Tax Wealth not Wages
@progallthethings.bsky.social
Norwegian prog metal devotee. Ally, climate action, social justice, tangata tiriti and Lion Brown.
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It might feel like you're shouting into the wind, but if we ALL shout then we are heard.
Mobilise, activate, volunteer, join a Union/Party.
Don't give up, that's what they want✊🏼
It might feel like you're shouting into the wind, but if we ALL shout then we are heard.
Mobilise, activate, volunteer, join a Union/Party.
Don't give up, that's what they want✊🏼
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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It might feel like you're shouting into the wind, but if we ALL shout then we are heard.
Mobilise, activate, volunteer, join a Union/Party.
Don't give up, that's what they want✊🏼
It might feel like you're shouting into the wind, but if we ALL shout then we are heard.
Mobilise, activate, volunteer, join a Union/Party.
Don't give up, that's what they want✊🏼
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So, Mr Hipkins, now would be a REALLY GOOD TIME to state for the record that a coalition with National or ACT or NZ 1st is off the table. If that isn't made very clear there will be many people like me who will change their party vote.
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So, Mr Hipkins, now would be a REALLY GOOD TIME to state for the record that a coalition with National or ACT or NZ 1st is off the table. If that isn't made very clear there will be many people like me who will change their party vote.
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What the hell is going on with the new New Zealand school curriculum, and what does it have to do with the Atlas Network? (No, really!)
A thread:
#nzpol #kikorangi
A thread:
#nzpol #kikorangi
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
What the hell is going on with the new New Zealand school curriculum, and what does it have to do with the Atlas Network? (No, really!)
A thread:
#nzpol #kikorangi
A thread:
#nzpol #kikorangi
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Christ on a bike, these fucking idiots are ruining the country for no other reason than coalition agreements.
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
'It's not impossible': National may campaign on regulatory standards repeal
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Christ on a bike, these fucking idiots are ruining the country for no other reason than coalition agreements.
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
VOTE THEM OUT
#nzpol
#nzpol
There is no evidence of this.
Well, apart from all the OIAed stuff about oil and gas producers.
There is no evidence of this.
Well, apart from all the OIAed stuff about oil and gas producers.
Hang on, is this about NZ or the USA?
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
#nzpol
There is no evidence of this.
Well, apart from all the OIAed stuff about oil and gas producers.
There is no evidence of this.
Well, apart from all the OIAed stuff about oil and gas producers.
It's funny because it's true.
And because it's true, it's not funny at the same time.
Funny that.
#nzpol
@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social on point as always.
And because it's true, it's not funny at the same time.
Funny that.
#nzpol
@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social on point as always.
Alt text: @chrishipkins.bsky.social stands in front of burning trans and tino rangatiratanga flags, leaning away in fear from a fire extinguisher being offered. He is saying "wo! Wo! Wo! Are you sure? Let's not be radical... Maybe take an internal poll first? Or like, give it to someone else to do"
WOULDN'T WANT TO SPOOK MIDDLE NEW ZEALAND.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's funny because it's true.
And because it's true, it's not funny at the same time.
Funny that.
#nzpol
@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social on point as always.
And because it's true, it's not funny at the same time.
Funny that.
#nzpol
@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social on point as always.
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Local politicians in NZ can kick it off by NOT promoting, employing or excusing men who’ve harassed, abused or assaulted women. #nzpol
Stop sweeping the issue under the carpet for the ‘bigger picture’ because that bigger picture without accountability or consequences is a misogynistic hellscape.
Stop sweeping the issue under the carpet for the ‘bigger picture’ because that bigger picture without accountability or consequences is a misogynistic hellscape.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It’s a day to raise awareness around all forms of violence against women and girls and to call for an end to gender-based violence.
#InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen #EndGenderBasedViolence
#InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen #EndGenderBasedViolence
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Local politicians in NZ can kick it off by NOT promoting, employing or excusing men who’ve harassed, abused or assaulted women. #nzpol
Stop sweeping the issue under the carpet for the ‘bigger picture’ because that bigger picture without accountability or consequences is a misogynistic hellscape.
Stop sweeping the issue under the carpet for the ‘bigger picture’ because that bigger picture without accountability or consequences is a misogynistic hellscape.
The Ardern govt did kind of help with the incentives for landlords to build to rent.
TBH if we had a rule where you had to build 1 for very 2 houses you bought I would be ok with that..
Landlords do not provide housing they’re in a shoddy business that offers very little protection to those who need to rent.
Yeah yeah not all landlords, not all men either but lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...
A great post on Instagram by Sophie Labelle. www.instagram.com/p/DRc7BI0DEZ...
Yeah yeah not all landlords, not all men either but lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...
A great post on Instagram by Sophie Labelle. www.instagram.com/p/DRc7BI0DEZ...
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Ardern govt did kind of help with the incentives for landlords to build to rent.
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Thread time.
These proposed local government reforms are being reported as the end of Regional Councils but actually they're probably the end of a lot of rural and smaller district councils in New Zealand. Not sure what I mean?
These proposed local government reforms are being reported as the end of Regional Councils but actually they're probably the end of a lot of rural and smaller district councils in New Zealand. Not sure what I mean?
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Thread time.
These proposed local government reforms are being reported as the end of Regional Councils but actually they're probably the end of a lot of rural and smaller district councils in New Zealand. Not sure what I mean?
These proposed local government reforms are being reported as the end of Regional Councils but actually they're probably the end of a lot of rural and smaller district councils in New Zealand. Not sure what I mean?
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From Daniel Vernon...
On hiw the Nats screwed Kiwisaver (more than once)... and now expect us to pay more,as the cost of living skyrockets...
open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth...
On hiw the Nats screwed Kiwisaver (more than once)... and now expect us to pay more,as the cost of living skyrockets...
open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth...
Chris Luxon Relaunches Kiwisaver
Plus: Chirs Hipkins fear of putting out fires.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
From Daniel Vernon...
On hiw the Nats screwed Kiwisaver (more than once)... and now expect us to pay more,as the cost of living skyrockets...
open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth...
On hiw the Nats screwed Kiwisaver (more than once)... and now expect us to pay more,as the cost of living skyrockets...
open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth...
For three points, which of the following happens in a democracy?
1. Minister appoints his mate to new regional govt body with veto power.
2. Minster's buddy has 51% of the votes
3. Miniter's buddy is just an obsever, reporting back to the Minister who then gets to sign off major decions.
#nzpol
1. Minister appoints his mate to new regional govt body with veto power.
2. Minster's buddy has 51% of the votes
3. Miniter's buddy is just an obsever, reporting back to the Minister who then gets to sign off major decions.
#nzpol
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM
For three points, which of the following happens in a democracy?
1. Minister appoints his mate to new regional govt body with veto power.
2. Minster's buddy has 51% of the votes
3. Miniter's buddy is just an obsever, reporting back to the Minister who then gets to sign off major decions.
#nzpol
1. Minister appoints his mate to new regional govt body with veto power.
2. Minster's buddy has 51% of the votes
3. Miniter's buddy is just an obsever, reporting back to the Minister who then gets to sign off major decions.
#nzpol
Chippy wants "to work with them (Nats + Act) to make it a success."
Chippy, I don't want to work with
you or any party led by you to make anything this rotten, hard right, racist, job and environment wrecking govt does a "success".
You said the same when charter schools were announced.
#nzpol
Chippy, I don't want to work with
you or any party led by you to make anything this rotten, hard right, racist, job and environment wrecking govt does a "success".
You said the same when charter schools were announced.
#nzpol
Sounds like the only response Hipkins can muster is to mumble indistinctly out of both sides of his mouth:
' "If what they come up with is sensible, I certainly want to leave open the option of working with them to make it a success," he said.'
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
' "If what they come up with is sensible, I certainly want to leave open the option of working with them to make it a success," he said.'
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
'Serious shake-up' of local government imminent
The coalition is set to announce major changes that could spell the end of regional councils, RNZ understands.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Chippy wants "to work with them (Nats + Act) to make it a success."
Chippy, I don't want to work with
you or any party led by you to make anything this rotten, hard right, racist, job and environment wrecking govt does a "success".
You said the same when charter schools were announced.
#nzpol
Chippy, I don't want to work with
you or any party led by you to make anything this rotten, hard right, racist, job and environment wrecking govt does a "success".
You said the same when charter schools were announced.
#nzpol
What does the ongoing lack of proper facilities such as an ocean capable salvage tug mean for our place in the International Maritime Organisation and related international treaties?
Someone in #nzpol must know.
Someone in #nzpol must know.
NZ government peers over cliff, having pointlessly delayed new fence at top, now opts to cancel ambulance at bottom…
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cost...
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cost...
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
What does the ongoing lack of proper facilities such as an ocean capable salvage tug mean for our place in the International Maritime Organisation and related international treaties?
Someone in #nzpol must know.
Someone in #nzpol must know.
Listen to the clip. Paraphrasing here: number one reason to go in is it will be a "feild day" for American oil companies; valued at one trillion dollars.
The wars are all about money, they always were. Especially oil money.
Think on that next time you fill up and vote for system change.
#nzpol
The wars are all about money, they always were. Especially oil money.
Think on that next time you fill up and vote for system change.
#nzpol
Why Trump is provoking a war with Venezuela: “for the American oil companies [it] will be a field day.”
God help all the people who will be killed. The end of the fossil-fuel era cannot come soon enough.
God help all the people who will be killed. The end of the fossil-fuel era cannot come soon enough.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Listen to the clip. Paraphrasing here: number one reason to go in is it will be a "feild day" for American oil companies; valued at one trillion dollars.
The wars are all about money, they always were. Especially oil money.
Think on that next time you fill up and vote for system change.
#nzpol
The wars are all about money, they always were. Especially oil money.
Think on that next time you fill up and vote for system change.
#nzpol
Look. What I say to you is this.
Hundreds of you may die but life is overvalued in our market. As with smoking, health cuts, poverty, benefit cuts, scrapping road safety, ministers making medical decisions gutting public housing and Lifeline cuts, it's a price my govt is willing to pay.
#nzpol
Hundreds of you may die but life is overvalued in our market. As with smoking, health cuts, poverty, benefit cuts, scrapping road safety, ministers making medical decisions gutting public housing and Lifeline cuts, it's a price my govt is willing to pay.
#nzpol
NZ government peers over cliff, having pointlessly delayed new fence at top, now opts to cancel ambulance at bottom…
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cost...
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cost...
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Look. What I say to you is this.
Hundreds of you may die but life is overvalued in our market. As with smoking, health cuts, poverty, benefit cuts, scrapping road safety, ministers making medical decisions gutting public housing and Lifeline cuts, it's a price my govt is willing to pay.
#nzpol
Hundreds of you may die but life is overvalued in our market. As with smoking, health cuts, poverty, benefit cuts, scrapping road safety, ministers making medical decisions gutting public housing and Lifeline cuts, it's a price my govt is willing to pay.
#nzpol
They really need to be booted out.
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
Fossil fuel companies were given privileged, insider access to confidential drafts of legislation during a two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban, RNZ has found.” #nzpol
Fossil fuel companies were given privileged, insider access to confidential drafts of legislation during a two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban, RNZ has found.” #nzpol
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the oil and gas industry's wishlist.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
They really need to be booted out.
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Yep, it didn't take me much arithmetic to work out that half of the population are women and having just wiped out 33 pay equity claims those women cannot afford 12 % deductions from money that they haven't got. Fuck the Coalition.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Yep, it didn't take me much arithmetic to work out that half of the population are women and having just wiped out 33 pay equity claims those women cannot afford 12 % deductions from money that they haven't got. Fuck the Coalition.
Look what I say to you is this.
Our kiwisaver changes are in no way a prelude to increasing the retirement age and gutting Super in favour if market-based individual savings account. Spent your life on poverty wages? Not worked to care for children or due to sickness? Sucks to be you!
#nzpol
Our kiwisaver changes are in no way a prelude to increasing the retirement age and gutting Super in favour if market-based individual savings account. Spent your life on poverty wages? Not worked to care for children or due to sickness? Sucks to be you!
#nzpol
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Look what I say to you is this.
Our kiwisaver changes are in no way a prelude to increasing the retirement age and gutting Super in favour if market-based individual savings account. Spent your life on poverty wages? Not worked to care for children or due to sickness? Sucks to be you!
#nzpol
Our kiwisaver changes are in no way a prelude to increasing the retirement age and gutting Super in favour if market-based individual savings account. Spent your life on poverty wages? Not worked to care for children or due to sickness? Sucks to be you!
#nzpol
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I’m not entering the Christmas promo scramble.
I’m simply gesturing to the killer gift of the season: The Cat Operator’s Manual, and trusting the gays and the cat mums to take it from here.
cuddleUnit5.com
I’m simply gesturing to the killer gift of the season: The Cat Operator’s Manual, and trusting the gays and the cat mums to take it from here.
cuddleUnit5.com
The Cat Operator's Manual - Get the Most from Your New Cuddle Unit
A fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete with technical information, warnings, insights into all of your Cuddle Unit 5™'s features and modes, and a bonus sticker sheet.
cuddleUnit5.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I’m not entering the Christmas promo scramble.
I’m simply gesturing to the killer gift of the season: The Cat Operator’s Manual, and trusting the gays and the cat mums to take it from here.
cuddleUnit5.com
I’m simply gesturing to the killer gift of the season: The Cat Operator’s Manual, and trusting the gays and the cat mums to take it from here.
cuddleUnit5.com
Local water done so well it exceeds reproductive risk levels.
But as long as the farmers get everything they want and rates stay low, who cares? Certainly not this govt.
But as long as the farmers get everything they want and rates stay low, who cares? Certainly not this govt.
PRESS RELEASE: Darfield water supplies above nitrate contamination reproductive risk levels www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol
Darfield water supplies above nitrate contamination reproductive risk levels - Greenpeace Aotearoa
“Absolutely unacceptable”. That’s Greenpeace’s reaction to water testing results today which revealed more Canterbury public water supplies are contaminated with nitrate at levels above those associat...
www.greenpeace.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Local water done so well it exceeds reproductive risk levels.
But as long as the farmers get everything they want and rates stay low, who cares? Certainly not this govt.
But as long as the farmers get everything they want and rates stay low, who cares? Certainly not this govt.
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If you have a dairy that got ramraided six times by the same kids and then they turned up one day outside asking everyone to contribute to “help make the dairy good again” then you’ll know what it feels like to hear National pledge to make our super savings as good as Australia’s
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you have a dairy that got ramraided six times by the same kids and then they turned up one day outside asking everyone to contribute to “help make the dairy good again” then you’ll know what it feels like to hear National pledge to make our super savings as good as Australia’s
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important enough to alt text
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
important enough to alt text
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wait lmao why would i believe national are going to increase kiwisaver contributions when *this term* they cut them. And it was a policy, not "oh something had to be cut to pay for something more important", they said "we don't want to pay this anymore. for the budget"
Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
wait lmao why would i believe national are going to increase kiwisaver contributions when *this term* they cut them. And it was a policy, not "oh something had to be cut to pay for something more important", they said "we don't want to pay this anymore. for the budget"
RNZ alert saying lux-o to make an announcement today.
Alas. He's not stepping down to spend more time with his money or to open a tourism business for multi-millionaire donors to be driven around in limos sneering at the poor.
Or perhaps he'd open an ill-fitting suits shop.
Alas. He's not stepping down to spend more time with his money or to open a tourism business for multi-millionaire donors to be driven around in limos sneering at the poor.
Or perhaps he'd open an ill-fitting suits shop.
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RNZ alert saying lux-o to make an announcement today.
Alas. He's not stepping down to spend more time with his money or to open a tourism business for multi-millionaire donors to be driven around in limos sneering at the poor.
Or perhaps he'd open an ill-fitting suits shop.
Alas. He's not stepping down to spend more time with his money or to open a tourism business for multi-millionaire donors to be driven around in limos sneering at the poor.
Or perhaps he'd open an ill-fitting suits shop.
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I woke last night thinking about this quote. However bad things seem, and however bad they get, anyone who doesn't think like this has a good reason to be grateful.
"There are accidents that will happen. What I'm wanting to focus on is, how do I improve the overall economy and the situation that businesses and workers find themselves in?" - Van Velden. #PikeRiver
"She seemed to be focusing all the time on the employers and I sat and listened to it for a little while and then I just couldn't stand it" - Sonya Rockhouse. #PikeRiver
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I woke last night thinking about this quote. However bad things seem, and however bad they get, anyone who doesn't think like this has a good reason to be grateful.