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All adult New Zealanders need to be aware of the intentions of the Regulatory Standards Bill. If this concerns you about the future for you, your children & grandchildren please make a submission by 13 January 2025. x.com/McDonaldGine...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

This is bullshit and the police should be ashamed of themselves. "Gang insignia" has an actual meaning in law, and I think it seems very unlikely this logo meets that definition.

submitted 58 days ago • 17 comments

#BHN Economist at the CTU, Craig Renney, on why #meangirl Nicola Willis has banned him from next week's HYEFU #nzpol @chewienz.bsky.social youtu.be/3HgFyK-XUag?...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not ashamed to say my clothes are worn out and I need new clothes. I'm not ashamed to say we need sanitary pads. I'm not ashamed to say my kids don't have winter clothes. How can we tolerate without your support?? www.paypal.me/Hijazi562

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

This thread is 💯 correct. The world failed Syria, but liberals & leftists especially failed Syria. And the world is poised to fail the Syrian people again. Because a thriving Syria would reveal the lie at the bottom of it all: all the major Middle East stakeholders need Arab democracy to fail.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

14 months of genocide by Israel and Palestinians in Gaza are still having to extract the body of children from under the rubble The video is obviously graphic so I’m linking it here without uploading it www.instagram.com/reel/DDhe6Lg...

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

“Gaza, in our day of happiness we haven’t forgotten you” - Damascus today

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

#BHN If National promised no new taxes, is their increase of ACC fees a broken promise? Is paying a tax or levy at a higher rate a new tax? #nzpol @chewienz.bsky.social youtu.be/aWxDBSElCQU

submitted 71 days ago • 8 comments

Do you want to know what a loss of hope looks like? This is the percentage increase in the number of people migrating away from NZ since the election. The 131,100 migrant departures in the October 2024 year are, provisionally, the highest on record for an annual period

submitted 72 days ago • 13 comments

Imagine living in a tent and rainwater entering it in this cold weather. And you see your kids feeling cold 💔 You are powerless to protect your children. You see them shaking from the cold. They feel hungry. They ask you for food and biscuits 🥲🥲💔💔 www.paypal.me/Hijazi562 gofund.me/4afe7094

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

If NZ Gov't was serious about shaking up Banking in Aotearoa NZ, 1st step should be to end its service deal with Australian bank, Westpac, and move accounts to a #NZBank! That's a lot of money that could be invested with #KiwiBank or Cooperative Bank NZ #NZpol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westpac...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Dame Patsy Reddy’s appointment as NZ Climate Commissioner is really quite inspired. We need many skills in climate commissioner- under Rod Carr we had economics which really mattered. Reddy is someone who can potentially unite NZ around climate in tough times www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

You get your own vanity ministry and throw millions of dollars at salaries. But the people you employed disagree with you, so you turn around and attack them as "the bureaucracy". Embarrassing. www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 76 days ago • 17 comments

Bernard Hickey is making his excellent subscription newsletter The Kaka free to read for all til Dec 21 and offering great deals. As our news landscape shrinks Bernard is filling in gaps and providing analysis on our economy, housing climate and poverty. #NZPol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

The government's going to let us know by Wednesday what their plan is for the Cook Strait ferries. Picture below is entirely unrelated and absolutely not leaked from an anonymous government insider source.

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

CTU's Craig Renney says Treasury has shut him out of the Dec 17 HYEFU briefing. Political utu from a scrutiny-averse Govt that prefers 'Ready Fire Aim' evidence-lite policy making on the run. Just dumb. Plenty of other non-media will be there, including Taxpayers' Union, BusinessNZ & banks.

submitted 76 days ago • 22 comments

Taxpayer's 'Union' (not a real union) allowed but not the real union.

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

Employees should always work-to-rule, just on general principle, because that's all they pay you for. Don't do free labour for your boss. If they want more work, they can pay more or hire more people.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

“We had a clinician, who was in a management role for 1 day a week and 4 days in clinical practice, take voluntary redundancy. "So they are having to bring in a locum. "We've paid redundancy to someone and then replaced them with someone on a higher hourly rate” #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

‘Vice signalling’ could describe the current NZ government’s bludgeoning approach to policy: eg always use English names first, enable te Tiriti to be undermined & ignore the growing social unrest and polarisation, cut social science & humanities research, end pedestrian/cycle ways & smoking bans.

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

Being on social media is necessary but also exhausting which a why I haven’t posted here much. The other horrible app is still the most active and so that’s where I am mostly. But I’m going to try to be more present here too.

submitted 92 days ago • 24 comments

"According to the Palestinian Football Association, as of 4 November, Israel had killed 523 athletes in Gaza. The total includes 341 soccer players, among them 91 children" -- Feature by Abubaker Abed electronicintifada.net/content/pale...

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Israeli historian produces vast database of war crimes in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-historian-produces-vast-database-war-crimes-gaza

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

The White House gave Israel the coordinates of an American family in Gaza, ostensibly to protect them. Israel used those coordinates to bomb them. theintercept.com/2024/12/06/i...

submitted 78 days ago • 23 comments

100% THIS. And I've got literal receipts from our recent bout of COVID to prove this. (And nothing but the deepest gratitude to our neighbours who'd do RAT runs for us on credit.)

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Juliet Gerrard: Funding the whole pie

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Vaccines against COVID-19 saved over 20 million lives in the first year alone, according to a study in Lancet Infectious Diseases. Anti vaxxers conveniently ignore such stats.

submitted 92 days ago • 45 comments

⚠️Plastic cookware should not be used. Period. Especially BLACK PLASTIC cookware, that often mixes in toxic recycled electronic waste materials. DISPOSE OF ALL PLASTIC COOKWARE, especially if black colored plastic ones. Pass it on to your family. Gift🎁🔗 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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The U.N. Security Council voted 14-1 in favor of the resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza, but it was not adopted because of the U.S. veto. US is a scourge in global politics and a bully. No single country should have so much unilateral power on the global stage.

submitted 94 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Bernie Sanders just spent ~5 minutes on the Senate floor listing horrors American doctors in Gaza saw, as he brings resolutions to block $20bil of weapons to Israel. Those testimonies were collected by a doctor named Feroze Sidhwa, who I interviewed last month: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 94 days ago • 10 comments

Two vetos in one day! One at the UN and one at US Senate. This is clear example of white supremacist settler-colonial Orientalist imperialism. US is a rogue genocidal state.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile HRH makes his own diplomatic stand for #ToiTūTeTiriti As UK colleagues asked me: how can a conservative NZ govt have been so lacking in care/insight that it let your founding constitutional document be attacked by its own party alliances? exactly! www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

One minute + three takeaways from #cop29 (& a 2000 year old tree!) #climate #politics #equity

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

I was a volunteer at the hikoi, at Waitangi Park. Not sure if it's been reported on any media but there was so much aroha - Muslims For Te Tiriti gave us hundreds of curry meals, and as I was leaving, the Cambodian community gave us over 1000 meals. Aroha before politics. THAT was the hikoi!

submitted 95 days ago • 8 comments

FYI I've opened up my daily email + podcast beyond paying subscribers today so everyone can read, listen & share. The Govt just chose lower public debt, lower interest rates, higher land prices & median voter wealth now over long-term climate action. 🧵1/n...

submitted 712 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

If newly-appointed Police Commissioner Richard Chambers really wants NZers to be safer, he won't support routine arming of NZ cops but would try to get them more de-escalation training! NZ police kill people at 11X the rate of Police in England and Wales. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments