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S!mon McAtamney

@maccaisims.bsky.social
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cryoutloud26 @cryoutloud26.bsky.social · 11h
nickrockel.substack.com/p/child-canc... If this won't make you vote the bastards out, I don't know what will. I want to scream. Luxon should resign; suspending cancer treatment for children is truly evil. Nobody can believe this is acceptable.
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Child Cancer Treatment
Children and Parents suffer delays caused by staffing crisis.
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 10h
They can only punch left as far as they can reach.
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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 12h
"Can Aoteraoa New Zealand afford 3 more years of this Coalition government? If your answer is no, my personal recommendation is do not vote for Opportunity."
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Why a vote for Opportunity could put Luxon and the right back in power
As news emerges this morning that Starship has had to defer cancer surgeries due to a nursing shortage, the impacts of the right wing Coalition couldn’t be clearer
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 11h
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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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 14h
I too think politicians hanging around with criminals is disgusting. Especially when those criminals are the president of a political party and the courts give that man name suppression to protect his party from being associated with his rape of minors.
a photo of david seymour with his best friend and prolific child rapist, tim jago.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 14h
This gangs faux horror from National, Labour, ACT, Opportunity is very telling about who they think counts as a person in society, or is deserving of involvement in politics. And guess what, disenfranchised people don't count! It's bad to talk to them, only to legislate against them.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Nanaia Mahuta, and the democratic cost of gendered racism www.linkedin.com/pulse/nanaia... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/n... (WordPress) #nzpol #TFGBV
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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Halloween Bike Rave Saturday 31st October Meet from 8pm · Ride departs 8:30pm Rose Garden, Wellington Botanic Garden www.facebook.com/events/15752... So much fun, don't miss out.🚲💚💚💚
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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hey undecided voters. All this election campaign dishonesty is for you. You're the reason everything has been dumbed down to sound-bites and served up as advertising mindfuck. We all have to put up with campaign slop-brain just because you can't make up your mind. FFS! #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In today’s NZ Herald
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Remember the 1% maintain their influence through your sense that you have no influence Enrol Vote
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/10/2026
In a caring decent society that truly believed in it's egalitarian roots this should end a govt!
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have watched this 18 times today.
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
..."experiement" can be concluded as a failure. Time to wrap things up; re-nationalise the three powercos; and return them to State ownership under democratic control. Stop p*ssing around with BNZ,Winston,this is far more critical to households. (3/3) www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Poorest could face highest power bill shock in overhaul, Consumer NZ warns
Consumer says some households and businesses will face large increases to their electricity lines charges from next year, when the low fixed charge scheme is fully phased out.
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Labour's allegations of National Party Neoliberal #austerity raise questions about why Labour would embark on such a similar fiscal path. The problem with small-target strategies embraced by Labour & National is the resulting misery & deaths! #PartyVoteGreen✅ #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/24/n...
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National and Labour put up small targets, leaving big vacuum
Analysis: The problem with the small-target strategies embraced by Labour and National is that, if you keep shrinking, eventually you implode.
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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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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Māori settlements since 1975 add up to $2.7bn - that's 1.5 months of superannuation OR one small lane in the Mount Wellington tunnel Chris Bishop wants. Māori have been patiently working through the processes. TOP want to force all settlements to be completed by 2040 through public opinion
Qiulae Wong and David Seymour - separate photos
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'd almost forgotten Bryce existed and he's absolutely making up some nonsense about the Greens abandoning middle class "woke" politics which is a label he applied and is now peeling off while the Greens have remained ideologically consistent the whole time.
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Who handed the secret legal brief from defendant corps in #NZpol Supreme court case Smith V Fonterra to Luxon granting total legal immunity in tort to them and others causing climate disaster? Matt Burgess of #AtlasNetwork front NZI. Barbara Chapman, dep. chair of NZI, is chair of Genesis Energy!
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Open to all immediately. Both National and Labour are committing the economy to more stagnation. Here’s why. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/national-a...
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National & Labour fiscal plans lock in stagnation
National & Labour plan sinking lids on non-NZ Super spending to cut size of Govt to under 30% of GDP from 32%; Both need households to spend & borrow more to replace the 2% cut, but it can’t be done.
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angloczech.bsky.social @angloczech.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Jacinda showed the world what women in public office can do when they don't behave like men. The world was impressed. The right wing misogynists were horror struck. The used international money & corruption to create a wall of hate, that Luxon & Peters played a supporting role in on live TV. #NZPol
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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is how much extra we think ordinary families can be paying every year thanks to Luxon and the National government. Posting mostly because I thought BlueSkyers would appreciate the image.
Mock up till receipt, titled "The cost of Luxon" and listing prices which have increased in the past three years, totalling $5,857.

Under the mock bar code are the words, "Cry me a river"
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#nzpol The sun downing boomer is perfectly happy to heap shame upon shame on our country at the UN. The sooner this evil prick is out of government the better 😡😡😡
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Labour has NEVER balanced its budget & they ALWAYS overspend. -Nicola Willis Spoiler alert 🚨 Nicola is a pathological LIAR & the inconvenient FACTS prove it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ Why am I researching this stuff myself, instead of msm doing their jobs and pushing back on these LIES?
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All of a sudden, Labour's 3Waters starts to look damn good. I'd like to send my water bill to Taxpayers not-a-union for those b@stard5 to pay... www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
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Deputy mayor estimates price of fixing Wellington's pipes at $80k per ratepayer over 25 years
Wellington's deputy mayor is warning it could cost every ratepaying household or business more than $80,000 over the next 25 years to fix the city's poor pipes alone.
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What The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#DavidSeymour Weaponising welfare so #NZ hates Disabled Beneficiaries but it's really about $$$ for him, his rich friends, his Zionist hate filled base, for #ATLAS, #Hobson'sPledge, the #Taxpayer'sUnion. He's a Class A CUNT. Ditch this Prick in 26. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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'Shovel money upwards, starve everyone else' - ACT under fire over proposed disability benefits cuts
ACT is facing criticism from across the aisle over health and disability cuts in its fiscal plan, and copping friendly fire after criticising National's Finance spokesperson Nicola Willis.
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Robert Patman @robertgpatman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is NZ’s foreign policy ‘realism’ working? Why the next government faces a real choice theconversation.com/is-nzs-forei...
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Is NZ’s foreign policy ‘realism’ working? Why the next government faces a real choice
Winston Peters says New Zealand foreign policy should address “the world as it is, not how we wish it would be”. But how viable is that really?
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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
THIS IS MY WHY
Mike Hosking says "I will leave the country of a left wing government is elected."
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Peter @cloudynetwork.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Horrible people. Who does cutting help for those with disabilities resonate with exactly? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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ACT sets out plan to raise retirement age, cut debt, spending and disability benefits
The ACT Party's fiscal plan promises to cut debt and spending, raise the superannuation age by three months every year, and cut disability benefits by $653 million.
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NACT1 has fucked the economy good and proper but remember this was never about nation building but parasitical wealth extraction by National donors
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 10/10/2026
When the polls really turn bad Conscription
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh dear, this is awful. A heady mix of ill-informed and untrue. Let's have a quick run through the lowlights... First, when we do get some articles about the rest of the balance sheet, Brucey? Govt's *positive* net financial worth? Business debt? Household debt? No? Why? [🧵1/n]
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What The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#NationalLies #NicolaWillis Not One Single Family. NOT ONE. L.I.A.R.S. #nzpol #nationalnotfittogovernnz
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cryoutloud26 @cryoutloud26.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
thedailyblog.co.nz/mediawatch-t...
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'The cruelty is the point. It stokes a popular prejudice that unemployment is a personal failing, and it lets the government off the hook for its failed economic management.' - Neale Jones #NzPol
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Sliding in the polls, have a crack at beneficiaries: National's drug test policy follows a well-worn pattern | The Spinoff
It's just the latest example in the party's sorry history of framing an economic failure as a personal one.
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cryoutloud26 @cryoutloud26.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnoM...
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#BHN Simeon Brown is a liar, Christopher Luxon is a liar and Kieran McAnulty says it!
YouTube video by Big Hairy Network
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#nzpol Welfare for farmers anyone??? Will farmers need to piss in a cup to receive financial support for their profit-driven businesses?
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Forget the billionaires: Forget they’re giving $$$ to buy policy from political parties. Forget they’re not Living Wage Employers & got rich on the back of poverty wages. Forget they’re paying for influence to make cuts to H&S, fair pay, job security, secure housing, so they can have more #nzpol
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Forget the billionaires. The real dividing line in the leaders' debate was education - 
Chris Penk
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Tāne @daylightdawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How they killed “3 Waters”. Thank you Nicky Hager for exposing the insidious serpents who’ve been creating havoc and disharmony by destabilising our society with lies, upon lies, upon lies about MĀORI; they went on to make $7M+ from it‼️ 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wild to think these 4 will lose their seats if National don't improve, but if anyone else made a $1 billion "mistake", they'd be fired from their job immediately #nzpol Happy 2026 Election, Team. Get out and vote
Left to right: Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop, Gerry Brownlee, PAul Goldsmith
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No, untrue, do not take these ghouls seriously.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Family First NZ was rightly called a far-right organisation by @globalextremism.bsky.social It is anti-vaxx, anti-Te Tiriti, anti-trans, anti-LGBTIQA+, & a climate change denying Christian nationalist platform. It is with this known entity that Winston Peters did a *one-hour* interview with. #nzpol
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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Daniel Eb (Opportunity's Deputy Leader) endorsing National isn't just instructive in terms of their values. His reasoning ('I'd probably just go back to what I did when I was younger') is almost worse. Deeply unserious / incurious people.
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Biker "Cash Bazooka" Chiwi @bikerchiwi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More on National's fixation on nINe NeW tAXeS, from Dr Dickson🤪 andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/luxons-nei...
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Luxon’s Nein New Taxes
Simuluxon counted to nine. Labour only got as far as one.
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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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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The headline buries the lede: ❌️ Cutting benefit rates after 2yrs ❌️ Incr stand down to 26wks (up from 13wks) ❌️ Incr minimum residence period to qualify benefits from 2yrs to 5yrs These are awful, horrifying policies that will drive povery and misery #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries
National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".
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