Pukeahu / Mount Cook

@BrianTamakiNZ immigration is falling sharply you fucking womble

🚨 BREAKING: I’m calling a March for New Zealand on the Auckland Harbour Bridge on Labour Weekend 2025. We are marching against mass immigration! We’re sick and tired of foreign agendas and imported causes flooding our streets. This is New Zealand! Save the date now - change your long-weekend plans. More details coming soon... 📍 Auckland Harbour Bridge • 🗓 26.10.25 • ⏰ 2pm Bring your flag. Bring your mates. Be there.

@BrookevanVelden brooke van velden on rebrands is basically ‘I know a guy who’ll do it for a box of beers’.

Kiwis told us that they wanted their Government Departments to be easier to engage with by putting English names first, as it is the language that the vast majority of the country speaks. At the same time, I am conscious of the fact that people are facing cost of living pressures in their lives, and that the number one focus of the Government should be making it easier for people to get by day to day. What I have done with the Department of Internal Affairs is to strike a balance between ensuring people can clearly understand the name of the Department, without spending heaps of time or money on it. In fact, when officials suggested changing digital branding for DIA would require external consultants and 50 hours of staff time, I suggested I could flip the text myself with Photoshop. As expected, they did drop the cost estimate after that, and it came to less than $1000. The Department of Internal Affairs is where people go to register their child’s name, apply for citizenship, and obtain their passports. It is important that it is straightforward for people to engage with the Department. Putting English first just makes it easier for people to understand and know they’re in the right place. Meanwhile, I’ve remained focused on improving New Zealand’s economy in my role as Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety. Many changes have already been made to build business confidence to hire, promote, grow, and innovate, and more are in pipeline.

@winstonpeters the people who should front up to the inquiry are those who occupied parliament, vandalised it, and attacked police.

Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins, Grant Roberston, and Ayesha Verrall have all colluded and decided to decline to give evidence at the COVID-19 Royal Commission public hearings. The ‘Podium of Truth’ has become the ‘Podium of Evasion’. These former ministers do not want to sit in a public hearing and answer the hard questions that every New Zealander deserves to know. If ever there was a definition for “a different kind of ‘abuse of’ power” this is it. New Zealand First demanded a second inquiry to ensure there was public accountability for the decisions made during the pandemic. These former Labour ministers are undermining the entire action and purpose of the inquiry to avoid public scrutiny. The Royal Commission has stated today that “the COVID-19 pandemic was a significant event that affected every New Zealander…we remain of the view that the public being able to see former ministers questioned about those decisions at a public hearing of a Royal Commission of Inquiry would significantly enhance public confidence in our process.” Those former Labour Ministers have shown they care nothing about public confidence, and worse, are treating the entire public with distain and contempt. The Royal Commission has stated that the refusal of former ministers, in this case, to attend the public hearing is a refusal to answer questions in a public hearing. Those former ministers were at the heart of decisions that affected hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders. Cost livelihoods, careers, businesses, connection with families, and had a disastrous effect on the economy and future of our country – yet they refuse to be held to account. The public deserve an answer about why they are refusing to be held publicly to account.

@ponekeben LET’S GO BEN ✊

Andrew Little and Labour have a plan to deal with project cost blowouts 👇

WHO DID THIS

oh shit i mean new overlord geordie-r 🤟

kia ora to our new overlord karl tiefenbacher. does this mean mount cook is getting a kaffee eis 🙏

@TheSpinoffTV they’ve removed chunks of mount cook from the plan even though it’s the same distance from the CBD 🙃

A whistle-stop tour through a new list full of bizarre and regressive decisions that allow a lot less housing in Wellington thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-02…

@WgtnCC it’s all good, just better to follow the council guidelines

@MountCookNZ Kia ora, this appears to be a coupon parking space that is active till 4pm, Monday to Friday, and the driver is still in the vehicle? However, our staff are held to the same standards as everyone and parking infringements can be reported on 04 499 4444. Ngā mihi, nā ^Simone

incredible parking there @WgtnCC 🙃

spotted on wallace street

@ponekeben little creature! congratulations 👏

Pēpi #2 joined the world last night. Mum was a champion and the midwives were (as always) just amazing. Taking some time off for a while. ❤️👨‍🍼

build us something safe and new you fucks

give me a fucking break 😐

@patrickmorgan off street parking + cycleway is best of both worlds 🤟

@patrickmorgan we’re hoping that council will enable residents in mount cook to do this too

@ilovetheeconomy slayage in mount cook rn

fuck yeah wet house 💦💦

streaker on wallace street 🫶

this leak on tasman street has been here so long i guess it has heritage protection now 🤟