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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 11h

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 11h

This speech is both 🔥 and also so incredibly kind 😭

I would like to personally thank @misswhanau.bsky.social for the water funding. Literally a difference you can see with your own eyeballs. ❤️

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent outgoing speech from Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau. 🫶👏

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

‘Members around this table feeding defamatory rumour': Tory Whanau signs off, and hits out

Critics, colleagues and bullies: no one spared in Wellington mayor Tory Whanau’s parting shot.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 12h

With my green queens

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 13h

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 18h

‘Members around this table feeding defamatory rumour': Tory Whanau hits out in final council speech
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

‘Members around this table feeding defamatory rumour': Tory Whanau signs off, and hits out

Critics, colleagues and bullies: no one spared in Wellington mayor Tory Whanau’s parting shot.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social · 19h

🚫 DON'T DO THIS 🛑

Yesterday was your last day to vote via post! If you still haven't voted you need to drop off your papers into an orange bin instead.

Voting closes midday on Saturday!

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 21h

I am a simple man. I want all the progressive women politicians that the Aotearoa press and establishment have tried to destroy to have their revenge. I want to hear the lamenting as they are driven forward.

Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 22h

FUCKING DRAG THEM!

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 21h

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 22h

My final kōrero ❤️

If you’d like to watch in person come to Council by 9.30am.

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608... (paywalled)

Tory Whanau plans blistering farewell speech

The media, colleagues and predecessors will be in the firing line when the Wellington mayor delivers a no-holds-barred valedictory.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1d

Just to clarify my position. Ryan Bridges must be sacked.

"here's a chick who..."

A fucking woman you Hosking wannabe amateur misogynist hack.

The whole interview was a disgrace, but even teenagers know this isn't how you speak these days if you want to be respected.

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 1d

So when we talk about “lack of diversity” in local elections, we’re (arguably) really seeing the offline consequences of online hostility.
Safer digital spaces are about the health of our democracy just as much as they are about eliminating the social attitudes that drive abuse (eg misogyny)

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

Important point by Pearse in the Herald here - identifying that NZF et al don't REALLY care about what happened except as something to be weaponised. Would be great if a few more in the media/pol class were able to reflect on this BEFORE they spent the last 2 days escalating in their own right

text from nz herald article

"But although Peters condemned the attack on his house as a “disgrace”, he was quite happy to taunt Swarbrick as “crowbar Chlöe”. Shane Jones, vocal even by his standards in defence of his leader, freely bellowed: “Where’s the crowbar?”
Either it’s a serious attack that threatened a politician’s family and crossed a line, or it’s something to tease your political opponent with. It shouldn’t be both."

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 1d

Yes it’ll be on our usual YouTube link which will be available on the WCC website tomorrow

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 1d

a woman is smiling and saying yesssss !!! in a bedroom .

ALT: a woman is smiling and saying yesssss !!! in a bedroom .

media.tenor.com

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 1d

If you’d like to hear my final council speech (with some sass), feel free to come to council tomorrow morning. DM for more details.

Final council speech
Image of Tory whanau
Wed 8 Oct
10am

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 1d

And dont even get me started on the unhinged level of abuse that Bejamin Doyle from the Greens faced - and that NZF and Winston were complicit in. Where was the public outcry by NACT then?

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when a protester punched the co-leader of the Greens in the face.

Hana Maipi-Clarke had her home broken into by a political stalker.

I recall VFF protesting outside Clarke's parents' home while Jacinda was on holiday.

I dont remember hearing about National's concerns back then??

Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 1d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this bullshit from NZ First and the kind of comments it incites!
#nzpol

Meme from NZ First. Suggesting Chlöe encourages smashing windows and causing harm to winston's dog.

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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent cartoon by fellow Listener cartoonist Anthony Ellison #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Anthony Ellison’s Cartoon of the Week

Anthony Ellison shares his take on the week in politics.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

RNZ almost never publishes "political opinions" but today they & Stuff/The Post published one defending Nicola Willis's handling of the economy.

The author is Dennis Wesselbaum - from lobby group NZ Initiative, where Luxon/Willis reportedly get economic policies from

RNZ is shot #nzpol #kiwi

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 2d

Unemployment has increased by 50,000 since he’s been Prime Minister. That’s 50,000 families affected.

Luxon is just giving up his responsibility as Prime Minister for his citizens - to look tough against people who are trying their best.

Where are the jobs?

David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 3d

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

'The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 2d

I have been back at The Spinoff for a while and once again I am doing very well thank you thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Hello, are you in the hospital? OK you are using government. But did you do a poo in the hospital toilet? That’s pipes. Council. Did you get driven to the hospital on a road? Probably council unless it was a motorway straight to the hospital door. Are you in school? Fine that’s government. But did you use a pedestrian crossing to get to school? Council. Did you go on a bus? Again, council.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 2d

'So many of your daily problems are caused by council. They get away with it because everyone thinks they’re boring and irrelevant.'

Vote!

@haydendonnell.bsky.social

City is made of council

Please vote. I do not know how else to say this.

thespinoff.co.nz

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JJW @jjw.wtf · 3d

Some quotes from New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon:

• “The world doesn’t owe you a living”
• “I'm wealthy, I'm ‒ you know ‒ sorted.”
• “just make a marmite sandwich”
• “I don’t care.” (said multiple times since becoming PM)

Guy is a stone cold psycho.

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 3d

"The world doesn't owe you a living"

One of those phrases that rolls off the tongue of, yes, monsters.

Think about that phrase for more than a few seconds.

The world doesn't owe you 'being alive'.

And sure, you can say 'that's not what he means!'

But it is what he says.

David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 3d

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

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