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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 15h

“As part of it, Meloni recorded a four-second audio where she says "Io sono Giorgia" - I am Giorgia Meloni" in Italian - twice.” Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Italy PM Giorgia Meloni files to protect her voice from AI deepfakes

Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes.

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 21h

Seven properties and no solar panels. And his idea of exciting investment is snow-making machinery.

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 6h

Steve Braunias totally nails the Leaders Debate and Luxon's performance: "For 90 minutes, he often looked weak, petty, not especially smart, not all that interested in principle, a gimp. It has been easy to see why there have been leadership challenges." #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/07/l...

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Leaders debate: night of the possibly living dead

Steve Braunias reviews the Leaders Debate

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1) PSA is not an accurate enough test for a prostate screening programme. 2) First-world countries fund both health and foreign aid. Real lack of ambition here. #NzPol

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Election 2026: National promises to cut foreign aid to boost Pharmac's budget, cancer screenings

The National Party wants to redirect foreign aid money into funding for new medicines, if it leads the next government.

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Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look. What I say to you is this. Not only will we build more roads, we'll make them cheaper for you to buy a dirty, gas guzzling ute or related SUV gas guzzler like the Ford Everest on. Just what you need when Luxon is supporting Trump's mad oil war. #nzpol www.beehive.govt.nz/release/easi...

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Jonathan Brewer @kiwibrew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think 360's more of a pirouette.

Chris Luxon doing a pirouette on top of a black BMW i7 limo with Parliament in the background.

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Rocked by a nightmare poll, National takes massive pivot and announces 100 new roads of national significance

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Sarah Chambers @sarahpolo10.bsky.social · 20h

Interesting they just interviewed 2 national supporters who are now changing their votes after the debate. I feel there are a lot of us terminally online & across his many fibs etc but this for some people will be the first time they have watched him for more than a soundbite. It's not impressive.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 21h

Ooof

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White guy complains about indigenous people taking over a country; the concept of irony leaps off a bridge in despair

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Mary Kathleen @cioccolata.bsky.social · 4h

He told us who he was from Day 1.

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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 9h

Election hoardings are so offensive. #nzpol #BillboardLiberationFront

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 8h

Which would you rather slash to pay for more Pharmac meds? 1) Foreign aid to poverty stricken people and disaster areas 2) subsidies to Big Tobacco 3) subsidies to oil and gas companies 4) RONS 5) an LNG terminal

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 8h

Credit to Hayden Donnell for asking Winston directly about his transphobia on two occasions during his little tour of the North Shore and peeling off that veneer of charm to reveal what he is for a few seconds. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-...

“She's a total nobody,” he insists to The Spinoff. “I'm not offending anybody. I'm in a public place, and she's saying that I've got no right to come to a public place, and only you would give her coverage for an extraordinarily arrogant argument like that. What's your next question?”

The Spinoff goes back to Anderson, asking what he’d say to someone like that, who’s worried about her child and the effect his policies are having on him. “Why doesn’t she wait till the child grows up before she starts deciding for a child what the child wants?” he ventures.

For a second, the charisma is gone, replaced by something darker. But then, informed that Anderson’s son isn’t a young child, he gets back to more familiar territory. “You don't know how old? This is a jack up. I'm not wasting my time on such silly questions. Go back to The Spinoff, and you're not going to win the election,” he says. Then he flashes that grin. The eyes twinkle.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 9h

A Dutch environmental group claims NZ has broken its climate change commitments made in the EU free trade agreement, and has filed a complaint through the European Commission. NZ govt is looking around for someone to blame. My #Cartoon today #NZpol #EUfreeTrade #ClimateChange

Cartoon. Title: “Patriot Games” PM Christopher Luxon and Trade Minister Todd McClay as schoolboys, looking surly. Luxon is saying, “Breaching the European Free Trade agreement?! What I want to know is who dobbed us in?!” McClay is saying, “Oooh, ha, watch yourself Chlöe” as she falls over his outstretched foote.w

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Mary Kathleen @cioccolata.bsky.social · 4h

He told us who he was from Day 1.

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 19h

"And besides your debate is stupid anyway, I don't need any of you" he said through clenched teeth, his eyes welling up with tears.

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BINGO!💥

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 6h

Pondering - is it the socially conservative fundamentalist Christians within the National Party who are out of touch and out of step with the rest of NZ??

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 4h

Keep threatening me with the best time, pollsters. #nzpol

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4h

Burning Down The House #NZPol

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 21h

Watching Luxon trying to be prime ministerial is like watching a Neanderthal wander aimlessly around a nuclear reactor, smearing it with mud and hitting it with sticks, whilst proclaiming ‘what I’m saying to you is I’m doing a really great job of running this thing’ #nzpol

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I thought this shrub my mother gave me had died 18 months ago, but I cut down to the ground where there was one small leaf left. Now it is glorious

Dark green leafed shrub with large purple flowers. A pink azalea is flowering behind it

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Mary Kathleen @cioccolata.bsky.social · 4h

Public Interest NZ interview with Nicky Hager about NZ history & political agendas portrayed in several of his recent books. youtube.com/watch?v=taCF...

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How do you manufacture a movement? Nicky Hager on Dirty Work | Undercurrents

YouTube video by Public Interest NZ

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Mary Kathleen @cioccolata.bsky.social · 21h

#TVNZLeadersDebate. Luxon keeps interrupting. With lies about Labour.

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Me & Coffee ☕️ @thembird.bsky.social · 21h

#nzpol Luxon is still lying. His own minister was cornered in the house to admit they only hired 54 nurses in 2 years. The debate isn't parliament, Jack Tame, you can ask him why he's lying.

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Mary Kathleen @cioccolata.bsky.social · 21h

#54nurses Luxon has claimed during leaders debate on TVNZ, that Coalition hired 2100 nurses who were recruited by Labour in 2023. #54nurses

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is something kind of amusing about the Nats going full tilts into their ideology and cancelling everything Labour had put in place, firing tens of thousands of public servants, selling public housing under urgency just to find out the public dont like it #NZPol

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 06/10/2026

On the morning of his big debate with the National leader, Chris Hipkins might have been thrown off balance but made it to safe ground.

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Hipkins camp’s near miss with (too many) swing voters

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dealing with death of a close friend so not really in mood for this bullshit, but graphic material feat. the ChCh terrorism has been posted by the far-right Counterspin Media yet again to some of its accounts. Given clear harms, I've reported the material to DIA www.dia.govt.nz/Countering-V...

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Mary Kathleen @cioccolata.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our current reality in NZ. Well worth reading. paulbarlow.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...

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This isn’t PREFU

The Other Pre-Election reports

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Case and point 👇 Yet this isn't my first rodeo. I've had a lot of practice receiving abuse and death threats. But we've got some incredible first time candidates who are also queer, Muslim, Māori, and hold other marginalised identities - this abuse isn't special or unique to me.