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Millennial, of a certain age, studying the law.

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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I’ve never hated a word more than I hate the word “reasonable”, as it applies to laws governing this breach. One of the times I managed to login, I noticed 198+/- files have just disappeared. Which, I have to say, produces a dark sense of foreboding from within... #ManageMyHealth #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
*slams laptop shut in frustration* #nzpol #mmh #managemyhealth
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Why spend money on reinforcing Privacy laws when you can spend millions on more important things like *checks notes* Michelin Stars…….yikes. #nzpol #MMH #databreach
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The injunction issued by the High Court. The preliminary analysis has identified that approximately 430,000 patient documents have been stolen, potentially affecting approximately 127,000 patients.” #ManageMyHealth #nzpol
lawnews.nz
High Court issues injunction in Manage My Health cyber-attack case - Law News
By Anna Longdill Application for without notice injunction against unknown defendants following cyber-attack on sensitive personal health information impacting approximately 127,000 patients – breach ...
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
How much tax payer money has been wasted defending poorly written, human rights breaching, shite legislation. Any $$ saving this Govt claims is probably being pissed away in the court system as they desperately defend dodgy law, crafted from garbage cooker-style policy. #nzpol #OneTermGovt
newsroom.co.nz
Cabinet overrode health advice in decision to ban puberty blockers
Health officials said there was 'no evidence base' about the likely impacts of the Government's decision to ban puberty blockers for transgender youth.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Well, this might contribute to the explanation around why the Wellington night shelter charges $10 per night to house the unhoused. Shouldn’t that $$ be going to shelters and urgent housing? #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz
Govt paid Kāinga Ora reviewers out of urgent housing fund
Cabinet ministers dipped into an unexpected and unlikely fund to pay the costs of the new review into Kāinga Ora and public housing, reports Tim Murphy
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Remember to turn off Ai training. #nzpol #gmailfail
malwarebytes.com
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The ‘Fossil of the Day’ is awarded, daily, to countries “doing the most to achieve the least” on climate change. There is $$$ to be made in renewable energy research, development & application. I don’t understand why the Govt push for non renewables over ongoing profit generation. #nzpol.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Just a morning thought, but, does #NZpol share my concern that politicians shouldn’t be allowed to force through legislation, especially a bill that’s been rejected three times before, as part of a coalition agreement?
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
RSB is being pushed through despite 90% of submissions being against it. #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
petitions.parliament.nz/212f27b2-98f... #nzpol #auspol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
And for some positive news: Philanthropy done right #nzpol.
dailyencourager.co.nz
Housing heritage with heart
The Suzanne Lund Community Loft Apartments offer a heritage of 'social housing with heart' for people needing a long-term home. About 40 tenants live in this specially-converted Victorian warehouse, w...
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
So a minor political party is allowed to bypass our democratic process to force a thrice rejected bill into law, that doesn’t meet the principles of legislation design. Why even have best practice legislation principles if MPs don’t have to follow them? #nzpol
e-tangata.co.nz
Proposed bill 'an ideological project that must be stopped' | E-Tangata
“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 Pro...
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
There used to be a time when this sort of, whatever the fuck this turns out to be, would require some sort of inquiry. #nzpol
1news.co.nz
Police officers recorded 30,000 breath tests that didn't happen
Acting Deputy Commissioner Michael Johnson says the numbers are "incredibly disappointing and concerning".
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
And, yet again, this govt decides to ignore the judiciary & ‘loophole-legislate’ their way out of compliance. “What is the Rule of Law?.” - A question genuinely asked by someone in that Govt., probably. #nzpol #auspol
nzala.org
Government Sidesteps High Court Ruling Phasing Out Farrowing Crates — New Zealand Animal Law Association
Photo: SAFE and Farmwatch
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Methinks that because certain MPs are pocketing money and (allegedly) fudging their own system for financial gain, and they probably socialise with other wealthy people who do/have behaved the same way, they assume everyone is doing that. Projecting much. #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
*best news anchor voice* Tonight, at 11; Entitlement Brigade uses lame metaphor to distract everyone from demanding why we’re funding expensive, nothing-burger, gas exploration project instead of solar. #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I worry that they’ve started this too late in their term, before the next general election, and may rush it through without proper consultation. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
NCEA overhaul sparks optimism and concern
Unions are cautiously optimistic changes, but the opposition says the "complete overhaul" goes too far.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
You know what, this deserves another round of exposure. #nzpol #kikorangi #aonz
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
1/2 A Treasury document was released showing that this government has created more debt in 2 years than the last government did in 6 years. It has given away so much money to landlords, tobacco companies, oil & gas corporations, and the wealthy, that there isn’t much left to run the country. #nzpol
open.substack.com
Govt's dirty little Treasury Secret is finally out: Will this govt cut healthcare and raise the retirement age?
Why is the only option to hit the middle class and poor harder? Never do we see Govt or the Treasury suggesting that rich corporate owners pay their fair share.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
But she won’t face any repercussions or even have the decency of providing a half arsed public apology because - and say it with me - consequences 👏are 👏only 👏for👏peasants! #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
1/2 To quote the Minister, “the pace was necessary as transnational crime was also moving quickly.” And, yet again (she says flatly), the excuse for zero consultation with the public and barely-basic-bitch-consulting with the relevant regulators was terrible. #nzpol
thepost.co.nz
Government quietly pushes through new law for better tax detail sharing
Cops and other agencies would be able to access tax data more quickly under the new provisions.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Omg Simeon, NO ONE believes what your comms team told you say. 🙄 #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Free and fair elections should be just that, 'free' and without ‘consideration in exchange for rights’. That said, we can’t let their attempt at voter suppression to allow them a return. #nzpol #kikorangi vote.nz/enrolling/en...
vote.nz
Enrol or update online
Enrol to vote or check and update your enrolment details. Get ready to have your say in New Zealand’s elections and referendums.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Interesting that Seymour suddenly wants out of this not long after the International Court of Justice determined that the 1.5°C temperature target is LEGALLY BINDING under the Paris Agreement. Heaven forbid Governments be held legally responsible for not walking their talk. #nzpol #OneTeemGovt.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The Govt happily defunded the public health system because of ‘inflation’. And yet, the Govt happily want to increase the threshold for reporting donations and loans to $6k because, of ‘inflation’. “Austerity for thee but, not for me.” #nzpol
Photo of nurses protesting outside the Health Minister’s office. The office windows have a sign in them that says  NZNO union strike disrupts more than 13,000 surgeries and appointments.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Oh look, another minister going against official advice to make law changes that benefit industries & endanger the public, worsen peoples’ health, which will inevitably put strain on our defunded health system. I would love to see which booze lobbyists have swipe card access to her office. #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
1/2 If you also don't think hundreds of us should have to die & suffer as this govt purposely defunds & undermines our public healthcare system, just to achieve their stupidly obvious goal of privatising health care - sign this petition. www.patientvoice.nz/petition #nzpol #OneTermGovt #kilorangi
patientvoice.nz
Buller Declaration
Buller Declaration
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We’re seeing older women impacted more by rising housing & energy costs due to historical & structural misogyny that left them with lower lifetime earnings, less superannuation, & greater housing insecurity in this cost of living crisis. This is why pay equity legislation is important. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Pay equity: Five unions to take government to court over law changes
Five unions argue the new rules breach the Bill of Rights Act.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
#Nzpol Remember to check your details!
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Yet ANOTHER bill where Ministers aren’t engaging properly with the public or the knowledge bases who could guide them. A call to create a ‘permanent infrastructure committee’ could impede future discussions if we wanted to roll back anything. #nzpol www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...
Thumbnail screenshot with text saying Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill.  The closing date for submissions is 1.00pm on Monday, 18 August 2025.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Local body elections are very soon and it’s a great time to check your enrolment details! #nzpol #kikorangi.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Hello #nzpol friends. Posting again as this is easy armchair activism. And remember to sign the petition if you repost it and haven’t already. Awareness is great but signatures are the only thing that will help get things across desks. #sign&share
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Urgency is a great tool, when necessary. It can also be anti-democratic & mean Select Committees don’t hear from experts or the general public on important, or unpopular issues. Kind of like what it’s being used for now! Read the petition and sign if you want to restrict urgency measures. #nzpol
petitions.parliament.nz
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Legislation banning prisoner & same-day voting has passed its first reading. The legislation is now going to select committee. Remember, the govt have been warned these changes might breach human rights law and will disenfranchise more than 100,000 voters but they don’t care. Sign ⬇️ #nzpol
action.greens.org.nz
Defend Democracy
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Free and fair elections should be just that, 'free' and without ‘consideration in exchange for rights’. That said, we can’t let their attempt at voter suppression to allow them a return. #nzpol #kikorangi vote.nz/enrolling/en...
vote.nz
Enrol or update online
Enrol to vote or check and update your enrolment details. Get ready to have your say in New Zealand’s elections and referendums.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Board administrators get raises but public hospitals don’t have enough frontline $$ to build a national digital database & still have to use paper patient files, that “get lost”, & now I have to go another few weeks in limbo, with weekly tachycardia attacks that sometimes send me to ED. #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Forgot the #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The AGs BORA breach notice should have been attached to the bill when it was PRESENTED. So why was it withheld? Why has the govt not been pummelled with this question? And why is the AG delaying reports? newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/28/a...
newsroom.co.nz
Attorney-General rules her own Govt’s voting crackdown breaches human rights
The young and Māori, Pasifika and Asian communities will pay the 'heaviest price' by being disenfranchised, warns Judith Collins, KC. Jonathan Milne reports.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
More hypocrisy from MPs who never extend the transparency they demand of others to themselves. Instead of providing any evidence to the contrary, Winnie just threw a tanty; accusing RNZ of being "clearly lefty biased", and of doing "bottom-of-the-barrel attack reporting" #nzpol
odt.co.nz
Peters challenged on tobacco links
Public health researchers at the University of Otago have called on the PM to show some leadership and remove the tobacco and vaping portfolio from...
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Sign this if travelling through NZ, even just getting to work on public transport, is becoming inaccessible. We deserve an efficient, properly funded public transport system, dammit! #nzpol
action.greens.org.nz
Restore Regional Rail
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
*said in a bratty, out of touch voice* “Guys, like, you should actually be sooooo grateful for the premium butter you can’t afford to buy. I mean, we could be making butter more affordable that’s not premium quality. Like, imagine that on the $7 loaf of bread you also can’t afford…” #nzpol 😒
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
1/2 On the subject of lobbying, is that a Wellington mayoral candidate getting caught up? The lobbying receipts were redacted so much that no one really knew what exchanges, if any, went on except the people involved. #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“New Zealand has been slipping down the international corruption rankings with declining scores on various measures.” #nzpol Yet another solid argument for donation, campaign, and lobbying reform. Especially, since the current Speaker began anonymising lobbyist access last year.
helenclark.foundation
Shining a Light - The Helen Clark Foundation
This report considers corruption in New Zealand’s political and governance systems in recent years, and what we could do to combat it.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"This rise in emissions from electricity, gas, water, and waste services was largely due to increased use of coal for electricity generation in this quarter.” This could be used as a solid argument for subsidised solar panels. NZGreens? Anyone? #nzpol www.stats.govt.nz/news/total-g...
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Capitalism: When a multi billion dollar company that got dunked on in Court - twice - & are regularly reported on internationally for dodgy employment policies, are allowed to recommend policy changes to law in an attempt to undermine a legal decision they don’t like. #nzpol
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Families continue to be locked in poverty and unable to break through the constraints of the income floor… Can’t wait for the coalition media statement dismissing evidence-based reporting & preferring to just run with their own narrative 😒 #nzpol www.cpag.org.nz/media-releas...
cpag.org.nz
Families below the Income Floor face growing crisis – new research — Child Poverty Action Group
Increasingly fewer households able to cover the bare essentials, according to new research released today by Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
NZ company create a chemical process that produces multiple valuable minerals, including those used in batteries, from olivine; leaving no harmful waste behind in the process. spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-... #nz #STEM #kikorangi
spectrum.ieee.org
Is Olivine the Future of Battery Material Supply Chains?
Aspiring Materials' process extracts valuable minerals from olivine, offering a cleaner, sustainable solution for battery material supply chains.
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B00TS @b00ts72.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Yes, I’m sharing this, again. I know we’re focusing on the RSB but this is also very important. We need to reform the Parliamentary Urgency protocol #nzpol #kikorangi #aonzpol
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