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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 10h

And Kapiti 👏

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 10h

Good humans
#nzpol
#tangatatiriti

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 20h

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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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 10h

Nap if poss 💤

Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 10h

Clearly not above Wellington harbour there 😅

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 12h

The enshittification of the Nobel Peace Prize. Wow & woe!

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 12h

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure.

www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/n...

2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

www.democracynow.org

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations Ingrid Horrocks
#nzlit

Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 29d

Join us to celebrate All Her Lives: Nine Stories by Ingrid Horrocks. The book will be launched by Emily Perkins.

🌿 Thursday 9 October, 6pm
🌿 Unity Books Wellington
🌿 Free event – all welcome!

Cover: Sarah Wilkins

www.facebook.com/share/19atXe...

The cover of the book shows a young woman in a white shirt, green tie and red skirt sitting down and looking thoughtful. Text around the cover says: 'Join us for the launch of All Her Lives. Thursday 9 October 6pm. Unity Books Wellington.' The logos of THWUP and Unity Books are in the corner.

A quote in red text on a green background: 'All Her Lives is a reckoning. A stunning tour de force of women’s lives across centuries, continents and political movements. The collection reads as a protest song book, calling through the ages for change, revolution and peace. Horrocks is one of the most powerful storytellers of our time and All Her Lives is the author's most triumphant work.’ Laura Jean McKay

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beckydubs @beckydubs.bsky.social · 3d

You can sign this, I did. #nzpol

Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 3d

Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine

As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

docs.google.com

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 4d

These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 6d

This regime disgusts me. Be like Colombia, NZ gov't!
#nzpol

kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 6d

More important coverage from Mick Hall

mickhall.substack.com/p/flotilla-a...

Flotilla activist's partner 'shocked’ at NZ Govt's lack of response to abductions

Melbourne-based doctor held by Israel denied medicine and kept in 'frightening and degrading' conditions, as New Zealand and Australia remained silent over abductions.

mickhall.substack.com

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 6d

And those people have their own strapping boots on your neck.
#nzpol

Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 6d

This “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” propaganda is demonstrably a false narrative when all the ways to pull yourself up have been deliberately and systemically removed by people who have never had to worry a single day in their entire lives about where their next meal is going to come from.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 6d

"Happy eighteenth birthday, you are now an adult for taxpaying purposes but not for benefit or wage purposes"

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 6d

4300 teens will be thrown off jobseekers as youth jobs disappear across the country.

More stress, more homelessness, more domestic violence, more poverty, more crime, more prisoners, more profit for PPPs - National Party's back on track is right on track #nzpol

David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 6d

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

'The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 6d

Young people aren’t owed a living but landlords are owed accommodation supplement & subsidies, & employers are owed WfF so they don’t have to pay workers a decent wage & shareholders are owed $$ even if it means 120,000 households can’t afford electricity. #nzpol

Luxon&Co represent the worst of us

It's not the needy who are a problem in this world, it's the greedy.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 6d

This is a bloody good point. As of November 2026, your 18/19yos will be too old for you to claim working for families, but you'll still be expected to support them if they're out of work in an economy that has haemorrhaged youth jobs under this govt.

Taking away with one hand and slapping you too.

Azlemed04 @azlemed04.bsky.social · 6d

My son is 18 next month, we will lose our working for families for him and he won’t be eligible for the dole cos we earn too much. So by turning 18 we as a family are worse off….

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 7d

Totally. "Deterrence", she says. Us sane, anti-IMC pacifists all know that really means profitable provocation, in cosy kahoots with the $ociopathic egobro's.

Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 7d

This spins my neurons, painfully. What the actual hell is next, Judith MAGA Collins?
#nzpol

Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 7d

NZ Defence Minister Judith Collins wants to see New Zealand develop lethal weapons for international export through the help of tech companies.

Unclear whether the Minister wants to test lethal weapons on NZers first.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Government unveils strategy for the defence industry

The plan will lift New Zealand's defence spending to more than 2 percent in the next eight years with the Defence Minister seeking to have New Zealand develop weapons for export.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Char @kiwichar.bsky.social · 7d

I did cease business with him. That’s why I’m here. 😎 #FuckElon #NoMoreHate #BoycottFascism

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 7d

Elon Musk’s Twitter feed is the farthest-right, most hateful and disinformation-forward social media feed I’ve seen of any person who doesn’t openly identify as a member of a hate group. It’s toxic at a level that in any other era would have led to *anyone* in business ceasing all dealings with him.

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 8d

Secondary school students meet with Dr. Jane Goodall at Samuel Marsden Collegiate, May 2019. The Eco Action Group from Kapiti College got to present their environmental campaigns and projects to her. Teacher Nicola Easthope discovers they share a love of poetry (and so Nicola pushes her book onto defenceless Jane, hahaa!). Rest in deep green chimpy peace.

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 8d

Later, I asked Jane if she liked poetry. The convo went something like, "Oh yes, I have written a few poems". Me: "Have you thought about putting them in a collection?" J: "No, but my son might do that". Me: "Would you like a copy of my book?" (pressing it into her hands, lol). J: "Oh, yes please!"

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 8d

Amanda Dobson from Enviroschools and I got to chat with her about environmental education. 🧵

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 8d

Celebrating the life of an Earth shero - Rest in deep green chimpy peace, Dr. Jane Goodall. May 2019: 6 students from the Eco Action Group at Kapiti College presented their work to Jane, along with several other Pōneke region high schools. 🧵

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 9d

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/nz...

#nzpol
Please sign 🙏

NZ Government Sanction Israel Now

Since October 2023 the world has witnessed the state of Israel perpetrate innumerable war crimes and human rights violations against the people of Gaza [1], while the violence, repression, and forced ...

our.actionstation.org.nz

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Allison @m-e.allison683etc.servegame.com · 9d

Luxon says the abduction of New Zealand citizens by Israel is why they advise people not to travel to Gaza?

We advise people not to travel by sea to Gaza because we expect them to be illegally abducted and detained at sea by our so called ‘friends’?

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 9d

#nzpol

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 9d

#NZPol

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Nic E @neasthope.bsky.social · 9d

Love this!!