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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 4d

You may have heard Peters trying to make the situation with the abducted NZers all about him

They’ve been released and their flights home paid for by the people who love them

Unlike Peters, who has all his flights paid for by taxpayers

#NZPol

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 13h

A few months ago, Hipkins unequivocally stated they will repeal the RSB within 100 days. You won't hear it on Bluesky #nzpol

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 5h

It was gorgeous today in Gongju but so hot. I really wasn't expecting 28° in October.

View down a valley towards mountain with boats moored in the river

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 5h

Well done to the Waikato for being as racist as fuck.
#MāoriWards

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 6h

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 7h

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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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 11h

Hamilton - four fucking Better Hamilton candidates? You absolute plonkers. I wonder if you get to pick which services they cut and which assets they’ll sell 🤔

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 12h

Central issues were a reasonable council having to create a new water entity (as required by central govt's "Local Water Done Well" policy) + costs of infrastructure development driving up rates. Let's see how the nutty right manages to deal with these issues over the next 3 years ... .

Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 12h

Well fuck - Selwyn has elected a majority of Council with links to VFF, Act, and Trump fans. Maybe put that on the no fly list for the next three years

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 8h

Or to say he has lowered the cost of a drug by 1000% without immediately being asked what was the old price and what is the new

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 8h

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

TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 8h

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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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 11h

Yay!

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 17h

Auckland’s once paper of record, the Herald, senior local affairs reporter wrote 0 articles on the race, even taking an overseas holiday as the campaign reached its peak. ‘No-one cares about city politics’ no doubt is the excuse, well no one can if all they are feed is imported gossip, for clicks.

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 14h

View from hotel room window.

Partial view of a grey building with statue o the facade of a Greek(?) goddess playing a lute

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14h

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

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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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 15h

I cant even tell you the number of public interest (and interesting) stories about the local election that journos wanted to do, but couldn't because of editors..

Shout out those that did do coverage, esp The Spinoff

Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 17h

Well done media, you achieved this brilliantly, your campaign to nearly completely ignore AKL’s local elections has flowed on to its inevitable outcome. Accelerating your own irrelevance simultaneously -> www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Auckland records lowest turnout in local elections

“Vote today or let someone else choose Auckland's representatives for you,” Aucklanders are told, with local body elections entering the home straight.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · 15h

#nzpol

Introductory Accountancy ACCY101:

(A) Debts that are owed *to* us are *assets*.

(B) Debts that are owed *by* us are *liabilities*.

If you are selling (A), then you are selling our assets.

If you are selling (B), then yay😀 ... and good luck (yes, we'll need goof luck then!)

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 15h

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 16h

I remember when asset sales were gonna lead to mum and dad shareholders and now we just have mum and dad paying $500 power bills in the winter. The right wing ideology is a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’s useless. It improves nothing.

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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Maria Colina Machado SUPPORTS Donald Trump sinking fishing boats off their coast.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 1d

“The committee reported back on Friday, recommending “by majority” that it be passed.”

As Emeritus professor Jane Kelsey says, “this has the potential to be our ideologically driven version of the Trump administration.”

The progression of the RSB needs more scrutiny than a Friday night news dump.

The Act leader's proposed legislation has been contentious for a list of reasons.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 18h

“Almost 7 in 10 people in New Zealand supported lifting benefits in early 2021; and after the government increased benefits in 2021, 60% thought income support should have been increased further.

It’s not the 1980s any more, as much as the Govt wants to drag us back there.” @maxdnharris.bsky.social

Welfare changes are trying to drag us back to a time most of us have left behind

OPINION: It’s not the 1980s any more, as much as the Government wants to drag us back there.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 1d

Luxon’s trying to claim he’s secured a trade agreement with Singapore. We’ve had one since 2001, updated in 2021.

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 16h

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like Japan may need another election

William Gallo @williamgallo.bsky.social · 17h

A helpful overview of Japan's political crisis, by @tobiasharris.bsky.social.

Kōmeitō quits the coalition

A guide for the perplexed

open.substack.com

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 16h

STAY in line if you’re special voting, if you get in line before 12 noon, the elections team need to let you vote. Every other box will be sealed shut at 12.

So you’ve got 20 minutes to get to a library or Woolworths or Warehouse to drop your vote in.

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