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Alma De Anda @almadeanda.greens.org.nz · 9h
The Green Party are backing farmers to succeed & we believe we have more in common than most think. Alma & Dave, your candidates for Selwyn & Rangitata, will be at the Ellesmere A&P Show this Saturday. So come on over and say hi. Let’s chat about what we can do together, for all of us. #nzpol
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 12/10/2026
Children and young people who read every day are more likely to report high levels of wellbeing than those who rarely or never read, according to new research from the National Literacy Trust. 👇
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Daily readers report higher wellbeing National Literacy Trust research finds
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
World Premiere of BLACK SHEEPS in Sitges tonight! So proud to share the night with two of our stars, Tabatha Killick and Nathan Meister! Sitges is a genre filmmakers’ dream: treated like blimmin royalty!
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Raymond Huber compiled this list of children's books that challenge dictators back in 2017. We're sharing it again during Banned Books Week as it remains, sadly, relevant: www.thesapling.co.nz/2017-05-25-t...
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Book List: The Dictator and The Picture Book - The Sapling
Children’s author, writing teacher and editor Raymond Huber is fascinated by the way in which children’s writers have used picture books historically to fight dictators. This is especially apt right n...
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The starving of the towns and cities outside of NZ’s main half dozen is a great crime of the last 40 years – while places like Auckland just bloat and spread endlessly. Thank goodness one party is think about what they can offer the whole country – and how we all win from that.
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Accusing your political rivals of treason because you're so racist that you can't even deal with Spanish names, now *that* is bottoming out.
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Perspectives on publication: Melinda Szymanik and Holly Walmsley on getting published in New Zealand: tinyurl.com/3e79ypw9 #kidlit #pukapuka #picturebooks #publishing
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Perspectives on publication: Melinda Szymanik and Holly Walmsley share vantage points - The Sapling
Experienced author Melinda Szymanik shares insights into children's publishing with new writer Holy Walmsley
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harriete.bsky.social @harriete.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Love this reverie from Vasanti Unka
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can’t speak for NZ’s electoral history, but can authoritatively say that nothing like what I'm studying at present around the far-right's influence operations, coordinated messaging, & related funding (propped by billionaires) was this evident in the lead up to the 2023 general election. #nzpol
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because of gender and ethnic pay gaps in Aotearoa, Pacific women are now working for free until the end of the year. This election year, we need to vote for pay equity. It’s the only way to make sure that all working people are respected, valued, and paid what they’re owed. #nzpol
Tile showing a rally march with people carrying signs and flags. Text reads: “From today until the end of the year Pacific women are working for free because of gender and ethnic pay gaps. Working for Free Calendar.' Flower logo reads “Respect Us, Value Us, Pay Us.” Footer text: “*Stats NZ Household Labour Force Survey 2026.”
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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's great now that climate change has been cancelled we don't have to worry about coastal erosion anymore.
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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chlöe Swarbrick gives an almighty summation of the current governing coalition’s record. Her speech, given as parliament closes for the election, also outlines why the @greens.org.nz need to lead the next government… the video is well worth your time. #nzpol
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vida Kelly shared her insights on book design with The Sapling earlier this week: www.thesapling.co.nz/book-designe...
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Book designers on what makes a good book - The Sapling
The finalists for the children’s categories in the PANZ Book Design Awards share their insights on designing books for children. The PANZ Book Design Award ceremony will be held on Thursday, when the ...
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Congratulations to Vida Kelly, Giselle Clarkson and Gecko Press – OMNIBIRD has won the Gerard Reid Book of the Year award at the Award st the PANZ book design awards this evening
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So a really important New Zealand book is published today. No, not that one. This one! The fourth and final Violet and the Velvets!
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
All of the three parties in the coalition have indulged in providing a streamlined gateway for anti-evidence groups to get their fringe ideas written into policy. The most anti science, anti research, anti expertise government we’ve had in living memory. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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NZ First’s health policy copy-pasted from advocacy group’s website
New Zealand First released a health policy on Sunday that is largely copy-and-pasted from a charitable trust called Make New Zealand Healthy.
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Five: “…the Taxpayers’ Union earning money by collaborating with the tobacco industry year after year – helping the tobacco industry giant British American Tobacco fight smokefree legislation so it can continue to sell products that kill half of their long-term customers.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Three: “I think one of the grubbiest dirty politics attacks in recent history was the hit job that pushed Maiki Sherman out of her position as political editor at TVNZ a few months ago. The inside story is told for the first time in Chapter 5.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two: “The little understood story of David Seymour, who barely mentioned race politics for six years in parliament and then suddenly became Mr-Anti-Treaty as if he’d always deeply cared… he and others unleashed the worst race politics in a generation.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“And now the third book in the trilogy. This book is an exposé of the so-called Taxpayers’ Union, the latest front for New Zealand’s hard right.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Burton uncovering the book poster. The poster is revealed giving the title of the new book, Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right. By Nicky Hager. Potton & Burton.
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harriete.bsky.social @harriete.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve never seen Unity so full: 20 minutes before the Hager launch is due to start…
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We should be rioting honestly WTF
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The Black Sheeps trailer is here. And, yes, there are exploding sheeps heads.”
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The 'Black Sheeps' Trailer Is Here, and Yes, There Are Exploding Sheep Heads
20 years after 'Black Sheep', Jonathan King is returning to genetically modified animal horror with 'Black Sheeps'. Now, here's the trailer.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It amazes me....
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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It is hard to convey the glory of magnolia season here.
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We’re so excited that it’s been announced at last that BLACK SHEEPS will have its world premiere at the Sitges International Film Festival, the biggest genre festival in the world, in Spain in October!
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
'Now is the time to strengthen literacy support infrastructure, not strip it away.' SLANZA's Rochelle Turnbull and Lauryn Urquhart on the proposed cuts at the National Library: www.thesapling.co.nz/the-reckonin... #NZpol #pukapuka #literacy #libraries #booksky
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The Reckoning: Stripping away literacy support infrastructure - The Sapling
SLANZA’s Rochelle Turnbull and Lauryn Urquhart on a critical assault to library services being made in the name of cost cutting Now is the time to strengthen literacy support infrastructure, not strip...
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harriete.bsky.social @harriete.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Two weeks ago I attended a panel discussion at the Nat Lib on reading for pleasure. I was moved by the depth of knowledge & passionate concern in the room for kids and their access to books …
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wait, what - chaotic climate change is bad for the bottom line?? Who knew. 🤷🏻‍♀️ (Conversely: climate action is good for the bottom line, actually - time to act and vote accordingly!) www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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'A big fat risk': The very real effect El Niño could have on your grocery bill
Households already struggling with high grocery bills could face more pressure if El Niño brings prolonged dry weather to parts of the country.
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350 Aotearoa @350nz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We need a politics of care; not extraction and exploitation.
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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Amazing the amount of vandalism you can do in a short period with hard work and determination
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Generations of people in New Zealand will have harder lives thanks to our governments failing to do our country’s part to reduce emissions. Short term political gain, long term economic, health, biodiversity pain. #nzpol
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As a child Elaine Bickell had ambitions to 'Be a writer and live in obscurity'. She hasn't quite managed obscurity, but here's a day in her writing life: www.thesapling.co.nz/a-day-in-the...
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This election should be a youthquake. Kids: enrol to vote, then vote like your lives depend on it, because they do.✊ Everyone else: vote like those young people (who’ll be picking up after *all this mess*, including you in your vulnerable old age) plan to ask you how YOU voted…because they should.
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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Since the coalition was elected, landlords have received benefits equivalent to more than 25 years of Treaty settlement redress. #nzpol
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Landlord tax break cost rose by $800m to $2.9b
National’s pre-election fiscal and tax plans costed the policy at $2.1b.
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Will be on RNZ midday with Guyon Espiner talking about the Bill. Hopefully coherent but in case it's not: ban won't work, legal duties on platforms might. NZ is small but we can and do regulate services to make sure they don't cause harm to NZers. We can do that here, too! #nzpol
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And we COULD do it! We could develop enforceable, legal duties of care based in human rights, te Tiriti and safety by design. We could make digital spaces safer. We could ban the collection, harvesting and use of our data. We could regulate the development and deployment of AI.
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
'We live in Mahy’s harbour of the guggliwugs! We couldn't have chosen a more appropriate author for August's Mahy Questionnaire: www.thesapling.co.nz/the-mahy-que... @krisherbertbooks.bsky.social #pukapuka #booksky
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My friend 
the high school teacher
worries most people
refuse to read 
challenging books. My friend
the epidemiologist 
worries most people refuse to read 
scientific reports. 
My friend
the historian
worries most people refuse to read 
the writing on the wall.
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Book Haven @bookhavennz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"There’s an ethical & moral argument to be made against the destruction of books...No doubt second-hand booksellers, receiving bulk orders are finding themselves having to weigh up difficult decisions." For us, also the issue is do we want to be involved in offshoring of knowledge for AI companies?
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Chantalle Smith @chaneyz85.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It does make me smile when I see the 8yo get so excited over a book. He told me his school librarian helped him find it ❤️ All primary schools should have a dedicated librarian. And they definitely should earn better pay than they currently do. The work they do is so important ❤️
A boy is sitting on a bus reading a graphic novel
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here's Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan with the background on Margaret Mahy Book of the Year A GUIDE TO ROCKS: www.thesapling.co.nz/the-margaret... 📸 Rebecca McMillan Photography @nzcyabookawards.bsky.social
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Very proud of my niece @jemyoshioka.bsky.social making the finalist list a couple of times for the #NZCYA held tonight. Congrats to everyone nominated because you make reading so great for our kids!! 🙌🙌🙌🤗
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harriete.bsky.social @harriete.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’ll be covering the NZCYA ceremony on The Sapling tonight. Click through for all of our book award coverage so far, too.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Woohoo! Max Harris announced tonight that Labour will reinstate pay equity. And with no less than Dame Marilyn Waring looking on! #nzpol
Max Harris (Labour candidate for Tāmaki) standing in front of 3 speakers on pay equity, including Dame Marilyn Waring) Dame Marilyn Waring.
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every reader has a story! We're thrilled to share the winning entries from the Kiwi Christmas Books student writing competition, & especially to share them during the inaugural NZ Children's Book Week! www.thesapling.co.nz/every-reader... #NZChildrensBookWeek #pukapuka #KiwiChristmasBooks #booksky
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Grow From Here @growfromhere.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hellabores from my garden today
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
'give your favourite children’s book to another adult and tell them why you love it, and why they should give it a go' Alex Adank issues a challenge for adult readers, and shares the background the NZ Children's Book Week: www.thesapling.co.nz/nz-childrens...
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