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Million dollar habit: Kieren quit drinking. But this addiction is harder to break The Government plans to open the online gambling market to 15 new operators. Those who’ve lived with addiction say: don’t do it.

I did some work for Paddy Gower Has Issues on the Online Casino Gambling Bill. Fair to say addicts think licensing 15 casinos here, who can advertise, is not a great idea.

Is that a ring with a battery that can fail and swell up on your finger?

Poll: Controversial pay equity changes could cost coalition the 2026 election The survey, released by the Public Service Association and the Council of Trade Unions, found that more than a quarter of voters who backed the coalition parties in 2023 opposed the reforms.

Deservedly so !

Poll: Controversial pay equity changes could cost coalition the 2026 election

#nzpol

Cartoon. Title: “Sponsored by the Alcohol Lobby”. Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and Assoc Justice Minister Nicole McKee, drinking together. McKee hands her beer to Doocey and says, “Hold my beer” “I’m going to sort out these Public Health boffins. Lower right it says, “Govt ignores expert advice on alcohol”

The Govt wants to cut Health NZ staff working on alcohol harm & end its research & social marketing campaigns. Sixty five organisations have signed an open letter to the PM, calling for alcohol industry to be excluded from policy making.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #alcohol #Health #PublicHealth

Nobody else to ask, I assume?

I hope you and he are ok!

😪 In our family some of us have had to just not talk politics with others because it always goes angry.

There's no meeting in the middle because we trust different sources for our opinions. It's so hard.

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine from Staff, Students and Alumni of the University Community

NZCTU launches election campaign: Christopher Luxon is out of touch, there is too much risk with National - NZCTU “Christopher Luxon and National will take New Zealand backwards and working people will be the first to feel the pain,” said NZCTU President Richard Wagstaff.

The unions were right in 2023 and Kiwis are a bit sick of YOU Luxon!

“Christopher Luxon and National will take New Zealand backwards and working people will be the first to feel the pain,” said NZCTU President Richard Wagstaff. #nzpol

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NZCTU launches election campaign: Christopher Luxon is out of touch, there is too much risk with National - NZCTU “Christopher Luxon and National will take New Zealand backwards and working people will be the first to feel the pain,” said NZCTU President Richard Wagstaff.

The unions were right in 2023 and Kiwis are a bit sick of YOU Luxon!

“Christopher Luxon and National will take New Zealand backwards and working people will be the first to feel the pain,” said NZCTU President Richard Wagstaff. #nzpol

union.org.nz/nzctu-launch...

"This is the worst we've seen in New Zealand since 2005."
…She said there was more downturn in the demand for labour than during the global financial crisis.'

Thanks Luxon! #nzpol

"This is the worst we've seen in New Zealand since 2005."
…She said there was more downturn in the demand for labour than during the global financial crisis.'

Thanks Luxon! #nzpol

I admit I didn't see actual rise from our window because we can't but it posed behind a cloudbank and then showed off

I heard they're gonna have a national day of mourning for Winston's window. They're gonna put up a statue of it in parliament grounds. Danyl has a piece in The Listener saying that Winston's window did politics properly.

We'll raise a glass…

A nation felt Winston's pane!

It's very pretty I'm sorry!

ACT MP asks Parliament to limit use of ‘genocide’ when describing Gaza war Despite being in a party committed to freedom of speech, Simon Court asked Parliament’s Speaker to consider restricting the use of the word ‘genocide’ to describe what’s happening in Gaza.

Aww.. the factual use of the word 'Genocide' is triggering to ACT members . #nzpol

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Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

John is more than a comedian. He's a voice of reason with a sense of humour. More backbone than anyone in power.

Shaw back with black eye James Shaw walked to work a day after he was assaulted while heading to the office, and plans to keep doing so.

Then Green Party co-leader James Shaw was attacked while walking to work. He suffered a fractured eye ball and black eye, but said he still felt safe.

That's what de-escalation and kindness looks like #nzpol

Obviously, it's impossible to acknowledge a genocide and recognise Palestinian statehood when your party relies on the votes of conspiracy nutjobs who set fire to a children's playground.😒😡
💩💩💩
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol

Bridge never hid who he was.
That's why he was chosen.

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A dangerous old populist politician meeting protestors of an illegal occupation of the NZ Parliament grounds.

Here's Winston Peters with the head of Sensible Sentencing Trust mingling with the violent & illegal occupiers of NZ's Parliament grounds, refusing to comment to 3News. His 'minders' pushing reporters strongly away.

Always the fucking victim, never the problem.

GO AWAY OLD MAN

‘A matter of social justice’: The old men of 1972 who got pay equity right The MPs who passed the Equal Pay Act in 1972 could hardly be described as radical liberals, but they were light years ahead of this government.

Former National MP concedes the old men of the 1970s knew more about equality than the Luxon Government #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-...

And that accompanying photo is pandering 🤮

?? I have been speaking out on this for months. I deplore the tepid response by NZG.

Winston Peters strolled around and anti-vax picnic and spoke with people who had chanted and written threats of hanging on gallows of Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and so on, but this was all OK as it was just harmless opportunistic politicking #NZPol

I turned off a couple of settings- again?

Will have to see

Final council speech Image of Tory whanau Wed 8 Oct 10am

If you’d like to hear my final council speech (with some sass), feel free to come to council tomorrow morning. DM for more details.