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reporting on the billionaires running an election interference campaign is one thing, openly platforming them to a mainstream media audience when they can't get cut through themselves is teamwork nz media once again displaying theyre anti democracy and anti journalistic

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LRT is back although the Greens looking at the paper are going to commit the same error Labour and Auckland Light Rail did last time by starting with the very complex City Centre to Airport as their first project rather that prototyping it from the Airport to Botany via Manukau, and Onehunga

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Green Party promises free travel for children, $2 adult fares, light rail for key cities

The party's bus and light rail plans cover Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love this 👇

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 04/10/2026

Honestly pretty funny. National has never found a road they didn't want to build.

Greens promise $2 capped fares and free travel for millions

National promises $1.75b to start corridor along SH1 in Auckland

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To bring Auckland to Tauranga Inter City Rail up to snuff with full electrification, and trains running at 160km/h every hour both directions is about $4b or half a Road of National Party Significance. JAPAN, HONG KONG, AND SINGAPORE are all ready to assist us! Just ask! voakl.net/2024/01/30/e...

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Enter Japan: Inter-City Trains Between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga? Yes Please.

In a bold proposal, the idea of implementing Japan Rail-style intercity services in New Zealand’s Golden Triangle gains significant traction with wide-ranging support, marking a striking shif…

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So we want intercity rail, the Greens and Winston First have said yep, but we need some coin and some expertise to make the experience work: Time for he Fukuoka Blueprint where Inconvenience is extremely "illegal" voakl.net/2026/02/24/b...

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Briefing: Transforming New Zealand’s Transit: The Japanese Integrated Development Model

Short term, 3-year electoral thinking rather than 100-year generational thinking means we can not have nice stuff like intercity rail! Executive Summary This briefing document outlines a strategic …

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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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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We will no longer be consumers of imported energy. We will be solar power producers,” he told parliament earlier this month. Guess which country? Not an easy guess since so many will choose this path.

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The LNG Boom Is Losing Its Biggest Asian Bet

Emerging Asia is the future of the LNG market — one that never seems to show up in present-day reality.

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"There were far too many things that were done in a secretive and unethical way," she said. "Too many financial interests that have no business in that space." “work on the curriculum was heavily politicised and several of the ministry insiders who contacted RNZ made similar allegations.” #nzpol

rnz.co.nz

Whistleblowers offer to aid Education Ministry probe

Education Ministry whistleblowers, who contacted RNZ in the past week, plan to add their voices to an investigation by the Office of the Ombudsman.

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'National leader Christopher Luxon did not want taxpayer funding going into a "white elephant" that was not commercially viable' $2.7bn on an LNG terminal we dont need $671m on iRex $60m on a failure of a concrete facility $9m on Council amalgamation they didnt have a plan for #nzpol

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are those among us who believe that the answer to all manner of challenges is investing more in kiwisaver, pension funds, savings etc. Kiwi households are nearly top of the world at the wealth accumulation thing folks - not you? Ah, maybe you can spot the real issue then?!? [1/3]

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Greens propose Inter City Rail that costs less than Roads of National Party Significance, have a higher Benefit Cost Ratio than Roads of National Party Significance, and even NZF supports it. Of course National wont despite their conservative voters supporting it because Luxon is a fuckwit

rnz.co.nz

Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities

The Green Party says it will connect the country with intercity passenger rail services, if elected.

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When 'How has the current government actually affected your life personally?' backfires #nzpol www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...

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From the newzealand community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the newzealand community

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You’ll want to stay because we’ve heard you’re really good with an Allen key

Fake IKEA ad featuring a flat pack guillotine called ‘oligarkchop’

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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It was always about rich people hiding their money

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apparently good economic management involves increasing unemployment until one in six young people are out of work, poor, and increasingly disenfranchised. Is this 'building the future'? Would 'fixing the basics' not involve fixing this disaster?

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Calling all cars... 1. KMart NZ is selling packs of big stick on Googly Eyes. 2. It's political billboard season. 3. Aotearoa, this is not a drill baby drill moment. 😉 #nzpol.

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Michel Mulipola @bloodysamoan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

STOP. DROP. ENROL! STOP what you're doing DROP into www.vote.nz ENROL TODAY! or help ENROL your friends and family 18-24yo rangatahi of Māngere are sitting at 45.16% enrolment rate. That's over 5000 rangatahi still not enrolled

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026

Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment

Screenshot:

Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it

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Sophie Scholl @moller2025.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lest we forget....

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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI is the future, or whatever the fuck this is.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's *significant overlap* between voting tactics, & strategies proposed by Harry Mowbray (amplified by son Nick), & leading far-right/disinfo networks, & entrepreneurs incl., but not limited to Voices for Freedom, Family First, & Chantelle baker. All aimed at left (Labour+Greens in the main).

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is hilarious that Todd McClay fairly obviously confused Fernando Hernandez Espino of Both Ends with Francisco Hernandez of the Greens but neither he nor Luxon will admit it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Christopher Luxon walks back 'bizarre claim' about the Greens

Christopher Luxon has walked back claims made by one of his ministers about the Greens, before then suggesting - wrongly - that they originated from the media.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's October 2026. Someone at Labour needs to better appreciate the fact that RCR explicitly promotes, week after week, month after month, w/out exaggeration, exactly the same violent extremism that the ChCh killer based his 'manifesto' on. This isn't a platform that should be engaged with. #nzpol

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#nzpol The fact that the current coalition deliberately undermined initiatives to reduce our vulnerability to shocks like this ought to be a far bigger deal than it is.

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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Satan is slowly torturing everyone on Earth now, and yet to be born by forcing the heat to irreversibly and permanently increase, until every living thing is burned, boiled, roasted, parched, or drowned in floods or acid oceans. Fossil capitalists intentionally committing omnicide of all Creation.💀💰

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Bee @dailybee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WAIT so I just looked up House of Science, it's part of the Wright Family Foundation?? NZ is just a couple gross orgs stacked on one another in a trenchcoat. #nzpol

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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is awesome news. Long may we continue up this road. Maybe hydro can

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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is never a day when Seymour and goldsmith can’t fuck right off

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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally, they’re getting amongst it.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Curia Poll? Come on. Curia was forced to resign from their professional body for skewing results and also tied to Dirty Works. #nzpol “If a pollster knows how you will vote before they ring, the poll is not measuring opinion. It is manufacturing it.” www.klaut.media/single-post/...

thespinoff.co.nz

Eight things we learned from The Great Mt Albert Debate

The biggest revelations shared and sharpest shots fired as the contenders for this sought-after seat went head to head.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Absolutely 💯 Agree…. If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“All governments will put their own people into positions of power – but a far-right government will intentionally put people into positions of power and influence where they will deliberately cause conflict.” #nzpol farrightplaybook.nz

farrightplaybook.nz

The Far-Right Playbook

A collection of essays describing tactics used by the far-right in Aotearoa, New Zealand

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know it's going well when Seymour is inadvertently promoting a Capital Gains Tax by not reading the sub heading of his screenshot.

David Seymour FB post

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Netherlands ditches wealth tax over exodus fears

Dutch PM scraps plan to target paper profits instead introducing a more conventional capital gains levy

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always worth a reminder of what investing in the country looks like.

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We've just heard the terribly sad news that Phil Gifford has passed away. Chris Bourke says, "Gifford was a giant in New Zealand journalism for half a century...What is missing from the reports of his unexpected death, on Tuesday, aged 79, is that he was also one of NZ’s best music writers... 🧵

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