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An object lesson in anyone considering going into government with ACT in future. A year solid of negative headlines and a much more unpopular than the median first term government.

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

What happens now? Does his benefit get cut off?

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

Not hyperbole. Sober truth. #AUKUS As for Five Eyes, it's effectively become the "Here's the intelligence you asked for, Mr Putin" delivery service. #nzpol

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Living Streets Aotearoa interviewed Dr Alice Miller about her research on the NZ road lobby to learn more about the tactics of the road lobby and how advocacy organisations like LSAcan respond. Read the article: www.livingstreets.org.nz/node/5210

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Great explainer from Rewiring Aotearoa on why installing more rooftop solar is a much better idea for Aotearoa than importing LNG: www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/why... #climate #solar #nzpol

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration is now considering removing Canada from the Five Eyes spy group, which NZ is also a member of, as part of Trump's plans to annex (i.e. invade) Canada: www.ft.com/content/2dfa... How will Christopher Luxon's Government respond? #nzpol

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

LSA is saddened to hear that last night a driver hit a pedestrian on Courtenay Place, leaving her seriously injured. Kudos to those who responded quickly and helped get her to hospital.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The Government's Fast-Track Approvals Act embodies the capture of our democratic processes for the benefit of big business. It is arguably corrupt itself, and certainly enables corruption. Now Speaker Gerry Brownlee is implicated: www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept... #fasttrackwrongtrack #nzpol

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Okay this might be tax related but it's a big fucking deal because of something called FATCA. Under FATCA IRD will share information about US citizens resident in AoNZ with the IRS. This information is meant to be highly secure & given what we know about DOGE this is a worrying development.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Call it what it was. This is not a protest, it was an attack.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

The violence & harassment you see of our rainbow 🌈 community is the same abuse experienced by pro-choice folks. Go kick rocks 🪨 Destiny "Church". We will not be silenced! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾 #abortionrightsaotearoa #alranz #lgbtqiaplus #nzpol #abortion #reproductivejustice #DestinyChurch #aotearoa #NZ

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The hypocrisy, hysteria & astounding cognitive dissonance within this hateful religious cult, is really quite ironic…🤨 #DestinyChurch #Dickheads #nzpol #Aotearoa #nz

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

It’s the Gulf of Mexico. Donald Trump is a rapist. Black history is American history. Climate change is real. Vaccines save lives.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Real men don’t barricade women and children. Real men don’t threaten and intimidate. Real men don’t preach hate. Real men DO show respect, compassion & love. Real men are comfortable enough in who they are to celebrate the diversity of others. Brian Tamaki you are just a boy.

submitted 17 days ago • 56 comments

Precious biodiversity and unique landscape dug up to produce miniscule income for the government and add to the climate crisis, while Bathurst, a Singaporean & Aussie-owned company pockets the profits offshore #nzpol youtu.be/faoNND9i4Jg?...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"Collins oversaw several quiet moves ... to align New Zealand more closely with US defence and national security strategies.... The country was now considered by the US to be part of its military-industrial base." Does Aotearoa want to be Trump's little helper? www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5... #nzpol

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

It couldn't happen to a nicer oligarch! Fossil fuel tycoon & failed sports sponsor "Sir" Jim Ratcliffe of Ineos is in serious financial trouble as his sporting and business interests run aground: www.theguardian.com/business/202... I hope this climate criminal gets his just desserts. #climate

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Fast track farce in Waimate! Yet another blow for Christopher Luxon, as one of his flagship fast-track projects no longer owns the land the project was supposed to be built on. Bizarrely, the company still wants to go ahead with the fast-track process. #nzpol #environment #fasttrackwrongtrack

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

It is encouraging to see that Minister Bishop has backtracked on the automatic speed increases and allowed for public consultation in specific areas.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

"Autocrats and body doubles go together like Elon Musk and Nazi salutes..." From my book review: The thirty-one legs of Vladimir Putin, by P S Cottier and N G Hartland: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2025/02/03 #australia #auslit #ozlit #ausbooks

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So now Musk techbros fascists are set on destroying NOAA... because NOAA is evil for predicting hurricanes and talking about climate change.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Before Trump took power, I saw a lot of articles claiming he was an autocrat, not a fascist, because the defining characteristic of fascist leaders is starting or threatening wars. Panama, Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and now a permanent Gaza genocide. Trump is a fascist. NZ must resist. #nzpol

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The US administration is not our ally. The US administration is not our friend. We should steer sharply away from AUKUS, and get out of Five Eyes - both of those are now, if they weren't before, direct threats to our national interests, and make us less secure and less safe as a nation #nzpol

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

"The photovoltaic panels were expected to provide shelter and shade for the sheep, while also helping to retain moisture in the ground during the hottest months of the year." sounds like a win win www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Goodness but Shane Jones is an abusive, bullying, unpleasant Trumpian man.

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

Hey y’all. Time is running out to make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill Which if passed will removed Te Tiriti and the Bill of Rights from regulatory standards. It comes from ACT, Nats have not said they won’t support it. It will basically put $ ahead of everything else.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Currently working on the Coal Action Network Aotearoa submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill - submissions close on Mon 13/1 at midnight. This proposed Bill is a neoliberal wet dream that seeks to expunge all environmental protections. And the Nats are backing this Bill. Please submit! #nzpol

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

TVNZ running a puff piece for the cruise ship industry, claiming it's "Over-regulated". Rubbish! Cruise ships follow an extractive model that is bad for our economy & our #climate - for example, cruise ship GHG emissions in #Wellington went up 37% last financial year. climateliberation.bsky.social

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

My recent writing: - how to oppose fast-tracked mines and motorways - a new flash fiction for Flash frontier - a review of Mike Joy's "The Fight for Freshwater" Plus something we should all be writing: submissions opposing the Treaty Principles Bill www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2024/12/27/f...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Are #VisionForWellington united in wanting a #Wellington for rich white people? Or is it only Sir Bob Jones who likes putting down Māori? What of Kerry Prendergast, Fran Wilde, Therese Walsh, Neil Paviour-Smith, Sinead Boucher, Phil Royal, Peter Biggs? #NZpol thespinoff.co.nz/atea/14-02-2...

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

Nothing says "local democracy" quite like a ludicrously rich North American film director teaming up with racist jerk Sir Bob Jones to try to buy their way into controlling Wellington City Council as their own private fiefdom - all while getting adulatory coverage from Stuff owner Sinead Boucher.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

I reviewed Mike Joy's memoir "The Fight For Freshwater" for the December issue of Takahē Magazine. It's a really good read – and Mike has had a fascinating life in all sorts of interesting ways. My review: www.takahe.org.nz/the-fight-fo... #nzbooks #environment #pukapuka #nzpol

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Petrol stations' time will be up sometime, at least in their present form as sellers of fossil fuels. Is "sometime" as close as 2030 - and what will that mean politically, and for a #justtransition? www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3605... @climateparents.bsky.social #climateandsustainability #nzpol

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Haringey Cabinet voted unanimously to keep the 3 Haringey LTNs! The journey may be challenging, but the destination is a borough that prioritises the well-being of its residents and the sustainability of our environment.

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

This Government's hatred of nature #tetaiao is only exceeded by their staggering incompetence, starting with their very first decision - to trash the new ferries without any idea of how to replace them. But hey, at least Nicola Willis proved she could text South Korea! #diplomacy #nzpol

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Residents, experts, and community groups worked together to design Warkworth's Hill St intersection improvements - then the Minister stepped in to block them.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Luxon's Government wants to fast-track a series of terrible projects #waronnature #fasttrackwrongtrack These projects can be beaten. Here's my report on how community groups defeated one such project the last time the Nats tried fast-tracking: 350.org.nz/save-the-bas... #nzpol #environment #climate

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Really enjoying a doco about Sheila Natusch on Māori TV - I've been amazed how many times her story intersected in some way with my family's story, though we have only fleeting connections to Rakiura / Stewart Island, which I visited often as a child #Aotearoa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

ALREADY famous for having seven houses. ABOUT TO BE famous for uttering "what I'd say (to you) is..." 23 TIMES in a 30 min interview with Jack Tame on Q&A this morning.

submitted 93 days ago • 17 comments