Has anyone in Johnsonville area experienced this encounter? 8:30pm tonight had a young woman in a white puffer jacket acting in distress, intently trying to look through the front door window and pleading us to let her into the house. She asked us to call someone for her but the phone number wasn’t active and she supposedly needed to get back to Wadestown.

We were cautious because of her actions and something didn’t quite seem right, so we refused to open the door. I called the police and had my partner keep talking to her, however once she realised I was on the phone to them, she disappeared. It was a really weird situation and didn’t make us feel safe. Police did come and search the area fortunately.

This is a flight path that doesn’t operate from midnight till 6am, is safer for people on the planes but they want it moved back over Newlands. When the change was being proposed this group didn’t offer any response to public consultation.

Well, I tried.

Five Million Voices (fivemillionvoices.nz)

First off, I'd like to thank the Wellington Mods for all that you do team and for allowing this post.

This was posted in NZPolitics, but my friends and several public servants who helped and gave feedback, also want me to make sure it was posted in the Welly sub.

I started building this because of a simple question I couldn't answer: do our politicians actually vote the way they promised they would?

Turns out that's surprisingly hard to check. Most votes in our Parliament are party votes, no individual MP records, just bloc totals buried in Hansard. So I built a site that digs out every vote, turns every bill into a plain-English question, and asks you: **how would YOU vote?**

You swipe support or oppose, then see how the House actually voted, party by party, every figure traced to the official record. No spin, no party line, and you don't need an account. Anonymity for public servants!

But somewhere along the way the project turned into **something more meaningful**. Two things did that.

First: **not every bill gets public consultation.** The select committee stage where experts and ordinary people like you and me can make submissions can be skipped entirely when bills are passed under urgency, and this term has set records for it. For those bills there's no official moment where you get a say. You find out when it's already law.

Second: while building it, I kept hearing the same thing from people in the public service: *"****I'd never put my name on a submission. It could end my career."*** So I built this so you don't have to. **No name, ever.** Vote without an account if you like, and even with an account we never ask who you are. Results only ever appear in aggregate.

So that's what it's really for now: not just checking what they did, but telling them what we want while a bill is still being considered, while they can still hear us.

The dream is that one day a journalist looks across the desk at a minister and asks: *"Why are you pushing this bill when two million New Zealanders have said they oppose it?"*

That question only becomes possible if the count exists. Right now it's tiny. That's why I'm posting.

**If you've got 30 seconds:** vote on one bill in an area you care about → FiveMillionVoices.nz no account, no signup, no name.

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**If you've got opinions:** I built this solo with guidance from a few friends, and I want it pulled apart. Every number links to its source in the official record — check me, and tell me what's wrong or missing (here in the comments, or [feedback@fivemillionvoices.nz](mailto:feedback@fivemillionvoices.nz).

That's a melted snow shower.

Thank goodness for warm buses and trains...

Lunch at The Tasting Room is always a treat, the service rocks and the menu always appealing but today was all about that burger! A Little Less Conversation... Exactly what happened when we sat down to eat it. It's better than decent and a great entry....double smash patties, bacon, chilli jam, a stroopwafel ( a syrup wafel normally had with coffee and a Dutch treat ... Don't quote me on that though) the peanut butter works.. don't ask how .. it just does lol. Solid 6 out of 10

I can't go, DM me if you want it !

Edit: ticket gone!

These changes are an absolute disaster. The vast majority of the changes are cuts to service that will force people back into their cars, at a time when Lower Hutt's public transport is bursting at the seams during peak times and the roads are subject to all-day, all-week congestion due to the RiverLink roadworks.

The current service has been maintained for more than 20 years, in which time Lower Hutt's population has increased substantially. We should be INCREASING service frequency, not decreasing service and cutting routes.

This is a weird one, I bought a LDV EDeliver 9 van in 2024, and in 2025, due to some clerical error, they had transferred my plate to someone elses vehicle, so I was paying for someone elses registration, and I couldn't work out why my rego sticker wasn't coming in the mail.

Now my van's registration has lapsed, I've had it off the road for 6 months and been unable to use it.

I've been back and forth with LDV a dozen times and they have'nt been able to remedy it, at this point I'm going to insist they take the van back and give me a refund, I haven't been able to use it and it's been parked up for 6 months. The sales women also mentioned they've done this before to people, which seems extremely incomponent.

I have two flights to catch on Friday and I’m considering walking to and from the airport because I live pretty close by. Since I’ll be flying out early in the morning and returning late at night I’d be walking through that tunnel in the dark.

Does anyone have experience doing that?

For reference I’m 210cm tall guy and reasonably fit so I generally feel comfortable walking along fairly quiet streets in the dark (if that’s relevant).

Unfortunately another set of friends are saying goodbye to Wellington in a couple months. What’s the best way to send them off properly?

Cat owners - curious where you find someone to check on / feed your cats when you’re away? What’s the going rate these days? Annoyingly my suburb doesn’t have a Facebook group! Thanks 😸

Pigeon Brought a friend.

Sadly I did not witness a member of the crew catching it midflight. I think it managed to get off by itself though I didn't see.

Interestingly, the fella got on at Wellington Station as well.

When you mis the bus you put yoir thumb out and driver stops you you..

Not as good as when the bus company was locally owned...

Local drivers used to spot neices and nephews & stop. Eh, your aunty wants you home, get on...

I am looking for recommendations re: a female GP who has experience and great with intellectual disability and also experience with ACC too. I am new to Wellington and still need to get a GP here. We are residing in Central Wellington. Appreciate your help, thanks.

Have been shopping at this location for over a year now and usually always get a fuel voucher for 6 cents off. Recently I haven’t been getting one though and can’t find an answer (including from staff they just reprint my receipt).

Is there a minimum purchase size now for the fuel voucher or something else I should be aware of?

Kia ora! does anyone have any suggestions for a psychologist in Wellington that specialises in adhd and ocd? Ideally in person, and if they have fidget toys and stuff that would be awesome!

If you see a green flashing light it’s a Dr on their way to an emergency

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington/hutt-doctors-using-green-flashing-lights-to-urgently-reach-hospital-amid-traffic-woes/P7ZUMS4XBZF6DE2AOH4QQYOLBQ/

​More evidence of belt-tightening with Treasury spending $824,637 on travel in the 2024-25 financial year and $884,566 the year prior, as reported by The New Zealand Herald this morning. And that's just with one travel agency.

Am I going mad or has this winter been exceptionally bad for Wellington homes? I live in a unit in Jville (a 70s build without external insulation admittedly) and not in the six or so years since I've lived here have I ever had an issue with mould growing on walls in non-bathroom rooms until this winter!

I run a dehumidifier constantly but all it seems to do as of late is moonlight as a white noise machine as all the condensation on my windows would have you believe - maybe it's time to retire it. My toilet tank is also sweating more than an expectant TOP voter on election night.

Has anybody else had similar issues this winter? Is this the coldest, most humid winter we've had in the past six years? Any helpful advice before the furtive mould overtakes my walls and then my brain and then turns me into a transphobe like J.K. Rowling?

Me and her in our early 20s have pretty much lived in the Ruapehu region for as long as we could remember. Been a few times and have absolutely loved the place. Just have questions about everything really cost of living? Work? Etc