflation champs. What went wrong? [🧵1/n]

"First Advantage" background checks are utterly brain dead, Kafkaesque. They just keep coming back and asking for things that make no sense in New Zealand. They're seriously trying to contact my high school (I'm mid 40s btw) to verify my "school diploma"

"Israel has launched a new wave of strikes across Gaza" The genocide hasn't stopped.

Can any nerds think of M365 or NZ Govt (e.g. SGE) agency changes which would cause them to start sending UTF-7 encoded emails in the last couple of months? It's a very strange obsolete encoding for them to be using.