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Kirikiriroa Hamilton. East of the river, left of the centre. Environment. Treaty. Trans rights. Healthcare. Education. Tax wealth not work. All of it.
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Did NZ’s most brazen electoral fraud just take place in Papatoetoe?
Did NZ’s most brazen electoral fraud just take place in Papatoetoe?
In court, they opened up 53 wrongfully cast ballots. Fifty of them had gone to the winning side....
thespinoff.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Did NZ’s most brazen electoral fraud just take place in Papatoetoe?
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An OIA confirms it: the Ministry of Education are using AI - Copilot- to develop the new school curriculum. Article here, more as it develops. Please share widely: www.emilywrites.co.nz/yup-theyre-u...
#nzpol #kikorangi
#nzpol #kikorangi
Yup, they're using AI to develop the NZ curriculum
The Ministry of Education is using AI to develop the new curriculum for New Zealand students.
In a response to an Official Information Act request made by a member of the public and supplied to Emil...
www.emilywrites.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
An OIA confirms it: the Ministry of Education are using AI - Copilot- to develop the new school curriculum. Article here, more as it develops. Please share widely: www.emilywrites.co.nz/yup-theyre-u...
#nzpol #kikorangi
#nzpol #kikorangi
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If any NZ Labour MPs, or candidates, are seeing this - nah, it's not good enough for your leader to adopt a fence position while our community is under threat even if you've all been given the go to say "what we actually mean is". He's a leader, if he isn't leading, he's losing.
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
If any NZ Labour MPs, or candidates, are seeing this - nah, it's not good enough for your leader to adopt a fence position while our community is under threat even if you've all been given the go to say "what we actually mean is". He's a leader, if he isn't leading, he's losing.
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Support our trans youth. But even if you somehow don't the middle paragraph here from Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa (Māori Medical Practitioner's Association) should concern EVERYONE. note the alt text only allowed first two paragraphs rest in next post. If someone knows a better way please share #nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Support our trans youth. But even if you somehow don't the middle paragraph here from Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa (Māori Medical Practitioner's Association) should concern EVERYONE. note the alt text only allowed first two paragraphs rest in next post. If someone knows a better way please share #nzpol
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"For most of his career, Guyatt says, he felt his responsibility was only to “put out good science.” But campaigns like SEGM’s, critiques from the student activists, and the present climate, have changed his mind: Right now, he says, “it’s being used for nefarious purposes.” "
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November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"For most of his career, Guyatt says, he felt his responsibility was only to “put out good science.” But campaigns like SEGM’s, critiques from the student activists, and the present climate, have changed his mind: Right now, he says, “it’s being used for nefarious purposes.” "
#nzpol
#nzpol
A treatment has been found for a very specific cancer. It's cheap, safe, effective. 98% of the people who use it report vast improvements. Side effects are minimal and disappear when you stop using it. Our government has just banned it.
Wouldn't you be angry?
What if it wasn't for cancer?
#nzpol
Wouldn't you be angry?
What if it wasn't for cancer?
#nzpol
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A treatment has been found for a very specific cancer. It's cheap, safe, effective. 98% of the people who use it report vast improvements. Side effects are minimal and disappear when you stop using it. Our government has just banned it.
Wouldn't you be angry?
What if it wasn't for cancer?
#nzpol
Wouldn't you be angry?
What if it wasn't for cancer?
#nzpol
Right wing ideology is at its core selfish. Every action and behaviour can be connected back to greed, money, power. You cannot strengthen a country by diverting all its resources to self-aggrandisement. More and more of those resources get diverted to maintaining the illusion of power.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Notice how hostile psyops and regime change attempts always boost right wingers? You never see attempts to weaken a country by installing left wing governments.
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Right wing ideology is at its core selfish. Every action and behaviour can be connected back to greed, money, power. You cannot strengthen a country by diverting all its resources to self-aggrandisement. More and more of those resources get diverted to maintaining the illusion of power.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Nzfreespeechunion based in the United States?! Excuse me FBI Wellington can you please investigate this one and its funding? Someone bring this up in the house please? Foreign influence much! If this was China or Russia it'd be headline news... #nzpol
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Nzfreespeechunion based in the United States?! Excuse me FBI Wellington can you please investigate this one and its funding? Someone bring this up in the house please? Foreign influence much! If this was China or Russia it'd be headline news... #nzpol
National has spent more on me to send this leaflet telling me I should be grateful, than they have in the last year on things that actually benefit my family, because I am not a landlord. Instead they give my taxes to industries actively trying to kill me, like tobacco and fossil fuels.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
National has spent more on me to send this leaflet telling me I should be grateful, than they have in the last year on things that actually benefit my family, because I am not a landlord. Instead they give my taxes to industries actively trying to kill me, like tobacco and fossil fuels.
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"AI will make things cheaper!" Nope. They will charge the same for worse quality work instead.
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"AI will make things cheaper!" Nope. They will charge the same for worse quality work instead.
Holy shit, stuff. No. Clearly no. It won't work there either. It won't work anywhere. Unless by "work" you mean "bind people with crippling debt for even longer without reason.".
Actually I guess that works for them. Beholden to the 1% that Stuff are, they would absolutely encourage this.
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Actually I guess that works for them. Beholden to the 1% that Stuff are, they would absolutely encourage this.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Holy shit, stuff. No. Clearly no. It won't work there either. It won't work anywhere. Unless by "work" you mean "bind people with crippling debt for even longer without reason.".
Actually I guess that works for them. Beholden to the 1% that Stuff are, they would absolutely encourage this.
#nzpol
Actually I guess that works for them. Beholden to the 1% that Stuff are, they would absolutely encourage this.
#nzpol
Next up: "Seatbelts are no longer mandatory, we're removing all the painted lines and giveway/stop signs, and public healthcare is being shut down. This is called "personal responsibility" and I was told by people with private jets and health insurance that it's great!".
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#nzpol
Over the next decade NZ will transition to a “personal responsibility” risk model when it comes to buying and protecting property, Simon Watts told a private insurance event.
Climate minister: Post-disaster full value property buyouts will one day be a thing of the past
Over the next decade NZ will transition to a “personal responsibility” risk model when it comes to buying and protecting property, Simon Watts told a private insurance event.
dlvr.it
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Next up: "Seatbelts are no longer mandatory, we're removing all the painted lines and giveway/stop signs, and public healthcare is being shut down. This is called "personal responsibility" and I was told by people with private jets and health insurance that it's great!".
#nzpol
#nzpol
OK so... this AI bubble. I'll be the first to admit the world of global finance is not my forte, but if I (personally) expect this whole thing to go very badly wrong soon, should I be looking to shift my kiwisaver manually from an aggressive to a conservative (or even cash-only) fund?
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#nzpol
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
OK so... this AI bubble. I'll be the first to admit the world of global finance is not my forte, but if I (personally) expect this whole thing to go very badly wrong soon, should I be looking to shift my kiwisaver manually from an aggressive to a conservative (or even cash-only) fund?
#nzpol
#nzpol
I was once again subjected to RNZ's "news" on my way to work. I figured Mamdani's win in New York would be top billing but it didn't even rate a mention. They'd rather talk about a cargo plane crash in the US and an old overseas abduction case that I can't even see on their website.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I was once again subjected to RNZ's "news" on my way to work. I figured Mamdani's win in New York would be top billing but it didn't even rate a mention. They'd rather talk about a cargo plane crash in the US and an old overseas abduction case that I can't even see on their website.
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#nzpol
I heard about the CGT on RNZ on the way to work. They immediately went to Nicola Noboats and Rimmer for soundbites. Not to Labour, of course.
RNZ is openly batting for the proto-fascists.
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RNZ is openly batting for the proto-fascists.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I heard about the CGT on RNZ on the way to work. They immediately went to Nicola Noboats and Rimmer for soundbites. Not to Labour, of course.
RNZ is openly batting for the proto-fascists.
#nzpol
RNZ is openly batting for the proto-fascists.
#nzpol
Hey #nzpol Massachusetts has a population of 7.2m and a few more billionaires than us, but I bet we can still fund at least one of national's pointless roading projects with a tax like this.
They instituted a 4% (FOUR PERCENT) surcharge on income over US$1m.
But no, I guess we get to pay for them.
They instituted a 4% (FOUR PERCENT) surcharge on income over US$1m.
But no, I guess we get to pay for them.
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Hey #nzpol Massachusetts has a population of 7.2m and a few more billionaires than us, but I bet we can still fund at least one of national's pointless roading projects with a tax like this.
They instituted a 4% (FOUR PERCENT) surcharge on income over US$1m.
But no, I guess we get to pay for them.
They instituted a 4% (FOUR PERCENT) surcharge on income over US$1m.
But no, I guess we get to pay for them.
Hey NZ how we enjoying this weather? Wild, isn't it? Seems to be worse and happen more often than previous years, right? Almost like the CLIMATE has CHANGED and is continuing to do so. If only we could do something about that. Oh well. Anyway, let's release more methane!
#nzpol
#nzpol
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hey NZ how we enjoying this weather? Wild, isn't it? Seems to be worse and happen more often than previous years, right? Almost like the CLIMATE has CHANGED and is continuing to do so. If only we could do something about that. Oh well. Anyway, let's release more methane!
#nzpol
#nzpol
Last time National got told by two thirds of the country they were wrong, they sold the gentailers anyway. w.wiki/Fkgf
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#nzpol
October 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Last time National got told by two thirds of the country they were wrong, they sold the gentailers anyway. w.wiki/Fkgf
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#nzpol
How long 'till someone from nact1 suggests (seriously) that the only way to revive the economy and the job market is to reduce the minimum wage, without any attempt to do the math on what reducing people's already stretched incomes would do?
I'm picking within a month.
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I'm picking within a month.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
How long 'till someone from nact1 suggests (seriously) that the only way to revive the economy and the job market is to reduce the minimum wage, without any attempt to do the math on what reducing people's already stretched incomes would do?
I'm picking within a month.
#nzpol
I'm picking within a month.
#nzpol
Behind every National boast is a lie of omission.
Luxon boasting today about ram raid numbers falling - meanwhile #nzpol
October 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Behind every National boast is a lie of omission.
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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 week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol
Faeces thrown at police at Parliament protest
Poo was pelted at officers during an early morning operation today to contain the protest at Parliament.
The 3.30am operation caught the occupiers off guard with attempts to thwart the plan, resulting...
www.rnz.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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 week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol
Hey #nzpol, does anyone have a good overview of who's cooker-aligned in the Hamilton City local elections? I recognise certain names from previous years and the anti-fluoride lobby but I suspect a good few are new and keen to stay under the radar and I don't want to rank one of those clowns.
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hey #nzpol, does anyone have a good overview of who's cooker-aligned in the Hamilton City local elections? I recognise certain names from previous years and the anti-fluoride lobby but I suspect a good few are new and keen to stay under the radar and I don't want to rank one of those clowns.