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Have you ever wondered where penguins go on holiday? To the beach. Here's a Tawaki / Fiordland Crested Penguin I saw on Whariwharangi Beach some years back. #penguin #birds

Out of electorate is a one. Another is anyone who enrolled after 4 October. They won't in the printed physical electoral rolls, so also have to cast a special vote. And people on the unpublished roll must cast special votes as well.

Important point: if you cast a valid vote in 2023, you will be able to vote at this election.* If you've moved and haven't updated an address, it might only count as a party vote, but that's the important one. * assuming you aren't in prison, or some other thing that would disqualify you etc.

Perfect front page from The Press today. Luxon laughing, main headline 'Pay Equity Bids Thwarted' and then an ad telling us to Party Vote Green 💚

Bang on there, @slanecartoon.bsky.social

Paul Goldsmith on Morning Report "people are sick about hearing talk about gangs after 10 days". Clearly the Nats have got polling that shows Simeon, Luxon's and Jordans strategy is a fizzer. Challenge for Hipkins - use this line from now on as well.

Have you or someone you know been turned away from voting? Newsroom wants to hear from you! newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/27/e...

Lefties should be stoked about that poll, which shows the last two weeks of fulmination about gangs has had no practical impact on the numbers Everyone has priced it in. The extent of the strategic error was a foregone week of talking about how much the economy sucks and a Labour candidate pratfall

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Looks like my friends on Waiheke Rescue got a bit of entertainment from a Brydes Whale today.

Well, that's a wrap.

Remastered from the archives (Feb 2021)

French police still proudly Pétainist

Guess its not just ACT which has pedo links www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

The people that vote for this guy think Drag Queens reading in a public library are an issue but not this?

A tōrea pango (variable oystercatcher) in a sea of backlight and bokeh balls at Omaha this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

He's got a bright future with ACT or NZF.

In other news Robber Barons still getting away with unlawful acts.

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Hipkins on the Leoni sacking / resignation. "There is an element of racism in this as well that is just ugly,"

Imagine if Chris Hipkins humiliated Luxon and Co. with the same fire, fury and resolve with which he rat-fucks uppity darkies on his own side. Dream on, because you're going to fucking die waiting for THAT to happen. #nzpol

Hipkins can make polls go up.

Will they learn for next time?

First you have to get over the embarrassment of a NZer being denied entry to Australia for being too racist. But then you can enjoy the fact that the guy who loves to go on about kicking out foreign criminals got kicked out as a foreign criminal.

A family of red kangaroos wondering what I'm doing on their (normally peaceful) little laneway. Amyton, South Australia.

Luxon grabbing a four year olds arm after getting a gentle biff. “Four-year-old’s don’t just stop playing because you stand up.” "Goodrick added that her children were excited by the amount of cameras following the PM around, and had no idea who he was."

90seconds of mother & child adorableness on my local beach. Macandrew Bay, Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula Ōtepoti Dunedin NZ. NZ Sea Lions.

The Gerry Brownlee complaining of threats to MPs is obviously a different Gerry Brownlee than the one that threatened to throw an elderly man down a marble staircase. Neither is acceptable but clearly Brownlee should have never been allowed to have become speaker because of his actions.

ACT, not that big in Westport. "Paul Henry is performing... About 60 people trickle in" "At the end, Henry invites people forward for selfies. Nobody moves." Haven't we been assured by the galaxy brains that he was a massive star?

I’m troubled that reports from a Starship nurse of understaffing-driven medication errors (wrong dose, wrong timing) have been met by a bland reassurance of “nothing to see hear” from Te Whatu Ora. Quality improvement culture requires that these are investigated

"Very negative, wet, whiny, inward-looking country" - Luxon 2023 "I'm wealthy and sorted" - Luxon 2024 "I've got bills, I've got to pay" - Luxon 2025 "Cry me a river" -Luxon 2026 "Just be thankful" -Luxon 2026 What a giant of politics #nzpol

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

I talked to my mum about Aberfan yesterday. For the first time ever, she told me that she had seen the Queen, on the day she finally visited Aberfan after the disaster. She was with her boss, driving to Mountain Ash, when the police stopped them to allow the Queen to pass.

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