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Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The veil between the employed and the unemployed is very thin. Do you want to be treated with dignity? Don’t vote for National #nzpol

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The money pouring into TU that encouraged ever increasing forms of racism and anti-Māori attacks would never have gotten a foothold if it weren’t for this deeply held anti-Māori sentiment that old white men in particular are desperately clinging onto:” - Dr Bex

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Further reflections after reading Dirty Work

Outsized influence, racism, and what we can do in response

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So my new article asks why Swarbrick’s economics sounds so unusual in NZ politics, and why voters may be responding to it. Ok fine, I eventually mention Warren Mosler. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...

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Chlöe Swarbrick Knows Something About Money

The Greens’ co-leader just edged Nicola Willis on economic trust. Her language about debt, spending and productive capacity helps explain why.

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had a thing or two to say about the utter lack of any economic strategy from the two major parties, because – like everyone else – I'm tired of listening to them bang on about the government deficit as if it's the only thing that matters #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...

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Major parties’ obsession with arbitrary deficit figure is not an economic strategy

OPINION: We’re continuing to talk about the government deficit because we’re refusing to talk about a national economic strategy, says Kent Duston.

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Rebecca Matthews @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So Andy Foster, on the council for 30 years AND part of the government that passed water legislation and signed off on Tiaki Wai, thinks Wellington’s water issues are everybody else’s fault????

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There are very rich New Zealanders paying to ensure the majority of us have no healthcare, insecure housing, unsafe workplaces, lower wages and more racism. This is the world they want for us. #nzpol

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

NZ has - almost uniquely amongst our peers - tanked its economy and pushed 10,000s onto the dole (and offshore). We were told that this strategy would 'get interest rates down, tame inflation, and drive growth 🎉'. Yet, here we are, slumped and vying to be inflation champs. What went wrong? [🧵1/n]

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 20/07/2026

Treat yourself to 30 seconds of Te Awa Whakamau Tasman River bringing glacial chalk waters off Aoraki Mt Cook (NZ’s tallest peak) to lake Pukaki.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very useful video to settle debates (in New Zealand, and elsewhere) on whether increasing speed limits on highways from 100kmph to 120kmph make any sense. You only ever save, at best, around one minute. Taken from Instagram, www.instagram.com/reel/DaP4kyF... #nzpol

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Tax the super rich, because in reality there is no justification for this absolute grift by the 1% . #nzpol #TaxTheRich #TaxJusticeNZ #OneTermGovernment #NZ ✅✅

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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The biggest con in the world is the ultra-wealthy convincing everyone how disastrous and, quite frankly, impossible, it would be to properly tax the ultra-wealthy. Oh, and the myth of the "self-made man/woman".

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The way the govt is framing this budget is ghastly - grown up, no lolly scramble, no sugar hit, no treats - as if the people of Aotearoa are greedy children clamouring for money we don't need and the govt is withholding it for our own good. #nzpol

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 28/05/2026

Literally EVERYTHING we are fighting about & for could be solved by taxing the rich. EVERYTHING Fucking housing, fucking energy, fucking social inequality, fucking environment, fucking cost of living, fucking everything. STOP VOTING NEOLIBERAL SOCK PUPPETS FOR THE MEGA RICH End of transmission

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

well that's all i need to know.

the last section of the herald's budget coverage has the heading "Child poverty targets will be missed, Government unlikely to meet first Paris climate goal"

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Days like this when you realise that Government Ministers, their reckonomics advisors, and the ghouls in the lobby groups, are *fking dangerously ill-informed* about how Govt spending actually works. Let's have a look why this matters... [🧵 1/n]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Now in my third year of posting this little doom loop graphic.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is a total disaster for the country and it is not an accident - it is policy. We have knowingly created a 'buffer stock' of unemployed people desperate for work because ghouls think that this is the best way to stop wages/prices going up. Who suffers? The young and the marginalised. Disgusting.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Woke up still grumpy about this 🤣 equality for women is still MIA, but instead of focussing on men stepping up or society providing tangible, solid, comprehensive support for childrearing, women are still being expected to sacrifice their bodies, careers, time, money, and resource to have babies.

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Kiwi on your left @kiwionyourleft.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wonder how much our GDP will improve when we're not sending billions every year to the fossil fuel industries killing our planet. Just picture every kilometer travelled on fossil fuel having a tax on it, going straight overseas, zero benefit to us. Let's free ourselves. #nzpol #renewables

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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

An excellent article, highly recommended you read it.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Oil supply is restricted. Oil is expensive and dirty. Wars are fought to control oil. Sunlight is limitless. Sunlight is free and clean. No wars are fought over sunlight. Let’s go solar! #EnergyRevolution

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It cannot be repeated enough that we need to rapidly decarbonise our economy, particularly transport. This has benefits for climate change as well as energy resilience. Policy support for more buses, trains, ferries; protected cycleways; safe walking; e-bikes; e-cars; e-trucks.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Luxon has a plan. It looks like this. 6 plates for him, 1 plate between 5 at the other end of the divide he’s widened. I don’t misunderstand him. I see him. #nzpol #hoarder interactives.stuff.co.nz/the-side-eye...

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The Side Eye: The Table

Why is New Zealand's wealth hoarded at one end of the nation's dinner table? Toby Morris of @TheSpinoffTV explains

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Imo this is on the same spectrum as the PoliceNZ scandal. Attacking women should be a disqualifier for any role and definitely an sppoitment that gives you power over others #nzpol 1/2 Women’s lives, our reputations, our safety are discounted. Misogny in action. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 12/11/2025

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Why do Americans believe they can’t have nice things? Stellan Skarsgård nails it.

How would you describe that worldview? “My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It’s an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, universities, babysitting…”

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

❤️I support Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Therapists, Teachers & Principals ❤️ I support full staffing, fair hours, equal & fair pay for NZers ❤️ I support public hospitals & public schools ❌ I do NOT support privatisation, PPPs or sale of public infrastructure, services or assets

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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... “Upston said [they’d have to] attend one or more employment-related training courses.” Why? Will this magic up jobs for the unemployed to apply for? Piss off, will you, with the beneficiary-bashing. Sanctions won’t make the jobs magically appear.

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New benefit sanctions will help beneficiaries find jobs, says Social Development Minister Louise Upston

Those failing an obligation for the first time will either have to do job-search activities or attend employment-related training courses.

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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Your regular reminder that unions represent PEOPLE. They are simply the voice of the PEOPLE they represent. Nothing more. Nothing less. Attack them and you’re attacking the people they represent. It’s pretty simple. #nzpol

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A great piece from Alex Casey about the noxious soup: "It’s like men’s potential suffering is tragic, and women’s actual suffering is just our lot in life." thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...

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Decoding the ‘cult of masculinity’ around Tom Phillips

The support for the Marokopa fugitive reveals several pervasive myths about masculinity, fathers and the court system.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

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Selected price indexes: August 2025 | Stats NZ

Food prices increased 0.3 percent in the month of August 2025, and increased by 5.0 percent in the 12 months to August 2025.

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Margaret Jensen @margjen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Nicola Willis thinks everyone are misery merchants and apparently if we just cheer up all will be well. She can take a running jump to hell. Real actual people are suffering, businesses are closing, people are freezing in unheated homes, young people are on the streets without shelter. Heartless.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXsk…

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The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

(Sorry I'm always sayin the same thing, but every news item about this gets it twisted) Ray Chung’s email about Tory Whanau is not some random thing he did. It’s part of a global pattern: women leaders being targeted with false, sexist rumours to undermine their credibility and leadership. #nzpol 🧵

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

THIS ⬇️

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Haven't done a why is the economy in the toilet explainer for a while. Let's try again... Money makes the economy go round. If people don't have money to spend, then fewer jobs are needed, and less energy and materials are consumed. Where does money come from? Easy... [🧵1/n]

Image shows 'Bank Lending' and 'Govt Spending' as 'money taps' - pouring money into the economy depending on appetite for bank loans and how much Govt decides to spend respectively.
The economy is shown as a money-go-round - with people exchanging money for goods. As money moves between people, work is done, people get paid, goods are made and consumed etc. Obviously this economy also relies on energy and materials.
Bank loan repayments and Govt taxation are shown as drains on the economy - rubbish bins - where money goes to die. This is indeed the reality.
Onshore and offshore savings remove money from the economy, but savings can also be spent. In NZ, net saving always wins out.

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

#nzpol Minimum Wage increased 1.5% this year. Data just released by Stats NZ shows: - Food Prices up 4.4.% - Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3% - Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7% - Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4% - Rent up 2.8% Laser focussed on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

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Selected price indexes: May 2025 | Stats NZ

Food prices increased 0.5 percent in the month of May 2025, and increased by 4.4 percent in the 12 months to May 2025.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The current govt is the most anti-family and anti-work govt that we have had. They wanna fire everyone and make the economy so bad that no one is hiring. They don’t want to feed the kids, set us up for retirement, or give us time to look after our kids. Just horrifically evil.

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

If you read one story today, make it Rebecca Macfie's analysis of van Velden's changes to WorkSafe. The cabinet paper doesn't "reflect on the fact the rate of workplace death in NZ is 60% higher than Australia and 500% higher than the UK". newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/09/h...

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History's verdict is already in on van Velden's safety reforms

The Government is instructing WorkSafe to be kinder and more supportive to businesses, and to shift its focus from enforcement to advice. We know from bitter history where this leads

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