The classic NZ thing will still happen though. The ferries will reach the end of their life in two years, the Govt will realise the only way to get new ferries is to buy new ferries & rebuild the docks, they’ll make that call due to the 2026 election. And it’ll cost $4billion.

If the media class think we’re going to forget their complicity over decades with one front-page, then I’ve got news for you: HELL NO.

Reminder-- The terrorist came to New Zealand to obtain guns and carryout an act that couldn't be done in his home country because the guns were banned... Basically, weak guns laws welcomed him here... Now former lobbyist works to weaken them again. stuff.co.nz/politics/35037…

“People are expressing to me that they'd rather just die. They're waiting for death. They’ve lost hope. And that's preferable to what they're going through with serial displacements and the lack of safety.” MSF’s Javid Abdelmoneim just spent two months in Gaza. Here's what he saw.

An Israeli human rights organization published an exhaustive report last week echoing what Palestinian detainees have said for months: Israel is carrying out a policy of systematic torture and abuse inside its prisons. Very few people seem to care. jacobin.com/2024/08/israel…

At the opening ceremony of the PIF Summit in Tonga, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres continues to lash the fossil fuel policies of Australia, NZ & G20: "When governments sign new oil and gas licenses, they are signing away our future" ... cont

Will roads cut cancer out of you? Will roads provide critical care to you in ICU? Will roads improve water infrastructure? Will roads help you combat the cost of living? Will roads teach your kids? Will roads care for your grandparents in the community? We need so much. Not roads

The govt has "stepped in" to save tea and toast on maternity wards. What heroes 🙄Tell me RNZ, who caused the maternity ward to look for cost savings in the first place? Who set the health budget at a level Te Whatu Ora warned them was inadequate? rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Attn Wellington. Meow Nui can't catch a break rn

Incredible to see the news that climate change protestors have been sentenced to years in prison on the same morning where entire towns are disappearing or underwater from floods, a kind of event that’s becoming more and more normal

Using documents obtained under the Official Information Act, we checked the record on what minister Nicole McKee told us in a recent interview. Full story: tvnz.co.nz/shows/q-and-a/…

Your regular reminder that bike network (incl pedestrian and bus improvements) make up 0.17% of this year's rates increase. Rates revolters are really protesting water costs, interest rates, insurance and depreciation.

Proud to contribute to The Guardian's coverage of BC's deliberate approach to implementing #UNDRIP which sets a global precedent for Indigenous rights. This is the leadership we need. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

"If this level of horror doesn't stir our humanity and drive us to act, then whatever will?" The harrowing, heartbreaking story of a seven year old Palestinian girl called Qamar. Please watch 👇

Funny how Winston says Wellington is being destroyed, when Tory Whanau has put way more $$ into water & actually far less into cycleways, than Winston’s own MP did as Mayor. I mean Andy also lit up council buildings with trans colours so I guess he does whatever for politics.

Scoop: Offshore wind developer BlueFloat Energy is pulling out of New Zealand just weeks after the Government proposed fast-tracking seabed mining off the coast of Taranaki. BlueFloat has previously said the two industries cannot coexist. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/24/off…

“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children.” A former NHS surgeon, Nizam Mamode, who spent a month working in Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, broke down while testifying about children in Gaza being shot by drones.

You will be shocked to see the apparently “apolitical” Vision for Wellington working with Minister Brown and PM to undermine democratically elected Wellington City Council.

Entire Gaza population at critical risk of famine, UN-backed assessment says bbc.in/3YEZfRk