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Party Vote | TV3-NFO

Hypothetical Poll: Wayne Brown starts his own party.

Wayne Brown Party: 27.6%
Labour: 23.5%
National: 21.6%
Green: 9.7%
TOP: 5.1%
ACT: 3.2%
NZF: 2.5%
TPM: 2.0%

D: April 1 | R: 1,056.

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Party Vote | Roy Morgan.

Labour: 34% (+4)
National: 26.5% (-4.5)
Greens: 11% (-3.5)
NZF: 11% (+1.5)
ACT: 10% (+2)
Opportunity: 4% (N/C)
TPM: 3% (+0.5)

D: February 23 – March 22 | R:872

+/- February 2025

hello skyblue

Besides everything else, Farrar makes a couple of straight factual errors in this piece

"We would get to elect 12 out of 88 Senators"

No guarantee whatsoever, as NZ is not an Original State. The fact NZ is listed in clause 6 is immaterial. Original States are defined separately in the very same...

Very, very pretty flight between the capital and Auckland tonight.

Can’t get over how damn good the new Beresford Square entrance to one of the new underground CRL stations looks …

I genuinely think best way forward for Māori politics is a loose coalition of independent MPs in the Māori seats working with their iwi, hapū and other organisations to directly improve outcomes in their rohe.

Hey so this is insane

Radio bros gon hate

Metlink turns 20 today!

Apparently the brand name was originally going to be Urbo until they stole Melbourne’s one.

(From their FB page)

To cross post or to not cross post, that is the question

Town Hall is beginning to be unveiled after earthquake stregenthening.

…$400m later

As far as I’m aware, no.

All the individual councils publish lists on their website.

Greens back Tory Whanau for second term as Wellington mayor Whanau admitted in Feb she 'wasn’t being Green' by supporting some controversial policies.

So proud to be running with my Green whānau 💚

With Geordie, Laurie, Yadana, Henry and Jonny at WCC and GWRC, our vision of a green but compassionate city is well within reach. #nzpol

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto... Greens back Tory Whanau for second term as Wellington mayor

Party Vote | RNZ/Reid Research

National: 32.9%
Labour: 32.3%
Greens: 10%
ACT: 9.4%
NZF: 7.2%
TPM: 5%

D: 21 - 27 March 2025

This!!!

Green MP avoids Parliament amid death threats over social media account Doyle became an MP in 2024 after the Green Party voted to remove Darleen Tana.

Benjamin Doyle hasn’t done anything wrong.

This is getting incredibly dangerous now. It’s just a stupid caption!

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Leadership Poll | Helen Clark Foundation-Talbot Mills

“Would having a strong leader who does not have to bother with Parliament and elections be a good way to govern NZ?”

Bad: 54%
Good: 32%
Don’t Know: 14%

D: Nov-Dec 2024.

Papua New Guinea PM Marape arrives in NZ today Papua's New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape arrives in New Zealand today for a three-day state visit.

James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guniea, is in town for a state visit.

We should be building closer relationships with countries like PNG so this is welcome.

www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...

How is this real

BREAKING NEWS Legal case against Rainbow Crossing fails

Amazing news this Pride Month! The case against Wellington’s Rainbow Crossing has failed at the High Court.

Proud to be Mayor of Aotearoa’s rainbow capital 🏳️‍🌈 #nzpol

“as the associate education minister decided not to tell her.”

What?

RNZ to run political poll RNZ to run political poll

RNZ to start regular polling from April with Reid Research, which formally did polling for the now defunct Newshub/3 News.

www.rnz.co.nz/media/249

This is incredible.

National now only seen as most capable on six of twenty issues, down from eleven in October.

(First two are from the Feb ‘25 Ipsos Monitor, last one is from the Oct ‘24 one).

Metlink has new rolling stock, apparently.

Polling Average | February 2025.

National's lead on Labour decreases to 1.7% (-0.7*).

National: 32.49% (-5.59)
Labour: 30.75% (+3.83)
Green: 11.98% (+0.37)
ACT: 9.93% (+1.29)
NZ First: 6.32% (+0.23)
Māori: 4.60% (+1.52)
TOP: 1.70% (-0.52)

+/- 2023 Election.
*+/- Feb Average.

A bar chart of the distance I travelled by each transport mode in 2024: bike is 3,419 km, car is 3,261 km, bus is 3,053 km, train is 2,768 km, plane is 1,610 km, walking is 1,596 km, ferry is 61 km and tram is 31 km.

Again I've enlisted @tiaremp.bsky.social to make some nice graphs to display my travel for the previous year and here they are!
First up is the "umbrella categories" I've been keeping track of distinctions like ebike/pushbike or bus/busway but combining them all together this is the general picture.

Absolutely get fucked with this "pipes before cycleways" framing.

Have you _seen_ what roads cost to build and maintain?

Getting people out of cars would save so much fucking money we could have gold water pipes that never corrode.

Rawiri Waititi says Luxon may be a drop nuts if he doesn't attend Waitangi

Bayly admits calling worker a loser and making L sign on forehead

Incredible comeback year for insults I last heard in high school. We cannot let it end without Gerry Brownlee expelling someone from the house for being a gumby

They call it BlueSky