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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 3h

Luxon’s folksy real world examples - woman at the ballon festival, skifield operator, kiwifruit growers - serve only to underline which voters he is in touch with

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 3h

The problem with debating Pharmac funding in isolation is that the whole sector is grossly underfunded. Yes, more $$ on medicines would bring gains. But there are better gains to be made by investing in, say, Māori health and public health approaches.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 4h

I noticed something interesting. An internet search for Vote Compass brought up a site named VoteCheck before the correct site. The questionnaire on Vote Check has questions worded in ways that I think will tend to steer voters towards parties on the right

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t be left standing in the rain after October 25th begging for a second chance, enrol to vote now! If you like this comic, and want to support, grabs pre-order of my new comic book: danielvernon.bigcartel.com

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 15h

Rocked by a nightmare poll, National takes massive pivot and announces 100 new roads of national significance

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 13h

#nzpol " I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors." Well, well, well.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Point made, nobody harmed, but yikes that was close!😱 NZ Greens announcement – promising funding for urgently needed solutions to the many risky level crossings along Auckland’s Western Line – illustrated in real time at Morningside this morning. (Also, note the many modes of travel! 🚊🚗🚶🏻‍♀️🚲🛴) #nzpol

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I see Mill Road is being announced by National as a 2028 priority. Relevant is this table from Auckland Councils Transport Policy Statement (unanimously supported by Councillors including former National Party Minister of Transport Maurice Williamson) lol

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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking through some old stuff and found this cartoon I cut out c1996. They just never really have new ideas, just new packaging. (For younger readers - right wing think tank the NZ Initiative formed out of a merger of the NZ Business Roundtable and the NZ Institute in 2012.)

Photo of a black and white cartoon with a bunch of men sitting around an executive board table. A sign in front reads “Quiet please, Roundtable in session”. From left to right they are saying:
“The govt should get out of education and health…”
“We need more contestability in social welfare…”
“the govt should sell ACC and the post office…”
“We should privatise electricity and roading…”
“Seen the polls? Winston could be the next PM”
“That’s disgraceful. What happened to the New Zealand we all knew and loved?”

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is my clip and GIF of the election. Both as a creator of joy and a prediction of what is to come. Entitled boys trying to take down the 💚GREENS💚.. (National, Labour, NZ last and no FACTs) #nzpol

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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

All the political news this week has been absolute garbage. It feels overwhelming and that’s on purpose. So it’s more important to seek out the people and causes that give you hope. And give them your time, money and attention. It can be better. We just have to work together.

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chris Dugan may say "but House of Science is a charity" so she doesn't profit, but unless she is working as CEO for free then she would benefit from ongoing work. Some benefit would be financial, some reputational. #NZpol

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wonderful Party Political Broadcast by the Green Party, made me cry and made me remember why our party is so important and why I’ve put in so much time campaigning for @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Holborn & St Pancras. Join me here this weekend and next week, let’s get another Green MP…

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Green Party Political Broadcast | Protecting Our Children’s Future

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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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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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@greens.org.nz support 16yo voting in NATIONAL elections - as recommended by the Electoral commission review. Always just that 1 bit more awesome 💚 #nzpol

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That, I think, is why some of the attacks on Swarbrick feel oddly objectless. The danger isn’t just what she might do as Finance Minister. It’s what she might reveal about the people who have spent 40 years telling us the money is all gone. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...

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Chlöe Swarbrick Nicked Luxon’s Cotton Reel

Lacan explains why the tough guys of fiscal politics are so emotional right now

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

20 years ago I was leading the West Coast DHB, and we were working to lead thinking and practice on rural health services. A point that I made was that the difficulties sustaining services in rural areas would become more intense and would progressively impact on services outside the biggest cities

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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wants some cute, bold, fun, AI-free images to encourage your friends to enrol to vote? Get them here: www.greens.org.nz/enrol_posts And remember deadline is 25 October

Mock up image of an Aotearoa Daily newspaper with different headlines encouraging people to vote

Graphic with neon green words on a dark urban background that say This is your enrolment reminder. Deadline is midnight, 25 October

Photo of Chlöe Swarbrick in the house of parliament holding up a sign that says bruh enrol to vote

Photo of a kākā on a green background with white text that says Please enrol so you can vote to protect me and my home

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Erin 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerjoy.nz · 28/09/2026

The lunchslop will haunt my dreams.

An image selection catpcha complete with "I'm not a robot" box.
It says "select all squares with Rustic Potatoes", and an array of nine not very appetising school lunch pictures is below. Some of these do in fact contain Rustic Potatoes.

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very important thread here from Sanjana.

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chairmanknow @chairmanknow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Giving Luxon depth is a truly remarkable feat of artistry

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is GOLD!!! Ngā mihi nui @abelsteve.bsky.social Ka whawhai tonu mātou AKE! AKE! AKE! #nzpol

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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chlöe Swarbrick gives an almighty summation of the current governing coalition’s record. Her speech, given as parliament closes for the election, also outlines why the @greens.org.nz need to lead the next government… the video is well worth your time. #nzpol

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new IPSOS report finds 65% of respondents believe the economic system is rigged in favour of the rich and powerful. PDF: earth4all.life/wp-content/u...

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So from time to time I commission research, including polling. If a prospective researcher described something as “1000% wrong”, they would be automatically excluded from consideration. Statistical literacy is a minimum requirement.

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm at Unity Bookshop Wellington for the Nicky Hager book launch. The event is not due to start until 6 pm, but the room is mostly full already and filling up fast.

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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If anyone is shivering with antici - pation of Nicky Hagar's Unity launch: here's The Hollow Men doco links for a warm up #NZPol www.nzonscreen.com/videos/the-h...

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NZ On Screen

NZ On Screen is the online showcase of NZ television, film, music video and web series

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Surprised he hasn’t read Nicky Hager’s great but under appreciated early book A Leader’s Journey: How to Benchmark Deliverables For Stakeholders www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

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‘Don’t know who he is’: Luxon dismisses new book from Dirty Politics author

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he has never read a book by famed investigative journalist Nicky Hager, even suggesting he had no idea who he was.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We just started watching Season 3 of Vigil, and I’m missing plot points as a result of looking at the beautiful scandi design in the Svalbard research centre

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Lan Pham @lanpham.greens.org.nz · 21/09/2026

In this Coal-alition Government's last gasp at power they are embedding climate denialism and environmental destruction into our core laws that are meant to protect the health of our people and te taiao environment ☠️☠️

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mainstream media seems primarily concerned with promoting dangerous mis/dis-info at this point, ESPECIALLY when it comes to economic beliefs and analysis Fantastic job by @musicalchairs.bsky.social to unpack a litany of untruths from Williams - a pity the NZ public only has access to the lies

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acid corbyn dallas @acidcorbyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A politics of actually treating the demand for things to get better as fuel for a virtuous cycle of progress, rather than a problem that needs to be tamped down so it doesn’t require effort or courage or confrontation with the forces of the status quo

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watching videos this morning documenting the extraordinary achievements of Mamdani’s first 8 months in office. Such a powerful demonstration that ‘just doing something’ is a powerful way of showing problems may not be intractable after all

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here’s our midnight Saturday crew

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Update: parliament adjourned at midnight yesterday. Government did not get through everything it intended to.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saturday afternoon in Parliament and legislation is being passed under urgency that has the potential to adversely affect our protest rights.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And can I say, for anyone who didn’t realise, those Green MPs are still at Parliament because it is STILL sitting (under urgency) and they are STILL fighting the Govt’s agenda. Absolute legends!

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So my new article asks why Swarbrick’s economics sounds so unusual in NZ politics, and why voters may be responding to it. Ok fine, I eventually mention Warren Mosler. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...

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Chlöe Swarbrick Knows Something About Money

The Greens’ co-leader just edged Nicola Willis on economic trust. Her language about debt, spending and productive capacity helps explain why.

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apparently Chlöe Swarbrick beating Nicola Willis in a poll on who New Zealanders trust to manage the economy came as something of a shock? Not to me. I’ve been listening to how Swarbrick talks about money. There’s something interesting going on. 🧵

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We’re all Keynesians now, apparently

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lovely valedictory (farewell speech) from Celia Wade-Brown today. Full of Green values, humour and a history of achievement

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