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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...
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Transport borrowing comes back to bite - Greater Auckland
Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expendi...
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You might have seen articles today about the 'employment confidence gaining ground' (Herald) or 'employment confidence rises from June low' (RNZ). Here's the actual report. It is littered with typical westpac hopium, but the data doesn't lie. Q3 was second lowest confidence ever (in over 20 years).
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Destroying life-supporting capacity!!The absolute venal stupidity of these people. “Industry groups - Fonterra, Federated Farmers, HorticultureNZ - …argued that protecting the “life-supporting capacity” of ecosystems could give environmental protection too much weight in decision-making” #nzpol
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How Big Farm lobbyists helped rewrite new RMA laws
Documents show Federated Farmers, DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb NZ, Fonterra and Horticulture NZ using a private meeting with ministers to push specific changes to the Natural Environment Bill.
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PHANZA Professional Historians of New Zealand / Aotearoa @phanza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Newsroom talked to PHANZA President Matthew Woodbury about further cuts at the National Library and Archives NZ. He says "It’s only when one zooms out that you can see the effect of all of these cuts. These institutions ... are critical cultural infrastructure." newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/07/g...
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Government slammed over job cuts at National Library
Historians count the cost of a proposed restructure at the National Library and Archives NZ
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Have you received an orange man letter in the mail yet, confirming your enrolment details? If you didn't, you may not be correctly enrolled to vote! Check and update your details NOW at: vote.nz #nzpol
text reading "If you didn't get an enrolment letter in the mail yet:
You may not be correctly enrolled to vote.
Update your details now: vote.nz"
There is a photo in the background of an enrollment letter from the electoral commission.
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sigh. Act are like goldfish only thinking 6 seconds into the future www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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ACT Party revives policy to disestablish Climate Change Commission
The ACT Party has revived its 2023 election policy to disestablish the Climate Change Commission.
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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Whoever is behind the beehiving__badly account on Tiktok is a bloody genius! #nzpol
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is who they are & a vote for National/ACT/NZF is for more destruction #nzpol “A decision by Minister responsible for RMA Reform Chris Bishop to refuse a plan to urgently tackle destructive land use practices in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne has been labelled “indefensible” by a local environmental group”
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Chris Bishop blocks council plan to tackle forestry slash and erosion
An environmental group says the RMA Reform Minister’s decision to reject urgent land-use protections for flood-hit Tairāwhiti is “indefensible”.
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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
6 months - that’s how many businesses have been liquidated. Up on 1296 for the same period last year. But don’t worry, this is the party of “grow up businesses”
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
March for Nature: Hands off Conservation Land! - www.marchfornature.nz?utm_campaign...
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March for Nature: Hands off Conservation Land!
On Saturday 19 September 2026, at 1pm, people from across Aotearoa will come together in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to stand up for nature and defend conservation land.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
On NRT: National's New Zealand - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/07/nati...
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National's New Zealand
How bad are things under the Luxon regime? We already knew that we had the worst wage growth in the world , with wages 6.4% below 2021 leve...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 12/07/2026
The brutal crackdown on our right to protest is happening right now, with people standing in solidarity with Palestine bearing the brunt. People like Ayo, a Doctor in our NHS. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help…
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Help defend the right to protest on Palestine | Good Law Project
The brutal crackdown on our right to protest is happening right now, with people standing in solidarity with Palestine bearing the brunt – so we’re supporting people who refuse to be silenced
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Some crucial points here on the great Carbon Capture and Storage con by @sioldridge.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot | Simon Oldridge
George Monbiot is right to call for expensive carbon capture plans to be halted.   Ed Miliband was also right to push CCS during the Brown government. Back then it made sense to try and capture emissi...
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
you've got to be kidding new US ambassador to NZ, Jared Novelly, has literally been involved in money laundering to fund Republican political campaigns in an attempt to deceive voters now he's here trying to interfere directly in NZ foreign policy how have media missed this?
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Environmental Law Initiative - Aotearoa NZ @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
At stake here is whether powerful corporate interests can secure legislative intervention to avoid scrutiny by the courts, without a fair process and without the public being able to see how that decision was made. #nzpol #climate #SmithvFonterra #climatelitigation www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Climate change activist files High Court proceedings over government ruling
A climate change activist has filed a court case against the government's plans to prevent companies being sued over their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 21/06/2026
It's time for the super-rich and big corporations to pay their fair share. Visit greens.org.nz to learn how "A Tax System for All of Us" can build a fairer country for everyone 💚✊
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Emily @emilywrites.co.nz · 08/06/2026
I hate to use this word but this is a scoop: parents are being fined and chased by schools for having unwell, dying, and disabled children. Some have been fined of threatened for - among other things - keeping kids home when a parent has died. www.emilywrites.co.nz/parents-fine...
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Parents fined $30 a day for having unwell, dying, or disabled kids
Katie's son, 13, was running through school when he slipped over and hit his head. Hard. He was knocked unconscious and suffered a serious concussion and brain injury. For the last ten weeks, his par...
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Holy shit. This is quite serious. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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'A co-ordinated campaign of secret lobbying' - climate activist
Climate activist Mike Smith says government changes to climate law have "exposed" what appears to be a "deliberate effort" to conceal communications.
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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The government talks a big game on climate, but its actions point in exactly the wrong direction. More from the House this week when I went through a list of all the anti-climate things they have done.
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11/05/2026
new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...
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Everlee Has Disappeared
Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
What is not to like about this? 👇
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones overrode official advice for fines related to leaking fishing boat footage, showing once again that he acts not in public interest but on behalf of extractive industry. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #NZPol #NewZealand #fishing
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Fisheries Minister Shane Jones overrode official advice for fines related to leaking fishing boat footage
Documents reveal the minister was told the proposed maximum fine, five times a Privacy Act breach penalty, was "unreasonable".
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
6 - Vote Greens and get subsidised solar and hopefully a fixed wholesale system and breakup of the gentailer cartel #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Five ways to save power
With winter around the corner and power prices already on the rise, what are simple things that can be done to save a buck?
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Every single article covering Israel should start by mentioning that they dubbed yesterday's operations in Lebanon "eternal darkness." You know that so much has already been normalised when this isn't even a cause for outrage. 303 people, at least, were murdered yesterday by Israel.
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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 08/04/2026
Having helped get Labour elected, Anacta Strategies now helps its clients get what they want from Starmer's government.⁠ ⁠ Anacta describes itself as "the leading Labour-specialist advisory firm”. ⁠ Read the full article here www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Simeon Brown is laying out the messages you will hear all year on the other place. These messages are well-rehearsed and will be relentlessly pushed. Labour have failed miserably to stop these reckons becoming embedded as facts in the national psyche. So, another quick recap of reality... [🧵1/n]
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
But… how will we pay for it? (🧵 with words). This phrase is used to obfuscate, deflect and generally suppress progressive policy. Why don’t dentists help the thousands of people suffering with tooth ache? Why is shit pouring into the harbour when it rains? Why are people sleeping in tents... [1/n]
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Israel continues to demolish the homes of more than 600,000 people in Lebanon, because Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide is what they do. Can you imagine the outrage if this was being done to Israel? But Israel does it. Complete SILENCE.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thought this was as good a time as any to leave this Election information here… we can’t ditch these pricks if we don’t enrol & vote them out on time! 🗳️⬇️ #nzpol #EnrolToVoteNZ #Aotearoa #NZ #OneTermGovernment #Election2026
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
In light of the news that Ngaro will be standing for NZ First at this years election, I'm taking this 2023 article out from behind the paywall. Ngaro previously led the Christian Nationalist Party 'NewZeal' after leaving National www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/the-christ...
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The Christian Nationalism of Alfred Ngaro and NewZeal
There is more to the ideology of Ngaro's party than just Christian values
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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Last week at Broken Frontier... 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide – Mohammad Sabaaneh Brings the Harrowing Stories of Palestinians to the Page in this Broken Frontier Award-Winning Collection. www.brokenfrontier.com/30-seconds-f...
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30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide - Mohammad Sabaaneh Brings the Harrowing Stories of Palestinians to the Page in this Broken Frontier Award-Winning Collection – Broken Frontier
Mohammad Sabaaneh’s '30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide' is the latest book to be added to our Palestine resource list.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
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psheth.bsky.social @psheth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The fuckwit health minister and his lackeys in Health NZ leadership fired a ton of IT staff and now there are major tech failures every other week. Opposition needs to hammer them on this - it's a direct connection between their bullshit "back office" cost cutting and patient harm.
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Auckland and Northland hospitals hit by 'major' IT outage
It is the second critical IT failure in less than a month, the union says.
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Dr. StrangeJob @drstrangejob.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
What type of country allows someone charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court to join a Board of Peace to deal with the aftermath of the devastation/death that they created? Answer: A country ruled by greed and corruption, otherwise known as the US. www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/ne...
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Netanyahu
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Even now, U.S.-made bombs continue to destroy Palestinian homes and kill Palestinian families.” Leqaa Kordia adds, “It was terrifying. I felt like an animal.”
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Put solar panels on state houses. You could probably do the lot for $1.5b, would reduce energy costs for those least able to afford it, increase our grid resilience and save about the same amount in energy costs overall. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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'Strategic energy security asset': Govt reveals plans for $1b LNG import facility
Luxon warned New Zealand is experiencing swiftly declining gas supply.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Nothing winds me up more than Luxon and assorted other suits saying we need to be wealthier before we can afford doctors, nurses, water we can swim in etc. Meanwhile wealthier kiwi households have stacked up huge piles of savings (cash, shares, equity etc). The economy works for the few. [🧵 1/n]
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It’s election year. We deserve better than this and we must demand better than this. Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
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Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa
It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ah, my Listener column about the government's feckless attitude to climate change is now online. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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Russell Brown: After recent events, will our government talk honestly about climate change?
One policy after another, our response to climate problems is weakening.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Sign and share greenpeace.nz/ikod8g
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PETITION: Stop the RMA reform corporate power grab
Call on Chris Bishop to stop the corporate power grab in his RMA reforms: no to companies suing govts for protecting nature, no to erasing Te Tiriti, no to putting profits and property before people a...
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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Great fun. GREAT FUN. Five local states of emergency and the PM is out having ‘great fun’ with his MPs and candidates. Remember, when you vote, remember just how much your leaders cared about you and your neighbours. #nzpol
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🔜 Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
As the date for Election 2026 has been announced (November 7), now is a good time to check if you are enrolled to vote, and to update your details if needed. vote.nz/enrolling/en... #election #decision2026 #nzPol
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Enrol or update online
Enrol to vote or check and update your enrolment details. Get ready to have your say in New Zealand’s elections and referendums.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Reminder: regime voter suppression means you need to enrol early. vote.nz/enrolling/en...
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Enrol or update online
Enrol to vote or check and update your enrolment details. Get ready to have your say in New Zealand’s elections and referendums.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/01/2026
Never forget that billionaires spend billions to convince you that voting doesn't matter. Don't help them. Voting isn't the ONLY thing we can do, but it is the most powerful check on the executive. "Don't bother voting because there'll be no free elections" is oligarch propaganda.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Can you help?
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
#NZ First yellow-legged hornets, now also Queensland fruit flies - “Legal restrictions are now in force on moving fruit and vegetables out of the area it was found.” www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Fruit fly found in Auckland suburb; restrictions in place
A biosecurity operation is underway in Auckland's Mt Roskill after a Queensland fruit fly was found.
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