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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tamatha Paul and all the other liberal female candidates around the country be looking at this whiny guy and going: “Boo-fucken-hoo! Your hoarding got vandalised once? And it makes the news?” #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

rnz.co.nz

Election signage deliberately set on fire, National MP Carlos Cheung says

National's Mt Roskill MP says his election signage has been deliberately set on fire, after already being vandalised.

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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

second half

Scrapped the Productivity Commission and set up the Ministry for Regulation, which is four times bigger and more expensive.
Put a toll on a road that had already been built and paid for.
Stripped $30 million from a programme funding teachers to learn te reo Māori.
Broke its promise and downgraded the Dunedin Hospital rebuild.
Allowed commercial fishing in highly protected areas. Yes you read that right.
Increased ACC levies.
Broke its pre-election promise to lower the bowel cancer screening age.
Halved support for apprentices.
Took away the first-year Fees Free scheme for tertiary education.
Removed the Reserve Bank’s mandate to support maximum sustainable employment.
Took away support designed to help people back into work.
Sacked 700 scientists.
Cut the First Home Loan scheme.
Halved the government contribution to KiwiSaver.
Halved the Community Conservation Fund.
Defunded Māori services by $757 million in one Budget.
Changed the RMA to allow farmers to discharge pollution into rivers without consent.
Gave $300 million to oil and gas companies.
Went back on a law to ban cruel pig sow crates.
Raided the Climate Emergency Response Fund.
Put a tax on everyone’s power bill.
Spent money and time making English an official language, while saying there wasn’t time to pass modern slavery legislation.
Cancelled a 70-million-litre diesel storage facility, then had to build another one at a far bigger cost.
Gave the racing industry more than $1 million in fuel subsidies.
Let the fishing industry write rules that would have resulted in no size limits for them. Those changes are now on hold for if they get back in.
Raided $100 million from the Tourism Levy that was meant to go towards conservation.
Is trying to change DOC’s mandate towards generating profit rather than protecting conservation land.
Is stripping fisheries management powers from regional councils and handing them exclusively to Fisheries New Zealand.
Changed the law so citizens can't take polluters to court.
Ri…

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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What has this government been up to? Brad knows. Brad's been keeping a list (over on FB)... #nzpol

Over the last three years, I’ve been keeping a list of the rubbish this Government has done.
Stopped work on Auckland light rail.
Stopped all work on the Lake Onslow renewable battery project.
Disestablish the Ministry for the Environment.
Scrapped the smoke-free law to fund tax cuts.
Scrapped Fair Pay Agreements.
Gave $3 billion in tax cuts to landlords.
Tired to paid himself $52,000 to live in one of his own many properties, on top of his half a million dollar salary.
The so-called party of infrastructure ... cut Cook Strait ferry deal, then paid $8 million for consultants to tell them they need new ships. $700 million wasted in total. Still no ships.
Stopped the Clean Car Discount, after Luxon took an $8,000 discount himself.
Blocked statistical reporting on who does and doesn’t pay their share of tax. Think about that!
Broke its election promise and didn’t scrap the app tax.
Scrapped Three Waters, pushing costs onto ratepayers and increasing rates.
Used $4,150 of taxpayers’ money to pay for his te reo Māori classes after saying, “People in the real world should pay for it themselves.”
Halved the crayfish take for locals, but cut the commercial take by only one-fifth.
Gutted freshwater protections so cruel intensive winter grazing could continue to pollute water ways.
Took $80 million from hospitals.
Cut DOC funding by $125 million.
Scrapped the First Home Grant.
Gave half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money to their mate Bill English to do a "review".
Blew $8 million on consultants for a proposed tunnel under Wellington.
Wasted $4 million on a six-person advisory group to talk about crime and reduce youth offending. They achieved nothing.
Gave big tobacco a $216 million tax cut.
Refused to reinstate Jobs for Nature while unemployment soared.
Reduced the qualifications needed for relief teachers.
Introduced new road tolls.
Deprioritised police responses to mental health and family violence call-outs.
Slashed $107 million a year from school lunches, costing…

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Ol’ ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I reckon the Nats are so certain Labour won't be able to deliver because they know they're lying about the govt books. #nzpol

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whānau. Nephew turns 18 on election day - looking at the www he can register to enrol and on birthday will be atomically enrolled seeing a bit of a grey area here… #nzpol

Screen shot from ‘are you eligible..’ page of vote.nz
Are you 17 years old?
If you're 17, you can fill out an enrolment form now. On your 18th birthday, we'll automatically enrol you and you'll be ready to vote. Easy.
Enrol now

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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Congratulations to the National Party for managing to create a TV campaign ad that consists exclusively of lies. It's quite a thing to behold Soviet-level disinformation from a right wing party. #nzpol

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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A rare misstep from Simeon Brown #nzpol

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

DON’T ever forget this. Pass it on: #nzpol

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So according to Willis, pay equity for women isnt needed because they’ll be better off because of tax cuts. And fuck all pushback on the nonsensical nature of this. I’m so sick of the media going soft on her and her incompetence.

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spotted on Murphy Street in Wellington by the New World Didn’t think this sort of advertising was legal during election period without identifying who authorised #Nzpol

Billboard showing a version of the ‘9 new taxes v no new taxes’

WAKE UP NEW ZEALAND

[on the left]
9 NEW TAXES
TO PAY FOR THEIR ELECTION BRIBES [in bold red with picture of Hipkins and a black background]

[on the right]
NO NEW TAXES [in bold white, with picture of Luxon and a bright blue background]

SPONSORED BY CONCERNED CITIZENS

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quick reminder of Nationals biggest promise to you in 2023. Nobody got this.

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Strands #942 “Things fall apart” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OMG full page full racist Hobson’s Pledge in The Post today is this even legal? #nzpol

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 29/09/2026

#nzpol ✅✅

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Strands #940 “Have a heart” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Erica Stanford's Education Ministry banned "Aotearoa" from new education curriculum Same Minister banned books with 7 Māori words, like "kai", as too complex for kids to understand Insanity and notice how subdued the headlines are #nzpol #kiwi

rnz.co.nz

Māori words in curriculum shouldn't be controversial, principals say

Principals and a Māori language advocate are angry and disappointed by the Education Ministry's treatment of te reo Māori and the secrecy that has surrounded it.

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 28/09/2026

The company went to war with the Victoria state government over being allowed to mine more coal, and it's prepared to do the same in NZ

newsroom.co.nz

Political donor to seek fast-track approval for $3.7b coal-to-fertiliser project in Southland

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is it just me or has this guy been the same age in programmes for eons

Picture of a man with a bald head and a grey beard
Screenshot taken from ‘Resident Alien’. Can’t remember/don’t know/can’t be bothered looking for the actors name. Might be Alan something…

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Winter Landscape with Church by Vasily Kandinsky, 1910 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greens are having a ‘match your gift’ (donation) thing at the mo. Up to $100k will be doubled by a donor Please donate if you can! #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/september_ma...

greens.org.nz

Septembee Match Appeal

We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NZME doing their best to protect their friends at Atlas Network's Taxpayers Union.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 22/09/2026

There are now more 'oh we did nothing wrong, why are they attacking us' stories in the entire spectrum of NZ media than actual reporting on the substance of the work uncovered by Nicky Hager. And we wonder why we can't change the narrative in this little island at the bottom of the South Pacific

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not really what you wanna see in the morning. A sleepy bedraggled looking Chris Bishop getting off your flight to Chch…

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How fucking stupid are they…. This fucking stupid.

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wordle 1,922 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mucked this one up. Twice I accidentally put an orange letter back where it was orange 🤣🤣🙄

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was hopeful g getting some Clarice Cliff… My bid was $40 3 days ago… 😆😆 I will remain ever hopeful…

Picture of a colourful Clarice Cliff jug. Colours are yellow orange green blue cream in diagonals and circles.
The picture is a screenshot from an online auction site

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Gir @edufk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"New Zealand First appears to have copied most of its health policy from a natural health advocacy group - even going so far as to copy a typo from the group’s website into their official policy documents." www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

stuff.co.nz

NZ First’s health policy copy-pasted from advocacy group’s website

New Zealand First released a health policy on Sunday that is largely copy-and-pasted from a charitable trust called Make New Zealand Healthy.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 21/09/2026

Comment: National and Labour are scrambling with reactive cost-of-living policies while the Greens advance a coherent systemic alternative, writes Rob Campbell 👉 newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/21/n...

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 22/09/2026

Looks like the. NZ media is starting to get it. Starting. #nzpol

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#NZ It feels like one more layer of deception removed, of many, after so long.

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow somebody scheduled some good things for this Tuesday huh #nzpol

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

EXTREMELY UNFAIR for billionaires who avoid paying any NZ tax (by being overseas for 183 days a year) but really enjoy dictating Government policy through party *donations*. Brilliant new policy from the Greens. The quality and profusion of Greens policies is putting other parties on the back foot

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A National attack ad accusing Labour of "gaslighting" the public over crime sources a third of its footage from incidents that occurred after the coalition took office rather than during Labour's - captioned "We can't go back. Party Vote National" and "never forget how they gaslighted you".

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National's anti-Labour crime ad uses footage from Government's own term

The video, posted on multiple social media platforms, was captioned "never forget how they gaslighted you".

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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

$40m of public money for Bruno Mars, Linkin Park, System of a Down, Robbie Williams. MBIE advised Tourism Minister Louise Upston against it. She did it anyway. Splore, a 27-year-old Kiwi festival, denied $240k. It folded. Bread and circuses, minus the bread. #nzpol

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Louise Upston was advised not to invest in concerts. She did it anyway

What 300 pages of documents released under the Official Information Act tells us about the government’s $40 million concert fund.

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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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