PeteO
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Old. lost, confused. Here for the cat pictures
Irony is lost on Minister Bishop - a senior Minister in Govt who has passed more regulation under urgency than any other NZ Govt ever when he realises people have to follow regulation
#nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/14/u...
#nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/14/u...
'Utter nonsense': Wildly popular night markets cancelled
Chris Bishop said it was "bureaucracy gone mad" after the weekly event was shut down due to safety and compliance concerns.
www.1news.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Irony is lost on Minister Bishop - a senior Minister in Govt who has passed more regulation under urgency than any other NZ Govt ever when he realises people have to follow regulation
#nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/14/u...
#nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/14/u...
"Charter School Agency signed sports school contract with non-existent trust"
More great work happening under Minister Seymour. He really does have a special knack for not getting things right #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
More great work happening under Minister Seymour. He really does have a special knack for not getting things right #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Charter School Agency signed sports school contract with non-existent trust
The contract would see a secondary school with a focus on young athletes in Years 11-13 established in Trentham, near Wellington, next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"Charter School Agency signed sports school contract with non-existent trust"
More great work happening under Minister Seymour. He really does have a special knack for not getting things right #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
More great work happening under Minister Seymour. He really does have a special knack for not getting things right #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
For those people saying it was just the previous senior management, and an email policy that hide anything incriminating from the Minister:
"Over 100 police officers investigated after 30,000 breath tests falsified"
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
"Over 100 police officers investigated after 30,000 breath tests falsified"
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
For those people saying it was just the previous senior management, and an email policy that hide anything incriminating from the Minister:
"Over 100 police officers investigated after 30,000 breath tests falsified"
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
"Over 100 police officers investigated after 30,000 breath tests falsified"
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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breathalyser reports. I mean, we're not all paedophiles preying on the general populace from positions of power, but maybe we need a cold, hard, look in the societal mirror.
Note: it is not drag queens or women doing this stuff so maybe men should take the longest, coldest look.
Note: it is not drag queens or women doing this stuff so maybe men should take the longest, coldest look.
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
breathalyser reports. I mean, we're not all paedophiles preying on the general populace from positions of power, but maybe we need a cold, hard, look in the societal mirror.
Note: it is not drag queens or women doing this stuff so maybe men should take the longest, coldest look.
Note: it is not drag queens or women doing this stuff so maybe men should take the longest, coldest look.
"Aotearoa plummets from 2nd to 53rd in Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index ranking"
NZ getting back on track - to those times when tobacco lobbyists had free reign #nzpol
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/aot...
NZ getting back on track - to those times when tobacco lobbyists had free reign #nzpol
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/aot...
Aotearoa plummets from 2nd to 53rd in Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index ranking
Recent policy changes have led to a dramatic drop in NZ’s global ranking for tobacco interference protection.
www.phcc.org.nz
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
"Aotearoa plummets from 2nd to 53rd in Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index ranking"
NZ getting back on track - to those times when tobacco lobbyists had free reign #nzpol
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/aot...
NZ getting back on track - to those times when tobacco lobbyists had free reign #nzpol
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/aot...
"It’s about keeping our cities moving – whether you’re a parent on the school run, a tradie heading to a job, or a truckie delivering exports to port"
But no, Minister Bishop didn't mean cycleways or improved public transport. He means a new tax.
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/11/traf...
#nzpol
But no, Minister Bishop didn't mean cycleways or improved public transport. He means a new tax.
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/11/traf...
#nzpol
auckland.scoop.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
"It’s about keeping our cities moving – whether you’re a parent on the school run, a tradie heading to a job, or a truckie delivering exports to port"
But no, Minister Bishop didn't mean cycleways or improved public transport. He means a new tax.
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/11/traf...
#nzpol
But no, Minister Bishop didn't mean cycleways or improved public transport. He means a new tax.
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/11/traf...
#nzpol
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"Technology will solve it" is the blind faith "Jesus will save us" used to have the monopoly on.
November 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
"Technology will solve it" is the blind faith "Jesus will save us" used to have the monopoly on.
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This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...
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National Party spending ~$4 billion on a Wellington tunnel so they can get to the airport faster. Meanwhile they cancelled ferries & two new ports for the North-South link which would have cost half of that.
Consultant fees to date: $700m #nzpol #kiwi
Consultant fees to date: $700m #nzpol #kiwi
Govt unveils $3.8b plan for second Mt Vic tunnel, Wellington roading upgrades
Work is expected to start in 2026 after consents are fast-tracked next year.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#nzpol
NZ is tired of hearing the denigration and blaming language of BvV, Brown, Luxon, Bishop etc towards Public Sector unions, doctors, nurses, teachers & other critical workers who they refuse to pay fairly or at least in line with inflation.
Meanwhile check out politicians' pay and %pay rises
NZ is tired of hearing the denigration and blaming language of BvV, Brown, Luxon, Bishop etc towards Public Sector unions, doctors, nurses, teachers & other critical workers who they refuse to pay fairly or at least in line with inflation.
Meanwhile check out politicians' pay and %pay rises
October 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#nzpol
NZ is tired of hearing the denigration and blaming language of BvV, Brown, Luxon, Bishop etc towards Public Sector unions, doctors, nurses, teachers & other critical workers who they refuse to pay fairly or at least in line with inflation.
Meanwhile check out politicians' pay and %pay rises
NZ is tired of hearing the denigration and blaming language of BvV, Brown, Luxon, Bishop etc towards Public Sector unions, doctors, nurses, teachers & other critical workers who they refuse to pay fairly or at least in line with inflation.
Meanwhile check out politicians' pay and %pay rises
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Under funding our services is also politically motivated.
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Under funding our services is also politically motivated.
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Auckland unemployment 10 year record high. Auckland business failures 10 year record high. #backontrack #nzpol
October 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Auckland unemployment 10 year record high. Auckland business failures 10 year record high. #backontrack #nzpol
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Judith Collins laments the financial situation in her “open letter”, claiming it's due to Labour. She ignores the fact that John Key left a $60b debt 22% of GDP while privatising assets & by 2023 it was 18% GDP with a nominal increase. Debt isn't bad in itself but National's lies are #nzpol
BREAKING: Judith Collins' Dirty Politics Before Mega-Strike
The senior National Party Cabinet Minister has penned an "Open letter to the people of New Zealand" on the New Zealand Government's official website
mountaintui.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Judith Collins laments the financial situation in her “open letter”, claiming it's due to Labour. She ignores the fact that John Key left a $60b debt 22% of GDP while privatising assets & by 2023 it was 18% GDP with a nominal increase. Debt isn't bad in itself but National's lies are #nzpol
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Meanwhile, the regime's "redress scheme" for abuse in care - a crime against humanity - requires criminal background checks and a presumption against any redress for serious sexuala nd violent offenders (which the state created with its abuse) www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
Redress System for Abuse in Care Bill 209-1 (2025), Government Bill Contents – New Zealand Legislation
www.legislation.govt.nz
October 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Meanwhile, the regime's "redress scheme" for abuse in care - a crime against humanity - requires criminal background checks and a presumption against any redress for serious sexuala nd violent offenders (which the state created with its abuse) www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
Alternatively, people could realise that road cones are a red herring, and are not the reason NZ has increasing debt, increasing unemployment, low productivity
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
October 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Alternatively, people could realise that road cones are a red herring, and are not the reason NZ has increasing debt, increasing unemployment, low productivity
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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“Shane Jones throws a tantrum that anyone else or any other body can make rules for the fishing industry that is bribing the shit out of him, and demands that all authority over fisheries be placed in his hands so he can make more money”
- Corrected the headline
- Corrected the headline
October 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Shane Jones throws a tantrum that anyone else or any other body can make rules for the fishing industry that is bribing the shit out of him, and demands that all authority over fisheries be placed in his hands so he can make more money”
- Corrected the headline
- Corrected the headline
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“With COVID, vaccines, Lyme disease, any of it — I’m not your enemy,” I told my seatmate as we were getting ready to disembark. “And I know you’re not the enemy, either.”
“True,” he agreed. “But they always want to make someone your enemy.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...
“True,” he agreed. “But they always want to make someone your enemy.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...
I Sat Next To An Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorist On A Plane. Then I Told Him What I Do For A Living.
"As someone who recently completed 15 years of training to become an infectious diseases physician-scientist, I can’t avoid these conversations."
www.huffpost.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
“With COVID, vaccines, Lyme disease, any of it — I’m not your enemy,” I told my seatmate as we were getting ready to disembark. “And I know you’re not the enemy, either.”
“True,” he agreed. “But they always want to make someone your enemy.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...
“True,” he agreed. “But they always want to make someone your enemy.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...
Two lessons I have learnt from the local body elections
- sometimes in a democracy there is no real choice
- being able to use AI made selecting candidates so much faster than previous years of reviewing to try to figure out which of them is a nut job
- sometimes in a democracy there is no real choice
- being able to use AI made selecting candidates so much faster than previous years of reviewing to try to figure out which of them is a nut job
October 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Two lessons I have learnt from the local body elections
- sometimes in a democracy there is no real choice
- being able to use AI made selecting candidates so much faster than previous years of reviewing to try to figure out which of them is a nut job
- sometimes in a democracy there is no real choice
- being able to use AI made selecting candidates so much faster than previous years of reviewing to try to figure out which of them is a nut job
A comparison:
20% reoffending vs 70% reoffending
No prizes for guessing which one our PM supports
Our kids are too important to be political pawns. Our PM needs to realise that some of them may not actually move to Australia, and these are our future citizens
#nzpol #bootcamps
20% reoffending vs 70% reoffending
No prizes for guessing which one our PM supports
Our kids are too important to be political pawns. Our PM needs to realise that some of them may not actually move to Australia, and these are our future citizens
#nzpol #bootcamps
October 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A comparison:
20% reoffending vs 70% reoffending
No prizes for guessing which one our PM supports
Our kids are too important to be political pawns. Our PM needs to realise that some of them may not actually move to Australia, and these are our future citizens
#nzpol #bootcamps
20% reoffending vs 70% reoffending
No prizes for guessing which one our PM supports
Our kids are too important to be political pawns. Our PM needs to realise that some of them may not actually move to Australia, and these are our future citizens
#nzpol #bootcamps
ACT sinking to TPM levels in the latest Curia poll at www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT
They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance
#nzpol
Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT
They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance
#nzpol
October 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
ACT sinking to TPM levels in the latest Curia poll at www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT
They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance
#nzpol
Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT
They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance
#nzpol
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PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia. Here’s my daily Chorus email newsletter, video and podcast. The newsletter is open to all, while the full video and podcast are for paying subscribers. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/pm-tells-j...
PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia.
PM says: "If you want a job, you go where the jobs are." He points to 'plenty of jobs' in horticulture in Hawkes Bay. Hipkins says: "NZers are hearing that signal & leaving the country - 200 a day."
thekaka.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia. Here’s my daily Chorus email newsletter, video and podcast. The newsletter is open to all, while the full video and podcast are for paying subscribers. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/pm-tells-j...
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Hey remember when Brooke van Velden pretended she was really shocked to be called a cunt about stealing women's money and made a big song and dance of it in Parliament? But it didn't work and none of us forgot that she stole our money?
Thinking about that for no reason in particular #nzpol
Thinking about that for no reason in particular #nzpol
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Hey remember when Brooke van Velden pretended she was really shocked to be called a cunt about stealing women's money and made a big song and dance of it in Parliament? But it didn't work and none of us forgot that she stole our money?
Thinking about that for no reason in particular #nzpol
Thinking about that for no reason in particular #nzpol
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If you will be 18YO by NZ Election 2026, or know anyone in this category, please remind them to enrol to vote. Make sure they have a say on NZ Govt proposal to remove social safety net of Unemployment Benefit for 18 + 19YOs.
Excuse is that parents can pay 🙄
#NZpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Excuse is that parents can pay 🙄
#NZpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
‘The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year
Only teenagers from “very low income” families will be eligible for the Jobseeker benefit, with Social Development Minister Louise Upston describing welfare for young people as a “trap”. But other in...
www.stuff.co.nz
October 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If you will be 18YO by NZ Election 2026, or know anyone in this category, please remind them to enrol to vote. Make sure they have a say on NZ Govt proposal to remove social safety net of Unemployment Benefit for 18 + 19YOs.
Excuse is that parents can pay 🙄
#NZpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Excuse is that parents can pay 🙄
#NZpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
"We are not embracing enough technology " (source: NZ PM Luxon)
"We've had no practice on the Parliament by Zoom" (source NZ Minister Collins, justifying why she traveled during pandemic lockdown, prior to becoming Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology)
#nzpol #goldfish
"We've had no practice on the Parliament by Zoom" (source NZ Minister Collins, justifying why she traveled during pandemic lockdown, prior to becoming Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology)
#nzpol #goldfish
October 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM