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Minister says TVNZ chair tried to raise news story with him after criticism Minister for Media Paul Goldsmith said the chair of TVNZ’s board raised a 1News story with him over the weekend.

Goldsmith didn't inhale. #NzPol

TVNZ board chair rang senior minister to discuss negative coverage

Justice minister won't reveal exactly what the public broadcaster's board chair said, while police minister doubles down on concerns about bias.

Cartoon of a dog with 4 balls. Dog is looking for another ball under a couch. Dog math if I have 5 toys and one goes under the couch I have zero toys.

Same with cats

Good.

But also, the fact that there’s seven people on Christchurch City Council, including the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, that voted in favour of the proposal is a damning sign of how shallow NZ’s political class is committed to human rights and democracy.

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This is really good from Chloe Swarbrick in response to questions about Luxon's leadership. She points out that the stakes are high and it's Luxon's job to be across the details.
#nzpol

That part of our economy is so broken, they don't even need to collude

Emergency food grant decline rates up 60% in two years The Ministry of Social Development's 'strengthened hardship approvals' are seeing more emergency assistance requests being turned down....

Emergency food grant decline rates up 60% in two years

Remember back in 2018 when seniror RNZ manager Carol Hirschfeld lost her job after it was revealed she'd had a secret meeting with Broadcasting Minister Claire Curran. Who was later sacked from Cabinet by PM Jacinda Ardern after a second downlow meeting was revealed.

Would likely result in massive greenfield development in places like Wellsford as well! Soooo more infrastructure (non transport) would get pushed for as wellllll!!!

Whenever I suggest even modest public transport improvements, I get people screaming about cost and that I simply must face “facts” that railways lose money and deserve no investment

You could have electrified commuter rail in every major centre and extensive regional rail for half this ridic road

I doubt the cia are wasting any energy on him. Handlers much closer to home

TVNZ board chair rang senior minister to discuss negative coverage Justice minister won't reveal exactly what the public broadcaster's board chair said, while police minister doubles down on concerns about bias.

TVNZ's newsroom chose a different editorial angle than the government wanted. What happened next?

Courier companies fined $1.2m for cartel conduct Aramex and GoSweetSpot have been penalised for engaging in cartel conduct, which the Commerce Commission says makes goods and services more expensive.

Couriers caught colluding.

4 decades of binary neoliberal thinking

wallet size? check. skin colour? check

This country cannot afford that level of smug incompetence

His party has a major selection problem

Chlöe Swarbrick here being accurate yet still quite kind? "He simply does not seem to understand the weight of the things that he is talking about, or the substance or logic that sits behind them".

By this time in the 2017 to 2020 term, the NZ Government and PM had faced, in sequence.

1. The deadliest terror attack on NZ not done by the Brits

2. A measles outbreak

3. A volcano going off and killing and maiming tourists

4. Hey this Corona virus thing might get serious?!

Imagine Luxon.

@bernardchickey.bsky.social Am enjoying the mini-hoons. Thank you

Watch: Luxon returns to Parliament at night to correct answer on Middle East – Greens say he mucked up again 'The Prime Minister just doesn't seem to know what is going on,' Chlöe Swarbrick said.

Christopher Luxon returns to Parliament to ‘correct answer’ on visas during Middle East conflict, but Greens say he mucked up again

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

A headband is involved

‘Servile and silent’ - the government is caving to Trump on Iran New Zealand has a choice when it comes to the conflict in Iran: to go along with Trump’s policies, or stand by its values as a nation, writes Phil Goff.

‘We apparently no longer have the courage to speak freely in support of our values and interests as a sovereign nation.

Our first priority has become to avoid attracting the attention of the playground bully.’ - Phil Goff.

starting to get brighter

00:50am Wed 4th March (NZ)

#LunarEclipse #BloodMoon #NewZealand

Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ

#Nikon Z7ii

Starting to lighten up again as the moon moves away from the Earth's shadow

Sydney harbour port to make way for prime waterfront housing Glebe Island's port will be turned into prime waterfront housing in a new suburb to be built around a yet-to-be-built metro station.

"Comparable sites in London mandate 50% affordable housing – more ambitious targets for affordable housing would help ensure the people who keep our city running can live in or near the communities they serve" - Eamon Waterford, Committee for Sydney

In today’s NZ Herald

Inflation must be

I think if he had any sense of shame and the insight to reflect on his ability then he'd never have put himself forward for political office.