If the price you are willing to pay to stay in power is to keep working with a racist member of your cabinet, even if he is the leader of a different party, then that ultimately shows you can accept racism as the price of doing business. 2/2 #NZPol
Mandy Hager
@mandyh.bsky.social
Writer, Greenie Granny worrying for my grandkids future mandyhager.com
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.
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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
General Election 2026 Deadlines Deadline for enrolled voters to switch between General and Māori roll: 23 hours Days left to enrol for the first time: 80 days Enrol or update here: https://vote.nz/enrolling/enrol-or-update/enrol-or-update-online Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol
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🙌
11-year high of 5.6% unemployment. Fixing the basics, like fuck. Absolute economic vandals. #nzpol
So we've gotta stupid Education Minister. We've gotta racist Foreign Minister. We've gotta Finance Minister acting like a spoiled bratty teenager who thinks she's spending Daddy's money. We've gotta Prime Minister who can't lead. And they're arguing that they're who we need going forward? #nzpol
'[FSU] chairperson Stephen Franks said its supporters had an opportunity to “vote against wokester rule” and suggested InternetNZ was charging more than it needed for “.nz” registrations while “siphoning off revenue to matey cause groups in Wellington”. (paywalled) #NzPol
Free Speech Union renews bid to reshape InternetNZ; says it opposes ‘wokester rule’
The lobby group is backing two candidates for the internet domain administrator’s board after last year encouraging supporters to join the organisation en masse to vote in its elections.
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Free & open for all: Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up to 37% of workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas were granted & the RBNZ hiked to take 'heat' out of the economy. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
Unemployment worse than forecast & real wages fall
Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up by 21,500 in a year to 37% of youth workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas granted
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We haven’t even hit bottom yet with inflation, oil prices, fertiliser prices, and layoffs which we know about but have yet to happen. #EconomicVandals #VoteThemOut #EconomicIlliteracy #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Unemployment rises to 11-year high of 5.6%
Unemployment rose to its highest level in nearly 11 years as the growth in the workforce outpaced the number of jobs being created.
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#nzpol #backontrack 🤔 Seasonally adjusted: 5.6% = 171,000 people 😥☹😠😡
I'm with Raybon on this, every cohort & enabler of this continual bullying bigotry, remembering it's not only racism that Peters & Jones feel safe to pontificate & verbally assault, they all need to be asked to defend on air, every donor be it a business or personal & every member of the Coalition
Repost for anyone who missed our article yesterday evening! #nzpol #nznews #nzpolitics #aotearoa #evidencebased #toitūtetiriti
PolicyFlow Aotearoa@policyflow.nz · 2d agoThe Move-on Orders Bill is a blunt instrument that does nothing to solve the actual and fundamental social issues, effectively criminalising homelessness, with widespread opposition. policyflow.nz/policy/move-... #nzpol #nznews #nzpolitics #aotearoa #evidencebased #toitūtetiriti
#nzpol Please consider making a submission against permanently reducing the welfare standards of laying hens in Aotearoa www.spca.nz/advocacy/new...
SPCA warns against permanent reduction in welfare standards for laying hens after Bird Flu arrives in New Zealand • SPCA New Zealand
SPCA is urging New Zealanders to have their say on a proposal that would permanently reduce welfare protections for laying hens, reiterating that emergency preparedness must not become a pathway for l...
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The recent auditors report revealed a lot including poor nutritional value, adding sauce helps for the taste even if as @ninjakitty.bsky.social has been pointing out the vast majority are still below par. #nzpol #nzschoollunches
BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · yesterdayAs 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.
ACT whole schtick is misinformation this is more of the same. They have more than enough resources to put out factual data and graphics. The visual lie is a choice. #nzpol ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a lie or an untruth.
ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a graphic or a graph?
An ACT Party post about the gap between new medicines funded in Australia and New Zealand is "visually misleading," according to a statistics professor.
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Greens have an AI policy, Labour to release theirs before election. @joelmacmanus.bsky.social #NzPol
If AI is about to upend everything, where’s all the AI policy?
So far, the only party to release any AI policy for the 2026 election is the Greens.
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Dear Govt: www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Winston Peters: Sits in Parliament laughing because he thinks racism is funny. #nzpol #newzealand #aotearoa
“The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren’t on the printed roll and who say they’re unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected.” So nice to see democracy in action, nothing to worry about here, love NZ’s accessible and clear election process.
Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 2d agoThe Opposition says people who think they're not enrolled should lodge special votes rather than being turned away from voting entirely.
Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d ago"Behind these cold statistics is a heavy human toll: a growing proportion of Kiwis working hard just to watch their reserves slowly dissipate, while waiting for an economic reprieve that keeps getting pushed out year after year." www.stuff.co.nz/money/361012... Crossposted with @openvibe.social
“OpenAI recently admitted its AI also attacked several other unnamed “publicly available services” after finding four logins online” I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure the NZ govt has good safeguards & regulation around their AI roll out in public service, right? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...
Multiple AIs are going rogue - what the hell do we do now?
Two separate frontier AI labs have admitted their models either broke out of containment or hacked into external servers unprompted.
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The office of the #Children's Commissioner is being undermined when it is more important than ever. When you realise what the Commissioner does, you will see: this position should be a parliamentary office like the Ombudsman. Not a Minister's tool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZHp... #nzpol
Outgoing Children's Commissioner: Govt policies "an affront to children's rights"
YouTube video by Q+A with Jack Tame
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Take a close look at who funds The Opportunity Party. Whether built on fitness empires, software companies, or bitcoin fortunes, these donors hold vast wealth outside of real estate. That is no accident; it is precisely why the meteoric rise of donor money must be questioned. #nzpol
