Terrific read it is too! Particular fan here of cheaper options (and greater frequency) on the Tranzalpine and Coastal Explorer. Well, and the Southerner!

André Brett@drdrehistorian.bsky.social · yesterday

You could do the above for less than the RoNS north of Warkworth. I have a more ambitious wishlist—see last chapter of Can't Get There from Here—but this is where we should be *starting*: it rightly ought to be seen as basic for functional transport, not pie in the sky or subject to partisan whim

Absolutely. And more importantly (I argue) the structural marginalisation underlying the hugely disparate opportunities for these. This is actually well-established knowledge in the public health field. Sadly it hasn’t driven different decisions

Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔@br3nda.bsky.social · 2d ago

Probably a lot of medical problems would go away if our population had rest, sleep, exercise, healthy food.... And we stopped treating it like a personal failing, when it's really a whole society failure that people have no time and money for these.

Someone tell Winston

Emathion 📯@emathion.bsky.social · 2d ago

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.

Act leader David Seymour carries on his campaign. (Those are quotes from DSeymour about the Tribunal) My #cartoon today #NZpol #WaitangiTribunal #Māori

"To that end, I want to say to this House with complete surety that the neoliberal experiment of the 1980s has failed. The economics of creating unemployment to manage inflation is farcical when domestic inflation in New Zealand has been driven by big corporates making excessive profits." #nzpol 🧵⬇️🇳🇿

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d ago

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Inefficiency is bad, actually; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/m... #Pluralistic

"It’s time to draw a line in the sand and, alongside my colleagues here in Te Pāti Kākāriki, we have come as the pallbearers of neoliberalism, to bury these shallow, insufferable ideas once and for all. And this, sir, is our act of love." FA’ANĀNĀ EFESO COLLINS (27 May 1974–21 February 2024) #nzpol

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David Mohring@nzheretic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The problem is a combination of : 1) the finance industry morphed from a symbiotic to completely parasitic relationship with all other industry & government; 2) the singular focus on short term profits to the detriment of any opportunity cost to the environment & community. #politics #nzpol

Wow…. a clip from Mayor Mamdani’s five borough back to school tour

Remember when, week in and week out, the National Party Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee vilified and mocked those of us who pushed the City Rail Link. But we had the last laugh. Such a great win for the broader green and progressive movt.

Watched Ryan Bridge interviews with Shane Jones and Simeon Brown this morning. Very striking contrast between his obsequious interviewing style with these two and his aggression in interviews with Chlöe and Marama.

Intelligent people can disagree, but what's really remarkable in study of 6.6k+ comments against the Green Party's new food policy www.greens.org.nz/affordable_f... is how *almost no one* on Facebook - responding to Winston Peters, Taxpayers' Union, NewstalkZB, RNZ posts - have read it! #nzpol

It occurred to me just now that many people won’t know the significance of Soweto as the location for ABs v Springboks tonight. In 1976 hundreds of school students were shot in Soweto when they protested against compulsory use of Afrikaans in school.

Groundswell's McFadden says "farmers are inherently environmentalists" and argues for 'self-regulation' This self-serving view would see more nitrate poisoning of aquifers, over-extraction of river water & more animal effluents, destruction of habitats, enteric pathogens and eutrophication #nzpol

Groundswell joins green groups in opposing environment reform

Critics of Chris Bishop’s flagship environmental law reform usually say it goes too far in pulling back protections – one group says it doesn’t go far enough

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#MarchForNature www.marchfornature.nz Stockton mine image: Neil Silverwood

March for Nature: Hands off Conservation Land!

On Saturday 19 September 2026, at 1pm, people from across Aotearoa will come together in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to stand up for nature and defend conservation land.

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They've underestimated how prepared we are to defend the places and wildlife we love. On Saturday 19 September at 1pm we’re marching against this Bill. Join us. September 19 1pm Albert Park, Auckland to say enough is enough to a Government that keeps putting corporate interests ahead of nature.

March for Nature: Hands off Conservation Land!

On Saturday 19 September 2026, at 1pm, people from across Aotearoa will come together in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to stand up for nature and defend conservation land.

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They're the forest parks, conservation areas, and scenic reserves. They're the wild places we go camping, tramping, fishing and hunting. They are the places generations fought to protect. But this Government has underestimated how deeply people from all walks of life love these places.

The CAB is rotten to the core and it must be thrown in the bin. None of us want to show up to our favorite conservation area to go camping, tramping, hunting, and find that the quiet wilderness once there is gone, replaced by an open mining pit, a private hotel or a shopping mall.

🚨 Luxon's Government just this morning has doubled down on its plans to exploit and degrade public conservation land. This morning it has released a revised draft of the Conservation Amendment Bill (CAB) that keeps the plan to change to the very PURPOSE of New Zealand’s conservation law. 1/7

Laser-focused on ‘Up the Tahs!’

I have encouraged our staff to work from home while this surge of respiratory illnesses is around, esp in Wellington. I’m pretty sure the heritage building we work from doesn’t have HEPA filtration. Any idea where I can hire some units?

330,000,000 books

One of mine in the current Big Issue @bigissue.com. Make merry and pick up a copy from your local vendor this weekend.

So I know most people won’t know about this, but the Government has been ramming through its awful resource management agenda in Parliament this week. The Committee stage wrapped up this morning.

"Neutral in the culture war"

CNN@cnn.com · 3w ago

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis

Can someone please check that Bette Midler is ok?

What a line!

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3w ago

"We recognized that sometimes [the United State's] signature was written in pencil." — Mark Carney

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

We’re watching Sgt Haane. We didn’t realise this before we started, but Ian is directly related to several of the main characters

Belated comment about TVNZ story last night about Māwhera (Greymouth). Despite the embarrassing boosterism of Development West Coast, the creation of a few hundred jobs in mining has absolutely nothing to do with the great new buildings in town.

So good @simonbwilson.bsky.social “As for Chris Penk, I’m with the full-blown conspiracists: he might have been on his own up there in the caucus Book Depository but he surely had friends waiting on the Grassy Knoll.”