Join the Green Party candidates for the Shore next Tuesday at: Vote for Health: Nurses Speak Out About What's at Stake This Election.

Thursday 3rd September at the Netball Centre in Northcote.

Hūhana Lyndon will be speaking for the Greens.

Join nurses, healthcare assistants, representatives from all political parties, and North Shore residents as we demand an end to chronic understaffing and underfunding in our health system.

Hear directly from frontline healthcare workers about the reality facing patients and staff and find out how you can get involved in the fight to protect and strengthen our public health system this election.

#nzpol #nzgreens #greenparty #nurses #union

https://events.humanitix.com/vote-for-health-nurses-speak-out-about-what-s-at-stake-this-election

My first reaction when told “a journalist wants to interview you”, was “hell no”. I spent a lot of time, and some really formative years, being trained to avoid journalists. In the military you’re told to keep your head down and remain in the shadows. Humility was one of the tenants we were to live by.

But I’m not here for me. This interview was a chance to speak about what I’m here for, the kaupapa.

I’m here for those of us working hard who still can’t make ends meet. I’m here to help create a system that actually allows people to flourish.

I’m here for the small businesses going into liquidation because of climbing costs and reduced spending while offshore tech companies make billions of dollars a year and pay almost no tax.

I’m here for the many of us who can’t cover an unexpected bill while banks and supermarkets continue to make record profits.

I’m here for teachers, nurses, firefighters, soldiers and others who pay $22 in tax per $100 while the wealthiest among us pay the equivalent of $9.

I’m here for an education system where we learn about the history of Aotearoa, so we can, together, celebrate the greatness that we’ve achieved and work hard to put right the wrongs.

I’m here for a truely independent foreign policy, based on political courage and a moral standing on what’s right and just. One that works to end oppression in Palestine, West Papua, Ukraine, and so many other places across the globe. One where we call a genocide a genocide. Where action speaks louder than words.

I’m here to move us away from an economic paradigm in which the vast majority are 3 bad months away from being homeless while a tiny few are 3 good months away from making another million bucks.

We are not broken. The system is and we need to change it. That’s why I’m here.

#nzpol #greenparty

Its beyond time to rein in the online advertising platforms like Meta and Twitter that turn a blind eye to this behaviour.

Damon makes a great point that while "certain commenters will claim that any attempt to limit abuse, or hate speech, is an attack on freedom of speech...the fact is, that by not controlling hate speech, freedom of speech is already being limited: the freedom for women and minorities to speak up, bullied or frightened into not speaking, because of the constant threats and abuse directed at them."

Its something I struggle with because those platforms are, unfortunately, useful. As much as I would like everyone to see what I post on Mastodon, we're not there at the moment. This is the place I'm going to be most active, where I'll post things first, and then reluctantly will also have to post and engage with the dumpster fire that is Facebook and Instagram.

#nzpol

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-04-2025/i-monitor-female-politicians-social-media-feeds-its-even-worse-than-you-think

It's been quite a day.

#nzpol #greenparty #nzgreens

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/from-the-battlefield-to-the-ballot-nzsas-veteran-josh-jacobsen-stands-for-green-party/premium/RBBPNI3GTBAMXDCXHROWSE4PRI

Like the Green Party? Live in the North Shore? Have a fence?

We’re looking for billboard spots. Let me know if this is you

#nzpol #greenparty

Another day out at Smales Farm markets. A lot of people are engaging with the “Drink, Swim, Fish” policy on cleaning up our waterways that has come out this week.

#nzgreenparty #nzpol

This Sunday is a big push for phone calling across the country.

After concentrating on door knocking over the last few weeks, this weekend is focused on calling.

We’ll be running a hub on the North Shore; sign up link is below

#nzpol #ge2026 #greenparty #nzgreens

https://www.greens.org.nz/nsh_pb_260621

The before and after from a great day out doorknocking in Takapuna today. Lots of good yarns with people about housing affordability, the cost of living, and the need to protect and restore the Hauraki Gulf.

We’ll be in East Coast Bays next week.

#nzpol #nzgreens #greenparty #takapuna

The hand-wringing of Nicola Willis, Luxon, and other political commentators about the level of NZ government debt is much more about ideology than economics or reality.

NZ government "debt" doesn't work in the way that household or business debt does, by virtue of the fact that NZ issues it's own currency. By convention, NZ issues bonds in relation to the budget deficit (i.e. how much more the government spent than was recovered via tax).

Willis, Luxon, et. al. love to tell us that we're living "beyond our means" as a country. Surely then they would advocate running budget surpluses, repaying "debt" by buying back bonds, and stop issuing new bonds?

And what would happen if we did that? Firstly, household debt (the bad kind) would explode as families tried to fill the gaps left by withdrawing government services.

And secondly, the government would have to keep issuing bonds so that Kiwisaver providers would have a risk-free asset to invest in.

The financial markets know that the NZ government bonds are risk-free, because since they are denominated in NZD they are guaranteed to always pay out interest.

Exactly this happened in 2002 when the Howard Government in Australia proposed exactly this and the financial markets lost their minds.

Basically, without bonds there are no safe-haven, risk free assets for superannuation funds and (though this is obviously much less of a concern), the financial markets are unable to price risker assets if they don't have a risk-free assets to price against.

The takeaway is that the NZ government can't go bankrupt, NZD denominated bonds are therefore risk free, and most of what Willis, Luxon and their ilk have to say about the economy and how it works is wrong

#nzpol

https://www.evatt.org.au/post/bond-traders-take-costello