Watched a clip of Chippy at QT trying to get Luxo to answer one question about how phases 3 and 4 of the fuel plan would work and he's there going "well we'd work with business instead of happening to them like YOU did" to cover up the fact that he has no idea. Because they haven't written it #nzpol

Evil man. the rest of cabinet are a bunch of egotistical morons, but he's rat cunning and evil

Documents reveal iwi hui cut from Treaty review, replaced by Minister-appointed group OIA emails reveal plans for regional hui with iwi Māori were cut from the Treaty review, replaced by agency engagement and a small advisory group ahead of new legislation.

Goldsmith told officials to delete engagement with iwi.
by Māni Dunlop @teaonews.bsky.social #NzPol

Thank you so much!

(necessity, not choice, I hasten to add)

Best dairy-free version anyone?

Winston Peters declares coalition as stable as 'three-legged stool' after day of potshots Despite tit-for-tat sledging the NZ First leader declared the coalition as stable as a "three-legged stool".

Any 'fixing' this government is doing is done purely in a match-fixing sense.

Thanks for the encouragement. I'll give it a go!

I must admit, I'm not keen on machine translation for stories.
Some of the comics I read and dramas I've watched have been rendered almost incomprehensible. Perhaps I'll hope for/wait for human intervention in this one!

Thank you!

You're reading in English translation? Where is this available, please?

"I just say to the prime minister that New Zealanders are not going to tolerate unfettered immigration, ruining our foundation culture and clogging our services at a time we can hardly afford to upgrade the infrastructure that New Zealand has. "The media will never cancel the Dalmatian Māori because he uses hyperbole and dismiss it as racism. Kiwis are flocking to my cause. Immigration, unfettered, unmitigated, has had a lot of negative impacts," Jones said.

This dickhead isn’t modelling himself after Winston Peters. He’s modelling himself after Brian Tamaki. “Kiwis are flocking to my cause.” Ugh.

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'Alarmist' - Prime Minister criticises Shane Jones' 'butter chicken' comments Luxon stopped short of saying whether he thought the comments were racist.

One thing you can guarantee with Luxon, he will always ‘stop short’ of calling racist comments racist.

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“My desire to be informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane”, says a jaded looking lady sat in a chair, with a newspaper on her lap

i've been posting NZ Insta clips bc they're the reason i'm not in despair. maybe it's helped BSky peeps to glimpse the activism, organising, grassroots leadership, & how active LW MPs are on IG? they are angry. they are doing sthg about it. & we? we can't afford to sit in the Pakeha sads, paralysed.

Luxoff's (not very) extensive engagement with "iwi up and down the country"

He often says he regularly meets iwi leaders up and down the country, because I can I OIA'd it

As per usual, utter bollocks

A liveable ecosystem is the most conservative thing there is. But our current "conservative" parties are full of weirdo radicals who want to destroy everything.

Self-denial-of-service as a security measure.

A minority NZ First government having to negotiate issue by issue with other parties would be a sight to see.

Waitangi Tribunal begins urgent inquiry into school Treaty obligations and curriculum changes A union will allege a pattern of Crown conduct that has "systematically undermined and dismantled" Treaty obligations in education.

Waitangi Tribunal begins urgent inquiry into school Treaty obligations and curriculum changes

Fuel crisis: Support workers challenge government to do their job for a day "Our cars don't run on feel-good feelings," says Helen who adds that her job is costing her money.

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I have caregivers in this situation.

Even the American healthcare system, as broken as it is, usually has some tools to deploy when folk start thinking they are actually Jesus Christ.

*Correction: Subs close at midnight whānau that’s another 12 hours to get your submissions in! #nzpol

Luxon tells RNZ building on floodplains is stupif - yet his own fast track process just approved the massive 4000-building Winton development - right on a floodplain, with no infrastructure support - and strongly opposed by council. His government is failing us spectacularly
#nzpol

MacBay’s resident Sea Lion & goose just chilling

#WildDunedin Ōtepoti Dunedin

Numbers here->

www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/10/d...

Screenshot from the linked article, which reads: “The cumulative record is damning. Over the course of little more than two years, the Luxon coalition has timed legislation to kill tribunal hearings mid-inquiry; introduced bills the day after losing in court; overridden the first-ever judicial enforcement of three decades of freshwater protection law; retroactively voided customary rights that had been lawfully recognised; reinstated a sentencing regime found to breach fundamental human rights guarantees; and legislated away a High Court ruling protecting sick and injured New Zealanders from unlawful government debt recovery.”

A useful piece, reminding us how NZ’s government has consistently failed to respect the judgments of the courts, and opted to legislate away the decisions they don’t like.

thejackalman.blogspot.com/2026/04/luxo...

Luxon's Twelve Acts Of Constitutional Contempt Chris Luxon - CEO of New Zealand Constitutional vandalism doesn't always announce itself as such. It does not arrive in the form of rockets...

it's easy for me to get caught up in all manner of sociopolitical psychobabble

linguistics me likes wandering through that rabbit hole, the taxonomy of hate, if you will

this co-ordinated ACT NAT NZF thing is just deeply racist, appeals so well to parts of Aotearoa's population

#nzpol

The @phcc.bsky.social has an important, and interesting new briefing out today, well worth reading. We need to tackle vehicle ‘supersizing’ for health, climate and energy security www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/we-... #nzpol