so the party can avoid working with “some yahoo and numpty” in Cabinet. ummm there's a couple of ways to achieve this; 1. resign 2. dont negotiate with numpties or if you are; 3. dont fold to their whims like a lawn chair www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

PM Luxon says he’d hold referendum on MMP if re-elected

Luxon says he wants to avoid working with "some yahoo or numpty" in Cabinet.

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Another reason not to vote for any of the coalition parties. And him calling others "numpty" is frankly hilarious 😂

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Unemployment at its highest level for 11 years, did I see? And THAT INCLUDES THE COVID AND LOCKDOWN TIMES. Thanks to the Ardern government that protected jobs and businesses at the time.

Nonsense. RBNZ estimated in May that the oil price shock would lead to higher unemployment for longer (yellow line) but today's data was worse than expected (again!) The trouble is the reckonomists believe their own recovery hype.

RNZ framing this as a wily Peters evading comments, rather than as a coward who refused to answer questions and abused the rules of the house to do so is just par for the course in the current media environment, sadly

Pretty sure in former times, us citizens expected our Govts to REACT TO WORLD EVENTS AND USE THE ENORMOUS RESOURCES AT THEIR FINGERTIPS TO MINIMISE THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT but what do I know? Ps: Peters, you are worse than wasted space. You are evil.

#nzpol Good to read that Chris Hipkins is getting more stuck in. Hipkins is challenging Luxon's lies on the parliamentary record. Luxon did not answer the questions properly and Gerry Brownlee protected Luxon when he should have been disciplining him. #HypocrisyExposed www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hipkins puts pressure on Luxon over his 'parent-child mentality' comments

The Prime Minister has come under pressure in Parliament over his comments about New Zealand businesses, with Labour leader Chris Hipkins using question time to ask Christopher Luxon if he stands by t...

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The number of people who want work or more work is now up to 427,000 souls (13.8% of the working age population). That's about 1 in 7 kiwis... Friends, What the actual fk? Is there nothing that needs doing? Who's in charge? [2/n]

#nzpol Ahem... are we back on track yet? Just asking for 5.2 million friends. 🧐

@flaneuse1.bsky.social · yesterday

Quelle surprise.😒 www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

This isn't some sort of free choice. The media should reject that bullshit framing. New Zealanders forced to go without food and heat as government drives more and more into poverty. There. Fixed it for you. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather...

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

An advocate for older people says recent cold temperatures combined with the cost of power and other goods have produced a crisis point, with many people forced to choose between food and heating.

rnz.co.nz

The 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

A vote for National or NZ First means returning ACT to power again. ACT are gunning for workers, disabled people, and children. They will actively and intentionally make all our lives worse, except ofc for their wealthy donor class.

PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · 20h ago

Today's chart after ACT got another $25k The system is rigged

Wherein Doocey insists on reporting of wait times for mental health services against his targets, but not reporting of: - Number of declined referrals - Number of clinical vacancies in mental health - Wait times for community services (that declined referrals are supposedly sent to)

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 20h ago

Fears young people slipping through gaps in mental health data

A vote for National, NZFirst, or ACT is a vote to keep older kiwis in poverty, and to make their poverty worse. This coalition government has actively passed policies that have made things tougher for everyone who isn't in the wealthy donor class. It will only get worse if they are voted back in.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · yesterday

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

Tamatha Paul in general debate talks about a homeless man dying on the streets of Wellington on Monday night in the freezing cold. This regime has a body count #nzqt

I can’t say enough how vital this kind of writing is. It shouldn’t be rare to see decision makers & leaders being held to account, but this is one of the few crystal clear, absolutely on point articles I’ve seen outside of the excellent work being done by those who don’t have a mainstream platform.

Hayley@writagal.bsky.social · yesterday

“There is at least one important section of society where little shittery is rampant, destructive and harmful to the environment of the workplace. It’s actively impeding the ability of well-behaved people to perform well & limiting productivity. I’m talking, of course, about parliament.” No notes🙌

In today’s NZ Herald

There’s been a lot of talk about children this past week - how to punish them, how to breed them, and how business people are like them - but none of it about child welfare. My #cartoon today #NZpol

Every new oil and gas project makes the heatwaves worse.

I have learnt so much about economics by reading @musicalchairs.bsky.social threads. Such a pity politicians and pundits aren't reading them too #nzpol

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

[🤓post] This is the pile of financial assets that RBNZ is holding for the purpose of 'liquidity management'. See the big red hump? That's Govt bonds that RBNZ bought during Cvid (aka QE). RBNZ's been selling them off for a few years. 'Green' is the low interest cash sprayed at banks (FLP) [🧵 1/n]

How about a journalist asks Erica Stanford to explain what the “legal reasons” are why she “can’t” share a copy of her Social Media Ban (Forced Online Identification for All) Bill? In a sensible country this bill would’ve been preceded by consultation on a draft bill. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

National wants to show Labour the social media ban bill, but 'we can't', education minister says

The education minister says she hopes to get a copy of the social media ban bill to Labour's caucus this week, after previously saying legal reasons were preventing her from doing so.

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#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 · yesterday

Raybon is a national treasure, perhaps even a New Zealand first treasure: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ive...

Toxic ideologues working for private, self & corporate interests 🤢🤮 Government poised to ram through reckless demolition of environmental protections #nzpol

Government poised to ram through reckless demolition of environmental protections - Greenpeace Aotearoa

Parliament is set to vote today on what Greenpeace says is the most reckless demolition of environmental protections in a generation. 

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"Shut up. Do some evolving"

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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#nzpol In light of the -10⁰C predicted for tomorrow, can the Aotearoa NZ Govt press pool ask the PM and his many ministers what is being done for the thousands of homeless around the motū who are now forced to sleep rough, in bushejs, under bridges, or in garages, or in their cars. #MontageTime

#nzpol We have extreme heat, floods, runaway fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tidal waves in our future, too. I want a government that will take action to ready our health and emergency services for our climate crisis now and near future. www.bbc.com/news/article...

NHS must plan for heat and wildfires, says Cambridge academic

Kim van Daalen says healthcare systems "are becoming more strained" due to the heat.

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I am 100% sure more AI data centers could help here /s Or we could spend those billions on an actual resilient distributed renewable grid www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Transpower issues power warning

Transpower has issued a warning that there might be an energy shortfall on Friday morning.

rnz.co.nz

power companies heavily increased prices a few months back, even before it was seriously cold and people were using more power. and yet here we are again with another energy infrastructure failure despite being rorted for the last decade. where the fuck is NZers money even going??

Tom Isaacson@parsley72.bsky.social · yesterday

Everybody get solar. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

What a metaphor for ACT: Throw sauce on shite to hide how hideous it is.

BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · yesterday

As schools reported throwing out nearly one in three Compass lunches late last year, the Ministry of Education looked into adding sauce to make the meals more appealing but shelved the idea over cost.