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Govt to rush climate target change through Parliament under urgency The public will not have their say on the Govt's weakening of the methane target, even though it could raise household bills by $270 a year.

Criminal. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/10/g...

UN report sounds alarm over Māori rights in New Zealand UN committee raised concerns over government policies including scrapping the Māori Health Authority and funding cuts for Indigenous services

It's so bad, we now have an article in the international edition of The Guardian.

“unprecedented in both its length and its language”

@evacorlett.bsky.social doing some of her best work, again.
#nzpol

“New Zealand is moving backwards on racial equality, and Māori rights are under serious threat.”

Read this whole article. It would take Olympic-level twisting to deny any of it - and the fact this isn’t front page news across the board absolutely reinforces the point.

This might be the reason Luxon refused to be interviewed by Jack Tame on Q&A all year…BaCk On TrAcK or just talking smack? 🤪 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

How internet became 'enshittified' - and how to fix it Analysis: One theory explains how the internet went from fun to infuriating.

How internet became 'enshittified' - and how to fix it
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YouTube video by Robert Reich The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?

Peter Thiel’s #Palantir sells Al tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE
analyze massive amounts of personal data = Authoritarian Police State
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in #America & beyond. #NZ #UK #EU #Democracy

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WorkSafe rule change introduces 'lethal' risk of electrocution, electrical inspectors say A dispute has escalated over the past month as electrical inspectors repeatedly plead with officials to do a U-turn, RNZ can reveal.

This is criminal. "A lethal risk", is “a critical safety issue" NZ Electrical Inspectors Assoc
"we know of no other country in the world that allows this" yet #BrookeVanVeldon sees human lives as disposable, for #profits. #health #safety #deregulation #nzpol
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Ownership of Interislander ferry service remains undecided The ultimate owner and operator of the new Interislander ferries due to arrive in 2029 remains undecided, Rail Minister Winston Peters has confirmed.Peters appe...

Oh huh we saved no money and then it might be privatised amazing work Winston you cowpat

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WHY IS THIS NOT YOUR TOP STORY? If you need help, just pretend it’s Biden @msnownews.bsky.social @cnn.com @nytimes.com

Food poisoning warning after Christchurch students eat contaminated school lunches The possibility that students may have eaten contaminated lunches "fills me with horror", says a Christchurch school principal.

A restraunt that served mouldy food would have its certification pulled. So what happens to Compass? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

So CompassNZ have burnt kids, given them food poisoning, fed them plastic in food, put ham in halal lunches, sent food too cold, too hot, too late & food that doesn’t meet nutritional guidelines but no matter how bad CompassNZ rocks on. #nzpol

We’d have ditched a supplier this bad in our business.

Make. David. Seymour. Eat. A. Whole. Box. Full. Of. Those. Rotten. Meals. #NZPol

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Food poisoning warning after Christchurch students eat contaminated school lunches Parents have been asked to watch for symptoms of food poisoning after some lunches were eaten..

"Seymour's slop" becomes "Seymour's poison slop" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Revealed: Councils expected to foot a near $48 billion bill for Local Water Done Well Officials estimate water service infrastructure will cost $47.9 billion to 2034.

National's Local Water Done Well will come to be recognised as a generational cock-up. Simon Watts's vague claim that rates will not increase is farcically untrue. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

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This is just the tip of the ‘lower quality of life’ iceberg…🙄
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment

My dog I love you humans 😂❤️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

Why is it "frankly disgusting" for parents and schools to stand up for what THEY believe is right for their tamariki? Why is the PM allowing his MPs to spread anti-worker, anti-Te Tiriti disinformation on social media?
#nzpol

Demand Accountability for Disinformation in Public Discourse Peters’ recent comments misrepresented the facts surrounding athletes Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting and the broader debate on gender and sports. His assertions, based on misleading information and lack...

#nzpol

We can boycott the fsck out of companies that donated to the current lot. There may be more since this was posted:
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Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.

#nzpol
Fuck this smarmy, nasty little prick, he obviously has a sadism fetish and shouldn’t be allowed within 500 metres of children or policies affecting children 😡

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A chart showing DRP per capita growth by term of Parliament. This current govt is a fucking disaster

Stolen off @darienfenton.bsky.social FB

National are in line to produce the worst economic returns for a Govt term, even worse than the Bolger/Richardson disastrous govt.

Austerity does not work. End of. #NZPol

again, any other government doing this would not have had a moments rest from nz media, their public lives made almost impossible and been hounded out of government

this coalition is being given the most cover and support, maybe in nz history, by media and institutions

'It's not impossible': Willis says National may join other parties to repeal Regulatory Standards Act The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.

I do not know off the top of head what is in the oath an incoming government makes to the Governor General, but it seems like passing legislation you actually think is bad should be some kind of breach of it
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In the interests of balance this para should be given equal time in ANY media coverage of this Govt’s social housing *plans *

Israel kills 33 Gazans in a single night. It’s part of a new deadly status quo, Palestinians say. On Wednesday, Israel killed 33 Palestinians, including 12 children, in its latest violations of the Gaza ceasefire. Those killed include Palestinian families trying to return home and others caught in...

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Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me