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just look at this shit, they have openly shoehorned "not increasing taxes" alongside other standard voting "issues", fucking outrageous they've stated it in their OWN COMMS, and I haven't seen a single political reporter or commentator call that out while boosting the Curia poll anti-democratic af

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 8h

Join me at Turnout Together: People Power vs Big Money “Aotearoa is a country with enough for all of us to live good lives. But this election has shown us what happens when big money teams up with big politics at the expense of our communities, our environment and Te Tiriti o Waitangi”. #nzpol

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Turnout Together: People Power vs Big Money

Aotearoa is a country with enough for all of us to live good lives. But this election has shown us what happens when big money teams up with big politics at the expense of our communities, our environ...

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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 5h

Polling booths and their opening hours have been published so now I know when I'm voting (my local marae on the first morning, coz I'm a giant nerd). vote.nz/2026-general...

vote.nz

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Too Long Covid 💚 @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 5h

This is what other countries experienced #nzpol

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🇵🇸 Murray O'Caht 🇵🇸 @klendool.bsky.social · 6h

It's been SIX years since chch and that whole court case and I cannot believe all the media have simply forgotten why he did what he did and are now seeing those words and thinking "nothing to report on here"

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 6h

This piece absolutely nails it and is a must read. This paragraph brought me to a standstill because it's also how we've gone from broad acceptance of trans people to journalists including comment from "gender criticals" fighting for "common sense" on every trans story.

Another layer of consideration: even if this is a genuine representation of a plethora of parental voices, we should consider also how it can be deployed in media disputes going forward. It is expressly positioned as a voice for parents, in opposition to teachers or public servants. What this will mean in practice, it seems likely, is that every time something new is introduced to the education system, the media will balance out the teacher or ministry explanation with a Parents Alliance reply. Detailed research and evidence-based conclusions will be held to the standard of
"common sense". And that, de facto, will serve the greater project of the right, undermining the idea of government itself.

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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 7h

Constantly giving ground means you'll almost never get it back. Learn your history, people. #nzpol

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 7h

consistently frustrated by progressive spaces heeding the liberal urge against conflict and giving way to the far right i think the left should be reflecting a fair bit more about where they won't cede ground, or acquiesce, rather than being forced into a final stand when most everything is gone

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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 8h

fun thing they’ve started doing in wellington is taking names off of floor listings. who has 3 floors of a building they share with the forestry and mining cartel that’s opposite the TPU and wellington club buildings, and wants to keep it secret? who knows

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 9h

A word at the end of the day about people saying "I'm okay with drug testing if all MPs have to do it". No. That is *not* where we want to go. Part of the danger of National's stunt policy is that it sets us off down a slippery slope where the privacy and human rights of *everyone* are infringed.

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 8h

asking a question like this during election polling should have you struck from the pages of any serious media outlet - unfortunately NZ doesn't have any of those in mainstream any more Curia can absolutely not be trusted to avoid push-polling - thereby changing decisions - or to even be truthful

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 8h

(new blogpost) The missing chapter from Nicky Hager's Dirty Work -throwing some reckons about regarding the media's position in how these unpleasant lobby groups operate. -with apologies to @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social whose post on here started me off morgue.isprettyawesome.com?p=8155

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The missing final chapter from ‘Dirty Work’ - From The Morgue

Nicky Hager's Dirty Work is a slender book with an ambitious purpose: to call attention to a damaging influence on NZ democracy. The book amounts to a detailed explanation of the activities of an extr...

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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 9h

OUT NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and the wider networks now flocking to "Apocalypse Insurance" Aotearoa New Zealand www.exitfromaffco.com/p/the-little...

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The Little St. James of the South Pacific

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and the path to “Apocalypse Insurance” New Zealand

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 10h

wonder if we'll see this get *critical* coverage in mainstream media, or will it be another excuse - like for Laws, Ikilei, Henry, Jones and Peters himself - to platform and amplify extremist rhetoric OR just give the guy an easy little puffpiece interview to profile lies to the public?

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 10h

Perfect response from Chlöe Swarbrick and the @greens.org.nz.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 11h

The 'good' part is that we're getting far more coverage of what a piece of shit he is rather than him quietly cooking away; the bad part is that we're getting a lot of that coverage because a heap of people in media feel like now they can openly platform it as a positive 🙃

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 12h

I wrote this because I think we have to be clear about what Peters means when he says he wants to relitigate the ban, and who the intended target of that harm is, and how this is the third time this term NZF have directly acted in line with UK anti-trans movements.

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Will Page @willpagenz.com · 14h

This is what happens when your political party is captured by radical christofash entryists. Or more to the point, you welcome radical christofascism into the top rung of your party list

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 15h

nz media simply don't have to act as an amplifier for extremist speech - there have been well established ways to report on this stuff for over a decade now 3 out 3 major outlets acting as a megaphone for far-right rhetoric here we are past the point of this being "just reporting what was said"

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 15h

cash for mates scheme last time and we should be wondering who theyve got lined up for the contract this time as well

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 17h

If you really want to get "more people off welfare and into work", consider not tanking the economy. That typically works better than performative cruelty.

The party also promised:
to provide "intensive, work-focused support" for 30,000 jobseekers who have been on Jobseeker for more than a year, with more funding for employment programmes that support young people into work.
lowering the rate of payment for those who had been on the benefit for two of the previous three years, from 1 April 2028. There would be a smaller reduction for households with dependent children.
those who repeatedly leave employment without good and sufficient reason would face a 26-week non-entitlement period, up from 13 weeks.
from 1 April 2028, the minimum residence period to qualify for main benefits will increase from two years to five years.
Upston said the party was focused on "getting more people off welfare and into work".

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026

Peters can bluster all he likes but I won't stop fighting for all trans people's right to bodily autonomy and self determination, including trans kids, and I've got a lot more years left on the clock than he does. If he thinks he can touch the conversion practices ban he's in for a fight. Tick tock!

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026

Last month @paulapenfold.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece interrogating a NZF candidate's disinformation about abortion. Today the leader of that party quite clearly shared the dogwhistle version of that rhetoric unchallenged. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

From Penfold's article:

Mundt said the abortion legislation had been "shrouded in controversy".
"It was passed just as the country was going into covid lockdowns," she wrote,
"so the focus of the nation was divertedẠại
She said NZ First had "put forward a conscience vote" and its MPs voted against the bill at its third reading.
"Their (sic) is NO upper limit to the age of a baby being aborted. If two practitioners agree, a baby can be killed right up to the day of birth," Mundt continued.

From Peters' interview today:

Asked about abortion, Peters said "the facts" were worth revisiting.
"At its worst, and it's a matter of timing, but it shades into a thing called murder. You got me here?
"It shades into a thing called murder or assassination, get any name you like. But that's the purpose. We've got to know the facts."

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some pushback on this for being depressing and doom-laden, and it certainly is. But I don’t know how people can watch e.g. the treatment of protestors by government and media in the last few years and not conclude they view the left as an enemy to be defeated, and then crushed.

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So far, only Te Pāti Māori, Greens, Free Palestine Party and Alliance have policies that call for decoupling from partnerships with the US. Hipkins, on the other hand, wants to keep Trump’s FBI office here 🫩

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

nz media have been aware of this due to the new candidates, but have predominantly acted in a boosting capacity for NZ First i wonder if theyre going to throw their liberal credentials out altogether, or if we'll finally see the warranted pushback and criticism that the coalition deserves

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, this is advertorial for a university application-padding consultancy

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

a vote for any of the current coalition parties looks to be a vote for the wholesale rollback of human rights in NZ

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh look bang on time Winston trying to undermine the other bit of LGBTQ progress we all got done when he was on his arse out of Parliament fuck you man

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Brooke Rose @brooklyn-rose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We keep hearing how a wealth tax will make the ultra rich piss off overseas, and allegedly take jobs with them. Don't hear so much about the Govt's axing of pay equity and other policies has resulted in teachers and other essential workers leaving, taking their skills and labour with them. #nzpol

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Frankly, I don’t care” epitomises Luxon’s time as PM. #nzpol Some of the things Luxon doesn’t care about: Homelessness NZers dying in hospital while waiting to be seen. People dying on the streets in winter People starving People being made homeless by no cause evictions Pay equity Racism Lies

Part of a stuff headline that epitomises Luxon’s tenure as PM

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RNZ not even bothering to fact check Luxon's outright lie.. #nzpol

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ah yes the person we needed to hear an opinion from and an insane push poll as the front page framing for the debate wtaf are nz media DOING?

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They've had power for 3 years fixing the 'basics', passed more bills under urgency than any other parliament and yet they need a 47 point emergency fix the fuck ups plan for the next term? #nzpol

Luxon unveils Nats’ 47-point business plan

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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even worse this time, because this was a credible panel assembled by Kantar they were ignoring rather than an easily gamed unscientific poll.

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ah yes the person we needed to hear an opinion from and an insane push poll as the front page framing for the debate wtaf are nz media DOING?

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

same as in the minor party debate where the panel all declared Peters the winner without mentioning he never got more than 10% on the live poll hard to call this anything except bias towards the coalition, frankly. but what is actually going on here?

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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FOR SALE: Dancing shoes. Never worn.

A NZ Herald headline by Thomas Coughlan that says: “Election 2026: National on track to lose and Christopher Luxon’s debate performance didn’t help”

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The German Greens support arming Israel, opposed a ceasefire to Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, backed the suspension of funding to Unrwa & co-sponsored a Bundestag resolution describing the arguments & methods of the peaceful… BDS campaign as antisemitic.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Green party of England and Wales facing international ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

European Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

even as a hipkins detractor... have we ever seen numbers like this? in any other year this would see a media pile on that ended Luxon's ability to show his face in this country

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think they're doing this to boost the numbers of how many people the government housed, boot people out, move new people in, say that youve moved in more people, move on orders for those now homeless, rinse repeat

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