Jack Craw
@jackcraw.bsky.social
Climate worrier, greenie, NZ cricket, blues music, things made from barley
Oooh oooh oooh please, pretty please
Pete Husky@petehusky.bsky.social · 2d agoWould be interesting if the Green Party call National’s bluff by offering to pair any NZ 1st votes that oppose the govt for until 24th Sept (or abstain as a bloc), to enable the parliamentary session to complete if Luxon fires him and NZ1st withdraw from coalition. #nzpol
A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has been linked to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler. Great work from @comingupcharlie.bsky.social www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...
“We’ve moved into the Age of the Oligarch which is defined by a network of the rich and powerful and the authoritarians they prop up. The group transcends national borders and has zero interest in the countries that elevated them to power.”
The Third World War Is Here
And it's not what you think
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@audioculturenz.bsky.social · 5d agoSuch a cool story by John Pain: Al Young fell in love with the blues in the 1960s. He played well, but took it further than most, also writing two books: his first book, Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life, was published in 1997. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/al-y...
Jolisa Gracewood@nzdodo.bsky.social · 5d ago“The kick-arse business he ‘built’ ‘like an adult’ exists because the state bailed it out, one of the largest corporate rescues in this country’s history.” So many quotable lines in this analysis of a Prime Minister’s dismissive address to a room full of people paying for his breakfast… #nzpol
Any other PM would have stripped the Foreign Affairs portfolio off Peters in a heartbeat. This is another proof that Luxon is weak and spineless.
The 'Inv-Asian' migration wave of the 90s was dominated by nuclear family units. To be an Asian kid in the 90s like Lawrence (or me, though I was born here) was to grow up isolated & in the shadow of hatred and violence instigated by a guy who is currently the Deputy PM still doing the same thing.
The spin of this govt is just ridiculous. They have significantly reduced research funding and narrowed the criteria to access what is left
Stephen Fleming appointed England cricket test team coach. A good move, given player behaviour and attitude has been an ongoing problem. Fleming is a high personal standards man #NZcricket
📢 Journalist and publisher of The Kākā, Bernard Hickey joins The Front Page to unpack whether the fuel support should continue.
Should the Government extend fuel support as prices dip below $3?
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I've said several things out loud in my comments on NZ missing it's climate targets, telling political parties to "get over themselves" (a technical term) & tackle lobbying to fix NZ climate - scroll down to the bottom after colleagues thoughtful comments www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2026/07/22/n...
NZ's climate goals off-track - Expert Reaction
The latest emissions reduction monitoring report says we're running out of time to meet our targets. Farming, electricity, and transport are the biggest risks to emissions budgets, the Climate Change ...
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The Green Party will cut your power bill and take power back from the big four power companies, because a warm, dry home powered by clean energy should be within everyone's reach 💚💡
In case this isn’t clear, all parties were working collaboratively to advance a new law on consent NOW. National withdrew from this collaboration in order to promise it would do this same thing AFTER THE ELECTION. Trying to slow down this change.
I have a joke about Archimedes but l won't tell it on principle
Andrew Todd@andrewtodd.co.nz · 3w agoI have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Sisyphus but I have a joke about Si
The NZ Government spent $8M to bring the Michelin Guide here. $8M is the entire yearly government funding to all food banks, who feed 500k people a month. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/s... #NZPol
Starry-eyed Tourism NZ buried the downside to fund its $8m Michelin gamble
Previously secret documents imply that the famous international restaurant guide essentially guaranteed the award of at least one star to a restaurant, if the NZ Government paid its $1,901,250 fee.
newsroom.co.nz
Sir Garfield Sobers passed. Probably the greatest cricketer of all time. Would have been a billionaire celebrity if English, Australian or Indian. #NZcricket
"Let’s be honest: if Donald Trump can’t get his way, he wants to burn it all down," @briankarem.bsky.social writes.
Trump's Obama vendetta has him trapped in his own forever war
The president is determined to keep hammering Iran with no concern for the consequences
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It's all true. Matakohe is like an offshore island in your backyard. All the benefits and very minor logistics
Jono@jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 3w agoFolks, do you want to live on an island nature reserve for three years and spend your days fucking around on boats, driving tractors, killing pests, fiddling with kiwi and showing kids aroubd some dangerously cool industrial ruins? Do I have the job for you!
#nzpol Can the media please ask David Seymour to explain how this former ACT party president sexual offender will be dealt with under ACT's proposed 3 strikes legislation. 🤔
Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · 3w agoTim Jago got one month off his sentence "to take into account two emotional harm payments of $1,500 each." According to today's Herald piece, he's promising an equal amount to his latest victim. The kicker? He hasn't paid the first two yet.
The global spread of this beetle “will fundamentally alter ecosystem structure and landscape dynamics wherever it gains a foothold.” I also expect it will exacerbate the urban heat island effect by reducing the tree canopy in every city it invades. #bioinvasions www.science.org/content/arti...
Tree-killing beetle is spreading to urban forests around the world
As researchers piece together the pest’s global trek, countries are working to contain the growing threat
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Split yes. But to a single ministry. The threats to biodiversity and human health need to be assessed at least equally if not higher than to trade in primary production
Andrew@openpolicy.bsky.social · 3w agoThe next government must break up the structurally conflicted MPI and give fishing regulation and biosecurity to DoC, if not to a resurrected Ministry for the Environment. Food safety also needs to be removed from MPI. Currently it’s a nexus of lobbying & corruption risks. #nzpol
Give this man his own TV show. Ok radio show
Giovanni Tiso@gtiso.bsky.social · 3w agoPoll time! Should the NEMA official who — after the civil defence website crashed during a potential tsunami situation — said on Morning Report that people need to learn to rely on their "human sense of danger" be fired... a. From his job b. Out of a fucking cannon
My Sam Neil story. A friend, once a famous musician, was down on his luck. Playing a piano bar. Sam heard about it and would come down and request a song and leave $100. Often 2 songs. Insisted on it. Explained "I'm paid disgustingly too much dear boy, it's only fair l spread it about a bit"
In part 1 of a major 2-part series, Nick Bollinger looks at “the influencers”: visits by internationals which impacted music in NZ. The Beatles and the Pretty Things are covered on AudioCulture, but others had a huge reach too – going all the way back to 1877. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...
The Influencers: inspirational visitors, part 1 - Article | AudioCulture
No culture is an island, not even a culture situated in a group of actual islands 1600 kilometres away from its nearest neighbour. It is human nature to interact, cooperate and mimic, and no more so t...
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