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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is great article 👏🏼

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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At last, but possibly too late 😔

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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exactly! I am getting really fed up of Labour not wanting to offend anyone, they just jut end up being ineffective.

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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good grief, written by Luke Malpass!

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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

100 percent agree, he's despicable.

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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I saw the headline and immediately thought 'you can f *** right off'.

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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Frustrating to put it mildly

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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yes. I'd like to see the same money for everyone to fund the election campaign.

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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is ridiculous and invariably will mean picking up the pieces of poor decisions 'x' years down the track.

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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... good with a roast ☺️

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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I didn't think my dislike could grow any more, and then I read this.

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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I am exactly the same. Unfortunately the temperature of my feet is fairly binary- too hot or too cold 😔.

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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Sounds great and Ōnuku Marae is beautiful!

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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Yes, 2 years of virtually no pay and pension, worked part time, needed an operation to ‘fix’ me etc. I am equally grumpy about the lack of equality for women.

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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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Ali Rowe @alirowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Thanks for this thread. I agree completely.

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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 · 30/03/2026

I think it will be closer to 5%.

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