Grumpy Goblin Dawg

Privatising health care 'not my overt policy' - Shane Reti The Health Minister wants to work more closely with the private sector to cut waiting lists - but insists that is not a step towards privatisation.

Shane Reti was no overt friend of our public health system. #nzpol

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

PSA: Jacinda has popped back up on insta
Well worth the watch!

Question Time - 2026: 05/03/2026 Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Kettering. On the panel are Stephen Doughty, James Cleverly, Shashank Joshi, George Monbiot and Annabel Denham.

I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories' worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 George Monbiot Who is running the government's growth school' for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears Thu 11 Sep 2025 15.00 AEST < Share 660

🇨🇦 🧵A big warm welcome to all the lovely Canadians jumping on the Atlas Network train. #NZpol has led the way with the Aus academic @jeremywalker.bsky.social showing the history that got them a “think” tank operative as Dep PM. George Monbiot says “junktanks”👌 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It should be
Pencil vein ia
Either way. Where tf did that word come from?

Former Auckland executive who paid teen $1000 for sex, sentenced to 10 months home detention The court denied the man permanent name suppression, but he still cannot be named.

10 months home detention for grooming and raping a teenager.
It seems that if you're a white guy with a job and a bit of money, you can get away with sexual crimes against women and children with basically a slap on the wrist, even if you have the bad luck to be found guilty.

Unfortunately he was the only choice
After Tory not running because bullies are assholes and having Ray Chung as a choice & rw nimbyism

*on

Feet in the desk right next to food 🤮
Reminds me of that pic of him before he got elected with his arse on a table 🤢

Staff cuts possible as Wellington City Council unveils multimillion-dollar savings proposal | Jonny Osborne Proposed cuts to the Wellington City Council climate programme are exactly the sort of short-term thinking we must avoid if we're to properly prepare for (and minimise) the impacts of climate change. ...

And here we start with cancelling the wrong things
Wellington peeps please send feedback via email
Andrew Little is going to send us backwards

www.linkedin.com/posts/jonny-...

100% agree!

Rules demand a quote post

This is like that Tom Holland dance video… same rules apply.

Analysis: What would it take for Christopher Luxon to quit as prime minister? Analysis - One of Luxon's weaknesses has been his inability to take feedback. Another is his complete lack of self-doubt, writes Jo Moir.

I see all this cheering for Luxon to go given the latest poll, but seriously, WHY would we want him to go?
I'm on Team Luxon: he is the best man to deliver us a #onetermgovernment
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Mahia is fab isn’t it!
We stayed there when young
Can’t remember Nuhaka so will add to the list

Whānau
Looking for the best places to stay for an East Coast (North Island) road trip
What’s the must stops & the best places to stay.
2 of us with a 2 week window Wellington and back
Been some places but want the inside knowledge

Woohoo! That’s fantastic!

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Ooh! Heading to your online store now! 😻

Photo of two of Kat's Nip catnip toy felting kits

Look what arrived today! One for daughter who has 3 kitties, and one for daughter-in-law who has 2. They're both crafters, so I'm looking forward to sending these on! @kats-garden.nz

During World War II, Nazi Germany invaded more than a dozen countries. It subjected the populations of those countries to varying degrees of oppression. At the same time, German propagandists tried to win public support in occupied lands. The propaganda shared enticing visions of a prosperous “new order” in Europe. Nazi Germany claimed it was saving western civilization from “Jewish bolshevism.” However, Nazi brutalities against civilian populations helped to negate the power of those messages

When Hegseth, Rubio, and their ilk talk about saving the Western Civilization from globalization and radical leftism for the benefit of "cultural cohesion" in Europe - it sounds very familiar. exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda/1...

Euronews People vaccinated against COVID-19 have lower risk of death - regardless of the cause, study

This will get the cookers cooking 🤣

i fear if we end up with hipkins we'll get an albanese, when what is needed r/n is a pedro sánchez

Oooh, I know this one!

1. Blame Labour

2. More tax cuts for the rich and more austerity for the rest of us

3. Enlist media hacks like Malpass to “explain” this to us

#nzpol

That plus online. Likes of Andrew Tate Jordan Peterson et al

Not surprised
See a disturbing increase in misogyny regularly
Just yesterday an interaction escalated immediately after young guy following behind me extremely closely was asked politely to pass
Ended in me telling him not to be a c*nt all his life.
Last week it was a young uber driver (reported)

NZ spy chiefs warn of extremism risk as teenage boys dominate investigations Our national security agencies are worried about New Zealand’s young men.

In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Tiktok really doesn't like us talking about the Epstein files

IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.

Strands #731
“Piece of cake”
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