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Manjrekar James standing at the pitchside end of the tunnel despite having been sent off.

Anyone know what the A-League rules are around red cards? Are players who have been sent off allowed to just watch the game from the side of the pitch? Never seen that in any other league. #Aucklandfc #aleague

Solidarity! I like to think it's a sign that I peaked early.

Govt warned new methane target aligned with 'catastrophic' warming Newly released documents reveal the Govt's new methane target is associated with 2.7C of warming – a level labelled 'catastrophic' by the UN.

Scoop: A trove of briefings and Cabinet documents released under the OIA reveals the Govt was advised its new methane target is only consistent with warming of 2-2.7C (and possibly up to 4.5C).

Climate scientists have said 2.7C would represent 'unprecedented peril'.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/04/g...

When the wording of the regulation was unveiled, I wrote to Minister Brown, the DG of Health, and the Chief Medical Officer of Health to tell them they had included adults, and they have just now changed the regulation!

Absolute amateur-hour law-making.

www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...

Weird, haven't seen that discussed in the Herald 🤔

You are an excellent person. Thank you for the reminders 😊
I hope you have also remembered all those things.

Screenshot from RNZ headlines with a photo of Christopher Luxon not at all awkardly chatting to IKEA workers because he is a man of the people. Caption reads: watch live: Christopher Luxon at IKEA opening

Oh good god. 🤦🏽‍♀️😭

Okay Aotearoa, I'm doing another round of Pay It Forward for my female identifying followers or their friends.

There will be 3-4 beauty packages available and the nominator must DM me a name & address for their nominee.

Aotearoa only please.

##payitforward #Aotearoa #Pōneke #AoNZ

Come on people, there must be someone in your life who needs cheering up? You can even nominate yourself! 😁

Please repost 🙏

Aotearoa only.

#Payitforward #Aotearoa

Wire haired Jack Russell x Fox Terrier lying on a wooden deck looking humiliated due to the sticky blue butterfly and diamantés attached to her head.

They did that to our dog once. She was understandably mortified. We have never returned.

🤮

Yes, this 35 year old woman who had been around the world by the time she was a teen, who was one of Time's most influential people in the world a decade ago, who graduated Brown University & Oxford, who was a UN Goodwill Ambassador, who started a goddamn sustainable gin business is so inexperienced

Tidal wave of strike action planned for October 23 Plans are under way for a co-ordinated strike across much of the public sector, with nurses, teachers and other public sector workers potentially walking off the job on the same day.

EXC: Plans are underway for a coordinated strike across the public sector on October 23 featuring:
- Nurses
- Teachers
- Doctors
- and more

If the ballots go ahead it could well be the biggest coordinated strike in NZ history

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Winston Peters did not ask foreign ministry for opinion on Palestine decision Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the paper trail shows the Government decision was based on “political positioning ... rather than a good, robust process”.

Cabinet papers are typically written by ministerial staffers with direction from Ministers. But the paper canvassing the options on recognising Palestine and deciding on one was written by Winston Peters' office instead.

From my colleague Thomas Manch:

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

*All* of the key themes noted in this @theguardian.com investigation are present, entrenched, & growing in New Zealand's leading far-right, evangelical Christian, anti-establishment, and anti-vaccine Facebook account constellations - extending to Twitter/X, YouTube, & Telegram.

We’re in this list and we like it. 😊#GlobalUrbanists

Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:

YouTube video by Garys Economics The first politician on Gary's Economics

This is a brilliant interview. Chloe has to be the most economically literate politician in AONZ right now. youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE?... #nzpol

"Pedestrian seriously injured after being hit by car, Botany Rd in East Auckland closed." Screenshot of a news story in the NZ Herald from Monday 29 September 2025. The first line of the story reads: "A worker close to the site where a pedestrian was struck by a car in East Auckland said he heard a loud “bang” noise before a rush of sirens." This year, Botany Rd was one of over 1400 Auckland streets that had its speed limit raised by order of the current government, in this case, from 50km/h back up to 60km/h. In a move that runs counter to evidence and good practice, the government's new Speed Rule (authored by Simeon Brown and rolled out by Chris Bishop) *reversed* speed reductions implemented since 2020 on the spurious grounds that safer speeds impacted "productivity". The speed reductions were aimed at making roads safer for everyone using them, whether in a car or not. A quick search of "Botany Rd serious crash" explains why Botany was one of them. Today's crash seems to have happened along a stretch of Botany Rd that has shops and bus stops on both sides of the road, but the nearest signalised crossings are around half a kilometre away in either direction.

"Six hurt in SH1 crash near Taupō." Screenshot of a Radio NZ news story from Monday 29 September 2025. This stretch of State Highway 1 recently had its speed limit raised back up to 100kmh from 60kmh. The speed limit had been lowered due to a history of serious and fatal crashes along this key route. Many locals were appalled by the reversal, as the highway runs through popular and busy holiday towns. For context, see this story from June 2025, in which the Taupō District Council's deputy mayor describes it as "grossly inappropriate”. https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360717092/holiday-communities-livid-about-speed-limit-reversals and this NZ Herald story https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-speed-rules-100kmh-through-a-lake-taupo-campground/G2VZI4VSJZCTLKP3K444D6H2VU/ which describes some of the worst crashes in this area. "Until 2020, the speed limit remained 100km/h. Between 2000 and August 2023, there were 284 crashes reported on the 10km stretch of road from Motutere to Hallets Bay. Nine were fatal and 22 others were serious."

"'Significant delays' afer stock truck rolls on SH5 Napier Taupō Road." Screenshot of a Radio NZ news story from Monday 29 September 2025. SH5 had its speed limit raised this year back up to 100km/h from 80km/h, as a priority of the current government. Speeds had been reduced to 80km/h due to the ongoing history of serious and fatal crashes on this highway, which is the only link between Napier and Taupō. The return to 100km/h sparked concern from road safety experts. For further context, see this story from February 2025: "An independent study released after the drop to 80km/h concluded the lower speed limit on Napier-Taupō Rd prevented 34 crashes in the first 12 months following its implementation. Crash data also showed there had been fewer crashes on Napier-Taupō Rd since the drop to 80km/h." https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/napier-taupo-rd-speed-limit-rise-to-100kmh-sparks-safety-debate/5QTIH2LPTFGAFAAOWTME3AD7IE/

Three major crashes today on roads where the current NZ govt *increased* the speed limit (previously lowered for safety reasons) in pursuit of "productivity"?

Serious injuries. Lengthy closures. Costly disruptions to lives, whānau, the transport network, our health system. This is not productive. 😞

100%. Having to fund foodbanks is clear evidence that you have no idea how to manage an economy.

Jesus. They are so clueless and lacking in empathy it's astounding.

Hot Type: The Die is Cast American political correspondent Heidi Siegmund Cuda tries to make sense of a truly terrible week in the history of America

“Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.”

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

Oh, sorry, of course I meant in Australia.

#nzpol Migration data came out today. It’s down at levels not seen – outside of COVID – since January 2014 when we were climbing out of the GFC. Migration added 21,300 people to NZ in April 25. It was 95k in April 24. A thread...

chemical warfare

'Attenborough would be mortified': Six tonnes of coral bycatch off Christchurch Experts said incidents involving such a large amount of coral being caught are rare.

This CANNOT continue.

It's a national shame.

We have to Ban Bottom Trawling!

Massive coral bycatch exposed
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr... #nzpol #UNOC

#ProtectTheOceans