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Wellington depression recovery centre to close after no funding reprieve Accidental meeting invite from Health NZ gave false hope but no reprieve for Wellington mental health service

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... have they tried going for a michelin star ? apparently theres money to fund people coming from overseas to partake of Aotearoa's hospitality and fine dining, but nothing for depression treatment unless youre Milk (K)ing the system

Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement - Nature Climate Change To mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, Nature Climate Change asked experts to reflect on the progress of and barriers to several of its key Articles. They share their thoughts on import...

Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement

The world’s on track for 2.5–2.9°C

👉Emissions still rising
👉Pledges improving, not delivering
👉1.5°C dream fading - but 2°C is still possible if ambition doubles

…and the next decade will decide everything

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fast-Track Amendment Bill a Savage Escalation in Government’s War on Nature The Fast-Track Amendment Bill passed its first reading in parliament today, prompting fierce condemnation from Greenpeace.

PRESS RELEASE
The Fast-Track Amendment Bill which passed its first reading in parliament today is a savage escalation of the Luxon Government’s war on nature.
#nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

Man that sounds full on. Take care of yourself as well as you look after the whanau

Everyone expects the Govt to help them if required, but I think the political parties in NZ can be categorized by how their voters want the Govt to help others:
Nat: not unemployed
NZF: not immigrants
ACT: not poor
Labour: everyone but not too much
Green/TPM: everyone

#nzpol

With that intellect supposedly charge of climate policy we are doomed

Shrodingers sandwich....the quantum culinary theorem that lies behind this could be used to create weapons of mass distraction

love how not once does the article consider or mention whether bus times have been improved as a result of the changes, but there is whinging about road cones and speeding drivers

the centrist moderates that joined NZ labour don't know how you could think such a thing. Its pretty obvious that anybody progressive hasn't joined NZ labour over the last 8 years

i mean i understand its a bubble waiting to burst, but "major disruptor" wall street stockbroker needing to crow to every media outlet about how he's taken an opposing position isn't the flex he thinks it is.... speaks of gamblers desperation tbh

FUCKING CLIMATE CRIMINALS

Remember when this government got really mad about public musings on its growing resemblance to “a death cult that hates children”?

One tries to resist hyperbole, but every day it gets harder to quibble with that take.

*not just death: disability, denialism, dismantling democracy—what else? #nzpol

Unbelievably, Shane thinks the fast track isn't going fast enough and it appears to be too democratic so him and Bishop are reining it in, with a new bill to be passed under urgency.
This is preposterous. www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Rangers will come out of the business as they're tax deductible, free money is for jetskis, boats, trips overseas and bottled water because their bores are contaminated with nitrates.

The probability of a gobshite meglomaniac billionaire drowning alone in his hot tub whilst stuck in a K hole is inevitable...... The more interesting question is which happens first?

Iran, Russia and the New Zealand insurer that kept their sanctioned oil flowing A dark fleet of tankers carried tens of billions of dollars of Iranian and Russian oil to Asia, evading Western sanctions. Reuters found the ships were connected by one thing: a small insurance company in New Zealand, run by a British family.

Iran, Russia and the New Zealand insurer that kept their sanctioned oil flowing | Reuters share.google/1DdwIh8Ayoqw...

Probably worth checking if these people are on the list of political donors in NZ

Orkuveitan

They're only just starting to assess the damage now ? Have they been sitting on their couches playing Playstation assuming the country owes them a living ? Or is the bail out on offer not worth getting up for yet?

Photo of smiling Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick behind white text on a green background that says "Want a progressive tax system? Join the Greens today."

Join us 💚

www.greens.org.nz/join

Taxing children is good.... taxing property speculators obviously bad.... mkaaaaayy

Tighter rules may be needed to stem flow of public submissions, says MP 'Coordinated, largely online campaigns' make it harder for politicians to consider good-faith submissions on laws

I think the TL;DR on responses to Meager's proposal to ration democracy is "we'll be less activist if you'll be less shit" newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/t...

Bet they love him in Onetehangi, there's some severely minted arseholes with houses and those poncy wheeled RHiBs (as reversing a trailer is too tricky and common) there

We had to ring the sound system party line after 10pm, listen to an answerphone message with directions. Then we'd pile into a car drive for 2 hours, normally we got lost on country lanes so we'd stop to listen for the bass. Often other cars would pull up from other cities looking for the party.

$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.

New from me: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground.

The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...

Winnie looks to be having second thoughts about shaking the slimey lying greaseballs hand. But we all know he will obviously if it helps him in any way

Legislate a huge multi billion dollar bond to pay for spills and clean up costs and they'll dissappear soon enough

Simeon Brown accuses doctors of crossing 'ethical line' with mega strike There were audible cries of disbelief during Simeon Brown's speech to senior doctors.

What I would say to you, Simeon, is that the health system should NEVER be underfunded or under resourced in the first place, that is all on YOU.

The only people to cross an ethical threshold are you and your colleagues.

#nzpol #bhn #nznurses #strike

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Awe bless... I guess you're one of the "i bought a flat white his morning and that entitles me to rent this table as my office all day" Muppets.

Not all heroes wear capes

Have they tried covering him in glitter ?
Because the polishing really hasn't worked out well for them it seems..... funnily enough