Pete Huggins

It’s going to be Steven Joyce isn’t it

Oh dear the incoherence of Wellington’s frightened and inherently privileged few.

Luckily it’s the last breath of a generational malaise. Dying pillow, etc.

Predators of the Caribbean

That escalated quickly! Congratulations! Inspiring mahi.

We are on countdown!! We've hit 91% and we have 9% left to hit our minimum goal.

#tewharehangahanga #housing4everyone

Jon Toogood liked my Tweet lol

Getting a lot of ignorant, racist and transphobic shit on the bird place. But also this. Which is cool

Aotearoa not on the Olympic map - implies infinite gold medals per capita

Peter Thiel believes in the idea of states as a market for high net worth individuals. Let’s price him out.

First they came for the Māori But I was too busy making dinner

First they came for the Maori
But I was too busy making dinner

The reason why the Coalition Government need to dismantle Maori rights and the principles of the Treaty is because at each step Iwi stand in the way of corporatising New Zealand.

We stay complacent at our own peril

#nzpolitics
#nzpol

We get very poor value for money if we focus infrastructure spend on more motorways that encourage more spread out housing and urban development that will cost more over the long term and be a financial drag on councils, public agencies and residents for generations to come.

Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station when trying to cast his vote in Thursday’s elections after forgetting to bring the required photo identity. The former prime minister was initially told by polling station staff he would not be allowed to vote in the police and crime commissioner election in South Oxfordshire without proving his identity. The misstep was embarrassing for Johnson because the requirement to bring photo ID is a stipulation of the Elections Act he introduced in 2022 while in Downing Street.

Satire is dead

TVNZ appoints new political editor She is the first wahine Māori to lead 1News' political coverage.

Maiki Sherman's appointment as New Zealand's first wahine Māori to lead 1News' political coverage is a reason to celebrate, & perhaps for the more thoughtful reflect on why its taken so long! www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/25/t... But NZ disinformation ecologies had very different take, steeped in racism.

A leaked document on the proposed legislation regarding Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

I think the words "highly contentious" and "lack of consultation" prior to select committee are telling!
#nzpol 🇳🇿 #toitūtetiriti

It’s only irrational if your aim is to increase EV ownership. If your aim is to support legacy energy systems the move seems coherent.

Labour also decided to end the RUC exemption; but on the grounds that the CCD was a more effective subsidy.

Saw this exchange and for me it’s one of those SO CLOSE to getting it moments.

I mean, this human nature thing, is it perfect? Should we agree to some rules and stuff? Especially if it starts to hurt us bad in ways we don’t like? Shall we just let it rip and see what happens? I can’t decide.

The fate of the Treaty of Waitangi is teetering on the brink of a popular vote, as the new coalition government pledges to introduce a Treaty Principles Bill... Trick or Treaty? Indigenous rights, referendums and the Treaty of Waitangi

This is absolutely excellent from Mihi Forbes and the team at Mata Reports … great journalism, have a watch #kikorangi #aotearoa

Trick or Treaty? Indigenous rights, referendums and the Treaty of Waitangi https://youtu.be/IDS0RBMspGk

Not an expert but think the issue will be when low river flows prevent the reservoir(s) topping up. At that point it’s countdown to running out, especially as 45% of it will be lost to leaks.

So more distributed storage now, while reservoirs can still fill up from rivers, builds resilience.

My amazing partner turned out this actual book this year - a history of the Māori Affairs Select Committee Room, available at Unity Books and elsewhere

“How can a digger have caterpillar tracks?”

Traditional Wellington welcome for the incoming government 🌬️🥶

Launched in 2018, the Māori Carbon Collective was promoted as an indigenous approach to carbon farming, enabling iwi to prosper from the Emissions Trading Sc... Aorangi Awarua | Mata Reports

Aorangi Awarua are a small Māori land trust from Taihape. They were counter sued for 43 million dollars by Māori Carbon Collective | Mata Reports youtu.be/eNh1kc-XQd0

And this is why I distrust any politicians who claim the market will provide when it clearly never has in the past. It's an out and out lie.

As long as you’re not sifting through the basket to find matching colour pegs you’re absolutely fine

What even is the apparatus of state if not a tool to be bent to the will of the people

🙌 definitely time to get off that platform eh - but the memories are forever

Let’s be real though, Winston simply HAS to delay the talks because his entire value proposition is “keep the bastards honest”. A brand hygienic for Winston is that he appears to be in charge and delays things - regardless of whether he actually extracts any policy gains (he will).

Talks are down to 1 or 2 issues:

- our entire fiscal approach, and
- who gets to actually run the government

Just a few more days everyone.

Elevate and focus on the big rocks.

The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial... /1