#nzpol — Public Fediverse posts
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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
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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
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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.
https://youtu.be/DYL4uqxmPuA?si=FfwS4KWfH-Tb0n9D -
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... -
Affordable food for all of us. Reforming the food system. 💚 🥗
https://youtu.be/g1F8FDO21d4Full policy details here:
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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' https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/1271645/greens-vow-to-break-up-supermarket-duopoly-set-up-publicly-owned-kiwimart
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We’re out in Devonport again today. RSVP here: https://www.greens.org.nz/nsh_dk_20260906
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New Zealand as Mediocristan | Deep Dish
https://thedeepdish.org/new-zealand-as-mediocristan/Great read. Entertaining and affordable.
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In my #blog
New Zealand political satire is alive, but on social mediahttps://jackyan.com/blog/2026/09/new-zealand-political-satire-is-alive-but-on-social-media/ #NZpol #politics #humour #CarpoolCoalition #NZ #Aotearoa
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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)
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Midnight crew for the Greens North Shore last night.
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@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.”
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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
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act had turned every roadside artwork into a billboard #nzpol
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Tell the Luxon government to get its grubby hands OFF our conservation land!
Join the March for Nature
www.marchfornature.nz?utm_campaign... #nzpol
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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
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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
https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/361029210/act-pledges-stop-millions-being-spent-roadside-public-art
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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:
https://community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/no-lng-import-facility-at-port-taranaki #NZpol
The future is in renewables.
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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
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@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
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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
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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
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This is so dumb it has to be a bit #nzpol
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:whfqky7fxan6e37skp7nlgfs/post/3munkszhscc27 -
It's a bit different this year, with it being much more political. But it's a different kind of political, with each bird having a left and right wing...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019050445/voting-for-forest-and-bird-s-bird-of-the-year-opens
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I really, really want the #NZPol conversation on the economy to zero in on the harm caused by monetary policy and neoliberal policies in general. The OCR hike this week could be a real flash point for the opposition if they can seize the narrative.
Tightening credit will only force more struggling businesses to close, shed staff, trim orders, and kill the vibe in general. Meanwhile, the very real things that are making it tough for families - rent, power, petrol, food, GP visits - won't come down a cent, and the number of rough sleepers, patients in the corridors of EDs, and highly skilled 20-30 somethings moving across the ditch will continue to rocket upward. That's the Luxon/Willis version of fixing the basics.
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Before Ed Zitron turned his incandescent laser of scathing critique on the resource misallocations, ridiculous hype, financial shenanigans, and sheer managerial idiocy that is #AI mania, he was making some incisive observations on the modern-day rot economy. In this week's piece, he lays out a compelling background arc that should be required reading for the #NZPol media and voting public.
Basically, the first part of the essay does a brilliant job of knocking over all the arguments about public sector spending being the root of all evil where inflation is concerned. It's corporate greed and profiteering, layered on top of structural drivers like climate and war induced scarcity and supply chain bottlenecks.
Very much worth the read.
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Why did Luxon, NZ's PM, turn himself into the world's weakest 'why did the chicken have cognitive problems crossing the road' joke ever?
To keep world-choking fossil fuels happy, I'm guessing. Maybe he got too close and their emissions clouded his vision?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361022356/it-very-difficult-cross-molesworth-st-luxon-says-we-check
#luxon #nz #nzpol #fossilfuels #climatechange #wellingtonnz #nationalnz
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Huh. #PaulHenry? The guy that the #Traitors ditched for the awesome #Madeleine #Sami. Well, I'm sure he'll do "great" for #act. His known remarks are pretty in line with their aweful opinions. #nzpol.
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'Now, this is all great news. But it all depends on funding, on donations and on goodwill. All this is running out. The work we (Genomics Aotearoa) did with kākāpō is now not possible, because the government has said that our funding should go to science that makes money. Saving remarkable species is off the table.'
#kākāpō #Aotearoa #NZPol #Conservation #ScienceFunding #Science #Genomics
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National's budget will announce more cuts to the civil service, as if all departments haven't been pared to the bone already.
Chris Hipkins was just quoted on Morning Report as saying Labour could work with National on that, because AI can replace people.
Following last week's offer to work with National on infrastructure, the subservient leader of the opposition seems intent on cosying up with the devil and in the process, moving Labour to the right. And he's swallowed the AI-infused coolaid.
I'm old enough to remember when Labour would have unreservedly stood up for people and jobs, simply because it was the morally correct thing to do.
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CW: nzpol Fuel Crisis
Two months today since USA and Israel started their illegal war and the Coalition of Chaos still hasn't worked out stages 2 to 4 of its Response Plan. Except it is not going to include being locked down in isolation or any vaccine mandate. #nzpol #GeniusAtWork #WhatCrisis?
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CW: Oil crisis - NZ Labour finds its voice
Chris Hipkins pops up after a long absence and claims National are not prepared for the incoming oil shock.
Given the IMF's warning that the fuel crisis is likely to lead to a global recession, Hipkins seems close to the mark.
Luxon responded, that was why the government was "focused on avoiding the mistakes seen during the Covid response."
Pardon? Is this somehow Labour's fault?
It seems bizarre that Luxon isn't considering options like carless days and working from home, as many other countries are already doing. Especially when NZ is right at the far end of the supply chain.
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Please... take a moment to appreciate this classic gobbledygook from Luxon as he tries to think on his feet.
"What I agree with is we want this resolved as quickly as possible. We want the parties negotiating, I know ceasefire negotiations, you know, we want ceasefire will remain holding, we want the parties negotiating a negotiated settlement."
It's embarrassing that this inadequate man leads our country.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/fuel-latest-stocks-drop-remain-stable-rnz
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CW: All Black captain comes out as a cooker
How to blot your copybook and shit all over your reputation in one easy move.
All Blacks traditionally tend to vote National. However former AB captain Taine Randell has been selected as the Tukituki (Hawke’s Bay) candidate for NZ First. The seat is currently held by National.
Imagine deciding to run for parliament and concluding that Winston and Shane provided the best alignment to your values.
Fuck that guy!
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/taine-randell-candidate-nz-first-report
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I don't understand why Labour is sticking with NZ's least effective political leader. When he does hit the headlines it's in the Woman's Weekly instead of serious media. We hear plenty about him leaving his wife and kids and marrying his floozie and the subsequent fallout from that mess.
But no policy. No passion. No soul.
Chippy lost the last election and he can easily do it again.
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—>> #TheDailyShow ⦁ #WhitneyCummings <<— Whitney Wants #Dems to Lower Their Expectations for #2028Candidates #TDS #DailyShow #Comedy #Humour #Humor #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/6-ZhNQzH8vw
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—>> #TheDailyShow ⦁ #WhitneyCummings <<—
Whitney Wants #Dems to Lower
Their Expectations for #2028Candidates#TDS #DailyShow #Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
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—> #MaryTrumpMedia ⦁ Mary L Trump #MTM <— Mary Trump & #DailyBeast #JoannaColes — Expose Trump’s Psychological Trauma, Cognitive Decline, Untreated Disorders ⏱️10:54 #MaryTrump PhD #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #Trump #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/RWk_Ez97cf0
Donald Trump’s Mental Collapse... -
—> #MaryTrumpMedia ⦁ Mary L Trump #MTM 🅴 <—
#DonaldTrump Unraveling
— Why his iIllusion of Strength is Collapsing FastMary Trump & #DailyBeast #JoannaColes
— Exposes the Psychological Trauma, Cognitive Decline,
and Untreated Disorders Driving #DJT’s Unraveling⏱️10:54 #MaryTrump PhD Clinical Psychology
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #Trump
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
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#CallToAction for folks based in Auckland/Tāmaki Mākaurau! If you are able, please join or spread the word of tomorrow's #BlockTheBan rally to oppose the New Zealand Government's ban on puberty blockers. Stand in solidarity with our transgender, takatāpui and MVPFAFF+ whānau at Myers Park tomorrow at 10 am. Gender-affirming healthcare saves lives!
#nzpol #pubertyblockers #trans #healthcare #auckland #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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—>> #NotStupid ⦁ #ABCAustralia <<— What can we expect in the #EpsteinFiles? The #Coalition Abandons Net Zero #JessWilson Vic. #Liberal Leader ⏱️36:26 #JuliaBaird #JeremyFernandez #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/XRny4sQHnHM
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—>> #NotStupid ⦁ #ABCAustralia <<—
What can we expect in the #EpsteinFiles?
The #Coalition Abandons Net Zero
#JessWilson Vic. #Liberal Leader⏱️36:26 #JuliaBaird #JeremyFernandez
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
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NZ government's puberty blockers move attracts strong reactions
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-20/nz-government-puberty-blockers-move-attracts-strong-reactions/106034502This is an appallingly transphobic act by the government of Aotearoa New Zealand.
And, shame on the ABC for uncritically giving their platform to disingenuous TERFs and "both sides"-ing the issue. One "side" is a government of right-wing extremists who are repeating the evils we've seen other extremist governments do, such as racism with genocidal intent and, in this instance, removing the human rights of LGBTQIA+ people with the knowledge and intent that their actions will cause harm and will cost lives. The other "side" is transgender children who need respect, support, and medical care. Trans rights are human rights.
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—>> #NotStupid ⦁ ABC Australia <<— Taking down the “Feminism Ruined the Workplace" Thesis #Trump vs #BBC ⏱️36:32 #JuliaBaird #ChasLicciardello #NYTimes #Feminism #Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News #AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol youtu.be/xwzEjGNv1dk
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—>> #NotStupid ⦁ ABC Australia <<—
Taking down the “Feminism Ruined the Workplace" Thesis
⏱️36:32
#JuliaBaird #ChasLicciardello #NYTimes #Feminism
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/xwzEjGNv1dk
