Peter Ashford

Imagine having another energy source that would solve the energy security problem without the price instability that global conflict can bring, and deciding "Yeah, nah. We're good thanks." 🤦‍♂️

(Not to mention the myriad of other benefits this source would bring) #nzpol

Thanks for the info. Disapointing that it wasn't picked up

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 board chair rang senior minister to discuss negative coverage. Is this government overeach or actual corruption. Hard to see how Paul Goldsmith can keep his role #NZPol newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/t...

Will any of our media discuss this? Seems important

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

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Tūtira mai ngā iwi!!!

#nzpol

“New Zealand is frequently ranked among the world's top five wealthiest countries per adult, often surpassing nations like Canada, Denmark, and Sweden.”

Something just doesn’t add up here…🤔💚 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

Barry Soper: "Is Luxon facing too much scrutiny over the Middle East situation?"

Dunno, why don't you ask the folk who insist on multiple Covid Response Inquiries?

"NZers can see & feel inequality rising whilst more wealth is siphoned to the very wealthy. As an election draws near, politicians of all stripes must take a good look at how we can reorient our economy so that wealth doesn't accumulate at the top whilst everyone else falls further behind." #nzpol

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Begging @barbedmonds.bsky.social to revisit the taxation policy and the diluted, weak sauce, everything is exempt CGT that Labour have proposed

People want stronger action, the country (world) needs it. Be like Nike and JUST DO IT

It's not a "cost of living crisis", it's an inequity crisis
#nzpol

What a fuckwit

Barry Soper is the man in the pub's idea of a thinking man, an absolute joke.

Look up the dictionary definition of the Fourth Estate & it's hold truth to power.

Bastards

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.

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.

Right-wing commentators were *obsessed* with what they fancied was the former Labour govt's control of the media. Yet now we have what looks like direct political interference with reporting that ministers didn't like. Far out. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/t...

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.

“A senior Cabinet minister has confirmed the board chair of public broadcaster TVNZ discussed concerns about its journalists’ reporting of crime statistics, in a private call days before the outlet ran a follow-up story to outline the Government’s successes.”
#nzpol

Gloriavale ex-leader wins appeal, avoids jail for 20 years of sex offending Crown lawyers had argued prison was needed given his role as Gloriavale leader.

Another man avoids jail time for serious offending against multiple women. So tired of this.
Gloriavale leader Howard Temple’s prison sentence quashed - replaced with home detention www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gloriaval...

"Mum/Dad/Aunty/Uncle (over 50s), I want you to do the children a favor. You know things have been going rapidly downhill. Right & centralist led government austerity policy is making things worse. I want you to think about the next generation & consider voting Green in the upcoming election."
#nzpol

And it's a very hard NOPE from me. The idea of handing our biometric data over to the US DHS is ... unprintably awful.

“Virtually nothing Greenpeace says or does will ever sway the way I approach New Zealand fisheries policy,” he told the Herald.

Shane Jones like Luxon doesn't take advice.

The national shame is that the government doesn't fund scientific studies like Greenpeace just had to. Donation time!
#nzpol

If you simplify it down into principles, there is a simple question at the heart of the capital gains tax debate: who should pay more tax, minimum-wage workers or property investors? Your answer tells everyone what you value most #nzpol

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

Luxon "misspoke". Three times. With prepared notes. Said the same thing three times followed by "I don't know how I could be any clearer".

That kind of misspoke.

'It's proof': New coral evidence clashes with Govt's South Pacific trawling plan Footage identified 350 coral and sponge species on the Lord Howe Rise.

Incredible stuff here from Greenpeace.

This is all the evidence needed.

Bottom trawling HAS to stop.

#ProtectTheOceans via @greenpeace.org.nz

All hail those Concrete Tim Tams
Scourge of car drivers who should not hold a licence while proving why we have Tim Tams
And savour of cyclists and scooter riders who are by law also road users

"Our forecasting is not wrong."
Massive mistake in model input assumptions would mean irl teachers would only get half their non-contact time under the old model.
Somehow, this is not a mistake. Even though it required correction.
Perhaps it's an update, a learning, an iteration?
#nzpol

Phil Goff: New Zealand’s silence on Iran war shows complicity

It does. You either stand up to evil or are part of it

Our governments non answers and fence sitting position are all you need to know about them, they would rather simp at the feet of a child rapist than stand up for what is right

#nzpol

Mildly curious if things like this will have any impact on the dense armour of "they're just fringe loonies, no I don't pay attention to their policies" going on here. #nzpol

I wouldn't be surprised if no, nothing changed...

But it'd be nice.

Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse

Anyone know if any NZ channels are planning to screen "Dirty Business", the docudrama about Britain's broken water system and all the death and disease it's caused?

Feels extremely topical and timely - and from what I've glimpsed, it's a powerfully told story: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...