Michael Gibson

If we don’t wanna devolve into a temu version French Revolution, we should possibly consider voting for political parties in AotearoaNZ who actually value the wellbeing, safety & protection of the populous, over the wealth luxury & protection of the few. 🤷‍♀️ Just a thought 💭 #nzpol #NZ #ForAllOfUs

“The billboard ads were created by the Campaign Company, owned by Taxpayers' Union boss Jordan Williams” Clean up our political system. Get Jordan Williams & his racist Astroturfing disinformation machine out of our Democracy. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #Aotearoa #ForAllOfUs

So, I am talking at 5:30pm today at Ombrellos. I just learned what is happening at 6pm immediately after me.

Dirty Work in action, yet again #nzpol

Sensible Sentencing Trust is affiliated w/ Taxpayers Union Jordan Williams "Campaign Company". CC, Hager reveals, funnels tobacco $ from TPU to Jordan & hires Ani O'Brien. SST lists as a "charitable trust" led by ex NZ First MP Darroch Ball. Billboard company JC Decaux www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

$8.49 BILLION in sales. BILLION. Not Million. We are being fleeced. In excess of a million $ in profit on TOP of normal profit daily. Let’s do something. #VoteGreen #nzpol ✅✅ insideretail.co.nz/2026/08/26/w...

What the actual. Chippy, how about spending more time thinking about your campaigning rather than others after you shoved Kerrin Leoni out the plane without a parachute 🤦 #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Another demonstration of the maxim: when enrolments and voting is widespread, the left wins. And it explains Luxon and the Nat's tactics in enrolment suppression, of course. #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Bugger - still all things considered, ninety years is not a bad run in life's rich pageant. Koenig's obits are naturally going to focus on his #StarTrek work but don't sleep on his playing all the way against type in another iconic SF TV show, Babylon 5's sublimely hissable Alfred Bester.

From Matthew Hooton's editorial in The Post today.

they should have these on display near every voting booth

A massive injection of cash into a hospital with no staff or patients. This is #ChrisLuxon's & #SimeonBrown's legacy. No New Nurses. Hospitals underfunded/not staffed. Our Health System in Crisis & our people D.Y.I.N.G in corridors & EDs. #VoteThemOutNZ #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...

Rage against the propaganda machine, VOTE GREEN ✅✅ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #Aotearoa #ForAllOfUs www.greens.org.nz/greens_annou...

Henry Cooke and others just reposted this graph showing the right's overhang strategy could work - but more modeled on voters' preferences and voting loyalty The right see a path to not need TOP The left can get upset y if you point out why strategy matters in an election as close as this, but...

300,000 #Kiwis disenfranchised by National's “voter suppression” law 1 in 3 young adults aren’t enrolled, as #ChrisBishop admits the law is expected to help National secure 1-2 extra electorate seats, undermining Democracy #PartyVoteGreen✅ #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

First day of early voting, and the spouse and I went out to do our civic duty. Appropriate occasion to pre-emptively invite anyone shitting on poll workers for flawlessly following black letter electoral law with the resources appropriated by Parliament for that purpose to go get fucked. #nzpol

youth voters matter in 2026 #Serbia #Brazil #India #Nepal …

Folk queuing up outside my local polling place waiting for it to open. This is heartening. #nzpol.

Never have I seen the “born to rulers” rubbing it in the faces of the proles more Luxon’s expressions of their likelihood of winning is based on modelling they’ve done to see effects of voter suppressions they’ve put in place, we are already two steps behind them Every vote matters! #NZPol

the fact that the left are about to win in Brasil despite insane levels of foreign interference, rightwing election intervention and outright violence may signal a turning point however, Lula actually has to take more significant steps to build on the ground power this time

NACT are Laser focussed on the cost of living…increasing it as fast as neoliberally possible. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #TaxTheRich #Aotearoa #ForAllOfUs www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...

THIS. We're off to early vote this avo, and however long it takes it won't be as long as the eighteen miserable hours I spend in the packed waiting room of Palmerston North Hospital's A&E department.

It took a few complications around printers and scanners on top of a low bandwidth, but from a remote corner of Pohnpei State, in the Federated States of Micronesia, I'm doing my best to make sure that the opportunities I had when migrating to NZ 30 years ago, are not denied to my NZ-born children

Dare I say I might have found some hope? 👀🤩🤞 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

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Better half and I votes around 2.30pm at the Shore City polling place in Takapuna. Took ten minutes. There was a queue of around two dozen, and the poll worker (flawless as usual) said this had been consistent since opening at 10am. #nzpol

What a bunch of pdf sheltering hypocrites just like ACT. #nzpol

Orbán gone. Bolsonaro gone. Vucic gone. Luxon … you got this NZ.

Well he’s correct. That’s exactly what this is. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Lula Goes HARD

My fellow cis queers, anyone who thinks an "ally" currently throwing trans people under the bus won't back up that buggy to wipe out the rest of us the instant it becomes politically expedient? Bitch, pull your head out of your arse before you gas yourself. Your naivete is dangerous NOT cute.

Well, that's a wrap.

Full house to see Chloe and friends tonight in Dunedin

Forgot to mention, even my formerly RW voting husband (until 2020 when he voted labour) voted Green/Labour today. He attended a #BHN debate/korero in Auckland with me & was really impressed with what Marama had to say. The greens are cutting through & hope is still alive! ✨💚🕊️ #nzpol #NZ #ForAllOfUs

I'm surprised they haven't got the Christchurch shooter as a candidate, since they're channelling his rant. Or perhaps they have and I've missed it? NZ First candidates float 'great replacement' conspiracy theory newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/21/n...

20th trip to ChCh this year to now clear out mum's house almost done & it's fair to say I'm shot. 30°C cleaning out dad's once proud garden, endless sorting out of their stuff. Tell me it ends? Back next week for heavens sake. Wish I had time to push my calendar instead.

I believe te Tiriti should be entrenched. I’m 5O years old, and this is my conviction.

Like they give a shit about women. You know what helps women to leave violent situations? Decent paying jobs. Jobs with fair pay agreements. Jobs with pay equity