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@inconstantgardener.bsky.social
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Mostly lurking. Grew up in Australia, but NZ has been home for getting on 25 years now. Greenie, lefty, feminist. Horse owner. Tramper. Crap skier. Ex-climber. I work for the gummint. Trying to be a. good/better tangata Tiriti
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#SecretSantaAoNZ As far as pets go, I have two horses. They are awesome. One just came through a major surgery experience at the start of the year, so thanking my lucky stars she's still with me.
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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drsian.bsky.social
#nzpol What the poster says.
A poster in black and gold - the colours of Ray Chung’s Independent Together lot - on a white ground, asks Wellington voters to engage in a bit of critical thinking before casting their vote in the local elections. Do you believe in fairy tales? Didn’t think so Don’t believe candidates who claim they can freeze rates without cutting essential public services. Don’t vote for their shIt!
September 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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tworuru.com
A threat: If this gets 10k views or 100 comments on any platform I will read the entire Communist Manifesto as an audiobook bedtime/sleep podcast

If you don’t want this, don’t share it

#politics #nzpol #soci
August 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Chloe for PM.
August 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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jennykaynz.bsky.social
Response to Hobson's Pledge attack on mana of Rotorua kuia and proud wahine Māori Ellen Tamati ❤️

#NZpol
Tui billboard showing text on left on black background "We didn't know using a Māori woman's photo without her consent to promote racial division would be offensive". On right with red background and Tui symbol are words Yeah right
August 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
August 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...
PM Luxon: Uphold Codes of Conduct - Call David Seymour into line
Responsible leaders welcome advice from experts when they are creating laws and policies. They know good decision making means planning for the long term, considering diverse points of view and making...
our.actionstation.org.nz
July 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Couldn't have said it better myself.
June 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Go to hell, Shane Jones.
nickofnz.bsky.social Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · Jun 23
Luxon's #WarOnNature rolls on.

This is another blatant attempt at enabling mining on conservation land.

The whole point of DOC is to protect nature. Their power to veto mining in native forests and wetlands should be strengthened, not hamstrung.

#nzpol
Shane Jones wants to strip Conservation Department’s concession powers
DoC is a “prison” for investors, the mining minister says, as he continues his push to turbo-charge development.
www.thepost.co.nz
June 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Under The Mountain and the O series were really formative for me. Vale Maurice Gee.
June 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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rachaelking70.bsky.social
I wrote a brief piece on Maurice Gee’s Under the Mountain for The Spinoff. RIP you legend of children’s fiction. thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-12-...
Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee Under the Mountain is a foundational text in the King family. In 1980, my brother Jonathan and I lived in Auckland, side-eying volcanoes, and we auditioned (unsuccessfully) for the parts of Rachel and Theo in the iconic TV series. My brother went on to direct the 2009 film version. Gee, according to his biography by Rachel Barrowman, wanted to write for his own children, but also he’d heard that “children’s book as a rule sold better than adult ones”, so he turned to, of all books, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen for inspiration. It really holds up to an adult reading. Gee’s language is typically elegant and never dumbed down for its audience, and because he thought victory was often scored too easily by child heroes, he kills off cousin Ricky at the end, “floating face down in a sea as black as oil.” And then Lake Pupuke erupts causing death and destruction… it is dark. He may have regretted frightening the bejeesus out of a generation.
June 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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agnessmack.bsky.social
David Pope in Canberra Times
June 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I used to work in room service at a hotel in Australia and delivered breakfast (or dinner - I can't remember) to Iva Davies of Icehouse. The first album I ever bought was Man of Colours, so I was quite star struck.
bolt451.bsky.social R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
New Zealand is failing to protect its vast ocean resources. We owe it to the world to act | Helen Clark and Kayla Kingdon-Bebb
New Zealand is failing to protect its vast ocean resources. We owe it to the world to act | Helen Clark and Kayla Kingdon-Bebb
Less than 1% of our country’s seas are highly protected and the damaging practice of bottom-trawling must be restricted
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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nickofnz.bsky.social
This CANNOT continue.

It's a national shame.

We have to Ban Bottom Trawling!

Massive coral bycatch exposed
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr... #nzpol #UNOC

#ProtectTheOceans
'Attenborough would be mortified': Six tonnes of coral bycatch off Christchurch
Experts said incidents involving such a large amount of coral being caught are rare.
www.nzherald.co.nz
June 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Merry MW Christmas to me! I will have the warmest feet in the world! (Oh yeah) And the most satisfied sweet tooth. Thank you #MWSecretSantaAoNZ !!
June 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Dire warnings! I have been very good though, #MWSecretSantaAoNZ!
June 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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weavingourworlds.bsky.social
Just spoke with @russelnorman.bsky.social ( @greenpeace.org.nz & ex- MP) about the Regulatory Standards Bill — a libertarian Trojan horse that could block climate action, democracy & public interest laws. Essential listening.

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#NZpol #RSB #RegulatoryStandardsBill #ClimateJustice #CoherentPodcast
Russel Norman on the Regulatory Standards Bill: Deregulation, Democracy, and the Fight for the Environment
Listen now | “This Bill is designed to stop democracy from working” “This Bill is designed to stop democracy from working”. In this episode of Coherent, Greenpeace Executive Director and former MP Rus...
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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paulisci.bsky.social
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work

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May 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My #MWSecretSantaAONZ present arrived yesterday. So very exciting!
May 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Exactly!
Verity Johnson: ‘Running the country like a household’ is a political con
OPINION: Government knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. But it also knows that you don’t know that.
www.stuff.co.nz
May 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I'd have an extra $8 a week with the Greens: www.greens.org.nz/taxcalculator
Could get an extra coffee, even in Wellington!
Home
www.greens.org.nz
May 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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owenjones.bsky.social
Hmm, tough one, isn't it?
May 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I just voted! Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025: interactives.landcareresearch.co.nz/foty/
Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025 - Manaaki Whenua Interactives
interactives.landcareresearch.co.nz
May 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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freestylesteph.bsky.social
When someone asks what structural racism is say - remember when Julie Ann Genter left her seat and yelled in the face of an MP across the floor & had to …. apologise. Te Pati expelled for 21 days over critical debate

Like one kid who has to apologise to the board & the Māori kid is expelled.
supergoofnz.bsky.social Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · May 16
This makes me furious, but I can't say I'm surprised that Te Pāti Māori leaders were punished far more severely than anyone else has ever been in NZ Parliament. Fucking racists.
May 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM