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  1. 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...

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. @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

  7. @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

  8. 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

  9. 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...
    rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/
    #nzpol

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

    wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-nor

  12. CW: Nzpol. Enshitification on all of us.

    Enshitification will be added to the NZ dictionary of WTFs and other exhausted features of certain people in power.

    #nzpol
    #enshitification

    jaw63.substack.com/p/the-luxon

  13. CW: Nzpol. Enshitification on all of us.

    Enshitification will be added to the NZ dictionary of WTFs and other exhausted features of certain people in power.

    #nzpol
    #enshitification

    jaw63.substack.com/p/the-luxon

  14. CW: Nzpol. Enshitification on all of us.

    Enshitification will be added to the NZ dictionary of WTFs and other exhausted features of certain people in power.

    #nzpol
    #enshitification

    jaw63.substack.com/p/the-luxon

  15. CW: Nzpol. Enshitification on all of us.

    Enshitification will be added to the NZ dictionary of WTFs and other exhausted features of certain people in power.

    #nzpol
    #enshitification

    jaw63.substack.com/p/the-luxon

  16. CW: Nzpol. Enshitification on all of us.

    Enshitification will be added to the NZ dictionary of WTFs and other exhausted features of certain people in power.

    #nzpol
    #enshitification

    jaw63.substack.com/p/the-luxon

  17. Oh look. Another National MP refusing to apologise. #NZPol (paywalled, but the headline and first paragraph say everything you need to know).

    thepost.co.nz/politics/3610736

  18. "The controversial Conservation Amendment Bill clause says the Department of Conservation should recognise and enable "economic opportunities" on conservation land to "the greatest extent practicable"."

    The greatest extent possible on conservation land is NONE

    #VoteGreenNZ #NZpol

  19. "'Imagine if all of us showed up': Young voters urged to enrol"

    Please for your OWN SAKE enroll and vote for what you want

    I'd urge you to strongly consider #VoteGreenNZ but it's your call

    #NZpol

    rnz.co.nz/news/politics/124310

  20. "No word on compensation for wrongly suspended benefits"

    but they're not rich said Louise Upston, I won't even say sorry let alone compensate them for their not being able to pay their rent or eat

    #NZpol

    rnz.co.nz/news/politics/124468

  21. #nzpol
    Tonight's TV news says Master Builders survey shows builders' confidence is improving

    This is because those surviving have less competition

    Cost escalation and softer demand for new builds have pushed record numbers of small to mid-size builders into liquidation or voluntary administration

    ‘Everything was hard’: Christc...

  22. "The nurses union says nurses described the past 24 hours as hectic, staff swamped with patients with medical issues stemming from the flu."

    Make the flu jab FREE for EVERYONE it'll save money and help our Hospital's to not get so overloaded

    #NZpol
    rnz.co.nz/news/health/1244787/

  23. CW: Nzpol Young people enrol now! Vote 7th November!

    A person younger than myself ( I'm 72) once said to me
    "Things will change only when all you old buggers die off"
    I'm beginning to believe they spoke some truth.
    #nzpol
    #enroll
    #votenovember
    #youngpeople

    "If all of us showed up on November the 7th and were enrolled by October the 25th, then we could literally change the way that politics is done and it would be more representative of young people and the issues that they're thinking about when they go into this year's general election."

    'Imagine if all of us showed up': Young voters urged to enrol rnz.co.nz/news/political/12431

  24. National AND Labour want YOU to have to provide identification to EVERY social media site (to prove you're over 18)

    edit: over 16

    What could go wrong?

    #NZpol

    gizmodo.com/identity-verificat

  25. @mwt Would you rather have a bit more money or a livable planet?

    #NZpol

  26. "The U.S government backs OpenAI in its lawsuit against the New York Times arguing that training AI on copyrighted data is fair use. "

    SIRI what is DotCom being extradited to the USA for doing?

    Oh so he should of called it AI.com instead of Megaupload?

    #NZpol

  27. RBNZ hikes OCR again, as most expected, & as the NZ-invented inflation-targeting model forces it too. But it will scar our jobless youth even more, curb investment & worsen capital cost inflation. #nzpol
    thekaka.substack.com/p/an-unfair-...

    An unfair, unnecessary & count...

  28. Donald Trump bastardises the 250 year commemorative coin implying he is worth celebrating more than anyone else from the history of the United States. What a cunt #auspol #nzpol #uspolitics www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

    Heads or tails? $1 coin with T...

  29. Come join us on Sunday as we head out door knocking in Devonport.

    Conversations, whether we have them on the doors, in the streets, or in our workplaces, are the best way of boosting the Green vote and ensuring we change the government in November.

    We’ll head to @vondel_akl afterwards to catch up and debrief.

    RSVP here: greens.org.nz/nsh_dk_20260906

    #nzpol #greenparty #nzgreens #1termgovernment

  30. Come join us on Sunday as we head out door knocking in Devonport.

    Conversations, whether we have them on the doors, in the streets, or in our workplaces, are the best way of boosting the Green vote and ensuring we change the government in November.

    We’ll head to @vondel_akl afterwards to catch up and debrief.

    RSVP here: greens.org.nz/nsh_dk_20260906

    #nzpol #greenparty #nzgreens #1termgovernment

  31. Come join us on Sunday as we head out door knocking in Devonport.

    Conversations, whether we have them on the doors, in the streets, or in our workplaces, are the best way of boosting the Green vote and ensuring we change the government in November.

    We’ll head to @vondel_akl afterwards to catch up and debrief.

    RSVP here: greens.org.nz/nsh_dk_20260906

  32. Come join us on Sunday as we head out door knocking in Devonport.

    Conversations, whether we have them on the doors, in the streets, or in our workplaces, are the best way of boosting the Green vote and ensuring we change the government in November.

    We’ll head to @vondel_akl afterwards to catch up and debrief.

    RSVP here: greens.org.nz/nsh_dk_20260906

    #nzpol #greenparty #nzgreens #1termgovernment

  33. Come join us on Sunday as we head out door knocking in Devonport.

    Conversations, whether we have them on the doors, in the streets, or in our workplaces, are the best way of boosting the Green vote and ensuring we change the government in November.

    We’ll head to @vondel_akl afterwards to catch up and debrief.

    RSVP here: greens.org.nz/nsh_dk_20260906

    #nzpol #greenparty #nzgreens #1termgovernment

  34. It's shameful that this election is as close as it is.

    A competent opposition would crow about how we had a world leading pandemic response, saved countless lives and eliminated the flu at the time. While the current lot are letting the health system collapse under the flu because all the funding has gone to landlords who don't need it anyway.

    Deaths confirmed amid worst flu outbreak in a decade | Stuff
    stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361024108/

    #NZPol #VoteThemOut #ditchThePricksIn26

  35. Versions of this legislation already failed in Australia, failed in the UK, so of course Luxon wants to do it and have it fail here too. 🙄

    Evidence-based decisions? Not under their watch!

    Govt pushes ahead with social media ban for under-16s
    rnz.co.nz/news/politics/110300

    #NZPol #ditchThePricksIn26 #voteThemOut