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Public Service Association @nzpsa.bsky.social · 14h

📢 1,700 Policy, Advisory, Knowledge and Specialist health workers have voted to join strike action on 23 October. The strike follows the failure of Health NZ Te Whatu Ora to provide an offer during bargaining that fairly reflects their value to the public health system.

A graphic tile that says Breaking news 17,00 Policy, Advisory, Knowledge & Specialist health workers to strike on Thursday October 23. The Stand Together For Health and PSA logos are in the corners.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 19h

Half a base rate interest rate cut today won't revive the dead cat.What it may do instead is give the wrong signal that the new Reserve Bank people are just rubber stamps for Willis and Co.Which will not inspire markets.

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Salty Sea Hag @kasiazoe.bsky.social · 22h

I didn't even eat any Girl Scouts or their cookies and yet here I am, a repeat offender Lesbian who endorses contraception, abortion and gender affirming medicine. Those cookies must be powerful.

Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 1d

Yay for Girl Scout cookies!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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JessTerraformEarth 🌏 💚 🌈 💧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇳🇿 @jessterraformearth.bsky.social · 1d

"This is the worst we've seen in New Zealand since 2005."
…She said there was more downturn in the demand for labour than during the global financial crisis.'

Thanks Luxon! #nzpol

bill @wiremu.bsky.social · 1d

this why peters willis luxon et al are relentlessly attempting to distract rn

The 'longest, deepest, slowest' job market - recruitment agency

The prime minister claims jobs for young people are still out there, but one of NZ's largest recruitment agencies says the employment market is the tightest it has been in decades.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 1d

Don't hold with breaking people's windows but oh how the hapless Government have battened onto it like a lifesaver for the drowning.
Still gonna drown electorally.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 3d

I hear you.All my kids are neurodiverse. We were able to find workrounds for them which was able to unlock their futures for them but I'm well aware that takes time, money and patience.Our culture wastes so much talent.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 3d

If there's any strategic thinking here at all this is an inept poaching foray into the ACTlands.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sure it did.And most of the attendant dangers that go with it.Given the blistering financial pressure many families are under now this axing of the benefit's going create a truckload of woe.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 3d

Yep.I made my first break at 14, got bullied back and was away soon after the end of high school.Back and forth but the power and control chord was well cut by then.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 3d

Dyslexia aside one of the reasons I was a wild child was the old man combined two war PTSD with his brain damage from boxing making him dangerously violent at times.Leaving home was a first step toward self care.There was a safety net then.Now?

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 3d

Being old and un sorted's hard enough but imagine being a jobless late teen under this Coalition of Cruelty.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 3d

Time to rebrand Nicola No Boats as Nicola No Clues.Politically the time for full on austerity was day one.Too late. The time for full on Keynesian big spends was also day one.Also too late .

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 3d

#nzpol 20 Economists have penned an open letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance - asking for change. The contents and signatories to the letter are at: craigrenney.substack.com/p/open-lette...

Open Letter to Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

Our current economic approach is causing real harm. We need to change track

craigrenney.substack.com

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 4d

#nzpol
Mustn't forget forget all of the sorry but over qualifieds and the made redundants either.

This awful CoC-up government has to stop trying to gaslight the very people they have made unemployed due to government fiscal mismanagement.

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 4d

Biggest 6 month rise in youth (15-19) unemployment this millennia,
Q3 2023 - Q1 2024 + 6.9% (28400 unemployed to 42100).
Biggest Annual 2008-2009 (+6.8%, 26200 to 35200 unemployed), 2nd biggest annual 2023-2024 (+5.4%, 30500 to 38800 unemployed).
This is not caused by youths playing video games.

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 5d

It is offensive for the person supposedly in charge of the government and its economic levers to suggest that youths, and their playstationing ways, are responsible for the most rapid surge in unemployment since the Great Financial Crash

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 4d

Or "Hyacinth's kicked the Bucket"

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah.Given I lived through addiction and most didn't I now exactly what you mean.I did a poem about it -"I am the keeper of the bones",which traverses similar territory.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 4d

That would be rough.

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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 5d

Sooo... you know how Luxon said young people should get off the couch and get a job, and business people in Rotorua clapped? Below is a graph of the Rotorua labour market. This is NOT a get-off-the-couch problem.
Thanks to @musicalchairs.bsky.social for doing this.

#nzpol

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 5d

voila

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 5d

On my birthday
I miss my mum
even although as
dementia bit
it went from card, envelope
and cash
to envelope and card
to an envelope
and then
to nothing.

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 5d

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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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure they knew spuds were vegetables.They had the Irish gene affinity for them, happily not raw.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Kārikiōrangi @sharonm.bsky.social · 6d

@realgregjack.bsky.social busy

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 5d

It broke the back of the Haitian economy, the reparations, which I believe followed on from years of isolation.Haitians struck me as an incredibly entrepeneurial people.