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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 5h

This amateur statistician has observed that the NZ media does not cover the parties in proportion to their seats in Parliament. It does not cover them in proportion to their current polling average. It does cover them approximately in proportion to their total donations #NZpol #ViciousCycle

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 7h

One of the clearest differences between right and left wing parties is that right wing parties do not feel under any obligation to care about their voters, but about their financial backers #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 20h

The National Party’s Promise To You: Nine New Lies (every day from every candidate) #NZPol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

National, "no new taxes [sic]", but many more lies #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Luxon can crow about no new taxes, but reversing pay equity agreements was a new $4.5B tax on half of the workforce #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The perfect theme song for Luxon: Pretty Vacant #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nick Mowbray's only contribution to the NZ economy is donations to the ACT party. His shit plastic toys waste & corrupt children's brains, and his political loyalties are with a party that protects paedophile presidents and feeds children slop for lunch and AI slop for lessons. It all fits. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The right to free speech: a cherished principle in theory, a brutal power dynamic in practice #nzpol #ukpol #auspol #uspol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#nzpol NACT party leadership provides some good counterexamples to those who believe in nominative determinism: Seymour doesn't, the lights are off in Luxon's head, and Winston's career still hasn't petered out.

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Nicola Willis wants to see fiscal fraud she can just look in the mirror #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was a meme about NZ being left off maps, looks like the Atlas group took this personally and are making sure we get the full Atlas treatment now #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Willis says today's PREFU shows progress made by her govt so NZ's future prospects are good. As a layman, I can't see any *significant* difference between the PREFU before the 2023 election and that of today's, so ISTM that NACT have achieved nothing. But I am not an economist. Am I wrong? #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NACT want to live on White Island, so why don't they move there? #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxon and Willis claim their economy will allow New Zealanders to “get ahead”. Ahead of who? We can’t all get ahead. When you ask this it is obvious that their policies aim for SOME Kiwis to get ahead of others, and that these policies probably will not help YOU. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxon's captain's call: the country's health system is in dire straits, the employment market has cratered, infrastructure maintenance is decades behind, racial tensions are ratcheting up, but he can see that the true emergency in Aotearoa is that rich businessmen aren't making enough money #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The National party's slogan translated into real: The Fix is In The Future is Out #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Isn't it funny how in every election since about 1980 Winston Peters has campaigned against the government he's been a central figure in? He doesn't know whether he's an innie or an outie; I wouldn't believe him on anything. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NACT decided to burn the family home down to collect the insurance, without verifying the existence of the insurance company first #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's just as well Chris Penk admitted he hadn't read the book because, 'pon my word, we never would have been able to tell otherwise /smirk #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The NZ news media has found a new section, Old Farts and Rentertainment, which is so lucrative it now fills almost the entire published output #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Political journalist: lobbyists are good because they save me doing so much work. Massively funded lobbyists are really good because they save me from doing any work at all #nzpol #dirtywork

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The media claiming it's a nothingburger encapsulates perfectly why it's a somethingburger #dirtywork #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Forget UBI, what we need are universal basic services: no basic need, no essential service, should be regulated by market forces, but should be guaranteed by the government. Let the wealthy enjoy other toys and games instead of exploiting and profiting off the needy. #nzpol #ukpol #auspol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Luxon is generous with his lies, but not with anything else #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I enjoy the cryptic crossword in The NZ Listener but not when the clues obviously belong to a completely different grid.

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Shorter TPU: there is no joy to compare with the joy of making billionaires richer #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Luxon claiming not to know of Hager is not the put-down he thinks it is, because Luxon is notoriously unaware of anything at all #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Notes after listening to RNZ's Panel today: 1. Society is NOT built upon personal property rights. 2. The economy is NOT limited to the issue of how easily filthily rich individuals can get richer. #nzpol #rnz #thepanel

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

National is on the side of the oil industry. NZ First is on the side of the snake oil industry. ACT provides the snakes. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ever since Nikki Kaye misrepresented him as tangata whenua, Paul Privilege Personified Goldsmith has had it in for Maori. There are many racists in this government but Paul really wants to be the worst. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only way the National Party is backing women is into a corner #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ACT's energy policy is pure gaslighting #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If a PUGH is a measure of uselessness, how many pughs does Christopher Luxon score? #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is Ed Sheeran's promoter reaching out to Ted Nugent yet?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At some point we all need to wake up to the fact that our biggest enemies - by a wide margin - are not foreign nations but global businesses. #nzpol #ukpol #uspol #auspol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(re roadside sculptures) ACT: Nobody deserves joy. Billionaires deserve more money. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Health NZ says patient safety is its top priority, but this is untrue because Health NZ reports to, and is funded by, a government whose priorities do not match theirs. #nzpol #healthnz

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Apparently the health system is working well because sometimes emergency patients are seen in a timely manner #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When healthcare is run for profit, sick people are an asset and healthy profits are the goal. When it is run as a public service, healthy people are the goal. It's clear which one serves the country better (especially when so many of the providers in the private sphere are global businesses) #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Green: saving lives Yellow: stealing dollars #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Red: Team of five million Blue: You're on your own #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"We’ll fund the infrastructure needed for tourism - without whacking a bed tax on Kiwis." - Nicola Willis and Lupston. Odd to see colleagues of bully-boy Sam use "bed" and "whack" in the same "post". #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No new taxes, more cut services, fewer nurses and teachers, more homeless, less protections, but far more concentration of wealth for the rich, white and fey #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Zealand is "being sleepwalked into catastrophe" on so many fronts, not just feral deer. Feral businessman-politicians are doing even more damage. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Food is not an essential need, but a private helicopter pad is. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This official is only refereeing one side of the NZ v RSA women's rugby international. Pity they don't have neutral officials like the men do :( #blackferns #rugby

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh look, another day another press release from eRacist Anford. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Luxon, Seymour et al do not see any value in bettering people's lives unless there is an immediate monetary gain from it for someone. #nzpol

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