🤯 "Offshore voter enrolments are rising – currently 104,164 – up a whopping 60% compared to the same point in the 2023 election cycle, according to the latest electoral commission data." LET'S GOOOOOO. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

A tight election looms in New Zealand. This time, overseas voters could be bad news for the big parties

More than 100,000 have enrolled to vote from abroad in the November poll, and many are unhappy with how things look back home

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The corporatisation of Primary Care is a blight on NZ. More than 1:4 practices are owned by large corporates, with promises of "efficiency" blah blah. They cut staff and treat them with casual disdain, with bullying and burnout rife. #nzpol 1/3

Last remaining GP at Horowhenua's Taitoko Health clinic resigns

The last general practitioner of a clinic for 4500 patients in Horowhenua has resigned.

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“The cover of issue 25 of The Socialist, ISO’s primary publication, urges readers to Vote Out the Government & Build a Socialist Alternative. It’s a call against abstention, & for a politics where voting once every 3 yrs is a minuscule portion of political activity” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2026/09/30/v...

“Opportunity’s rise in popularity confirms what socialists have been saying for a long time: working people are disillusioned by decades of tinkering at the edges of the neoliberal system & want an alternative. Unfortunately for voters, Opportunity can’t deliver it” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2026/09/15/a...

A Hot New* Party Enters the Polls: An Opportunity Party Profile

In a crowded Union Hall at the Otago University Students’ Association Leaders Debate on Wednesday 11 August, Opportunity deputy leader Daniel Eb made a compelling case for the party’s recent rise in t...

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This government has kicked the health system into the ground. And you get the feeling from Bishop, Brown, Luxon and anyone else that one else that wants to chip in, that if there was another pandemic tomorrow, these politicians will not help. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

‘The system’s just broken me’: The pressure in ED is overwhelming

Emergency department doctors and nurses across New Zealand describe conditions they say are unsafe

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The Al Noor Mosque massacre was, for many NZers, their 1st encounter with violent right-wing extremism. The Parliament Occupation revealed the breadth of this paranoid fringe. These events have spurred a book, Fear: New Zealand’s hostile underworld of extremists #nzpol iso.org.nz/2026/09/09/f...

Fear Now: Revisiting the Far Right in New Zealand

The massacre at Al Noor mosque in 2019 was, for many New Zealanders, their first close encounter with violent right-wing extremism. The Parliament Occupation of 2022, in turn, revealed the breadth and...

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Today, wealth and political power are the domain of a shrinking number of very wealthy people. Our members believe the proposal for automatic union membership is an important step and commend the Green Party for the initiative. Workers First statement: www.workersfirst.nz/news/2026-09... #nzpol

Ngahere: Forest, woodland, natural sanctuary

If you thought that headline sounded familiar www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

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Queen Olivia III@queenoliviaiii.com · last mo.

Oh Deloitte www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

Israel’s government has not hidden its genocidal intent for almost 3 years. Still countries like Britain, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, Germany & France give Israel an effectively free pass. Occasional mutterings about land seizures in the West Bank, but nothing to prevent genocide. #nzpol

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last mo.

The Israeli Defence Minister on TV explaining in detail exactly what the IDF have been doing all along and what the plan is now.

“Scrolling a news site or social media feed, you’re likely to encounter some far-right/fascist activity & efforts to counter it. What’s effective? Inadvertently enabling? How can you contribute productively to #antifascist efforts?” #nzpol #antifa iso.org.nz/2026/09/01/h... @ponekeantifa.bsky.social

How We Counter Fascism

Whether scrolling through a news website or a social media feed, you’re likely to encounter a variety of little windows into far-right and fascist activity, and of individual and collective efforts to...

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In July, Indian PM Narendra Modi stepped onto the red carpet to embrace Christopher Luxon & corporate execs. Behind the smiles, the capitalist world’s revealed: trade networks welcome a leader guilty of ethnic & religious violence, repression & far-right authoritarianism iso.org.nz/2026/08/27/m...

Modi and the Cockroaches: Indian Student Movement

In July 2026, prime minister of India Narendra Modi stepped onto the red carpet at Auckland’s Government House to the ceremonial embrace of New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon and other corpo...

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NZ National and ACT parties can't even be bothered to show up for a pre-election forum discussion of Science and Research funding in NZ. Tells you all you need to know about their priorities. www.youtube.com/live/0yxmHaa... #NZPol

NEW: 15k pensioners had their winter energy payment wrongly suspended this winter thanks to an error in a bill rushed through the House under urgency last year. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Winter Energy Payments removed from 15k pensioners in rushed law blunder

Thousands of pensioners and veterans lost their Winter Energy Payment this winter after an error in a law passed under urgency last year, The Post can reveal today.

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Second part: a senior figure in Young New Zealand First has ties to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...

NZ First youth leader linked to neo-Nazi network

A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Part one of my investigation into a group of young men trying to import “remigration” into New Zealand politics www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

ISO Coordinating Committee member @oscar-bartle.bsky.social on the mic in this Otago Daily Times coverage of yesterday’s student strike in Ōtepoti. #nzpol #FreeEducation #protest www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Dunedin students unite to protest end of fees free scheme

Dunedin students unite to protest end of fees free scheme

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As Education Action Groups start to reform on campuses around the country ahead of this week’s day of action for fees-free, Associate Professor Brian Roper includes my account in his look back at the 1990s student movement. #nzpol

International Socialists Aotearoa@isoaotearoa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Commentators claim #protests are ineffective. But these ‘90s protests forced unis to implement smaller fee increases than planned, prevented privatisation & the first attempt to introduce VSM legislation. Without ISO, those struggles would have been less effective” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2026/07/27/r...

In Wellington too! Please share.

Kia ora friends - a reminder that our Socialist Library book sale is happening tomorrow (Sat) at 9am at Trades Hall, 147 Gt North Rd - a great opportunity for low-cost book browsing - & purchase! - in support of a vibrant new left project in the big city. #kikorangi #nzpol

Socialist Booksale to support the Socialist Library at Trades Hall

Socialist and general books for sale at everything-must-go prices, to support the future Socialist Library at Trades Hall

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A teacher writes: “The govt’s attacks on #education are galling in a world where AI challenges the very concept of employment & climate disasters ravage the planet. We need a society of creative thinkers. All this govt offers is privatisation & exploitation” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2026/07/24/a...

Attacks on Education: Counting the Crimes

A Crisis in Achievement or a Crisis in Society? Is education in crisis? It certainly seems so. Those of us who are working in schools have had to deal with the cavalcade of changes. That includes curr...

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Power prices myths busted. National and Luxon's claims are rubbish. #nzpol #nzpolitics #electricity #powerprices #gentailers www.consumer.org.nz/consumer-rig...

6 myths about NZ power prices

Why are New Zealand power prices so high? It’s not all about lines charges, Labour’s oil and gas ban or the cost of renewable energy.

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“Under new laws, immigration officers will be able to demand ID from suspected overstayers at homes & workplaces. Anti-immigration legislation directly harms migrant communities, while legitimising increased exploitation & surveillance of the entire working class” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2026/07/10/n...

New Laws Harken Back to the Dawn Raids Era

Under new laws, immigration officers will be able to demand identification from suspected overstayers at their homes and workplaces. These out-of-hours compliance visits harken back to policies of the...

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Health Minister Simeon Brown on health imperatives. My #cartoon today #HealthCare #NZpol

Born in 1991 after discontent w/ Labour, the social democratic Alliance were an alternative to the neoliberal norm. 2026 is different. The Alliance has shifted left as #democraticsocialists. Their campaign is well-intentioned but political conditions are against it #nzpol iso.org.nz/2026/07/03/p...

Party Profiles: The Alliance

The most brutal right-wing government this country has seen since the 1990s is in power. The opposition is led by Chris Hipkins, the spineless neoliberal Labour Party leader promising to be a “continu...

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“How should the Left understand racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, & ableism? Some say bigotry is a distraction to divide the working class. Others read injustice as institutional. We understand that social relations are not independent parts, but relational” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2026/06/24/s...

Social Reproduction Theory: The Working Class Against Oppression

How should the Left understand racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism? And how do these categories relate to class? Some view the problem as ideological: the ruling class uses bigotry as...

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Winston Peters clashes with Palestine protestors at Parliament

Winston Peters clashes with Palestine protestors at Parliament

The Foreign Affairs Minister has clashed with protesters over the government's stance on Palestine, during a hearing at Parliament.

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Trump lost. #Iran won. Draft of Iran-US peace deal revealed www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Draft of Iran-US peace deal revealed

Both Iran and the US can walk away from the memorandum of understanding they are set to sign on Friday, a senior US official says.

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Ideological Health Minister removes leaders of professional regulator, the Medical Council. #NzPol

Simeon Brown removes Medical Council leaders over ‘idealogical agenda’

Health Minister Simeon Brown has replaced the leadership of the Medical Council, saying the regulator has become distracted by politics and ideological issues.

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