In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands.

This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol

This has been the vicious fucking thing about the "Jobseeker Benefit" ever since Paula Bennett coined it in 2013

In addition to keeping people in poverty it's been a term of propaganda forcing us all to accept the frame of welfare as economic obligation instead of social support

#nzpol

Episode 25 of Locked Out with Craig Renney looks at the singularly most idiotic policy launched yet by the government. Visible from space levels of moronic. Have watch now 😄

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Activist Yvonne Ridley, who was abducted as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, says she would rather spend 2 months arrested by the Taliban, who has arrested her before, than two days with the Israelis

Video: @yvonneridley

#NZPol

Then burn it down and implement Matike Mai recommendations in full.

Here are 3 ideas to make Parliament reflect Aotearoa better:
1. Hang a copy of Te Tiriti in the debating chamber as a reminder of what is at our foundation.
2. Create space for haka to be performed in the debating chamber.
2. Allow haka from the public gallery with permission.
#nzpol

Very true. The haka is not just used to challenge. It is used to honour, & to support amongst other things. Having it welcomed in Parliament would show we are a truly South Pacific nation not threatened by displays of our indigenous culture. Time we grew up. #nzpol

We live in a Māori nation. Our Parliament should reflect that more. The haka from the public gallery is an appropriate response to a maiden speech. Suspended Parliament only reminds Māori that they are not welcome to be authentically themselves there. #nzpol

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This sucks. This sucks SO much. Between this and media studies it's almost like the government of the day fears people who can inquire, question, interpret, and critique visual media. And people who want to learn from history.

#BHN credit to @cybogoblin.bsky.social

This is from a comment last night about how this government sets the budgets they then say is not enough.

They literally make the pot…then fill that pot with money…then claim there’s not enough money

They could make a bigger pot, they choose not to

What I'm seeing here is that the police ignored complaints against this creep for over 25 years, then blamed their shitty file system for their refusal to act. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#nzpol ⬇️⬇️⬇️

'Working with industry to develop better vocational pathways so students are getting the skills relevant to certain career pathways'.

Snort. I smell 1970s educational streaming in the air.

I was wrong yesterday when I said this. It actually goes back to 1948: www.nzlii.org/nz/legis/his...

It may be deemed discoloured & thought of as weak.It may be cast to the side- unused but I include such whenu in my weaving. The stronger threads surround it and support it. Its differences and uniqueness are appreciated.It is as important to this cloak as the rest of the whenu are.
Like people 🙂

The surcharges will be moved to the customer as a small bump to the price on the shelf. This means the poorest who swipe instead of tap are subsidizing those that don't need subsidizing. The Luxon Govt hates the poorest of us.

#NZPol #LuxonDidThis

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What the fuck is she rambling on about..go do your fucken job and stop political theatre..fuck sake..national are really good at talking but no fucken good at reality..do some fucken work to help people before it's to fucken late .govt job is to help all people in need not help the wealthy.

Said 92% of us who didn’t vote for one… #DropKickGovernment #OneTermGovernment #NZpolitics #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #Aotearoa #NZ #Election2026

and still people wonder why we march & rally for Palestine and Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Trans people and Disabled people...

when we chant "human rights are under attack", we bloody mean it

our rights are being attacked and undermined by this government

STAND UP, FIGHT BACK

SImeon Brown OUTED.
@Howick bookstore where he was watching a kids chess match.
I walk him up voluminous copies of Te Tiriti and History of NZ "Hi, i suggest you read these".
He LOOKS AT THEM, pauses & replies "WHAT ARE THOSE?".
I reply with "Ohhh priceless".
#nzpol #toitutetiriti #nz #aoteoroa

I'd argue once people stopped caring about covid-19 mitigations it really was the start to feeling like "those people don't matter" and "we don't need to do anything to protect others" and "those people's lives aren't as important as my ability to live as I desire to"& it just gets worse from there.

Agreed. Also if there re any other sponsors...