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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 · 08/10/2026
If they’re born 1946-1964 then based on average lifespan of Pākehā (which is increasing along with other groups), half will have died in the next 20 years, most of the rest by 2066. That’s still feels quite a long time.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If my perfectly legal #nzpol signs can be removed, I guess that means all the election hoardings are fair game! 😎
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Signs removed, must be game on! 😎
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Election hoardings are so offensive. #nzpol #BillboardLiberationFront
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/ele...
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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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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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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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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 · 12/08/2026
And that was #nzpol today...
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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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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Such a great @tvnz.bsky.social #nzpol interview.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What illustrious company! #NZ and #USA are the only 'Global West' countries to sit outside the highest scores for climate action and biodiversity in the annual Yale Environmental Performance Index. #nzpol epi.yale.edu/downloads/20...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In case anyone still needed evidence that this Government prioritises overseas corporate interests over the safety of citizens and integrity of local ecosystems – here's one more blatant example: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610... #nzpol Full correspondence here: manataiao.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/c...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
While the world burns, these guys are still trucking on… #Ōtawa
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Debt arrears by region, renters struggling the most & mortgages over $1m has tripled since 2019 and 4-5 times higher than 2017. “Some communities swimmingly, others drowning” - John Campbell, @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy www.rnz.co.nz/news/persona... Full report: www.centrix.co.nz/wp-content/u...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
#National just announced the theme song for their 2026 #nzpol election campaign.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“I have for some time now been haunted by the Saami vision of the underland as a perfect inversion of the human realm, with the ground always the mirror-line, such that 'the feet of the dead, who must walk upside down, touch those of the living, who stand upright’.” - Robert Macfarlane, ‘Underland’
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I’ll vote for a party that gets big $$$ out of #nzpol elections.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Is it a balloon or a location icon? 😉 But seriously, could be Te Kooti and/or Rua Kenana inspired iconography?
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I guess “Strong for Labour and Victory” wasn’t really appropriate.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I've prepared a short section for the upcoming #NZ #BIOFIN Assessment on #Māori #investment and involvement in #biodiversity restoration efforts. Of course there are hundreds, probably thousands more #Māori-led #taiao initiatives across #Aotearoa. manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/maori-inve...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I hope some kaihaka go for this piupiu hairstyle at #TeMatatini - congratulations #Dara from #Bulgaria at @eurovision.tv
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Aotearoa has a great constitutional opportunity here, a chance to score one win against the most corrupt vandals the country has had running itself for at least 100 years: open.substack.com/pub/manucadd... I hope other iwi leaders are thinking about this. #KoAotearoaTēnei #localgovernment #nzpol
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A fun but serious project for #election year. #nzpol My favourite is the ACT Party colours - order yours here: www.taxtherichnz.org
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
😂
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Classic book titles from the 1970 #264
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I’m so naive- imagining this shit doesn’t remain uncorrected around the country, and even recently refreshed. I guess #Whangaui is still home to a remaining “Savage Club” so why am I surprised?
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
They changed the headline online. 😜
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I sent a litre of oil to the White House in 2003 hoping if we all donated some they might refrain from invading Iraq. Didn’t work unfortunately.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
These three looked so sheepish - and claiming this Government has put “hundreds of millions into public transport every year, and this is a commitment of this Government” is disingenuous to say the least. It drastically cut support for public transport for the young, disabled & elderly. #nzpol
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A fantastical fishy tale inspired by one of my favourite children's stories and more outrageous public policy... #nzpol manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/small-fish
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So despite the fact that conserving fuel would enable the few weeks to be spread to a lot more weeks, there’s clearly no “go early and go hard” approach to this crisis… #nzpol
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is so depressing, what’s happened to the egalitarian ethos the country used to pride itself on (if never fully realised)?:
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We really are returning to primitive times! #nzpol
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
@markmitchellmp.bsky.social told @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy 'we've always had [weather events], it's just that we're getting better at identifying them' - @nathansurendran.bsky.social made this 'States of Emergency since 2000' chart from CD data (excl. quakes): www.civildefence.govt.nz/emergency-ev...
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The numpties pressuring politicians to under-invest in infrastructure and #Stop3Waters should be taking a decent share of the responsibility for the chronic issues municipalities across the country are facing. But the pressure is many decades old and need better regulation as much as better funding.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Does the Press Council still exist for complaints about inaccurate reporting? Or is this considered ‘opinion’ rather than faux outrage clickbait? 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️🤯 Duncan is a dick and The Listener is rapidly losing any remaining credibility. #nzpol
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
To celebrate the launch of @weallaotearoa.bsky.social membership opening, anyone who signs up before midday on 19 Feb can go in the draw to win a ticket to The People’s Economist Tour with Gary Stevenson (Auckland show). www.weall.org.nz/membership
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Dame Prof Anne Salmond and I have a chapter in this new book published by @springer.springernature.com. If you're interested in the content, maybe ask your local library to get a copy... link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Chapter summary: Tairāwhiti geology, colonial legacies, Māori-led restoration.
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Some places were never meant to be permanent settlement sites. Which can be difficult to accept now that whenua is divided by colonial constructs into property titles & the option to just relocate to a safer place costs millions, even for very small communities... #nzpol #LandUse 👉🏼 shorturl.at/JFFuS
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Manu Caddie @manucaddie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Where are those #Stop3Waters folk now? Oh yeah, running the shitshow. #nzpol
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