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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 3h

To say I did not have high hopes for this government would be an understatement, but I am nonetheless agog at the utter dogs breakfast they have turned the science funding system into in 3 short years

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Peter @cloudynetwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I say time and time again. This idea that taxes pay for things and "we can't afford it" are simply to avoid the truth that cuts etc are *policy choices*, not fiscal realities.

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Vote Green 💚💚💚💚💚💚

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An excellent 🧵. #nzpol

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'Piggy bank is empty' nonsense provides cover for the political class. Once the lie is exposed, they have to answer questions like 'If we have 100,000s of people wanting work, and plenty of raw materials, why is our infrastructure falling to bits? Sounds like mismanagement, ay? (It is!)

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lacanian analytic/economic theory really should be a thing. This thread is so much more coherent than the endless, tiresome variations on “vibes” narratives that pass as media analysis (looking at you, Stuff 👀). Thank you! #nzpol

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chloe Swarbrick says she wants Finance. The reaction from the right has been very emotional. I feel for them. “Do you really want her steering the economy?” they say... Very little explanation of what, specifically, she would get wrong. Luckily Lacan has a theory about that. #nzpol

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ableist fuckers. Thank you Andrew for seeking these OIA's out and sharing your findings. It's heartbreaking to know (even more than I do) that they do not give a shit about the younguns!

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Too Long Covid 💚 @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Read this and think of the kids with Long Covid or MECFS who are pressured into school.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#nzpol Excellent work here from Andrew revealing, surprise, surprise how Seymour is applying a double standard😡

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Hākui K (she/her) @haakuik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👆🏾 this 👆🏾

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 28/09/2026

One of the most horrific & unacceptable consequences of this Govt has been the 'othering' of peoples. The sidelining & maligning (or worse) of people that Seymour & this Govt don't care for. Be it misogynistic & racial leaps back in time, xenophobia, & now through to this. This govt are ghouls

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 28/09/2026

very interesting thread.

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is... quite the thread considering Seymour's insistence of using "Equality for all!" to handwave away his racism. (Note: this thread is not about the racism, but highlights once again his uber-flexible and often contradictory ideology)

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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THIS ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THIS ⬆️🚩⬆️🚩⬆️🚩🚩⬆️

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got myself a batch of OIA documents from the Ministry of Education about school attendance. One of them presents David Seymour with a rather awkward problem. It begins on 11 February 2025. Intrigued? #nzpol

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yesterday it was 21c and I was running in a singlet.

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Toby Eglesfield @jazzcomputer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So ironic that those who need to hear this most are hard indoctrinated into the idea of National as fiscally responsible and Swarbrick as an ‘activist upstart’

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At first I thought they could not cope with an intelligent woman then I realised the don’t believe in them

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 18/09/2026

Shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, but here we are.

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Michael Lakeman @suitedscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I agree with everything you say here. I think the bit that's surprising is not that's she's more competent. It's that somehow, despite the Greens' treatment by legacy media as tree-hugging loons, somehow the message has cut through

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Stephen Hill @srhastraea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cool thread

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Harm Less Solutions Ltd @harmlesssolutions.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You don't get to chat with Gary Stevenson at his kitchen table if you're not up on your economic shit. Kindred souls 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE?...

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The first politician on Gary's Economics

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#nzpol Fully endorse what Andrew says here. Chlöe has clearly paid attention not only to Thomas Piketty but also @musicalchairs.bsky.social. And yet, it's not that radical, it only seems so because of the (failed) orthodoxy we've followed since 1984.

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great article, Andrew … and I think one of the groups most terrified by any thought of Chloe Swarbrick being Minister of Finance will be Treasury, the engine room for so much neoliberal economic nonsense over the last 40 years

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Chloë Swarbrick is a bloody treasure imo and I’ve marvelled at her abilities since she first emerged on the political scene.

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

Apparently Chlöe Swarbrick beating Nicola Willis in a poll on who New Zealanders trust to manage the economy came as something of a shock? Not to me. I’ve been listening to how Swarbrick talks about money. There’s something interesting going on. 🧵

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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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Morgan Avery 🍔 @themorgan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also defunding flu vaccine for kids 2 years ago and don't forget also killing the flutracking tool just last december. This government is the dropkickiest pack of dipshits we've seen in ages. Unforced error after unforced error.

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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And there you have it - having to ‘fight’ to NOT get sick! The NAF coalition govt has STUPIDLY painted itself into a corner by referring to ALL the Covid responses as too; expensive, woke, generous, kind, reactive etc that they’re now ideologically TRUSSED & are INCAPABLE of ANY meaningful response

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What are the consequences for Simeon & Seymour causing such violence towards the health of our kids & our most vulnerable? What about consequences for Upston & her just starve them to death policy? Nothing nada none? Is this good “economic” management or is cruelty for sake of cruelty💭 #nzpol #NZ

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Seymour is actually quoted as saying “For too long, the messaging was stay home, save lives. Education was put to the bottom of the totem pole of New Zealand's priorities,” Lives less important than attendance.

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Diarmaid Coffey @diarmaidcoffey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We should name the current hospital queues after the people directly responsible for causing them

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Chantalle Smith @chaneyz85.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is a great article on the risks. But not only are vulnerable kids at risk, so are vulnerable people with kids at school. My son has a pretty damn good immune system. He came down sick last week. He’s passed it onto me. And now I can barely go anywhere without needing my inhaler…

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Seymour - the smart guy who reckons we'll have better health & ultimately lower costs by taking funds from public health to fund new medicines. Maybe he might begin to understand prevention actually important, and ignoring public health is expensive and can be tragic, but I don't live in hope.

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Great reporting in The Post on the 'softened' school sick-day guidance. Reports how Health NZ did not assess the risks. Now, hospitals are cancelling surgeries while late-winter flu surges. Prioritising bums on seats over public health has consequences. 1/4 www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

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Seymour called for softer rules for sick days without health risks being assessed

Associate Health Minister David Seymour’s call for language around sick days to be softened to boost attendance was done without assessing the health impacts.

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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And I should reiterate it's definitely not too late to get a vaccine this season. Flu has not yet clearly peaked so, in terms of the number of infections, there is a lot of flu season still to come.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They shut down flu tracking and flu is out of control. They cancelled ferries to save money and now we are gonna get shittier ferries that cost more. They fired all the public servants and unemployment went up. They gave landlords tax breaks and homelessness people are dying on the streets.

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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When a government deliberately or negligently ensickens the population, the members of that government should never be allowed near power again.

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My daughter spent most of the first week of her uni semester break in bed with Infuenza A. This excellent 🧵 explains just why that's happening. #nzpol

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I mentioned the men’s rights movement in passing to my very not-online therapist. Her eyes got enormous and then she said, very carefully, “Do men… not have rights currently?”

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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All this for under 10% of kids? This is the destroy everything doctrine. What other reason could there be to force sick kids to school

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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Seymour goes against expert advice and evidence to create potential mass disability events, undermining the public school and health systems -then criminalises parents who try and keep their children safe with authoritarian attendance rules. #NZPol www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/educati... #NZPol

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'Too sick to learn': Schools warn parents to keep kids home as viruses surge

Cost-of-living pressures are forcing parents to send sick children to school because they can’t afford time off work as a wave of winter illnesses grips th

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Brooke 🖤🤍💜🏹 @brookegreenwoodvo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was wondering why we were having such a weird flu season Good thread 🧵

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