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Janet Greig

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Vegetarian. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️ #FuckThePatriarchy #TeamSussex Levin, NZ Aotearoa 🇳🇿

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · Jul 24

Where are the ferries??? ⛴️ ⛴️ ⛴️ #NicolaNoBoats
This National led #CoalitionOfChaos have stolen all the/our money allocated for ferries ⛴️ hospitals/health 🏥 schools 🏫 teachers 👩‍🏫 pay equity 👫🏻 & the environment 🌳.
To spend it on landlords, and on trying to erase Māori, te Reo, & Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Nicola Willis's NZ Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government” - but it’s been spent on the richest, & stolen from the poorest NZers #nzpol
thestandard.org.nz/nicola-willi...

Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government

Current & planned debt will surpass Labour’s full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson’s bar Covid.

thestandard.org.nz

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 15h

We reduced Council's carbon emissions by 20%

We put in 50 new bus shelters and curb cuts in the last 12 months

We now have a disability advisory panel because I pushed for it

We'll have shade in 30 playgrounds in the next 5 years

Our regional arts org and two theatres have guaranteed funding

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 14h

🌟 300 !!! 🌟 I’m addicted!

I played squaredle.com 10/11:
41/41 words ( 16 bonus words)
📖 In the top 5% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 300

Squaredle

Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 15h

Shameful.

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Steph 🍉🇵🇸🕊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @steph-tepania.bsky.social · 16h

He said NOTHING until he was elected. So, fu#k him. Waaaayyy too late. His whole campaign was basically premised on undermining her and the existing council. He deserves zero props for this.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 17h

6) the same people who vote in this election every time clearly did so again this year and low turnout got them what they wanted.
7) 9 elected Act candidates is 9 too many
8) if the left don’t mobilise, next year is going to be a shitstorm
9) the whole local government system needs an overhaul:

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 17h

3) the huge swell in Saturday voters makes me more concerned about incoming disenfranchisement changes to same day enrolments for next year.
4) Selwyn should carry a travel advisory warning from now on, same with Cambridge and Hamilton.
5) the lack of civics education here is really showing.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 17h

Ok after an afternoon of results, texts, calls, messages on other apps and emails, I have some thoughts on today’s Local Election results

1) Voter turnout is depressing. 32%ish on average across AoNZ is pathetic.
2) The Māori Wards referendum should never have happened - it was a racebaiting farce…

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 19h

We're hiring a comms specialist here at Greenpeace International.

Come work with me!

It's a great team, important work with flexible working.

#job #communications #media #socialmedia

workfor.international.greenpeace.org/o/content-ed...

Greenpeace International - GPI Content Editor - Americas

Greenpeace International is seeking a Content Editor to enhance the global profile and impact of Greenpeace and its campaigns through strategic content creation, curation, and community engagement.

workfor.international.greenpeace.org

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 20h

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 18h

“There’s only two genders” is a facile oversimplification of a human experience that is varied and wonderful.

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 18h

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 18h

Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums

#nzpol

Map showing preliminary margin of support by council for the 2025 Māori ward referendums

CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder

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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 17h

I am forever impressed and appreciative of people’s willingness to tell their stories 🤍

Chasing the losses

They lost everything. Now more is at stake.

open.substack.com

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 18h

Another submission to Parliament done ✅

Submitting against the repeal of Section 17GB of the Tax Administration Act 1994.

Here is a link to a guide to help you to make a submission.

Tax Justice Aotearoa

www.bettertaxes.nz/s17gb_submis...

Make a submission for tax transparency

Promoting ideas for better, fairer taxes - for the public good + a better future

www.bettertaxes.nz

Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 20h

Wasn’t a lot of choice 🤷🏻‍♀️ I see Justin didn’t even make it to council.

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 20h

My council 🤬🤬🤬

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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 21h

Typical racist effing backwater 😡😡

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 20h

The couch will be there when you get home. Have fun! 🎶 💃

Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 20h

Congratulations 🥳

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 21h

Dame Jacinda Ardern makes surprise cameo in Pike River film

Kim Knight
Senior journalist - Premium lifestyle NZ Herald·
11 Oct, 2025

Dame Jacinda Ardern makes surprise cameo in Pike River film

The 20-second star turn no one saw coming.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 21h

I dunno. Still kind of pissed Little went for Wellington Mayor. Like, look at this. This is 2025 #nzpol

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 21h

Excellent 💚💚💚

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 1d

"We have to be brave and be prepared to speak up for humanity. It won't always make you universally popular. Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't make you popular, but in the end, it's still the right thing to do."✊

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 21h

Okay, thanks. I’ve tried a couple of times with pledge me.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1d

(The criticism from Finlayson was way more scathing & rude than reported here. The language!)

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

newsroom.co.nz

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 1d

The crowdfund for a podcast investigating how the idea of quitting the Paris climate accords went from fringe to mainstream is getting closer and closer to the goal. If 25 more people pledge $5 we'll be three quarters of the way there

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe

Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians

www.pledgeme.co.nz

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