Brian Dixon 🌿🌐🎶 #ClimateAction 🔆 #ClimateJustice ☮️

Putting this here again as it has disappeared from my pinned-to-profile display! Professor Richard Jackson and colleagues, Leonard and Llewellyn, argue the case for and against Aotearoa New Zealand having a costly military and large defence budget.

Aaron Smale - the only journalist who soeaks truth-to-power. Not political power Media power. This is perhaps the hardest-hitting critique/indictment of his profession I've ever read. You won't read or hear it anywhere else. Share as widely as you can,folks. newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/25/a...

This is a brilliant article. “How to vote? In my view, if your electorate has a progressive candidate who could win, vote for them. But whatever else you do, party vote Green. It’s not just that there’s so much at stake, although there is. It’s that this is a moment of so much opportunity.” #nzpol

We really need to break up the "Wealthy and Sorted" Gang.They have done so much damage to our social cohesion already.

#nzpol Simple explanation. Power here primarily generated by water being pushed over dam making turbines turn. Dams & turbines were built by previous generations for us. Sadly, in interim, price of gravity (required to push water over dam) has soared. So cost must be passed on to consumers. 🙏🏾.

“But for all that, it’s the Greens, not Labour, who embody the progressive movement. The Greens will drive what progress we make. It’s the Greens, in cost of living, climate, housing and health, who embody hope.” #nzpol Couldn’t agree more. simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

#nzpol These numbers are bad. We need younger generations to vote to drive lawful democratic change.

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I was horrified to see in @bernardchickey.bsky.social's newsletter this morning that there are 107,000 voters missing from the #NZ electoral roll with three days left before enrolment closes 🤯 Please ask everyone you know / meet over the weekend if they've enrolled yet! #nzpol

All I can say about this latest dipshittery is that Labour needs to stop catering to these frightened horses. We need to stage an intervention with these horses and get them some treatment for their anxiety disorder #nzpol

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I'm at Your Vote, Your Voice election forum in AKL's city centre, put on by a bunch of women's organisations, yay! Candidates are: - NZF - Vicky Hau (VH) - Nat - Candace Kinser (CK) - Opp - Sacha Haskell (SH) - Lab - Camilla Belich (CB) - Gr - Yasmine Serhan (YS) - TPM - Oriini Kaipara (OK)

This was so bad ass Greens overtake Labour as the serious left party when? "Come on Nicola, let's get our credentials and credibility and put them to the test" she said. "If you've got anything to say about our plan, which I'm sure you will, come and say it to my face" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

"Dont leave the job half done, Stick to the plan - vote national" #nzpol

lol, this shit writes itself. Don’t leave the job half done. We haven’t fleeced you completely yet. We need more time to take the rest of your money and dignity. 🤣🤣🤣

In separate announcements on Wednesday, Department of Internal Affairs staff learnt 24 jobs would go, and Archives and the National Library staff learnt 45 jobs would be cut.

Un-FUCKING-forgiveable. They wasted $9m on the 'councils must amalgamate', but 'oh wait we aren't ready' BS. Heathens, fucking heathens

SO TRUE And why I am engaged in the campaign of the Greens

The problem with the Opportunity Party is we are seeing just one face, one person doing all the comms, policies. There's this fixation on the leader by the media because she speaks well. Reminds me of the one person parties like ACT and NZF. Remember a political party is not one person. #nzpol

Average annual job growth for 2019 to 2023 (inc cvid) vs 2023 to 2026 (inc dumbfkry). Change over last 12 months in image 2 might surprise you!

Yeah I have posted about New Zealand First’s Nazi problem a fair amount. If you search my posts for “NZFirst” and a bunch come up… Eg this post showing it’s not just about Nazi “great replacement” but also nazi “Remigration” 💩 #nzfirst #nazis #nzpol bsky.app/profile/tast...

Why UNEP 1.5°C overshoot report must be an urgent call to action on climate change - UNEP’s new report ‘Limiting Overshoot’ outlines a pathway called “overshoot, peak & decline” to minimise and adapt to the impacts of an exceedance and an eventual return to 1.5°C. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Trump’s losing battle with green energy - #DonaldTrump may have placed obstacles in the way of the green transition, but he has also, inadvertently, helped make the case for it harder to ignore. www.ft.com/content/b263... via @FT #renewables #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow #Republicans #FarRight

Unsure how to react 🤔 ... is scarily visionary ...(and has been a while since we've had such an option suggested here) ... ... here's hoping 🙏 www.greens.org.nz/greens_econo...

THIS is very important to understand. Simlpe, but it highlights the lies and misinformation we get from government and media spin. #FactvsFantasy

Can you tell what's going on yet? The economy is grinding into reverse while the media feed us meaningless 'recovery' stories - vibes surveys vs real data. [1/3]

Places and dates to enrol in person THIS WEEK. vote.nz/enrolling/ge...

In news that may only surprise themselves, there is no community appetite for a return to a less representative voting method. Instead of simply accepting that, they want the next election cycle to be dominated by a conversation that nobody else wants to have.

The naked hypocrisy of the man. Voting was restricted, vanned two weeks out from ElectionDay,to "speed up counting and govt formation" - and here he is, telling us it may still take to the end of December!!! Come on media, do your thing!!! rnz.liveblog.pro/lb-rnz/blogs...

This man (NZF's deputy leader) is pitting (pun not intended) NZ communities against each other. Exploiting the greed in some to justify destruction of the natural, social, cultural values of others. His veiled threat to turn Otago into a "Saudi Arabian" landscape should worry us all. It's bullshit!

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Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to Al Jazeera: “Since January of last year, the US has not contributed a single cent to the defence of Ukraine. “We are doing it, Europe.”

Truth 👇

As a kid who grew up in poverty, this hits fucking hard.

Quick update from The Press, “Health NZ confirms 20 chemotherapy cycles have been delayed and nursing recruits may not all be in place until January.” Compare to Brown’s claim, “These vacancies have all now been filled or recruited to.” They also note earlier suspended treatments.

This man became an MP in 1978 & was part of the 4th Nat Govt (1993–1999), 5th & 6th Labour Govts (1999–2008 & 2017–2020) and now the 6th Nat Govt (2023–present), Deputy PM 2023-25. How many lifetimes in government does he need before he can say "it's MY fault" rather than blaming "the gummint"?

Here's another reason the govt needs to spend less on state school upgrades, they've got to fund Act's #charterschools at 6x the average funding spent on students in state schools - $48,421/student! OIA shows the eyewatering true cost of charter schools www.nzeiteriuroa.org.nz/about-us/med...?