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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 1m

Was the bill just to remove the ban on advertising on holidays & Sunday mornings?

Doesn't say a lot for Goldsmith that he couldn't get the votes organised although I guess he's got form in failing to get enough votes in Epsom.

Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 9m

Wasn't Antondecius some kind of Roman historian?

Yep, do know them.

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 19m

I'd not seen any until Point Blank. After that got another 3 - Vampire's Kiss, Withnail & Zed and Two Noughts.

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 26m

Plenty of kiwifruit picking in Te Puke.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 5h

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 3h

WTF?

www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 5h

Andrew Hoggard says he will allow cancer-linked glyphosate to be increased by 100 x in our food production.

He's also ignored a High Court order telling farmers to remove cruel farming practices around pigs - extending the 2025 due date out by 10 years. This is ACT #nzpol #kiwi

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 5h

The comments are pretty brutal - seems like the tide is going out on the CoCs

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 6h

"Edwards’ completed research was listed as mostly opinion columns" hahaha

Money-trail aside, Bryce just ain't a real academic. He doesn't seem capable of normal qual research, let alone have the methodological chops to deliver a 'Political Integrity Index'. Clearly, he just couldn't do the work.

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The mysterious unravelling of a high-profile transparency project

Key donor silent as the Integrity Institute deregisters and its lobbying register disappears.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

We'll see a big media beat up about $5k extra spent on a portrait, or a council xmas party

Nothing on a billion dollars wasted on no ferries

#nzpol

Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 6h

I mean its a great portrait of @misswhanau.bsky.social but if they were supposed to do photography instead that is an error..

Really its a rounding error in a council budget as a photograph would have cost $2k or something anyhow

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 7h

"The Government’s policy change to make many 18- and 19-year-olds ineligible for the Jobseeker benefit will go a significant way to helping it meet its target of reducing the number of people on Jobseeker by 50,000."

Stalin: "Death solves all problems, no man, no problem."

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 8h

My analysis: The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/g...

Govt to meet 9% of Jobseeker target by taking teens off benefit

The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.

newsroom.co.nz

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 9h

On Morning Report yesterday he slated the policy but then waffled around when asked if he'd rescind it. 'We'll look at the policy to see if it needs changing blah blah'.

Really poor.

Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 9h

Surely it can't be when backed by the vastly competent Brooke Van Velden.

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 10h

Full article - currently paywallled

Van Velden can see end of the road for cone hotline

Reports halved each month with just one in five resulting in action, as the minister says councils proved to be the culprit

newsroom.co.nz

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 10h

Now this is going to come as a shock but it seems that the Cones Hotline is a complete waste of time and money.

A graph from Newsroom showing Van Veldens Cones Hotline is a waste of money.

Data shows Wellington City Council's cone report outcomes -
Sites found to be in order 54
Closed with no action 35
Out of scope 22
Contractor advised to move cones 5
Council moved cones

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 10h

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 10h

Honestly assume anything Bryce says to be incorrect.

Also 'Left-wing pundit Edwards'. Lol.

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CuriousCat @felissapien.bsky.social · 11h

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. The public does not know what New Zealand military staff are discussing in secret meetings. Until now….

#nzpol

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

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Cathrin Machin Space Art @cathrinmachin.bsky.social · 13h

Can you help?… I’m trying to find my people

I know there’s more space fans here… just not sure how to reach you

Feels weird to ask, but would you give me a signal boost by hitting share?

If you’re new… Hi I’m Cat, I make pretty picture of space 🥹 let’s connect if you like weird space art

Woman standing next to large artwork on an easel. The painting is of a wormhole with gravitational lensing that shows stars and galaxies are warped around a central point.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight