Greg Jackson NZ
@realgregjack.bsky.social
Poet, parent, partner, grandparent.Multiple careers including advertising copywriter, award winning journalist, political reporter, campaign manager, speechwriter, strategic advisor.Now writing and on perpetual garden leave.
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At last, my irrational annoyance with people who back into car parks is validated
As we head into summer, remember to keep combustion vehicles away from dry grass as they have a tendency to do this.🔥
This happened in NZ and 28 vehicles were damaged. Hopefully combustion cars won't cause too many forest fires this season.
This happened in NZ and 28 vehicles were damaged. Hopefully combustion cars won't cause too many forest fires this season.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
At last, my irrational annoyance with people who back into car parks is validated
This IPCA report on McSkimming and enabler/s needs a major systemic review of police command staff and systems to result.How deep does the rot go?Is just making up breathalysers results by lower level police a downstream reflection of the culture? New Zealand needs answers, not soundbites.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This IPCA report on McSkimming and enabler/s needs a major systemic review of police command staff and systems to result.How deep does the rot go?Is just making up breathalysers results by lower level police a downstream reflection of the culture? New Zealand needs answers, not soundbites.
When you are so stupid you can't hear " Goodbye Loser."
'Luxon said it was "quite normal" for coalition partners to express different views "on the margins".'
Aren't asset sales more central than that?
#NzPol
Aren't asset sales more central than that?
#NzPol
Christopher Luxon brushes off Winston Peters' asset sales attack
The NZ First leader says National wants to sell assets because it's "failed to run the economy properly".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
When you are so stupid you can't hear " Goodbye Loser."
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Christchurch's playground elephant: demure, unassuming, shaped like a friend
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Christchurch's playground elephant: demure, unassuming, shaped like a friend
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
Smelling the spoor of a Labour/NZ First coalition post election.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Smelling the spoor of a Labour/NZ First coalition post election.
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Chris Bishop has allowed Christchurch to dump MDRS housing densification rules in another big win for NIMBYs protesting against 'sunlight stealing' YIMBYs. Bishop is declaring victory, even though Chch’s house-price-to-income multiple is still 13.1. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/tuesdays-c...
Tuesday's Chorus: NIMBYs win MDRS fight
Bishop allows Christchurch to dump MDRS in big win for NIMBYs protesting against 'sunlight stealing' townhouses; Victory declared on housing supply with city's house-price-to-income multiple at 13.1
thekaka.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Chris Bishop has allowed Christchurch to dump MDRS housing densification rules in another big win for NIMBYs protesting against 'sunlight stealing' YIMBYs. Bishop is declaring victory, even though Chch’s house-price-to-income multiple is still 13.1. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/tuesdays-c...
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
We're grandparents old now but utterly outraged by the massive youth unemployment the Government of Landlords has created.PI and Maori kids bearing the brunt -racism at it's most blatant.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
We're grandparents old now but utterly outraged by the massive youth unemployment the Government of Landlords has created.PI and Maori kids bearing the brunt -racism at it's most blatant.
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Aotearoa: disaster occurs --> local marae opens its doors to the victims. Every. Single. Time.
The fire on Tongariro National Park has grown to 1,600 hectares and remains uncontrolled, and Ngāti Rangi has opened their marae in Raetihi to support affected communities.
Iwi offer shelter as firefighters battle uncontrolled forest fire on Tongariro
The fire on Tongariro National Park has grown to 1,600 hectares and remains uncontrolled, and Ngāti Rangi has opened their marae in Raetihi to support affected communities.
www.teaonews.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Aotearoa: disaster occurs --> local marae opens its doors to the victims. Every. Single. Time.
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#nzpol
*Chris Luxon and Nicola Willis to breakfast media on Monday morning:
We're seeing more green shoots, we're turning the corner... 🙄
...for property speculators. 🤬
*Chris Luxon and Nicola Willis to breakfast media on Monday morning:
We're seeing more green shoots, we're turning the corner... 🙄
...for property speculators. 🤬
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... ‘The shit has hit the fan’: Business failures hit small creditors as liquidators brace for more pain
Business failures hit small creditors as liquidators brace for more pain
Liquidators say “the shit has hit the fan” and don’t expect closures to slow down for at least another year leaving smaller creditors in the dust.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
#nzpol
*Chris Luxon and Nicola Willis to breakfast media on Monday morning:
We're seeing more green shoots, we're turning the corner... 🙄
...for property speculators. 🤬
*Chris Luxon and Nicola Willis to breakfast media on Monday morning:
We're seeing more green shoots, we're turning the corner... 🙄
...for property speculators. 🤬
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Tonight, the evil, terrorist nation of Russia is launching ballistic missiles and drones at civilians again, like they do every night.
Putin will rot
Putin will rot
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Tonight, the evil, terrorist nation of Russia is launching ballistic missiles and drones at civilians again, like they do every night.
Putin will rot
Putin will rot
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November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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One evening Max, next door's cat, pawed at our patio door to be let in. I opened it and he sauntered in looking annoyed, jumped on 'his' chair and curled up to snooze.
Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.
Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
One evening Max, next door's cat, pawed at our patio door to be let in. I opened it and he sauntered in looking annoyed, jumped on 'his' chair and curled up to snooze.
Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.
Then i realised i could hear an alarm. Looked over the fence. They were out for the day, and their kitchen was on fire.
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Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.
DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought: report
www.alternet.org/doj-republic...
www.alternet.org/doj-republic...
DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought: report
Several House Republicans have reportedly heard from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein documents are especially compromising for President Donald Trump.
www.alternet.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought: report
www.alternet.org/doj-republic...
www.alternet.org/doj-republic...
Meanwhile in the parallel universe.Be interesting to take some kryptonite to the Fox studio and see what happens.
oh my god they actually did it lmao
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Meanwhile in the parallel universe.Be interesting to take some kryptonite to the Fox studio and see what happens.
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Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus
It took more than a year of painstaking cross-partisan negotiation to land the Zero Carbon Act. Now, the Govt is gutting it unilaterally, Marc Daalder reports
newsroom.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
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Quick, somebody tell David Seymour. A US state not that much bigger than New Zealand has voted to tax high earners to fully fund school meals for ALL students.
#nzpol
#nzpol
NEW: Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p... #copolitics #coleg
Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps
Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students
coloradosun.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Quick, somebody tell David Seymour. A US state not that much bigger than New Zealand has voted to tax high earners to fully fund school meals for ALL students.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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I'll vote for whoever sets a target to get youth unemployment back below 10% in one year. I can't do ten years of centrist, round the next corner drivel. Waiting for businesses to get desperate enough to give young, disengaged or disabled people a job is fkng stupid. There is loads that needs doing.
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I'll vote for whoever sets a target to get youth unemployment back below 10% in one year. I can't do ten years of centrist, round the next corner drivel. Waiting for businesses to get desperate enough to give young, disengaged or disabled people a job is fkng stupid. There is loads that needs doing.
Having promised to sort out the economy National have instead fucked it up.I can't see middle NZ falling for it again.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Having promised to sort out the economy National have instead fucked it up.I can't see middle NZ falling for it again.
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Zohran Mamdani: "I am Muslim. I am a democratic-socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Zohran Mamdani: "I am Muslim. I am a democratic-socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."
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Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
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So Decision Desk HQ has called NYC Mayor for Mamdani....
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
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November 4, 2025 Live Election Results | DDHQ
Live Election Night Results from Decision Desk HQ
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
So Decision Desk HQ has called NYC Mayor for Mamdani....
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
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More than 1.7 million New Yorkers have cast their vote for mayor, shattering turnout records and putting the city on track to clear 2 million votes for the first time since 1969 when Mayor John Lindsey won reelection. Keep up with our Election Night live blog.
Will It Be Mamdani or Cuomo? Election Night Live Updates.
We’re on track for the highest turnout for mayor this century.
nymag.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
More than 1.7 million New Yorkers have cast their vote for mayor, shattering turnout records and putting the city on track to clear 2 million votes for the first time since 1969 when Mayor John Lindsey won reelection. Keep up with our Election Night live blog.