A reminder that the outgoing Solicitor-General, Una Jagose, was revealed by the Royal Commission on Abuse in Care to have acted to shut down and deny claims by abused people.
But National, and Collins, allowed her to stay in office, and deal with response to the RC.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
David Seymour on Aotearoa’s colonial legacy: “Māori should shut up about it.”
David Seymour on the legacy of the COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates: “Look, people need to be heard.”
While the pathetic grifters are whining about Labour 'ignoring advice' regarding COVID, here's a quick reminder #nzpol
Advice ignored
- Smokefree Legislation
- Emissions Targets, etc
- Māori Health Authority
- Fast-track Bill
- School Lunches
- iReX
- Landlord Tax Breaks
- Significant Natural Areas
In a sane political environment, the iReX debacle would have the current government unelectable this November.
In a term chocka block with monumental cock ups, this has be pretty much in the no. 1 position. #nzpol
I'll preface this by saying I do vote, but I'm sick of having to chose who's going to have authority over me. I'm sick of having a ruler. I'm sick of having a small group of people with power over millions.
The great forgetting that NZers enjoyed months of domestic travel, holidays, economic stability while large areas of the world were dealing with hospitals collapsing, deaths, lockdowns and restrictions.
This comparison between what's in VFF's "People's Position" report, submitted to the Inquiry, & distributed amongst its vast membership vs what's in the Phase 2 official report may help others, incl. NZ journalists, understand the network's central role in creating splintered realities. #nzpol
Many people reckon Simeon Brown should have asked more questions about the risks of his mandatory higher speed limits in neighbourhoods, around schools & on dangerous highways — evidence that was readily available to him at the time, and that continues to accumulate in the form of injuries & deaths.
Essential read on this govt’s reckless gaslighting:
“It’s election year, I get it. But implying science & health advice was routinely being ignored fuels the distrust that erodes social cohesion—something the report is at pains to emphasise must be restored.” #nzpol
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Achievement unlocked - climbed a tree to recue a kitten [sigh]
Yes it was our tree and our kitten. And I did start with a ladder.
So the government has spent well over a billion dollars on planning and land acquisition for fantasy RONS we can never afford, but there's no money to properly secure SH2 through Waioweka Gorge, which is regularly closed by washouts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Because Iran's being bombed right now, I figured I'd share a thread of home videos of Iran (20+ years old) recorded by members of my family, just so people can see what Iran looks like without smoke/fire everywhere and to preserve those memories
January 2006, Tehran (I think)
I guess this is a timely reminder that the reason we can't afford meat anymore is that the cartel is exporting it all overseas www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
They don’t understand bloody anything. Not the refrigerator truck morgues, not the mass graves, not the resthomes full of corpses.
They sure as hell don’t realise our lockdowns were short af and kids were out of school for very short times.
Finally, my problem with the concept of forgiveness makes sense 🙃
If the Government enacted pay gap reporting, women in New Zealand who earn the median wage would get an 'extra' (or rather, not miss out on...) $25.36 per week. For wahine Māori it's $58.40 and $76.40 for Pacific women.
It's that simple. Let Luxon know it's OVERDUE: www.stillmindingthegap.nz
Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.
A short 🧵
#nzpol
When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.
"Our dominant culture often thinks about insight ... like it’s a flash of something bestowed on certain people. This is a romantic idea, but ... it’s got real downsides. ...To think about understanding as something bestowed in flashes creates two fixed groups: the haves and the have-nots."
#Thinking
"Almost a year ago, on May 6 2025, the Government announced it was using urgency to alter the historic pay equity process agreed to under 2020 amendments to a long-standing law, the Equal Pay Act 1972."
- @emilywrites.co.nz
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Way to go celebrating women but not bothering to name any of the women in the photograph. Why not just paint a plane pink for the day.
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I only had 3 things to achieve today, but they contained multitudes.
I managed 2 1/2 of them, one other task on my to-do list that I have been procrastinating, other things that came up, and the stretch goal.
As an old-school hater, I very much appreciate this deep dive thread into why Luxon sucks
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
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There's been a lot of hay made by Republicans about how bombing Iran "reestablishes deterrence" but what they fail to understand is Iran believed their ability to wreck oil prices WAS a sufficient deterrent.
As we can see, that wasn't the case for Trump! So now, they'll need something worse.
On NRT: "Papers, please" for the internet - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/03/pape...
Meanwhile, we have an example from right nextdoor in Oz about how none of this works for their ostensible purpose of "protecting children". But they don't care, because that's just a mask for outlawing anonymous and pseudonymous speech and making everyone punishable by the govt at all times.
I remember when the government wanting everyone on the internet to register so it could identify who was saying what was regarded as the hallmark of tranny, something Russian. Now its apparently bipartisan policy for our two status quo parties in Aotearoa. We have bipartisan tyranny.
DO NOT BOOP THE KITTY
Quite literally nothing because I had to manually read non-digitised stuff in archives and interview actual humans to write my thesis. What are you going on about
