Every policy of this government shows us their worldview: other people, including children, have no value but economic value. Drive everywhere. Eat slop. Pay more for everything. Learn the right words, not how to think. Don't worry about your health or your neighbours, that doesn't generate revenue

Over 100 police officers investigated after 30,000 breath tests falsified Acting Deputy Commissioner Michael Johnson says the numbers are "incredibly disappointing and concerning".

Hey remember when Tamatha Paul said that there were good reasons a lot of people don't trust the police, and then the dipshit Labour Party leader attacked her for daring to impugn the honor of New Zealand cops?

Clutha district farmers plea for more help after devastating wind storm One week since a wind storm tore through the country's south, some Clutha district farmers say the financial hit could be harsher than they originally feared.

This guy and his rural mates should practice some of the self-sufficiency they're always going on about, rather than asking city dwellers to bail him out...

Even American kids don't play dodgeball any more! It's basically gone away because it's a horrible game no one likes!

"We had an uptick before the election in October 2023 and they've really been dropping down [since]"

Yet more evidence that business owners are complete morons who reflexively hate Labour and love National despite repeated evidence that RW governments cause them material harm...

The levels of rage I’m feeling as a goddam parent & Tangata Tiriti.

This gov & everyone in it are a bunch of vandals. Every curriculum change takes a mountain of work but this one’s a travesty. #NZPol
Is this a done deal? Is this reversible? The poor teachers, the students, our young people 😔

If the curriculum ain't broke, don't fix it

From Auckland University - Opinion: How much did the Govt pay for a curriculum that is so inferior to the version already mandated in our schools? And how else might we have spent that money?

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

Gotta change leadership. Hipkins is bland and uninspiring... and even worse, he's a known loser.

Disagree strongly that this is a defensible cave. It would signal that Dems will always cave rather than fight. And caving will improve political and economic conditions for Trump's regime. Would be a massive loss.

Aotearoa , new Zealand - MMR vaccine is free for anyone aged under 18, and for people over 18 eligible for free healthcare. please visit your local chemist that offers vaccinations & see if you had 2 doses. If not please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and people who can’t get vaccinated #nz

Takes a little bit of practice to get a feel for which power level to use for different foods, but once you get the hang of it, you'll never want to go back to gas.

We had one in a rental and loved it so much we swapped out our gas range as soon as we bought a house

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

The country is just evil, rotten through to its core. The latest in a long line of vile imperial powers built on human suffering.

This is similar to how RNZ and Stuff have endless coverage of Liam Lawson. There's no way that many kiwis care about F1...

Such a good in-person experience, especially on a nice day. If you ever make it out to Japan, it's definitely catching a game there - the stadium experience is even better than in the US

Health authorities recommend doing 'absolute minimum' to fix Auckland City Hospital Documents show the decision could lead to critical assets failing, resulting in patient harm.

Nelson Hospital's generator failed this week for an hour. Simeon Brown labelled it "unacceptable".

This is the same Simeon who instructed authorities to do "absolute minimum" in works - even though he knows risks incl. equipment failure #nzpol

Thanks for pointing it out, agree completely

He fundamentally just doesn't want democratic input into lawmaking, which you can also see in his disgraceful behavior in trying to bin tens of thousands of TPB submissions.

Sure, my only point was that Meager complaining that SC resources are too limited to manage submissions is especially disingenuous, since Parliament (or the portion of it that's his government MPs, if you want) can increase that at any time.

This artifical distinction between Parliament and the Government is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm talking about!

A simple majority of MPs can increase Select Committee funding at any time, and choosing to hide behind "we're under-resourced" instead of doing that demonstrates their values.

The "we don't have resources to handle this many submissions" argument is especially disingenuous, since Parliament controls the funding! It can just give itself more resources!

Whakatāne mayor backs Air NZ's call for state subsidies on regional flights Air New Zealand's new chief executive has signalled the government might have to step in to keep planes to smaller centres going.

Can't blame a mayor for advocating for his town, but this is yet another example of rural regions demanding endless subsidies from cities.

All while most of their residents pretend to be self-sufficient and scorn city-dwellers.

Electrification gets rid of this problem: heat pumps and induction stoves eliminate the need for in-home combustion completely and are far more efficient than their combustion counterparts.

It's obviously best with clean energy, but even with dirty energy, it moves combustion away from the home.

This is also true in NZ, where woodburners and gas stoves/heat are extremely common, even in urban areas.

Any kind of residential combustion generates horrible pollution for surrounding communities, and open fireplaces and gas stoves inside houses are worst of all.

I think about this every time Mike Johnson does anything offensive or outrageous as Speaker. Dems affirmatively wanted him in the job and helped him keep it!

Everyone ignored this at the time and pretends it never happened...

Yes! White guy commentators anointed him as a precociously talented parliamentarian after his first week of hearings.

Fast-forward a few months and he's trying to throw out hundreds of thousands of submissions and then being incredibly evasive and deceptive when questioned about it...

It's weird (in a good way), coming from the US where such things would be unfathomable

Didn't know that particular piece of fuckery until just now, but it definitely tracks...

Ultimately he's just a typical authoritarian Nat. But I remember all the usual (white, male) commentators falling all over themselves to praise him as a new, better face for the National Party based on one speech...