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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 1d

Earthlings!
@ganeshahirao.bsky.social & @bernardchickey.bsky.social cogently discusses topical economic issues. #nzpol #economics #unemployment #youth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpXx...

Mini Hoons for Tuesday, October 7

YouTube video by The Hoon

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 1d

Earthlings! your pallet cleanser for the day 🥰🥰🥰

Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

anyway, have a sleepy potato waiting for Primary Human to get home

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like we are living in a badly written cartoon where the villains are so one dimensional that the audience watching, can no longer suspend their belief.

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 1d

Let's do a little exercise

Kid 19
Thumbs a ride to Hawkes Bay from Auckland
Gets a job at an orchard for the 12 week season
Pay is negotiated rate, accommodation is $200 pw
It's hard, hard work and they don't know if they can do it
They get past that first hump, start enjoying being outdoors

Meeting some real cool people from the islands
Eaten so many packets of noodles
Missing home and friends
Can't believe it's been 12 weeks already!
No more work in Hawkes Bay so they catch a bus back to Auckland
There is no work in Auckland, even a job pushing trolleys at Woolworths gets 250 applicants
Gives $500 saved from Hawkes Bay to mum so she can get little sis her new school uniform
*thinks* "There goes the dream of ever having a PlayStation!"

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 1d

I miss those guys!!!!! Hope they stay safe, shout out to the student protestors!!!

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 2d

Earthlings! 💵💵💵
Tim offers practical examples of how this mythical dimension, we call #economics works. It is very counter intuitive but the key is, the flow of money & where it is created & where it gets destroyed. #nzpol #banks
littleteapot.substack.com/p/accounting...

Accounting for economists

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 2d

Kia Ora Earthlings, check out MC drooping the mike!!!!
#economics #nzpol #unemployment #capitalism

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 2d

It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 2d

Good on ya Mate, I was about to make a similar comment. You put it very eloquently. People just don't get that homelessness & crime are symptoms of societal ills, not the cause.

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 2d

Meet Teddington.

Teddington supports voting in local elections. Teddington also wants a more walkable Auckland.

If you want Teddington to have nice walks in Auckland make sure you vote City Vision for local board and council!

(You have until this Saturday October 11th noon to get your vote in)

Connor holding orange voting envelope and Teddington, a very cute dog, on K Road

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 2d

If Teddington was running for mayor, I would vote for him.

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 4d

Earthlings!
Matua @ganeshahirao.bsky.social remains diplomatic & has his receipts to back up what he & his colleagues have been warning this government for over a year. He is fully justified in saying “I told you so” to our Government. #nzpol #economy #unemployment
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Group of 20 economists urge to PM and MoF to urgently change course

Open letter outlines data and evidence supporting need for change

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Jules @julianjackson.bsky.social · 4d

Sam Neil praising Jacinda Ardern

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 4d

Kia Ora Earthlings,
Public health expert Dave (Bear) Hookway-Kopa speaks with @garypayinda.bsky.social about fetal alcohol syndrome, & the cost of #alcohol on the economy & communities. This is a thoughtful & moving Korero. #nzhealth #nzpol #aotearoa #toitutetiriti
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql6a...

Poverty, prison, and Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A problem affecting far too many NZ children

YouTube video by Big Hairy Network

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 6d

Absolute load of 💩!

If the US really cared about human trafficking they would look inside their own country.
But we all know it has nothing to do with human trafficking.
#CARICOM #barbados #colonising
barbadostoday.bb/2025/10/01/b...

Barbados downgraded to US Tier 2 Watch List on human trafficking - Barbados Today

Barbados has been downgraded from Tier 2 to the Tier 2 Watch List in the United States’ 2025 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, with US officials warning that the country…

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 6d

Luxon is such a ball bag of a PM. 😑

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 8d

You've got to be fucking kidding me. Privatisation doesn't work, especially when it's bloody Serco who couldn't run a prison when the previous Nat government even low-balled the minimum required standards and who have a terrible reputation in many parts of the world. Fuck Simeon.

#nzpol

CuriousCat @felissapien.bsky.social · 8d

Concerns are being raised about privatisation after Health Minister Simeon Brown met representatives of a controversial multinational company that runs prisons and hospitals.

“The Minister must immediately & fully disclose the nature, purpose, & content of his discussions with Serco.”

#nzpol

Screenshot of an article from the ODT NZ by Matthew Littlewood titled, ‘Frankly Astonished’: Concerns raised over Health Minister’s meeting. Paywalled - accessible article in the comments.

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 12d

Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of #Barbados addresses the #UN General assembly with a compelling speech.
#nzpol #geopol #CARICOM #Freepalestine #freesudan #uncharter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD17...

Barbados' Prime Minister Addressed the UN General Debate, 80th Session (Sep. 26, 2025)

YouTube video by PMOBarbados

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 18d

Hope someone in the coalition saw the numbers for today’s Pay Equity March - cause they need to realise what they did was not popular.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 21d

If you need proof many right wing commentators are full of shit look back to August 2024

Today's economic results reveal a near 1% drop in GDP in the latest quarter - that's a significant but not unexpected contraction #nzpol

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 22d

Earthlings!
@musicalchairs.bsky.social goes into ganster mode for this explainer about the dynamics between asset owners & working class.

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 22d

Random taxpayer rant: This is how the reckonomists want you to view Govt... scrounging around for tax revenue, or begging rich people to lend them a few billion dollars to build a 4-lane road or pay Ed Sheeran to play at Eden Park every Saturday for the next 5 years. It's bollox... [🧵 1/n]

Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 22d

Agree 🙏☺️❤️❤️❤️

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 22d

If you haven't already I do invite people to have a read. ☺️🙏
Yeah, the article does touch on that. Our cynicism is being exploited, we must keep that in mind.

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 22d

Earthlings!
This article is very counter intuitive to what most people believe about local Councillors. Most of us believe that they are just all “over paid bureaucrats”, hence why the pay cut agenda is so effective. #nzpol #local #council #education
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Candidates can't cut councillors' pay, and for good reason

Controversial opinion: Local government politicians are generally underpaid for the role they perform.

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 22d

Greetings earthlings, check out this pretty flower...

Treen | Toitū Te Tiriti @heyren519.bsky.social · 23d

#nzpol
A summary that cuts through the culture wars bollocks

Venn diagram with five circles, 3 layers, centre says ‘capitalism’ large circles say ‘imperialism, settler colonialism, environmental terrorism, hierarchy and racism’. Overlaps say ‘man destroys nature, individual over community, white supremacy, patriarchy and misogyny’

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Cristina Deukett 🇧🇧+🇷🇴=🇳🇿 @artyfarty87.bsky.social · 23d

Kia Ora Earthlings including studying earthlings.
This is a really cool idea from Aotearoa Educators Collective.
Call for Student Activist Art - Due Date 10 October 2025
Check out the substack link for details.
#education #students #art #nzpol #ncea
aecnz.substack.com/p/call-for-s...

Call for Student Activist Art

UpliftEd Conference | Wellington | 30–31 October 2025

aecnz.substack.com

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