@joncounts@mastodon.nz
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Jon Sullivan
@joncounts@mastodon.nz
Kia ora! I'm a #nature nut, addict of #iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao, and an #ecologist at #LincolnUniversity in #Aotearoa-#NewZealand. I spend an inordinate amount of my time counting nature to watch what's changing (see https://wildcounts.org/). #TwitterMigration #NZTwits #ecology #EcologicalMonitoring #NaturalHistory #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #wildcounts #RStats #Biodiversity Born when there was 326 ppm carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
mastodon.nz
In case you haven’t seen it elsewhere, today there is a nationwide protest against NZ’s Definitions of Woman and Man Amendment Bill. To quote the rainbowgreens Instagram page, that’s “a proposed law that threatens the identity, safety and wellbeing of trans people”. Proposed by NZ First, the bill has the support of ACT and National, and so can pass into law unless we make a LOT of noise and make National realise that centre NZ abhors this.
Personally, my daughter is trans and I am furious about this. Perhaps I’ll see you at the Bridge of Remembrance at 1pm.
The protests are happening here:
🏳️⚧️Tāmaki Makarau/Auckland: Myers Park, 12pm
🏳️⚧️ Kirikiriroa/Hamilton: Civic Square, 12pm
🏳️⚧️Pōneke/Wellington: Civic Square - 12pm
🏳️⚧️Ōtautahi/Christchurch: Bridge of Remembrance, 1pm
🏳️⚧️Whakatū/Nelson: 1903 Square, 2pm
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZd-0enE8nT/?img_index=5
#nzpol #transRights #prote
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@Happyfishmedia@cloudisland.nz
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Jun 03, 2026
cachalot
@Happyfishmedia@cloudisland.nz
Posts about marine mammals (#ProjectJonah Marine Mammal Medic), racism (especially lived experiences - Do not follow me if reading these makes you uncomfortable), being a #NewDad. Less likely to CW posts that are for Followers only. I'll only interact with those I feel comfortable with. People may find me problematic, and I understand that. I'm not as funny, chatty, nor intelligent IRL. I live in New Zealand but would rather live in Aotearoa. Recovering Reply Guy.
cloudisland.nz
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@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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Jun 01, 2026
Future Sprog
@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
electronically-mediated musings at the intersection of finance; I’m in Aotearoa NZ and mostly take photos of native plants, insects, and birds. #iNaturalist #Nature #birds #radio #NZpol (alas) #pf2050
mastodon.nzoss.nz
When I’ve asked politicians why they’re not funding conservation or other useful work I express the requested budget in terms of metres of expressway.
“For just five metres of expressway you could run this project for 3 years!!!”
Gives them a bit of a pause. (And then they tell me it’s the RMA’s fault.)
@airshipper@cloudisland.nz #NZpol
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@tbgladman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Jun 01, 2026
Tehmina Gladman
@tbgladman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Work in health professional education. Interest in higher education and educational technology. Likely to post about greyhounds, knitting, and travel. Also at tbgladman@mastodon.nz 🌉 bridged from 🦋 tbgladman.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact
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That was a King’s birthday well spent. I just used yeahnahbills.org to submit on nine bills the NZ government is rushing through. Quicker than a coffee. Your turn: #NZPol
yeah, nah - nine bills, six mi...
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@Godfrey642@aus.social
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Jun 01, 2026
Godfrey642
@Godfrey642@aus.social
Justice, Human Rights, Kindness. A Brit-Aussie from Brighton now living on Wurundjeri land, Naarm never ceded. Voting YES to Voice. I love 💕 my husband & children & 🌏, my #dogs, #music, #garden, #chocolate, #reading, #travelling the world, .. and #llamas. I don't tolerate the intolerable so if you're a bigot stay away.
aus.social
Look what France is up to.
https://www.politico.eu/article/gabriel-zucman-economist-france-wealth-tax/
Every country in the world should follow suit.
How many governments would be prepared to put the likes of Gina Reinhardt in their place ???
#FrancePol
#auspol2026
#auspol
#canpol
#nzpol
#taxtherich
@eddyjokovich@aus.social
@fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social
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@pezmico@mastodon.nz
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May 25, 2026
Ika Makimaki
@pezmico@mastodon.nz
342.53 ppm Tāmaki-makau-rau. Te Ākitai Waihohua whenua. Cis mostly straight, LatAm migrant. ZeroCovid. Don't catch, don't spread. Mask and fight for clean air and our blue and green Earth. Better transport: + bicycles, - cars Love music, film, books, games and languages. The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. - D. Graeber 🚲🌱🐋 Solar punk posts autodelete in a month
mastodon.nz
So New Zealand is now outsourcing the writing of its climate legislation and who and how gets to challenge it in court to the top polluters in the country.
Running the country like a business, caring only about profit. All going great huh.
Are we still the second best in corruption perception index? Because that seems bonkers to me now.
'No record, no recollection': Luxon on allegations of 'secret lobbying'
Politics
A climate activist claims climate law changes have exposed a "deliberate effort" to conceal lobbying.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/596197/a-co-ordinated-campaign-of-secret-lobbying-climate-activist
#NZPol #FossilFools
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@pezmico@mastodon.nz
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May 25, 2026
Ika Makimaki
@pezmico@mastodon.nz
342.53 ppm Tāmaki-makau-rau. Te Ākitai Waihohua whenua. Cis mostly straight, LatAm migrant. ZeroCovid. Don't catch, don't spread. Mask and fight for clean air and our blue and green Earth. Better transport: + bicycles, - cars Love music, film, books, games and languages. The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. - D. Graeber 🚲🌱🐋 Solar punk posts autodelete in a month
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And then threatening journalists who dare ask questions about the very serious conflict of interests and perceived corruption in said legislation.
Are we still a democracy? 🤔
‘I’d be careful saying that, John,’ Luxon warns RNZ host during interview
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360983419/id-be-careful-saying-john-luxon-warns-rnz-host-during-interview
#NZPol #FossilFools
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@irix@cloudisland.nz
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May 17, 2026
Raj Patel 
@irix@cloudisland.nz
www.phigmov.co.nz Mostly here for the cats. Mostly. Live & work in Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara (Wellington). Interests include general geekery, sci-fi, beer, cats, coffee, chocolate, film, music, photography & bees. Also, butler to @solveig
cloudisland.nz
Hah. Peters sounding like a communist/populist. Will any journo point out he was part of the government that oversaw the sale of the BNZ to NAB last century?
#nzpol
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@slanecartoon@mastodon.nz
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May 14, 2026
Chris Slane
@slanecartoon@mastodon.nz
Freelance editorial #NZpol #cartoonist and illustrator from Aotearoa/New Zealand. #privacy #cybersecurity #foi He/him. Mountain biker makes comics.
mastodon.nz
Loaded and locked in to Luxon’s high-flying, high-carbon, high-risk pathway. #NZpol #cartoon #NZListener
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@stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz
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May 08, 2026
stuart yeates
@stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz
Translating the Lothal Papyri on #Wikipedia he/him
cloudisland.nz
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116540180878490038
OK New Zealand, we may have beaten them with Georgina Beyer, but they're now doing multiples.
We have a plan for beating this 7 November 2026, don't we?
Someone please tell me we do?
#nzpol
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@irix@cloudisland.nz
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May 08, 2026
Raj Patel
@irix@cloudisland.nz
www.phigmov.co.nz Mostly here for the cats. Mostly. Live & work in Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara (Wellington). Interests include general geekery, sci-fi, beer, cats, coffee, chocolate, film, music, photography & bees. Also, butler to @solveig
cloudisland.nz
"Where does your (NZ) tax money actually go?"
"The question is actually the other way around. What public services and what quality of public services do you want, and how do you pay for it? And then you can decide how much tax to pay, because that's the envelope, and who pays that tax.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/593644/where-does-your-tax-money-actually-go
#nzpol
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@nickofnz.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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May 08, 2026
Nick Young
@nickofnz.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Co-Head of Communications & Story at Greenpeace International. Settler in so-called New Zealand. West Aucklander. Oppose Ford Rangers. 🌉 bridged from 🦋 nickofnz.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact
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We badly need a government that listens to science more than it listens to big business.
The biggest climate risks New Zealand faces revealed www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ... #ClimateCrisis #nzpol
Climate Change Commission repo...
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And there it is, Broadcasting Standards Authority to be scrapped. Everything this government does is just so fucked.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594400/broadcasting-standards-authority-to-be-scrapped
#NZPol
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@ArrestJK@mastodon.nz
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May 05, 2026
National: Local is best, 3 waters takes away democracy
ALSO
National: Do what we want or else
#NZpol
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594289/government-gives-councils-amalgamation-ultimatum
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@RupertBBare@mastodon.nz
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May 05, 2026
Rupert Brackenbury
@RupertBBare@mastodon.nz
he/him. Business Analyst. Frustrated Writer. Civil Servant. OPINIONS ARE MINE ALONE (& quite possibly wrong) Formerly https://mastodon.lol/@RupertBBare https://rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/
mastodon.nz
Honestly, I don't have strong opinions on #localgovt, but the hypocrisy of acting like #ThreeWaters was an imminent threat to democracy, then forcing their own agenda on councils is making me crazy.
#nzpol #NACTional
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@dunedinmouse@mastodon.nz
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May 04, 2026
John Valentine 
@dunedinmouse@mastodon.nz
A rather retiring retired bibliophile with a leftward lean #amreading #nzpol #Otepoti #scifi #historicalfiction #crimefiction #pratchett #yeahnoir
mastodon.nz
The Otago Daily Times is consistently rated as a highly trusted news source in New Zealand, currently second to RNZ. Today their editorial reveals: "every request we have made for a feature-length interview with the Prime Minister for the past two and a-half years has been declined". Not the way to woo southern voters Mr Luxon. #NZPol
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@airshipper@cloudisland.nz
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May 04, 2026
64 Islands Aroha Cooperative
@airshipper@cloudisland.nz
Can we use #Permaculture design principles to create an ethical way to send things around town, around the country, around the world? Why not? Comrades, let us float the goods! 💚💚💚 Hi I'm Chris. I'm a dad. An enterprise software architect. A reader of books. A snapper of photos. A hiker to trigs. A lover not a fighter. #Permaculture #SolarPunk #TangataTiriti :tino_flag: #Porirua #Wellington 🌳🌲🌳 🍄 🌳🌲🌳 🛴 🌳🌲🌳 🌳 🌼🩵💜 #norobots 🩷🖤🌼🌳 🌳🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌳🌳
cloudisland.nz
minister of contract cancellation is confident that fuel companies will honour their contracts 🤔
#nzpol
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@RobynNuthall@mastodon.nz
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May 02, 2026
Robyn Nuthall
@RobynNuthall@mastodon.nz
Toots all my own views. Beginner te reo Māori learner. Ōtautahi. #NZTwits #Pahikara #NZPol #CSMNZ #Astrophotography #TeReo #TeReMāori #Gardening Background picture is Aoraki Mt Cook.
mastodon.nz
This is a fascinating thread about the idea of a universal basic income. There have been many experiments testing a UBI in the world and people keep debating it....but in countries with a state funded old age pension, we have a massive real time UBI experiment....in the case of Aotearoa NZ for 88 years.
....so what happens when people turn 65 and get a universal basic income.... We live our best lives! Including stacks of volunteering.
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #Pension #UniversalPension #NZPol
Edited for spelling
https://petrous.vislae.town/@Binder/112832419782451606
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@bluewave_kiwi@mastodon.nz
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May 01, 2026
Mastodon's Billionaire Owner
@bluewave_kiwi@mastodon.nz
Mostly just here to read the news. I don't suffer fools - and so experience the psychological equivalent of an autoimmune disorder.
mastodon.nz
New Zealand help open the Strait of Hormuz??
This government can't even open the Strait of Cook!!
#nzpol
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@jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz
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Apr 30, 2026
JeremyJupiterJones
@jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz
Still a reckless reckoneer reckoning reckons from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. WARNING: Likely to offend genocide enthusiasts. I have updated my profile picture with a photo of a Palestine beaded bracelet given to me by a pair of Palestinian women I met while marching for a Free Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Some of the things I have reckons on #NZTwits #NZPolitics #WorldPolitics #Sustainability #Satire #Music #Design #MultiMedia #FreePalestine
mastodon.nz
Amazing that 4 NZers being kidnapped in international waters by Zionist terrorists barely gets mentioned in NZ media.
One wonders why this isn’t a leading story, imagine the headlines had they been attacked and taken hostage by Iran. #NZPol
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