Regular viewers will know that I had serious doubts about the 'recovery' well before Trump decided to cause global chaos (and trading opportunities for his buddies). Suffice to say, today's unemployment data is GRIM! Let's have a look... Unemployment rate vs the guesses of clueless ghouls. [🧵 1/n]
The Daily Blog has secretly been taken to court and Martyn Bradbury is facing six months in prison. They are not allowed to reveal who is behind it, how they’re doing it, or why they’re doing it. Seems very strange. #nzpol #slapps
BREAKING FREE SPEECH ISSUE: The Daily Blog has secretly been taken to Court and I’m facing 6months in prison: We can’t tell you who, how, why or what – The Daily Blog
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The Free Speech Union having their CE and board member stand as candidates for Internet NZ and emailing their members to rank them 1 and 2 and not rank any other candidates feels like it should be more of a news story. It's antithetical to a genuine election and the democratic process.
the current NZ govt is so anti-science that they've changed eligibility for the Prime Minister's Science Prizes to rule out awards to people doing basic science eg from 2026 the MacDiarmid is for work with "potential to generate econ, health, social, or env benefits for New Zealand" #nzpol
#nzpol The Taxpayers Union is now a company, the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union Limited incorporated in February this year. (Most companies DON'T have to file accounts) Its three shareholders look familiar🙄 Here's the link to the Companies Office record. app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/ap...
I'm curious about the TPU's finances because as you can see from this spreadsheet I prepared up until 31st December 2024 it received over $8.7 million in donations $6.6m of which was from 1 January 2020 onwards including $2.6m in both 2022 & 2023. Its payroll in both 2023 & 2024 was over $1.3m
NZ has - almost uniquely amongst our peers - tanked its economy and pushed 10,000s onto the dole (and offshore). We were told that this strategy would 'get interest rates down, tame inflation, and drive growth 🎉'. Yet, here we are, slumped and vying to be inflation champs. What went wrong? [🧵1/n]
"Fonterra, along with Fed Farmers, Dairy NZ, Beef & Lamb and others, have set the gold standard for predatory delay. They’ve been at it for more than 20 years. Agricultural emissions have risen 9% since 1990, almost entirely because of methane from expanded dairy herds and increased fertiliser use."
Housing, Fonterra, cement: the crisis of predatory delay
The tactic that holds back the progress we know we need.
simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com
Break up the gentailers. Re-nationalise what we can. Make them build. This is nuts, and I'm cold!!
D Jukic She/her@dejanajuk.bsky.social · 4w ago“Rather than investing profits in new wind farms or hydro dams in the past ten years, the gentailers have paid most of them out to shareholders. Between 2015 & 2025, Meridian, Contact, Genesis and Mercury paid out a total of $11.8 billion – between 90% & 240% of net income.” #nzpol
How to be Americas bitch, instructional video for Luxon #nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWrd...
Honest Government Ad | How to be Merica's b*tch
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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A year ago, ministers met to consider tightening NZ’s pay equity law. Their decisions went further than officials had advised, hardening the policy to the point some groups were cut out from ever making a claim. Why? And on what evidence? They won’t show us. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How a crucial 45-minute meeting between ministers took pay equity claims away from tens of thousands of women
In a crucial 45 minute meeting, ministers decided to go beyond official proposals, making it even harder for 180,000 workers to ask for pay equity.
rnz.co.nz
Of course its Paul Goldsmith and this terrible Govt responsible for ending an online cultural resourse for people wanting to connect to our history, all for pennies on the dollar while torching society to look after the wealthy. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/16/c...
Culture ministry axes Gallipoli site
A penny-pinching decision to dump a Gallipoli website 'spits in the faces of these communities where our dead lie'
newsroom.co.nz
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom. An absolute enemy of humanity.
My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass. It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved. I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it. Please share this...(1)
NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Source polls: www.lowyinstitute.org/publications... Australians having confidence in: Luxon, 2025: 63% Hipkins, 2023: 72% Ardern, 2022: 87% Ardern, 2021: 91%
Alex@shakingstick.bsky.social · last yr.lmao. I have found the people who still need to get to know Luxon and it's 'Australians' www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
So i got a ban from Twotter for suggesting Bibi be dragged on to the streets and dispatched like a dog after the latest abominatable actions from him. Would i get the same for suggesting the same of Khamenei or any other person? Is that an unreasonable position, considering the crimes?
In light of Fran O'Sullivan's latest bile (sorry OPINION COLUMN), here's some Fran highlights, because it's important to know the sort of people NZME have in senior positions: 1) She doesn't believe Labour won the 2017 election.
Seven NZ econ/finance myths that need busting #NZpol... Myth 1: The NZ Govt is in a worrisome level of debt 😱 Govt is not even in 'net debt'. Govt has *debts* but they are more than outweighed by *financial assets* (shares, equity, outstanding loans etc) [🧵1/n]
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
a week ago, but relevant to my mood today, more goodness from @mountaintui.bsky.social #nzpol
Atlas Network? Yawn.
One of the most compelling articles I’ve read about Atlas Network is from The Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
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1. Much has been said about the significant impacts of the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB) on te Tiriti and Māori rights. Far less is known about its unrecognised effects on all New Zealanders, which extend well beyond the Treaty… open.substack.com/pub/melanien...
The Overshadowed Bill Poised to Rewrite New Zealand’s Legal System
While Attention is Fixed on the Treaty Principles Bill, Another Bill Threatens Sweeping Change
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I just listened to Kim Hills talk with Boris Johnson. He is a typical waffling Tory moron and that's where Luxon went to get ideas. How anyone thinks this lying grifting f*^kwit would do anything for anyone other than himself is clearly gullible, when he should be trebucheted into the North Sea.
Kim Hill Wants To Know podcast
Kim Hill is back with intelligent, incisive and engrossing conversations.
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An oldie-but-baddie from my files - impressive how little changes in NZ:
