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  1. @zl2tod @rnzbot_nz Yes, ACT is pretty clear about their motivations. Lax campaign finance laws aside, I'm OK with them expressing their views. That's politics.

    It's the media coverage, even by RNZ, that's surprising me. In this case, it's like if ACT announced a policy to abolish all public health funding and the media just reported it without any mention of what impact that would have on the country.

    #NZpol

  2. Tough assignment debating dairy farming issues with the dairy farmer’s politicians in dairy farming country with an audience of dairy farmers.

    Steve smashed it:
    youtu.be/DYL4uqxmPuA

    #nzpol #climatechange #farming

  3. @rnzbot_nz I don't understand how it is that this RNZ news article just presents ACT's new business unicorn fairyland climate "policy" as is, without strongly emphasising how bat-shit crazily irresponsible and dangerous it is.

    Have they heard of a thing called science?

    #NZpol #ClimateCrisis

  4. David Seymour would hate for anyone to boost this report of Seymour's influences especially during an election.

    Think before you boost.

    #NZpol

    youtube.com/watch?v=QLOjiiC3P1Y

  5. The difference is quite interesting huh?
    It seems that NACT1 can announce policies unquestioned, while #Green and #Labour get the "let's ask the others" treatment....
    #NZPol

  6. Gawd it's nice hearing politicians who, know what they're talking about, have the research to back it up, answer the question asked.

    youtube.com/watch?v=QO47AgEc2WI

    #NZpol

  7. Coalition policy:

    Try to bribe, using taxpayers money, another private supermarket chain.

    What are the odds that will mean cheaper prices?

    Green Policy:

    A Govt owned supermarket to provide low cost food.

    #NZpol #VoteGreenNZ

    rnz.co.nz/news/politics/708151

  8. @pezmico

    IF Nats want to continue to pay more than they should they still would be able to.

    #NZpol

  9. Communism is when people can afford food, apparently. 🤷

    #NZPol

  10. RE: mastodon.nz/@nickofnz/11722238

    What this headline SHOULD say is

    "ACT announces it will violate the majority of our trade agreements"

    #NZpol

  11. The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

    NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

    Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

    It's blatant climate denial.

    #nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

  12. The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

    NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

    Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

    It's blatant climate denial.

    #nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

  13. The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

    NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

    Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

    It's blatant climate denial.

    #nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

  14. The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

    NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

    Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

    It's blatant climate denial.

    #nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

  15. The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

    NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

    Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

    It's blatant climate denial.

    #nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

  16. Tough assignment debating dairy farming issues with the dairy farmer’s politicians in dairy farming country with an audience of dairy farmers.

    Steve smashed it.

    Notable that the Opportunity Party just ran the industry’s line that “technology will save us” when the evidence is that it won’t.
    youtu.be/DYL4uqxmPuA?si=FfwS4K

    #nzpol #debate #farming #climatechange #GMO

  17. Brilliant policy announcement from #NZGreens regarding state owned supermarkets #KiwiMart to supply fresh food etc at a lower margin than the current supermarket duopoly profiteering from NZers and increasing poverty in our communities.

    One of the big pluses for this policy is it will provide a market for local farmers, growers and food suppliers that are currently been cut out of the market by the duopoly importing cheap foreign grown food to increase supermarket profit margins.

    I see a lot of comments accusing the Green's of stealing #Mamdani policy but hey if you're gonna steal policy off another politician Mamdani is probably a good place to start.

    #PartyVoteGreen #NZPol ✅ 💚 ✅ 💚

    youtu.be/QO47AgEc2WI

  18. A vote for ACT NAT or NZ1st is a vote for the other 2 pricks

    They promise more debt for home buyers (banks will be pleased)

    More pollution

    More racism

    #VoteGreenNZ

    Enroll, help enroll others, vote, help others vote

    and if you can GET INVOLVED

    Vote out the pricks
    in 2026

    #NZpol

  19. Simeon Brown's disastrous decision to cancel the Gas Transition Plan (and buy a lotto ticket instead) www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol #climatechange

    Simeon Brown's disastrous deci...

  20. @SimonCHulse @stuartyeates

    OK do not (I saw the almost)

    1 who has ever changed their vote from what they read on a billboard?

    2 Vandalize theirs they get media coverage

    3They then vandalize ours

    4 You can be arrested

    I know you aren't going to but for ANYONE else

    #NZpol

  21. In case you missed it:

    Excellent policy that makes food affordable for all of us, announced today. 🍲
    Plus reinstating Ka Aro Ka Ako, the OG school lunch programme. 😋

    Greens vow to break up supermarket duopoly, set up publicly owned 'KiwiMart' rnz.co.nz/news/political/12716

    #NZPol #voteGreen

  22. Shall we put a household income of $300,000pa in context?
    #NZpol

  23. UN voted to adopt the "Equal Earth Map" which shows land mass properly

    The only country to vote against it was USA (oh look it looks smaller)

    #NZpol

  24. @rnzbot_political So, one of the political parties in NZ’s coalition government that pushed the NZ economy into a recession, drove up unemployment rates, and sent young people overseas looking for better paid jobs, is now campaigning on needing to mine and quarry NZ’s conservation land to make jobs.

    Be sure to vote this year.

    “New Zealand's labour force hasn't grown in the past 12 months, but you wouldn't know that by looking at its unemployment rate. Thousands of Kiwis have left their country for Australia, and others have become disenchanted by the job search and given up looking for work. If those people had stayed in NZ, and were counted among the unemployed, NZ's unemployment rate would be much higher. It's a very different story in Australia.”

    rnz.co.nz/news/business/541376

    #NZpol

  25. Heard all the excuses:

    "You've taken it out of context"
    "There were other flags"

    And yet we can plainly see that it's a bunch of white people in New Zealand hanging under the confederate flag, around a shock-jock who spent his tenure promoting anti-Maori sentiment.

    They're getting together, not to figure out how to make living costs more affordable, or fix transport and healthcare, oh no, the singular issue on the agenda, is all around how to further disenfranchise Maori and limit their sovereignty via te tiriti, so they can cut up more of the land for foreign-owned real estate, that leaves everyone else worse off, with ever increasing rents and rates, because they have no imagination or vision on how to diversify our economy beyond tourism, farming and property speculation.

    The "stop making it about race" crowd, are too dense and entitled to have the self-awareness that they are literally on a south Pacific island nation, with one of the largest pasifika diaspora in the world, engaging in politics that centre European descendants as "victims" of whatever flavour "woke" they're offended by this week, instead of recognising that they are beneficiaries of colonial destruction and having accountability for the cultural demise and real suffering experienced by minorities under this system; a system that constantly shifts the goal posts, with stagnant wages, inflation and a practical enslavement to the fossil fuel industry and American military industrial complex.

    We keep calling them out, yet any suggestion to approach things differently to the status quo is immediately viewed as hostile to pakeha, rather than a recognition that repeating the same thing over and over expecting different results is the text-book definition of insanity.

    We are a Maori-first nation, a Pacific island nation, there is zero justification for trying to import American confederate era rhetoric here, unless you are a brainwashed, conspiracy-addled xenophobe, which THEY ARE! #nzpol

  26. act had turned every roadside artwork into a billboard #nzpol

  27. @avilewis this is what the current New Zealand government is intent on - removing the environmental protections provided at least in part by legal obligations to our founding treaty between the Crown and the indigenous people. There is also much anger that this is happening here.
    #NZPol

  28. Tell the Luxon government to get its grubby hands OFF our conservation land!

    Join the March for Nature
    www.marchfornature.nz?utm_campaign... #nzpol

    March for Nature: Hands off Co...

  29. From bad to worse!

    The Luxon Government has retained the clause in its Conservation Amendment Bill, which undermines the very purpose of conservation law.

    This Trumpian bill undermines the fundamental principle that conservation land exists to be protected, not exploited.

    #nzpol

    Conservation bill clause puts ...

  30. CW: A little bit sweary

    Every time we go to Wellington and walk around the central city, amongst all the older buildings, public art and sculpture and metal things, some of which make no sense to me at all, but all of it makes it a properly lovely place to be. Even when it's not one of those days that you can't beat Wellington, it's still a bloody lovely place to be, even with the wind chill, we love it all.

    And then these ACT morons want to stop money being spent to make the places we live not a shithole?

    Please vote those fuckers out. They have no soul or heart, every last one of them. They are in it for themselves and not for you

    stuff.co.nz/culture/361029210/

    #nzpol

  31. For those who don’t want to pay for an LNG import facility we don’t need, and for those who wish to avoid the additional tax of funding this, please sign this petition:

    community.greenpeace.org.nz/pe #NZpol

    The future is in renewables.

  32. Make sure you're enrolled, make sure others are too.

    Make sure to vote, help others to get to vote if can

    and in the meantime vote in the Bird of the Year

    birdoftheyear.org.nz

    #NZpol

  33. @jeremy_pm I had this discussion all the way back when I was at Auckland Uni (many years ago)

    Yes they get an advantage in getting a place to study medicine, but that is IT they need the exact same skills marks to qualify.

    IF Seymour thinks people are being denied the opportunity to be in medical courses who should be there RAISE THE NUMBER OF PLACES

    #NZpol

  34. @ArrestJK

    I made the mistake of listening to #RNZ Midday Report today.

    The first story was David Seymour saying he was determined to end the allocation of spaces at #NZ Medical Schools for Māori and Polynesian medical students as these, according to Seymour, were giving an advantage to students due to their race. He managed to get a study done into the practice of increasing the number of Māori and Polynesian doctors to serve their communities under the coalition agreement but didn’t agree with its findings which support the practice.

    He disagreed that a similar approach to offering places at medical school for rural students was the same thing as apparently it is not based on ethnicity.

    The next story was David Seymour supporting MDMA treatment for victims of PTSD. I have no idea what the story after that was as I had switched off my radio by then. #NZPol

  35. @ArrestJK

    I made the mistake of listening to #RNZ Midday Report today.

    The first story was David Seymour saying he was determined to end the allocation of spaces at #NZ Medical Schools for Māori and Polynesian medical students as these, according to Seymour, were giving an advantage to students due to their race. He managed to get a study done into the practice of increasing the number of Māori and Polynesian doctors to serve their communities under the coalition agreement but didn’t agree with its findings which support the practice.

    He disagreed that a similar approach to offering places at medical school for rural students was the same thing as apparently it is not based on ethnicity.

    The next story was David Seymour supporting MDMA treatment for victims of PTSD. I have no idea what the story after that was as I had switched off my radio by then. #NZPol

  36. @ArrestJK

    I made the mistake of listening to #RNZ Midday Report today.

    The first story was David Seymour saying he was determined to end the allocation of spaces at #NZ Medical Schools for Māori and Polynesian medical students as these, according to Seymour, were giving an advantage to students due to their race. He managed to get a study done into the practice of increasing the number of Māori and Polynesian doctors to serve their communities under the coalition agreement but didn’t agree with its findings which support the practice.

    He disagreed that a similar approach to offering places at medical school for rural students was the same thing as apparently it is not based on ethnicity.

    The next story was David Seymour supporting MDMA treatment for victims of PTSD. I have no idea what the story after that was as I had switched off my radio by then. #NZPol

  37. @ArrestJK

    I made the mistake of listening to #RNZ Midday Report today.

    The first story was David Seymour saying he was determined to end the allocation of spaces at #NZ Medical Schools for Māori and Polynesian medical students as these, according to Seymour, were giving an advantage to students due to their race. He managed to get a study done into the practice of increasing the number of Māori and Polynesian doctors to serve their communities under the coalition agreement but didn’t agree with its findings which support the practice.

    He disagreed that a similar approach to offering places at medical school for rural students was the same thing as apparently it is not based on ethnicity.

    The next story was David Seymour supporting MDMA treatment for victims of PTSD. I have no idea what the story after that was as I had switched off my radio by then. #NZPol

  38. @ArrestJK

    I made the mistake of listening to #RNZ Midday Report today.

    The first story was David Seymour saying he was determined to end the allocation of spaces at #NZ Medical Schools for Māori and Polynesian medical students as these, according to Seymour, were giving an advantage to students due to their race. He managed to get a study done into the practice of increasing the number of Māori and Polynesian doctors to serve their communities under the coalition agreement but didn’t agree with its findings which support the practice.

    He disagreed that a similar approach to offering places at medical school for rural students was the same thing as apparently it is not based on ethnicity.

    The next story was David Seymour supporting MDMA treatment for victims of PTSD. I have no idea what the story after that was as I had switched off my radio by then. #NZPol

  39. What a dull, polluted, tolled every where World ACT imagines.

    I've put a screen shot because I don't want to encourage RNZ to continue to give ACT more coverage (unless it's negative) than ANY OTHER PARTY

    #NZpol #VoteGreenNZ