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Les Edwards

@makolesedwards.bsky.social
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🇳🇿 Toitu te Tiriti. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦👊 A left of centre Kiwi guy. Whakatū, Te Waipounamu Family first, Fun second. A Rugby, Cricket & Golf tragic. Fan of 70s/80s Kiwi / Aussie rock.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TODAY is the day you & your friends, family & whānau need to be enrolled with correct details to receive an EasyVote card. This information on the electoral rolls as at TODAY is used to send out EasyVote cards & print the electoral rolls. Please share far and wide TODAY! #nzpol vote.nz
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The coalition's Conservation Amendment Bill will: ⚒️Make it easier for mining companies to violate public conservation land for private commercial exploitation. 👎Change the purpose of our conservation law away from protecting nature. ✍️Take action and sign the petition now please 🙏👇 #nzpol
greenpeace.nz
PETITION: Hands off conservation land!
The PM is trying to open the door to selling off conservation land. If the wild places of NZ were mined, logged or sold off, we can’t get them back. Aotearoa is NOT for sale. Sign the petition now.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You & your friends, family & whānau need to be enrolled with the correct details by 4 October to receive an EasyVote card. This information on the electoral rolls as at 4 October is used to send out EasyVote cards & print the electoral rolls. Please share! #nzpol vote.nz
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Groundswell? #nzpol
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What an out of touch, unempathetic, wealthy and sorted ass Lux-flakes ❄️🤡💩 is. Vote these Nact1st elites out, and let their tears flow. #nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETEU...
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Cry Me A River - Christopher Luxon responds to NZ Cost of Living Crisis
YouTube video by Mountain Tui
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This smarmy cock is at it again, throwing the poorest of us under the bus, as a means to “going further to cut costs” placed on businesses. Cutting costs is one thing, gutting the income of minimum wage earners id another. Vote these Nact1st 💩🤡s out. #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
ACT pledges to freeze adult minimum wage, lower youth training rate
The party says wages can sustainably rise when workers become more productive and businesses can afford to pay more.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's sad to see that the ACT and NZF racist dog whistling is accepted by a majority of Kiwis (as evidenced by 63% supporting ACT's Waitangi Tribunal policy at time of posting). Vote this Nact1st coalition of 🤡💩s out! #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
ACT announces plan to end Waitangi Tribunal
Under the policy, all remaining historical Treaty claims will be completed, while the Waitangi Tribunal’s contemporary jurisdiction will end.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love it when @davidslack.bsky.social gets to the bottom of electioneering politics. Take the quiz to remind yourself just how big a fibber Luxflakes❄️is. Why would you trust him for a second term? Cote this Coalition of 🤡s out! #nzpol
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A jolly good well done to all the old fossils on the right (the making money at all costs) side of politics. You can all burn in hell. Now more than ever before, it's now time to vote Green! #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
World set to exceed crucial 1.5C global warming limit, bleak UN report finds
The United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Take a few minutes to take this quiz and remind yourself what a terrific job Labour did during the Covid crisis and what a piss poor effort the Luxon govt has done since. The right wing are absolute economic vandals. Vote Gren or red party and vote these delinquents out! #nzpol
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Stuff being deliberately and mischievously misleading again. Open the link and find that just 19% polled for Luxflakes❄️🤡while 51% wanted someone else! (30% don't knows). That's not a vote of confidence, it's dismal support. Vote this Nact1st coalition of chaos out #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Stuff poll gives Luxon another vote of confidence
Christopher Luxon has won another vote of confidence against his would-be successors and agitators - this time with the public.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nat Numpties Lux-flakes = corporate CEO, parachuted in, no empathy for Kiwis but hey, because he "ran" an airline. Nicola (NO reference to the ferry debacle) = Fonterra corporate queen, punch down artist Goldsmith = racist Te Tiriti gains killer Seymour, Shane & Winnie = Uncles Toms Vote 'em out!
stuff.co.nz
Luxon’s call to hold referendum on MMP appears to surprise colleagues
But Labour leader Chris Hipkins said it’s Christopher Luxon’s leadership, not the MMP system, that needs to change.
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FelixTCat @felixtcat.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You can help protect Te Waikoropupū Springs, the largest cold-water springs in the Southern Hemisphere and have some of the clearest water ever measured on Earth. community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/ex...
community.greenpeace.org.nz
Be Bold and Expand Kahurangi National Park
You can help protect Te Waikoropupū Springs, the largest cold-water springs in the Southern Hemisphere and have some of the clearest water ever measured on Earth.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As one of the top 2 most divisive politicians today, this smarmy cockwomble 🤡 has the audacity to say Te Pāti Māori had a “heart of darkness” and “stoked division”, while trying to divide us by beating down on Te Tiriti o Waitangi and instigating policy to enable his Atlas donors at our expense.
stuff.co.nz
'Heart of darkness' put me in a bulletproof car, says Seymour. The division's your fault, says Te Pati Maori
The use of NZDF aircrew for security on Waitangi Day was revealed in documents about the prime minister’s use of aircraft, obtained by Stuff.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is more than an old man shouting at clouds, this is a racist dog whistle to all those white haired, Brit-centric followers of his that go to his town hall meetings around the country. If it's OK for Winnie to "tell it like it is" then it's good enough for them. He's gone full Trump 🤡 #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Winston Peters stands defiant, and unpunished, amid fury over 'go back to your own country' jibe
With China clearly taking note of the outburst, former prime minister Helen Clark says Winston Peters is failing his duty as foreign minister.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In ONE HUNDRED DAYS The NZ general election will be held. Yep, 100 days! Enroll by 4 October, so you don't have to cast a special vote as you won't be on the printed rolls in the voting places. Spread the word and let's vote these Nact1st 💩heads out. #nzpol vote.nz/enrolling/en...
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What an inspiring korero from Tasman Mako # 161 #FinzUp Seriously right wingers (talking political persuasion, not rugby position 😀), there is nothing to fear here.
rnz.co.nz
Fatherhood inspires All Black Tyrel Lomax to reconnect with his Māoritanga
All Blacks prop Tyrel Lomax says becoming a father inspired him to reconnect with his Māoritanga, determined to give his tamariki the cultural grounding he felt he had missed growing up.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Atlas Network organisation, the 'not so' Free Speech Union, only intention is to punch down on people who step out of line with this Coalition of 🤡s neoliberal ideology. Let's vote this Nact1st rabble out! #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Free Speech Union attacks reporter for asking minister questions
The Free Speech Union ‒ which exists to defend free speech ‒ has attacked a journalist for asking Health Minister Simeon Brown questions over email.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Of course PM Luxflakes said a wealth tax was "not the way forward" for NZ (the wealthy & sorted). His 'plan' is to neuter every policy that shows decency to uplift health and education, females, our most vulnerable, Maori & Pasifika & gut Te Tiriti. Vote this Nact1st coalition of 🤡s out. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Green faithful voice support for taxing wealth
Green Party supporters have made clear what their priority for the election is: tax the rich.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Join me and other concerned Kiwis and sign the petition please 🙏: Press Pause On New AI Data Centres action.greens.org.nz/pause_ai_dat...
action.greens.org.nz
Press Pause On New AI Data Centres
The Green Party is calling for a one-year pause on the construction of new AI data centres, so we have time to develop clear rules to make sure that the needs of people and planet are put first.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I do wonder what the leaders of our Nact1st coalition of 🤡s will do or say in response to this new tariff imposition? Given past weak kneed responses, probably Nothing. #nzpol
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Vote these imposter Nactzi 🤡s out! #nzpol
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hurry! - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...
our.actionstation.org.nz
E Tū E Kī: They Don’t Speak for Us - Block the Definition of Woman Bill
The Government is progressing a Bill through Parliament that aims to limit the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex New Zealanders in the name of cis women, by defining “man” and “woman” (a...
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
They tell us they're best at dealing with the economy. They told us that Labour couldn't blame global forces for the inflation resulting from dealing with Covid. This from a govt that now says Trump global forces is to blame for their inflation rise. Vote these Nactzi 🤡s out. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Inflation rises to highest level in two years
Inflation hit a two year high as the full impact of the Middle East war made itself felt on prices.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Let's see, invest $1 billion in fossil fuel exploration of invest $1 billion in renewable energy, affordable power and energy security. It's a no brainer. Vote the Nactzi coalition of 🤡s out and turn Aotearoa green 🟢 #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Greens promises to cut power bills and make solar more affordable with $980m 'KiwiPower' plan
The Green Party has pledged to set up a publicly-owned entity to boost investment in renewable energy and ensure affordable power and energy security.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Incompetent, callous fools 🤡 Vote these Nactzi 💩s out. #nzpol
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Nationalistic, Patriotic, Socially Conservative, Common Sense. The mantra of the pakeha wannabes appealing to their silver haired, European centric followers who fear what people of other ethnicity may do to 'their' country. Vote these Nactzis 🤡s out. #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Winston Peters vows ‘to turn this country’s democracy upside down’ at NZ First convention
NZ First leader kicks off his election year party convention with a pledge to “turn this country’s democracy upside down for a great and real purpose”.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The latest from the 'we're wealthy and we're sorted' white folk. Aug '25 given a 2.5 years sentence, then June '26 granted parole. Imagine the sentencing if the offender was poor or brown? Vote these Nactzi 🤡s and their enablers out. #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Man from wealthy family who was jailed for sadistic child abuse material paroled
The man was released with strict conditions, just weeks after Customs argued at the High Court that his identity should be revealed.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
No comment necessary, other than ... Let's vote these Nactzi 💩s out. Enroll by 4 October, so you don't have to cast a special vote as you won't be on the printed rolls in the voting places. Spread the word. #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
NZ’s wage growth the 'worst in the world', new report shows
The data in a new report shows Kiwis had the worst wage growth after inflation over the past five years, of any OECD country.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Here we go again with this smarmy cockwomble's Atlas approach to our environment and living standards. Go easy on the rich forestry sector while disregarding the outcome of not removing slash for those living 'downstream'. Vote these Nactzi 💩s out! #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Seymour ‘implores’ Gisborne council to go easy on forestry companies
Mayor tells Seymour that it was only when directors were made personally liable that any material differences were made
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Protect Sams Creek and Te Waikoropupū Springs from predator mining companies that you and I know Shane Jones and the Nactzis want to have access to. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/ex...
community.greenpeace.org.nz
Be Bold and Expand Kahurangi National Park
To protect Sams Creek and Te Waikoropupū Springs    On the 8th of March 2024, a community gathering at Sams Creek made the following declaration: ‘We declare that Sams Creek and its whenua a...
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
For smarmy Seymour, it's only about the money saved, forget nutritional value for the kids. Seymour did not address (the) question regarding nutrition standards but pointed to the $360m cost savings the revamped program has achieved. Vote these Nactzi 🤡💩🍆s out. #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Up to 20,000 school lunches wasted daily, nearly half fail nutrition standards
Just over 50% of lunches in the government’s free school lunch programme met nutritional standards in 2025, while up to 20,000 are being returned, uneaten, every day, according to a new Audit Office r...
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"I'm wealthy and I'm sorted" so why would I know and why would I care. Vote these Nactzi 💩s out. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon admits he didn't know there was no night shelter for rough sleepers in Auckland
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has admitted he did not know there was no night shelter in Auckland for people sleeping rough.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The "High & Mighty Matua" can recall a blizzard at the time but not if the conference centre was adjacent to his hotel. These Nactzi 🤡s are snorting at the trough while treating the rest of us as fools to fund their largesse. Vote these 💩s out! #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
'Oh, I cannot remember': Jenna Lynch asks Shane Jones tough questions
Shane Jones claims his $1600-a-night room and a standby SUV in a Toronto blizzard were justified because the trip secured a $200m investment.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Provoke me (the high and mighty matua) at your peril! Can you imagine the self-important gall to say such a thing? What a jumped up grifter. FFS, vote this Coalition of 🤡🤡🤡 out! #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
‘Provoke the matua at your peril’ Shane Jones warns, as criticism flies over $63k trip
Airfares alone cost more than $41,000, turning a $33,000 trip into a $63,000 one, and Shane Jones didn’t seek proper approval until nearly a year later.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Stephen Miller doppelganger hates that the Council outlined expectations that doctors understand how culture can affect health outcomes and how bias and systemic factors can contribute to inequities. A liberal democracy majority must look after the cultural interests of the minority. #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Simeon Brown removes Medical Council leaders over ‘idealogical agenda’
Health Minister Simeon Brown has replaced the leadership of the Medical Council, saying the regulator has become distracted by politics and ideological issues.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
These Nactzi 🤡's can't think straight let alone lie straight in bed! Their $34.4m announced is operational funding which pays for the increased demand in services, rather than the infrastructure needed to cater for the demand. Where are the beds? #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
The Government announced a three-day stay in maternity care for new mums. It didn’t fund the beds
The Ministry of Health advised 175 extra beds would need to be added with a price tag in excess of $100m.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
In 5 months time we can vote these Nactzi pricks out. If you're not already, you need to enroll by 4 October, so you don't have to cast a special vote as you won't be on the printed rolls in the voting places. Spread the word. #nzpol vote.nz/enrolling/en...
vote.nz
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Electoral Commission NZ advises that 4 Oct is the most critical final date for enrolment. Whilst enrolment closes on 25 Oct to get your EasyVote pack to help make voting easier and quicker! Make sure all your friends & whanau are enrolled to vote and vote these Nactzi pricks out. vote.nz vote.nz
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The wealthy & sorted Nactzis continue to punch down on our less well-off communities and those in need. Tahunanui is close to home for me and people like Murray Leaning continue to lean in and do the right thing despite the lack of govt support. Vote these pricks out in November. #nzpol
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
There's much to unpack in this that shows the entitlement and self-interest of this Nact coalition of 🤡's - $15 gourmet pie photo op when picking up the latest austerity budget - $52K living allowance while depriving the accommodation supplement to pay for housing for those who need it most. #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
Paua pies, crayfish and $1000 a week for your mortgage-free apartment. It’s nice to be an MP
ANALYSIS: The Government has preached fiscal responsibility but won’t look in its own backyard for any cost savings, writes Jenna Lynch.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Let all people live their best lives. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...
our.actionstation.org.nz
E Tū E Kī: They Don’t Speak for Us - Block the Definition of Woman Bill
The Government is progressing a Bill through Parliament that aims to limit the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex New Zealanders in the name of cis women, by defining “man” and “woman” (a...
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
All hail our new Colonial masters 💩 The Nactzi 🤡's think there is no stopping their racism. Vote these bastards out! #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz
Full list of Treaty clause cuts and changes revealed
The move to cut Treaty references from five acts and amend up to 14 others has been criticised by the National Iwi Chairs Forum
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
WTF is there a problem here? It's what we called them when I was growing up with long hair and an anti-establishment attitude. Should we use the term 'the fuzz' instead? #nzpol #vote4MichelMulipola PS Seymour is a smarmy cockwomble 🤡💩
rnz.co.nz
Greens defend Māngere candidate Michel Mulipola for past social media posts
Past social media posts have surfaced of the Green Party Māngere candidate ripping up the New Zealand flag, calling police 'pigs'.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Republic no more. Sad. A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. #NoKings
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🐤❄️🤡🥚 #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
National said cancelling interviews was ‘chicken’, so why did Luxon cancel Breakfast?
This time, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon won’t explain why TVNZ’s Breakfast show was culled from his weekly interview rounds.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The Nactzis must wake up every day and ask 'how can we screw over our lower income, mainly female, lower income workers'. All to fund tax breaks for their wealthy right wing cronies. #thenastyparty #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Newly qualified early childhood teachers to lose as much as $22m over next two years
The union says its members are "absolutely infuriated" about the move.
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is a project worth getting behind. The downstream cost of dental inaction for those who can't afford it is huge. www.dentalforall.nz/take-action
dentalforall.nz
Take action — Dental for All
Learn how you can support the campaign
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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What a Chicken ❄️ It's probably for the best as his inability to think on his feet and be authentic shows itself when confronted by an intelligent, savvy reporter. #nzpol
nzherald.co.nz
It's all over, Tova: Luxon axes weekly TVNZ Breakfast interview
PM pulls out of slot, retains ZB and RNZ, as Nats fume about TVNZ incident at Parliament.
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