Chris Werry

What’s next? The Minister of Police directing “Pirihimana” be removed from police cars? The Minister of Transport insisting Air NZ change its magazine name to “Hello”?

RNZ headline on an upcoming teachers strike that states "Teacher's decision to strike a 'political stunt'" This is one one of the worst headlines I've ever seen. It privileges the government's anti-worker talking point by making it seem like a neutral statement without even attributing it to a minister

This RNZ headline on the upcoming teachers strike is appalling.

It goes beyond just parroting the government's viewpoint. By failing to attribute the quote to a specific minister, it presents it as neutral or objective assessment of the situation

Something is deeply rotten at RNZ...

Chlöe Swarbrick just got banned for a week for the SAME speech as former Prime Minister & BBQ crasher John Key

The difference, Chlöe doesn't have a penis.

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Not even voluntarily by the Representation Commission itself?

National is shedding compassion and showing its mean streak OPINION: The National of today has drifted a long way from the party’s compassionate traditions.

“At this point one has to ask: what have we become? Do we want to be a country in which desperately ill people are denied housing on the flimsiest of pretexts or for minor imperfections? How is this even vaguely consistent with any notion of “compassionate” conservatism?”

“Giles Southwell, Environment Canterbury’s director of corporate and public transport services, said the council was not directly involved, as event services did not count as public transport”. Cos public transport is only getting people to and from work?

Looks like this one road will probably end up costing the same as the amount that was too expensive for the port and ferries.

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Get Nicola in there to cancel it immediately! Stop the madness!

Cartoon. Title: “How To Do Quality Law-Making” Image has three pictures. The first one is titled Strategy Meeting. Brooke van Velden is saying to PM Christopher Luxon “You act casual, like nothing’s happening, then VOOM!” The central picture is titled, “The Plan of Action” and shows a group of women holding placards, reading “Pay equity” and “Fair pay” BVV and CL are whizzing around them, going “VOOM!” and the women are saying, “What the…” “What was that?” “We were robbed!” The last image is titled, “The Outcome” and BVV and CL are walking away with armloads of money, and Luxon is saying, “Didn’t even see us coming! Brooke, you’re brilliant!”

How to do quality law-making. Certainly not the sneaky way the Coalition Govt went about the pay-equity business.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #PayEquity

#NZ #economy was good under #Labour
This mess is all this #National Govt’s-with help from ACT & NZLast #nzpol

#AtlasNetwork playbook = #Neoliberal #austerity + #CorporateWelfare #ForeignOwnership
#Defund #MakeFail #privatisation #WealthTransfer #JobCuts #Inequality #poverty #homelessness

An especially deft touch in announcing the return of School C was the PM's arrival in a Leyland P76

We thought memories of the great depression and world war were seared on the memory of mankind. Turns out it was only bruise and is passing with our parents.

Photo of Hauraki Gulf towards Aotea taken in brilliant winter sunshine from Takarunga

The people with lived experience of WW2 are almost all gone now. The baby boomers have a responsibility to ensure their dream and achievement of a society that works for all people lives on. #nzpols #FuneralReckons

Andrew Foster doing a members bill stating that Tauranga must be pronounced “Towel-wrong-er”.

Corruption catnip.

NACT adopting the tactics of the GOP.

The only two character ISO country code available starting with A and using letters from Aotearoa is AA

Is "Project 10" a baby "Project 2025"?

can these tedious freaks please stop gang banging the biscuit tin

If you can't remove the person's racism then you gotta remove the person's power.

In comparison, 36 people were killed on Auckland roads last year and safety programs have been abandoned or reversed since.

There's a section of NZ that hates kids

I have yet to watch all of this ⬇️. While Gary is UK based, his methods can be used in any country, including Aotearoa New Zealand.
Shall we give it a go?
#nzpol

Reading Vincent O'Malley's The Invasion of the Waikato, and struck by how one of the successes of colonisation is the erasure from the Pākehā consciousness that this violence even occurred in the first place. Almost every site is one I have visited or driven through hundreds, thousands of times.

Nice to have balance - using your wealth to support women and kids, but also to fund someone who jokes about women and kids starving to death.

Not me but someone managed it. Carnivale parade about to start.

This is what can happen when you remove cars from a street. #Greytown Winter Carnival

SH2 through Greytown free of traffic for 8 precious hours today.

Windbag: The government’s misleading case for rates caps Pretending colourful toilets are to blame for council rates rises is like saying millennials can't afford a house because of avocado toast.

The crisis in water infrastructure caused because “… councils of the 80s, 90s and 2000s cheaped out on pipe renewals to keep rates artificially low” will be repeated in the 2030’s because politicians refused to deal with climate change. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/22-... #nzpols

Finance Minister: I'm going to wag my finger at those Fonterra guys about the price of butter, believe you me
Fonterra CEO: Haha I am about to earn more telling you to go fuck yourself than you make in a month. Now go and fuck yourself.
Finance Minister: good game, I'll get my coat, eh?