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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 12h
Right now I'm watching Te Ao with Moana - Q Wong is being interviewed. She really is a glib fence sitter who stands for nothing.
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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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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Quite right.
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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stanford really is "a job for your ideological mates" minister.
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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.
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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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Dan Goodwin @danfromnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'll vote for whichever party implements harsher penalties for incorrect apostrophe usage. Looking at you, AT Bus that reckons "colleges" needs an apostrophe... #nzpol
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Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My sincerest hope is for a government change. Please vote! It is heartbreaking how hard it is for so many. #NZpol
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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I haven't seen any commentary on this. Is this a spin off department simply waiting for the next National Govt to privatise it??? #nzpol www.education.govt.nz/our-work/str...
education.govt.nz
New Zealand School Property Agency
The New Zealand School Property Agency will be established as a Crown agent to manage school property on 1 October 2026.
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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pre-human New Zealand: 2.5 million hectares of wetlands, ~9% of the land mass. Today: 250,000 hectares. We have lost 90%. And we are still losing them — 5,400 hectares destroyed between 1996 and 2018, despite legal protections. The map keeps shrinking. #nzpol
stats.govt.nz
https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/wetland-extent/
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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We came so close to having Right to Repair legislation in Aotearoa 😭 Let's give Marama the chance to get it over the line after Nov 7
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ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And there it is... Looking forward to Goldsmith bobbling his head off next media appearance. #nzpol
1news.co.nz
Man charged with assault after attempted citizen's arrest
Officers were called to a business in Hamilton around 5.15pm on Saturday following a report of shoplifting.
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Auckland Women's Centre @akwomenscentre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Michelle Duff: Marokopa report "should be compulsory reading, as a stark example of how family violence is minimised, and how damaging & misogynistic narratives, that cast men as heroes and women as complainers & overreactors, act to obscure the truth" Sexism puts women & children at risk every day
thespinoff.co.nz
It’s just a camping trip! With their dad! Marokopa inquiry reveals state of NZ child protection
Oranga Tamariki closed a report of concern while the children were still missing.
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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“You may get rid of all your co-governances and your links to te reo Māori, and you may do all the things that make you feel good about yourselves." “You haven’t removed anything but enhanced your own ignorance and privilege of a system that works for you as Pākehā." Sums up the Govt.
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Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This seems like a remarkably stupid decision.
rnz.co.nz
Decades of building industry research at risk
The future of our world-respected building research association is looking shaky with a government move to cut the dedicated levy that funds it.
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𓆉 A Study of Resistance 𓆉 @colourmefiji.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Heartwrenching cost being paid by Fiji's most vulnerable.
rnz.co.nz
'Horrendously high' number of HIV infections in Fiji babies - health researcher
A "horrendously high" number of babies in Fiji are dying due to HIV related complications, says a health researcher, as the prevalence of the disease grows there.
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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Putting the boot in to shoppers and families on both sides of the Tasman.
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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's great news that Seymour has jumped the shark ahead of the.leaders debates. First question for all other party leaders: Will you support a coalition agreement that includes scrapping Waitangi? And for National -.why should kiwis trust you on this given what you agreed to last time? #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
ACT announces plan to end Waitangi Tribunal
Under the policy, all remaining historical Treaty claims will be completed, while the Waitangi Tribunal’s contemporary jurisdiction will end.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Debbie Power has been in the job since 2019 (CE Ministry of Social Development (MSD), $625,000 and she wants us to believe that she only found out by accident that tens of thousands of NZers went without heating and adequate food for months because MSD incorrectly cut their benefits #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Tens of thousands of people underpaid after ministry errors
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) has released its review into two issues that left tens of thousands of pensioners, veterans and beneficiaries underpaid.
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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Heroic thread. It should be in every daily newspaper. Thanks to @nzkatya.bsky.social for sharing it. #kikorangi #nzpol
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saintpotato.bsky.social @saintpotato.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please sign this petition. The government wants to fast-track development on wetlands where there is an established population of extremely threatened bitterns. #nzpol #birdoftheyear #boty petitions.parliament.nz/ae84e6b4-cb6...
petitions.parliament.nz
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Together for the Vote is a movement for anyone wanting to lift voter enrolment and turnout this Election 2026.” #nzpol Check out the events on the Tāiki Ē! Your enrolment festival calendar here: our.actionstation.org.nz/partnerships...
Together for The Vote
TAIKI E!
TOGETHER FOR THE VOTE
YOUR ENROLMENT FESTIVAL
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MSD can never ever admit they were wrong. Something happening more than 8,000 times is not simply an administrative error but a systemic issue by unqualified paper-pushers being asked to save the government money by declining people the most foundational basic human right. Disgraceful. #nzpol
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#nzpol There's been a longstanding cliche of politicians measuring costs in hip surgeries. So I hope all our media will be getting stuck in about the lack of orthopaedic surgeons, and gynae, gastro, and cancer specialists in the lower north island. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
thepost.co.nz
Cracks widen in service for mending broken bones and joints
Palmerston North Hospital’s orthopaedic service is feeling the strain of resignations.
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Simon Wilson's article is excellent, as always. His question to Quilae Wong is one I would also like an answer to #nzpol
By the way, how good that Qiulae Wong says Opportunity will not join a government in which Winston Peters is foreign minister.

But why stop there? How about a government in which Simeon Brown is energy minister, reinforcing our dependence on fossil fuels? Chris Bishop is fast-tracking the ruination of elite soils and efficient council planning? Louise Upston is the welfare overlord? Shane Jones runs amok in minerals and fisheries? Tama Potaka cancels emergency housing? Nicole McKee oversees the gun laws? Casey Costello protects the tobacco industry? David Seymour tells infectious children to go to school and feeds them abominable school lunches? Paul Goldsmith orders rough sleepers away, even when they’re minding their own business and have nowhere else to go? Where not a single one of them has a decent thing to say about Israel and Gaza?

Or, for that matter, given Opportunity’s clear climate commitments, why support a prime minister who presides over the undoing of climate progress and deliberately, disgracefully, shabbily, greenwashes the whole process?
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
From bad to worse! The Luxon Government has retained the clause in its Conservation Amendment Bill, which undermines the very purpose of conservation law. This Trumpian bill undermines the fundamental principle that conservation land exists to be protected, not exploited. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Conservation bill clause puts economic growth ahead of conservation, critics say
The government has kept a controversial clause in the latest draft of its Conservation Amendment Bill, which critics say undermines the purpose of conservation law.
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Lululamarmiteontoast @lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ACT are the reason we can't have nice things #nzpol Seymour got his Ministry for Regulation but it still mustn't be working because this government is still putting through legislation that doesn't work & they're not using transparent processes so what is MFR there for again?🤔
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Developers donate $$ to Nat/Act/NZF. Nat/Act/NZF give developers fast track process. Resulting housing on urban fringes without services so council ratepayers have to subsidise these developments $billions. Developers pocket the profits. Nats pocket more donations www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
nzherald.co.nz
Fast-track stand-off: Auckland Council could withhold services from new homes
Staff estimate the 60,000 homes could cost the council more than $3b.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Deeply reassuring that our response to the worst flu season in a decade, supported by telling kids to go to school when sick, $30 vaccines, no clean air, chronic (and very deliberate) underfunding and under resourcing of the health system, is a collective shrug while these headlines keep occuring 👇
nzherald.co.nz
Middlemore Hospital swamped in 'appalling' late-night surge of patients
Staff say flu-related demand left Middlemore Hospital's ED under pressure.
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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you are in Tāmaki Makaurau on the 4th Nov - this looks interesting. You don't have to be a member of the AMHS to attend. They just appreciate knowing numbers so they can put chairs out. amhs.co.nz/programme/sp... #Kikorangi
amhs.co.nz
4 November
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I mean it breaches basic human rights so why would the government be worried about it also breaching Te Tiriti #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
rnz.co.nz
Waitangi Tribunal finds disability system breaches Te Tiriti
The Waitangi Tribunal has found the Crown breached Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles in its provision of disability services for tāngata whaikaha Māori, saying their voices have been "made invisible" wi...
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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Honestly, some of the comments on Stuffed. And shame on Lloyd Burr.
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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The coalition ruled out new taxes. To make the numbers work, they cut Jobseeker for 4,300 young people — 2,700 of them with health conditions or disabilities. Passed under urgency. Politically cheap. None of them were voting National anyway. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Thousands of youths to lose access to unemployment benefits after welfare law change
Thousands of youths across the country are set to lose access to unemployment benefits, after a welfare bill passed into law under urgency on Friday night.
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Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stopping 18-19 year olds "languishing on welfare" by making them ineligible for welfare is very "trees are the cause of forest fires."
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Allison @handle.invalid · 28/08/2026
There’s nothing smart or snappy to say. Homeless people across our country are being socially murdered to maintain an increasingly unsustainable economic arrangement. Goldsmith is a particularly aggressive agent in the pursuit of that murder. The death of this person is also its own real tragedy.
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Judy Sutherland @judy9.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How totally unsurprising. This government’s abuse of legislation processes, and in particular their overuse of ‘urgency’, is a disgrace. We will be cleaning up after them for years. #nzpol
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ramblingshrew.bsky.social @ramblingshrew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
I voted National. I didn’t vote for David Seymour to have this much power
Something is happening in New Zealand politics that should concern all of us, regardless of which party we vote for.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Louise Upston is directly responsible for this, as she rushed this bill through during urgency and dismissed any concerns from MPs and the public on the use of automated decision making.” - Ricardo Menendez March. (paywalled) #NzPol
thepost.co.nz
Winter Energy Payments removed from 15,000 pensioners in rushed law blunder
Thousands of pensioners and veterans lost their Winter Energy Payment this winter after an error in a law passed under urgency last year, The Post can reveal today.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
$300 million that should be going into adequately funding & staffing public hospitals is being funneled into FOR PROFIT private hospitals. Legit making money off sick & dying New Zealanders. US healthcare system here we come! 🤬 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
nzherald.co.nz
Privatising healthcare: Govt spends $300m on first long-term contracts with private hospitals
Critics warn the deals could drain staff and training from public hospitals.
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Megan @mcla108.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just when we began to think the Waikoropupu springs might be safe a new version of the threat appears, this govt has no shame nor any care for our environment. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
rnz.co.nz
New bidding round opens at site of declined Golden Bay mining permit
New bidding round opens at site of declined Golden Bay mining permit
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General Practitioners Aotearoa @gpaotearoa.co.nz · 11/08/2026
"ACT isn't innovating, they are recklessly setting up a shadow system instead of supporting the existing one to do its job." www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/960773/gp… #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
GPs oppose ACT's proposal to extend pharmacists' power
General Practitioners Aotearoa says ACT's proposal to expand pharmacists power is a red flag for a failing health system.
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New Zealand Professional Firefighters' Union @nzpfu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The response, from Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden, was described by Acting Mayor Geoff Taylor as “standard and disappointing”.
waikatotimes.co.nz
Push for extra fire station gets 'disappointing' response
Hamilton’s leaders will have to keep working the corridors to get the city a fourth fire station.
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Andrew Frame @napierinframe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The lurgy is out there, people: In Miss B's class of 30, only 17 were at school yesterday!
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In case anyone is interested, Rank Group - chipping in a cool quarter of a mill to National - is this collection of private equity parasites: www.rankgroup.co.nz
rankgroup.co.nz
Rank Group Limited
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
ACT has never met a collective welfare system it didn’t want to tear apart.* * Apart from those that benefit the wealthy and sorted. Those are OK. #nzpol
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Auckland Library of Tools @akllibraryoftools.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We are so honoured to be 'highly commended' in the 'Growing The Movement' category at the Zero Waste Awards last! This category celebrates ‘local heroes’, individuals and groups, working voluntarily to raise awareness, inspire change, and tautoko the zero waste kaupapa.
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Raquel Blackburn @queenofcobden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What I want to see is the next level of analysis - how much is coming from different industries? -does the timing of donations correlate with any policy announcements?
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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Complaining about a co-worker crouching over the fan heater in a open office when you are over-dressed and probably menopausal is really quite annoying. It's 15C outside, but OK, open the window. #kikorangi
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who challenge Peters’ conduct.” #nzpol
sanjanah.wordpress.com
The Speaker’s selective severity: Rules for Swarbrick, rank for Peters
A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who c…
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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If Labour can't manage to take this incredible gift they've been given and convert it into votes, they will need to have a serious internal reckoning around strategy.
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