Ali Rowe
@alirowe.bsky.social
Passionate about swimming, baking, and enjoys the company of feline/canine friends. Strong advocate for equality and justice, stands firmly against racism, misogyny, and right-wing ideologies. She/her/ia, Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
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Imo this is on the same spectrum as the PoliceNZ scandal. Attacking women should be a disqualifier for any role and definitely an sppoitment that gives you power over others #nzpol 1/2
Women’s lives, our reputations, our safety are discounted. Misogny in action.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Women’s lives, our reputations, our safety are discounted. Misogny in action.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Imo this is on the same spectrum as the PoliceNZ scandal. Attacking women should be a disqualifier for any role and definitely an sppoitment that gives you power over others #nzpol 1/2
Women’s lives, our reputations, our safety are discounted. Misogny in action.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Women’s lives, our reputations, our safety are discounted. Misogny in action.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Why do Americans believe they can’t have nice things?
Stellan Skarsgård nails it.
Stellan Skarsgård nails it.
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Why do Americans believe they can’t have nice things?
Stellan Skarsgård nails it.
Stellan Skarsgård nails it.
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❤️I support Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Therapists, Teachers & Principals
❤️ I support full staffing, fair hours, equal & fair pay for NZers
❤️ I support public hospitals & public schools
❌ I do NOT support privatisation, PPPs or sale of public infrastructure, services or assets
❤️ I support full staffing, fair hours, equal & fair pay for NZers
❤️ I support public hospitals & public schools
❌ I do NOT support privatisation, PPPs or sale of public infrastructure, services or assets
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
❤️I support Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Therapists, Teachers & Principals
❤️ I support full staffing, fair hours, equal & fair pay for NZers
❤️ I support public hospitals & public schools
❌ I do NOT support privatisation, PPPs or sale of public infrastructure, services or assets
❤️ I support full staffing, fair hours, equal & fair pay for NZers
❤️ I support public hospitals & public schools
❌ I do NOT support privatisation, PPPs or sale of public infrastructure, services or assets
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“Upston said [they’d have to] attend one or more employment-related training courses.”
Why? Will this magic up jobs for the unemployed to apply for?
Piss off, will you, with the beneficiary-bashing. Sanctions won’t make the jobs magically appear.
“Upston said [they’d have to] attend one or more employment-related training courses.”
Why? Will this magic up jobs for the unemployed to apply for?
Piss off, will you, with the beneficiary-bashing. Sanctions won’t make the jobs magically appear.
New benefit sanctions will help beneficiaries find jobs, says Social Development Minister Louise Upston
Those failing an obligation for the first time will either have to do job-search activities or attend employment-related training courses.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
“Upston said [they’d have to] attend one or more employment-related training courses.”
Why? Will this magic up jobs for the unemployed to apply for?
Piss off, will you, with the beneficiary-bashing. Sanctions won’t make the jobs magically appear.
“Upston said [they’d have to] attend one or more employment-related training courses.”
Why? Will this magic up jobs for the unemployed to apply for?
Piss off, will you, with the beneficiary-bashing. Sanctions won’t make the jobs magically appear.
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Your regular reminder that unions represent PEOPLE. They are simply the voice of the PEOPLE they represent.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Attack them and you’re attacking the people they represent.
It’s pretty simple.
#nzpol
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Attack them and you’re attacking the people they represent.
It’s pretty simple.
#nzpol
October 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Your regular reminder that unions represent PEOPLE. They are simply the voice of the PEOPLE they represent.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Attack them and you’re attacking the people they represent.
It’s pretty simple.
#nzpol
Nothing more. Nothing less.
Attack them and you’re attacking the people they represent.
It’s pretty simple.
#nzpol
This is marvelous 😂
The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This is marvelous 😂
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A great piece from Alex Casey about the noxious soup: "It’s like men’s potential suffering is tragic, and women’s actual suffering is just our lot in life."
thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
Decoding the ‘cult of masculinity’ around Tom Phillips
The support for the Marokopa fugitive reveals several pervasive myths about masculinity, fathers and the court system.
thespinoff.co.nz
September 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
A great piece from Alex Casey about the noxious soup: "It’s like men’s potential suffering is tragic, and women’s actual suffering is just our lot in life."
thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
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#nzpol
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
Selected price indexes: August 2025 | Stats NZ
Food prices increased 0.3 percent in the month of August 2025, and increased by 5.0 percent in the 12 months to August 2025.
www.stats.govt.nz
September 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#nzpol
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows:
- Food prices up 5%
- Fruit & Veg up 8.9%
- Meat up 9.4%
- Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%)
- Cheese up 14.3%
- Milk up 15%
- Electricity up 11.4%
Laser focused on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
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Nicola Willis thinks everyone are misery merchants and apparently if we just cheer up all will be well. She can take a running jump to hell. Real actual people are suffering, businesses are closing, people are freezing in unheated homes, young people are on the streets without shelter. Heartless.
August 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Nicola Willis thinks everyone are misery merchants and apparently if we just cheer up all will be well. She can take a running jump to hell. Real actual people are suffering, businesses are closing, people are freezing in unheated homes, young people are on the streets without shelter. Heartless.
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Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
August 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
This is an excellent article e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
Punching down as the price of butter goes up | E-Tangata
“It’s one thing to be out of touch with the reality of New Zealanders’ lives. But it’s another entirely to make your contempt and disregard for most of the population so obvious.” — Brian Tweed.
e-tangata.co.nz
August 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is an excellent article e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
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(Sorry I'm always sayin the same thing, but every news item about this gets it twisted)
Ray Chung’s email about Tory Whanau is not some random thing he did. It’s part of a global pattern: women leaders being targeted with false, sexist rumours to undermine their credibility and leadership. #nzpol 🧵
Ray Chung’s email about Tory Whanau is not some random thing he did. It’s part of a global pattern: women leaders being targeted with false, sexist rumours to undermine their credibility and leadership. #nzpol 🧵
July 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
(Sorry I'm always sayin the same thing, but every news item about this gets it twisted)
Ray Chung’s email about Tory Whanau is not some random thing he did. It’s part of a global pattern: women leaders being targeted with false, sexist rumours to undermine their credibility and leadership. #nzpol 🧵
Ray Chung’s email about Tory Whanau is not some random thing he did. It’s part of a global pattern: women leaders being targeted with false, sexist rumours to undermine their credibility and leadership. #nzpol 🧵
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Rates rises are due to people voting against rates rises
Rates rises are due to people voting against rates rises
Buckle up, it’s time to ignore our crumbling infrastructure for another generation.<br />...
thespinoff.co.nz
July 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Rates rises are due to people voting against rates rises
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Haven't done a why is the economy in the toilet explainer for a while. Let's try again...
Money makes the economy go round. If people don't have money to spend, then fewer jobs are needed, and less energy and materials are consumed. Where does money come from? Easy... [🧵1/n]
Money makes the economy go round. If people don't have money to spend, then fewer jobs are needed, and less energy and materials are consumed. Where does money come from? Easy... [🧵1/n]
June 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Haven't done a why is the economy in the toilet explainer for a while. Let's try again...
Money makes the economy go round. If people don't have money to spend, then fewer jobs are needed, and less energy and materials are consumed. Where does money come from? Easy... [🧵1/n]
Money makes the economy go round. If people don't have money to spend, then fewer jobs are needed, and less energy and materials are consumed. Where does money come from? Easy... [🧵1/n]
![In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar.
Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars known to Western astronomers as the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. Matariki is a shortened version of Ngā mata o te ariki o Tāwhirimātea, "the eyes of the god Tāwhirimātea".[1] According to Māori tradition, Tāwhirimātea, the god of wind and weather, was enraged by the separation of heaven and earth – his parents, Ranginui and Papatūānuku.[1] Defeated in battle by his brother, Tāwhirimātea fled to the sky to live with Ranginui, but in his anger he first plucked out his eyes as a gesture of contempt towards his siblings, and flung them into the sky, where they remain, stuck to his father's chest. In Māori tradition the unpredictability of the winds is blamed on Tāwhirimātea's blindness
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matariki](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l43f5finrcugyqz534j5z265/bafkreiggbcdomt3psudn45wmaebki7ugaju5763pcj7yeuy6pzppqj7mf4@jpeg)
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#nzpol Minimum Wage increased 1.5% this year. Data just released by Stats NZ shows:
- Food Prices up 4.4.%
- Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3%
- Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7%
- Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4%
- Rent up 2.8%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
- Food Prices up 4.4.%
- Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3%
- Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7%
- Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4%
- Rent up 2.8%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
Selected price indexes: May 2025 | Stats NZ
Food prices increased 0.5 percent in the month of May 2025, and increased by 4.4 percent in the 12 months to May 2025.
www.stats.govt.nz
June 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
#nzpol Minimum Wage increased 1.5% this year. Data just released by Stats NZ shows:
- Food Prices up 4.4.%
- Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3%
- Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7%
- Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4%
- Rent up 2.8%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
- Food Prices up 4.4.%
- Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3%
- Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7%
- Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4%
- Rent up 2.8%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
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The current govt is the most anti-family and anti-work govt that we have had. They wanna fire everyone and make the economy so bad that no one is hiring. They don’t want to feed the kids, set us up for retirement, or give us time to look after our kids. Just horrifically evil.
June 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The current govt is the most anti-family and anti-work govt that we have had. They wanna fire everyone and make the economy so bad that no one is hiring. They don’t want to feed the kids, set us up for retirement, or give us time to look after our kids. Just horrifically evil.
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If you read one story today, make it Rebecca Macfie's analysis of van Velden's changes to WorkSafe.
The cabinet paper doesn't "reflect on the fact the rate of workplace death in NZ is 60% higher than Australia and 500% higher than the UK".
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/09/h...
The cabinet paper doesn't "reflect on the fact the rate of workplace death in NZ is 60% higher than Australia and 500% higher than the UK".
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/09/h...
History's verdict is already in on van Velden's safety reforms
The Government is instructing WorkSafe to be kinder and more supportive to businesses, and to shift its focus from enforcement to advice. We know from bitter history where this leads
newsroom.co.nz
June 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you read one story today, make it Rebecca Macfie's analysis of van Velden's changes to WorkSafe.
The cabinet paper doesn't "reflect on the fact the rate of workplace death in NZ is 60% higher than Australia and 500% higher than the UK".
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/09/h...
The cabinet paper doesn't "reflect on the fact the rate of workplace death in NZ is 60% higher than Australia and 500% higher than the UK".
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/09/h...
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June 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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"Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean said "it would be nice if the people involved would just grow up and stop being dicks"."
PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA RESPONSE OF THE YEAR
PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA RESPONSE OF THE YEAR
Cycleway tacks cause havoc among Wellington bike riders www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Cycleway tacks cause havoc among Wellington bike riders
Council has asked for public assistance tracking down the culprits.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean said "it would be nice if the people involved would just grow up and stop being dicks"."
PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA RESPONSE OF THE YEAR
PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA RESPONSE OF THE YEAR
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The Green budget has great stuff in it and it frustrates me no end that they get treated like "tree-hugging weirdos" while National, who were told that their landlord tax cuts didn't add up before the election, get to throw women under the bus and still are somehow "safe hands" for the economy.
May 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The Green budget has great stuff in it and it frustrates me no end that they get treated like "tree-hugging weirdos" while National, who were told that their landlord tax cuts didn't add up before the election, get to throw women under the bus and still are somehow "safe hands" for the economy.
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So women are now quite literally holding up the New Zealand economy in under-paid work
marilynwaring.com/publications...
marilynwaring.com/publications...
Counting for nothing: What men value and what women are worth: Marilyn Waring
marilynwaring.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
So women are now quite literally holding up the New Zealand economy in under-paid work
marilynwaring.com/publications...
marilynwaring.com/publications...