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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: when you have Long Covid but can’t work you have to go on the Jobseeker benefit because GPs can’t say whether you’ll still have Long Covid in two years - so teens with chronic conditions are now conceivably navigating absolutely debilitating symptoms while also getting zero govt support 👍🫠

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 19h

Perhaps a journalist could do a little deep dive into the NZ Salmon industry. Not everyone is aware, but the slight increase in water temperature has already fucked the industry real hard. Currently attempting to relocate everywhere because existing salmon farms are no longer viable.
#nzpol

PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 1d

PERFECTLY NORMAL

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 1d

“Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.”

Great we’ve just confirmed that any NZ teenagers with chronic conditions trying to access government support are out of luck 🫠

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 2d

When they signalled this in the budget we @dpanz.bsky.social raised concern because of the dangerous & detrimental position this also puts disabled, queer, and young adults experiencing abuse in.

Absolutely wild that young *adults* are now forced to be financially tied to parents at 18 & 19yo.

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 4d

#nzpol The government has announced that 18/19 year olds, who live in a household where the parents earn $65,529 or more, can't claim jobseekers support. If both parents work 27 hours on the minimum wage - $634 a week - they will be expected to now financially support their adult offspring. A 🧵

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Biden said without Israel, Jewish people wouldn't be safe.
Israeli officials just dragged an American Jewish man to his knees, made him take a photo op with the Israeli flag, and yelled in his face and called him a terrorist

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict

Orly Nor

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 2d

I actually agree that MPs should feel safe in their homes*. Benjamin should feel safe in their home. They should feel like their child is safe. Hana should feel safe in her home. Winston *directly caused* AND downplayed the harm those two people faced. It's the hypocrisy for me.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 4d

OECD comparison of changes in unemployment relative to 2019 average. Second image shows all oecd countries. I remain baffled by the media not asking the obvious questions here: 'How have we fked up so badly? Who is accountable?'

Image shows NZ unemployment climbing relative to other countries and groups of countries.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 4d

4300 teens will be thrown off jobseekers as youth jobs disappear across the country.

More stress, more homelessness, more domestic violence, more poverty, more crime, more prisoners, more profit for PPPs - National Party's back on track is right on track #nzpol

David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 4d

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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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so hung up on Christopher Luxon saying "oh well the government has advised people not to go to Gaza for many years" as though Rana, Youssef and Samuel were on an ill-advised ski trip and not, you know, deliberately engaged in humanitarian efforts to deliver aid to victims of genocide

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Mojo Mathers 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @mojomathers.bsky.social · 4d

Not surprised but awful all the same.

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian. According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 5d

So Collins wants New Zealand to become an international arms dealer.
My kiwisaver fund explicitly excludes weapons because they're incompatible with ethical fund management, but here's Judith Collins gleefully announcing our entry into this appalling trade. WT actual F.
#nzpol

Government unveils strategy for the defence industry

The plan will lift New Zealand's defence spending to more than 2 percent in the next eight years with the Defence Minister seeking to have New Zealand develop weapons for export.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 5d

Wright Family Foundation receives over $300 million of taxpayers' funding & posts $41.6 million op. profit. The business was converted to a "charity" & pays no tax.
The Wright Family bankrolled Sean Plunkett & The Platform, which regularly attacks govt 'handouts' #nzpol
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Rich-lister controlled charity posts surplus after Govt funding boost to its childcare centres

BestStart is the largest operator in the early childhood sector, with over 260 centres.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

The racists in the UK are not the ones attending pro-Palestine marches this weekend.

The racists in the UK are the ones saying that you shouldn’t protest 53 Palestinians being murdered because two Jewish people were also murdered on the same day.

Some of us can condemn both.

At least 53 Palestinians killed in fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza

Military offensive stepped up as Hamas leaders consider Trump’s 20-point peace plan

www.theguardian.com

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 6d

Ben Gvir, Israeli Knesset Member who has several convictions for terrorism, demeaning himself in front of the activists from the flotilla by ranting and calling them terrorists

#NZPol

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 6d

Disabled Māori face higher rates of hardship, poor health, and exclusion. Huhana Hickey calls it what it is: poverty by design.

‘Poverty in Aotearoa is not accidental’: How our systems deliberately keep people poor

All of this is avoidable – so how do we fix what's broken?

thespinoff.co.nz

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 6d

LIVE: Livestream from cameras of the Marinette as the last remaining boat of Global Sumud Flotilla continues to sail towards Gaza

Watch live with us, The Resistance continues with all force 👇

Global Sumud Flotilla LIVE: Boat sails toward Gaza carrying aid

YouTube video by Associated Press

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ValK 🐚 #InactionDirecte @valkphotos.bsky.social · 6d

Et soudain surgit droit au vent ... ⛵

Et vous , vous êtes plutôt Marine ou #Marinette 🥹

Incroyable, ces navigateurices qui ont réussi à faire des pirouettes et des silences et des sur-communication sur l'autre flotille pour que PAF, au milieu de la nuit !
#GolbalSumudFlotilla #BreakTheSiege

LIVESTREAM OF MARINETTE: STILL SAILING TO GAZA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 6d

Will Alexander nterviewing a fellow passenger on board the Conscience on its way to Gaza in a flotilla of 8 vessels

#NZPol

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 7d

Nice democracy you got here. But don't worry, we're only planning to disenfranchise an entire electorate's worth of people

This time www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Government explored ban on people voting outside their electorate

The justice minister had said it was “worth exploring” requiring people to be in their electorate to vote, one of the ideas for cutting down on the number of special votes.

www.thepost.co.nz

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 7d

What do you call a deputy PM who wants all legislation run through his hand-picked ministry, wants to remove regulations, and doesn’t even follow normal democratic processes? #nzpol

henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 7d

Officials drafting Government policy say more than half of the time they are being "constrained" from following a normal policy process.

New story from me in The Post:

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Most Government policies skip normal process

Officials are increasingly complaining about constraints when preparing new laws or policies, with time pressures the most common issue.

www.thepost.co.nz

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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 7d

Officials drafting Government policy say more than half of the time they are being "constrained" from following a normal policy process.

New story from me in The Post:

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Most Government policies skip normal process

Officials are increasingly complaining about constraints when preparing new laws or policies, with time pressures the most common issue.

www.thepost.co.nz

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