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So I pay checks notes $1 more a week in income tax And in return I get fully funded health and education services? Fuck me where do I sign up for this shit?

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Said with care, local government isn’t central government in miniature. It’s got its own rules, rhythms, and tikanga. If you’re a prospective mayor, best get familiar. X You’re not in Kansas now, Toto: it swings between consensus, conflict, collaboration, and consultation, daily; not command.

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Andrew Little can disagree with Wellington City Council's Golden Mile project all he likes, but he's wrong in claiming there's something not "ethically correct" about the current council signing contracts for a project that they've consulted and voted on. localaotearoa.substack.com/p/andrew-lit...

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I couldn't agree more: "You do have to marvel at a political class and media ecosystem that reacts more viscerally to a four-letter word than to the actual structural inequality " www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Cuba St is packed with lines out the door of some restaurants. People want to be here because of its vibe, parklets and diversity. Courtenay Place can be the same but ONLY with the GM project proceeding. As it stands it will continue withering away. #nzpol

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

WOW! MUST READ PIECE. Devastating analysis here from Phil Smith. He pretty much implies the execrable J Collins is a vindictive racist. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I finally bought tickets to Japan last night (last night of a sale) & was getting hyped, but turns out the dates I chose mean I'd miss a friend's wedding 👎

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I see Bluesky’s favourite NZ cartoonist won the Big Voyager’s Gong again last night (is this the fourth time @domesticanimal.bsky.social?) Brilliant news

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This powerful billboard was spotted in London 🇵🇸 It all started in 1948 💔, not October 7” A reminder to the world: the Nakba never ended. #Nakba77 #FreePalestine

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oh shit it’s time to TAP THE FUCKING SIGN AGAIN

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So so dangerous.... #nzpol

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

NZ Greens plan is not so different.. 0-$10k - 0% ~ $120k - 39% $180k - 45% #nzpol

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Brownlee calls white privilege commitee recommendations "very severe and unprecedented in this parliament"; says using a narrow majority to deprive members of a minority party of their votes and speaking rights is unfair! #nzqt

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

we all threw in like $10 in flowers and are having a little bouquet making party. recommend.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Tautoko @tepaatimaori.bsky.social whanau 🖤❤️🤍 ✊

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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

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The #UKgov have mistakenly decided that performative cruelty and isolationism is what voters want: Diehard Reform voters definitely want that rhetoric - but they will never vote for Labour anyway. The truly sad outcome is that loyal and longtime Labour supporters are sickened by it all.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

HLB told us - stupid milkloving piece of shit dumbass mean spirited sale at briscoes racist sexist 40% off deck furniture piss country

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Pleased to say all my ID is officially in my proper name 🎉🥂 ...took me a month shy of 4 years 😅

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The Guardian editorial board finally admits that there is genocide happening in occupied Palestine. "Now it plans a Gaza without Palestinians. What is this, if not genocidal? When will the US and its allies act to stop the horror, if not now?"

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Great news! One sector is getting pay rises in Aotearoa. The headline from Newsroom says it all. #nzpol

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Ironically enough, the sexism inherent in the symbolism here is a strong argument for pay equity legislation #nzpol www.facebook.com/share/p/1FwA...

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Women of Aotearoa rolling our eyes as we are mansplained at by a walking sausage

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"Quick maths" with 💚 NZ Greens co-leader, Chlöe Swarbrick on 11 May 2025. "The Government's gifts to landlords have been offset by record numbers of New Zealanders leaving the country… That's not a sustainable calculation." #nzpol @maramadavidson.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"Turns out you can have it all. So long as you’re prepared to be a c... to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet" An absolute caning from Vance

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“This legislation will perpetuate pay inequity, which will weaken our economy & harm our society. Underpaying 1/2 the workforce results in growing economic inequality.If that is not perceived as a problem in principle,it is a problem in terms of the economy’s & our society’s overall health.” #nzpol

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Pay equity betrayal captured with devastating brilliance.. Steve Braunias “Brooke van Velden Correct. The glass ceiling is now out of reach for thousands of women who were considering making pay equity claims. Nicola Willis So no smashing. No broken glass or cut fingers. No more mess.” #nzpol

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

For women, there's always one more barrier. After YEARS, there was finally acknowledgement that yes, we were being underpaid but we were told that if we just went through the right motions and showed enough evidence, it would be sorted. Now that's all been scrapped. I'm beyond enraged #nzpol

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Who’d have thought that the largest donors of this coalition govt would be so adept at white collar criminality like fraud. I guess the billions in tax breaks especially for them just wasn’t enough. #OneTermGovernment #nzpol #TaxWealthMore #TaxWorkLess #Aotearoa #NZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

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I just thought of the best response to the question I was asked at the Exec meeting 2 weeks ago 🙃

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Good read. “How can a pay equity process that requires years of investigation before a claim even reaches the tribunal be characterised as “too loose”? Women’s right to pay equity..has been ruthlessly discarded for sake of balancing a budget…”. Good comments follow this article 👆🏽 #nzpol

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

#NZpol If you can get along in person, GREAT. If not, write to the Govt MP for your area, so they can't ignore this. (And I would say write to your Oppo MP as well, requesting what can / will be done as their response - now, and when this lot are kicked out...). Preferably... do all 3.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Lgbtq suicide and mental health crisis hotline.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Only 75 of 23,000 submissions supported the Regulatory Standards Bill. That will not stop Seymour. #nzpol

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

The government are absolute shit-heads for passing this under urgency… they knew how unpopular it would be. Just another notch in my belt for campaigning next year, does the average NZ women realise what an attack this is on them? #nzpol

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I think people in NZ need to come to terms with how far along this pipeline we are with the current govt and its corporate cronies and fellow travellers. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Emailed the ministers in charge of doing fucking nothing about Gaza like giving them emergency visas or a fucking boat with food on it, to ask whether at this stage - after all the direct announcements from Israeli ministers, murder & kids starving to death - do they endorse Israel's position?

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