Andrew Jull NZRN

Latest stats indicating the worst unemployment numbers since the outbreak of the pandemic are further proof that the Govt’s policies are forcing people further into hardship and poverty.

#nzpol #maoriwards

Devastating cyclones to get 20-35 percent wetter with fossil fuel emissions Researchers have used more precise climate modelling to reveal how fossil fuel emissions could affect cyclone behaviour.

"The most relevant take home for New Zealand is that the amount of extreme rainfall coming out of these storms will increase in the future and this increase will be dependent on future temperature increases"

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Single frame. Left to right: Skip containing statue, paintings, books visible on left. Man in white coat at top of ladder feeding book into open mouth of a huge robotic dog with studded collar and dog-tag “AI”. Red bucket on floor below dog’s lowered rear. Second white-coated man says to onlooking woman: “It’s marvellous really. You just feed in all the intellectual property you can get your hands on without paying for it, then sell whatever comes out this end…”

Too easy!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

TLDR The Transport Minister has decided to make EV & hybrid owners pay even more for the damage caused to our streets and highways by heavy trucks*.

Meanwhile, he's giving muscle cars and monster utes a break.

*Literally 1000s of times more damage

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

The obliteration of Gaza.

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Bishop is one of our most disingenuous politicians and, as Tory notes here, is prepared to lie in order to advance his political ideology.

It rankles me every time mainstream media and opposition politicians joke around and laugh with him as if he's a normal nice bloke. #nzpol

I’m assuming we don’t have such a Register here in Aotearoa, @wellingtonskeleton.space @norightturnnz.bsky.social ?

'They shouldn't take it personally.'

She's fully in her Marie Antoinette era now.

NZ quietly provides $8m more in Gaza relief New Zealand quietly dispatched nearly $8m in new aid funding to Gaza at the end of June but did not formally announce the contribution. Marc Daalder reports.

Seems obvious Peters and the govt do not want to anger Trump administration.

NZ quietly provides $8m more in Gaza relief newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/07/n...

Former head of youth act Ali Gammeter, who was herself abused and harassed out of the party, has repeatedly said that David Seymour was well aware of all the allegations about Jago long before it became public.

Let's mark student assignments with it!

Surprise surprise. We saw this with algorithmic criminal sentencing and profiling as well.

Found this on FB -

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

The government is going remove footage taken by cameras monitoring fishing vessels from the scope of the Official Information Act.

A backward step into secrecy to protect the minister’s friends & donors in the industry, this will damage public confidence in government and the fishing industry.

RFK Jr and HHS just ended all US supported mRNA vaccine development
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From Aukaha News on Facebook #Breaking "I’m just lost for words… it’s not me." An emotional Ellen Tamati says her photo, showing her moko kauae, has appeared this morning on billboards used by Hobson’s Pledge to campaign against the Māori Wards referendum, without her permission. Ellen wants everyone to know that her and her whānau support Māori Wards and will be voting yes in the upcoming referendum. More on this story soon. #AukahaNews If you see any billboards of Ellen Tamati’s face on them, please send photos of them and your location via email to yourstory@aukaha.news or via DM here on our Facebook page.

If I believed in hell, Hobson's Pledge would burn in it.

Fishing industry nets changes to cameras, discards and catch restrictions Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says the changes are the biggest in 40 years, and will put an end to 'reckless' legal attacks that demonise fishers. Jonathan Milne reports.

This really boils my blood! Allowing trawlers to dump anything at sea, no public scrutiny of cameras, restricting judicial oversight and allowing quotas to roll over uncaught catch for 4 years 😡😡😡
#nzpol

Israel’s Netanyahu has decided on full occupation of Gaza, reports say Netanyahu’s war cabinet set to approve military operations across entire enclave, according to Israeli media.

Netanyahu’s war cabinet set to approve military operations across entire enclave, according to Israeli media.

Risk unemployment may rise towards 6% ANZ warns end of labour hoarding could lift jobless rate by 0.5%; Rate already seen at 5.3% in Q2; NZTA reveals Ōtaki to Levin motorway to cost $87.5m/km, twice the average cost of previous eight RONS

The jobless rate could rise to almost 6% if employers give up on waiting for the ‘growth, growth, growth’ recovery & sack workers they’ve been ‘hoarding’. + NZTA says costs on its Ōtaki to north of Levin RONS have blown out to $87.5m/km. That's >double the average cost of the last eight RONS. #nzpol

Graph - Over two decades 92mn deaths were prevented by USAID Estimated total deaths averted due to USAID funding, 2001-21, by specific causes (mn)

Graph - Over the next five years 14mn people are likely to die as result of the USAID cuts Estimate of avoidable deaths (mn). Compares baseline of USAID funding at 2023 level vs projected defunding

Over two decades 92 million deaths were prevented by USAID and over the next five years 14 million people are likely to die as result of the USAID cuts.

Even if these Lancet estimates are a bit wrong, they give a sense of the magnitude
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PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.

And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

I hadn’t realised until I saw it on the news that today’s education announcement was made in a Business NZ environment…

Not in an educational setting…

A business setting…

Goes to show what they think education is actually for

Surprised/pleased to learn that Kiwibank doesn't add a Paywave surcharge to merchants.
So if your merchant doesn't want to be on the hook for those...

Climate action, Te Tiriti, Affordable housing, Community support, Safe streets, Arts & culture, Clean energy and Public transport is voting local

Voting in the local elections is arguably more important than the general, but so many "can't be arsed"

If you don't do politics, politics will still do you
#nzpol

Landlords should have to be registered and licensed, and subject to having that licence suspended or cancelled for legal breaches.

It’s all wrong that tenants are subject to the most extreme and invasive scrutiny, and landlords none at all.

#kikorangi

Power companies’ spending on new renewables fell off a cliff New figures bolster the claim spending on new renewable electricity projects by Meridian, Mercury and Genesis collapsed after they were listed

Power companies’ spending on new renewables fell off a cliff after the were partially privatised newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/07/p...

We’ve been with Flick Energy and they’ve more or less been fine as a power company. But they’ve been sold to Meridian, who emailed today to tell us the power bill was going up by about 15%, just because they’re a bunch of sociopathic scumbags

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