Greg Bond
@docgregb.bsky.social
Squeaky wheel.
Older, but still not right.
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📍Pōneke, Aotearoa NZ
Older, but still not right.
🩺 🚲 ☕️ 🚉 🏙️
📍Pōneke, Aotearoa NZ
Guessing the gift-wrapped train is an Auckland train which is very lost and not an early delivery of one of the new Wairarapa trains?
January 29, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Guessing the gift-wrapped train is an Auckland train which is very lost and not an early delivery of one of the new Wairarapa trains?
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Allowing elites and corporations to fund political campaigns means they install political leaders who shape policy to their benefit. It is institutionalised political corruption, there's no other way to describe it.
Democracy cannot function under these conditions.
Democracy cannot function under these conditions.
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Allowing elites and corporations to fund political campaigns means they install political leaders who shape policy to their benefit. It is institutionalised political corruption, there's no other way to describe it.
Democracy cannot function under these conditions.
Democracy cannot function under these conditions.
Ardern really was correct about him.
An arrogant prick.
An arrogant prick.
#GinnyAnderson "Are wages keeping up with the cost of living when white bread has gone up 58.3% in the past year?"
#DavidSeymour "Consider wholemeal."
Ginny Anderson: "It's more expensive."
David Seymour: "Eat less."
You first, Scrooge McFuckFace. You first.
#nzpol #TheAtlasNetwork
#DavidSeymour "Consider wholemeal."
Ginny Anderson: "It's more expensive."
David Seymour: "Eat less."
You first, Scrooge McFuckFace. You first.
#nzpol #TheAtlasNetwork
January 29, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Ardern really was correct about him.
An arrogant prick.
An arrogant prick.
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Cannot be overstated how few such existential crises in human history have been *more seen coming* than what’s happening with the atmosphere and hydrological cycle and its interactions with failing neoliberal governance and land use patterns.
Actually not a bad article by TW standards but this headline is absurd. The storm track precisely followed meteorological predictions several days out. Vast quantities of research exist warning of these consequences at all scales. “We” here only applies to people deliberately ignoring the data.
January 25, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Cannot be overstated how few such existential crises in human history have been *more seen coming* than what’s happening with the atmosphere and hydrological cycle and its interactions with failing neoliberal governance and land use patterns.
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Since it’s an election year I hope we can talk about how this government is responsible for deliberate withholding of healthcare to make some numbers on a piece of paper look good for their donors
January 25, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Since it’s an election year I hope we can talk about how this government is responsible for deliberate withholding of healthcare to make some numbers on a piece of paper look good for their donors
When (if) the US ever gets its act together enough to prosecute those behind this abhorrent system, I sincerely hope that they’re all pursued relentlessly & without amnesty.
As Mr. Trump will likely be long gone by then, his family should face the same hounding as immigrants’ families are now.
As Mr. Trump will likely be long gone by then, his family should face the same hounding as immigrants’ families are now.
wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 AM
When (if) the US ever gets its act together enough to prosecute those behind this abhorrent system, I sincerely hope that they’re all pursued relentlessly & without amnesty.
As Mr. Trump will likely be long gone by then, his family should face the same hounding as immigrants’ families are now.
As Mr. Trump will likely be long gone by then, his family should face the same hounding as immigrants’ families are now.
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“Over the past ten years New Zealand has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, New Zealand averaged only 13.4 days per year.”
Quick Q - how does recovery work with a rates cap in place and no govt. support🤔
Quick Q - how does recovery work with a rates cap in place and no govt. support🤔
More frequent states of emergencies a concern for councils
More frequent states of emergencies a concern for councils
www.lgnz.co.nz
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 AM
“Over the past ten years New Zealand has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, New Zealand averaged only 13.4 days per year.”
Quick Q - how does recovery work with a rates cap in place and no govt. support🤔
Quick Q - how does recovery work with a rates cap in place and no govt. support🤔
True, but my small counterpoint is surely his & most of the rest of the current governing cabal’s view is “Let The Market* decide what’s best for the country.”
Which makes a virtue of being a visionless drone.
*our mates
Which makes a virtue of being a visionless drone.
*our mates
Comment: At no point since coming to office has Christopher Luxon set out a big picture of the future he and his government see for NZ
Luxon was flying at Air NZ but as PM he's all at sea
newsroom.co.nz
January 22, 2026 at 7:21 PM
True, but my small counterpoint is surely his & most of the rest of the current governing cabal’s view is “Let The Market* decide what’s best for the country.”
Which makes a virtue of being a visionless drone.
*our mates
Which makes a virtue of being a visionless drone.
*our mates
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life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
January 22, 2026 at 8:26 AM
life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
Sure - you’ve now got money in the bank account to pay for the groceries, and maybe a lotto ticket.
But you’ve sold the farm’s land & the family’s silverware, put off replacing the knackered 1990s car again, & are about to tar-seal the 10km driveway for some reason.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
But you’ve sold the farm’s land & the family’s silverware, put off replacing the knackered 1990s car again, & are about to tar-seal the 10km driveway for some reason.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Government's finances in better than expected shape
The government's finances are in better than expected shape as spending has fallen more than the tax take.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 22, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Sure - you’ve now got money in the bank account to pay for the groceries, and maybe a lotto ticket.
But you’ve sold the farm’s land & the family’s silverware, put off replacing the knackered 1990s car again, & are about to tar-seal the 10km driveway for some reason.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
But you’ve sold the farm’s land & the family’s silverware, put off replacing the knackered 1990s car again, & are about to tar-seal the 10km driveway for some reason.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Longing for the void also known as NZ’s Prime Minister to say something even 10% as articulate and forthright as this.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...
January 21, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Longing for the void also known as NZ’s Prime Minister to say something even 10% as articulate and forthright as this.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=btqH...
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This is an important story and I'm glad it so clearly makes the point that hospice isn't just a place you go to die, it's also a service delivered out in the community. Hospice nurses are absolute champs at working out what people need and getting it to happen. This system cannot be allowed to fail.
wrote about death, dying and New Zealand's looming catastrophe in palliative care thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...
How we die: Inside New Zealand’s looming crisis in palliative care
As New Zealand’s population ages, the number of people dying each year will rise rapidly. With hospices already experiencing funding shortages, who will care for us at the end of our lives?
thespinoff.co.nz
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 AM
This is an important story and I'm glad it so clearly makes the point that hospice isn't just a place you go to die, it's also a service delivered out in the community. Hospice nurses are absolute champs at working out what people need and getting it to happen. This system cannot be allowed to fail.
50% of my life has been under Tory govts (UK & NZ).
Can’t say that endless privatisations, “efficiency” cuts & austerity budgets have been anything other ruinous.
I suspect all the ‘business confidence’ is just the confidence that they can act with impunity towards their employees and customers.
Can’t say that endless privatisations, “efficiency” cuts & austerity budgets have been anything other ruinous.
I suspect all the ‘business confidence’ is just the confidence that they can act with impunity towards their employees and customers.
#NZpol
Yeah, that narrative about National being somehow inherently good with the economy needs to be ground into dust. Seriously, have it hung, drawn and quartered, its remnants posted to the four corners, because it quite literally is. not. true.
Something something "maths" and "outcomes".
Yeah, that narrative about National being somehow inherently good with the economy needs to be ground into dust. Seriously, have it hung, drawn and quartered, its remnants posted to the four corners, because it quite literally is. not. true.
Something something "maths" and "outcomes".
January 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
50% of my life has been under Tory govts (UK & NZ).
Can’t say that endless privatisations, “efficiency” cuts & austerity budgets have been anything other ruinous.
I suspect all the ‘business confidence’ is just the confidence that they can act with impunity towards their employees and customers.
Can’t say that endless privatisations, “efficiency” cuts & austerity budgets have been anything other ruinous.
I suspect all the ‘business confidence’ is just the confidence that they can act with impunity towards their employees and customers.
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Over the past decade our immigration rate (long term immigration/ total population) to AoNZ has nearly been twice that of the UK (and our border was closed for much of 2020-2021).
I wish to make it quite clear the US and the UK have a fascism out of control problem, not an immigration problem.
I wish to make it quite clear the US and the UK have a fascism out of control problem, not an immigration problem.
Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.
January 11, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Over the past decade our immigration rate (long term immigration/ total population) to AoNZ has nearly been twice that of the UK (and our border was closed for much of 2020-2021).
I wish to make it quite clear the US and the UK have a fascism out of control problem, not an immigration problem.
I wish to make it quite clear the US and the UK have a fascism out of control problem, not an immigration problem.
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Liam finishes by banging on about improving productivity. Easily said, but real change will rely on Govt & businesses actually investing in things that drive those improvements. Little sign of that - we're pouring billions into roads so that boomers can drive more quickly to baches. [Ends]
January 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Liam finishes by banging on about improving productivity. Easily said, but real change will rely on Govt & businesses actually investing in things that drive those improvements. Little sign of that - we're pouring billions into roads so that boomers can drive more quickly to baches. [Ends]
Gah, this is so dismal.
Should have probably included this comparison of the wage share of the pie in previous 🧵
A stark reminder of just how much Roger and Ruth destroyed the bargaining power of workers as they set about creating a high profit / low wage, private debt fuelled, ecocidal, directionless economy.
A stark reminder of just how much Roger and Ruth destroyed the bargaining power of workers as they set about creating a high profit / low wage, private debt fuelled, ecocidal, directionless economy.
January 10, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Gah, this is so dismal.
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We are in a triple crisis of an unfolding climate disaster, an insane wealth inequality, and an unmitigated pandemic in the backdrop of rampant institutional racism, ableism, misogyny, and queerphobia. The powerful are not required to give a single shit and so they don’t. We dutifully go to work.
January 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
We are in a triple crisis of an unfolding climate disaster, an insane wealth inequality, and an unmitigated pandemic in the backdrop of rampant institutional racism, ableism, misogyny, and queerphobia. The powerful are not required to give a single shit and so they don’t. We dutifully go to work.
This is obviously good news, just a shame it’s taken this long (& snuck out just before Xmas) to get almost 75% of the way back to where we were at the last election with free prescriptions.
Obvs this policy doesn’t apply to one-off prescriptions like antibiotics.
Should just go the whole hog IMO.
Obvs this policy doesn’t apply to one-off prescriptions like antibiotics.
Should just go the whole hog IMO.
Government u-turns on prescription co-payment fees
Government u-turns on prescription co-payment fees
People will now only need to pay a $5 fee once for new, 12-month prescriptions.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 9, 2026 at 12:02 AM
This is obviously good news, just a shame it’s taken this long (& snuck out just before Xmas) to get almost 75% of the way back to where we were at the last election with free prescriptions.
Obvs this policy doesn’t apply to one-off prescriptions like antibiotics.
Should just go the whole hog IMO.
Obvs this policy doesn’t apply to one-off prescriptions like antibiotics.
Should just go the whole hog IMO.
This (from clinician POV) is correct: though uploading to MMH doesn’t happen until the clinician has reviewed & filed the document.
There are override controls to prevent individual documents / lab results from being uploaded.
I think MMH is still an “opt-in / opt-out” choice at registration.
There are override controls to prevent individual documents / lab results from being uploaded.
I think MMH is still an “opt-in / opt-out” choice at registration.
its:
Lab (Awanui for eg) -> PMS (MedTech/Indici) -> MMH or other portal.
Possibly one other step between lab and PMS
Lab (Awanui for eg) -> PMS (MedTech/Indici) -> MMH or other portal.
Possibly one other step between lab and PMS
January 7, 2026 at 11:45 PM
This (from clinician POV) is correct: though uploading to MMH doesn’t happen until the clinician has reviewed & filed the document.
There are override controls to prevent individual documents / lab results from being uploaded.
I think MMH is still an “opt-in / opt-out” choice at registration.
There are override controls to prevent individual documents / lab results from being uploaded.
I think MMH is still an “opt-in / opt-out” choice at registration.
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Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
If getting off oil to preserve the habitable-ness of our planet is not your thing, then please consider:
The sooner we’re away from the stuff, the sooner we’re rid of the ghastly men who use it to prop up their shitty regimes, or who use it to justify illegal invasions of other peoples’ lands.
The sooner we’re away from the stuff, the sooner we’re rid of the ghastly men who use it to prop up their shitty regimes, or who use it to justify illegal invasions of other peoples’ lands.
January 4, 2026 at 7:17 AM
If getting off oil to preserve the habitable-ness of our planet is not your thing, then please consider:
The sooner we’re away from the stuff, the sooner we’re rid of the ghastly men who use it to prop up their shitty regimes, or who use it to justify illegal invasions of other peoples’ lands.
The sooner we’re away from the stuff, the sooner we’re rid of the ghastly men who use it to prop up their shitty regimes, or who use it to justify illegal invasions of other peoples’ lands.
Oh great.
I wish we took our health infrastructure seriously in this country - especially the IT side of things where there’s so much fragmentation, duplication, and (from the clinical perspective) systems that don’t talk to one another properly.
Turns out I have to add poor data security to this.
I wish we took our health infrastructure seriously in this country - especially the IT side of things where there’s so much fragmentation, duplication, and (from the clinical perspective) systems that don’t talk to one another properly.
Turns out I have to add poor data security to this.
Kazu, the group/individual behind the ManageMyHealth breach, has posted some samples of the data for verification and they all appear to be legitimate.
Among other things, there are test results (ie; Labtests), referral letters, patient health summaries, hospital ED summaries and other letters
Among other things, there are test results (ie; Labtests), referral letters, patient health summaries, hospital ED summaries and other letters
December 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Oh great.
I wish we took our health infrastructure seriously in this country - especially the IT side of things where there’s so much fragmentation, duplication, and (from the clinical perspective) systems that don’t talk to one another properly.
Turns out I have to add poor data security to this.
I wish we took our health infrastructure seriously in this country - especially the IT side of things where there’s so much fragmentation, duplication, and (from the clinical perspective) systems that don’t talk to one another properly.
Turns out I have to add poor data security to this.
Hear me out: what if no more motorways through the city, but instead we have a car ferry every 15 minutes Kaiwharawhara ↔️ Evans Bay / Miramar?
(This idea is brought to you by bored-brain-me waiting for hours in a stationary car at the Interislander terminal).
(This idea is brought to you by bored-brain-me waiting for hours in a stationary car at the Interislander terminal).
December 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hear me out: what if no more motorways through the city, but instead we have a car ferry every 15 minutes Kaiwharawhara ↔️ Evans Bay / Miramar?
(This idea is brought to you by bored-brain-me waiting for hours in a stationary car at the Interislander terminal).
(This idea is brought to you by bored-brain-me waiting for hours in a stationary car at the Interislander terminal).
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Vision for Wellington members are OBSESSED with holding the city back and only investing when it suits their individual needs like saving minutes to the Koru lounge.
Leaders must think about the needs of their community. More cycling, more waking and less congestion on the roads. #nzpol
Leaders must think about the needs of their community. More cycling, more waking and less congestion on the roads. #nzpol
Luke Pierson: "What we don’t have here is perfection. But what we do have, is a chance to fix a longstanding transport challenge for Wellington."
Wellington needs real solutions, not selective outrage over tunnels
OPINION: With 45,000 vehicles using the Mt Victoria Tunnel daily and strong public support for a second tunnel, the city faces a choice between practical fixes and political posturing.
www.thepost.co.nz
December 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Vision for Wellington members are OBSESSED with holding the city back and only investing when it suits their individual needs like saving minutes to the Koru lounge.
Leaders must think about the needs of their community. More cycling, more waking and less congestion on the roads. #nzpol
Leaders must think about the needs of their community. More cycling, more waking and less congestion on the roads. #nzpol
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Like many kiwis with grownup kids, I'm in Australia today! So, Happy Christmas to everyone who understands this graph!
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December 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Like many kiwis with grownup kids, I'm in Australia today! So, Happy Christmas to everyone who understands this graph!
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