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An absolute must read for anyone interested in public health. Everyone, in other words. #nzpol

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reading Collin in @etangata.bsky.social reminds me of one way that disillusioned & desperate healthcare professionals are taking action. find the date for #HīkoiForHealth in your rohe, mark it in your calendar & make a plan to visit & share your thots. 26 April-8 May. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

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“The [NZ govt] political action stems from ideology grounded in ignorance, racism & fear. It has nothing to do with evidence, or public health priorities, or quality of life for people.”

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The political action stems from ideology grounded in ignorance, racism and fear. It has nothing to do with evidence, or public health priorities, or quality of life for people. At least, outside the tent, I’m now free to stand openly against it.

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"Pushing for any development for the sake of jobs does not acknowledge the good work and important jobs that are not being done. We are yet to clean up the legacy of past goldmining that turned the Ōhinemuri River orange in August 2024 and left elevated arsenic in the mahinga kai.”

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“The political action stems from ideology grounded in ignorance, racism and fear. It has nothing to do with evidence, or public health priorities, or quality of life for people.” #nzpol #Aotearoa #nz #OneTermGovernment

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“Pākehā, we are not here to fight you. But we are here to fight the system that benefits you while breaking us. We are here to fight the structures that let our babies fill the prisons while yours fill the boardrooms.” — Heemi Mahauariki.

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“There comes a point when a review stops being about transparency, and starts acting as a tool to delay accountability. We are at that point.” — Aaron Hendry.

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“Our more middle-class economic status . . . owes everything to the housing and health policies of the former welfare state in the 1950s, and nothing to gold.” — Catherine Delahunty, whose great-grandfather was a miner in the Thames gold rush.

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“I couldn’t, in all honestly, remain in my roles. The government didn’t seem interested in listening to genuine public health advice.” — Collin Tukuitonga.

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“Pacific countries and territories trying to assert their sense of autonomy need to be treated with respect and mana, and not be growled at in a paternalistic way, as if they’re delinquent juveniles.” — Professor Steven Ratuva.

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“It had been a long, moving and sometimes confusing day of storytelling, re-telling, and listening. For me, it reinforced the importance of iwi as experts in our own narratives.” — Aroha Gilling.

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A really good article by Brian Tweed that resonates with a lot of what @trustdemocracy.nz has been saying. MMP is a fairer voting system, but the problem of a weak legislature, dominated by the parties remain from the FPTP era. Executive power must be distributed more broadly.

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“Your language contains clues to the story of your life. You don’t sound like anyone else. Your voice is your audio signature in a world of sound. Your voice. Your reo.” — Tainui Stephens

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“Abstinence as a lifestyle percolated like a long, slow epiphany as I contended with the consequences of my addiction and mental health challenges.” — Anton Blank on 15 years as a clean addict.

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“There we were. Heaps of kids. Isolated location. A stoic, hardworking young mum struck by an awful disease. A husband out until all hours. But no one turned up at the farm to take us into care. No. Instead, we were raised up by the benevolent state.” — Rebecca Macfie.

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“Liberal democracy can’t support the idea that government has an ethnicity of its own — a Pākehā ethnicity, that excludes Māori people and ways of thinking.” — Professor Dominic O’Sullivan.

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“It feels like our country has been hijacked and redirected to a destination most of us never intended to go to.” — Brian Tweed.

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“It is sound policy, not insurrection, for small nations to diversify economic partnerships and secure development opportunities for their people.” — Eugene Doyle on why New Zealand maybe shouldn’t invade the Cook Islands for signing a strategic partnership with China.

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“They control our economy, they control our politics, they control our military and also our culture.” — Filipino activist Jaime Paglinawan on the influence of the US and foreign capital.

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“I’m trying to live more Māori in the day-to-day — whether that’s something simple like washing the tea towels separately from the sheets or saying a karakia before I travel or swim.” — Stacy Gregg on being Māori.

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“It is extraordinary that this minister is asserting the power to redefine core constitutional principles to govern future polities, just as he did with the ‘principles of the Treaty’.” — Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey on the Regulatory Standards Bill proposal.

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“Waitangi should be a place where political leaders are made to justify their decisions from the past year, to take stock of how they’re upholding their side of the Treaty partnership.” — Jamie Tahana.

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“When we talk about youth homelessness, I worry that people don’t understand how dangerous the consequences of being without shelter are.” — Aaron Hendry.

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“The only ‘development’ that happened in our islands was sickness. The health consequences and cost of France’s nuclear bombs continue to be borne by our people, yet France still refuses to take responsibility for them.” — Tahitian anti-nuclear activist and politician Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross.

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“The Treaty bill is not just about legal wording — it’s about economic power. If Te Tiriti is successfully reframed as symbolic rather than contractual, the Crown will have removed one of the last barriers standing in the way of total economic control.” — Joshua Koko.

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@etangata.bsky.social sounds the🚨 “The Act Party has tried three times, since 2006, to introduce a version of this bill - failing each time… as its dangerous consequences became clear. Yet, this latest attempt seems to be sailing through with little to no scrutiny…” e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

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Ngā mihi Denis O'Reilly & @etangata.bsky.social Appreciate being able to read from the source abt Black Power history in Aotearoa, that the founder ran as candidate for Matiu Rata’s Mana Motuhake, the series of wānanga that've been held since 2017, & wāhine leadership e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/...

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Let’s be “advocates for people, nature and knowledge”.

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The coalition clearly underestimated the kickback against the Treaty Principles Bill. Maybe they anticipated some sort of rumblings, a hikoi but resistance would die down eventually. Nope. Buckle up boys, it's on.

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“And where was the church, the third party at the Treaty table, as this abusive relationship unfolded? Largely silent, and by its silence complicit. The church became the ally of the coloniser rather than the defender of the colonised.” — Kennedy Warne, reviewing ‘He Tatau Pounamu’.

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“Reimagining what being a ‘gang’ means is complex and requires rejecting the imposed criminal connotations, not only by voice but in action, placing whānau at the heart of lifestyle, and moving away from gangsterism.” — Denis O’Reilly.

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“A slate of policies that have lazily played on this country’s insecurities and set a fire beneath the nation’s founding document have been met with a resistance not seen for generations.” — Jamie Tahana.

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“While we underestimated the coalition’s willingness to sacrifice life for profit, we also believe that the government has underestimated how potent a coalition of shared interests to defend Te Tiriti can be.” — Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman.

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“Individually or together, these two bills would entrench libertarian preferences in New Zealand’s constitutional framework. They would also obstruct the consideration of Te Tiriti in future lawmaking.” — Melanie Nelson.

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“The radical thing is the system that currently exists — a system that completely cuts across the truth that our tūpuna never ceded sovereignty. To me, that’s the radical thing.” — Eru Kapa-Kingi.

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“I’ve spent a lifetime being gracious and kind to careless, well-intentioned but hurtful, crass and outright racist people, and I’ve had enough.” — Aroha Gilling.

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“I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface of our ability to educate through a te ao Māori lens. You only have to look at the amazing results in kura kaupapa Māori for the 3 percent of Māori who attend those kura.” — Bruce Jepsen, Te Akatea (Māori Principals Association)

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“I’ve heard stories of mining executives moving to the islands, where they’re insinuating themselves into the community, buying up art from local artists, funding cultural events, and pouring money into schools, sports and education.” — Teuila Fuatai.

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“It’s not a coincidence that Aotearoa has moved in lockstep with our Anglosphere allies over their endorsement of the genocide in Gaza through silence and military support. What we’re seeing in Gaza mirrors our own settler colonial history and its dominant white Anglo identity.” — John Hobbs.

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Hobson’s Pledge “has turned Hobson’s incidental remark to chiefs into a weighty pronouncement that justifies the suppression of Māori rights and identity.” — Susan Healy, Tim McCreanor, Ray Nairn.

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“Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose.” — Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman.

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“They’d lost the sights, sounds and smells of their Taranaki home, but never the story that took them away.” — Tainui Stephens.

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“Apirana Ngata’s views on the Treaty in 1922 are historically important. They speak to the dominant attitudes of Pākehā, and undoubtedly some Māori too. But his was not the only voice speaking for Māori.” — Historian Matthew Cunningham.

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“Pāpā Moana Jackson used to say that if you’re born Māori, you’re automatically political. It’s inherent in who we are and how we roll, irrespective of the careers or the paths that we take.” — Ria Hall.

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“Outside of its impact on Māori and race relations in Aotearoa, a significant long-term consequence of this bill will be the removal of one of the most important protections the New Zealand public have to the unwanted and harmful privatisation of state assets.” — John Murrie.

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“The real motive behind the bill is related to Act and its backers’ long-term strategy of deregulating business and opening up New Zealand to corporate investment, extraction, and exploitation.” — Ryan Ward.

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“It is important that there is strong and visible opposition to the bill so that it is clear to politicians that there is no political advantage in progressing it.” — Carwyn Jones.

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Parliament’s “dignity” rests on “a structure introduced less than 200 years ago, where members are required to swear allegiance to a foreign monarch who has no power but plenty of wealth derived from colonisation and slavery.” — Suzanne Menzies-Culling.

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“They’ve charmed and courted their way through our islands and people. Industry representatives have embedded themselves and the vast resources of their companies into our communities.” — Louisa Castledine on how Cook Islanders are being softened up for deep sea mining.

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