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🍉 The unapologetically leftist network of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 🍉 Who we are: https://www.greens.org.nz/green_left Join the movement: https://www.greens.org.nz/membership-join Authorised by Miriam Ross, greens.org.nz
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]
Prime Minister, building a thriving economy means supporting the little guy, not patronising them as your Government cuts local jobs and infrastructure investment then consolidates contracts to give them to multi-national corporations. These are political decisions, not inevitabilities.
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.
Chlöe Swarbrick and NZ Greens with one of the most important messages for the public to note ahead of the upcoming election in Aotearoa.
Muldoon was well before Luxon's knowledge of #nzpol, which dates back to maybe a decade. But this is Irony Gate level gatekeeping.
Katya@nzkatya.bsky.social · 2d agoSo 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
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 fast track has created a dependency on political patronage. Individual businesses can only access the fast track if ministers agree. Coincidentally political party donations linked to fast track applications have ballooned.
NZ First losing support after racist remarks from Winston Peters. He’s a liability for the country and his own party. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/chinese...
Chinese voters reconsider allegiances after Peters’ ‘racist’ remarks
Members of the country's Chinese community are calling for Foreign Minister Winston Peters to be sacked from Cabinet after telling a Chinese MP to "go back to your own country".
rnz.co.nz
I would like to propose a members bill banning male politicians telling us to have babies.
A Māori MP has drawn praise for defending New Zealand’s native language in a heated parliamentary debate - citing Wales as an example of a nation valuing its indigenous language and identity
‘English is a bastard language’: Māori MP praises Wales' bilingualism in passionate speech
Stephen Price A Māori MP has drawn praise for defending New Zealand’s native language in a heated parliamentary debate – citing Wales as an example of a nation valuing its indigenous language and iden...
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Every time we get a shock, the oil companies cash in. Remember that those companies are just intermediaries between us plebs and the richest 1% who pockets 50% of those profits. Credit to Isabella M Weber on the other place.
This policy would directly lead to physical abuse of disabled and neurodivergent children. Tell your friends. I'm absolutely serious.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 4d agoACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on 'little shits'
Paul Henry making it clear this year's election dialogue is going to be in the absolute gutter: "Let's be honest, there are a lot of little shits in classrooms"
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 4d agoACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students
Government that complained about lower speed limits and removed them makes plans for lower speed limits 🤦 #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/08/01/l...
Lowering speed limit to 80km/h in Govt's plan in case of fuel shortage
It's estimated the proposal, revealed in official advice, would save millions of litres of fuel.
1news.co.nz
Luxon govt update: The govt that increased homelessness to the highest its ever been is now charging the homeless for not being easier to harrass. But don't worry the first thing Luxon did when he got to power was build bigger prisons 🤦🏾
A 2% tax on wealth over $10m will not erode that amount of wealth. Say you have an $11m net worth. You will pay 2% on only $1m of it ($20k), while making gains on all $11m (5%, which if you're basically doing nothing with it equals $550k). Arguing against this is nothing but greed. #nzpol
The Kmart distribution hub is right off the Waikato Expressway. The exit is literally NEXT TO IT. ...but I thought these RONs were critical infrastructure?
Dr Bex@drbex.bsky.social · 5d ago🤔🤔🤔
No words can describe this image from Te Ohu Whakawhanaunga's Māngere Health & Care Election Forum www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... #nzpol #votegreen
Indeed. 96% of people would receive a tax CUT under the Greens’ policy
Wrath of Fox ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️🌈@wrath-of-fox.bsky.social · 7d agoToday’s income tax comparison (now vs Green Party policy) - someone earning $69k. Use greenstax.cc to work out what your income tax would be under the Greens. This person would take home $576.03 more a year. The effective rate goes from 20.48% to 19.64% #NZPol #Greens #BHN #DTPI26 #TaxWealthNotWork
Journalists will see it raining outside but they can't tell you that, they have to go ask a politician "is it raining outside?" and then they're allowed to tell you "Politician Slams Weather!"
We desperately need to outlaw corporate donations to political parties. We need electoral finance reform. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
National donor Bayleys pockets $2.5m for selling state houses
Kāinga Ora says Bayleys Real Estate won the lucrative contract in a competitive tender.
stuff.co.nz
Less leave, less pay, more lies. National, New Zealand First, and ACT are backing bosses and making you poorer in the name of ‘simplicity’. But do you know what’s really simple? 100 days until the election on November 7. And 87 days left to enrol. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
National, ACT, and NZ First made voter suppression a law - prohibiting voter enrollments 13 days before AND on Election Day. Voter enrollments for this General Election close on October 25. Check your voter enrollments, as soon as possible: www.vote.nz #nzpol
Whenever you hear the commentariat about the 2026 'recovery' - remember that they're talking about things not going to shit quite as quickly as they were last year.
okay maybe some xenophobia will stop the Greens - Winston Peters, maybe #nzpol
GreenLeft Network 🍉@nzgreenleft.bsky.social · last wk.NZ First has no response to our common sense plan. So i guess the only move left is to call us a slur. #nzpol
