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Here are a few more #bonsai that got put out overnight some with awards already. 🌱🇳🇿 Auckland Bonsai Society Show 2025.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Now, home after day one of the Auckland #Bonsai Society Show 2025. This is what somehow ended up in my car from the vendor's tables. A chunky trident maple Bonsai starter stump and 3 more plastic oval pots that are my favourite for forests. 🌱🇳🇿 budget blown.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

A cartoon about our government’s unconcern for our land and water. “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell”, so said Edward Abbey. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Climate #Water #Environment #RMA #FastTrack

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Ahhhh we’re doin so good, fam! Nature’s Cathedral is selling well and that means money for conservation as well as good tees for u :3. Smashed a donation over to Forest & Bird last week and can’t wait to do the next one. get yours: pepperraccoon.com

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

☎️ Wait, there’s now a hotline for reporting road cones? Here’s Māori TikTok creator The Conchurversial Kuzzie putting PM Christopher Luxon’s declaration of war on traffic cones into perspective, using his trademark humour and bite to ask where the governments priorities really lie. #nzpol 🎯

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

There's many many MPs in our Parliament who need this attitude. #nzpol

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

National Party troughers taking credit for a Labour Government success story. Labour was determined this wouldn't be another TG clusterfuck and it wasn't. 1000% credit to them, the construction teams and tangata whenua

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Fun fact, many companies now use yellow high-vis gear because drivers are so disregarding of road cones that wearing orange high-vis is less safe. Anyway our right wing and media are orchestrating a bullshit social panic about basic health and safety measures and it's going to get workers killed

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

#Geopolitics #nzpol

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Becket, Yates, Joyce, Stoker, Wilde & others all from Dublin & they do this stupid shit. Get in the Irish Sea

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This report sets out the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi’s analysis of Budget 2025. It covers the major decisions made at this Budget, and how they might affect workers #nzpol #workers #rights #NZ #unions union.org.nz/a-workers-an...

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BAD PROCESS “The Privileges committee has a tradition of reaching unanimous decisions, - an acknowledgement of the influence of the committee & the importance of reaching consensus on a decision that impacts the democratic process. But that didn’t happen in this case.” #nzpol @newsroom.co.nz

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Sad Day. “The interjections...stilled as Rurawhe said Privileges Committee would have a new precedent; a new range of penalties to use against members who erred in future. ..You can also guarantee that govt’s of the day..will feel very free to use those penalties to punish their opponents.” #nzpol

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This govt will be remembered as the one that trembled in fear at a scary haka and pointing finger #nzpol

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#RSB 🚨📣 16 Days Left to Kill the Regulatory Standards Bill! 📣🚨 🔗 Take Action: Link below to kill the bill 📅 Deadline: 1 PM, Monday, 23rd June 2025 🗣 KILL THE BILL 🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️ www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak... #NZPol #NZ #Māori #ToitūTeTiriti #Aotearoa #Greenpeace #Conservation #NewZealand #TPM

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A Bill that no one wanted / months of disruption and protests / the Haka / the disproportionate penalty that reeks of colonialism - so much vitriol and wasted energy. ACT has a lot to answer for IMHO #nzpol

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Sharp jump in Covid-19, respiratory infections

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Talked with @garypayinda.bsky.social about the Budget for Episode 8 of Locked Out. Talking about what it means for Health in New Zealand, and what life is like on the frontline of our health services. Find us at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GP...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Poolburn Reservoir, Central Otago, NZ -5°C sunset #Nikon #NZ #Photography

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

#NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Here is the last 500 days of available covid data (except covid deaths, which are coming off an extraordinary low period and I don't include on this graph anyway because the data is a result indicator rather than being timely enough to do anything about)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

To add, via the respiratory dashboard linked to in the article (which updates Thursdays), for the jump in Auckland hospitalisations (basically the Sentinel measure) it is most viruses increasing prevalence at the same rate, rather than one thing in particular (pretty much everything went up by 50%)

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Kia Ora Earthlings, Chlöe Swarbrick is a brilliant tactitician in #parliament. #nzpol @tepaatimaori.bsky.social #tpb #rsb #unjust

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

A shame Simeon Brown can’t read. #NZPol

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Kiwis overseas, please have your say in the Greens survey about student loan changes! www.instagram.com/reel/DKRNxJv... (And please share to anyone who knows people affected!) #nzpol

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Letter to the Herald #NZpol

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Just spoke with @russelnorman.bsky.social ( @greenpeace.org.nz & ex- MP) about the Regulatory Standards Bill — a libertarian Trojan horse that could block climate action, democracy & public interest laws. Essential listening. 🎧 #NZpol #RSB #RegulatoryStandardsBill #ClimateJustice #CoherentPodcast

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Insights from the Koru Club on why you should submit against the Regulatory Standards Bill #nzpol

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

www.instagram.com/reel/DKi_-9K... #nzpol

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Really good interview #nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX_P...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

a delightful little sip of petty for our Friday 🍵😌 SHAAAAME @jordanriversnz.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This data is mind-blowing. Nearly three out of four people (72%) surveyed across G20 countries support making it a criminal offence for governments and leaders of corporations who cause serious damage to nature or the climate. Justice is coming.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

What happened today will reverberate around the world. Banning Te Pāti Māori MPs' for the parliament haka is entirely disproportionate. Absolutely disgraceful. Dark day for our democracy. #NZPol

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

National is in a coalition with a party that is courting the anti-vaxx conspiracy vote, and with a party that wants to slash, burn and blow up what it considers "waste" in the government. But do tell me how TPM's recent behaviour is a problem for Labour. #nzpol

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Good point! #nzpol #rsb #tpb #submission #bot #democracy #aotearoa

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So New Zealand is a tin pot banana Republic after all. Expelling elected MPs from Parliament for weeks. Makes Trump look like the apprentice! #nzpol

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