Smirky 😼

Dear Women, Happy International Women's Day, I got you a paycut! love, Christopher x New Zealand Labour Party Facebook post

NZ has seen zero progress on pay equity, home ownership, sexual assault (and justice for it), medical misogyny, roles in leadership/politics.
Women earn $900K less than men over a lifetime. Women/girls are routinely sexualised and subjected to violence.
Stupid jokes are really, really not it, team.

Petrol forecourts 'profiteering' as fuel prices jump nearly 9p a litre Lib Dems urge watchdogs to warn fuel giants that they could be on the hook for hefty fines 'if they are found to be ripping off consumers'

Petrol forecourts 'profiteering' as fuel prices jump nearly 9p a litre.

Opportunistic profiteering

Companies quick to increase prices, slow to bring them down.

Govt must act. Also clawback excess profits through windfall taxes.

Holy shit. I thought this was a "funny" Photoshop at first — like, "lol Luxon is wearing a crass white baseball cap like Trump did earlier"

But no, it's a real photo. And it was posted by Luxon's team on his official social media.

#nzpol

They tested it in Gaza, where they don’t worry about morality.
Aotearoa needs to get sure-footed with our positions on so many momentous things at the moment but we have no leadership….
#nzpol

NZ, particularly Wellington, is now mostly folk who can't leave for commitment reasons and people who can't leave because they can't afford to.

It's fucked.

We're seeing as many folk leave as did in 2012, when we had a National-led government.

How long is it going to take before folk realise that we always do worse economically under RW govts?

Democracy Briefing: The Hidden politics behind NZ’s opinion polls Friday’s Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll was a political earthquake.

Bryce Edwards rips open the crusty scab on NZ’s political polling industry.
Hint: he shows exactly how both the NZ Herald’s and Stuff’s political polls are severely compromised by the far right and big business. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

NZ Police actually live up to your claims of caring about survivors of SV, challenge level: are you joking

Dude gave them a screen recording then factory reset his phone and somehow this was compelling evidence that *she* was the liar

Taxpayer money being given to property speculators by National Party again #nzpol

This. Is #nzpol opposition listening?

A reminder that it's not too late to submit your objection to this bill
www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Child poverty stats highlight Government's failing record We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

"It's clear this Government has done nothing to reduce child poverty, choosing landlords and the wealthy over our tamariki," says Green Party Co-leader and Child Poverty spokesperson, Marama Davidson.

www.greens.org.nz/child_povert...

Truly toxic. 💔😢☹️😠😡

What's next?

Reduced chemo therapy for cancer treatments?

ED only avail 8a-10p Mondays-Saturdays?

Ration asthma inhalers?

Ration ...

... we can't afford it RUBBISH

... we have chosen to prioritise other "things/people😡" ...

Evangelicals love Donald Trump for many reasons, but one of them is especially terrifying End Times.

“If it brings the end of the world, it brings the end of the world. They’re ready. They can’t wait for the Rapture to happen."

If you want to understand how Trump's self-created crisis in Iran fits into his foreign policy, revisit our deep-dive into our End Times president.

In the last week, the US has bombed schools, hospitals and, now, freshwater desalination plants.

The US is depriving Iran’s citizens of the basic essential of life: water.

It is not unfathomable that we will see the ICC issue arrest warrants for Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.

💜 Happy International Women's Day! 💜

The IEU is proud to support thousands of incredible women who are members of this union, fighting for fairness and equity. You show us that unionism is a woman's business 💪

Find IWD events near you: https://www.ieu.asn.au/international-womens-day/

I am just noting that NZ National confusion over Iran is deeper than just the serious Prime Minister’s leadership failure.
I lost track of the number of parliamentary questions National filed to try and stop a Kurdish refugee & critic of the Iranian regime when Behrouz Boochani sought NZ asylum

This is my weekly call for coffee tips.
They really make it easier for me to focus on my work at Rights Aotearoa.

If you can help out, I really appreciate it.

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Image by NZ Electoral Commission. White bold text says "Turning 18?" followed by black text "Enrol now so you're ready to vote!" There is an orange cartoon man with a blue+white stripped party hat. He is holding 3 pink balloons on his left hand. The middle balloon has black text "I voted". There is an orange dog next to him below the balloons. These are orange guy is a known cartoon used by New Zealand Electoral commission. Orange dog is a relatively recent addition.

11 February 2026 post w pic of both New Zealand Electoral Commission's orange guy and orange dog

www.instagram.com/vote.nz/p/DU...
or fb post www.facebook.com/VoteNZ/posts...

August 2023 press release: Orange Guy is back to help get NZ ready to vote elections.nz/media-and-ne... #nzpol #AoNZPol

Chris Bishop: 18% preference , up 2 points since October. He is considered the best option across all voter groups. Nicola Willis: 11% preference , showing no change since October. Erica Stanford: 10% preference , down 2 points since October. Mark Mitchell: 9% preference , up 4 points since October. Simeon Brown: 9% preference , up 1 point since October. Shane Reti: 5% preference , down 2 points since October. Someone Else: 6% of voters would prefer a different candidate. Unsure: 31% of voters are unsure who should take over.

It is with a certain amount of amusement that I disclose the information that the majority of NZers want to replace Christopher Luxon with "Unsure" as prime minister #NZPol

"She was the voice of Ardijah, and Ardijah was the sound of South Auckland."

After the total smashing of Luxon by this morning's media, will TVNZ ignore Goldsmiths order (grunt) and avoid leading with or at least mentioning Luxon's hideous poll disaster and now appalling media coverage on the news tonight?

Liam Dann: Iran conflict could sink economic recovery ... and Luxon A badly timed supply shock threatens to spike inflation and sink our fragile recovery.

It already sank Luxon when he ditched EV subsidies, ditched transit, rail and active mode projects, cancel every public works project there was which spiked our unemployment then decided to think 4 lane highways and LNG terminals which are very prone to fossil fuel price shocks would be wise

Mediawatch: Fears of interference and influence in news Two cases this week raised questions about influence on newsrooms from outside - and inside media companies - and sensitivities about the possibility of political interference.

Mediawatch: Fears of interference and influence in news

Also, people don’t want to accept it but he wasn’t a good Air NZ CEO either. I would hazard a guess he also wasn’t a good Unilever exec. Just because you have the job doesn’t mean you are good at it. Leadership skills ARE transferable and there’s zero proof he is suitable for anything high profile.

Says it all out loud .
(well, you know what I mean)

Great thread 🧵

Should be ChrisToPher’s report card.

#nzpol

He seem incapable of understanding that others may have taken other paths in life because they prioritised things other than wealth accumulation and may, at times, have deliberately chosen to leave money on the table out of principle.

It’s too easy for Nats to blame Luxon for poor comms on policies. NZ Govt has been aligning to US and Trump and ended NZ’s independent foreign policy. So when Trump breaks international law to attack Iran the NZ Gov doesn’t know what to do. Nat/Act/NZF are all responsible for the incoherence