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Manu Caddie

@manucaddie.bsky.social
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Hope is waiting for someone else to do it. Born at 327 ppm CO2. Less than 30 years to live (StatsNZ). Biotech entrepreneur & Indigenous/Nature activist.

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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/f... - hopefully the politicians will start taking climate commitments more seriously if it has trade consequences #nzpol
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Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal
The Government's top law officer warned that if ministers blocked Mike Smith's Fonterra lawsuit, the next case would target the Crown directly. She's been proven right, reports Jonathan Milne.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jeezus, if this doesn’t get a White Guy “with potential” a conviction, would anything? www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a... #nzpol
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Army officer attacked taxi driver after being asked for $20 fare
New Zealand Army intelligence officer Arthur Finegan denied a "nasty" assault - until he was confronted with CCTV footage showing an attack that left a taxi driver unconscious.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Simeon sneakily changed the finance to lower interest-only repayments, then a lump sum in the future for another government to take care of. #NzPol
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“So now, what we’re saying is, it’ll be two racisms, and washed up, or washed up and disgraced, or… it’ll be two out of three. Two out of three.” #nzpol thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/n...
thecivilian.co.nz
NZ First says new candidates must now be both washed up AND disgraced
Overrun with a torrent of applicants seeking to reignite their political careers, or who are unwelcome in other parties on character grounds, New Zealand First has tightened its criteria for accept…
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The revolving doors of the Dirty Work Alliance continue to spin faster… I guess they’ve found a formula that works really well for the causes they champion.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/ele...
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Incredible speech from Steve Abel - @abelsteve.bsky.social - and a shining example of what principled political leadership looks like #nzpol
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Chris Bishop calls Nicky Hager a "far left" figure. Guess fact based is "far left" Chris Bishop's Dad co-founded TPU with Jordan & David Farrar Bishop is best remembered for failing to roll Luxon twice in two years while enabling corrupt, anti community fast track laws in #NZ
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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Never. Give. Up.
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Why am I publishing a book leading up to an election?” His answer: “…elections are exactly the time we should be thinking about and discussing politics. What better time?”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“…the coalition ministers have tolerated and benefited from these unscrupulous groups. They should be held accountable by the public.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Five: “…the Taxpayers’ Union earning money by collaborating with the tobacco industry year after year – helping the tobacco industry giant British American Tobacco fight smokefree legislation so it can continue to sell products that kill half of their long-term customers.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“There is the chapter on their work as tobacco lobbyists, a whole chapter on Jordan Williams’ abysmal attitude to women, a major chapter on the deliberate use of racism as a political tool, a chapter on dirty politics attacks and smears…”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Three: “I think one of the grubbiest dirty politics attacks in recent history was the hit job that pushed Maiki Sherman out of her position as political editor at TVNZ a few months ago. The inside story is told for the first time in Chapter 5.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two: “The little understood story of David Seymour, who barely mentioned race politics for six years in parliament and then suddenly became Mr-Anti-Treaty as if he’d always deeply cared… he and others unleashed the worst race politics in a generation.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Less than 24 hours after Jordan Williams’ press release the first Taxpayers’ Union source made contact… The second made contact a few weeks later. And so it began.”
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't believe Luxon doesn't know who Nicky is, but on the other hand it might explain why he's been repeating so many #nzpol mistakes of the past – www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
stuff.co.nz
‘Don’t know who he is’: Luxon dismisses new book from Dirty Politics author
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he has never read a book by famed investigative journalist Nicky Hager, even suggesting he had no idea who he was.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Standing Orders Committee refuses to deal in any way with the constant abuse of urgency. The farhterest they'll go is to require that skipping an SC stage should require a motion and a reason (unclear if the motion is debatable; if it is then its another hour of time, but no actual scrutiny)...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Woohoo! I love a new Hager in #nzpol election season! 💥
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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It occurred to me just now that many people won’t know the significance of Soweto as the location for ABs v Springboks tonight. In 1976 hundreds of school students were shot in Soweto when they protested against compulsory use of Afrikaans in school.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This should be a reminder that capitulating to tyrants in advance is not necessarily a viable business strategy.
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MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order
Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’
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Jacqui @jamelle33.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The stories just keep getting worse! No wonder the MPI CE has been so negligent in following recommendations from the 2023 Ministerial Inquiry on Land Use - his own agency that is responsible for forestry industry standards is also one of the worst offenders. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A overseas forestry company that asked David Seymour to pressure Gisborne Council to ease up on it was responsible, along with an iwi-owned forest management company, for leaving a harvested forest in one of the worst conditions independent experts have ever seen www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I knew this would be bad, but it's awful. Malpractice even. I'll limit my criticism to 9 posts. The Herald have added together the gross debt of NZ public & private sectors and called this debt 'we collectively owe the world'. Pure unadulterated nonsense. Literally untrue. [🧵1/n]
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Such a good person, such important analysis of our predicament.
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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What is Timely, Targeted & Temporary about cancelling an increase in fuel excise tax & using $450m set aside for addressing issues created by the USA attacking Iran to partially offset the $1.4B funding deficit you've just created in the NLTF which already can't fund everything you promised #nzpol
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excellent article by Denis Welch this week in The Listener on the situation in #Tairāwhiti and the related #nzpol issues at play by the various powers that be. I’ll leave the last couple of pages out so you go and buy a copy or visit your library.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Would the world's biggest artists put their brand on the line for #BDS these days? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpDW...
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Artists United Against Apartheid | Sun City | 1985 | Music Video 4K
YouTube video by Cloudbuster
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fyi
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is there anything more on the nose than a homeless man dieing on the doorstep of the government minister that introduce move on orders for homeless people?
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Glaciers in the Himalayas are being destabilised by climate change. Hundreds are being killed in the floods. Increasing climate pollution - thru fossil fuel or agribusiness expansion - is pushing to make this worse for profit. We need to cut climate pollution. Oil cos don't give a sh*t about people.
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Christopher Luxon is forever talking about the colossal economic train wreck the last government left and this gets repeated as certain fact. But what are the actual numbers? www.davidslack.net/borrow-story/
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Trainwreck debt quiz
Christopher Luxon is forever talking about the colossal economic train wreck the last government left and this gets repeated as certain fact. But what are the actual numbers?
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minimalzen.bsky.social @minimalzen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
RNZ interview here www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
rnz.co.nz
Gisborne residents push for forestry land use change
It comes as the forestry industry has voiced concerns that some of the rules the council is trying to impose are unworkable.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w16ku... Chris Bishop told Council to use the enforcement tools available to them. Then McClay tells Council he's employing a professional tattletale to look over the shoulder of councillors and staff, to report back and tell him if Council isn't doing what the industry wants.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Basically the #nzpol industry lapdogs in Wellington have decided local democracy is dead and forestry executives should govern the region.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This seems like a long overdue #nzpol policy for someone to push, and it definitely won’t be coming from the Far Right coalition parties. TOP vows to 'clean up politics' with lobbying and donations reforms www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Opportunity Party vows to 'clean up politics' with lobbying and donations reforms
The Opportunity Party is vowing to "clean up politics" by regulating lobbying and reforming political donations.
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
National Party has only hired 54 additional nurses in 2 years - public health system buckles while hundreds of millions diverted to private providers. Simeon Brown lies that National hired thousands of nurses #nzpol #kiwi #newzealand
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Attempting to outst the Prime Minister? Sackable offence as a Minister. Racism? Still fine apparently.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A petty reason to crow over Chris Penk, but as Minister for Land Information he nixed changing Petone to Pito One and Russell to Kororāreka, and wouldn’t add a macron to Rangitīkei and Manawatū. These name proposals are thoroughly researched and consulted for years, but he declined them on vibes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And that was #nzpol today...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
More delays and dodging by #nzpol in Wellington while Tairāwhiti remains as exposed as ever: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
Chris Bishop blocks council plan to tackle forestry slash and erosion
An environmental group says the RMA Reform Minister’s decision to reject urgent land-use protections for flood-hit Tairāwhiti is “indefensible”.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Such a good read. For the record, this is unequivocally the worst government of my lifetime & on every metric possible. I’m 50 years old, so I remember a few of them. This one is appalling & the leader is a fool. Vote them all out team. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#nzpol can you make a right decision, for all of us?
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just the Preface of this book is both terrifying and fascinating…
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hayley’s story is devastating. It should be on all the bulletins and all the front pages. www.odt.co.nz/canterbury/c...
odt.co.nz
‘She was someone’s daughter, friend’: Homeless woman found sleeping under pier dies in hospital
‘She was someone’s daughter, friend’: Homeless woman found sleeping under pier dies in hospital
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Of course NZ submitted the national report, but hasn’t addressed this issue – because instead of reducing subsidies to Nature-harming activities, the Government has been increasing them! #nzpol www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-84-...
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025  - Carbon Brief
Most countries failed to meet a 2025 target to identify all of their subsidies that could be “harmful” to biodiversity, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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