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ramblingshrew.bsky.social @ramblingshrew.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Cancer treatment is the tip of the ice berg. Families with disabled kids have struggled due to the cruelty of the current government policies. Disability is usually less politically visible, though it has been this term due to the fear that policy changes has instilled in families.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 15/10/2026

Simeon Brown’s dismissal of any concern & horrendously ill advised ‘no one was affected’ comment yesterday alone should be bringing a govt down

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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

'Rather than lecturing teenagers on the virtues of reading—which I’ve found often backfires—I prefer to cultivate curiosity and lead by example' Claire Cunningham on engaging teen readers at Mount Roskill Grammar School: tinyurl.com/2e69hnay #pukapuka #booksky #librariansofaotearoa #schoollibraries

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Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Great and evocative review by David Hill of Catherine Chidgey's The Starving Bride www.ketebooks.co.nz/reviews/revi...

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Review: The Starving Bride, by Catherine Chidgey

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NZAS - New Zealand Association of Scientists @nzscientists.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The @savesciencenz.bsky.social election policy scorecard is out. Responses were requested from every party invited to the SSC pre-election forum. We think it makes for pretty clear reading. A PDF copy and a recording of the forum itself are linked at the top of our website - scientists.org.nz

A scorecard showing the responses of all parties in Parliament and Opportunity to science policy questions based on the Save Science Coalition's pre-election asks. ACT and National provided no responses, NZ First and Te Paati Maaori provided two, and the Greens, Labour, and Opportunity responded to all questions.

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Abbie Jury 🌱 @tikorangi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

But in the 60s, even being poor, we didn't go hungry and there were no rough sleepers. It is a choice in this day and age to have up to a third of the population facing food insecurity. Many people are way better off financially now, but off the backs of the many who are more deprived than the 1960s

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Alma De Anda @almadeanda.greens.org.nz · 14/10/2026

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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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

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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

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

Just spotted Hager walking to the launch too. Considerably less police presence than at the venue (he’s ambling along with a box of books, looking very relaxed about the imminent fuss)

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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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harriete.bsky.social @harriete.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are we gonna get a screening of the original before Black Sheeps comes out?

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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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harriete.bsky.social @harriete.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The following week, proposals to cut the team those capability facilitators come from were announced. ‘Capability Facilitator’ might sound like the worst of public service middle management, but they’re advocates for books and libraries; people who care deeply about supporting schools and children.

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harriete.bsky.social @harriete.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In the Q&A session, librarians and capability facilitators chimed in from around the auditorium with references to research, real-world examples & ideas

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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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