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Assiduously Julie
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Pākehā. Officially verified as 'most definitely not an asshole' by Paula Penfold. She/her.
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Truly shocking. But before our fingers get too pointy, insurance for the sanctions-evading shadow fleet was coming from... right here.

The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow and Tehran
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The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow, Tehran
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How shadow fleets made the Cook Islands flag inconvienent.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the oil and gas industry's wishlist.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Not the outcome anyone wanted but at least her whānau can say goodbye now.

Body found in search for missing woman Te Anihana Pomana
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Body found in search for missing woman Te Anihana Pomana
She has been missing since August.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
awaterevalley.bsky.social
That Stuff story certainly tricked me into feeling sorry for him, and now I feel like a mug. Definitely not going to help his job hunting now that he's been so publicly dishonest about his history.

The Curious Case of Robert Purchase
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The Curious Case of Robert Purchase
David Farrier's Webworm looks at Stuff's reporting on Robert Purchase, a man applying for 8000 jobs and not telling reporters he'd served 25 years for kidnapping.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
awaterevalley.bsky.social
Seymour, Hobson's Pledge et al are really struggling to frame a response to this. 'Te Tiriti' is not a magic word that instantly causes your kids to forget how to add.

‘Expression of kotahitanga’: More than 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
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More than 1000 schools pledge to uphold Te Tiriti despite law change
Lawyer Tania Waikato says the response is a 'grassroots backlash' to reforms.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
awaterevalley.bsky.social
How cool is this!

Metallica donate $20,000 to Auckland Women’s Centre
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‘Feminist allies’: Metallica donates $20k to Auckland Women’s Centre
Maia Hall first thought the heavy metal band’s donation offer was an online scam.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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"Phineas Mann, Hector Gardiner, Campbell Harvey, Bryan French, Karen Robinson, and Tianarangi Robinson. A teenager continues to have name suppression."

Six charged over Destiny Church Pride library storytime protest can now be named
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Six charged over violent Destiny Church-linked Pride protest can now be named
The protest erupted during a Pride storytime event at Te Atatū library.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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‘Shockingly inappropriate overreach of politics’: Doctors slam puberty blocker pause
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‘Shockingly inappropriate overreach of politics’: Doctors slam puberty blocker pause
The Government’s decision to stop new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria for at least six years has been called politically motivated and discriminatory.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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NZ First are actually evil. They don't care how many lives they may ruin to get the anti-trans vote.
New Zealand First Today, sanity won another battle in the war on woke. After years of dangerous ideological experimentation pushed by radical activists and rubber-stamped by weak politicians, the New Zealand Government has officially banned puberty blockers for children.
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich
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30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich
British YouTuber and economist Gary Stevenson tells 30 with Guyon Espiner fire engines aren't coming to fix the New Zealand economy.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
awaterevalley.bsky.social
We're an international embarrassment.

New Zealand slumps again in climate-change league table
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New Zealand slumps again in climate-change league table
"Backsliding" on climate policies means New Zealand is now ranked as "low-performing" in a major international index.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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'Wonderful experience': Global indigenous groups gather in Auckland
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'Wonderful experience': Global indigenous groups gather in Auckland
Thousands of indigenous leaders in education have gathered in Auckland for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, the event returning to New Zealand for the first time in 20 years.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"The key question to ask about ‘free speech’ is freedom for whom, and about what? Across the country at present, as well as in schools, Māori interests are being marginalised, and Māori voices silenced."

Anne Salmond: Free speech, but only one way to think
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Anne Salmond: Free speech, but only one way to think
Thinkers with open rather than closed minds will be aware other cultures may have insights that elude us, writes Dame Anne Salmond
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November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Wait what? Some gumption from the Labour Party!

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Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti
A high-profile emergency doctor has been selected to stand for the Labour Party against former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Foreign affairs officials advised recognition of Palestine
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Foreign affairs officials advised recognition of Palestine
Early advice from officials that recommended New Zealand recognise Palestine as a state was ultimately ignored by the Government.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Schools across Aotearoa reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi after changes to Education Act
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Schools across Aotearoa reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi after changes to Education Act
From Whakatāne to Tāmaki Makaurau to Ōtautahi and Invercargill, school boards have issued public statements reaffirming their obligations to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The Neoliberal Entrenchment Bill passed. 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Sydney Trains employee Cooper Stephens has been stood down after attending the National Socialist Network's rally at NSW Parliament last weekend www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Sydney Trains employee stood down after attending neo-Nazi rally
In a statement, a spokesman for Sydney Trains said it had stood down an employee while it investigated his potential involvement in the rally and was “very concerned with the matter”.
www.smh.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
awaterevalley.bsky.social
I'm sure the 'tough on crime' govt will have them all in jail any minute now. That's how it works, right?

Revealed: The five senior officers at the heart of the McSkimming cover-up
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Revealed: The five senior officers at the heart of the McSkimming 'cover-up'
The IPCA report on the handling of the McSkimming case identifies a string of complicit senior officers. So who are they?
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November 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Created Google NotebookLM instance on IPCA Report 'Review of Police handling of complaints against Jevon McSkimming'. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/13f... Has a number of resources for New Zealanders to grasp what's in 135-page PDF. Important to render this material accessible to widest audience.
The source is a public report from the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA), dated November 11, 2025, detailing a review of how the New Zealand Police handled a series of complaints against then-Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming. The report focuses on the Police's response to allegations of misconduct, including sexual assault, made by a woman referred to as Ms Z following a past relationship. The IPCA finds that senior Police officers repeatedly failed to appropriately investigate Ms Z's serious allegations, instead relying on McSkimming's narrative that she was a "woman scorned" and prioritizing his career, including his application for Police Commissioner. Consequently, Police initiated a criminal investigation and prosecution against Ms Z for harassment, improperly using her complaints as evidence against her and failing to follow established integrity and sexual assault investigation policies. The IPCA also acknowledges that its own responses to the matter in earlier years were inadequate.
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
awaterevalley.bsky.social
It's time to empty out the barrel and examine each and every apple. Even the ones on the bottom who, in time, will claw their rotten way to the top. Discard the racists, the misogynists, the power-trippers and the corrupt. Refill the new, emptier barrel with better standards.
juliefairey.bsky.social Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 14d
If the barrel keeps having rotten apples put in, or apples are turning rotten once inside, at what point do you accept there’s a system problem?

Why are rotten apples put in? Why are they going rotten once in?

And why aren’t (more) politicians asking this about police?
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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[Silent rage screaming]

Jevon McSkimming: Police ignored sex allegations against former top cop, prosecuted woman for ‘revenge’ emails instead
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Police bosses ignored sex complaints against top cop, charged woman for 'revenge' emails instead
Suppressions fall away to reveal the full story of the downfall of a deputy police boss.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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webworm sent @tworuru.com along to this potentially insufferable techbro dinner in new zealand - and it was actually quite surprising: www.webworm.co/disruptorsdi...
Some horrible details I was told about this: apparently they are trying to disrupt the concept of “dinner” so for example: - Dessert is on conveyer belts (NOT a sushi train, completely different concept ™️. - after a time all the tablecloths withdraw and all the food just falls off the tables - They just kick everyone out at a certain point - all the most annoying people in auckland will be there - loads more deeply irritating “disruptive” concepts to be unveiled during dinner
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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In Taiwan, invasion by disinformation
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In Taiwan, invasion by disinformation
Today from The Detail: In a country swamped by disinformation, two entrepreneurs have come up with solutions to tackle the problem, on and offline
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November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Even a convention of christofascists and transphobes didn't want to hear from the Wizard.

Tearful Tamaki rallies the free speech faithful
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Tearful Tamaki rallies the free speech faithful
Lockdowns and Covid-19 vaccines loom large during one panel discussion at the Free Speech Union’s annual meeting
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November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM