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This cartoon from @derspiegel shows the world as seen by Trump. It's a new take on an old cartoon premise. I live on the Idiots island. Source: buff.ly/hvd2Bys

Cartoon. Title: “Super Mad” Image shows Winston Peters in a Superman outfit, braced for action, and saying, “STAND BACK! I must protect these older white folk from Wokesters, Indians, Chinese, and a pesky Rarotongan who dares to call our fine country ‘Aotearoa’”

Winston Peters is SuperMad.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol

Pay equity change a 'real slap in the face' to women – People's Committee member

Comment: Ahead of next week's report, People's Select Committee member Steve Chadwick describes her shock at discovering the minister responsible for policy impacting thousands of women and their families had agreed to make the pay equity process even harder.

This week saw another attack on the NZ Indian community by a senior Government Minister. Shane Jones talks about our Indian community like they are an external threat, not as a positive part of our community who have contributed over many generations here in Mt Roskill and across our country. 1/2

While this Government desperately pushes through legislation to make voting as difficult as possible for our communities. Myself and the Mt Roskill Labour Party are planning a Day Of Action focused on enrolling as many people to vote as possible - and we need your help! (1/2) #nzpol #nz #newzealand

The government yesterday passed a law that basically makes it possible for every NZ employee to be reclassified as a specified contractor, so they don’t get minimum wage, holidays, rights to fairness etc. Not only Uber Drivers. NZ First supported btw.

#nzpol Prices for basics are rising again at a rate much faster than wages, new data from Stats NZ shows. 70% of workers got a pay rise less than 3% last year and 44% got no pay rise at all. Food prices rose 4.6% overall, with the price of white bread rising 58% this year. A 🧵

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Luxon claiming his Mum and Dad would let him stay up and watch State of Origin when it wasn't broadcast live here until 1990, and he would have been 20 years old #nzpol

Come on guys, wait until the 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓭 one-in-a-hundred year storm to hit in a couple of weeks, 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓷 you can bring up climate change ❤️❤️❤️

Anne Salmond: How to truly supercharge NZ's success

As head of Air NZ, Christopher Luxon touted the importance of protecting the climate – yet his government has taken our country in the opposite direction.

Why not spend $2.7b on solar & batteries instead? Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity

FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...

Athanasios Orphanides is a Milton Friedman acolyte so it's got a pre-determined outcome.

He has argued against central banks having a mandate for protecting employment, so is likely to damn any such policy.

No 3. I despise Simeon Brown's dishonesty and hypocrisy.

Work? All he does is big-note, opens his mouth and lets words dribble out.

In today’s NZ Herald

Oh look, a National MP is conducting a survey about bus lanes that looks like it's from NZTA and is biased towards removing them.

It would be a shame if it got lots of responses in favour of bus lanes, right?

#nzpol

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Trump traveled on Epstein's jet multiple times, including with underage girls.

Expect this too to be retroactively censored in violation of the law. At least they are ham handed in their lawbreaking

The Republic Won't Save Itself This New Year, I’m Starting a Substack

I’m launching a Substack. Why? Because Trump is completely unfit for office, his enablers are cowards, and the truth needs to be said plainly by someone who knows how these guys tick. Subscribe if you're with me. open.substack.com/pub/gtconway...

like all minorities, Jews are not a monolith. Juliet Moses may be positioned as "Jewish community leader" in Aotearoa and she may speak for some, but she doesn't speak for all. certainly not for me when she's using the murder of Jews to slag off Chlöe Swarbrick.

also fuck the ACT Party.

#nzpol

The Greens need to get their act together

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.

A real journalist
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John Campbell announced as new co-host of Morning Report He'll join Ingrid Hipkiss on the flagship news programme next year.

I might start listening to Morning Report again...
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Cost-cutting, disguised as efficiency.

Our economic catastrophe of the last three years in chart form.

This is a measured, lucid thread, suitable for sharing with anyone you know who listens to Mike Hosking (who was hailing Gates' conversion this week).

Just my opinion but …
Postcard campaigns are quite impactful. A couple hundred emails don’t take up much inbox space and are easy to ignore, but a stack of postcards are impressive.

#nzpil

Photo of David Seymour, Chris Luxon, and Winston Peters against a background of the debating chamber in Parliament.

Voting for these three is aiding and abetting war crimes. #nzpol