New Ombudsman is displaying padawan tendencies already. The Force is strong in that one. Peter Boshier - take a bow.
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New Ombudsman is displaying padawan tendencies already. The Force is strong in that one. Peter Boshier - take a bow.
Health NZ apologises to nurses' union after Ombudsman's scolding
The future of biking in Wellington is in the balance. Some people want to rip out bike lanes. We must vote for candidates who are committed to improving cycling. Join us at @cyclewgtn.bsky.social Get your free tickets at events.humanitix.com/meet-the-can...
#nzpol Big turn out tonight at the Living Wage Election Forum Event. The Living Wage right now puts an extra $172 a week into the pay packet of a full time worker. Dignity at work comes from decent pay for everyone - not from tax cuts.
There's something ironic about a nation descended from deported criminals wanting to deport a criminal 🤔
Rack off, you sheep-shaggers. You broke your neo-Nazis, you keep them. Hugs and kisses, Aotearoa/New Zealand #nzpol #auspol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
"Sorry, we're already looking after one of your nazis here at the moment, unfortunately..."
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Omigod - white male actually experiences consequences... record the date!!
I think its worth emphasising: Troy Churton and Paul Goldsmith are members of the same party. Churton is a Tory, not some screaming socialist anarchist. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
What is best in life? To sit in the pub, slowly sipping your beautiful beer, shazamming each banger song that comes over the PA, and quietly adding them to your slowly engorging playlist. That is the best in life...
Don't engage - dats a troll...
Woah!...
Droppin' truth bombs with gay abandon like the IDF lining up a tasty orphanage...
And while they are at it maybe they can come clean as to exactly what happened and when with a spacecraft that they persuaded the New Zealand government to "invest" thirty million taxpayer dollars in supporting as a "flagship" mission for the country.
One thing I’m relieved about is the calibre of candidates running for the Māori Ward. Te Paea and Matt are great and would both make a very fine Councillor. In saying that I still want to win it so vote for me 😂 #nzpol
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
🎶 What's wrong with Huntly 🎶 🎶 It's my home country... 🎶
Sorry - this is what passes as news now? Did he get wet as well, being in the water and everything...? Pretty sure an 8-year-old boy probably got his leg blown off today in Gaza, too - with munitions provided by US taxpayers... Jesus wept - look at yourselves...you used to be a real country. Sad!
Lol - they're dreaming. Good luck getting *this* central government to give a flying fuck about social housing. Cool. Save your money on social housing - you'll soon be spending it and more on death squads for the homeless we'll be inundated with.
here’s a handy list of reasons not to vote for the Independent Together Party, courtesy of the Independent Together Party
"But what if I'm not wealthy & sorted?" "Well you should have thought of that before we made everything more expensive. Take some personal responsibility for once, dropkick."
Fixed it.
The road between St Bathans & Cambrians in Central Otago under a weak Nor-Wester.
😑 Well, fuck, they do say you learn something new every day...
On the plus side, he's definitely not claiming "common-sense" anywhere 🤣. Refreshingly honest, if anything?
Well, at least he wasn't claiming "common-sense policies"...
This wrecked my evening
I saw this and just had to go check on long time Wellington regular. In such turbulent times I'm comforted that he is still going strong. wellington.govt.nz/your-council...
Who are the parties wanting to #TAX NZers? Not Greens or Labour @NZGreens #GreenBudget means most NZers pay less tax, & get free GP, Dentists, Childcare, affordable housing & good, fair-paid jobs Why - it’s #ACT, #National & #NZFirst (now NZLast) Bernard Hickey: #nzpol
My Picks n’ Mixes for today hot off the virtual presses: PM says NZ 'open for business again' & all about 'growth, growth, growth'; Then announces $7.5b data centre plan that was initially announced in 2021 & is actually stalled due to surging power prices #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/christophe...
"You know I can't eat your ghost data centre, bro"
I'm mystified that why, almost 10 years into The Donald Trump Experience, media do not preface every single quote of DJT with "likely lie", "potentially incorrect statement, "brazen mistruth", or some such. Percentage-wise it's an easy pay-off, right? "In a likely lie, Donald Trump said..."
Holy fuck, is that Simon Watts (The Beigeist Man in Aotearoa)? Please don't tell me he's Peter-principled his way anywhere near tax/revenue?
If they’re not also shielding info gathering of everyone who pays tax, they are openly committing white collar crime. #TaxEvasion #nzpol #NZpolitics #Aotearoa #NZ #OneTermGovernment #Election2026 #CoalitionOfCorruption
The Covid inquiry reboot is inspiring all sorts of revisionism on LinkedIn, including this little gem from Covid Plan B stalwart Ananish Chaudhuri “By October 2020, we knew that the vaccines did not prevent transmission”. This is not true, but how did he even come up with this? Thread. 1/N
Parasites flock to New Zealand so they don't have to clean up the mess they made in their own country Fixed it. #nzpol
The US military is historically famous for its tolerance towards members who see rules as optional. Long has it cherished diversity in thought.
Absolutely blistering takedown of the US government's mad climate report that rehashes the worst denier tropes of the past decade. US gov't took on a handful of self-serious denier micro-celebs, and in doing so, basically just hugely owned themselves in public sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...
"Seize the high-calorific value means of production"
Watching businesses scrap over the diminishing gas supply and even demand the government requisition and redistribute gas from a company who've contractually agreed to pay for it is a real "socialist solutions but only for capitalism" ass story www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
🚨🚨Awooga, awooga!! #NOTcommonsensebingonz *Ray Chung has entered the chat * (by not entering the chat). I know for certain this guy probably has "Common Sense" tattooed somewhere on his body. *Since he didn't engage with requests for candidate information, some info has been extrapolated:
Ding ding ding!! #NOTcommonsensebingonz A pearler from Wellington Council candidate. Council absolutely drenched in debt (which you've just complained about) - nek minnit: "Let's spend untold billions building a motorway on a fault line so cars can shave 3.5 minutes of the Tawa to Airport route"
Why is this article headlined like this, rather than: "Some obsessed and pathetic losers more worried about sports star's appearance than performance - we expose them" Why does anyone have to be framed as "hitting back" against ridiculous dross? www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...
The only candidate at the K'Road debate for Waitematā and Gulf Councillor who has clearly said climate change is real and caused by humans has been @patrickreynolds.bsky.social Wtf
Jesus, even ACT voters, who owe their *entire existence* to coalitions have a hard-on for FPP (or maybe just one-party state totalitarianism?)
It wasn't even supposed to be this way! It was initially supposed to apply to young first time offenders for relatively minor crimes (sort of like a parole system), and that actually seems reasonable. But over time it's metastasized, and now it's an affront to the idea of open justice.
Hot take: if you abuse and coerce the women around you, there should be consequences. Other hot take: a man's career is not more important than the safety of the women he meets.
“Spuce, thu finil frontier”
I'm guessing you don't have to have a lot of experience to be a sock puppet for a twerk fiend.
How much work experience does Van Velden have in the real world? Uni study, lobbying, more lobbying, MP and Minister. Hard work maybe but not exactly at the coal face or on the factory floor. #NZpol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_...
Van Velden's lack of *public* sector experience is showing. #NzPol
Correction. Van Velden's lack of any form of experience is showing.
You can make some fantastic sentences from 1974: The acquaintance rape of the agony aunt caused a bunker mentality, leading to carpaccio developing quite a fan base centred around social conservatism and guilt-trip Higgs Bosons, but deplored by the average neoconservative transgender weatherperson.
Potentially will be the longest thread on Kikorangi!! There's so much potential...🙄
The official meme for #NOTcommonsensebingonz #nzpol
Ok - it's time for #NOTcommonsensebingonz - tag all your local government candidates who use the phrase "common-sense" AND then follow it immediately with a statement that is beautifully and spectacularly reality-free. #nzpol My first entry - Selwyn Mayoral candidate - proposes app (unsure of cost)
I love a good false equivalency. Clearly "be fed and drink some water" = "kill your children with quack nonsense"
Someone please kill me right now.
Hardly a day goes by without this CoC giving us another reason to question their laser focus on the cost of living crisis. #nzpol
"Active Investor Plus" as a visa class has shades of...umm...Air New Zealand ranks eg. Gold Elite... ...wonder where that came from??
Pre-sunrise, Tuesday, 2 September, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. (My) footprints on the sand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
They also get to pick and choose which cases they get. Data indicates they *do not* choose the more complicated cases...
Also, when the going gets tough for private healthcare, they shunt the patient back to Public, saying: "Now you have to look after them cos we don't have the skills/resources." Privatise the profit, socialise the cost. #nzpol #HealthCare #Privatize/Socialise
“Private care does not "free up a bed" because the same limited pool of doctors and nurses work in private as well as public care. … Who will really benefit from an influx of government money into the private system - patients in need of vital healthcare or business owners?” Vital question to ask👇
Capitalism does not want you to "have a life" beyond working in whatever mine you can find a job in.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Jesus - it's bad enough they ignored the information from the last round of collection - which to remind everyone - indicated the extremely wealthy in AoNZ pay around 10% on all their incoming wealth (coz, boohoo they don't have jobs...). But to actively attempt to prevent further data collection?
Aaaaaaaaaaaagh #nzpol
National in '23: Three Waters is outrageous as it will place our water assets within reach of the undemocratic Mowries. Nek minnit: #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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In news that should surprise no one, this figure is consistent in AoNZ. #nzpol
From my Otago colleague Steve Young ...
"Exceedingly rare that they lash out in public."????? Some people have short memories...
84%, but the remaining 16% are easy to fill in with some limited solar and batteries... There is more than enough hydro to serve are firming power. It's still just so ridiculous to even propose than in New Zealand...
A country that "can't afford" to maintain basic infrastructure (roads, waters, electricity), and with a hard-wired penchant for dumping waste in the nearest waterway should not be allowed *anywhere* near nuclear power...
Shut up, uranium-breath. NO. Shane Jones says NZ First to debate nuclear power www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
On the night of August 30th 2025, Mayor Giuliani was adjusting a - slippery and defective - ornamental codpiece he'd been gifted by the Austrian ambassador, when he slipped and fell into Club L'Amore Gentleman's Club in Hoboken. It was at this point tha
New game just dropped Birdle 🇳🇿 01/09/2025 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.nz
The fakeness is off-the-fucking-charts
Live your life so if you are ever involved in a traumatic accident, your spokesperson doesn't have to specify [ Giuliani was in a rental car and “no one knew it was him, This was not a targeted attack.”]
Sad that it took this govt vandalism to remind ourselves that 90% of business in the country are SMEs and we are all closer to bankrupt than we are to negotiating a heli pad. And the 10% of big business are dodging taxes.
Strange that a person that grew up in apartheid South Africa and who runs corporate healthcare businesses would think that suppressing uncomfortable facts is generally ok...
"Figures show that 38% of shifts were short-staffed in 2022, 40% in 2023, and 37% between January and November 2024 – including more than half of all day shifts." www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
Strangely, it appears the "economy" is not solely limited to farmers, multinational corporations and landlords...
One example: Luxon let Seymour dismantle a network of SMEs & community based orgs delivering food around the country that: Improved learning and school attendance Creating income opportunities and employment regionally Supported local manufacturing. In favour of offshore giant doing a terrible job
If last week showed me anything, it’s that National has unceremoniously broken small business voters’ hearts. And small business has resoundingly dumped its sorry ass.
Damn, when you've lost the intellectual powerhouse of Stuff columnist Verity Johnson, how much further is there to fall?
NY Times succesfully explains socialism in one sentence, during a failed burn attempt. I guess this is journalism now...
"But how about we give all the money that could have been used to pay our nurses adequately and give it to private healthcare instead?"
Ah yes, just what our healthcare system needs, more cost cutting
In a country where ~95% of power is generated by renewables? 🙄 The 1950s called - they want their policies back...
