Andrew Geddis
@acgeddis.bsky.social
Aotearoa NZ based with occasional thoughts on things and views on others.
TVNZ news reporting that Andrew Costar is "on leave" from Chief Executive role at the Social Investment Agency.
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
TVNZ news reporting that Andrew Costar is "on leave" from Chief Executive role at the Social Investment Agency.
What with the folks that will need sacked from this McSkimming coverup and those that should be sacked for adding fake clicks to their breath testing numbers, it's gonna be pretty tricky for Mark Mitchell to get his extra 500 cops, eh?
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
What with the folks that will need sacked from this McSkimming coverup and those that should be sacked for adding fake clicks to their breath testing numbers, it's gonna be pretty tricky for Mark Mitchell to get his extra 500 cops, eh?
That's a shame ... guess there's not enough rubes in AoNZ alone to run the RWNJ grift on.
Candace Owens reportedly cancels New Zealand talk
The controversial American commentator was due to host an event in Auckland in January.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
That's a shame ... guess there's not enough rubes in AoNZ alone to run the RWNJ grift on.
Some ranty reckons from me … to clarify, I am not the former TPM co-leader.
Te Pāti Māori MPs' expulsions questioned by law expert, former co-leader
Te Pāti Māori MPs' expulsions questioned by law expert, former co-leader
MPs Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris have called their expulsions "unconstitutional".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Some ranty reckons from me … to clarify, I am not the former TPM co-leader.
Posting on US politics from AoNZ is a mugs game, but can't help read this and be reminded of the old "fool me once, shame on you ... fool me twice, call me a centrist Democrat" line.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Posting on US politics from AoNZ is a mugs game, but can't help read this and be reminded of the old "fool me once, shame on you ... fool me twice, call me a centrist Democrat" line.
Oh boy ... the whole TPM expulsion issue looks messy (legally wise, let alone politically ... let alone in terms of party kawa). The Party constitution has a whole section on "Resolution of Differences and Disputes" requiring complaints to be sent to different bodies, etc ...
assets.nationbuilder.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Oh boy ... the whole TPM expulsion issue looks messy (legally wise, let alone politically ... let alone in terms of party kawa). The Party constitution has a whole section on "Resolution of Differences and Disputes" requiring complaints to be sent to different bodies, etc ...
This, from OUSA's President, is very good and warrants reading:
"For decades, governments of every stripe have treated universities as businesses to be managed rather than institutions of learning and curiosity. ... Students are rebranded as customers, research, degrees and graduates as outputs."
"For decades, governments of every stripe have treated universities as businesses to be managed rather than institutions of learning and curiosity. ... Students are rebranded as customers, research, degrees and graduates as outputs."
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This, from OUSA's President, is very good and warrants reading:
"For decades, governments of every stripe have treated universities as businesses to be managed rather than institutions of learning and curiosity. ... Students are rebranded as customers, research, degrees and graduates as outputs."
"For decades, governments of every stripe have treated universities as businesses to be managed rather than institutions of learning and curiosity. ... Students are rebranded as customers, research, degrees and graduates as outputs."
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Were I to offer advice here, it would be to get into the High Court ASAP to seek a temporary injunction preventing this expulsion in order to complicate TPM being able to claim that there has been a "distortion of proportionality" in the House (thus enabling it to use the Party Hopping law).
Were I to offer advice here, it would be to get into the High Court ASAP to seek a temporary injunction preventing this expulsion in order to complicate TPM being able to claim that there has been a "distortion of proportionality" in the House (thus enabling it to use the Party Hopping law).
Te Pāti Māori expels Tākuta Ferris and Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
'Rogue' MPs Tākuta Ferris and Mariameno Kapa-Kingi have called their immediate expulsion from the party unconstitutional.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Were I to offer advice here, it would be to get into the High Court ASAP to seek a temporary injunction preventing this expulsion in order to complicate TPM being able to claim that there has been a "distortion of proportionality" in the House (thus enabling it to use the Party Hopping law).
Were I to offer advice here, it would be to get into the High Court ASAP to seek a temporary injunction preventing this expulsion in order to complicate TPM being able to claim that there has been a "distortion of proportionality" in the House (thus enabling it to use the Party Hopping law).
Quick alternate view on this story from someone who sat the exam (+ her friends): “literally no-one GAF … it was the most interesting because it had the most language features to discuss.”
Maybe RNZ (and those quoted) just need to take a deep breath and chill out a bit?
Maybe RNZ (and those quoted) just need to take a deep breath and chill out a bit?
English exam asks students to write about long-haired boy being bullied, forced to drop pants
English exam asks students to write about long-haired boy being bullied, forced to drop pants
A student and teacher spoken to by RNZ said the text, which appeared in the NCEA level 2 exam, made them feel very uncomfortable.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Quick alternate view on this story from someone who sat the exam (+ her friends): “literally no-one GAF … it was the most interesting because it had the most language features to discuss.”
Maybe RNZ (and those quoted) just need to take a deep breath and chill out a bit?
Maybe RNZ (and those quoted) just need to take a deep breath and chill out a bit?
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This would appear to interfere with access to Parliament (eg to ask your local MP to present a petition to the House) so someone should complain to the Privileges Committee? Maybe they can ask their local MP to raise the issue?
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This would appear to interfere with access to Parliament (eg to ask your local MP to present a petition to the House) so someone should complain to the Privileges Committee? Maybe they can ask their local MP to raise the issue?
It should be requirement that any MP's office paid for by Parliamentary Services be accessible from a public place - the effect of this privately issued trespass notice is that all who have received them cannot now visit the MP's office at all (for protest or other reasons) for a 2 year period.
Several protesters were trespassed from Fendalton Mall for attempting to hold the government to account for their non-actions
#NZPol
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#NZPol
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Police anti-democratic overreach targets protesters outside National MP offices — PSNA
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa 6 November 2025 Media Release: Police anti-democratic overreach targets protesters outside National MP offices PSNA is accusing Christchurch police...
www.psna.nz
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It should be requirement that any MP's office paid for by Parliamentary Services be accessible from a public place - the effect of this privately issued trespass notice is that all who have received them cannot now visit the MP's office at all (for protest or other reasons) for a 2 year period.
I get concerns about expanding laws relating to protest but I reiterate my view that this Bill simply isn't that bad. At the outset, let me note that there is simply no way that "this one-woman protest" will be illegal under the proposed law. 🧵
Why this one-woman protest outside the PM’s residence could soon be illegal
It’s the PM’s official Wellington residence and it’s funded by taxpayers but soon it could be a crime to protest outside it. Meet the solo protester who doesn’t think that’s fair.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I get concerns about expanding laws relating to protest but I reiterate my view that this Bill simply isn't that bad. At the outset, let me note that there is simply no way that "this one-woman protest" will be illegal under the proposed law. 🧵
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I asked and I received.
Excellent stuff.
Excellent stuff.
NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills
NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I asked and I received.
Excellent stuff.
Excellent stuff.
Look, anyone with the most basic understanding of supply and demand would realise that should the existing ecosphere become unsuitable to conduct business in, the market will provide an alternative. Why do you think Musk is so keen to get to Mars?
The capitalists who think the market is more important than the environment will be surprised when the collapse of environment renders the existence of the market null and void
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Look, anyone with the most basic understanding of supply and demand would realise that should the existing ecosphere become unsuitable to conduct business in, the market will provide an alternative. Why do you think Musk is so keen to get to Mars?
Lisa Owen on Checkpoint is ROASTING the NZ Police spokeswoman over the cops who faked indicative breath tests … any defence lawyer going forward should open their examination of police witnesses with “are you one of the 120 who just makes stuff up?”
November 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Lisa Owen on Checkpoint is ROASTING the NZ Police spokeswoman over the cops who faked indicative breath tests … any defence lawyer going forward should open their examination of police witnesses with “are you one of the 120 who just makes stuff up?”
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There's a big lesson in this for #Election26: get your people on the electoral roll and make sure their details are correct...
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
There's a big lesson in this for #Election26: get your people on the electoral roll and make sure their details are correct...
If this were a bunch of Pakeha farmers having to go back to court to relitigate an award of water rights because the government had changed allocation rules the media, business and legal establishments would be united in decrying it as the death of the rule of law.
Foreshore and seabed: ‘Exhausted’ Sth Isl group sent back to court after customary rights win
The Government says MACA changes were not a decision made lightly.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If this were a bunch of Pakeha farmers having to go back to court to relitigate an award of water rights because the government had changed allocation rules the media, business and legal establishments would be united in decrying it as the death of the rule of law.
Having been shown a free way to access the KC-formerly-known-as-LADY-Deborah Chambers' views, I can report that the difference is that we currently tax bank interest and not increases in real property values and this is what people accept and changing it would be bad because Singapore doesn't.
I don't have premium access and don't care enough to pay to read reckons like these, but if DC KC can explain why a CGT is "punishing thrift" while taxing the interest paid on a term deposit isn't then she's probably worth whatever hourly rate she charges.
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Having been shown a free way to access the KC-formerly-known-as-LADY-Deborah Chambers' views, I can report that the difference is that we currently tax bank interest and not increases in real property values and this is what people accept and changing it would be bad because Singapore doesn't.
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Unlike Andrew I *did* read it and now everything smells like pennies and burnt toast.
I don't have premium access and don't care enough to pay to read reckons like these, but if DC KC can explain why a CGT is "punishing thrift" while taxing the interest paid on a term deposit isn't then she's probably worth whatever hourly rate she charges.
November 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Unlike Andrew I *did* read it and now everything smells like pennies and burnt toast.
I don't have premium access and don't care enough to pay to read reckons like these, but if DC KC can explain why a CGT is "punishing thrift" while taxing the interest paid on a term deposit isn't then she's probably worth whatever hourly rate she charges.
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I don't have premium access and don't care enough to pay to read reckons like these, but if DC KC can explain why a CGT is "punishing thrift" while taxing the interest paid on a term deposit isn't then she's probably worth whatever hourly rate she charges.
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To the person who writes nasty messages to NZLII: fuck off.
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
To the person who writes nasty messages to NZLII: fuck off.
I assumed that whole "men think about the Roman Empire every day" kerfuffle a few years ago was just more social media nonsense but apparently some men literally will start a charter school rather than confront just how weird it is to do that ...
A new school built on ‘western civilisation’ is coming to Wellington
The former Free Speech union boss says he’s excited to have a school that could “remember the virtue of civilisation that has come from the West”.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I assumed that whole "men think about the Roman Empire every day" kerfuffle a few years ago was just more social media nonsense but apparently some men literally will start a charter school rather than confront just how weird it is to do that ...
The Andrew formerly known as Prince ...
Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge
King’s brother will surrender lease and become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The Andrew formerly known as Prince ...
My daughter is reporting important news from the mean streets of the citizens’ republic of Ōtepoti…
“BRUH A TESLA JUST DROVE PAST AND SOMEONE HAD PAINTED FUCK ELON ON THE SIDE OF IT”
“BRUH A TESLA JUST DROVE PAST AND SOMEONE HAD PAINTED FUCK ELON ON THE SIDE OF IT”
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My daughter is reporting important news from the mean streets of the citizens’ republic of Ōtepoti…
“BRUH A TESLA JUST DROVE PAST AND SOMEONE HAD PAINTED FUCK ELON ON THE SIDE OF IT”
“BRUH A TESLA JUST DROVE PAST AND SOMEONE HAD PAINTED FUCK ELON ON THE SIDE OF IT”
If this does escalate into a full-on legal dispute, I suspect it will not be resolved easily. The party constitution is ... not well constructed or expressed. For instance, there is no express power in it to "suspend" an MP or a party membership.
Te Pāti Māori MP promises legal fight against suspension
The newest Te Pāti Māori MP is supporting her colleague Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, who faces suspension from the party.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If this does escalate into a full-on legal dispute, I suspect it will not be resolved easily. The party constitution is ... not well constructed or expressed. For instance, there is no express power in it to "suspend" an MP or a party membership.