Kyle Matthews
@kylermatthews.bsky.social
Research fellow at He Whenua Taurikura. Research violent extremism, state security, the Atlas network, free speech/hate speech, and radical social movements across the political spectrum. He/him. https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/kyle.matthews
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I'm an arrestee from yesterday and once again met the most kind, gentle and thoughtful people sitting with placards, making the absurdity of arrests so blatant.
I was sitting close to Adam, who continued pretending he was pro genocide, asking why he wasn't arrested: www.instagram.com/p/DPL2G9iCNth/
I was sitting close to Adam, who continued pretending he was pro genocide, asking why he wasn't arrested: www.instagram.com/p/DPL2G9iCNth/
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I'm an arrestee from yesterday and once again met the most kind, gentle and thoughtful people sitting with placards, making the absurdity of arrests so blatant.
I was sitting close to Adam, who continued pretending he was pro genocide, asking why he wasn't arrested: www.instagram.com/p/DPL2G9iCNth/
I was sitting close to Adam, who continued pretending he was pro genocide, asking why he wasn't arrested: www.instagram.com/p/DPL2G9iCNth/
Yesterday's email indicating the Integrity Institute has been shut down:
Move back to Democracy project "follows on from the decision of the Integrity Institute’s funders to wind up that organisation, in which I was employed part-time for most of the year."
Move back to Democracy project "follows on from the decision of the Integrity Institute’s funders to wind up that organisation, in which I was employed part-time for most of the year."
Today's Democracy Briefing from Bryce Edward's Integrity Institute leads with this text. No indication what is causing this, but a possible reason is the Institute falling over?
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Yesterday's email indicating the Integrity Institute has been shut down:
Move back to Democracy project "follows on from the decision of the Integrity Institute’s funders to wind up that organisation, in which I was employed part-time for most of the year."
Move back to Democracy project "follows on from the decision of the Integrity Institute’s funders to wind up that organisation, in which I was employed part-time for most of the year."
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We grew up being told "you'll get more conservative as you age" but it turns out becoming more conservative isn't about aging it's about accruing wealth, which we didn't do as we aged because for most of us home ownership was out of reach
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age, rewriting the rules of Australian politics | RNZ News
The trend has surprised the experts behind the study.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We grew up being told "you'll get more conservative as you age" but it turns out becoming more conservative isn't about aging it's about accruing wealth, which we didn't do as we aged because for most of us home ownership was out of reach
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
Great to see @pault.bsky.social from @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social debate free speech issues on The Elephant podcast: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/when-does...
Free speech or hate speech? Watch the debate on The Elephant
The Elephant is an online video series about the controversial topics we often avoid.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Great to see @pault.bsky.social from @rightsaotearoa.bsky.social debate free speech issues on The Elephant podcast: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/when-does...
At 225% I am in but that doesn’t really seem like an interest rate cut stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
At 225% I am in but that doesn’t really seem like an interest rate cut stuff.
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Some political parties will literally disestablish entire layers of local government rather than go to therapy (for their entrenched racism)
Regardless of kayfabe comms and Nat equivocation in media, ACT always says the thing to its red-faced griefer audience
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Some political parties will literally disestablish entire layers of local government rather than go to therapy (for their entrenched racism)
Oil companies have been invited into ‘construct your own grift’ parties with the government. Yay!
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the oil and gas industry's wishlist.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Oil companies have been invited into ‘construct your own grift’ parties with the government. Yay!
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"Phineas Mann, Hector Gardiner, Campbell Harvey, Bryan French, Karen Robinson, and Tianarangi Robinson. A teenager continues to have name suppression."
Six charged over Destiny Church Pride library storytime protest can now be named
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/six-charg...
Six charged over Destiny Church Pride library storytime protest can now be named
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/six-charg...
Six charged over violent Destiny Church-linked Pride protest can now be named
The protest erupted during a Pride storytime event at Te Atatū library.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"Phineas Mann, Hector Gardiner, Campbell Harvey, Bryan French, Karen Robinson, and Tianarangi Robinson. A teenager continues to have name suppression."
Six charged over Destiny Church Pride library storytime protest can now be named
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/six-charg...
Six charged over Destiny Church Pride library storytime protest can now be named
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/six-charg...
The climate talks which are failing to prevent us setting our world on fire, were literally on fire. How apt.
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The climate talks which are failing to prevent us setting our world on fire, were literally on fire. How apt.
Boo. Aligning us with the uk on this is embarrassing.
The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Boo. Aligning us with the uk on this is embarrassing.
Today's Democracy Briefing from Bryce Edward's Integrity Institute leads with this text. No indication what is causing this, but a possible reason is the Institute falling over?
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Today's Democracy Briefing from Bryce Edward's Integrity Institute leads with this text. No indication what is causing this, but a possible reason is the Institute falling over?
Am I missing something? This story seems to indicate that the lab told the company that the sand contained asbestos and the company imposed client privilege to prevent that coming out and then didn’t do anything about it. Will the company be facing charges?
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Am I missing something? This story seems to indicate that the lab told the company that the sand contained asbestos and the company imposed client privilege to prevent that coming out and then didn’t do anything about it. Will the company be facing charges?
It says a lot about violence in society that there's an academic journal entitled 'Journal of School Violence', which has been producing quarterly issues since 2002, including a crap-ton of articles about mass school shootings.
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It says a lot about violence in society that there's an academic journal entitled 'Journal of School Violence', which has been producing quarterly issues since 2002, including a crap-ton of articles about mass school shootings.
Diane Stone (2007) talks about right-wing think tanks as a 'garbage can' - that no matter what the problem society is facing or the evidence about it, the same old solution (deregulation, deuniversalisation, neoliberalisation, asset sales) get pulled out of the garbage can and applied.
Same tired old ghoul formula...
1. Define a problem.
2. Add some numbers and smart sounding stuff.
3. Draw the long bow on some reckons.
4. Conclude with the same old 'solutions'... deregulation, reducing universal services, sell assets to offshore investors.
1. Define a problem.
2. Add some numbers and smart sounding stuff.
3. Draw the long bow on some reckons.
4. Conclude with the same old 'solutions'... deregulation, reducing universal services, sell assets to offshore investors.
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Diane Stone (2007) talks about right-wing think tanks as a 'garbage can' - that no matter what the problem society is facing or the evidence about it, the same old solution (deregulation, deuniversalisation, neoliberalisation, asset sales) get pulled out of the garbage can and applied.
A thread from someone who has done a little research into police culture about the revelations yesterday about the police’s shockingly corrupt handling of a woman’s complaints about the Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming (www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...).
Revealed: The senior cops who exposed the Jevon McSkimming police 'cover-up'
The watchdog that found serious misconduct at the highest levels of police also commended the work of several police staff who stood up. Here's who they are.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A thread from someone who has done a little research into police culture about the revelations yesterday about the police’s shockingly corrupt handling of a woman’s complaints about the Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming (www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...).
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Staff at NZ universities will now have to deal with govt mandated free speech complaints process designed to facilitate far right agitprop infiltrating campus spaces and threatening our academic freedom under the guise of protecting it.
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ensu...
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ensu...
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Staff at NZ universities will now have to deal with govt mandated free speech complaints process designed to facilitate far right agitprop infiltrating campus spaces and threatening our academic freedom under the guise of protecting it.
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ensu...
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/ensu...
This definitely seems like a win relative to where it could have gone: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Lobbyist-turned-firearms minister lifts lid on gun law overhaul
Gun lobbyist-turned-firearms minister Nicole McKee has lifted the lid on her plans Arms Act rewrite - but it’s much less radical than her critics anticipated.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This definitely seems like a win relative to where it could have gone: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Not surprising after the more substantial Australian part of her down under tour was denied. No great loss her not coming to Aotearoa as well. www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3608...
Candace Owens still ‘very keen’ to come to New Zealand despite venue saying her January event is cancelled
The controversial American commentator was due to host an event in Auckland in January.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Not surprising after the more substantial Australian part of her down under tour was denied. No great loss her not coming to Aotearoa as well. www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3608...
I have written about this piece of artivism a couple of times (eg here: wagingnonviolence.org/rs/2024/03/m...), and spoken about it at international conferences. It remains one of Aotearoa's more successful, and challenging, activist actions, in recent times. I tautoko Te Waka Hourua's mahi.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I have written about this piece of artivism a couple of times (eg here: wagingnonviolence.org/rs/2024/03/m...), and spoken about it at international conferences. It remains one of Aotearoa's more successful, and challenging, activist actions, in recent times. I tautoko Te Waka Hourua's mahi.
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If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
I met with Liam a few weeks ago. This is good reading by him.
This, from OUSA's President, is very good and warrants reading:
"For decades, governments of every stripe have treated universities as businesses to be managed rather than institutions of learning and curiosity. ... Students are rebranded as customers, research, degrees and graduates as outputs."
"For decades, governments of every stripe have treated universities as businesses to be managed rather than institutions of learning and curiosity. ... Students are rebranded as customers, research, degrees and graduates as outputs."
We’ve forgotten what universities are for
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I met with Liam a few weeks ago. This is good reading by him.
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At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities.
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
Govt's climate strategy: Let it burn
Comment: The Government has relentlessly pursued policies that boost climate pollution – even if they cost more or jeopardise NZ's reputation, Marc Daalder writes
newsroom.co.nz
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities.
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
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I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪
Information on the 2025 Marsden Fund round
Information about the number of funded proposals in the 2025 Marsden Fund round broken down by research area and institution, also including gender and ethnicity data
www.royalsociety.org.nz
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪
The Zero Carbon Act was a significant step forward in Aotearoa's obligations to respond to the threat of climate change. The non-parliamentary drivers of the Act, Generation Zero, particularly focused on how to make the legislation survive elections and changes of government. It's very moderate.
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Zero Carbon Act was a significant step forward in Aotearoa's obligations to respond to the threat of climate change. The non-parliamentary drivers of the Act, Generation Zero, particularly focused on how to make the legislation survive elections and changes of government. It's very moderate.