We desperately need to outlaw corporate donations to political parties. We need electoral finance reform. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

National donor Bayleys pockets $2.5m for selling state houses

Kāinga Ora says Bayleys Real Estate won the lucrative contract in a competitive tender.

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Comment: In the collective obsession to avoid every little mistake from the Covid-19 response, we risk failing to learn from what went right.

Brown promises 'future-focused' pandemic plan while relitigating the past

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From Victoria University - Comment: Treating economic stress and climate anxiety as psychological defects instead of political failures overloads a stretched medical system and ignores the structural causes.

Having the ladder pulled up on you isn't a mental health condition

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*Ring Ring* Hi! This is the voicemail of Christopher Luxon. I'm unable to take your call right now, not because I'm skiving off like other Kiwis on their long break at the beach or on a boat or whatever - I'm actually "WFH" from my high productivity patio at my beach house on Waiheke Island #NZPol

To be fair I avoid talking to people like the plague but generally this is true

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Walking, cycling, and public transport means people connecting, talking, passing everyday... Building community. And that terrifies the billionaires. They want us all to be individuals, ideally one missing pay day from starvation and willing to look away to stay there.

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨 After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner! The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is… 🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

"continuing to work on, you know, explaining to New Zealanders where we are and where we're trying to get to" We know where we are. We're at the bottom of a fast-tracked seabed mine while we watch the wind farm company disappear over the horizon, you dipshit

Mass uncontrolled immigration ok luxon are you gonna ban Australians from NZ cause who was responsible for terrorism on our soil? Racist piece of shit.

NZ has joined Canada in designating as terrorist entities two far-right online networks that encourage extremist violence and exploit children.

Two far-right networks designated as terrorist entities

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"In 2024 the High Court confirmed that the land, in parts of Nelson, Tasman and Golden Bay, had been held on trust by the Crown and that it had always belonged to descendants of its original owners." #nzpol

South Island Māori landowners to get more than 3000 hectares returned by Crown

Māori landowners will have the land returned, and receive $420 million in compensation, in a landmark agreement with the Crown, ending questions going back to the 1830s.

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That cut back in Govt investment in 2025 clear to see - it's a major reason the economy slumped. But, don't worry, Treasury are confident that we'll be building loads of roads by 2027 and house prices will be going up over 5% a year. Praise be. [NB residual cash without FLP]

The NZ Labour party isn't fit for purpose, it lacks any sort of actual vision for a changed New Zealand over a deadshit middle manager H.R approach, and it lacks the competence to engage with the government it wishes to replace in ten months in a way which meaningfully offers change people vote for.

When people say to me “Stop living in the past,” I say, “But the music was so much better back then.”

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

More accurate headline: Deloitte receives $435k of public funds to produce a report that recommends austerity, asset selling, and AI snake-oil for Wellington City Council. #nzpol

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delloitte report suggests Wellington City Council has 330 more staff than it should

It’s hard not to believe that Luxon’s move to dump regional councils isn’t just another way to remove obstacles to rampant corporate profit making at our expense. More emissions, more pollution more contaminated drinking water, more intensive dairy, more roads and less accountability. #nzpol

On twitter they aren't even referring to it in any way. Clint Smith has not said a single thing. Likewise Richard Hills - NOTHING on ANY platform. Labour supporters need to understand that they are now part of a TERF organisation.

"These are difficult times. But they are also clarifying times. "And I would rather stand in difficulty, among Women who see clearly, than in comfort among those who have chosen to forget, or to be selective." #FiLiA2025 @matriactivista.bsky.social www.matriactivista.com/post/i-stand...

I Stand with FiLiA Because FiLiA Stands with Women

These are difficult times ,not only politically, but existentially.The ground under our feet feels unstable, and the language that once named our oppression is being stripped from us, word by word. To...

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They're spending $16 million setting up the company to get the replacement ferries for the ones they spent $222 million on for no ferries. Yes, it was $144 mill for the break fee, but $222 in total for No Ferries. Oh, also it's looking at privatisation. Great. archive.is/oPVCO

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We are lazy?

Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 12mo ago

Comment from Auckland University: Research shows that while urban form enables walking, it doesn't determine it – there are other factors at play.

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

On 26th July 2025, delegates from over 25 countries convened in London for the inaugural conference of the Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP). As a member of the steering committee, I was asked to explain why we need this Alliance. Here was my message. www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/07/28/2...

- Yanis Varoufakis

On 26th July 2025, delegates from over 25 countries convened for the inaugural conference of the Global Alliance for Palestine (GAFP). This new transnational initiative seeks to transform rising globa...

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