Kieran Wolfe

Hi friends! We need your help 😥

Ngl, 2025 hit us hard in terms of finances, so we're doing a lil' donation drive.

Anything you can spare would be incredible. It'll go towards spec maintenance, training, and all the behind-the-scenes stuff that keeps us ticking.

knowyourstuff.nz/donate/

This is how they played The First of Us

Facebook post from National saying that "your" investment flat helping pay your kids' uni costs will be taxed by cgt.

what if... hear me out... we made uni free AND did the cgt?

Photo of office block with large letters in different windows spelling out Vote Keep Māori Wards

It may be grey in Te Whanganui-a-Tara but you can still get out the vote to #KeepMāoriWards

Graphic saying Vote Keep Māori Wards Local Body Elections 2025

Vote Keep to protect the voices of tangata whenua. Find more at www.greens.org.nz/maoriwards

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

The week local politics got ‘dirty’ Personal attacks, legal threats and counter claims light the fuse on Wellington’s election campaign.

Another mayoral candidate, Graham Bloxham, has also published malicious and untrue rumours about me. These men do not belong on council. We must protect the integrity of our democracy and make others aware of their behaviour. Our city is better than this. #nzpols

(paywall)

Screen shot of the Access Explorer with a map of Auckland suburbs showing that Aucklanders on average are a 12 minute walk from there nearest supermarket.

Kia ora #Kikorangi!

Are you in a 15 minute city? Check out the Access Explorer to find out!

access.resilience-explorer.com

This is something me and my colleagues have been working on for the last couple of months, hope you find it useful!

Kāinga Ora halts hundreds of housing developments, sells vacant land The projects would have included 3500 homes, as the state housing provider also sells a fifth of its vacant land.

These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in.

Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.

You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.

#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol

Critically endangered kahikatea-pukatea swamp forest, Parkwood Retirement Village, Waikanae. This is part of both the Ngā Manu Wetland Complex KNE and Ecological Site K133.

Not far up the road, a rare example of what we have lost. Kahikatea-pukatea swamp forest is critically endangered, with only 1% remaining.

We can't plant this, but we can create the conditions for these forests to eventually grow themselves back into existence.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Stormtrooper-ass looking cops standing in front of a giant donut.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

Great night on the phones talking to Wellingtonians about housing, transport and water. This crew of legends! You can be a legend and join us too 💚💚💚

Watch: A sneak peek inside Parliament’s new bar Three leaking, underutilised rooms at Parliament have had their walls knocked down to form the country’s newest bar: Pint of Order.

This seems catastrophically tone-deaf from Parliament, and the cheers photo with Malpass and Brownlee equally fucking weird. Billions stripped off low wage workers but don't worry, they've created an "Old English" pub inside Parliament: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

The right is so used to using 'performative' as a pejorative for anything progressive, that they think it's some kind of diss to call a literal performance by performers on a literal stage at an awards ceremony honouring performances, 'performative'

is this the real life

I'm going to rate this one: Pretty Fiscal Holey.

It's a readily quantifiable cost that directly follows as the consequence of a new policy. It's not a risk! Tbf it's not technically *missing* from the budget document, but it is not "budgeted for".

PM: 'When we see it we call it out': Luxon on bureaucrats not meeting expecations Christopher Luxon: PM live in studio with Mike Hosking

Luxon proudly states that he and his government are calling out and clamping down on the Māorification of the country.

Is there no point at which they will think that enough harm has been done to Māori-Crown relations and it's time to stop pouring fuel on the fire? #nzpol

Line outside Cuba St restaurant

Cuba St is packed with lines out the door of some restaurants. People want to be here because of its vibe, parklets and diversity. Courtenay Place can be the same but ONLY with the GM project proceeding. As it stands it will continue withering away. #nzpol

Unethical for Wellington council to sign more Golden Mile contracts, Andrew Little says Wellington mayor says project has been given the green-light, and it appears Little did not understand council process.

Delaying the Golden Mile will only drive more people away from Wellington because our central city desperately needs investment just to keep up with our international peers. We have voted for the GM multiple times across multiple councils, now it's time to build it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A screenshot of a tweet (by me, from June 2023) saying “please, I beg you, stop saying “there wasn’t enough consultation” when what you really mean is “the consultation didn’t result in the outcome I wanted””

evergreen post:

Green Budget We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

I'm liking the look of the Green alternative budget www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...

Journalist: "Would you be doing this now if it wasn't that you needed more money in the government's coffers?"

Luxon: "Well as I said on Tuesday that's not the primary reason"

So it is a reason.

Rebecca for Wharangi team met today for the first time! Join us and support our work for a progressive and constructive voice in Onslow Western here rebeccamatthews.nz

Once-bustling Newmarket businesses closing over high rent, state of economy Retail owners and workers tell RNZ how Auckland's Newmarket is really doing.

Shops are empty and no 'killer cycleways' to be found...

Turns out retail performance is impacted by other factors.

What places like Newmarket need are people friendly streets that we want to go to, connected by space efficient ways of travelling!

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Together we must be united as a country make the necessary sacrifices during these hard times so we can help pay for these landlord tax cuts! 🫡✊ yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/actively-e...

We definitely need to adopt democracy sausage as a tradition in NZ

Today we mark ANZAC Day.

We pay our respects to all those who have endured the horrors of war - and the many who still do today.

We remind ourselves of the need to stop wars and prevent them from happening again.

We recommit to strive for peace.

Lest we forget.

People of all faiths will mourn the passing of Pope Francis, who in his final public address called for a ceasefire in Gaza. May his legacy be one of justice, peace, and courage. Moe mai rā

It is truly wild to me that the same people who tell Māori to get over their land being stolen 100 years ago, are the same people who preach that Israelis have a right to Palestinian land because of what they think happened 2000 years ago.