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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 1d

Bottom feeder youth, get fucked

Get off the PlayStation and TRY HARDER NOT TO BE UNEMPLOYED
#nzpol

Thousands of teens to lose Jobseeker Support | Now You Know | The Spinoff

YouTube video by The Spinoff

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that didn’t go how I hoped it would. To say I’m a little disappointed in the NZ voting public’s decision on Māori wards is an understatement. Here’s a thought about aspiring to the bare minimum (& given our #nitrate problem even that might be too much)
My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol

Cartoon. Title: “A Traditional Local Body Election Blessing” Image shows a fairy with a wand, dressed in orange, beside a levitating voting box. She’s saying, “May all your municipal dreams come true!” And then, “And if you can’t have that, may your reticulated water be potable”

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d

“Te Tiriti is already written into law. It’s already promised. It should not fall to individual kaiako and kura to hold the line while government policy undermines it.” — Rongopai Kira, tumu whenua (deputy principal) of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga. #nzpol

Erasing Te Tiriti in education | E-Tangata

“We shoulder the burden of ensuring that Te Tiriti lives in our classrooms, even when government policy tries to erase it.” — Rongopai Kira, deputy principal of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngāti Kahungunu...

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d

In this piece Marli Olive Wesley, a Sāmoan-Fijian American writer and analyst unpacks the appeal of right-wing conservative American figures like Charlie Kirk — and what it reveals about faith, survival, and misplaced allegiance in Pacific communities.

#nzpol

Faith, survival, and misplaced allegiance | E-Tangata

“We are a people who have endured land theft, blackbirding, nuclear testing, deportation, and exile . . . Yet again and again, we align ourselves with those who uphold the very systems that shrink us....

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Jules @julianjackson.bsky.social · 23h

Best news this week, hopefully it goes ahead and every regional council adopts this.
#nzpol

Council to notify massive Coromandel bottom trawl ban, picking fight with Govt

Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says the Waikato Regional Council proposal is an abuse of the RMA process and he's taking advice on his next moves, reports Andrew Bevin.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 1d

"People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nzpol

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Does the NZ First leader need to tweak his official bio on the ministerial page of the Beehive’s website – and on his party’s site – claiming he’s a former NZ Māori rugby representative?

‘Words matter’: A little play on words in Winston Peters’ CV

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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 1d

I am forever impressed and appreciative of people’s willingness to tell their stories 🤍

Chasing the losses

They lost everything. Now more is at stake.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 1d

Ok after an afternoon of results, texts, calls, messages on other apps and emails, I have some thoughts on today’s Local Election results

1) Voter turnout is depressing. 32%ish on average across AoNZ is pathetic.
2) The Māori Wards referendum should never have happened - it was a racebaiting farce…

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 1d

#NZpol

It has been interesting, COUGH SPLUTTER, seeing these results come out while watching "I'm not racist... But" Episode tonight... (especially Liam Hehir kinda wheedling around a bit on some land-related 'comparisons' before getting a "Uh... see here's the thing" from other panelists, AHEM).

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 1d

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 1d

#NZpol

ICYMI

"Waititi said the government and media had engaged in a "constant attack" on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, pointing to "14 inquiries in the last 18 months into Māori organisations".

"Not a single allegation was upheld... Where are the apologies? That silence speaks volumes."

Te Pāti Māori accuses government, media of 'constant attack' on Treaty of Waitangi

Co-leader Rawiri Waititi pointed the finger during a blistering speech in Parliament.

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Lululamarmiteontoast @lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 1d

Fixed their bill board for them #nzpol

A picture of a broken ACT party bill board where the faces of David Seymour and Brooke Van Velden have been removed.
The words on the pink bill board originally said "end the wasteful spending. Party Vote ACT"
I changed it to say "End the wasteful spending, Don't party vote ACT"

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 1d

Pathetic & desperate. Luxon is drowning.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d

The coalition government in a nutshell.

‘They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they’re exclusionary, they’re humourless – they’re this coalition.‘
- Chris Finlayson #nzpol

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol

... apropos of nothing in particular ...

... I continue to remain amazed and astounded at how sophisticated our economic understanding has developed over the past decade-and-a-half ...

🤔😢☹️😠😡

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Stuff

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 1d

More please should be watching this.

#nzpol

Navigating Injustice | Amnesty International’s Climate Displacement Report

YouTube video by Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Treen | Toitū Te Tiriti @heyren519.bsky.social · 2d

Please do a pre-election follow up. We need people to remember through the propaganda 💚💚

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Dave @dpdiver.bsky.social · 2d

God she's a fool. As the debt-holder, and with the debt being something she is talking about selling off, the Chorus debt *is* a bloody government asset. If someone owes you, it's an asset on your balance sheet! This is ACCY101 stuff. Most inept Minister of Finance ever! #nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d

Selling Chorus securities is 'hocking off' debt not assets, Finance Minister says

The government had invested $1 billion in Chorus' fibre network.

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kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social @kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social · 2d

The three billion you gave to landlords could also have gone towards hospitals and schools #nzpol

New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 2d

📢 Willis said Chorus move does not amount to asset sales, insists economy is improving.

👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 2d

Local govt elections in NZ are looking to have turnouts in the 20’s percent 😒 #nzpol

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

Was told today about Indigenous people in Brazil who were desperate to vote against Bolsonaro. There were no polling booths in their villages so they got buses to the city, and when the military blocked their buses many miles from the city they got off and walked there. Fight for your vote, always.

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 2d

1. Anne Salmond: Hunger Games in the Beehive
Radical libertarian ideologies are generating extreme inequality and ripping the social fabric of NZ, writes Anne Salmond. Don’t we want to be a place where talent wants to live?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/04/a...

Anne Salmond: Hunger Games in the Beehive

Comment: Radical libertarian ideologies are generating extreme inequality and ripping the social fabric of NZ, writes Anne Salmond. Don’t we want to be a place where talent wants to live?

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 2d

2. Anne Salmond: Hayek’s bastards
The summertime call for submissions on a revived Regulatory Standards Bill got Dame Anne Salmond reading and connecting the dots of neoliberal campaigns: #nzpol #AtlasNetwork
newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/21/a...?

Anne Salmond: Hayek's bastards

Comment; The summertime call for submissions on a revived Regulatory Standards Bill got Dame Anne Salmond reading and connecting the dots of neoliberal campaigns.

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Treen | Toitū Te Tiriti @heyren519.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#nzpol
Find out what erstwhile NZ citizen, money-hider extraordinaire and super influential nut job has to say 😕

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think it's more profitable:

It is doing *active political work.*

We are left to speculate why a state-funded broadcaster is doing that work, and why, but it's absolutely doing it. #nzpol

UrbanAKL @urbanakl.bsky.social · 2d

I count five sentences of fluff, just to highlight that:

"the Greens' director of communications... announced he was resigning from his role to take a break..."

Is shitting on the Greens more profitable than actual scandals from the coalition govt?

#Nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d

Green Party loses another staffer

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