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Leanne Radojkovich

@linedealer.bsky.social
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Reader. Walker. Author of short story collections Hailman and Fox pub by @theemmapress.bsky.social 📚 leanneradojkovich.com

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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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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026
an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/
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This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice
David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cutting JobSeeker Support for 18- and 19-year-olds who can’t find work, and whose parents earn as little as $67,225, during a cost of living crisis and high youth unemployment. My #cartoon today #NZpol #JobSeeker #YouthUnemployment
Cartoon. Title: “The Carry” Two frames. 1st frame, A rugby player running with the ball. Caption: “An All Black carrying an air-filled ball over the try line. Hooray!!!” Frame 2: a woman running with a small child tied to her front, and a teenager tied to her back, with a box tied on, that is labelled, “Hopes and dreams of a jobless teenager” The woman is looking at her watch and carrying a shopping bag with “Cost of Living” written on it. The caption says, “A low-wage parent carrying the weight of the world over a moving try line…”
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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Two towering art works have been unveiled in the Auckland CBD this morning paying homage to waterways that once ran through the city and tangata whenua.
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New Auckland artworks unveil the whakapapa and history of the land
Two towering art works have been unveiled in the Auckland CBD this morning paying homage to waterways that once ran through the city and tangata whenua.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Imagine being so bad at your job that the only way to 'balance the books' is to take money from poor people.
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Emily @emilywrites.co.nz · 05/05/2026
Please please please share this post. There is some bizarre magic spell on the words "pay equity" that makes people's eyes glaze over but there's nothing boring about working women being robbed of BILLIONS of dollars by the chaos coalition
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Government's treatment of women in Aotearoa goes to the United Nations
One year after legislation killed existing pay equity claims and basically ended the opportunity to bring new claims, the government is being taken to the United Nations. It's a huge deal. The team ...
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Imagine saying this in this country where 51 Muslims died in a terrorist attack by a white person. We have never even had Islamic terrorism in this country like every day I’m exhausted by pākehā and their lack of humanity.
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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"It’s closed out. It's finished. We voted it down yesterday, and it's over, and we're moving forward." - Luxon “Cremated and buried”. - Potaka They lied. Despite over 90% of submitters opposed and massive divisions caused. National Govt continues to roll it out. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Exclusive: Government quietly agrees to repeal number of Treaty references in laws
Ministers made the decision but until now hadn't told the public.
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A year ago, ministers met to consider tightening NZ’s pay equity law. Their decisions went further than officials had advised, hardening the policy to the point some groups were cut out from ever making a claim. Why? And on what evidence? They won’t show us. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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How a crucial 45-minute meeting between ministers took pay equity claims away from tens of thousands of women
In a crucial 45 minute meeting, ministers decided to go beyond official proposals, making it even harder for 180,000 workers to ask for pay equity.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Grateful for this review of Hailman - & to have it called "a really thoughtful and memorable read"... I love that. Thank you so much @kaggsy59.bsky.social & @theemmapress.bsky.social 🌨️
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Yet again, in almost any other NZ government a minister telling NZers to *eat less food* to save money would have them hounded by media and pushed out of politics. Never forget the immensely important protective role that NZ media have played in protecting these fascists from public outrage.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Shops don’t close themselves. It’s not 61 shops, it’s people closing livelihoods, it’s staff losing their jobs, it’s creditors not being paid, it’s parents with no income facing the expense of the start of the school year and a heartless systemically unhelpful WINZ. #nzpol
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61 shops announce closures in 10 days: Will liquidation numbers get worse before they improve?
There are warnings the number of businesses closing could get worse before it gets better.
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
So happy my short story collection was longlisted for pub @theemmapress.bsky.social - thanks so much to the Birmingham Editorial Readers Group :) and huge congrats to all the other authors on the short and longlists 🌿
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤 go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM
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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"For a hot moment, I wanted to smash her. No, I wanted to be her." @linedealer.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Wrote a #shortstory abt sneaking smokes & pills, taking photos, & setting a doll on fire. Huge thanks to @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving Double Image a home 🌿 tinyurl.com/mtsn5yha
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Double Image by Leanne Radojkovich
I was sixteen, finished with school, and couldn’t see a way forward. Went to stay at Uncle Ray’s. He’d been clearing the guttering and had fallen off the roof. Mum and I went down to look after him…
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Party that was implacably opposed to wasting three quarters of a billion on a bridge that might have got people moving in a new way in Auckland has now wasted three quarters of a billion that leaves us with absolutely nothing at all. NOTHING.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“This weekend, Pātaka Art+Museum in Porirua opens Not One More Acre: Remembering the 1975 Land March, marking 50 years since Dame Whina Cooper and Te Rōpū o te Matakite led a historic protest against the loss of Māori lan” The Call That Still Echoes 50 Years On #nzpol
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The Call That Still Echoes 50 Years On
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Rawiri MJ @rawiri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Tame Iti. I'm here to read the roll. . The Maori Roll Call. Genius performance. Performance art. youtu.be/PeT_SLYJkV4?... 🏳🏴🚩
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THE MĀORI ROLL CALL
YouTube video by Whānau Ora
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NCWNZ rightly calls out this govt's War on Women & in 1951 Labour MP Mabel Howard called the National govt's response to the waterfront stoppage a War on Women, too. It's endless, and so is resistance - women organised, fought back. #WarOnWomen heritageetal.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
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The women were marvellous
In 1951, after watersiders had refused overtime work in protest at a low wage offer, the government announced a state of emergency.
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WomenAotearoaNZ @weavinghouse.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
#NZ - The National Council of Women is calling out the Coalition Government for its #WarOnWomen. “This Government is systematically dismantling the democratic safeguards that protect fairness, equity, and public voice in Aotearoa. Full details here: www.ncwnz.org.nz/coalition_go...
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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Remember during Covid when all those “unskilled” jobs were actually the ones deemed essential. While many with “important” jobs sat around baking bread. Many of those essential roles are the ones being impacted by pay equity shafting. Praised then, scoffed at now. Shame on this Government.
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This from Verity Johnson hits what I think is the most important point in this whole thing (I said it in a much more sweary way last night) - women had followed process and were seeking redress through the 'proper' channels. All that was ignored and destroyed. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...
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Kate Sheppard would be rolling in her grave after this week’s events, writes Verity Johnson
OPINION: I can’t work out which part of this week’s pay equality law change was the most horrifying.
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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 03/05/2025
Only two The Gold of the Kōwhai study 1 were ever made and are owned by private collectors in Christchurch and New Plymouth. So, Fran Dibble was distraught to discover one on display in the garden of billionaire toy tycoon Nick Mowbray’s sprawling Mahoenui Valley property.
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The billionaire, the sculptor’s widow and the fake artwork
The widow of acclaimed sculptor Paul Dibble has tracked a counterfeit to the home of billionaire toy tycoon Nick Mowbray, and wants to have it destroyed.
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Excellent story on ReadingRoom - so vivid I thought I was living it, rather than reading it, @ericastretton.bsky.social #https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/22/short-story-drive-by-erica-stretton/
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Short story: Drive, by Erica Stretton
'This goddamned place': teenagers in cars.
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ardrigh @ardrigh.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
If you want to direct your anger at Destiny Church, rather than sign multiple petitions on overseas websites, support the petition open at Parliament #nzpol petitions.parliament.nz/a22e0d59-7da...
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Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Claire Mabey's excellent article about blurbage: thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-02-...
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Brilliant and devastating: Are book blurbs anything more than a circle jerk?
On the pros and cons of puff quotes on book covers.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
There's no Splore this year, but if you've ever been, there's Serena Stevenson's 'Three Days in February'. It's less a documentary than an immersive work, with a live soundtrack performed by a group including Pitch Black, a string quartet and a gospel choir. www.splore.net/three-days-i...
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Three Days in February — Splore Festival
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🤎
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World’s ugliest lawn winner says she leaves watering to Mother Nature
New Zealand garden takes first prize in global competition designed to promote water conservation
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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OK fine, what submissions do I have to make FFS?!
Don't worry - I got you. Here's everything you need in one place!
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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I usually write about sports by I’m my own boss and so my boss said write a play by play of that haka you’ve been watching on loop so I did. open.substack.com/pub/alicesoa...
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Play by play
A haka on repeat
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
As someone who works on language revitalisation, one of the things we care a lot about is the restoration of old place names. For this reason, I wanna share this map of Auckland compiled in 1938. The map has a bit of a backstory, so indulge me for a moment.
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Shane's show closes 16th. Yes to viewing art, reading books in tough times. Poetry Shelf on Shane Cotton's New Painting exhibition nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/11/13/p...
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Poetry Shelf on Shane Cotton’s New Painting exhibition
Super Radiance, 2024, Shane Cotton New Paintings, Shane Cotton, 12 October to 16 November 202Gow Langsford Gallery, Onehunga For the first time in over two years, I stood in a gallery, masked up, a…
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Shopping? Pls support The Emma Press this 🎄🎁🎄 UK pub of Aotearoa writers Nina Mingya Powles, myself, & next year Maddie Ballard, too 📚📚📚 Their Xmas sale ends Thursday - you can browse their #pukapuka here: buff.ly/47zTKp7
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Mesmerising story by @alicetawhai.bsky.social in the latest issue of @takahemagazine.bsky.social “Suddenly everything tilted, and then they were upside down and sliding and the next corner was coming into focus…” it’s here: takahe.org.nz/payment-to-the-ferryman/ 🖤 #pukapuka
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
PŪHIA Journal for Māori Art & Literature - ātaahua 1st issue out now. Pub by voice behind Instagram’s @maorilitblog - see their bio for where to get your copy 📓 #pukapuka
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Over 1000 Artists of Aotearoa in Solidarity with Palestine petitioned the govt on 2 Nov for #CeasefireNOW 🇵🇸 incl Jane Campion, Chelsea Winstanley & Chris Tse. Artists, writers & cultural workers can still sign their open letter @pantographpunch - please do 🖤🤍💚 #pukapuka 🇳🇿📚
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Aotearoa artist files are magic portals for research + inspiration: exhibition catalogues, reviews, CVs, pricelists... I wrote a blog about them here: bitly.ws/ZhCf #aotearoabooks
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Given up on book clubs? Try a short story club - 1 published short story, 1 hour, once a month. By Laura Jean McKay. Brilliant. #shortstories #pukapuka www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Aotearoa author Maddie Ballard is being pub by The Emma Press (UK) - can't wait to read her sewing diary #pukapuka: ‘a quiet celebration of the value of craft in a digital age’ #Aotearoa📚 theemmapress.com/2023/09/the-...
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Spiral Collectives @spiralcollectives.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
A chapter about Spiral in here and many more, including one by Tilly Lloyd of @unitybookswgtn! Out very soon! Ngā mihi nui, Whitireia Publishing! #publishing #aotearoa
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Why and How the Iliad is Strange -- the challenges of translating strangeness (they used a different headline). [This is an adapted chunk of my Translator's Note, along with a sample massacre from the translation] www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/e/ek...
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Great article abt writer friendships: "The industry is award ceremonies...reviews & parties ... & magazines choosing who to profile. But writers are not the industry." #authors www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
#littlelibraries 📚
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