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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 16h

it appear Radio New Zealand Herald has been acquired by Fox News www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Trump, 79, has 'cardiac age' of 65-year-old, doctor says

The oldest person to assume the US presidency has been described as vigorous and fit by his physician.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

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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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 21h

#nzpol with Andrew Little and the new Labour Councillors, celebrating the victory in Wellington. 31,000 doors knocked on, 8,000 phone calls made. Wellington is in safe hands and has a brighter future.

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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 16h

But not for Horizons Regional Council - over 6000 invalid or blank votes. It’s odd. Wonder what went on there? Maybe needs a closer look?

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TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 19h

more detailed results here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ne...

2025 New Zealand local referendums on Māori wards and constituencies - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 16h

Self defeating and pitiful.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22h

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 · 22h

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

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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 17h

Do they have rural wards as well?

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 18h

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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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 19h

#NZpol Not holding my breath, but I’d love to see Winston Peters apologise to the protesters and Green Party members he attacked over the burglary*

“Hudson told Stuff his client wanted to be clear that he was not part of any protest activity outside Peters’ house”

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Man accused of burglary at Winston Peters’ house pleads not guilty, keeps name secret

The man pleaded not guilty and is not allowed to go within 1km of Winston Peters’ home.

www.stuff.co.nz

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol Huge shout out to @paulbarlownz.bsky.social for his cooker alert mahi this local body election. It was incredibly valuable for considering the 'menu du jour on offer' in my electorate.
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Not all heroes wear capes! 🫶

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo XIV’s 1st Apostolic Exhortation reminds us of the love of Christ for the poor, asks us to care for the sick, oppose slavery, defend women who experience exclusion and violence, make education available to all, work for equality and more.
#NZpol #USpol
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo in 'Dilexi te': Faith cannot be separated from love for the poor - Vatican News

Taking up Pope Francis’ desire “that all Christians come to appreciate the close connection between Christ’s love and His summons to care for the ...

www.vaticannews.va

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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 1d

🤭 No you can’t!!

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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 1d

Well done!!! 🎉

Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 1d

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 1d

just get in the sea Nicola, maybe on one of ur non-existent ferries

no one here in Aotearoa believes ur porkies any more

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Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

Willis said Chorus move does not amount to asset sales, insists economy is improving.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Lilith Grace Toitū Te Tiriti @lilithgrace.bsky.social · 1d

If it's not an asset, how could we sell it for money??
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Selling Chorus securities is 'hocking off' debt not assets, Finance Minister says

The government had invested $1 billion in Chorus' fibre network.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 1d

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And they fully intend to use it, absolutely. This is who they are. This is what they want. Make no mistake about it. Anyone not subscribing to the total destructiveness of the blunt end of Neolberalism which ACT, unfortunately, are in a position to prosecute, is utterly dispensable to them.

♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 1d

The "minister for regulation" will have authority on who lives and who dies

Euthenasia bill too strict Seymour
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/euthanasi...
Only those useful to capitalism can live - act
www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/03/a...
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