"Spending on key personnel at I Am Hope Foundation rose by 80%"

But teachers deserve less than inflation?

#nzpol

#nzpol Signed as a former high school Art and Art History student.

And how may Palestinian detainees are there - thousands? Are these not hostages?

#nzpol
Just why did kiwis vote for this guy

Here's an idea....instead of spending $700 billion to maybe get some submarines one day, let's massively increase funding for CSIRO, all benefits, fully fund public education including tertiary education and public health. If you don't have basic humanity what are you defending?

#auspol
@albomp

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

Once again this #NZ government has ignored expert advice, which could cost NZers millions! #marine #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/14/g...

"The end result has been that domestic gas prices on Australia’s east coast have trebled, resulting in surging electricity prices that have put Australian households and energy intensive businesses under extreme pressure."

Meanwhile ...

Has Simon Watts, Minister for Climate Change, Or Todd McClay, Minister for Agriculture, or anyone in the cabinet, received advice from officials how this decision
[ www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove... ] may directly effect future NZ exports?

Not all of the bullshit is bovine.
#nzpol

No Ms Stanford, parents should be furious at a govt & a minister who continually under-resource, undermine & undervalue teaching professionals, & having received a 10% MP pay rise refuses to countenance a rise for teachers that even keeps pace with inflation. #nzpol

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MPs should not be getting any pay rises while they are 'saving' and refusing equal pay rises to others in the public service. Some public service salaries are effectively going backwards under the current regime. The PM has had a few pay rises too? Yes I'm furious.

Labour have committed to repealing this within the first 100 days.

Imagine having such an unpopular piece of legislation, be trending downwards in the polls, with a leader uniformly disliked by voters, and STILL letting Seymour coerce you into ramming this through? #nzpol

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill will expose the SPCA to penalty if they remove abused animals; it will expose taxpayers to compensate suspected criminals for confiscated assets; farmers can do as they want; Peter Thiels can build bunkers anywhere. A terrible bill with > 98% opposed. #nzpol

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Under National, gangs are doubling their money as the govt loses experienced cops & police budget constraints hit.
Domestic violence, sexual assaults. meth and cocaine use are all up & thousands of retail crime incidents go uninvestigated #nzpol #kiwi

I didn't get Karen Hay, but probably a bit young to understand her charisma/talent : ) Yes it was watched most Sundays, and then Hammer House afterwards if I was feeling brave (and now it seems so gorgeously camp).

Who remembers this?
😉

The Emu-wren has started the day quite well at #5. Like @hugepossum.bsky.social I'm hoping it can maintain its place in the top 5 today & tomorrow, it needs all the help it can get what with being threatened by space launches etc.
Vote for Bird of the Year here:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NZers are sick of being treated like serfs by this Govt. Fair pay and conditions for these workers please - stem the outward flow across the ditch. Just talked to too qualified and employed homeowners this week who are leaving as they said it's too hard making ends meet and NZ has lost its soul.

Is this really going ahead? Will it be enacted before the next election. Well that's a death knell for the current Govt.

98.7% of approximately 166,300 public submissions opposed the RSB

But the majority of the committee has recommended it go forward with only really cosmetic changes.

Well said - and it equally applies to another warmongering regime that refuses to live peacefully too.

"We know you don't care for international law, and you are incapable of living in peace with your neighbors. Your insane nationalism contains a lust for domination that will not cease until you realize that the age of empires is over and that your empire will not be rebuilt."

Polish FM at the UN.