This is a repeated pattern Burnham has already displayed - portraying environmental protection and economic prosperity as zero sum, sacrificing one for the other. It might be canny short term politics, but it’s a horrible message that validates the culture messaging of the climate deniers

Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 7h ago

The Burnham premiership continues its approach to the future which is "wildfires? lets have more of that please, the young can be put to work to put out the flames" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

culture-war ass take. you're deleting a believably reachable requirement and replacing it with a rather unrealistic one

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

theguardian.com

A retired friend was remembering when there were departmental secretaries at universities who basically project managed the departments. You could give them handwritten documents, and they would type them up. He was shocked when I said it didn't work like that for female academics.

Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 23h ago

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

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

I'm a bear of little brain, but in my book taxpayers should not be picking up the bill for any MP to travel to and from party political events, like election fundraisers or party conferences. Either they do it at their own expense, or from party funds. End of line. #nzpol

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 13h ago

Not for *government duties* for his role as leader of the National Party for a party *fundraiser* for the *election* Surely this is outside the bounds of what the Air Force should be used for?? Seems like an enormous breach of his access to public assets! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 19h ago

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

Sigh. Here are the 6 speeches from govt MPs (other than Meagher's for minister responsible) on 2nd reading of Climate Change Tort Liab bill, outlawing tort claims and nixing Smith's current claim in public negligence – a bill widely condemned as constitutionally improper. youtu.be/ZMy5ixJ3IZM?...

Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Bill (2R Govt MPs other than minister)

YouTube video by Dr Dean Knight

youtu.be

Roderick Mulgan (Free Speech Union board member) lobbied Simeon Brown; Brown appointed him to the Medical Council. UK FSU founder Toby Young attended a private UCL eugenics conference in 2018. That's the 'free speech' movement's character reference. #nzpol

The good economic managers have created high unemployment again lol who was in govt 11 years ago? Yeah that’s right.

If you include New Zealanders who are underemployed/working part-time when they want to be working full time, there’s 440,000 people who are underutilised in this country in the latest data. That’s 440,000 people who can’t get the hours they need to make ends meet for themselves and their whānau.

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

Not for *government duties* for his role as leader of the National Party for a party *fundraiser* for the *election* Surely this is outside the bounds of what the Air Force should be used for?? Seems like an enormous breach of his access to public assets! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Christopher Luxon defends using Air Force flight to attend National Party fundraiser

Christopher Luxon is defending his use of an Air Force flight after attending a National Party fundraiser, saying he has a "busy job" and "full schedule".

rnz.co.nz

Toi Aro d/Deaf and/or Disabled Artist Development Residency! I held the Toi Pōneke version of this residency earlier this year and it was an amazing opportunity. If you're a Wellington region artist and meet the criteria I'd really encourage you to apply. www.toiaro.nz/residencies

Unemployment hits 11-year high under Luxon's Government. 49,000 more New Zealanders are out of work than when this Government took office, according to figures released by Stats NZ this morning showing 171,000 people unemployed and actively looking for work.

The north-south divide in pterosaur research. Barely 10% of pterosaur material comes from the global south. (From "The Pterosauria of the Early to Late Jurassic" A. Fernandes PhD thesis)

Permanently Disabled kids shouldn’t have to face a future living on a benefit that’s not enough to survive on, where bi-yearly they have to prove they still have an incurable condition. That’s not a future they deserve, it’s dehumanising, it’s depressing & it’s unacceptable. They have worth. #nzpol

Winston now claiming that he did not say what he said. #nzqt

🚀 ROCKET LAB JUST WON A $397M SPACE FORCE CONTRACT. $RKLB will build, launch and operate multiple Flatellites for the SB-AMTI tracking program, with Neutron handling deployment. Rocket Lab is becoming a defense space prime, not just a rocket company.

Unemployment is at 5.6%, according to new data from StatsNZ. 171,000 New Zealanders are unemployed, and the labour market is in crisis. We need a change of direction. #nzpol

Unemployment rate highest in more than a decade – labour market in crisis NZCTU

Today’s unemployment rate of 5.6 percent is the highest rate in more than a decade and shows a labour market clearly in crisis says Sandra Grey, President of the NZ Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Ka...

union.org.nz

If you're on campus next Monday, come say hi! 😎🤙💚 www.greens.org.nz/khm_se_260810

So Luxon claims he has official advice that Data Centres won't increase energy costs but, when the Greens requested a copy of the advice via an OIA, his office says there wasn't any advice and Luxon was just repeating their talking points, then Nicola says MBIE gave her advice ....🤡 #nzpol

Luxon backpedals after office says 'official' data centre advice actually 'media talking points'

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has landed in another controversy about the OIA.

nzherald.co.nz

Filmmaker Jared Flitcroft hopes that NZSL moves beyond accessibility and into authorship, where Deaf people aren't simply included in cinema, but help redefine what cinema can be.

NZSL belongs on the big screen

Filmmaker Jared Flitcroft hopes that NZSL moves beyond accessibility and into authorship, where Deaf people aren't simply included in cinema, but help redefine what cinema can be.

thedlist.co.nz

Australia Institute's research went viral: 69% of post-COVID inflation above RBA target came from excess corporate profits, not wages. Yet monetary policy ignores this, sparking fury over regulatory capture. 🧵2/3

Point taken Andrew, but my study of the Hansard from 2024 onwards is a clear record of how Winston Peters, far more than any other MP, is responsible for the decline in the standards of the House, which ironically he so often decries. The Speaker appears to be complicit in enabling this. #nzpol

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 2d ago

The wrong, dishonourable MPs: Targeted harassment in New Zealand’s legislature sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/t... (WordPress) www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrong-... (LinkedIn) #nzpol

if firing a geriatric old racist means the government will fall, then it doesn't deserve to stand #nzpol

Get yourself enrolled to vote and if you whakapapa Māori, join the Māori electoral roll BEFORE it closes on August 6 Because NZ First supporters will vote National and ACT supporters will vote And would you want their double-standard voices to be the only voice in Parliament next year? #nzpol

The only thing more important than the honesty and integrity of our parliament is the immediate removal of anyone who questions the honesty and integrity of our parliament www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Chlöe Swarbrick kicked out of House after challenging Speaker's 'double standards'

The Greens co-leader has been kicked out of the House, after challenging what she called the Speaker's "double standards".

rnz.co.nz

Huh? #nzpol @openpolicy.bsky.social