The Hutt River has about 10 times the flow now (in cubic metres a second) than it was having at 3pm [link works in Chrome but seems a bit iffy in Safari] graphs.gw.govt.nz/envmon?view=...

I just want to note that have yet to come across a single academic who studies sexual violence who uses “consent” as a solution/framework for addressing it.

I personally think it’s one of the least useful ways to spend time discussing causes of or how to address sexism, misogyny, or violence.

Survey Question: What’s going on? Radio buttons, with second selected. - It’s annoying or not interesting - I’m in this photo and I don’t like it - I think it shouldn’t be on Facebook - It’s spam

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We should be a welcoming country to all those who would enrich our lives, our cultures, and our communities.

Sign the petition today!

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‘More than ever before, it's urgent we understand and apply history's lessons. But we can't implement what we learn from the past until we create a practical framework for the future.’ The Stout Research Centre’s conference on the future of Aotearoa needs a little help.

I would have hoped that a government in a period of national emergency would have realised that food supply for the population is a high priority. But if it needs that explained to it, I am glad someone explained that starving people is a problem.
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Offenders serving community sentences are more likely to keep jobs, earn more – new research

New Zealand’s shift to community-based sentences has cut costs, helped offenders to retain work and higher earnings, with no major change to substantive reoffending.

Ministry of Transport has a dashboard of fuel use etc. Private car use down 10% in a week, public transport (in Auckland) up 12% in a week. Wellington up 17%.

www.transport.govt.nz/statistics-a...

NZ is deeply misogynist, demonstrated in every stat from sexual/domestic violence to pay equity to home ownership to public health.
Women are not entering politics because men who pathologically see the world as being white, cis and male act to prevent it.
Speaking of crises - this is one of them.
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NZ faces a 1970s-style energy shock Willis acknowledges fuel rationing may be needed in worst case scenario; Last fuel ship is due in 14 days; Refined diesel costs nearing US$170/bbl, with US$200+ = NZ$4/l+

FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

"How does one hate a country, or love one?"

Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

$50m plan to double the number of public EV chargers The government is providing zero-interest loans of more than $50 million to ChargeNet and Meridian Energy.

"The government is providing interest free loans of $52.7 million to two companies to boost the number of electric vehicle public chargers around the country."

They literally cannot come up with a solution that isn't corporate welfare.

Where's my interest free loan to BUY an EV?

We need better Sex Ed in schools and maybe once we sort that out we need compulsory education for adults on how we talk about miscarriage, abortion, child loss, postpartum, infertility, being child free, having 1 kid or many kids because some of you lack basic empathy and common decency. Dear lord.

There is a silver lining to this story, which is the judge stepped in when it became clear the jury were relying on rape myths. That's a direct result of the work Jan Logie did on SV law in Ardern's first term, and I love seeing it paying off - even if we clearly still have a long way to go.

A road outside a train station, with a circle in the ground with the letters MH inside it

If you go by Pito-one train station, don't forget they have a Mental Health power-up you can stand on!

(it also counts as a Hot Wheels power-up if you approach from the opposite direction)

I’m already throwing putea at our two so Rāwiri is on his own 😅
Get in there!

A shot taken from the train as it crosses the bridge, looking south over Te Awa Kairangi. Blue sky and streaks of cloud reflected in the water.

A shot taken from the train as it heads around Te Whanganui a Tara, the new seawall/cycle and pedestrian path in the foreground, the moana and then the far hills of Pencarrow in the distance. Blue sky and streaks of cloud (plus some reflections from inside the train)

I do love a train ride in the morning. #TeAwaKairangi #TeWhanganuiATara

Dr Shane Reti is retiring after this year from politics. We love this for him! We're so glad he is able to CHOOSE what happens to his life and the current government is not forcing their will on him. Wow, CHOICE is amazing, eh, Dr Reti! #nzpol #abortion #NationalNZ #abortionishealthcare

This framing of war having a negative impact on the cost of living makes me wanna scream!

That petrol and groceries are the focus over the human cost is so unbearably grim.

I am sick of money being the measure of all worth in this world.

Fuck cost of living, I am worried about cost of lives.

text reading "The average New Zealand woman* loses $25.36 per week... ...just because this Govt. has not acted on pay gap reporting." small text reading "*earning the median wage" There is a graphic of a person with wavy hair holding a tax invoice for prime minister christopher luxon with the total of 7.8 billion, with overdue stamped on it.

text reading "It's this simple: If the Government made gender pay gap reporting compulsory for large businesses, the gender pay gap would shrink by 20–40 percent.* That's an extra $25.36 per week for women earning the median wage; an extra $58.40 for wahine Māori and $76.40 for Pacific women." small text reading "*based on international evidence."

text reading "What can we do to help close the pay gap? It only takes a minute. Visit the STILL Minding the Gap web site now to invoice the Prime Minister and let him know that closing the gender pay gap is STILL a priority for Kiwis: stillmindingthegap.nz"

If the Government enacted pay gap reporting, women in New Zealand who earn the median wage would get an 'extra' (or rather, not miss out on...) $25.36 per week. For wahine Māori it's $58.40 and $76.40 for Pacific women.

It's that simple. Let Luxon know it's OVERDUE: www.stillmindingthegap.nz

okay the fact you can OIA a minister's chatGPT logs is pretty funny, sometimes the NZ administrative state is good actually

Yesterday, I used one at lunch time to get from the terrace to upper Cuba street & back inside half an hour. Then I used one to get from Newtown to the station to avoid missing the hourly train. Really rate them for the flexibility & route specific ability! Otherwise: Public transport for life!

Young women 20% less likely than men to own a home - why can’t they get on the ladder? Across New Zealand suburbs, the great Kiwi dream of owning a home is still alive. But new research shows not everyone is getting the same chance to reach it.

'cause the government stole $10 billion dollars from them?

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

Kia ora e hoa - keen for a link and we’ll see if we can dial in

On the misuse of Cultural Safety - Overland literary journal Since its original formulation and application in the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1980s, Cultural Safety has been subject to wide reinterpretation. Its entry into institutional life m...

A must read piece on the increasing misuse, watering down and co-opting of Cultural Safety - a First Nations designed health framework. overland.org.au/2026/02/on-t...

Painting by Pete Amato. In the centre of the top half of the painting, is the head and shoulders of a feminine figure with longish purple silver hair splaying out around her. Her eyes are entirely white and she has a green moko kauae on her lips and chin. Her shoulders are covered with a cloak (korowai), decorated with spirals (koru) and saw-edged triangle (niho taniwha), representing new beginnings and strength. To her left are blue green waves, above them darkness, stars and a moon in shadow. Directly above her sits a full moon. To her right float little islands with a tree above them, their roots dangling. Above them sits another half moon, this one sitting in a purple wispy sky. The bottom half of the painting is dominated by a stepped motif symbolising the gain on knowledge (poutama) in the background and a crescent shaped motif (kape) that represents the glow of the moon in the foreground. Long earthworms twist around a fish hook (hei matau). To the bottom and left, twists a dark purple eel. The painting's dominant colours are purple, grey, blue and green.

Not voted in the #BugoftheYear2026 competition? We commissioned Wairoa artist Pete Amato (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa) to show why we think the North Auckland Worm deserves your vote. Check out his amazing painting - Hīnātore! It's only a little smaller than the worm itself :) 1/n

What the PM said at Waitangi was wrong | E-Tangata “When the prime minister spoke at Waitangi he set out a terribly distorted view of the country’s founding document.” — Carwyn Jones.

“At Waitangi this year, the prime minister structured his speech around the three articles of Te Tiriti, and explained what each article says and means.

The problem is that he was just plain wrong, writes legal scholar Carwyn Jones.” #NZpol e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...