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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 10d

There’s a double rainbow! Everything is going to be okay

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 17d

Mid Purple, Exodus, Kilodeath

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 21d

Jon Stewart’s latest Daily Show was fantastic. Azerbaijan has never been at war with Armenia

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 28d

I can do the change online for my partner and me with an hour or so of form-filling, scanning, printing and emailing. But my 87 year old MIL doesn’t have RealMe, passport, drivers licence or any other form of photo ID. At this point no viable method has been offered

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 28d

Change of address on the electoral roll is the thing I have encountered here that best exemplifies needlessly hard process. Thankfully our old address is just around the corner so we can ask them to collect papers for us.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 28d

Marx Jones and Grant Cole. Legends

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 28d

My go-to cafe in Invercargill was always Zookeepers, but the grieving can finally end. Kahu Ariki at SIT in Esk St is excellent

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’m a simple man. I do not understand the ABs’ kicking strategy

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Sep 2

How could anyone not love celery soup?

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Sep 2

This hadn’t been a story I was following but was prompted to read this excellent article by being perplexed by the contradictory RNZ reporting, which said both that the data centres were ‘live’ and that they were still to be built. Emperor’s new clothes.

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · Sep 2

The truth about Amazon's NZ datacentre operations.
@newsroom.co.nz

Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar

Opinion: Tech giant Amazon's NZ boss makes one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts in a long time to spin good news out of a fiasco, writes Jonathan Milne

newsroom.co.nz

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Sep 2

So great to be a Petri dish for experimentation by US libertarianism again: New Zealand’s Epstein Files open.substack.com/pub/melanien...

New Zealand’s Epstein Files

New Zealand’s Regulatory Standards Bill looks like tidy lawmaking. But OIA documents reveal decades of foreign influence — embedding Richard Epstein’s radical “regulatory takings” theory into our laws...

open.substack.com

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Sep 2

Who'd have guessed? It turns out that the Regulatory Standards Bill is not only the decades-long ideological project of ACT and the NZ Initiative/Business Roundtable but also of the American extreme libertarian right:
New Zealand’s Epstein Files open.substack.com/pub/melanien...

New Zealand’s Epstein Files

New Zealand’s Regulatory Standards Bill looks like tidy lawmaking. But OIA documents reveal decades of foreign influence — embedding Richard Epstein’s radical “regulatory takings” theory into our laws...

open.substack.com

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 31

Watching a film set in 1974 in the US. In one scene someone goes through an airport metal detector and then straight onto a plane. While in the air he pays for his ticket with cash, like a train. I don’t remember that happening. Anyone else?

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 30

How sad it is that Moondance saved Van Morrison financially after Astral Weeks (objectively one of the best albums ever released) was a commercial flop

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 29

Some people are just themselves in everything (Robert de Niro, Jack Nicholson). Maybe that’s the way to go for him if he wants to keep giving acting a go

Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interesting observation. I don’t think I have seen Roger Moore or Daniel Craig attempt one

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 29

We just watched the Thursday Murder Club movie. I won’t say anything about it, except to note how extraordinary it is that professional actor Pierce Brosnan seems completely incapable of adopting and maintaining an accent different to his own

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hang on - didn’t I hear Chris Bishop say he wants house prices to fall? Rhetorical question, whānau - he definitely said that. This lack of coherence around such a core question seems puzzling.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 23

Look, I don’t like to be critical, but the Argentinian national anthem could really use some work

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 22

I have no idea how big an oz is (in this context anyway) but 15 is definitely much bigger than 5

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks! Though the headline seems weird as it focuses on a tiny aspect of a major and much broader report. And my former political role is less relevant than my entire career in the health sector, such as being a former CEO of a DHB and of the AIDS FoundationBut what can you do?

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here's a link to our new report on the determinants of health and wellbeing, published today. It follows up on a landmark report from 1998 and finds that these determinants are largely the same, and we've done a patchy job (at best) of improvement.

Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · Aug 21

I think this is what was meant to be linked. Thanks for your work on this and for sharing!

Determining our Future | Ministry of Health NZ

This independent report prepared by the Public Health Advisory Committee for the Minister of Health, reviews progress in addressing the determinants of health equity and wellbeing in Aotearoa, assesse...

www.health.govt.nz

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · Aug 21

I think this is what was meant to be linked. Thanks for your work on this and for sharing!

Determining our Future | Ministry of Health NZ

This independent report prepared by the Public Health Advisory Committee for the Minister of Health, reviews progress in addressing the determinants of health equity and wellbeing in Aotearoa, assesse...

www.health.govt.nz

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks Rory!

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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Awesome work Kevin! Mihi to you and your team.

And just love the "Reset Economic Levers" recommendations 🙂❤️🙂❤️.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here's a link to our new report on the determinants of health and wellbeing, published today. It follows up on a landmark report from 1998 and finds that these determinants are largely the same, and we've done a patchy job (at best) of improvement. www.health.govt.nz/publications...

www.health.govt.nz

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