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RNZ · Fri, 15 May

Bill banning under-16s from social media put on hold as Stanford looks at wider law change

Labour agreed to support a National MP's bill, but now a government minister says it's paused.

Labour and National find rare common ground and a minister immediately parks it in the garage — this government's instinct for killing good ideas is truly world-class.

RNZ · Fri, 15 May

Ngāti Ruanui demands apology for 'shameful' Shane Jones comments

Ngāti Ruanui says the Resources Minister's insult in Parliament was 'shameful'.

Shane Jones treating Parliament as his personal insult dispensary again, because apparently the Resources Minister's most abundant resource is contempt.

RNZ · Fri, 15 May

Government commits $212m to continue school lunch programme - but changes coming

David Seymour acknowledged there were "teething issues" with the scheme, but complaints had fallen by more than 92 percent.

Seymour boasts complaints fell 92 percent — from what baseline, after he blew up the scheme that was actually working and replaced it with a cheaper one.

Newsroom · Sat, 16 May · Stephen Young, Ben Tombs and Ben France-Hudson

Climate law change is a dangerous trade-off

From Otago University - Comment: A proposed amendment aimed at limiting climate change litigation does more than just tidy up an awkward corner of tort law. It prioritises short-term business interests over environmental harm.

Quietly rewriting tort law so polluters can't be sued is the kind of thing you do when you've given up pretending to care and just want the donors happy.

RNZ · Fri, 15 May

Striking students call on the government to do more to fight climate change

The students' efforts weren't appreciate by the Associate Education Minister - who hoped their absence from school would be marked "unjustified".

Kids walk out to demand a liveable planet and the Associate Education Minister's response is to mark them truant — remind me why we expect teenagers to respect authority.

Newsroom · Sat, 16 May · Sam Sachdeva

Fuel prices ‘almost vertical’ as Strait of Hormuz closure tests NZ resilience

Z Energy supply leader Julian Hughes explains how disruption in the Strait of Hormuz can affect New Zealand’s fuel supply chain and prices.

Turns out being a small island nation at the end of a very long supply chain is a vulnerability, a fact that would surprise no one who has looked at a map.

Reckons

What the feed is saying

@nickofnz.bsky.social

"Kids should be at school instead of having to protest about their government's failure to do its job of protecting their futures. But good on them! #nzpol #schoolstrikeforclimate #climatechange"

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@2covet.bsky.social

"#nzpol Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand. Don't wait for the general election, make noise now because this corrupt National/NZ/ACT coalition government is destroying everything we value as kiwi! Protest now and then vote these vandalous a*holes out. Vote the all out!"

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@ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social

"Labour voters, you good with this? Genuine question. #nzpol If you’re not you could always vote Green…. Or force upon us a carbon copy of the Starmer disaster in the UK. Hipkins is just a Temu Starmer at this point. #nzpol"

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