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Puppysitting today. Making sure to get enough smell on me for my shoe loving cats

Don't get me wrong, other parties should have clear plans and those plans should be critiqued. I want strong policy from the parties I support. I really hope more scrutiny is placed on the coalition parties this upcoming election.

Because I recall their alternative to three waters being "we'll see after the election"

Their environmental ideas have been "oh someone might invent something to help" I personally don't feel comfortable leaving the climate change up to chance.

Does this government realise how little legitimacy it has to critise other parties for not having a plan? Because the only plan they appear to have is to repeal everything.

What were their plans and solutions before the election? #nzpol

They're banking on imaginary solutions

Okay now nz labour stop looking at uk labour and look at Mamdani instead of

fingers crossed he overcomes his leadership concerns

Hon Kieran McAnulty: So which is it: the Government isn't working on legislation to shift homeless people from the CBDs, or they are considering legislation to shift homeless people from the CBDs? Hon CHRIS BISHOP: The member asked whether or not the Government was developing legislation. The Government is not, but, as I say, we are looking at a range of things in order to clean up the CBD. [Interruption]

"We are looking at a range of things in order to clean up the CBD" is a particularly putrid way to answer whether or not you're going to ban homeless people from city centres. They're people not garbage. #nzpol

Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

Government quietly loosens climate rules An announcement at 8pm on Tuesday saw the Government delinking the ETS from the Paris Agreement and extending another emissions deadline by 25 years.

The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night:
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:

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

I've had parents call me exasperated that their child's education has turned into an eternal marae visit with karakia before every class and Mãori words littered through their maths questions. It is possible to respect and value the place of the Mãori language and culture without artificially inserting it into every part of life. We're fixing it. As announced this morning, the Education and Training Act will be changed so that School Boards will no longer be required to "give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including by working to ensure that its plans, policies, and local curriculum reflect local tikanga Mãori, matauranga Mãori, and te ao Mãori" The changes will be introduced to Parliament this afternoon and passed before the end of the year. It is part of ACT's Coalition Agreement to make Educational Achievement the primary objective of school boards. Our future needs every taxpayer dollar spent on education to realise its full value. Focusing education on actual achievement is a critical part of that. Thank you to everyone who's supported ACT in this work.

And just in from Seymour.
This is the intent. Forget whatever flowery words Erica uses. They want your child growing up in a NZ that is blind to its history. That’s not learning, it’s indoctrination.

as national backbenchers love to yell out - blue shoots!

'A victory for Hobson's Pledge': Hipkins critical of Govt removing school board Treaty clause 'It's a step backwards for our education system.'

Hipkins made the point that this was Hobson’s Pledge policy.
I’m pleased to see him being reasonably forceful about this and I’m pleased to see his words leading the article.

Does Erica Stanford have connections to school resource books, because she sure does think they'll solve everything.

It is patronizing to act as if school books in reo absolves their actions against maori language, culture, history, ect, in our curriculum

#nzpol

Teachers shocked by government decision to remove Treaty of Waitangi requirement in schools The minister had been moving to change the requirement, but has announced it will remove it altogether.

This all aligns with Stanford's new curriculum that has her racist paws all over it, ditch the requirement to teach NZ history & Maori culture with the pyramids... #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Clearly they feel more determined to force people into further poverty than bringing children out of it.

Minister defends lowered child poverty targets as 'achievable' Louise Upston has rejected criticisms of lowered child poverty reduction targets, saying they are achievable and ambitious.

Louise Upston on benefit targets, 23 Oct 2025

"We will not lower our targets because they're challenging"

Louise Upston on child poverty targets, 25 July 2024

"Unfortunately, with the previous government numbers going up it's really challenging"

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/523...

Auckland

Feigning ignorance of widely canvased issues in health and education is an interesting choice.

The government's creative storytelling must be addressed Today, I'm happy to share a guest post from one of the best people I know. My dear friend Helen Gilby is so bright and so funny. And y’all loved her last posts, Seymour's Aotearoa: How to Lose a Count...

'If Upston is reading these same reports, how does she get from “structural inequality” to “lazy youth ruining the economy”?'

www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-governme...

If the curriculum ain't broke, don't fix it

From Auckland University - Opinion: How much did the Govt pay for a curriculum that is so inferior to the version already mandated in our schools? And how else might we have spent that money?

Nzherald.co.nz: Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

Well that’s certainly the headline the government wanted when they drew it up on the whiteboard, cheers NZME, job done.

the fact that these sort of people seem to have governments/companies/media by the balls is super blegh.

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and...

The book for anyone who is interested. I personally am useless at understanding the parts about hedgefunds and investment stocks (srsly meant to be poor) but the sections on 'defense' contracts and the general slimeyness of silicone valley are interesting

app.thestorygraph.com/books/16173f...

‘The Antichrist’: Billionaire Peter Thiel slams Greta Thunberg in private lectures Thiel tied tech regulation to global totalitarian rule.

I'm almost finished reading a book about this guy, and yeah, he's a dangerous fool. If his NZ citizenship is any indication of the 'investment' the coalition's golden visas will bring then they'll be duds.

www.nzherald.co.nz/world/peter-...

Anne Salmond: Academic freedom and its enemies In NZ there are chilling moves towards illiberal democracy. While they are being strongly resisted so far, political leaders and others must wake up.

#nzpol
As ever, Anne Salmond is on point

"When Act mounted its despicable Victim of the Day campaign, delivered by Act’s parliamentary staffers at the taxpayers’ expense and attacking individual scholars as ‘deranged,’ that was another attack on institutional autonomy and academic freedom."

"Everyone has challenges" Paul Goldsmith says when asked about leaving young jobseekers with medical certificates with no safety net.

I'll add that line to the list of ways this government sounds like a invalidating and gaslighting abuser. #nzpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Essential services are not suited to "the market" — the objectives of private capital are too misaligned with the nature of the inelastic demand for the services.

This government's understanding and curiosity about solving societal issues is as shallow as a dinner plate.