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CindyBax

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🇬🇱 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🫘Global: climate,1.5C, with a history of oppo research. Aotearoa NZ: seabed mining, coal Mother of doggo Pearl www.kasm.org.nz and www.coalaction.org.nz

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 8h
Well this seems like good news! #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Poll says Māori are turning to the Greens for their party vote
Māori are turning to the Greens for their party vote with a new poll revealing a change described by commentators as "massive".
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Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 11h
“How sensitive is the global climate system to this loss of sea ice? We are still working to put numbers on that. But the system is changing faster than we are understanding it.” - Will Hobbs www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 15h
OMG full page full racist Hobson’s Pledge in The Post today is this even legal? #nzpol
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade thinks the reversal of the oil and gas exploration ban breached the EU Free Trade Agreement. How do we know? Because they accidentally leaked their own legal opinion in Sep 2024. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/01/g... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 29/09/2026
Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/f... #nzpol
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Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal
The Government's top law officer warned that if ministers blocked Mike Smith's Fonterra lawsuit, the next case would target the Crown directly. She's been proven right, reports Jonathan Milne.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NZ: pure shitfuckery. Great new content by @thejuicemedia.com Thanks legends #nzpol
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NZ Election 2026 | 100% Pure S*itF@^kery
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...
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Transport borrowing comes back to bite - Greater Auckland
Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expendi...
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NZ First isn't releasing their party list until the electoral commission requires them to, avoiding media scrutiny on their lower ranked candidates. It's looking likely we're going to get some real fringe characters in the next parliament
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just a few days of recent headlines A reminder of where we're at. this was just a five-minute skim #nzpol
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Christopher Luxon: Hipkins doesn't have a path to power without the radical parties and their taxes. Also Christopher Luxon: NZ1's radical "nationalise BNZ plan" has no bearing on my next government. #nzpol
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jordan Williams’ nefarious network #nzpol
Jordan WIlliams graph
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gosh how surprising 😵‍💫 #nzpol
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump is authorising seabed mining in international waters without UN approval. And NZ Govt agency Earth Sciences (formerly NIWA) is helping him. So Greenpeace activists have occupied their boat. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/act...
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ACTION: deep sea mining protest - Greenpeace Aotearoa
26 September 2026: Activists today boarded a state-owned vessel to send a clear message: Aotearoa must not be complicit in Trump’s minerals grab.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imagine doing a four-hour job interview live on RNZ Saturday morning for all the world to hear, especially after the toxic way the people who’ve just left that job have been treated. We’ve had Paddy, Emile, now Kate… I wonder if anyone’s turned down RNZ in solidarity? #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m thinking flying guillemot wallpaper 👉 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Winners of bird photographer of the year 2026 – in pictures
Photographers from all over the world entered more than 24,000 images into the world’s largest bird photography competition, with an image of a northern gannet bursting through the ocean’s surface tak...
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
hahaha
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How much has all this cost us, the ratepayers? And us, the taxpayers? What a mess
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Farah @kiwifarah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another $50,000k to donated ACT today brings the coalition donation total to over $5m ($20k+). Lots more charts in the link. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #NZPol
Bar chart titled “Current coalition total versus other parties”. The coalition received $5,045,990.86 in donations of $20,000 and over, compared with $1,818,750.64 for all other parties combined. The coalition bar is substantially taller, showing the coalition received nearly three times as much in large donations as other parties.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Advertising Stds Authority just published new rules around environmental claims in advertising - this is great, and means greenwashing can be more easily challenged. No more "green gas" or "sustainability" claims without being able to back them. Bring it #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Serious question: has ANYONE here read the book/got a copy and can at least give a run-down (or screenshot of page) on the Maiki chapter? #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And the very morning after Nicky’s book released, here’s the Herald running a story cooked up for the election campaign by another shady rw think tank whose funding is completely unknown (also an Atlas member). Kinda unbelievable #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can anyone give a summary of the Maiki Sherman chapter in Nicky Hager’s book? Why is everyone focussing on 3 Waters? #nzpol
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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 22/09/2026
Let’s not forget that one of the main reasons the Taxpayer’s Union has enjoyed such oversized influence is the news media giving them an endless platform, to the extent that Stuff partnered with them on the “Ratepayers Report”, which was a thinly veiled TPU email harvesting operation
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nicky Hager has just made the point, included in his book, that we need big donations out of politics. Luckily someone has a plan 💚 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Green Party seeks to cap political donations, stop companies donating
The Green Party wants to cap political donations at $30,000, stop companies from donating and set up a public register for lobbyists to get "big money" out of politics.
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#nzpol 🤣
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I find it interesting that Nicky Hager didn’t mention the Atlas Network in his presentation. He may have some info on them but TPU is NZ-grown and paid-for. Sure, is Atlas member and TPU ppl trained there, but that’s about it. The hysteria abt Atlas running the show here is unfounded. #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#nzpol
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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Earlier today Lukashenko said that all of Belarus' surplus of potash for export has already been contracted for export. There's no available volumes to export for Western countries. I think it's important to post this today.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Joe Romm, senior fellow at Penn sustainability center, dies" by Ethan Young for the #DailyPenn: www.thedp.com/article/2026...
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Joe Romm, senior fellow at Penn sustainability center, dies
Romm was named a senior fellow at the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media in 2023.
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 21/09/2026
Comment: National and Labour are scrambling with reactive cost-of-living policies while the Greens advance a coherent systemic alternative, writes Rob Campbell 👉 newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/21/n...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Gareth @grenow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Particularly relevant to the NZ election. #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe
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Colorful Hot Air Balloon Soaring High
ALT: Colorful Hot Air Balloon Soaring High
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"swimming in a sea of it" the full report on vested interests and the part they play in politics. Very important report #nzpol www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/res...
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Vested-interest lobbying in Aotearoa New Zealand | Ōrauariki / Wellington School of Business and Government | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Am enjoying this. Let them fight! There’s no way ACT wld let the nats do this in a coalition #nzpol National MPs don't like supermarket break-up policy - David Seymour www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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National MPs don't like supermarket break-up policy - David Seymour
The ACT Party says National MPs have been coming to them "exasperated" by their own party's policy to break up the supermarket duopoly.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you think the ref got a hard time, think of all the families across the motu who suffered domestic violence after the Warriors’ loss last night. We shld have a national count like we do with road deaths at long weekends. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/1...
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NZ Warriors NRL playoff exit leaves sour taste, as fans turn on referee, officials
Analysis - Neither the NZ Warriors nor their fans should have ended such a historic season in this manner.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Great interview that I handily listened to while Luxon interview on RNZ. Much better start to the day #nzpol Labour's Arena Williams discusses new supermarket policy www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Labour's Arena Williams discusses new supermarket policy
Labour says it will immediately tell Woolworths and Foodstuffs to split their wholesale and retail businesses, if elected in November. Labour's consumer affairs spokesperson Arena Williams spoke to Jo...
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So MBIE officials recommended spending less, but targeting the money towards local music festivals. And Louise Upston chose to spend much more, but hand it all to multinational companies and overseas artists.
They reveal MBIE’s reasoning as to why it advised the government against investing in concerts, including a lack of “wider benefit opportunities” and “no international brand visibility”, though it said many countries, including Australia and Malaysia, offer concert funds. Instead, MBIE suggested funding local music festivals with a smaller, discrete, one-off fund. This is advice which Upston also seems to have ignored; late last year, the long-running music festival Splore called it quits, saying its $240,000 funding request had been denied.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the only poll of Māori voters I've seen so far #nzpol www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/09/17/w...
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Whakaata Māori poll: Labour leads party vote as Te Pāti Māori dominates Māori roll
A new Whakaata Māori–Curia poll of 1,000 Māori voters puts Labour ahead on the party vote, while Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ranks second as preferred prime minister
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yet another fight, but one I cannot ignore The Piha campground is under threat of closure from a risk-averse council that's simply unwilling to consider the solutions that wouldn't involve it closing. Please, sign our petition!! Close to 3500 signatures in less than a week! #nzpol c.org/bmZDkT9776
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Sign the Petition
Auckland council: don't close our beloved Piha Campground!
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: US intelligence reports warn China could acquire US warplane technology if Trump continues with his F-35 jet sales to Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency has raised concerns about China's military partnership with the Saudis. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/u...
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U.S. Intelligence Warns of China Theft Over Sale of F-35 Jets to Saudis (Gift Article)
Internal reports, including one from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, say China could acquire U.S. jet technology through spying or cooperation with Saudi Arabia.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wow this is a damning article. Winton’s in-house lawyer resigned an hour before she was supposed to defend the fast-track consented Sunfield project against Auckland Council’s high court challenge #nzpol
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can we spell C O R R U P T I O N in Aotearoa? #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ACT pledges to keep the poor as poor as possible #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ler’s not forget the battle it took to get here. And no, it wasn’t down to this govt no matter how many ministers try to claim it. #nzpol
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So it’s Emil’s interview today. Last week it was Paddy… what Aucklander will we have on next week’s RNZ Saturday? #nzpol
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Carl B Latro @carlblatro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chewie arrested for taking notes on his cellphone at an ACT party public meeting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFUJ... #nzpol
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#BHN Chewie finds himself at Central police Station for asking the wrong questions at ACT meeting
YouTube video by Big Hairy Network
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What crisis did National borrow for? Everyone else had an excuse #nzpol
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 LG smart TVs have been caught collecting data even while offline or in standby mode. An investigation found models could scan nearby Wi-Fi devices, track what you’re watching, and even store microphone audio while disconnected, then upload that data once the TV reconnects to the internet.
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