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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 1d

Omg you guys 👀

Ni-cola Ga-stan @nicgaston.bsky.social · 1d

A massive strike is one thing ✊

A strike on this scale is a massive vote of no confidence in this government. And everyone voting to strike knows that. ✊✊✊

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1d

Senior doctors and dentists to join massive strike this month

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Ni-cola Ga-stan @nicgaston.bsky.social · 1d

A massive strike is one thing ✊

A strike on this scale is a massive vote of no confidence in this government. And everyone voting to strike knows that. ✊✊✊

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1d

Senior doctors and dentists to join massive strike this month

The union has voted in favour of a four-hour strike.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed it is.
For those following along at home, youth unemployment is higher in rural areas (eg Northland) and wildly skewed by ethnicity, eg unemployment rates for Pacific youth est 20%. Our M & P youth deserve better.
Again, we need a conversation abt this.
#nzpol

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 2d

Worth noting that we only see decent job growth for young kiwis when the economy is running hot - that's when employers give less experienced people a chance.
RBNZ respond to hotness by hiking interest rates to slow the economy down. Youth unemployment is a feature of our economic model, not a bug.

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 1d

The world doesn't owe our children a living? Yes we do? Isn't that the whole point? I don't know many parents that wouldn't wish that for their kids, why is it different because they're not YOUR kids? Such an incredibly telling statement, really.

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 3d

I have nobody to share this joke I just heard with! "How many gaeilgeoir do you need to change a light bulb? Six, because any more and you'll be seacht" 😄😄

Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 4d

1. Big fan! Yours is the first book of poetry I've ever bought 2. It's actually "the dictator does not concern themselves with any type of responsibility to their people"

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 4d

23rd October 👀

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 8d

I just had freshly baked home made bread with home made marmalade for breakfast with a chaser of decaf instant coffee and some panadol extra because I'm not perfect OK guys

Home made bread with marmalade in a sunbeam radiating citrus vibes

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 8d

I love being a doctor, just sharing heatless curl ideas for under scrub caps with my sister (4th year med student on surgery rotation) so our hair looks pretty after work 😄 probably just to doom scroll and yap hahaha

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 11d

Ugh Aotearoa these dudes are literally so embarrassing 😬😬

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 16d

The New Zealand government’s underfunding of healthcare is killing people everyday & Doctors are saying it everyday and being largely ignored. Privatisation will make this situation worse. #nzpol

Christchurch ED doctor Dominic Fleischer told News patients were dying because of substandard care, and the situation was hurting staff and those they were treating.
"Patients are dying now really because of substandard care. Patients dying in the waiting room and corridors or who leave and literally drop dead in the car park. So that's all happened. That's atrocious care at some stage and it hurts the staff when things like that happen.

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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 16d

NZNO warns Māori nurses at iwi health providers face pay gaps of up to 25%, with many leaving for Te Whatu Ora or overseas amid poor government support.

NZNO calls for stronger support to retain Māori nurses

NZNO warns Māori nurses at iwi health providers face pay gaps of up to 25%, with many leaving for Te Whatu Ora or overseas amid poor government support.

www.teaonews.co.nz

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 16d

👀 not hyperbole.

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 16d

I am 100% behind nurses and hospitals getting funded more, but what everyone is suffering through now is what we Māori have suffered through since the beginning because of medical racism. This is why the Māori health authority is needed.

Austerity is colonialism turned inward. #nzpol

A two-panel meme featuring Edd from the cartoon Ed, Edd n Eddy. In the first panel, the character holds up a large red book titled “FACTS.” In the second panel, the character smiles smugly while pointing to a page in the book. The page reads: “THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS THAT EVERYONE IS SUFFERING THROUGH UNDER NACT — WHERE PEOPLE ARE TURNED AWAY AND DYING IS WHAT MĀORI EXPERIENCE GOING THROUGH WITH THE HEALTH SYSTEM IN GENERAL, AND THAT’S WHY MĀORI LIFE EXPECTANCY IS SO LOW.”

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 16d

Palestinian Bedouin Women with deq and Māori Women with moko kauae. (Both are cultural facial markings) #nzpol #Palestine #Māori #newzealand

A collage of four elderly women with traditional facial tattoos. The woman in the top left and the woman in the bottom right are Māori, wearing moko kauae — chin tattoos signifying identity and heritage. The woman in the top right and the woman in the bottom left are Palestinian Bedouin, wearing deq tattoos — traditional dot and line markings on the chin and cheeks. The women wear dark clothing or headscarves, and their deeply lined faces reflect age and resilience. The photos, in both black-and-white and color, highlight the cultural significance of these markings across two different Indigenous traditions

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 17d

Rather than pretend $20m is going to make any difference (it represents 0.06% of health funding), the Minister could recognise the government underfunded health to begin with. He could pay nurses and doctors properly - rather than fight them.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 16d

Finally, doctors and nurses NEVER want to strike. That is the opposite of their thing. Everything in our clinics and hospitals is oriented around patient care and patient wellbeing. All of it. Those strategy things you get in corporates? Imagine if your strategy is "best care for human beings".

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 20d

The thing about taniwha is that they are kaitiaki (guardians) and serve to communicate ancestral knowledge about hidden dangers. To ignore them is to ignore advice of those who have been there, done that and suffered the consequences. Silly to look all that in the eye and go against it anyway.

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 20d

New research overrides the Government’s insistence that nursing shifts are safely staffed, suggesting thousands more hires are needed. My analysis:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/18/s...

Simeon Brown looks the taniwha in the eye without blinking – yet

Analysis: New research overrides the Government's insistence that nursing shifts are safely staffed, suggesting thousands more hires are needed.

newsroom.co.nz

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 21d

I'm big mad about the media coverage of the citizenship pathways for tangata whenua born overseas story not asking the Green Party who ARE THE PARTY THAT HAVE AN ACTUAL, SPECIFIC POLICY ABOUT THIS.

www.greens.org.nz/overseas_new...

Overseas New Zealanders Policy

This policy covers: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Aotearoa New Zealand Diaspora; Services, Support and Human Rights; Meaningful Connections; and Participation in Society.

www.greens.org.nz

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 22d

You're not *feeling* poorer.
You ARE poorer.

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 22d

#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-...

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

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 22d

1. Fluffy blankets
2. Purring cat on your knee
3. Cup of tea and a piece of chocolate
4. Waking up and lying in bed for a bit because you have nowhere to rush off to
5. Eating dinner when it cools down after a long day swimming and being in the sun

Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 22d

battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life:

1. a child's giggles

2. a book so good you can't put it down

3. enjoying a night out with friends

4. lying in bed during a rainstorm

5. the joy on someone's face after you give them a compliment or do something nice for them

Scissors @rningscissors.bsky.social · 22d

battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life:

1. if someone’s cold, wrapping them in a blanket right out of the dryer or warmer.

2. the ‘feel’ of live music

3. watching animals & babies problem-solve

4. uncontrollable laughter w/ a friend

5. secretly witnessing a ‘good deed’

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · 29d

What

Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · Sep 8

WTAF

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 8

Breaking News: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity.

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Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 6

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...
No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · Sep 7

You guys are saints tbh. You have to do it even if you don't want to! Purely because there's literally nobody else to do it 🫩

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · Sep 7

Happy fathers day 😆

Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Apr 19

ceej
@ceej.online
it's so fucking funny to see your buddies living happily in healthy relationships. "I'm just sending a photo of this flower to my wife" Imao dawg I saw you puke into the open window of an unattended cop car in 2009 and now you're a wonderful father
September 28, 2024 at 12:09 AM

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Dr Brooke Tohiariki @btohiariki.bsky.social · Sep 7

So much wrong 🤦‍♀️

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