Steph Phillips
@freestylesteph.bsky.social
Standing for Whakatū Nelson Council . Architect with Interest in social justice, creative arts & creating a better society for all. Aotearoa. Whakatū Tangata Te Tiriti
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A reminder Stuff's CE Sineard Boucher wont care one little bit as she became a member of the failed Vision Wellington group during the elections last year
The top 'article' thumbnail on the Stuff Politics homepage
what 'brand' you wonder? oh, just the NZ National Party
We are now past the point where corporate media commentary and embedded advertising are justifiable. This is going to get MUCH worse over 2026 unless there are consequences
what 'brand' you wonder? oh, just the NZ National Party
We are now past the point where corporate media commentary and embedded advertising are justifiable. This is going to get MUCH worse over 2026 unless there are consequences
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
A reminder Stuff's CE Sineard Boucher wont care one little bit as she became a member of the failed Vision Wellington group during the elections last year
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PSA says the huge #ManageMyHealth #privacy breach exposes risk of cutting IT experts in public health, 1.8 million NZers may have had private info stolen #nzpol #health www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
PSA says the privacy breach exposes risk of cutting IT experts in public health
The PSA says the ManageMyHealth security breach highlights the risk of cutting IT experts in public health.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
PSA says the huge #ManageMyHealth #privacy breach exposes risk of cutting IT experts in public health, 1.8 million NZers may have had private info stolen #nzpol #health www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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One has to wonder if rates caps are an attempt to set local councils up to fail, then use it as an excuse to privatise the water.
December 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
One has to wonder if rates caps are an attempt to set local councils up to fail, then use it as an excuse to privatise the water.
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When are people going to get that we have been hijacked by mining and rentier interests. Seymour groomed for this in the Heritage Foundation inspired think tanks and Luxon was handpicked to be a bullshitting empty suit. Seymour walked in with a Project 2025 too and we are seeing it being enacted.
Our Right Wing government is already disenfranchising up to 14% of voters using emergency legislation with no debate or recourse or discussion
I dont know how you can fundamentally change voting rights in NZ without a super majority but here we are
#nzpol
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I dont know how you can fundamentally change voting rights in NZ without a super majority but here we are
#nzpol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGFa...
December 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
When are people going to get that we have been hijacked by mining and rentier interests. Seymour groomed for this in the Heritage Foundation inspired think tanks and Luxon was handpicked to be a bullshitting empty suit. Seymour walked in with a Project 2025 too and we are seeing it being enacted.
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For the price of less than ONE of National's Roads of National Party Significance you could expand the cycle network right across the motu, returning benefits easily 10x (so $12.8b) of what we have now (which is already formidable at $1.28b).
And more than RoNS will EVER return to Aotearoa 🚲 👇
And more than RoNS will EVER return to Aotearoa 🚲 👇
So cycling tourism particularly in the South Island is worth $1.28b to our national economy. And it will only expand.
NOW IMAGINE boosting cycle tourism even further into our big cities!
Exploring Auckland by e bike would be quite scenic given its very diverse geography!
voakl.net/2025/12/03/m...
NOW IMAGINE boosting cycle tourism even further into our big cities!
Exploring Auckland by e bike would be quite scenic given its very diverse geography!
voakl.net/2025/12/03/m...
Making Cycling Work for YOU and Your City!
Using Urban Simulator to illustrate how cycling can work for you So, you have medium density being built in your city, businesses want to establish or expand as a consequence of that medium density…
voakl.net
December 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
For the price of less than ONE of National's Roads of National Party Significance you could expand the cycle network right across the motu, returning benefits easily 10x (so $12.8b) of what we have now (which is already formidable at $1.28b).
And more than RoNS will EVER return to Aotearoa 🚲 👇
And more than RoNS will EVER return to Aotearoa 🚲 👇
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I'd spent chunks of all of this year ooking into the Cook Islands shipping register. My diversions into the High Court delayed publication, but I am pretty happy with this - it's the longest and best thing I've done in ages (and no paywall!): www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com... 14/X
The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow, Tehran
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How shadow fleets made the Cook Islands flag inconvienent.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I'd spent chunks of all of this year ooking into the Cook Islands shipping register. My diversions into the High Court delayed publication, but I am pretty happy with this - it's the longest and best thing I've done in ages (and no paywall!): www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com... 14/X
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National rips up Labour's ferry deal costing NZ at least 700 million for nothing, then the fuckers want Labour to bail out their underwhelming India FTA..
Fuck off .. #nzpol
Fuck off .. #nzpol
December 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
National rips up Labour's ferry deal costing NZ at least 700 million for nothing, then the fuckers want Labour to bail out their underwhelming India FTA..
Fuck off .. #nzpol
Fuck off .. #nzpol
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How does this differ from McSkimming? Just saying.
How does this differ from McSkimming? Just saying.
Man jailed for more than five years for collecting child exploitation material
Investigators found more than 60,000 objectionable publications across nine internet accounts.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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How does this differ from McSkimming? Just saying.
How does this differ from McSkimming? Just saying.
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Always nice to get a scientific poll to remind us that TalkBack radio and the Facebook comment section are not actually representative of public opinion
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Public support for investing in urban cycleways outweighs opposition – National Survey | PHCC
While more New Zealanders support increasing investment in urban cycleways than oppose it, there remains a substantial proportion of people who are unsure or unengaged on this issue.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Always nice to get a scientific poll to remind us that TalkBack radio and the Facebook comment section are not actually representative of public opinion
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/pub...
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/pub...
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This is such a good piece by @thespinoff.bsky.social showing how NZME’s (who own the Herald and Newstalk ZB) billionaire director chooses to use his money - harassing @sanjanah.bsky.social and TVNZ thespinoff.co.nz/media/19-12-... thespinoff.co.nz/media/19-12-...
Inside the weirdest trial of the year: Jim Grenon, Julian Batchelor and TVNZ
Billionaires, secrets, conspiracy theories, denials of racism, contempt of court and twists at every turn. This case had it all.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
This is such a good piece by @thespinoff.bsky.social showing how NZME’s (who own the Herald and Newstalk ZB) billionaire director chooses to use his money - harassing @sanjanah.bsky.social and TVNZ thespinoff.co.nz/media/19-12-... thespinoff.co.nz/media/19-12-...
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Little bit of context for those GDP figures. Self-flaggelation champions are down the bottom. Have you seen any of these international comparisons in the media? I might have missed them.
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Little bit of context for those GDP figures. Self-flaggelation champions are down the bottom. Have you seen any of these international comparisons in the media? I might have missed them.
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Also, in 2024/25, we spent 3 times what we collected from mining royalties on cleaning up a single mine
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Nearly half a billion taxpayer dollars set aside to decommission Tui Oil Field
The Tui field was deserted in 2019 after the financial collapse of Tamarind Taranaki, leaving the Crown with the bill for its safe decommissioning.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Also, in 2024/25, we spent 3 times what we collected from mining royalties on cleaning up a single mine
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
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FELLAS is it UNDERMINING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE POLICE to be a DEPUTY COMMISSIONER searching for CHILD PORN, BESTIALITY AND OTHER HORRIBLE SHIT on your POLICE COMPUTER or is that only when a brown woman repeats concerns her constituents have about how the police treat minority communities.
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
FELLAS is it UNDERMINING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE POLICE to be a DEPUTY COMMISSIONER searching for CHILD PORN, BESTIALITY AND OTHER HORRIBLE SHIT on your POLICE COMPUTER or is that only when a brown woman repeats concerns her constituents have about how the police treat minority communities.
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Weasely Dems think you can split the baby on this -- oh, just a little discrimination at the high school sports level, but not elsewhere! We defend trans kids here, or here, but not here.
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
December 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Weasely Dems think you can split the baby on this -- oh, just a little discrimination at the high school sports level, but not elsewhere! We defend trans kids here, or here, but not here.
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
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This is massive for Top of the South Iwi - Te Tauihu - and the region as a whole. Finally an empowered local body with a 500yr future strategy - congratulations
Unique in the agreement being on a breach of contract law not Waitangi. Maybe not the last.
This is massive for Top of the South Iwi - Te Tauihu - and the region as a whole. Finally an empowered local body with a 500yr future strategy - congratulations
Unique in the agreement being on a breach of contract law not Waitangi. Maybe not the last.
South Island Māori landowners to get more than 3000 hectares returned by Crown
Māori landowners will have the land returned, and receive $420 million in compensation, in a landmark agreement with the Crown, ending questions going back to the 1830s.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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This is massive for Top of the South Iwi - Te Tauihu - and the region as a whole. Finally an empowered local body with a 500yr future strategy - congratulations
Unique in the agreement being on a breach of contract law not Waitangi. Maybe not the last.
This is massive for Top of the South Iwi - Te Tauihu - and the region as a whole. Finally an empowered local body with a 500yr future strategy - congratulations
Unique in the agreement being on a breach of contract law not Waitangi. Maybe not the last.
High Court decision granting The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa’s (PATHA) application to -
- halt a ban on life-saving medication for trans youth, until a full review can be heard.
- halt a ban on life-saving medication for trans youth, until a full review can be heard.
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First step toward recognition of trans rights in healthcare
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December 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
High Court decision granting The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa’s (PATHA) application to -
- halt a ban on life-saving medication for trans youth, until a full review can be heard.
- halt a ban on life-saving medication for trans youth, until a full review can be heard.
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Lots of very good ideas here
Rewiring Aotearoa - Manifesto
It’s in our national and personal interest to swap expensive foreign fuel for clean, local electricity. Rewiring Aotearoa’s policy manifesto lays out a practical plan to make New Zealand the world’s m...
www.rewiring.nz
December 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Lots of very good ideas here
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Fully Funded Public Services
Am I right? 💚 👇
Am I right? 💚 👇
🍃🌹🌿voting NZ #Greens “Green Budget” is fully costed & fantastic. Free GPs & Dentists & childcare. Less tax for the majority of NZers, a little more for the richest few, who mostly avoid paying now, & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia’s! #Hope #nzpol
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Green Budget
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
www.greens.org.nz
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Fully Funded Public Services
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Am I right? 💚 👇
Anyone else finding their follow feed on X is 12hrs - 1 day out of date.
I avoid for you feed- it has a compulsive / addictive characteristic
I find for you tamer. But they’ve broken it.
I avoid for you feed- it has a compulsive / addictive characteristic
I find for you tamer. But they’ve broken it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Anyone else finding their follow feed on X is 12hrs - 1 day out of date.
I avoid for you feed- it has a compulsive / addictive characteristic
I find for you tamer. But they’ve broken it.
I avoid for you feed- it has a compulsive / addictive characteristic
I find for you tamer. But they’ve broken it.
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
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I do not know off the top of head what is in the oath an incoming government makes to the Governor General, but it seems like passing legislation you actually think is bad should be some kind of breach of it
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'It's not impossible': Willis says National may join other parties to repeal Regulatory Standards Act
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I do not know off the top of head what is in the oath an incoming government makes to the Governor General, but it seems like passing legislation you actually think is bad should be some kind of breach of it
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Authoritarians claim the power not just to tell all of our stories but to select the definitive story that says who we are, what our nature, why we're here, in order to cast themselves as both forever hero protagonists while also endlessly victimized.
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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