Driving Zodiac, Point Wild, Elephant Island, made famous by the Shackleton’s disastrous #Antarctica ‘Endurance’ expedition. Nice to be back here.
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RT @HelenClarkNZ: Chris Finlayson on #NZ election 🗳️ : “I find it profoundly disturbing that a couple of rich billionaires can decide they…

It's hard to believe it, but the man on the right of the video as you look at it is Russell Brand's father.
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LISTEN: Chris Bishop slams the overhang campaigns from both sides and says they distracted from discussion of substantive issues during the campaign. He says New Zealand is going to have to reassess the electoral system as a result.

Hard to dispute claims that Luxon lied about electoral changes. It’s possible it’s had the reverse outcome and counting would take longer. You’d think changes like that should be the sole domain of the Commission?
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Remind me again what the official justification for ending enrolment two weeks early was?

There is a different potential political path forward staring us in the face. Whatever the challenges in overcoming deeply ingrained tribal prejudices, is this not a moment when the New Zealand electorate should expect our political leaders to at least seriously consider and explore the possibility of a new government based around a National-Labour Coalition? That process could start right now and need not await the special votes. It would be the best possible use of the next three weeks. There is a very significant overlap between the policy positions of the two major parties. The key issues to be overcome are of personality and culture, not policy. Either of the alternatives facing us, given the closeness of the election result, will hand wildly disproportionate influence to fringe parties representing policy positions well outside the broad consensus of the centrist 59% of voters supporting National or Labour. Surely the scale of the challenges New Zealand faces, and the nature of the election outcome with so much consensus in the middle and divergences at the extremes, demand exploring the potential for a Grand Coalition government? There is everything to be gained and nothing to be lost during the next three weeks, while we await special votes, from the leaders of National and Labour sitting down together in good faith and exploring possibilities. They owe it to the country.

A question if I may, but who said Winston and NZ1st were going with the Nats?

RT @HelenClarkNZ: This man’s strategy also set out to discredit MMP, which he has surely done. He represents big money working to distort e…

RT @HelenClarkNZ: 1/2 Whatever the eventual outcome, there were disturbing aspects to the just concluded #NZ election campaign. 1. Anonymou…

This is what Palestinians have to endure.

Israel destroyed Gaza and blocks reconstruction to make it uninhabitable. It’s not a natural disaster, it’s a deliberate plan.

Imagine Q Wong in a coalition mosh pit with Peters and Seymour? How would that go?

Charlie Kirk once said that Texas would never turn blue in his lifetime. And what do you know, he was right.

Given that NZ MMP hasn’t ever returned a single term Govt before, is this a bit of a midterm moment?

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Where Americans Are Killed By Guns: US Homicide & Suicide Death Rates

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You hv to wonder if the shrinkage of Labour & National down to small/medium sizes is the natural progression under MMP as dyed in the wool FPP lifelong voters die off, then we’d lose the king maker silliness & have to mature into proper well managed coalitions of multi flavours?

National's 3 Waters model to cost $9 billion more - that's $9000 million that is on Kiwis.

If only someone (or a few) had warned Kiwis about repealing 3 Waters.

Hope the spite & misinformation was worth it #nzpol #Kiwi

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Really interesting to watch this TV debate with my 9yo who is very engaged with the election. The very 1st question about the grubby nature of the election, he immediately called out Nicola Willis’ answer & behaviour towards Chloe. “She’s doing more of it dad!”

His take is that Shane Jones is the worst, and best McNulty and Swarbrick