PM Luxon: Uphold Codes of Conduct - Call David Seymour into line Responsible leaders welcome advice from experts and when they are creating laws and policies. They know good decision making means planning for the long term, considering diverse points of view and ma...

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...

Yeah this headline should have been -

"Sex workers catch sex pest red-handed, but police refuse to charge"

The audio recordings may not have been technically illegal, but stalking people inside their homes certainly is. Appalling the police haven't charged this.

PM’s press secretary ‘recorded sex workers without consent’ Christopher Luxon’s deputy chief press secretary quits after Stuff investigation into allegations he secretly recorded sessions with sex workers.

Appreciation to the sex workers for talking to me because they knew this was in the public interest.

And I think we need to have a conversation about some of the wider issues here.

These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to.

This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented.

So ICE took her into custody.

The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck.

"I can't breathe."

A budget for machines, not midwives The centrepiece of the budget may makes sense on its own terms, but when contrasted with what's not being funded, it's telling.

“Yes, NZ govt is currently spending more than it earns. But, given wealthiest NZ’ers pay 1/2 the tax rate of we average folk, best way to close gap is to increase tax rates at the upper end. Instead, we have govt that – lest we forget – is still handing out $2.9bn in tax cuts to landlord” #nzpol

Ffs, It gets worse. These fucking vandals won’t be happy until they’ve burned it all down to the ground, literally. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #BSBudget2025

So women are now quite literally holding up the New Zealand economy in under-paid work

marilynwaring.com/publications...

"If we tax the rich they may leave the country!" is such bullshit. Most of the wealth of the rich is tied up in property. Now it has been a while since I travelled but I don't remember luggage allowances being THAT generous.

Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa The US President showed a image taken in Congo while falsely presenting it as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.

#BHN Because of course they weren't 🙄

"Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa"

www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Considering pay inequity is such a big contributor to the fact that women have less money to retire on makes the drop in govt KiwiSaver contribution a double kick in the teeth for women

FIRST THEY CAME FOR…
Had to write it down, but I feel like I still haven’t covered the full spectrum of this assault on our precious society. #OneTermGovernment #NoConfidence #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #Aotearoa #nz #GetThemOut #VoteSmarter

Grant at least has a degree in Political Studies
Nevertheless, understanding the fundamentals of economics should be a prerequisite

Hopefully Willis studied Dickens & understands what happens when power & wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few & the devastation that causes for the masses

It doesn’t help when our finance minister has a degree in English Literature! I’m more qualified for the job

The moment Peters and his ilk start addressing our rates of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, pay equity, safeguarding access to abortion…is the moment I say

Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights.

Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women.

The end.

I remember a Japanese car drove up the back of me and the bonnet crumpled all the way up to the windshield and my car didn’t even get a dent

My first car was a 1960’s Vauxhall Viva from my great aunt who had only driven it around Thames. It was built like a tank and would shake if I tried to drive over 80 on the motorway 😊

Same needs to apply in Aotearoa #nzpol

www.instagram.com/reel/DISFixq...

'Drones not homes' is bloody effective.

Last night, a tent where Gazan journalists were staying was bombed. A journalist caught fire and burned alive in front of dozens of people who couldn’t save him.

His horrific death is one of more than 50,000 since the war began, and over 1,000 since the ceasefire collapsed 20 days ago. (1/2)

Saw these by the register as I was checking out at another neighborhood bookstore today and am here to say Seattle booksellers are alright.

Labour alleges 'appalling lack of process' over Treaty Principles Bill deadline The committee has "rammed it through with outrageous haste", with a report now expected tomorrow, but excluding thousands of submissions, Duncan Webb says.

The #Nact Justice Select Committee 🤡🤡🤡 is expected to report back on the Treaty Principles Bill on Friday, more than a month ahead of time, without reading all submissions.
"With government members rushing to report the bill back early, the process is exposed for what it really is - a sham"
#nzpol

So this is where Donnie got that idea

The Israeli government has abandoned all pretenses for its goal of ethnically cleansing of all Palestinians from their land, accelerating its genocide in Gaza and engineering the largest land theft in the occupied West Bank in over thirty years.

The Netanyahu government has killed 50,000 people in Gaza & wounded 112,000.

Two weeks ago, they broke the ceasefire and have since killed 322 children & wounded 600.

The US must end its complicity.

Tomorrow, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in arm sales to Netanyahu.