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Pazienza

@pazienza82.bsky.social
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Aotearoa New Zealand. Te Whanganui-a-Tara/ Wellington. Interest in politics and journalism. Did not vote for the coalition of chaos.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Luxon didn't live in Wellington in the 1980s. He moved there to work for Unilever in 1993, the year after he left the University of Canterbury. The car racing relied on ratepayer funding, which was withdrawn in 1995, the year he moved to Sydney.
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In today’s Weekend Herald
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
National Party has only hired 54 additional nurses in 2 years - public health system buckles while hundreds of millions diverted to private providers. Simeon Brown lies that National hired thousands of nurses #nzpol #kiwi #newzealand
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Lo I am Luxon the great champion of efficiency I am a CEO so I know all about being more efficient Lo I am Luxon the great champion of efficiency I have come back a second time to explain what I meant before Me again back a third time to apologise and explain Yo, it's ur champ of efficiency again
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hey. Luxon!!
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Liz Barry @lizbnz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
How fucking cruel can this cunty government get? Pitting the poor against the poor while private landlords once more benefit. How about BUILDING SOME FKING HOUSES? I'm furious #nzpol Labour and Greens say social housing shake-up will see public housing tenants evicted www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Labour and Greens say social housing shake-up will see public housing tenants evicted
The finance minister says she "reached for the wrong metaphor" when asked about the social housing shake-up.
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cj sandall @cjs.nz · 17/05/2026
I thought this felt familiar… #nzpol #politics #AoNZ
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The PM believes he's penned a "column". It is, in fact, a random collection of bullet points, and some really bad, and banal ones at that. E.g., the opening one: "The war in the Middle East is impacting New Zealand." No shit Sherlock. www.times.co.nz/business/lux... #nzpol
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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
lol
Luxon seemed surprised that his ditching Bishop for Simeon Brown as campaign chair would be a talking point.

Asked for the rationale he pointed to the "workload" Bishop was under.

While Bishop is one of the busiest ministers in Cabinet, that was also the case when he was given the role of campaign chair in the first place.

When RNZ asked Luxon who was busier, Bishop or Brown, the prime minister's workload rationale crumbled when he declared they were both busy.

He's right, while Bishop is in charge of housing, transport, RMA reform and infrastructure, Brown has the thankless job of being Health Minister and now has energy - one of the biggest issues in town - on his plate.

It's a nonsense to say Brown has more time for campaign chair, but Luxon is hardly going to say he's moving Bishop aside because he's sceptical of how supportive the Hutt South MP is of his leadership.
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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Pretty much EVERYTHING the NAF coalition govt has done, benefits the FF industry. WHY? Comprehensive research abounds, as does effective policy settings & real world examples of implementation & effectiveness… 🤔. This is GROSS mismanagement. Vote them OUT! #nzpol theconversation.com/driving-in-t...
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Driving in the wrong direction: why NZ’s oil consumption is at a 5-year high
New Zealand’s electricity generation now accounts for only 5% of emissions, but oil use in transport is on the rise, outweighing the shift to electric vehicles.
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenj.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Luxon answered the question, just in the most embarassing way possible. If he's not caught up on it, and the decision was communicated to the WHO, then it was done without consultation. Peters is calling the shots while he gets his participation award.
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ACT is mad about the recommendation to ban nudifier apps, and I think that was my submission, so... sorry? Lol. I think that apps and websites whose primary purpose is to generate sexualised deepfakes without consent should be banned 🤷 #nzpol
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Pazienza @pazienza82.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Maybe Kiwi consumers could buy some affordable food from the cancelled export orders that can't be shipped through a war zone. #nzpol
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
NZer living in Demark on Jim Mora mentions that in Denmark "the broadest shoulders carry the load" that he pays 38% income tax but just doesn't notice it any more So now he's just said how they got a 30 year mortgage set at ONE POINT FIVE PERCENT RATE No one complains about tax he says #NZPol
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ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a green robin hood hat
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
National squandered $6B for climate resilience projects, using it to top up tax cuts for their mates, and now local councils are footing the bill instead 👇🏼
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
By cancelling the Climate Emergency Response Fund, the government was telling us there was nothing to see here. The past week has shown they could not have been more wrong. We need a government that takes climate change seriously because it's only going to get worse. #nzpol
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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"Unelected globalists" That's full on cooker conspiracist speak and should definitely not be coming from govt leaders. (It's also antisemitic AF.) #nzpol
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Pazienza @pazienza82.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Vote below 🔽 #nzpol www.times.co.nz/news/poll-ha...
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Pazienza @pazienza82.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Important issues discussed. Worth watching the entire Hoon. Robert Patman from c 27mins. “We can’t shelter under the United States and retain the values that most New Zealanders want.” “We have to reset our foreign policy to take account of that reality. #NZpol www.youtube.com/live/K0OV2TZ...
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The Hoon for Thursday 15th January 2026 - Part 1
YouTube video by The Hoon
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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
#nzpol - I have had a look at these 'green shoots' ahead of the Prime Minister's State of the Nation Speech on Monday. The data tells us that we have spent two years regressing. Let’s not make it another 4. More at: craigrenney.substack.com/p/the-recove...
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The recovery you want has been further delayed
The government will be desperate to tell a story that things have improved. The data tells us that we have spent two years regressing. Let’s not make it another 4.
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Ivor Jones The Māori Green Lantern @maorigreenlantern.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“MANUFACTURED CRUELTY: How the Government Deliberately Destroyed Emergency Housing to Hide Its Failure—and Pushed Whānau onto the Streets to Do It” - 8 January 2026 open.substack.com/pub/themaori...
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“MANUFACTURED CRUELTY: How the Government Deliberately Destroyed Emergency Housing to Hide Its Failure—and Pushed Whānau onto the Streets to Do It” - 8 January 2026
Introduction: Deliberate abandonment disguised as fiscal responsibility
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
When did Bing get so brutal?!?
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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What is Seymour doing in Argentina? Who is he selling off our conservation land (full of gold) to? Why is the Nazi porn site X now somehow considered an appropriate place to make official diplomatic comments? They vast majority of citizens are not on it. Where is our fucking media? #NZPol
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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Cigarette 🚬 Willis is full of s**t not sugar. Conned the electorate with tax cuts that govt borrowed $ to pay for. When a Nat loses the TPU they are doing something really wrong. Even Ruthless Ruth is criticising her! #PutTheNatsLast it's where they put you #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Taxpayers' Union releases fudge taking swipe at Finance Minister Nicola Willis
The packaged fudge is branded as 'Nicola Fudge Co.', with an image of the finance minister combined with the slogan, 'A treat today - A tax tomorrow'.
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
here's what was happening to your jobs while he was rockin'out
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Important for those here who aren't on Twitter. Some very important, and interesting questions to consider. | The New Zealand MFAT’s seeking public views on next Strategic Foreign Policy Assessment. Complete the survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/J7J8P9V #nzpol
Tweet from MFAT noting "We are seeking your views on MFAT’s next Strategic Foreign Policy Assessment. We undertake this assessment every three years to understand our changing international context and what this means for New Zealand. Join the conversation on foreign policy "
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#nzpol 24,000 votes. I KNOW! It’s far from accurate, but JFC, it gives me a little bit of hope. I like hope 💚.
Stuff poll- which party would you vote for if the election was held today? 24,000 votes. Labour 47%, Greens 19%, National 13%, NZ First 6%, none 6%, Te Pāti Māori 4%, Act 7%
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Is this not just restarting all the stuff they stopped in 2023 and 2024? You know, when they stopped projects with builders literally on site to save money for their tax cuts?
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 19/09/2025
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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My cartoon in today's www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Erica Stanford & her ministry are axing Art History in Aotearoa for senior school students. This cartoonist wouldn't be the person I am without it. I thank all those who've come before me, who work now, and to future artists.
Cartoon. Title: ART HISTORY WILL NO LONGER BE A SCHOOL SUBJECT IN NZ

Today it's me sitting at my desk in my office. I'm sitting drawing today's cartoon. I'm saying, "Without Art History, this cartoonist wouldn't be doing this job..."

Beside me is a huge library of books on every type of art history I could remember. 

These are the book titles on the shelf:

Women political cartoonists, cartoon art, women's art, THREE WORDS, political art, editorial, photo art, disabled artists, art, zine fests history of art comics, LGBTQI ART, compendium, a-z of art, Oceania art, random, Māori art, fine arts, banned art, art movements, artists of Aotearoa, Nz comics, art of animation, indigenous art, Pacifica art, Pop art, life and death art, installation art and sculpture, watercolour, street art, caricatures, native Indian American art, sculpture, pre-historical art, Greek Art, Celtic art, African art, Asian art, Indian art, European art, Egyptian art, Roman art, Islamic art, Christian art, Babylonians, Central Asia, Aztecs Art, S. American Art, renaissance, Indus Valley civilisation, Polynesian, Weaving, Batik art, wood block art, anime art, computer art, charcoal, Germanic, Hawaiian art, Sub-Saharan art, Byzantine, Carolingian, Ottonian, Russian, Gothic, Baroque, Rococo, Neo-classical.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Imagine paying nearly $700M for no boats and still having the confidence to say this? #nzpol
Nicola Willis slams Labour’s inflation target proposal as ‘insane economic illiteracy”
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Good C**t @c-u-next-time.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Even 95 is too optimistic 😆👀😳 #NZPol
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Alt: a woman is playing a drum while a man sits on a couch behind her and says drum roll please
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Pazienza @pazienza82.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Recommend this detailed long summary of NZ's decisions around debt and housing. We need fresh thinking. Bernard Hickey is a national treasure. #nzpol @bernardchickey.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiuI...
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DeepDive Bernard Hickey -The 'Housing theory of everything'
YouTube video by CHA Hub
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Good C**t @c-u-next-time.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Spine? Have a good rummage through your pocket's and see if you can find some balls.....👀👀👀 #NZPol
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PM Christopher Luxon says famine declaration will not speed up Palestinian state decision
The Prime Minister has not confirmed whether New Zealand will recognise a Palestinian state.
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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This closeness is perhaps why the coalition is looking to stop people enrolling to vote during the voting period. Special votes usually break left. At the last election, National ended up with 2 fewer seats than on election night after special votes were counted. #nzpol
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New political poll predicts hung Parliament
The Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll also puts Christopher Luxon level with Labour's Chris Hipkins in preferred prime minister ratings.
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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Kia Ora Earthlings! You know how Luxon kept saying that our inflation was caused by massive gov spending? Well, that's BS. Our Inflation followed global trends, in fact slightly below global average. NB: We are the yellow line #nzpol #economics #inflation
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Three individuals. Three narratives. One coalition. Zero coherence.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 02/07/2025
Shane Jones has been given $200 million in taxpayer money for a fossil fuel slush fund. But he's used wildly inaccurate gas data to justify it! If you don't want to see new oil and gas exploration here in Aotearoa, take action and sign the petition to resist Big Oil 👉 greenpeace.nz/x4e6gq #nzpol
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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
3,500 organic signatures in 4 days. People are tired of the constant bullying and belittling from this government. This is only the start. We deserve better from our country’s leaders. #nzpol Sign at our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
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PM Luxon: Uphold Codes of Conduct - Call David Seymour into line
Responsible leaders welcome advice from experts and when they are creating laws and policies. They know good decision making means planning for the long term, considering diverse points of view and ma...
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Kevin Weaver (he/him) @kevinweav2003.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Both are useless and dangerous af #nzpol
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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Indeed, as you pointed out in the thread below. #nzpol
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“I was recently quoted as saying the Regulatory Standards Bill ‘will stop lawmakers considering broader public health.’ This exchange led Minister Seymour to question my sanity in a public forum. I stand by my statement.” — Dr George Laking. #NZpol The RSB is bad for your constitution
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George Laking: The RSB is bad for your constitution   | E-Tangata
“I was recently quoted as saying the Regulatory Standards Bill ‘will stop lawmakers considering broader public health.’ This exchange led Minister Seymour to question my sanity in a public forum. I st...
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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This needs to be screamed from the rooftops. If Luxon agrees to let this through, I think we should have a nationwide strike - and ask the Governor General to intervene, in the long-term interest of the country.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Great watch. #nzpol
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Mata Reports | ACT: The Foreign Influences That Have Shaped David Seymour's Political Agenda | RNZ
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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#nzpol
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Not sure who to attribute this too - it’s on point #nzpol
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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
You just have to read this. Willis and Stanford speaking passionately in FAVOUR of the bill they are now junking under urgency. #nzpol
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