Ken Newell in Aotearoa
@kennewell.bsky.social
Photographer. Motorcyclist. Maker of coffee. #teamcustard.
I’m trying not to sign off all my emails this morning with the words”you dumbass”.
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m trying not to sign off all my emails this morning with the words”you dumbass”.
Any govt actively working to make it harder to vote deserves serious scrutiny.
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Any govt actively working to make it harder to vote deserves serious scrutiny.
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One could certainly argue that $20 billion in tax breaks to landlords is an attack on all kiwis, but—
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
One could certainly argue that $20 billion in tax breaks to landlords is an attack on all kiwis, but—
Let’s not forget we are paying $10 a pound for butter because of “international markets” while weather affected farmers are looking for taxpayer help.
October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Let’s not forget we are paying $10 a pound for butter because of “international markets” while weather affected farmers are looking for taxpayer help.
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We have a bunch of anti vax cookers and fundamental Christian nut jobs in power starving kids, science and information whilst at the same time gutting our health services
Supposedly for the good of the country?
Absolutely not , time for a change
#nzpol
Supposedly for the good of the country?
Absolutely not , time for a change
#nzpol
Hospitals, clinics not equipped for measles outbreak - general practitioner
Hospitals, clinics not equipped for measles outbreak - general practitioner
Immunisation Advisory Centre senior adviser Mamaeroa David warns waiting times at hospitals are 3-4 weeks.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
We have a bunch of anti vax cookers and fundamental Christian nut jobs in power starving kids, science and information whilst at the same time gutting our health services
Supposedly for the good of the country?
Absolutely not , time for a change
#nzpol
Supposedly for the good of the country?
Absolutely not , time for a change
#nzpol
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All the best today to everyone striking! ✊️ #Oct23Strike
October 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
All the best today to everyone striking! ✊️ #Oct23Strike
Unions are not shady leftist villains. They are groups of WORKERS that have united as they have no voice alone. They are not the enemy. They are US.
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Unions are not shady leftist villains. They are groups of WORKERS that have united as they have no voice alone. They are not the enemy. They are US.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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You know, if the current NZ govt hadn’t totally gangbanged our economy and disregarded the very people it was their job to protect, i would listen to their reckons about labour’s plan.
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You know, if the current NZ govt hadn’t totally gangbanged our economy and disregarded the very people it was their job to protect, i would listen to their reckons about labour’s plan.
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I will NEVER understand how anyone genuinely believes large-scale public services and infrastructure can be improved by private corporations with purely profit-driven motivations.
They will reduce costs and raise prices as much as possible to extract profit. It's the literal goal.
They will reduce costs and raise prices as much as possible to extract profit. It's the literal goal.
When politicians who are Right-leaning tell you that they can provide the same, or better, public services for lower cost, they are lying.
The NZ NACTFirst coalition has demonstrated that their tax reduction/cost cutting ideology does NOT result in savings + efficiency. It fucks it all.
The NZ NACTFirst coalition has demonstrated that their tax reduction/cost cutting ideology does NOT result in savings + efficiency. It fucks it all.
October 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I will NEVER understand how anyone genuinely believes large-scale public services and infrastructure can be improved by private corporations with purely profit-driven motivations.
They will reduce costs and raise prices as much as possible to extract profit. It's the literal goal.
They will reduce costs and raise prices as much as possible to extract profit. It's the literal goal.
Stick to your guns. After all they may be all you have.
October 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Stick to your guns. After all they may be all you have.
I vote we lobby National to change their name. To “the Intergenerational Wealth Party” I think that’s a better brand for them. They don’t really seem to be interested in us as a nation. Just as ever, my 0.02.
October 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I vote we lobby National to change their name. To “the Intergenerational Wealth Party” I think that’s a better brand for them. They don’t really seem to be interested in us as a nation. Just as ever, my 0.02.
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People and businesses who thought they had it bad during Covid are finding out how it is during bad times when the government actually does abandon you. The differences couldn't be more stark #NZPol
October 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
People and businesses who thought they had it bad during Covid are finding out how it is during bad times when the government actually does abandon you. The differences couldn't be more stark #NZPol
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*THIS* has to be the Youtube vid of the Year.
Enjoy!
(And consider sharing on FB, X/Twitter/Muskrats Ego! Make it go viral!)
youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?...
Enjoy!
(And consider sharing on FB, X/Twitter/Muskrats Ego! Make it go viral!)
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Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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October 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
*THIS* has to be the Youtube vid of the Year.
Enjoy!
(And consider sharing on FB, X/Twitter/Muskrats Ego! Make it go viral!)
youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?...
Enjoy!
(And consider sharing on FB, X/Twitter/Muskrats Ego! Make it go viral!)
youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?...
National’s strategy and perception of the average kiwi hasn’t changed in decades. Serve up the old tropes again and again and hope enough of us are dumb enough to fall for it, or rich enough not to care.
October 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
National’s strategy and perception of the average kiwi hasn’t changed in decades. Serve up the old tropes again and again and hope enough of us are dumb enough to fall for it, or rich enough not to care.
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as john campbell points out, he does this shit to appeal to his idiot base. purely to rark them up
John Campbell: Winston Peters, the 'Whaddaya got?' man
Analysis: TVNZ's Chief Correspondent on the NZ First leader he's been watching in action for three decades.
www.1news.co.nz
October 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
as john campbell points out, he does this shit to appeal to his idiot base. purely to rark them up
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Winston Peters strolled around and anti-vax picnic and spoke with people who had chanted and written threats of hanging on gallows of Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and so on, but this was all OK as it was just harmless opportunistic politicking #NZPol
October 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Winston Peters strolled around and anti-vax picnic and spoke with people who had chanted and written threats of hanging on gallows of Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and so on, but this was all OK as it was just harmless opportunistic politicking #NZPol
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Luxon prefers landlords and tobacco companies to your children. It’s as simple as that.
Vote accordingly
Vote accordingly
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Luxon prefers landlords and tobacco companies to your children. It’s as simple as that.
Vote accordingly
Vote accordingly
Maybe if someone is smashing your windows, it’s time to think about what you are doing? Just a thought.
October 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Maybe if someone is smashing your windows, it’s time to think about what you are doing? Just a thought.
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Wonder what Mister "The world doesn't owe you a living" Luxon would be doing if the Fifth Labour Government had said that to Air New Zealand in 2001 instead of writing a $900m bail-out cheque.
Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol
Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol
October 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wonder what Mister "The world doesn't owe you a living" Luxon would be doing if the Fifth Labour Government had said that to Air New Zealand in 2001 instead of writing a $900m bail-out cheque.
Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol
Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol
Do you think luxon stayed away from the UN to distance himself from his govts cowardly decision because of an election coming?
September 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Do you think luxon stayed away from the UN to distance himself from his govts cowardly decision because of an election coming?