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Toby Morris @xtotl.bsky.social · 4d

You might have seen that Siouxsie won her legal battle against the UoA, but even after the damages were awarded she ended up massively out of pocket.

So she's asking for help - There's been lots of support already, which is cool to see - Siouxsie deserves it!

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe

Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse

www.pledgeme.co.nz

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Fighting Matters @fightingmatters.bsky.social · 5d

New Fighting Matters! FASHION, FITNESS, FIGHTING: HOW HATE GROUPS ATTRACT YOUNG MEN

In this episode, Steve Kwan sits down with journalist @colborne.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com to expose how far-right movements use aesthetics and martial arts culture to recruit young men.

youtu.be/lpSN4lNn_IM

Fashion, Fitness, Fighting: How Hate Groups Attract Young Men

YouTube video by Fighting Matters

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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 4d

Brb just gonna figure this out

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Dr Susan Oliver (PhD) @drsusanoliver.bsky.social · 4d

A systematic review of 511 studies showed that immunisation against COVID-19, RSV, and influenza was safe and effective in people of all ages.

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 4d

Talofa!

'The leader of New Zealand’s National Party, Judith Collins, has come under fire in that country for her now infamous “my husband is Samoan so Talofa” comment made during the first Leaders Debate on Tuesday evening.'
www.samoaobserver.ws

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d

For the rest of the world, the single case of Mike Johnson refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva after her special election win, because Johnson knows her vote will tip the scales for the release of the Epstein files, is enough evidence by itself that the U.S. political system is broken and lawless.

Johnson sets record refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 36 days after she won election | Arizona Mirror

Speaker Johnson sets record with 36-day Adelita Grijalva swearing in delay as lawsuit claims constitutional violations

azmirror.com

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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 4d

Gisborne results showed 63.47% of voters supported retaining the wards, with 9904 voting to keep them and 5704 voting against.

‘Aubrey is a gem’: Gisborne elects first Māori ward deputy mayor

Gisborne results showed 63.47% of voters supported retaining the wards, with 9904 voting to keep them and 5704 voting against.

www.teaonews.co.nz

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4d

Hear is the audio - CGT Interview Saturday Morning, Guyon Espiner #NZPol

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 4d

Important article about the ideology underpinning the curriculum changes. It includes this absolutely jaw dropping quote from a speech by Elizabeth Rata (a Pākehā woman who has a lead role in the rewrites).
She hopes the reforms will be a "circuit breaker" to "ending decolonisation's success"
#nzpol

The imported ideology behind education reform | E-Tangata

“If a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum isn’t grounded in te ao Māori and the very people and things that make Aotearoa unique, who is determining the knowledge and where does it come from?” — Jessie Moss o...

e-tangata.co.nz

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11d

that's why ACT NAT NZF want it

#nzpol

joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 11d

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 11d

A The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind Project 2025, are also enthusiastic supporters of Hirsch’s work and are informing many of the authoritarian and anti-democratic measures being introduced into policy across America.

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
#nzpol

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 10d

#Climatechange has a huge economic #cost-which #NZ #Govt is actively making much worse -so is the trucking industry

We should have fast #electric #public-owned #rail for passengers & freight-NZ wide + #EVs #nzpol

Storms, accidents, road closures hurt trucking industry www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Storms, accidents, road closures hurt trucking industry

Police insist they have a responsibility to victims and their families to thoroughly investigate road crashes.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social · 11d

Look. What I say to you is this.

I'm all for state ownership of public assets. As long as they are foreign states to which New Zealand taxpayers are on the hook for paying fat returns to for decades.

Let me be absolutely clear. I'm outright selling out New Zealand to other governments.

#nzpol

Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 12d

I have good news for people looking at the crisis in Southland and wondering where Luxon is. Yesterday he was busy trying to secure international pools of capital to help build prisons, military bases and private hospitals. What a wonderful future we have to look forward to 😒

#nzpol

Excerpt from 1News article yesterday:

Speaking at the summit, Luxon pitched New Zealand as a "safe haven" for international capital, telling ambassadors from all EU countries that the Government is keen to partner with sovereign wealth funds and other foreign investors to fund major infrastructure projects.

"We've got classic infrastructure like prisons and military bases and hospitals to build," Luxon said. "We want to be using domestic pools of capital, partnering with international pools of capital."

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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 12d

Winston Peters is mates with Farage, Collins cosying up to the White House. We have to stop pretending our Right Wing aren't all that bad.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 12d

The media and opposition in nz is giving too much benefit of the doubt to this govt for my liking. They are cozying up to the worst people in America and it’s really bizarre and concerning. Where is the pushback?

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely this.

Christian nationalism is a risk to the Rainbow community, to women - to anyone who isn’t a privileged white cis man.

NZ is moving quickly from taking selfies with some of the worst people in the world to implementing the same values and behaviour as policy - it can’t continue.

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11d

Simeon Brown is "unacceptable"

#nzpol

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 12d

Nelson Hospital's generator failed this week for an hour. Simeon Brown labelled it "unacceptable".

This is the same Simeon who instructed authorities to do "absolute minimum" in works - even though he knows risks incl. equipment failure #nzpol

Health authorities recommend doing 'absolute minimum' to fix Auckland City Hospital

Documents show the decision could lead to critical assets failing, resulting in patient harm.

www.rnz.co.nz

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 23d

Why the fuck have RNZ in particular become so fervently anti-teacher

Across media the attacks on teachers and health care workers have increased significantly, it’s pretty wild

Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 23d

"parents should be furious"

Oh hell yes , but at you Erica

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

PPTA teachers strike on day of NCEA exams - the dates to know

About 21,000 secondary school teachers are walking off the job after stalled talks.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 25d

Can’t wait to see the regulatory impact statement that outlines the impact of this decision on everyone who isn’t a farmer

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Government lowers methane target, rules out methane taxes

The government is lowering its biogenic methane target for the next 25 years and is ruling out agricultural taxes on methane emissions.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 24d

The NZ government is convinced that the best way to insulate NZ against climate change is to exacerbate it. The war with reality has a cost; the tragedy is that it is the next generation that will have to pay it.
#nzpol

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26d

Yes, it's weird that Peter Thiel can't stop talking up the Antichrist.

But look on the bright side—he's also the guy who:

-Gave @jd-vance-1.bsky.social his first VC job
-Funded Vance's firm
-Bought his Senate seat
-Got him the VP slot

Have a nice day!

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 27d

Remember when Wellington council spent $7k on a gorgeous painting and we had 'outrage'

BVV spends $100,000 to move 1 road cone and calls it a success.

#nzpol

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/v...

Van Velden can see end of the road for cone hotline

Reports halved each month with just one in five resulting in action, as the minister says councils proved to be the culprit

newsroom.co.nz

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 27d

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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KiwiRed @kiwired.bsky.social · 27d

#NZPol Would you expect anything else from the figurehead PM?

Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 27d

I predict 27 or 28 November that he will "graciously" step aside because that's the date he gets his lifelong PM entitlements that he's entitled to.

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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 27d

Oops, Nicola's at the 'there MUST be some loose change down the back here somewhere' stage of balancing the books.

#nzpol

Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 27d

www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/575...

"Most New Zealanders were probably not aware the government owns this investment in Chorus, nor feels any particular benefit from it," Willis said.

Government mulls possible sale of Chorus

The Finance Minister says with the completion of the ultra-fast broadband fibre initiative, there's no longer a policy reason for the Crown to own Chorus.

www.rnz.co.nz

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