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Brett
@brettcd.bsky.social
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Worker of wood. Pōneke, AoNZ
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On the lowering of the Clean Car Standard, right after COP30.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #CleanCarStandard #Emissions #FossilFuels
Cartoon. Title: “Where the Rubber Hits the Sea Level Rise” MP Chris Bishop standing in front of his cliff-top car yard, shouting after someone who has just driven off in a petrol-powered SUV, over the cliff and into the sea, “You won’t regret that snorkel!” Down the bottom it says, “Bishop’s Cars - ‘We Make Doing the Wrong Thing Easier”
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Going out on a limb here to suggest that the PM doesn’t understand what it is that regional councils do
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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The Cook Island shipping registry saw a massive spike in tanker flaggings from mid 2022. What significant geopolitical event occurred around that time, I wonder? datawrapper.dwcdn.net/eRl6x/1/
Inconvenient Flags
The rise and fall of the Cook Island-registered tanker fleet
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November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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mattnippert.bsky.social
The Cook Islands allowed over a hundred shadow fleet tankers trafficking sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. A Big Read from me looking at the curious case of Maritime Cook Islands with an investigation employing big data analysis and fieldwork in Raro. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow and Tehran
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How shadow fleets made the Cook Islands flag inconvienent.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Mark Richardson going for the Boycott look and associated connotations.
Mark Richardon, ex cricketer, wearing a straw hat ala Jeffrey Boycott.
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Might have slipped down the couch
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Usha Vance spotted today without her wedding ring on. 👀
Two women wearing sunglasses descend a set of white metal stairs, likely disembarking from an airplane. The woman on the left has dark hair and is wearing a fitted, long-sleeved burgundy dress with a tie at the waist. The woman on the right has windblown light brown hair and is wearing a tan utility-style jacket over a dark top and brown pants. A watermark for Getty Images and the credit "Anna Moneymaker" is visible in the bottom right corner.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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In today’s Weekend Herald
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Yeah right.

#NZPol
Flyer from the National party saying "National is getting nz back on track" and an image of Luxon pressing the flesh (no hands in pockets!)
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Would've thought these brands would go well with their soap and deo brands (one to wash out the stains and the other to mask smell).
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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In today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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@desilydic.bsky.social is back to break down GOP plastic surgery trends. Today's refreshed Republican: Mike Johnson!
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
brettcd.bsky.social
I work with tradies many of whom drive utes which aren't very good for transporting things. The tray is too small for all their tools, can't fit a full sheet of ply, the cab invariably has other gear or even baby seats and the roof racks are too high and require stepladders to access.

Utesless.
Nissan reveals first all-new Navara in more than a decade
Japanese carmaker’s long awaited new pick-up is eerily familiar throughout.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
brettcd.bsky.social
Misheard one of Winston Peters' ferry procurement team on 1News saying "we're not Nicola diming it" 🤣

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November 19, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Corruption and a police cover-up.
My Stuff #cartoon today #Police #NZpol #Corruption
A cartoon of two huge rotten apples with the faces of former Police Commissioner Andrew Coster and former Assistant Commissioner Jevon McSkimming, with flies buzzing around them. They are atop piles of uncorrupted apples, but are seeping out onto them, contaminating them. Police Minister Mark Mitchell and the current Police Commissioner Richard Chambers, dwarfed by the scale of the rotten apples, are looking on. Mitchell is saying, “Well, Chambers, at least it was just a few bad apples.”
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Well somebody won $55m last night… in today’s HeraldOnSunday
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Simeon's dream of being a top ranking gladiator is realised here in cartoon form... The reality is, people are being hurt unnecessarily for profit.

#NzPol #Cartoon #Caricature #SimeonBrown #Government
Cartoon. Title: Simeon's demands on the health sector. We're in a corridor with Romanesque items - columns, roads, patterned walls. And Simeon Brown is tucked inside a golden chariot with his whip. And holding the chariot are three health sector workers. They're carrying him and running with agony in their faces. He's shouting at them, "MORE CUTS! MORE PATIENTS! MORE EFFICIENCY! FASTER! FASTER! FASTER!"
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The week that a police scandal rocked Aotearoa New Zealand. At the highest level of law enforcement.

#McSkimming #NzPol #NZPolice #Police #Cartoon #Caricature
Cartoon. Title: Who will police the police? In a darkened room chief commissioner of the New Zealand police McSkimming sits at his desk. He's opening his laptop and says, "it's only a crime if you don't wear a uniform". Behind him in a frame reads the words 'Safer communities together'.
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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In today’s NZ Herald
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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In today’s NZ Herald
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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In today’s Weekend Herald
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM