gretayeoman.bsky.social
Journalist with Capital Letter and occasional filmmaker.
Pākehā. 🌈
May post about penguins, music, public transport and politics. Wellington, NZ.
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It’s really interesting to look at the UK, because the anger at the Tories is still there for a lot of people who lost loved ones. Whereas (for most in NZ) we didn’t have that (thank god) but it was still a big thing w/out something to blame so people didn’t really know what to do with the emotion.
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Friend Al had his order come out as ‘L’
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Jeez, I didn’t realise until now how many Murchison-named things there are in the world! 😬
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It’s actually gross they’re going after private/overseas providers. Like, you’ve already made it hard enough for people to access anything through the public system, just give people choice with private systems. If you’re REALLY going to make that many hoops, it’s not really about caution is it?
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There’s many reasons why people apply for benefits. Being young shouldn’t be a reason why one is denied.
If you wouldn’t apply the test to someone in their 30s (rightfully so) then it’s ridiculous to think just because teens are or could be in the family home, they shouldn’t be able to apply.
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Fuck. This is what Winston signalled all along.
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Yeah, I’m kind of hoping it gets enough cross party support to just get shifted out of the tin entirely. But they haven’t seemed to make a deal out of it, which makes me worry it might just sit there.
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They send a tonne of media releases/post them on their website. There’s plenty to critique FSU for, but not mentioning it on Twitter isn’t one. They’ve posted about it elsewhere.
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If I can jump in as a butch lesbo, I recommend collared shirts of different colours and patterns because they can add so much personality with just one shirt and you can wear them on any occasion.
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I really want to know what pushed into running for ACT after she lost her seat with National. Her work under the Nats was all focused on science and health (she’s got a PhD in neuroscience), and now she’s just been race-baiting on behalf of ACT.
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I caught the Hot Fuzz reference 😂
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This. They’re also seemingly quietly aligning with peeps wanting to social media ban for under 16. I’d presumed National had introduced its a members bill as non-govt policy because ACT wouldn’t support such a thing… and yet Seymour appeared at B416’s launch 🤷🏻♀️
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Yeah, and on the last point, they’ve pushed to say that they’re not punishing them for not appearing before the committee. It’s SO inconsistent. I just love the fact they included Peeni Henare in the Privileges referral at all as it shows the inconsistencies even more starkly.
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Ruby Solly is multi-disciplinary, there’s also the Alien Weaponry boys, Stan Walker is still making great songs, there’s the late great Mahinarangi Tocker and the powerhouse of TV and song that is Moana Maniapoto. But Tautoko Marlon, he’s such a lovely human.
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Ooft… I mean there’s so many great Māori artists… I love Troy Kingi’s genre-spanning multi-album project as it’s introducing his brilliance to fans of different genres, Anna Coddington’s been killing it even while dealing with long covid and putting herself through law school. THEIA is also cool.
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This is really bad form from them, yet again. I’m trying to remember, they closed it last year when they were doing something else “contentious” too… was it when the Treaty principles bill was first supposed to be introduced?
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Also honourable mention to Lily. Apparently I align with a lot of blokes from other random TV shows but I had no idea who any of them were except lovely Neo.
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Weird. I fully saw it as a commentary piece with room for a bit of opinion in the mix from someone experienced in matters. It’s fully labelled as such. No one was confused as to what this was. It was factual commentary.
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Like are we REALLY going to believe ACT just sat there and said “yeah mate, keep funding it, that’s totally fine, we’ve been critical of all other extra spending but we’ve got no problem with the rebate now”.
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Which is ironic given how much National pretends it also doesn’t like the rebate. But unless Seymour can show that ACT either suddenly changed its position or pulled its “agree to disagree, coalition buddy” card over it, one has to assume Willis is right, given ACT has opposed the rebate for years.
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It is brilliant, but one point was incorrect: Peeni Henare didn’t stay in his seat.
He apologised for “breaking the rule of stepping away from my seat and onto the floor”.
He just didn’t cross to the ACT desks w TPM.
It’s an extra inconsistency between the penalties, as all four were on the floor.
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Thought being an ex-MP might have given him some insight, but it probably actually makes one worse at weighing in on things from opposition, now I think about it more.
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Oh how we wish we could get immediate responses to the questions but we journos don’t live in a perfect world either, nor do the comms people often requesting things of govt depts.
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I absolutely understand the need for critique, but yes, this is a frustration - especially when you have to publish x knowing that y will contain more details, if people actually respond to your questions.
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This is the proper way cities should be confirmed, instead of their current process of “are they important enough to individually appear on the TV weather report?”
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Yeah it feels really infantilising of the current council. He should know better. I’m all for people will experience on councils, but stay out of decision-making til you get to make decisions.
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Also it’s cute that ACT releases press releases pretty much every time their MPs sneeze, but complain if groups meeting with their MPs - in MINISTERIAL ROLES - for the first time in 18 months comment on the meeting. Given the changes the govt is making to workers’ rights, CTU is more than justified.
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Mainsplain away, he probably won’t listen to any women anyway :D
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Advertising negatively off “a communist bastion” sounds like how the Sensible Sentencing Trust thought it’s anti-Green ad campaign would go (not realising it’s been a smash hit with leftists).
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I miss the co-op.
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Have you ever seen the film of the 50s housewife on LSD(? I think) long before much was known about it (and therefore there weren’t the negative judgments or hangups) and she just describes the beauty of everything.
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Sure, one can technically claim stopping pay equity claims mid-bargaining isn’t a pay cut…
BUT many working women waiting for settled claims probably didn’t get pay rises during bargaining and now won’t if the whole thing has to restart, so it WILL feel like a pay cut.
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Yeah the lineup of their about page was interesting given many of their “donors” were also many individuals or “foundations” of those on the campaign. The only outliers were the CEO of Outward Bound and a paediatrician.