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Lululamarmiteontoast @lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 11h

Pathetic & desperate. Luxon is drowning.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 9h

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.

newsroom.co.nz

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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · 9h

#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 ...

🤔😢☹️😠😡

www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-pos...

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 8h

More please should be watching this.

#nzpol

Navigating Injustice | Amnesty International’s Climate Displacement Report

YouTube video by Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand

www.youtube.com

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 13h

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

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Dave @dpdiver.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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

www.rnz.co.nz

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kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social @kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social · 21h

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

New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 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

www.nzherald.co.nz

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 19h

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

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

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?

newsroom.co.nz

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 19h

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.

newsroom.co.nz

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Treen | Toitū Te Tiriti @heyren519.bsky.social · 13h

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’

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Green Party loses another staffer

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Good C**t @c-u-next-time.bsky.social · 1d

#NZPol Ol' "No Boats" out here gaslighting #Aotearoa again 🤡🤡🤡

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

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

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Treen | Toitū Te Tiriti @heyren519.bsky.social · 1d

Fabulous photos!!!! 💚💚💚

Treen | Toitū Te Tiriti @heyren519.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol

Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 1d

Almost at the Finish Line - so please get out and Vote if you haven't yet, encourage others as well - it’s the best way to create an amazing future and to tell the coalition, hard right extremists and conspiracy theorists to go 🤬 themselves before the general election next year!
youtu.be/8wwl9hf7JHM

Almost at the Finish Line - so please get out and Vote if you haven't yet

YouTube video by Paul… The Other One

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Binkenstein @binkenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Selling off productive publicly owned companies/infrastructure to reduce govt debt is like selling off your car to reduce your mortgage, then taking an uber/taxi to work each day.

Sure you have lower debts, but it costs more in the long run.

#nzpol

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who worked at Telecom and knew how much they fought to retain control of the local loop even though it was completely anti-competitive and maintained a monopoly - the idea of privatising our fibre network is so unfathomably stupid and will result in poorer services for everyone.

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Oli - ultracrepidarian @olimnz.bsky.social · 1d

Should also apply to Select Committee hearings with more than 50,000 submitters, IMHO.
#nzpol

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 1d

Auckland students want Parliament to have to debate petitions with more than 50,000 signatures - so they’ve taken to social media to gain support for their cause and promote their own petition.

‘You shouldn’t have to camp on Parliament’s lawn’: MPs urged to debate petitions

Auckland students want Parliament to have to debate petitions with more than 50,000 signatures - so they’ve taken to social media to gain support for their cause and promote their own petition.

dlvr.it

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Peter Ashford @peterashford.bsky.social · 1d

I found these two articles really interesting in the context of the austerity mentality that all our political parties seem trapped in.

'Keynes believed that keeping to the mantra ‘we can only do what we can afford’ would be disastrous.“

medium.com/mydex/we-can...
medium.com/mydex/we-can...
#nzpol