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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East

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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Turning public goods and services into commercial entities for privatised profit was absurd in 1986 and it's absurd today." The Alliance would progressively buy back the strategic assets sold off in the 80s and 90s, starting with the electricity system. #nzpol
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Alliance Public Ownership and Economic Democracy Policy
The Alliance launches a reverse privatisation plan for essential services, strategic infrastructure and democratic public ownership.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PREFU says agency budgets are fixed in dollar terms. Each future Budget can add $2.4 billion in new spending, with no adjustment for inflation. Inflation lifts the tax take while those budgets stand still. A fixed budget buys less each year prices rise. The surplus is planned on that gap. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"By cracking down on bad actors and unethical practices, we remove the financial incentive to exploit. This will help to restore industry and manufacturing on our shores." Open, not owned. The Alliance trade policy, from Josh Harford.
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Open, Not Owned: Alliance Party Announces... | The Alliance
Read the Alliance trade policy: fair and managed trade, support for New Zealand industry, workers’ rights and economic sovereignty.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Redistribution of wealth without a rebalance of power would represent a gilded cage for working people, so we want to go further." The Alliance constitutional policy puts Te Tiriti o Waitangi at the centre and power back in the hands of ordinary people.
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Te Tiriti, Democracy and Constitutional Policy | Alliance Party
Our Te Tiriti o Waitangi, democracy and constitutional policy puts popular sovereignty, participatory democracy, social justice and Te Tiriti at its centre.
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Sara Dyatlova-Murphy aka Smurphy @sara-dyatlova.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In 1974, this country set up a national superannuation scheme. It was scrapped the next year. The Alliance would start rebuilding it, with a $10,000 endowment in KiwiSaver accounts, locked in for retirement.
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Retirement, Aged Care and KiwiSaver Policy | Alliance Party
Our retirement and aged care policy keeps Super at 65, lifts the couple rate, ends the asset test for rest home care and supercharges KiwiSaver.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"It's time we started thinking of housing more like manners at a potluck. Everyone gets a plate before anyone has seconds." The Alliance housing policy: a five-year public building programme. allianceparty.nz/the-right-to...
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The Right to a Roof | Alliance Housing Policy 2026
Alliance proposes a five-year public housing programme, a 25 percent net-income cap on Kāinga Ora rents and state-backed mortgages, and co-ownership.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The best thing we can do for victims is stop making new ones." The Alliance justice policy tackles the causes of offending and puts restorative justice at the centre of the system. Three strikes and into treatment.
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Justice Policy: Three Strikes and into Treatment | Alliance
Alliance’s 2026 Justice Policy: prevent harm, rehabilitate, support victims and guarantee access to justice regardless of wealth.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes, super is going to cost more. We already decided to pay it. So the question isn't whether, it's when. We won't fund the GP, so we fund the hospital. We won't fund the pension, so we fund the rest home. That's not a saving. That's a bill posted forward. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A small business shouldn't be giving an interest free loan to a company many times its size. The Alliance small business policy brings in mandatory maximum payment terms, public reporting on how long big buyers take to pay, and a publicly owned development bank. #nzpol
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Small Business, Local Enterprise and Cooperatives | Alliance
Alliance backs small businesses and cooperatives with low-cost finance, fairer payment terms, stronger competition rules and support for employee buy-outs.
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Oliver @oiwoods.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Glad to see the Alliance Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is back in business, polling 1% behind TOP amongst Māori voters (and 3% behind National!). thespinoff.co.nz/atea/17-09-2...
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Whakaata Māori poll: Labour leads party vote as Te Pāti Māori dominates Māori roll
Hauraki-Waikato MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke has drawn strong backing in the preferred prime minister stakes in a new poll.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
52 weeks paid parental leave, including casual, seasonal and part time workers. A Universal Child Benefit paid straight to the principal caregiver, indexed to wages. A Pay Equity Bureau with real enforcement powers. Alliance gender equality policy is out. #nzpol
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52 Weeks’ Paid Parental Leave and Gender Equality | Alliance
The Alliance proposes at least 52 weeks’ paid parental leave, a Universal Child Benefit and stronger pay equity enforcement in its gender equality plan.
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Sara Dyatlova-Murphy aka Smurphy @sara-dyatlova.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Sara Dyatlova-Murphy aka Smurphy @sara-dyatlova.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Social security with dignity and individualised irrespective of relationship status Read more here: allianceparty.nz/alliance-pla...
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"We live like kings compared to 80 years ago" is a real comment on our tax plan reel. Sure, cheaper TVs and phones. Not cheaper houses, power, rent or insurance. I can live with a bad tv. A bad house slowly kills you. In 1991, 60% of people in their late twenties owned a home. By 2018, 43%. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A state shipping line. Rail and coastal shipping as the backbone of domestic freight. Ports and transit publicly owned. Alliance transport policy is out. We're an island at the bottom of the world with no ships of our own, and that's a choice. #nzpol
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National Transport Strategy | Alliance Party Policy
Alliance proposes publicly owned transport, rail and coastal shipping as freight backbones, a State shipping line and better public transport across the...
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Free GP visits. Free dental, optical and audiology. The Alliance would bring primary care into a public Community Health Service, so practices stop being small businesses and staff become public employees. Same clinic, same doctor, no bill. #nzpol
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Alliance announces free community healthcare plan | Media release
Alliance proposes a public Community Health Service with free GP, dental, optical and audiology care, team-based prevention and workforce pay parity.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
100% public ownership of electricity. Public water. No mining in national parks. A Genuine Progress Index over GDP. An economy can get worse on paper while people get of better. Alliance environment policy is out. #nzpol
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Environment & Climate Policy | Alliance Party
Public power, clean water and polluters pay. Explore Alliance’s environment and climate policy, with a just transition for workers and communities.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
35-hour week, no loss in pay. Five weeks leave. A real right to strike. Work councils and elected worker directors. Wage theft treated as theft, and corporate manslaughter law. The Alliance workers' rights policy is out. #nzpol
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Alliance Unveils Full Employment And 35-Hour... | The Alliance
Alliance proposes full employment, a 35-hour week with no loss in pay, five weeks of annual leave and stronger union and workplace rights.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An extra $2,408 a year if you earn $65,000. That's the Alliance tax policy: the first $20,000 of everyone's income tax-free, paid for by taxing wealth over $2m and capital gains. Everyone under $178,150 pays less income tax. Tax wealth, not work. #nzpol
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Alliance Tax Plan Makes First $20,000 Income... | The Alliance
Alliance proposes making the first $20,000 of income tax-free, funded by a wealth tax. A worker on $65,000 would keep an extra $2,408 a year.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
National plans to raise the income limit for first home buyer loans to 300k. If those earners can't save and buy a home, then we need a full relook at the system, not just throwing more money on the bonfire. #nzpol #kikorangi
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Use rates for just the essentials this government says. While gutting the little national funding councils get for the essentials. Genius move. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Labour's guaranteeing every graduate nurse a job from 2027. Good policy, real problem. But it's a job offer somewhere, and it doesn't say where. The subsidy seems to be there to make jobs exist, not make them attractive. Getting a grad to stay rural isn't just about money. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Forty years of policy has left the average Kiwi struggling, and we're only allowed one argument about it. Does it pay for itself. What's the return. Even the left frames it that way now. We're allowed to just say a thing is right. We've mostly forgotten that. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
They sent the form back on time. Did exactly what was asked. Their benefit stopped anyway, because MSD couldn't process the volume it had created. MSD's words: payments were suspended despite people providing the information. The Minister took a corridor where reporters can't follow. #nzpol
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Minister Louise Upston denies dodging questions over missed benefit payments
Social Development Minister Louise Upston has appeared to avoid reporters waiting to ask about benefit payments being wrongly suspended, using a side corridor to enter Parliament's debating chamber on...
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Filing this one away for 2029: caps become targets. In New South Wales, 127 of 128 councils have had to apply for a special variation to get above theirs. Not one of them managed to live inside it. We're about to find out the same thing the expensive way. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Been re-reading the Odyssey. Zeus's law runs through it. A stranger turns up with nothing, you give them a bath, a bed and a meal, and only then ask who they are. That's what being fit to rule looked like. We fine them $2,000 for sleeping in a doorway. We'd be the monsters in the poem. #nzpol
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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If the health of you or your family have suffered from lack of hspital care, don't blame the staff, blame Health Minister Simeon Brown and #HealthNZ. They're responsible for restricitng hiring of health workers, including frontline staff! #NZpol ⚕️ 🏥 🚑👩‍⚕️ 👨‍⚕️ www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
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Documents reveal Health NZ hiring crackdown
Health NZ leaders told the Health Minister tight controls on hiring staff were crucial to delivering its budget and that recruitment of any frontline worker was only possible with the sign-off of seni...
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Another "under urgency" screw up. Who's suprised? Laws are complex, interconnected behemoths, and shouldn't be changed on a whim. If only we had a system in place to try and catch badly written laws, oh wait 😑 #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The degradation of our health system shows up when you need something semi-serious handled. Friend hit their head. Still feeling off a day later. Wants to see their GP. That's exactly what primary care is for. No appointments for four weeks. The options shouldn't be a month or ED. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What are unions? I'm sure many people have strong opinions, but plenty also have no idea what they are or why they exist. Here I try to sum up some thoughts on the matter #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Stood with the PSA nurses outside Nurse Maude yesterday. Part of the dispute is two days of sick leave the employer wants back, granted while they waited on a pay equity deal the Government then cancelled. People who nurse others at home, asked to trade their own health for wages. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
First complete national picture of our water networks is out. 11,535 wastewater overflows last year. 31 a day. A fifth of treatment plants running on expired consents. Moa Point was never a Wellington problem. This is what forty years of deferred maintenance looks like when the bill lands. #nzpol
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First complete water network report points to 'severe' pressures
The first national picture of water networks has revealed "severe" and "immense" pressures, with an average 31 wastewater overflows across New Zealand every day.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A bloke called a new mum 'lazy' for taking maternity leave, and the surprising part is apparently that this ended his campaign rather than launched it at NZ First. Small mercies. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I lost a tooth I didn't have to lose. New Zealand gives every child free dental care, then abandons them at 18. Cost stops around 1.6 million adults from getting the care they need, and we have the highest unmet dental need in the developed world. Teeth aren't a luxury. They're health. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NZ First's big campaign idea: a billion dollars to go looking for oil that, on their own numbers, is six years from powering anything. We have a fuel security problem now. You don't fix it by betting a billion on a survey and hoping. You fix it by building generation we own and control here. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lyttelton port is a natural monopoly. You can't spin up a competitor to keep prices honest. It stays in public hands . DP World shouldn't be here. Look at Australia. A 30 year lease is barely better. They extract, then walk. Lyttelton was clear. If words won't work, direct action will.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Keep Our Port Public. Packed house at The Loons in Lyttelton tonight. $7.5b of exports went through our port last year. It's owned by the people of Christchurch, and the dividends come back to us. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Greens' opt-out union policy is going in the right direction. Union membership was compulsory here from 1936 till 1991. Compulsory had real downsides, I won't pretend otherwise. But a default you can walk away from keeps the choice and drops the friction. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Turns out 'your wage isn't your worth' is a far more polarising thing to say than I thought. I'm not naive I expected some argument, I just didn't expect that much. Which probably says more about how deep the idea runs than anything I said. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
National's polling lower than at any point under Luxon and the coalition still gets back in. The government's collapsing and the vote just slides sideways to Winston and Seymour, who've been there the whole time. Somehow the junior partners have convinced everyone the mess is National's alone #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Not to use money as a reason for something that should be a moral call, but while we have a public health system that treats anyone who show's up for free, it is unreservedly cheaper to just house everyone.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
i’m not averse to some of these policies, but as my guest notes in the healthcare episode i’ll upload today - almost all Labour policy of this sort so far is direct wealth transfer to private business we desperately need structural changes and public service/infra investment to solve this
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
$430m in supermarket excess profit. State Insurance sold in 1990, premiums up 500%. Kiwibank at 7%, big four can ignore it, government wants to sell that too. Power: $2.41 in dividends per $1 in new generation. We sold the public option. Prices went up. Every time. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The medical sector is an area I care very deeply about. The fact it exists at all, as a concept, is a testament to the kindness within us as a people. That it's been allowed to be cut and gutted and hammered until breaking should be an equal condemnation.
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You can cancel a streaming service. You can't cancel food, rent, or a bank account. When you can't walk away, the seller stops competing and starts calculating the maximum you can pay before you break. That's inelastic demand. That's why the cost of living never comes down. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
@victorbillot.bsky.social with the Moana Chief at Lyttelton yesterday. The last NZ-flagged, NZ-crewed container ship on our coast. Swire pulls it from service in months. After that, a country this remote moves nothing on its own coastline without a foreign ship and a foreign crew. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
UK Labour is chasing Reform and ignoring the left that built them. NZ Labour has the same blind spot. The Alliance exists in the ground they walked away from. They could take it back any time but they won't. #nzpol
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Ethan Gullery - Alliance Candidate for Christchurch East @ethangulleryeast.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We have sold so much of what we built together, nationally and locally. That bleeding of public assets into private hands can't just be slowed. It has to be reversed. We protect what's left and we build more, or we keep paying private owners forever for things we used to own outright. #nzpol
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