#nzpols

[thorinsbeard]

The rainbow crossings that were painted over. It's a horrible hate crime but one thing stands out to me. The white made the rainbow brighter when they repainted it. The rain washed the water-based paint away to reveal the rainbow. And the voices of allies and lbgtqia+ people drowned out the hate. Because goodness knows our government won't do anything about it. We all know how they feel about queer people.

[saybiwithme]

I can’t believe we have a new pm that avoided answering if he thought dinosaurs were real

[sapphia]

USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead.

Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court. They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions, deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency.

It’s been six months.

[mucking-faori]

This stupid bitch is going to court over a 90 minute course

Also the course is specifically on maori world views in regards to land and working with iwi and maori clients, so it's not even like she's being taught about maori "religious" beliefs that could conflict with her own.

[batshit-auspol]

If you take nzpol there was that one time we threw a dildo at an mp candidate

This is quite possibly the greatest Wikipedia article in existence

[kittenwithabass]

In Aotearoa New Zealand a Jewish artwork was removed from a "celebration of diversity" display. Palestine Waikato called it "pertaining to a dangerous ideology of settler colonial expansion", "artwashing", and "offensive to Palestinians". The controversial artwork?

Please, enlighten me, how on earth is THIS dangerous in any way?

Claire van der Most of the Hamilton Multicultural Services Trust denies that this is antisemitic and says that it breaks the design brief by including religious symbols and country flags: "Doves, interpreted as a common religious symbol; and blue lines which were interpreted as being symbolic of the Israeli flag."

A Palestinian artwork was also removed, but I can't find any images or descriptions of it.

source 1 source 2

[sydneysageivashkov]

au 🤝 nz

having a bad fucking night

[rupertbbare]

23 October 2024: NZ Government cuts funding for research on preventing White Supremacist terrorism.

30 October 2024: NZ Government says they don't think Swastikas are as intimidating as gang patches and don't need the same restrictions.

I think we need to ask why our government does not percieve White Supremacists and Neo Nazis as a threat

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

genuinely cannot believe that one of our navy ships is leaking oil into samoan waters and our government hasn't even done the bare minimum and apologised. meanwhile judith collins is selfishly using the sexist attacks on the commander of that ship and other woman in the navy as a personal shield, pointing fingers at other people to try and distract us from the faults of the nz government. they can't even be bothered keeping samoans informed about the situation, because who cares about civilians i guess? "100% Pure New Zealand", more like 100% Hypocritical. fuckwits.

samoans, i'm so sorry. i hate these fucks just as much as y'all do. i didn't vote for 'em last election and i won't be voting for them next election either. it was bad when we were the only people being hurt by their bullshit, but now they're hurting other nations as well and they couldn't care less. i'm fucking done with them. i don't know if there's anything i can do to help, but know when i cast my next vote that you guys will be on my mind the entire time.

[queer-disability-aotearoa]

we just lost 11% of our naval power during peacetime to a reef the locals are baffled we'd sail near. go us

[thorinsbeard]

Winston blamed "wokeism" for the reason less Kiwis are signing up to the military. They are still trying to privatize healthcare. They were supposed to build new hospitals, get more staff...instead they overwork current staff, refuse to cover leave and hire more staff. They also now have a budget deficit (oh no National where did your money go?) TO THE LANDLORDS/RICH. Meanwhile they fuck the poor over, cut funding for organizations that help poor people, cut funding for disabled people and try to make us pay for healthcare. Fucking idiots.

[saybiwithme]

This is fucking bullshit

[sapphia]

So for anyone who doesn’t keep up with nz politics, which i’m assuming is most of you, our new radical right government have decided one of their main aims of their term will be to re-interpret the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty is an agreement between Maori and the Crown, now the NZ government. It is the founding document of new zealand and is recognised as a constitutional document today; it is the only treaty of its kind/time still honoured, and it is the steps we’ve taken through the Treaty to provide restitution and build an ongoing relationship with Maori and their iwi (tribes) that has allowed the relationship between Maori and the government to thrive where other indigenous groups have struggled to achieve recognition of their rights.

This is going to be entirely undone. Not only is this issue inflammatory and a threat to race relations in Aotearoa, leaked documents show the proposed “reinterpretation” wants to negate pretty much the entirety of the legal rights provided to Maori under the treaty. For example, the treaty article that guarantees land rights for Maori will be reinterpreted to guarantee land rights for “all New Zealanders”. Which means this article would be essentially meaningless for Maori.

By removing Maori from the context they are trying to put Maori on an “equal footing” with all New Zealanders; they are riding the idea that Maori have special rights and privileges above that of the average New Zealander. Obviously this is bullshit but it’s effective rhetoric and there’s a grain of truth to in that the extent of Maori rights hadn’t been clearly defined due to the ongoing nature of the process. So this has got a lot of people with a poor grasp of the issues very upset and baying for change.

There is a hui (meeting) being held today for all the iwi to begin discussions of how Maori will respond to this. New Zealand politics isn’t very interesting usually, but our progress on indigenous rights, until now, has been absolutely ahead of the field. If you care about indigenous rights globally, you should care about this, because in the same way Australia’s referendum loss has spurred on this action, the loss of rights here will spur other right wing governments to be similarly bold to their own indigenous groups.

Indigenous rights in New Zealand are under attack. They are meeting today to discuss it, and New Zealand will be listening, but I want the world to be listening. Because our government needs the shame of being called out by more than just the people who they’ve already decided don’t vote for them.

Maori have a long and proud history of fighting for their rights, and they’ll do it again here. And I’ll be on the pickets beside them, but there’ll be plenty of my own pickets to attend, because this government is radical in every sense of the word.

So please, even if you’re very far away, stand behind them in this. Keep your eyes on us. Amplify their voices. Don’t let the racism drown them out.

[mucking-faori]

Yeah, I'm sure this wasn't a racial attack at all even though it's almost all in the clearly marked maori section of the Urupā and they destroyed maori symbols and set the Graves on fire and-

Also pretty minimal fucking coverage, I gotta say.

Image description: A maori news article by Kevin Mcdonald, titled- ""disgusted": māori Graves targeted by vandals at new zealand's oldest cemetery". It is accompanied by a photo showing the grave of the late Cameron Duncan, its koru headstone smashed to pieces.

[batshit-auspol]

2015: New Zealand holds a vote to change their flag due to its similarity to Australia's, leading to the submission of the 'Lazer Kiwi' flag. Designer Lucy Gray said her inspiration was that "Australia has a lot of animals that can kill you, so New Zealand should get one too"

[is-the-king-dead-yet]

Feb 5, 2024: ... wait for it