his sacking of richardson once he realised her devilish plans (by which time it was too late), his later regret, his reverence (grief?) for the lost paradise of the decent society, his religiosity, his dealings with mr peters, his later policies that clark built upon, getting rolled, there’s a lot x

gee whiz mr bolger was a complex character, but you have to admire the unbreakable conviction on the treaty partnership staring down his own cabinet, his party, his social base, and a majority of new zealanders. no way a politician would have the courage to do the same today x

registered “job done” or felt slightly misled. now that a very real threat is before us in the MCA amendments the organisers are infighting, and the anger and sense of threat has entirely dissipated. no doubt the amendment will now pass easily

i maintained at the time the historic march against the treaty principles bill would have the inevitable effect of actually demobilising people: it misdirected organising energy and collective anger toward a bill that was designed to fail. when it failed as was always intended many people either

do your job !!!

no not like that ?!?!

based henry cooke:

1) reports on shocking infighting in TPM, *gets told to start reporting on the government*

2) reports on a series of disastrous polls for the leading party in government, *gets told to start reporting on TPM* lol

while the amendment is before parliament rawiri is on his way to an arts festival in china, debbie is defending a “fact sheet” attacking the former whip and her son, takuta moved a motion of no confidence in the party president only days ago. just not a serious party

the government is reforming the legislation that TPM was born from, reverting it to a position closer to the foreshore and seabed act than the marine and coastal area act finlayson intended. this is the most significant reform to māori rights in a generation, yet:

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urbanists are 100% correct on their one Thing but have the worst opinions and the most off putting manner on literally every other thing

the kawerau district is both extremely left wing and extremely māori

watching rawiri literally pull debbie away to stop her answering a legitimate question. like high school bully tactics

sorry i know i’m TPM’s biggest hater (rawiri packing a sad because maiki asked a legitimate question lol) but the american style psychobabble about believing in yourself is so weird. people are starving man

so bad eh. he’s taken the worst edges of nationalism (racism against outsiders) and quadrupled down on it. we’re not down south anymore but when rino was the MP you knew he was working out in the electorate, not on social media

imagine being the MP for southern māori and thinking the party of eruera tirikatene doesn’t have the right to stand in it. idiot

TPM probably leaking the internal budgeting details of their own MP. they’re not beating the “toxic” allegations

Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna

"Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications"

Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?

this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol

the party portrays itself as the only legitimate representative of māori, and by implication any māori who doesn’t support it must be plastic, a 5 minute māori etc… the rhetoric they deployed against labour in the tamaki byelection (takuta’s racism aside) was truly shocking

hate to say it but people like sina and i who’ve been around more than 5 minutes have been warning about the direction TPM’s been travelling in since at least 2023. it’s a highly divisive party, especially within māori society itself. solidarity with eru www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

essential journalism by mani dunlop www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/02/t...

almost 4

having dynamic performance conversations with miriama jean

confirmed today