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This timelapse of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke today is awe inspiring.
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Hīkoi mō te Tiriti - A Time-lapse of the Hikoi Protest rolling down Manners St Wellington
YouTube video by The Traffic Fox / Traffic Updates HKW
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Astonishing turnout
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Mōrena whanāu, looking east from Torpedo Bay pier towards St Heliers. Wind has dropped, so quite warm now. Kia pa to rā!
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Mōrena whanāu, looking east from Torpedo Bay pier towards St Heliers. Wind has dropped, so quite warm now. Kia pa to rā!
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Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva #nzpol
Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva
"The coalition government has escalated discrimination against Māori, spread misinformation, and overridden constitutional norms," says Lady Tureiti Moxon.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva #nzpol
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AoNz needs this too
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The Crown Prosecution Service will train staff to recognise the “wide spectrum of abuse” in cases of violence against women - new data found domestic abuse was present in more than a third of rape cases, - in more than eight out of 10 cases of stalking,image-based abuse.
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The Crown Prosecution Service will train staff to recognise the “wide spectrum of abuse” in cases of violence against women - new data found domestic abuse was present in more than a third of rape cases, - in more than eight out of 10 cases of stalking,image-based abuse.
CPS to train staff on ‘spectrum of abuse’ in violence against women and girls
Five-year strategy aims to improve casework after analysis finds domestic abuse in more than third of rape cases
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
AoNz needs this too
#nzpol
The Crown Prosecution Service will train staff to recognise the “wide spectrum of abuse” in cases of violence against women - new data found domestic abuse was present in more than a third of rape cases, - in more than eight out of 10 cases of stalking,image-based abuse.
#nzpol
The Crown Prosecution Service will train staff to recognise the “wide spectrum of abuse” in cases of violence against women - new data found domestic abuse was present in more than a third of rape cases, - in more than eight out of 10 cases of stalking,image-based abuse.
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Maybe at the elected member level, like any elected roles. But RCs employ many highly-qualified scientists, land/ emergency management professionals, transport planners, etc - who does this work & where does this workforce go if RCs get axed? You'll miss them when the next flood/disaster strikes
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Maybe at the elected member level, like any elected roles. But RCs employ many highly-qualified scientists, land/ emergency management professionals, transport planners, etc - who does this work & where does this workforce go if RCs get axed? You'll miss them when the next flood/disaster strikes
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what % of Deloitte’s work could be handled by one person using search and replace to update their standard presentation with the name of their current client www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Deloitte report suggests Wellington City Council has 330 more staff than it should
PSA says analysis from Deloitte, which cost $435k, lacks a basic understanding of what the Council's role is.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
what % of Deloitte’s work could be handled by one person using search and replace to update their standard presentation with the name of their current client www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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In a way it's kind of funny that the govt thinks it's ok to just, immediately after local body elections, announce that the regional govts we voted for are for the chop, and the people we elected as city and district mayors are going to have different jobs to the one we just voted them into.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In a way it's kind of funny that the govt thinks it's ok to just, immediately after local body elections, announce that the regional govts we voted for are for the chop, and the people we elected as city and district mayors are going to have different jobs to the one we just voted them into.
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And here we go again! Nicola Willis’s pre-Christmas Grinch show.
Put your wallets away for Black Friday NZ’ers, winter is coming (again).
Those blimmin tax cuts, ferries, landlords, tobacco companies, Govt Board fee increases, Gumboot gifts, … so darn expensive.
#nzpol
Put your wallets away for Black Friday NZ’ers, winter is coming (again).
Those blimmin tax cuts, ferries, landlords, tobacco companies, Govt Board fee increases, Gumboot gifts, … so darn expensive.
#nzpol
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
And here we go again! Nicola Willis’s pre-Christmas Grinch show.
Put your wallets away for Black Friday NZ’ers, winter is coming (again).
Those blimmin tax cuts, ferries, landlords, tobacco companies, Govt Board fee increases, Gumboot gifts, … so darn expensive.
#nzpol
Put your wallets away for Black Friday NZ’ers, winter is coming (again).
Those blimmin tax cuts, ferries, landlords, tobacco companies, Govt Board fee increases, Gumboot gifts, … so darn expensive.
#nzpol
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Has a journo asked the PM if his local government minister here is describing the strict 'one person, one vote' model of democracy that the PM was so passionate about when discussing Māori wards etc when on the campaign trail just 2 short years ago?
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Has a journo asked the PM if his local government minister here is describing the strict 'one person, one vote' model of democracy that the PM was so passionate about when discussing Māori wards etc when on the campaign trail just 2 short years ago?
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Remembering various people telling me that actually citizen Thiel is a serious thinker, it was I who was biased, probably blinded against his wisdom by what could only be my base partisan motivations, and what have you.
I see he has now advised the Vice Potus that the Pope is the antichrist.
I see he has now advised the Vice Potus that the Pope is the antichrist.
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Remembering various people telling me that actually citizen Thiel is a serious thinker, it was I who was biased, probably blinded against his wisdom by what could only be my base partisan motivations, and what have you.
I see he has now advised the Vice Potus that the Pope is the antichrist.
I see he has now advised the Vice Potus that the Pope is the antichrist.
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Apart from the hated RMA functions, it ignores all other regional tasks eg biosecurity, maritime, flood protection. It's incredibly stupid.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Apart from the hated RMA functions, it ignores all other regional tasks eg biosecurity, maritime, flood protection. It's incredibly stupid.
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The Govt wants to gut environmental protection. It also doesn't want strong councils. If it did it would create unitaries. It wants weak supplicant bodies and central control. This is authoritarian AF.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Govt wants to gut environmental protection. It also doesn't want strong councils. If it did it would create unitaries. It wants weak supplicant bodies and central control. This is authoritarian AF.
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And those two precedents point in quite different directions for the future of this government; Lange was handily re-elected & with Bolger... had we had MMP in 1993 Labour & the Alliance would have turfed him out after 1 term.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And those two precedents point in quite different directions for the future of this government; Lange was handily re-elected & with Bolger... had we had MMP in 1993 Labour & the Alliance would have turfed him out after 1 term.
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democratic expression scares the shit out of these ppl
In a way it's kind of funny that the govt thinks it's ok to just, immediately after local body elections, announce that the regional govts we voted for are for the chop, and the people we elected as city and district mayors are going to have different jobs to the one we just voted them into.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
democratic expression scares the shit out of these ppl
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Says something about the way New Zealand politics has worked during my lifetime that there are *two* ready comparisons to this government's reckless hatchet job on the basic institutions of our society: the first terms of both the Lange and Bolger governments.
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Says something about the way New Zealand politics has worked during my lifetime that there are *two* ready comparisons to this government's reckless hatchet job on the basic institutions of our society: the first terms of both the Lange and Bolger governments.
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This is such an important point.
We can't get off this path by tinkering around the edges; we need a radical revisioning of how our government and society function.
#nzpol
We can't get off this path by tinkering around the edges; we need a radical revisioning of how our government and society function.
#nzpol
One thing that NZers need to understand is that going for 100% completion on the original Rogernomics agenda is not a reversible thing. We will need to transform all this wreckage into something new. We can't just "rebuild", as has been proven many times over.
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This is such an important point.
We can't get off this path by tinkering around the edges; we need a radical revisioning of how our government and society function.
#nzpol
We can't get off this path by tinkering around the edges; we need a radical revisioning of how our government and society function.
#nzpol
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a government saying that it doesn't think people in prisons should be allowed to vote while also knowing for a fact that māori and pasifika people make up an outsized portion of the aotearoa new zealand prison population sure does have a certain kind of ring to it
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
a government saying that it doesn't think people in prisons should be allowed to vote while also knowing for a fact that māori and pasifika people make up an outsized portion of the aotearoa new zealand prison population sure does have a certain kind of ring to it
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getting rid of regional councils, one of the few voices at the table when it comes to fast track applications and the bodies that are supposed to monitor any ongoing consents, is certainly a choice
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Save Bream Bay Sand
Save Bream Bay from McCallum Bros sand-mining under the Fast Track Act. Resources and information from Bream Bay Guardians.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
getting rid of regional councils, one of the few voices at the table when it comes to fast track applications and the bodies that are supposed to monitor any ongoing consents, is certainly a choice
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savebreambaysand.org
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I saw the government job that I was made redundant from in February has been restored and filled, but at a $50k lower salary. While the CE and second tier have had significant pay rises. Money go round that benefits those at the top, as always. 🇳🇿
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I saw the government job that I was made redundant from in February has been restored and filled, but at a $50k lower salary. While the CE and second tier have had significant pay rises. Money go round that benefits those at the top, as always. 🇳🇿
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Assume the OIAs are gonna have an interesting story to tell about the timeline of development for this devil's salad, and can't wait to find out why we weren't told about it before local body elections
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Assume the OIAs are gonna have an interesting story to tell about the timeline of development for this devil's salad, and can't wait to find out why we weren't told about it before local body elections
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Remember, govt has advice that it can’t repeal the local act providing for Ngai Tahu representation on Canta RC by a govt bill without some dodgy suspension of SOs etc. So, instead, it looks like ACT is going to tear down the institutions itself making the local act moot.
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Remember, govt has advice that it can’t repeal the local act providing for Ngai Tahu representation on Canta RC by a govt bill without some dodgy suspension of SOs etc. So, instead, it looks like ACT is going to tear down the institutions itself making the local act moot.
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Collateral purpose of reform of regional councils?
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Collateral purpose of reform of regional councils?
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Public sector still too strong? Send in the leeches.
#NzPol
#NzPol
Public sector bosses ordered to look again for new cost savings
As the coalition Government struggles with the state of its books, Finance Minister Nicola Willis once again turns to bringing down costs.
newsroom.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Public sector still too strong? Send in the leeches.
#NzPol
#NzPol
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"New technology, including artificial intelligence, increasingly fuels pervasive and seemingly unstoppable intrusive surveillance of workers. Employers’ reach into workers’ private lives has expanded exponentially as a result."
Book launch Wed 26 Nov 11:30am in Wgtn. www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/eng...
Book launch Wed 26 Nov 11:30am in Wgtn. www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/eng...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Workers’ Right to Privacy—Public Lecture and Book Launch | Ōrauariki / Wellington School of Business and Government | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Welli...
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"New technology, including artificial intelligence, increasingly fuels pervasive and seemingly unstoppable intrusive surveillance of workers. Employers’ reach into workers’ private lives has expanded exponentially as a result."
Book launch Wed 26 Nov 11:30am in Wgtn. www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/eng...
Book launch Wed 26 Nov 11:30am in Wgtn. www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/eng...
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When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience.
It is a breach of trust.
It is a breach of trust.
Tears Weren’t About the Fight
by ELVOn the way home, I cried.Tears stung the unhealed cold sore on my lip,and the aircon dried them hard against my chin.I didn’t cry because I was exhausted from breaking up a fight before morning ...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience.
It is a breach of trust.
It is a breach of trust.
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"We are being invited to be part of a particular American project that demonises immigrants and we shouldn't be a part of that.” - Paul Spoonley.
Well said. Our Government should tell MAGA to eff right off with their 'data collection' on migrants in Aotearoa. #nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...
Well said. Our Government should tell MAGA to eff right off with their 'data collection' on migrants in Aotearoa. #nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...
Trump govt warns NZ of migration 'risk', asks embassy to collect data
The US State Department has ordered the US embassy in Wellington to begin collecting information on migration data and "migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses".
www.1news.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"We are being invited to be part of a particular American project that demonises immigrants and we shouldn't be a part of that.” - Paul Spoonley.
Well said. Our Government should tell MAGA to eff right off with their 'data collection' on migrants in Aotearoa. #nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...
Well said. Our Government should tell MAGA to eff right off with their 'data collection' on migrants in Aotearoa. #nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...