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Liam Boardman

@liamjboardman.bsky.social
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Still dabbling. Socialist/Greenie Pākehā. He/him

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 1h
Timaru Herald visual journalist Aiman Amerul Muner went along to WishCon at the Caroline Bay Hall on Sunday.
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Out & About: WishCon in Timaru
Timaru Herald visual journalist Aiman Amerul Muner went along to WishCon at the Caroline Bay Hall on Sunday.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 3h
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade thinks the reversal of the oil and gas exploration ban breached the EU Free Trade Agreement. How do we know? Because they accidentally leaked their own legal opinion in Sep 2024. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/01/g... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 32m
'Piggy bank is empty' nonsense provides cover for the political class. Once the lie is exposed, they have to answer questions like 'If we have 100,000s of people wanting work, and plenty of raw materials, why is our infrastructure falling to bits? Sounds like mismanagement, ay? (It is!)
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 2h
That, I think, is why some of the attacks on Swarbrick feel oddly objectless. The danger isn’t just what she might do as Finance Minister. It’s what she might reveal about the people who have spent 40 years telling us the money is all gone. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...
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Chlöe Swarbrick Nicked Luxon’s Cotton Reel
Lacan explains why the tough guys of fiscal politics are so emotional right now
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 21h
Fiscal rules are targets set by governments to limit borrowing, debt, or deficits over time. They are presented as if they are neutral, technical constraints on what governments can do. In reality, they are arbitrary political choices.
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nzrailphotos @nzrailphotos.co.nz · 1h
Daily train trips in Auckland up 60 percent in two weeks since City Rail Link opened www.rnz.co.nz/news/community/166203…
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Daily train trips in Auckland up 60 percent in two weeks since City Rail Link opened
The number of train trips taken a day in Auckland is up nearly 60 percent since the new City Rail Link opened.
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 7h
"When mayors complained about having to throw $9m into the bin, Watts told them to stop playing politics. Even that’s chump change compared to the costs the government has imposed on Auckland Council with its series of flip-flops, backtracks and U-turns on housing" #nzpol
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No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government
The $9 million already spent on council amalgamation proposals is just the start.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 8h
A Dutch environmental group claims New Zealand has broken its #climatechange promises in the free trade agreement with the EU and is lodging the first complaint of its kind through the European Commission. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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NZ accused of breaking climate change promise with EU, but Todd McClay rejects claim
A Dutch environmental group claims New Zealand has broken its climate change promises in the free trade agreement with the EU and is lodging the first complaint of its kind through the European Commis...
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naomi @skuaenjoyer.bsky.social · 12h
essentially the western 1/3 of Colorado was stolen from Ute people. Their 1868 treaty says that land was “set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation”
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✧°・:* izzie *:・°✧ @winterwhe.at · 17h
2.3% of the entire population as of 2023 btw. for reference the US is 0.19% in 2025. part of this is new zealand using a pretty broad definition but like. yeah. it's not good.
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katie @supermathskid.bsky.social · 17h
Oh so it was only ever meant to criminalise *as terrorists* people who threw some paint, then. Cool cool cool cool cool
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Takaichi spoke briefly with Trump after the Xi summit. Koizumi questioned the nuclear taboo again. Takaichi’s new cabinet polls poorly. observingjapan.substack.com/p/yalta-20-j...
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“Yalta 2.0”? | Japan Daily Briefing
Takaichi seeks to reassure the public after the US-China summit, but the signs of anxiety in Tokyo are abundant
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The NZ Transport Agency flagged that the development would consume available capacity of the roundabout and would bring forward the need for future improvements.' #NzPol
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can at the very least describe him as Far Right thanks to this Media Council ruling successfully defended by RNZ about him being a far right weirdo www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/max-...
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MAX SHIERLAW AGAINST RNZ
If you have a complaint about the editorial content of a newspaper, magazine or periodical in circulation in New Zealand (including their websites) you may complain to the Media Council.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When the right say we can’t tax the rich because of the ‘economy’, what they really mean is we can’t tax the rich or the rich won’t be able to afford so many super yachts. www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/29/j...
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Jeff Bezos' $800m superyacht Koru docks in Auckland
The 127m-long, 17m-wide superyacht passed Rangitoto before docking at Wynyard Quarter.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
Honestly a lot of the “look at what AI can do for you!” things can be replaced with a basic shell script.
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JJW @jjw.wtf · 29/09/2026
a surplus of doctors, teachers, artists, writers, solar panels, cycle lanes etc etc would be good too
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JJW @jjw.wtf · 29/09/2026
how about a surplus of public services? or perhaps a surplus of cash in your bank account after every pay cheque? there's definitely a surplus of rich cunts.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
VFF's RCR platform/app now has a curated Election 2026 section framed as "Trusted coverage of the issues that matter most". Podcasts being added at pace, but examined 21, going back to April (many of which I had studied previously too). RCR output truly rivals an MSM broadcasting platform. #nzpol
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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Bernard Hickey detailed breakdown of the PREFU for The Kākā paid subscribers ( hopefully opened up to everyone soon ). TLDR; It is nowhere near as bad as the current opposition is claiming, claims which could amount to economic sabotage by National & Act. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/wednesdays...
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Wednesday’s Chorus: The PREFU's missing debt
Listen now (40 mins) | Treasury sees higher bond debt in PREFU, but misses reporting growing climate, health, productivity & housing debt due to public investment drought in tandem with 2% population ...
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#nzpol Today's update from Treasury shows ongoing pain for working people and declining public services if New Zealand stays on the same track:
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PREFU shows jobs pain and service cuts locked in under Luxon NZCTU
Treasury’s Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU) forecasts show ongoing pain for working people and declining public services if the fiscal approach doesn’t change. The election provides an ...
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Judy Martin @southernrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was annoyed to see a comment by Jenna Lynch that the Greens had basically been "invisible" recently. What?! They've been putting out policy and fronting up non-stop. Invisible because the media, is focused on horse-race and conflict politics www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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National and Labour abandon their principles - so voters abandon them
ANALYSIS: When Labour and National speak, all the public seem to hear is a faint white noise of political failure writes Political Editor Jenna Lynch
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 29/09/2026
It’s own goal after own goal for Hipkins the obviously correct answer is “we’ll see how the election and negotiations go but I think one thing is certain, New Zealanders don’t want Nicola Willis as Finance Minister any more”
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When abuse or harassment happens it creates work and a resource drain - logging the incident, informing police, screenshots and writing up exactly who what and where. This is cutting into my lunchbreak at my regular job I have on top of being a candidate.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RNZ IS STOOOOPID
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Liam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot of shit we're dealing with is going to require constitutional reform and a fundamental transformation of our country, at bare minimum. The neoliberal consensus has been broken- our far right and racist parties have been given free reign to demolish the thin webs of custom and precedent
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izzy @inkmothnexus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(tilting your chin up with my blade and continuing past the point that you can even see my face) hey check it out it says bad at swordfighting on the ceiling
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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So is the economy doing well or not? #NZPol
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Nicola Willis gets pre-election reprieve as Treasury paints brighter picture of government books.

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Worthworths to cut 130 jobs in New Zealand and move them to Australia.
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Geordie Rogers @geordierogers.co.nz · 29/09/2026
The cost of capping rates sooner than required (as some at WCC are pushing) is a reduced ability to borrow to repair our already failing infrastructure. I’m yet to see an argument to justify the rush to meet a rates cap before we have to www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Andrew Little: Tough decisions are coming
The council will soon find out how much it has to save to comply with the proposed rates cap. Andrew Little will be asking Wellingtonians what council should focus on over the coming decade.
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Liam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Short-sighted, but depressingly understandable. Local Government is dealing with an unfunded mandate to support tourism, and without appropriate (and necessary) funding, this will keep happening, and both the public and our tourism industry will suffer for it
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thing is that Peters, Jones and newer candidates like Laws and Ikilei are ALREADY dangerously extreme AND likely far more motivated and networked to do real damage Covering the dregs is also important, but Laws and Ikilei in particular have been getting *positive* coverage by NZ msm despite it all
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breaking news via RNZ: Woolworths are closing their customer care centre, 120 jobs going back to Australia. This will save them $4 million a year. Reminder: they earn an *extra* (over and above normal margins) million dollars a day in the NZ market. #nzpol
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Poll was released at 6pm last night, took till 12pm following day for the abuse to ramp back up again. And people think it isn't coordinated and deliberate.
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There has never been a widely debated public justification for surplus. The entire thing has always been based on vibes, unstated assumptions and implicit values.
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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/... Two great losses for RNZ: Susie and Mihi were top shelf talent.
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Saturday Morning host Susie Ferguson departs RNZ
The veteran broadcaster leaves after 16 years.
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 29/09/2026
I’d far rather a finance minister that sees the purpose of the role as supporting everyday New Zealanders who are quite literally dying on the streets over one who thinks the role of finance minister is Not Spending Too Much
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...
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Transport borrowing comes back to bite - Greater Auckland
Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expendi...
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 28/09/2026
The decision by the Parades Commission to allow a march down the Garvaghy Road was in stark contrast to the one it arrived at just three months ago, and to the ones it had made for the past 28 years. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Why the controversial Orange Order parade was approved
The Parades Commission's Drumcree decision shocked many. Its written ruling reveals how it was reached.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ok so this is the endgame for Hobson's, the Free Speech Union and Franks Ogilvie. The Wellington Pride case brought by terfs, that real estate dipshit getting laws changed so you can be anti-Māori - they want to claim their bigotry as a protected belief to lawfare pro-diversity organisations.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is... quite the thread considering Seymour's insistence of using "Equality for all!" to handwave away his racism. (Note: this thread is not about the racism, but highlights once again his uber-flexible and often contradictory ideology)
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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even more relevant given most recent polls
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As evidenced by revealed preference, the social value of racism to the UK is 7 billion pounds, SROI babyyyy!
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyone else reminded of the time Sean Plunkett tweeted "anyone feeling for Harvey Weinstein", was crushed, got Big Mad and then insisted "but I never said WHAT people might be feeling for him" Like, please explain what you actually think "cry me a river" means, Audrey
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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hello 👋 yeah hi, I have worked on a couple of campaigns now and I have said on loop, the energy out on the doors and on the phones with people is very 2017. People want change, they just have to believe in it. So need someone to strike the match to set it all alight.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a pretty uncomplicated untruth right? It's in Hansard. Audrey Young found the full quote for her column today. Thomas is a lobbyist & former staffer. He knows how to search Hansard. If he genuinely looked for evidence & couldn't find it then he's totally incompetent at his job.
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UM HAHA
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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The polling has the Greens at 16 - highest result we've had since the Party was formed (putting aside two minor outliers from Roy Morgan in 2014 and Bauer Media in 2017) 💚🎉💚 But sadly we are still being out spent by the massive donations that have gone into the other parties. Help us get to Nov 7!
Screenshot of Herald article saying Green Party surges to record high as Labour, National slump to 28%
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our common reality is gone now, and I guess this election the RW professionals are just going full tilt on 'our team says whatever it wants, nothing matters, our market segments are fully firewalled from each other, make your own reality, there are no consequences'
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