Smithiesm
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🇯🇵🇳🇿 Tangata Tiriti from Ōtepoti Dunedin | He/him | Toitū te Tiriti I love to go jump in the lake or get in the sea. No unsolicited DMs please.
Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo #asiapacificreport #JeremyRose @jeremyrosenz.bsky.social #commentary #racism #WinstonPeters asiapacificreport.nz/2026/08/05/j...
Jeremy Rose: Far from Winston’s first racist rodeo | Asia Pacific Report
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A vote for National or NZ First means returning ACT to power again. ACT are gunning for workers, disabled people, and children. They will actively and intentionally make all our lives worse, except ofc for their wealthy donor class.
PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · 17h agoToday's chart after ACT got another $25k The system is rigged
THAT WAS THEN: “I am sick of taxpayers being treated like a bottomless ATM, to be raided at any time, for any reason.” - Luxon,15 May 2023 www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politic...
Kiwis treated like a 'bottomless ATM': Luxon promises 'taxpayers' receipt'
National leader Christopher Luxon is promising to introduce a “taxpayers’ receipt” as one of three initiatives to promote fiscal discipline in a potential
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The economy will recover when actual nation builders not parasitical wealth extractors are on the Treasury Benches Vote Greens to give Labour backbone these elections www.nzherald.co.nz/business/slo...
It’s too late for the economy to save National now
OPINION: The economic recovery has stuttered too much to lift the voter mood by November.
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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".
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Here’s one to bookmark for next time some Americans get upset about how we do conservation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
There's a clear double standard. Chloe has been sanctioned by Brownlee for incinuating someone was lying, yet Peters outright calls something a lie and nothing happens, and then when Chloe points this out, she is removed? This govt is an utter joke. #nzpol 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
When both the Speaker and the PM are both too scared of Winston to do their jobs properly .... #nzpol "Winston Peters is being treated differently to everybody else, and I guess it should just be a baseline expectation that all of us in this place have that the rules should be applied fairly."
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
Chlöe Swarbrick and NZ Greens with one of the most important messages for the public to note ahead of the upcoming election in Aotearoa.
Spineless. Never again do they have the moral high ground if someone, say Clare Curren, forgets to add a meeting into her diary.
Nicola Willis and Mark Mitchell are admitting that Winston Peters is the default Prime Minister God help us if they get back in
Brownlee repeatedly favouring Winston and the regime in his decisions; when called on it by Chloe Swarbrick, he kicks her out. What a hypocritical arsehole #nzqt
Greens being the grownups in the room again, formally requiring Brownlee to act. And we don't need scarequotes around racist. #NzPol
‘I’m not apologising’: Winston Peters stands by ‘racist’ comments
Peters claims his conversation with Christopher Luxon about his remarks is 'private'.
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Oh, well then, I guess we’ve no choice but to let the foreign minister keep doing racism. Wouldn’t want to be principled, let alone call Winston’s bluff. Better things aren’t possible
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d agoNicola Willis and Mark Mitchell suggested this morning that firing Winston Peters would bring down the Government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
From MZ and @asians4tino.bsky.social "To me, this issue is less about foreign diplomacy, offending China, or jeopardising trade relations. I’m more concerned about the further escalation of racial abuse against migrants of colour in Aotearoa."
Why we call Winston Peters ‘Lao Pi’ | E-Tangata
“Mandarin-speaking communities are so familiar with Winston, we have nicknamed him 'Lao Pi'. Lao Pi is like that grumpy neighbour everyone knows is a problem. Except he’s not a random neighbour. He is...
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The media catches on. #nzpol “With Winston Peters able to remove Mr Luxon from his job at any time, but Mr Luxon having proven himself unable or unwilling to assert authority in the other direction, the charade is unveiled: it is Mr Peters who is the de facto prime minister and controls the govt”
Editorial: Luxon’s impotence makes him prime minister in name only
Winston Peters can remove Christopher Luxon whenever he wants, but it seems it’s not the other way round.
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To vote in this years general election you need to be enrolled by midnight, 13 days before Election Day. Days left to enrol or update your details. Maori Roll: 3 days General Roll: 83 days Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol
Let's draw a line in the sand. No mining on public Conservation land. If this Coal-alition Government actually listened to kiwis, this would be a no brainer. It's in our nature to care for eachother and te taiao environment. For all of us 🐝🦋🌳🐧👶
Right wing Taxpayers Union just ran a public poll on their own page to see if NZ supports a wealth tax. 58.8% said YES.
Oh yay we made the new york times because Winston is a tragic, demented racist and Luxon is a worthless, absolutely spineless coward.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d agoChina has lodged a formal complaint after New Zealand’s top diplomat on Wednesday told a Chinese-born lawmaker to “go back to your own country.” His comment has also prompted calls in New Zealand for the minister’s dismissal.
The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
Before leaving AoNZ as well. He got his bachelor’s degree before the first student loan scheme kicked in, so his business education was heavily subsidised by the government
I’d like to note also that Air NZ literally has a Government Relations team
I remember the Nats all criticizing Helen Clark's gov for renationalising a bankrupted AirNZ saying let the market buy it like Singapore Airlines...
Also one of those businesses, Air NZ, was literally bailed out by the government to the tune of almost a billion dollars and yet he uses it as an example to tell small business people they can't expect any help from a government.
