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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is it strategic to publish my 2,000+ word manifesto about a UN climate report on Sunday night of a holiday weekend? Nope! Here ya go. Does the UN call for a “renewable energy revolution” and “transformational change” of our society? Yep! Here for it. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...

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I read the new UN climate report so you don't have to.

TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society.

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Emily @emilywrites.co.nz · 24/08/2026

Everyone is either sick or knows someone who's sick and you know what? It's the Government's fault. Please share this article as widely as you can. This amount of mass illness isn't a coincidence, it's a choice they're making for you #nzpol www.emilywrites.co.nz/this-governm...

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This government is making you sick

So many of us are sick. And there's a reason for it.

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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Under 16s social media ban is once again an individualised response to problems that needs collective solutions. It’s a Look We Are Doing Something, but it’s a stupid something. What we need is govt regulation with enforcement & investment in measures to promote social cohesion.

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Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

WATCH: Dead Ahead on Netflix. I bloody INHALED the 6 eps! “What happens when the past won’t stay dead? A high-powered Māori lawyer accidentally unleashes her chaotic tūpuna (ancestors) forcing the living & the dead to navigate their shared legacy” youtu.be/vHcqnDGHVnw?...

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Dead Ahead | Official Trailer | Hi Mama Productions

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What does a wealth tax actually look like? We sent Brighty Buoy and his tiny balls to Wimbledon to chat to fans 🎾

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Now you can watch the video of my interview last week with the brilliant and remarkable Jeremy Lent, one of the greatest thinkers of our age. In his new book Ecocivilization, he charts a way forward for us. Hope and inspiration. www.youtube.com/live/4-r-tUh...

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Yes, there is an alternative I RSA REPLAY

YouTube video by The RSA

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A Fighting Chance (with thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com for the heads up!) climate change solutions from new voices - a ground up view norcalpublicmedia.org/a-fighting-c...

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A Fighting Chance

If you care about our planet, following climate news can feel like a gut punch, every story darker than the last. But under the radar, people are winning,

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Rawiri MJ @rawiri.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I have been a doctor long enough to know that health systems move slowly and that wins are hard to hold. This one took decades of advocacy, data, and political will to achieve. We are not going to let it be undone without a fight.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/05/2026

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 31/03/2026

OK, for all who read along as I attended the Catastrophic Planning Conference, here's a useful starting point on your own journey of preparation: Make a plan. Don't be scared, be prepared.

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Make a plan

Emergencies can be unpredictable, so having a plan in place is important. A well thought out plan helps you and your whānau know exactly what to do, where to go, and how to stay safe when emergencies ...

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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Very proud to share that an Ōtautahi studio founded by some of my former students have just signed a global publishing deal. The demo of their cosy game ‘Design and Conjure’ is out now. Check it out and give feedback if this is your sort of thing. store.steampowered.com/app/2390130/...

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Design and Conjure on Steam

Join Dalia, the Nature Witch, on a heartwarming journey to restore her hometown. Tidy spaces, design magical rooms, solve gentle puzzles, and soothe magical creatures affected by mysterious corruption...

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Andrea Learned | Name & Fame host Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Huge fan of Michael Singer’s The Untethered Soul. Highly recommend all his work, but especially that book. How we make it through…

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A few quick thoughts on the updated booster advice for 2026 from the Immunisation Advisory Centre for New Zealand: This entirely dismisses the impacts of Long Covid & health impacts due to repeat infection - see expert advice below. We’re actively creating a pipeline of cumulative health impacts. 🧵

University of Auckland associate professor and vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there is not enough awareness of the impact of Covid-19 on overall health.
"What many people don't realise is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says.
"Each infection raises your risk of long Covid and serious complications."

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 18/03/2026

A doorfietsroute (high-quality cycling route) is designed to enable fast, safe, and comfortable cycling over longer distances. Per CROW, five essential characteristics define such routes. Together, these elements ensure cycling becomes a competitive alternative to the car, especially for commuting.🧵

People in casual spring attire ride bicycles and mobility scooters along a continuous regional cycling highway in natural and built-up areas between Waalwijk and Tilburg in the Netherlands.

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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So proud to be the @greens.org.nz candidate for the new electorate of Kapiti, stretching from Whitby and Paremata in the south through to Ōtaki in the north. Really excited to help elect a new Government this year with not only a compassionate Green heart, but also a strong Green spine.

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yo @ninjakitty.bsky.social Tokyo Urbanism at its absolutely finest here as every bit of land space and interior space is used as expected with Japanese Efficiency. Ironic this tiny home would meet the requirements of the incoming Planning Act better than Anglosphere designs :P

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Tiny Tokyo Home Built On Super Narrow Lot, 33sqm/355sqft

YouTube video by NEVER TOO SMALL

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It’s not that having an unwell and/or disabled child places pressure on families, it’s the lack of resources that places pressure - insufficient income, inaccessible homes, and inadequate state support: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

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Top 10 Tips to Make Your ED Trip a Breeze

My recent ED experience inspired some thoughts

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Beck Sinclair @beccasinclair.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

So excited to open my #SecretSantaAONZ card and pressie, what beautiful writing and wrapping! And it's even the same fabric as my husband's Christmas shirt! 🐦

Christmas card with red and green stripes with a white koru on top and a painted Pūkeko with an orange bow tail, with a fabric wrapped Secret Santa gift, light blue with native birds and flowers.

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Beck Sinclair @beccasinclair.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My #SecretSantaAoNZ parcel is almost here. After being stuck for 5 days, then redirected, marked as delivered but no sign of it (uh oh 😟), it has magically arrived at initial destination in time for me to collect tomorrow, just in time for opening day! Whew!!!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"The difference between animals and fungi is simple: animals put food in their bodies, whereas fungi put their bodies in the food." —Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life #fungi

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I engage in regular, intentional, and time-boxed yak shaving. Thinking of tasks as animals gives me a power up. Yak Shaving: "Doing seemingly-unrelated tasks to get some real task done" @jessitron.bsky.social 1/🧵

cartoon of five yak types with names: black yak, imperial yak, trim yak, royal yak, golden yak

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Beck Sinclair @beccasinclair.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Hip hip hooray, my #SecretSantaAoNZ present is on its way! 📬🎅

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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Great interactive resource here from Tania Waikato / Chris Abercrombie of schools that have publicly committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Locally, I'm disappointed Fairfield Intermediate, Fairfield Primary & Woodstock aren't listed yet. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

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Schools TOW - Google My Maps

Schools TOW

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I’ve written about #COP30 for The Transition(s) Lab. When the gavel came down in Belém, there was no major diplomatic breakthrough, but that’s not all that COPs are about these days. In a multipolar world, that’s likely a good thing. Read more here: the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/the-shift-2-...

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The Shift #2: COP30 in a multipolar world

These are my reflections on COP30, the first climate COP that I have attended. I would like to thank the Toha Network for supporting my travel, Brazil's Ministry of Finance for the invitation to pre-C...

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Beck Sinclair @beccasinclair.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I've played #SecretSantaAoNZ once before and had the best time putting a gift together for the person! The home made part was super fun and best of all, my daughter copied the idea, so I got one too. It's a lasting memory of the joy of Christmas generosity and creativity 🎅 🐦

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Beck Sinclair @beccasinclair.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Oh, #SecretSantaAoNZ I signed up in the nick of time! I love chocolate, writing, poetry, local bookshops, cute pins/ badges, flowers, meditation, tiny homes.... anything that brings a little joy into the world!

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Friends! I am in an ongoing 'discussion' (tussle) with the Ministry of Education regarding a new attendance policy they are implementing for David Seymour's pleasure. I've written a few things about this now, here's the latest: andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/the-minist... Please share!

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The Ministry of Education Responds

School Attendance Policy Questions (un)answered

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” And it has kept growing from there. Leadership. #Paris

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Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car

In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Some sobering stats: "if a young person has ADHD they are more likely to be ➡️ prosecuted by police ➡️ charged or convicted in court ➡️ incarcerated. This risk increases as individuals with ADHD proceed through the criminal justice system" open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

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ADHD statistics show we continue to fail our young people

A post for neurodiversity week

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I love the 15-minute city concept, with its focus on time, rather than speed or distance. Locating the necessities of life within easy reach makes speed irrelevant. With less time spent between places, we have more time to be places.

Ghent city center. dramatic clouds, guy on a bike, people eating at outdoor cafes. photo by me.

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Such a powerful quote by Donald Shoup; “It's unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people” Some people don’t have money to feed their kids, because rent is too high. But at least cars can park for free. #schoollunches #nzpol

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This ten year old paper by my friend & colleague Eugenia Kalnay and colleagues modeling the combined effects of environmental degradation and wealth disparity on societal stability didn't get much attention at the time. It feels especially relevant now: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies

There are widespread concerns that current trends in resource-use are unsustainable, but possibilities of overshoot/collapse remain controversial. Col…

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...

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Lifeboat Capitalism

Some burn, some drown, and some make money either way.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

#NZpol BTW. Very worth a reread of this *too* (and, I might add, Bill Hales' comment responses too - particularly to a Richard Stephens, who really seems quite taken with a swathe of Neoliberal delusions, and thus received a detailed steamrolling in return). PS. Apologies for a Double David 🥴

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Powered-up Regulatory Standards Bill removes role of courts

In his third attempt at constraining the drafting of new laws and regulations, David Seymour is seizing the controls and handing them to a board that he'll appoint.

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I have posted my submission on the Treaty Principles Bill here. Submissions close at midnight on 7 January and I have included a link to where you can make your own in the post. www.meetingplace.nz/2025/01/trea...

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Treaty Principles Bill

Aotearoa New Zealand history with Dr Vincent O'Malley. The New Zealand Wars, the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti, Māori and Pākehā relations and more

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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Tamatha Paul (MP) has done an amazing 5 part series on TikTok about how to write an effective submission the the #TreatyPrinciplesBill, what to highlight and what is most impactful for Select Committees. You’ve got till January 7th - Get into it 🫶🏼 #nzpol vt.tiktok.com/ZSj7bvocd/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

TVNZ should be throughly ashamed of the way they edited the news item tonight that enabled David Seymour’s words to narrate the images of the Hikoi and Hana’s protest #nzpol

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

It’s lift off for our Bluesky account! Welcome aboard. #WorldBollardAssociation🚀

A BMW hits a bell bollard and is ready for lift off.

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Beck Sinclair @beccasinclair.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

squareword.org 913: 6 guesses! 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟨 <6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 16+:🟥 #squareword #squareword913

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Squareword

A two-dimensional word game

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Paris will be the first Olympic Games of the modern era that is 100% accessible by cycling, with new bike share and new cycling lanes everywhere.

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Cyclists Are Taking Over Paris for the Olympic Games

Thousands of additional bikes for sharing, new cycle parking, miles of dedicated lanes and every venue can be reached on two wheels.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 17/07/2024

check out our newest citizen-science experiment, Tone Guesser! 🎶🧪🧠 this game, led by @courtneybhilton.bsky.social, taps your visual and auditory perception to test your intuitions for how color tones and music tones fit together. can you beat my score? try it at themusiclab.org/quizzes/toneguesser

My Tone Guesser Score: 91%ile for music and 98%ile for color.

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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

When roads are dangerous for cyclists, only people willing to engage in risky behavior will ride on them. That sets norms for more risky behavior. When roads are safer for cyclists, they attract safer, more cautious cyclists, setting those norms. Safer roads lead to safer behavior.

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Kapiti Coaster @kapiti-coaster.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

PLEASE SHARE RALLY - SATURDAY 8 JUNE, 1.00PM, WELLINGTON It is time to take collective action! PSA, alongside other unions & NGOs PPTA, E tū, NZEI Te Riu Roa, `NZNO, UNITE, TEU, NZCTU, PWUA, MUNZ, VUWSA & many more have brought our collective membership together for this rally.

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