I Am Brie Elliott

15/09/2025

This Wednesday I’m co-hosting with Big Hairy Network(!!). From TikToks in my bedroom... To hosting convos with some of the sharpest minds - can’t wait to share with you all. So excited!!!

Co-hosts for this week whanau

14/09/2025

I just submitted my letter to the Ministry of Education because they’re proposing to remove Outdoor Education from the senior curriculum.
Here’s the thing: Outdoor Education isn’t just “fun outside.” It builds resilience, teamwork, problem-solving, and environmental stewardship. It connects students to Aotearoa’s mountains, rivers, forests, and coastlines, and it opens pathways to careers in tourism, conservation, recreation, and education.

If you care about our kids, the environment, and real learning experiences - speak up today. Submissions close TODAY at 5PM.

45,000+ people have already stood up for OE. Your voice is NEEDED:
✔ Email your submission (just an email with your thoughts): [email protected]
(CC: [email protected])
✔ Sign + share the petition: https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/keep-outdoor-education-as-a-senior-curriculum-subject-list

14/09/2025

33 pay equity claims affecting over 150,000 workers were cancelled, leaving essential workers underpaid while the government continues to fund these sectors. This impacts workers across education, health, community, and family services - including teachers (ECE, primary, secondary), kindergarten support staff, librarians, administrators, probation officers, social service workers, nurses, midwives, care and support coordinators, lab technicians, phlebotomists, aged residential care nurses, and more.

Many of these roles are government-funded or heavily subsidised, but current allocations aren’t enough for fair pay. The litigation-based pay equity model is slow, inefficient, and often loses workers money over time, because claims take years and payouts don’t keep up with inflation. A possible solution? Require fair pay directly in contracts, with additional funding as needed, giving essential workers what they deserve without court battles.

Join the September 20 protest to demand action and pay equity for the essential workers who keep Aotearoa running.

13/09/2025

I’ve noticed something interesting since Charlie Kirk’s death: suddenly some of the loudest right-wing voices here in NZ are softening their tone. People who were once posting aggressive takedowns are now writing things like “I’m just a guy who loves God and his country.” That shift isn’t humility. It’s fear.

Because when your politics are built on division and hate, you create a world where violence feels inevitable. You can’t pour fuel on a fire for years and then act shocked when it burns. Kirk’s death isn’t martyrdom - it’s what happens when the flames get too close.

And I’ll be blunt: I’m not scared. Why? Because I’m not out here dehumanising women, q***r people, or minorities. I criticise policy, I critique power, but I don’t feed people poison and then act shocked when it turns toxic. You spend years stoking anger and now you’re realising the fire you lit can burn back?

If you can only sound reasonable when you’re scared, what does that say about the politics you’ve been pushing all along?

11/09/2025

Charlie Kirk’s death is tragic, but he is not a martyr. Tragedy doesn’t automatically make someone heroic, and it shouldn’t be used to justify aggression or political grandstanding. Kirk himself once said that kids’ safety should be secondary to adults’ rights to guns - a statement that shows the kind of rhetoric he promoted.

His death comes amid a world shaped by the ideologies and movements he helped promote - not a heroic sacrifice, but a tragic outcome.

As a ‘political commentator’, I value free speech, but I hate the way this tragedy is being weaponised. Already, some are spinning it as proof that the ‘left’ are “killers,” when no one even knows who is responsible. That’s wrong - and it distracts from real harms happening every day, especially to children.

Even in New Zealand, commentary has been frustrating. David Seymour, for example, responded this morning to Chris Lynch by shifting the conversation away from the tragedy itself and toward his own free speech agenda - exactly the kind of point-scoring that is unhelpful and disrespectful.

Tragedy should make us reflect, act, and protect… Not divide and exploit. That’s the conversation we need to have.

11/09/2025

Erica Stanford’s big NCEA refresh looks flashy, but students know the truth. From Media Studies and Music Tech to vocational classes, I break down why these so-called ‘new subjects’ are mostly rebrand and PR spin - and why the system still isn’t helping stressed students or teachers.

09/09/2025

Digital IDs are in the news, and Winston Peters says he’s protecting your privacy. But who actually wrote the law, and what does it really do? I dug into Labour’s original Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Act and compared it to Winston’s new bill - the results are wild. Who’s really protecting privacy, and who’s just playing politics? 💳📱

08/09/2025

I was lucky enough to score some tickets to this! It’s awesome - 10/10 recommend checking it out! 👍

Since it screened at the NZ International Film Festival, a few people have asked me how they can see the documentary called Prime Minister (which is a pretty intimate portrayal of my time in office…as captured by this image of me in the film, heavily pregnant and very disheveled.) Well, good news! will be rolling the film out via

Previews are from 19th-21st Sept & then it screens nationwide from the 25th of Sept. You can head to https://www.rialto.co.nz/Cinemas to learn more

Thanks of course to those who made the film, and to those now sending it out into the world. My cousins can now officially stop asking me how they can see it :)

08/09/2025

Politics isn’t just shaped by MPs - online actors, social media amplification, and lobby groups play a huge role in what we see. Some voices with relatively small followings end up shaping headlines, while others, including Māori leaders and progressive voices, get scrutinised for tiny mistakes. This video breaks down how coordinated amplification online can influence public perception, why the media sometimes amplifies certain narratives more than others, and how bias, systemic racism, and homophobia creep into public discourse. We need fair scrutiny, transparency, and attention to who is shaping the conversation - because policy, not amplification, should drive our politics.

04/09/2025

Lobbying is when interest groups try to influence lawmaking for their benefit. Sometimes that’s good, and sometimes it’s not.
The key to democratic lobbying is transparency…something the coalition is struggling with.

04/09/2025

This is how political smear campaigns actually work. 🧐
A commentator who is platformed by ‘The Platform’ has been attacking me - but public records and receipts show a pattern connecting her to past controversies, and the story gets wild. Watch closely and decide for yourself. 👀