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Lilith Grace Toitū Te Tiriti @lilithgrace.bsky.social · 4h

If it's not an asset, how could we sell it for money??
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 7h

youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?.... #NewZealand #NZ #NZpol What's your thoughts New Zealand?

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 6h

$13m (probably more) UNDERFUNDING!

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 11h

#NZPol Great to see Stuff using rightwing AI slop as the imagery for their headlines. Definitely a good direction to take for the media.

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 12h

Sigh.

selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/02d9e31a...

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 12h

Looking forward to Winston Peters taking full responsibility for this. That's how this works now, right? #nzpol

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 12h

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

Teen charged with making death threats against former Green MP Benjamin Doyle

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

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SuperBatPajamaPants @ribbs.bsky.social · 12h

Quick, someone ask Peters to condemn THESE threats!
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned

Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 11h

Good luck with that.

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 12h

Seriously media, do your fucking JOB

SuperBatPajamaPants @ribbs.bsky.social · 12h

Quick, someone ask Peters to condemn THESE threats!
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned

Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 11h

What are the odds it’s a young Nat or Act supporter?

Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 12h

It’s super hard to even find a way to give these clowns the benefit of the doubt. They’re just fucking dumb religious shitheads, acting on easily-disproven (bad) faith. ‘cLiMATe CHaNGe iSN’t ReAL!’

Criminally negligent.

@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 12h

HOW DID THESE NZ TROGLODYTES GET INTO POWER. . .
From Barry Barton. . .
Why does NZ’s new energy plan sideline renewables and ignore progress made already? theconversation.com/why-does-nzs...

Why does NZ’s new energy plan sideline renewables and ignore progress made already?

The government’s energy package is unnecessarily preoccupied with fossil fuels and ignores important reform work already underway.

theconversation.com

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Oli - ultracrepidarian @olimnz.bsky.social · 14h

Contains a great interactive graphic to see how party candidates think. Worrisome.
#nzpol

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 1d

Act Local candidates provided identical responses to some of Newsroom's open-ended survey questions, suggesting they had coordinated or been instructed to reply a certain way.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/p...

Parliamentary parties crowd out other blocs in local elections

Nationwide, Parliamentary parties are entrenching their influence in local elections over that of locally derived groupings.

newsroom.co.nz

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 13h

Why would they take it seriously if they *know* it’s a joke?

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 17h

Being Better Economic Managers™️ involves more cooking the books than I anticipated.* #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

*Actually, that's not true. This was anticipated, as it's SOP for National governments. If you can't hit the target, change what the target is, or how you count your way to it.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 17h

National ‘Labour spends too much on consultants’

Also National ‘we will spend more’

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Comment: Minister Judith Collins has relaxed constraints on consultants spend, after the public sector massively over-delivered on promised spending cuts ... and the Govt work-rate slowed accordingly.

Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt

newsroom.co.nz

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Kieran @nug.monster · 16h

Labour literally needs to say "We will undo the sale of chrous if national tries to go ahead with it" so that nobody wants to buy it.

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 16h

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

50,000 more unemployed, 400,000 people looking for more work, 130,000 kiwi's or more have *left*

Clown show of a government

#nzpol

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 14h

Latest benefits data is out. More detail later, but suffice to say that we are going to need some new forecasts.

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

"We fired everyone and now we're in the shit so lets pay consultants and contractors twice what we were paying our well trained experienced staff"

Are we done with this clown show yet?

#nzpol

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Comment: Minister Judith Collins has relaxed constraints on consultants spend, after the public sector massively over-delivered on promised spending cuts ... and the Govt work-rate slowed accordingly.

Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt

newsroom.co.nz

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 17h

Entitlements the next regime can strip at will

Given NACT1 have stripped all ours
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Am I right?

Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

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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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 1d

Here comes the judge

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine being in charge of a dictionary and being this wrong about how to pronounce a word.

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 14h

#NZPol YouTube letting fascists and cookers back en-mass.

CNN @cnn.com · 14h

YouTube will begin offering previously banned users the opportunity to create new accounts and potentially re-publish some videos that may have contributed to their termination but no longer violate YouTube’s rules.

YouTube is letting some previously banned users return. That means you may see videos that violated old rules | CNN Business

YouTube on Thursday will begin offering previously banned users the opportunity to create new accounts, and potentially let them re-publish some videos that may have contributed to their termination b...

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 14h

#NZPol The machinery of fascism won’t stop because we ask it nicely.

open.substack.com/pub/weareund...

The Left needs to do more than protest

Stop protesting. Start disrupting.

open.substack.com

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 15h

#NZPol NZ farmers finally catching up with news from literally two decades ago.

Climate change effects expected to hurt farm viability in next decade, study finds www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Climate change effects expected to hurt farm viability in next decade, study finds

A new report found irrigated dairy farms are particularly at risk because water supplies are expected to become less reliable in some areas.

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