Rachael Ka’ai-Mahuta

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

Half of NZers agreed billionaires shouldn't exist while people struggle with basic necessities

68% supported billionaires being taxed more

37% were in favour of introducing a billion-dollar wealth cap to minimise the amount of wealth any person could legally hold

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Government deciding whether US should get access to New Zealanders' biometric data Officials are in talks with the US about a new travel deal.

Just looked to see how this has been covered by NZ media and it hasn’t been widely picked up - incredibly strange given the clear concern outlined in the article, the refusal to give any answers to valid questions, and the wider, connected context of US fascism.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.

Genesis Energy announces $400m capital raise, government to buy up to $200m of new shares It posted a strong lift in half year profit and announced a capital raise, as the government confirmed a $200m investment to maintain its stake.

Our electricity market should be lowering energy costs and protecting jobs, not helping the rich get richer. We need to fundamentally change our approach to delivering electricity. Publicly owned electricity remains the solution. #nzpol

Auckland Councillor confirms National cut social housing, accommodation in Auckland from 890 places to 39 in one year, and cut emergency housing grants by 70-80% ($20m). Since then, individuals rough sleeping in our city have increased by 100%.

#NZPOL #auckland

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DON'T BUY BARKERS PRODUCTS
#NZ

If you’re not going to mask at protests & vigils, we’re not going to make it thru these awful times. N95 protects against Covid & other viruses so you stay well enough to stay in the fight.

Masking is resistance! ✊😷

Masking is solidarity with your fellow oppressed citizens! ✊😷

It’s all connected.

'Golden visa' update announced by Immigration Minister Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said 573 applications had been received to date, totalling about $3.39 billion invested.

OIA all those visa applicants and cross reference them all with the epstein files released thus far.

Time to end the enshittification of New Zealand I live in the great green heartland of New Zealand; a biologically ruined grassy waste created to serve cows. And when out in this countryside – dead rivers rich with brown foam, man-made fountains of...

“Wellington's sewage spill is just one of many examples of public service and infrastructure enshittification, begun by Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson, and continued by neoliberal factions across government, business, media, finance, and the public.” - Josh Drummond

A must read folks #nzpol

Reasons why RNZ will never have me back on:
-said landlords being MPs was a conflict of interest
-called ACT a far right political party
-declined to gossip and speculate about Golriz

New electricity levy ‘not a tax’, Luxon says, as Hipkins chides ‘another kick’ for households The Government has short-listed possible proposals for a liquefied natural gas import facility.

So Luxon’s way of helping with the cost of living crisis is to raise the price of electricity and pretend its not a tax. #nzpol

120,000 households can’t afford electricity now, many more can’t afford to heat their homes in winter. This is a terrible idea.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026.

THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW.

Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

Ex-ACT staffer Grant McLachlan says party created fake grassroots groups Political pundits and media experts are warning that artificial grassroots organisations - nicknamed "astroturfs" - are being used to manipulate and mobilise public opinion for political gain.

Timely reread.

“ACT "weaponised" astroturfs. #nzpol #TaxpayersUnion

"So when the TPU were saying 'This is a problem', it was actually a contrived problem that the ACT Party told them to create.”

What problems will they be inventing for ACT to ‘solve’ for the 2026 NZ election?

Above a photo of the squeamish and morally bankrupt NZ DPM that repeats a lie he continues to tell and the media regurgitate knowing it spreads the lie, the headline reads: Waitangi 2026: Seymour says colonisation means even the poorest live like kings and queens'

Seymour is squeamish about the truth & the media keep repeating his lies despite knowing:

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories. #nzpol

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

'Why don't people trust the media?' they say, when so many of us can't ever see ourselves in the stories

Repeat after me:

"Running a country is NOT the same as running a business.."

"Running a country is NOT the same as running a business.."

"Running a country is NOT the same as running a business.."

"Running a country is NOT the same as running a business.."

"Running a country is NOT the.. #nzpol

as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies

Golden Triangle by Train: Te Huia to Tauranga Over half of New Zealand’s population lives in the Golden Triangle, and it is one of the fastest-growing parts of the country — it makes sense to have a modern, safe and efficient train service betwee...

Passenger rail should be an election issue. #nzpol

Te Huia has shown what’s possible — now we need commitment to grow it and connect the Golden Triangle by train.

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David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetite The ACT Party leader believes government assets should provide a return or be sold. But a majority of New Zealanders are consistently opposed to more privatisation.

David Seymour says kiwis are squeamish about handing state assets - paid for by everyone - to ACT party donors to make profits they don’t need & reduce services & supports we require for a dignified life. #nzpol

Yeah David we’re as understandably squeamish as you are self-serving. Hugely. #ACTout

Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

"Why can't the greens compromise and work with national"

why can't national? oh because they're fucking denialists and you're actually asking the greens to give up *literally everything*.

I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say this election will be the last chance we have to do anything about the foundation laying for control and the erosion of democratic norms that has taken place at warp speed over the last couple of years.
Another term will embed new norms and a deep, unyielding rot.

I really hope MSM nails him to the wall for his reduction in methane targets.

Methane’s warming effect is regionalised and because we’re right next to a giant dessert(Australia) its impacts regionally are amplified.

😡😡😡

#nzpol

life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready

I'm a BIG fan of making homelessness a crime.
The sooner they lay charges against the Minister of Housing the better, I say.

Sending your kids back to school at the Southern hemisphere equivalent of 30th of July is just plain nonsensical...

They should end school on the 24th December, and go back on 28th Feb, at the earliest. Or just say, fuck it and close schools from late December to early March...

Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid

#nzpol

Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand, because our lying weasel of a Health Minister won't be sharing this new information with those who have a need and have a right to know...

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