Michael
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#ChrisBishop continues fire sale of #KaingaOra assets-ending plans for a 10storey social housing block in Ak & selling the land cheaply to property developers who donated to Nats & RW Coalition. Meanwhile, state housing list=20,000 & #homelessness increases in #NZ www.oneroof.co.nz/news/knock-o...
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
#ChrisBishop continues fire sale of #KaingaOra assets-ending plans for a 10storey social housing block in Ak & selling the land cheaply to property developers who donated to Nats & RW Coalition. Meanwhile, state housing list=20,000 & #homelessness increases in #NZ www.oneroof.co.nz/news/knock-o...
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Oof, this one would have stung.
Clearly those violent unionists are enthusiastically keeping that bed leg swinging! 😎😂 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #ToitūTeTiriti
Clearly those violent unionists are enthusiastically keeping that bed leg swinging! 😎😂 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #ToitūTeTiriti
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Oof, this one would have stung.
Clearly those violent unionists are enthusiastically keeping that bed leg swinging! 😎😂 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #ToitūTeTiriti
Clearly those violent unionists are enthusiastically keeping that bed leg swinging! 😎😂 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #ToitūTeTiriti
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A new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives looked at 25 countries and found those with more privatized health care fared worse on seven mortality indicators. The report comes as several provinces pursue privatizing some health-care services.
#cdnpoli #skpoli
#cdnpoli #skpoli
Study links health-care privatization with higher mortality rates
A new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives looked at 25 countries and found those with more privatized health care fared worse on seven mortality indicators. The report comes as s...
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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#GP owners #GenPro want a separate primary health organisation after big corporates make their own #PHO: #GreenCross & #Tend Corporates #privatisation of #NZHealth #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
GP owners want separate primary health organisation after big corporates make their own
Two large corporate healthcare providers have received approval from Health NZ to set up their own primary health organisations.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
#GP owners #GenPro want a separate primary health organisation after big corporates make their own #PHO: #GreenCross & #Tend Corporates #privatisation of #NZHealth #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Bonsai awakens for another Summer. So comforting to know it will probably out last so many of the bastards around the world who are making misery a part of so many people's lives. Looking at you , coalition of crap.
October 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Bonsai awakens for another Summer. So comforting to know it will probably out last so many of the bastards around the world who are making misery a part of so many people's lives. Looking at you , coalition of crap.
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Excellent cartoon by fellow Listener cartoonist Anthony Ellison #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
Anthony Ellison’s Cartoon of the Week
Anthony Ellison shares his take on the week in politics.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Excellent cartoon by fellow Listener cartoonist Anthony Ellison #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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At the height of the rail compatible vs not rail compatible argument when Nicola Willis was still talking about Toyota Corollas, Don Braid from Mainfreight was on RNZ explaining that if the ferries were not rail compatible it would mean 10,000 more trucks on the roads #NZPol
Concerns new Cook Strait ferries won't be rail capable
The loss of ferries that can carry rail vehicles will mean more trucks on the roads, advocacy group says.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
At the height of the rail compatible vs not rail compatible argument when Nicola Willis was still talking about Toyota Corollas, Don Braid from Mainfreight was on RNZ explaining that if the ferries were not rail compatible it would mean 10,000 more trucks on the roads #NZPol
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At a time when everyone is seeing straight through this government, her take is completely outdated and irrelevant. Time to retire Audrey.
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
At a time when everyone is seeing straight through this government, her take is completely outdated and irrelevant. Time to retire Audrey.
Rob Campbell's piece in the Newsroom today is one of the best essays yet on our current politics It is both clear and easily understood, but also one of the most chilling assessments of where we are and the direction being taken.. we have one brief window of opportunity to stop this. ELECTION.
August 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Rob Campbell's piece in the Newsroom today is one of the best essays yet on our current politics It is both clear and easily understood, but also one of the most chilling assessments of where we are and the direction being taken.. we have one brief window of opportunity to stop this. ELECTION.
Politics is giving me heartburn. Taking a break to make tables for my bonsai trees. Creative acts helps with keeping perspective. Come Spring, trees will be proud to sit on these.
August 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Politics is giving me heartburn. Taking a break to make tables for my bonsai trees. Creative acts helps with keeping perspective. Come Spring, trees will be proud to sit on these.
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Elizabeth Rata is coaching Erica Stanford on how "to end de-colonisation's success"
Rata is a regular on Plunket's 'The Platform' and has previously written a Decolonisation Essay for 'The Democracy Project' (now "Integrity Institute)
#nzpol
Rata is a regular on Plunket's 'The Platform' and has previously written a Decolonisation Essay for 'The Democracy Project' (now "Integrity Institute)
#nzpol
Erica Stanford Advisor: Let's "end decolonisation's success"
Yesterday, news came that the Ministry of Education stopped publishing ‘About the Marae’, ostensibly because there were “too many Māori words” embedded within the book.
mountaintui.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Elizabeth Rata is coaching Erica Stanford on how "to end de-colonisation's success"
Rata is a regular on Plunket's 'The Platform' and has previously written a Decolonisation Essay for 'The Democracy Project' (now "Integrity Institute)
#nzpol
Rata is a regular on Plunket's 'The Platform' and has previously written a Decolonisation Essay for 'The Democracy Project' (now "Integrity Institute)
#nzpol
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To all the kiwis of the world, from someone actively planning to flee the u.s. by any means possible, GET THE F.B.I. THE FUCK OUT OF AOTEAROA.
August 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
To all the kiwis of the world, from someone actively planning to flee the u.s. by any means possible, GET THE F.B.I. THE FUCK OUT OF AOTEAROA.
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I think this is probably the kind of thing that needs more public buy-in, eh? Especially in the current climate. An office upgrade and a permanent position?? Wtf are the FBI even doing here in the first place?
This is institutionalised foreign interference.
This is institutionalised foreign interference.
July 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I think this is probably the kind of thing that needs more public buy-in, eh? Especially in the current climate. An office upgrade and a permanent position?? Wtf are the FBI even doing here in the first place?
This is institutionalised foreign interference.
This is institutionalised foreign interference.
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This is incredibly petty and wasteful. All so they can do a bit of racist posturing for their most revanchist base.
The headline calls it a small change, but it actually carries a large symbolic and cultural weight.
The changes won't come into effect until 2027, so get in before then.
#nzpol
The headline calls it a small change, but it actually carries a large symbolic and cultural weight.
The changes won't come into effect until 2027, so get in before then.
#nzpol
The small change confirmed for the NZ passport
The Minister in charge says the passport is in the process of being changed to have the English words appear above the te reo Māori.
www.stuff.co.nz
July 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is incredibly petty and wasteful. All so they can do a bit of racist posturing for their most revanchist base.
The headline calls it a small change, but it actually carries a large symbolic and cultural weight.
The changes won't come into effect until 2027, so get in before then.
#nzpol
The headline calls it a small change, but it actually carries a large symbolic and cultural weight.
The changes won't come into effect until 2027, so get in before then.
#nzpol
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More topical stuff, in case NZ Labour think of backing out...
#nzpol
#nzpol
🔴The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent”
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent”
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
bylinetimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
More topical stuff, in case NZ Labour think of backing out...
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Share widely. The facts are damning.
#nzpol #warriors #upthewahs #fightfacism #onetermgovernment #kiwi #nzbirds #nzfashion #toitutetiriti
#nzpol #warriors #upthewahs #fightfacism #onetermgovernment #kiwi #nzbirds #nzfashion #toitutetiriti
June 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Share widely. The facts are damning.
#nzpol #warriors #upthewahs #fightfacism #onetermgovernment #kiwi #nzbirds #nzfashion #toitutetiriti
#nzpol #warriors #upthewahs #fightfacism #onetermgovernment #kiwi #nzbirds #nzfashion #toitutetiriti
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Each to their own, but few things are less comfortable than an inner-circle heavyweight government Minister letting rip while liquored up in public.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Luxon 'comfortable' with Chris Bishop's response after Aotearoa Music Awards 'rant'
The PM says the senior Cabinet minister had already corrected himself and said he should have kept his thoughts to himself.
www.rnz.co.nz
June 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Each to their own, but few things are less comfortable than an inner-circle heavyweight government Minister letting rip while liquored up in public.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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One of Mountsin Tui's best - and most damning - blogposts yet. This is the kind of insight and analysis missing from msm.
open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
Nicola Willis's Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government
Current & planned debt will surpass Labour's full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson's bar Covid.
open.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One of Mountsin Tui's best - and most damning - blogposts yet. This is the kind of insight and analysis missing from msm.
open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
open.substack.com/pub/mountain...
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A must-read. Well done again, Andrea Vance.
"C... is an incendiary word. But that doesn’t mean its use is indefensible — especially where the point is to expose entrenched misogyny and political betrayal."
www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
"C... is an incendiary word. But that doesn’t mean its use is indefensible — especially where the point is to expose entrenched misogyny and political betrayal."
www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
I said what I said. And I’m sorry... sort of
OPINION: Choreographed fragility and weaponised offence from female MPs over my use of a rude word has served as a distraction from their own actions.
www.thepress.co.nz
May 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A must-read. Well done again, Andrea Vance.
"C... is an incendiary word. But that doesn’t mean its use is indefensible — especially where the point is to expose entrenched misogyny and political betrayal."
www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
"C... is an incendiary word. But that doesn’t mean its use is indefensible — especially where the point is to expose entrenched misogyny and political betrayal."
www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
Rangitoto Island ( Auckland NZ) watching over two very important women. Grandma and granddaughter . This old man is so lucky to have such women accept him as a friend.
April 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Rangitoto Island ( Auckland NZ) watching over two very important women. Grandma and granddaughter . This old man is so lucky to have such women accept him as a friend.
Prisoner voting ban to be brought back - Paul Goldmsith
Politics
9 mins ago
As voting is an intrinsic right of every citizen , surely he must first pass bill that prison sentence includes loss of citizenship. Right to vote is not dependent on anything except citizenship.
Politics
9 mins ago
As voting is an intrinsic right of every citizen , surely he must first pass bill that prison sentence includes loss of citizenship. Right to vote is not dependent on anything except citizenship.
April 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Prisoner voting ban to be brought back - Paul Goldmsith
Politics
9 mins ago
As voting is an intrinsic right of every citizen , surely he must first pass bill that prison sentence includes loss of citizenship. Right to vote is not dependent on anything except citizenship.
Politics
9 mins ago
As voting is an intrinsic right of every citizen , surely he must first pass bill that prison sentence includes loss of citizenship. Right to vote is not dependent on anything except citizenship.
When need to be with myself gets strong.
April 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
When need to be with myself gets strong.