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Geoffrey Palmer: 'Sounding the bugles of democratic retreat'

Comment: A new and unnecessary barrier to voting has been created with the Electoral Amendment Bill, writes Sir Geoffrey Palmer.

So weird how it keeps being young women and Māori that Gerry Brownlee kicks out and docks pay of. What’s that all about?

Cartoon. Title: “The Ten Bucks Stops Here”. Image shows PM Christopher Luxon opening a wallet, and a $10 note pops out of the wallet with “The People’s Select Committee” written on it. Kate Sheppard on a $10 note points at Luxon’s forehead and says “What. Were. You. All. Thinking?”

The buck stops where?
Pay equity and the coalition government.
My Stuff #cartoon today. #NZpol #PayEquity #PeoplesSelectCommittee

Slightly diminish a band:

Dan

Iconic new quote from the Prime Minister just dropped www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

He said the B word

I direct NZers attention to who was asking in the House if politicians had backbone in 2008

The most racist government since Muldoon and also the stupidest.

i think they're handing this medal out to dipshits *because* it's gone to people like rosa parks and MLK

Have an election and we’ll show you who should be ordered from the fucken chamber

Graph showing annual changes in gdp per capita and concrete use per capita. The relationship is remarkably strong. The latest data for June 2025 - out today - suggests continued economic misery.

Economic slump continues in absolutely concrete terms...

Chloe was right, was right to say it and was right not to apologize

There are multiple government MPs who are saying privately they know the govt position is deeply wrong but are putting *themselves* first when it comes to the greatest atrocity of the modern age. That's FAR more than just spineless

"Actually, I don't have a preferred Prime Minister because I understand that under MMP you aren't voting for a Prime Minister, and Yank style personality politics are toxic and damaging to our social and political fabric and I — no wait don't hang up, it's Chlöe and Marama!" #nzpol

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

Quick video for the 'we saved too many lives, spent too much $, sent inflation to the moon, made interest rates go up, and now we have to pay for our sins 😢' crowd.
The idea that NZ could have 'opted out' of global inflation surge is daft. Almost as daft as NZ opting almost uniquely for a recession.

"I don't care what you say about whether it [bootcamps] does or doesn't work. We can have that intellectual conversation all day long, but we are, dammit, going to try something different because we cannot carry on getting the results that we've been getting.” - Luxon in 2024

'Act of racism': Education Ministry cans children's school book for too many Māori words "Our members see this move as an act of white supremacy. It's an act of racism," says Te Akatea, the Māori Principals' Association.

If your "structured literacy approach" with its "phonics sequencing and decoding suitability" cannot accommodate a handful of commonly-used words of te reo Māori YOUR APPROACH IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In today's podcast I discuss these astonishingly grim tax debt figures.

In short the amount of outstanding GST & PAYE has risen 15-FOLD from $95.4million as of 31st March 2020 to $1,471.6million as of 31st March 2025. Outstanding retail trade debt is up 19-fold, construction 14-fold. 😬

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

Weird how a Labour MP not replying to Erica Stanford led the news over Luxon's colossal bootcamp failure. #nzpol

Seriously awful Treasury Inshites Briefing still quoting dodgy IMF covid report from 2021, which added up planned spending (not actual) and included all manner of random stuff. NZ actual spend was middle of the pack in OECD. But, that doesn't suit the narrative. Oh, and where is that debt blow out?

Excellent write-up about the new Nick Drake boxset. @scribblerrob.bsky.social might be interested to read it.

Hooton has typically been solid on this stuff, which is why he is persona non grata within the current populist-right movement in ascendance

And in this case he's just adhering to the orthodox ACT party line from 2004

Israel intends to take control of Gaza Strip, Netanyahu says The Israeli leader has escalated his rhetoric about overtaking the enclave despite international criticism.

Israel plans to move forward with a total occupation of the Gaza Strip.

Moonrise and the Milky Way at Waimarama Beach - Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

A recently sold print.

#photography #landscape #nz #astro

screenshot of an opinion piece by Aaron Smale in The Listener that excoriates Jones for his fumbled dealings with Māori, and his efforts to bundle all Ngapuhi hapu into a single negotiation will do as badly as everything else he's done.

"The way Shane Jones talks you'd think NZ First got 60%"

The irony of Australians being outraged by deportations to countries that the deportees have no real connection to.

Police probe fresh complaint against former political figure While ex-Act Party president Timothy Jago waits to learn if his appeals against convictions and sentence are successful, a third complainant has emerged.

Oh, huh.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

You got a fucking free, fully furnished house and you're still complaining about not having a servant. I despise these people.