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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Such good underlying messages in Susie's farewell comments. In its deseperation to appease the monied far right, Radio NZ really is slowly eating itself. Thank you to Suzie and all the other journalists and researchers who put truth before politics. 🫶 #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/...

rnz.co.nz

'A wild ride!': Broadcaster Susie Ferguson leaving RNZ

The veteran broadcaster who held a post at Morning Report before Saturday Morning leaves after 16 years.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you both for your service, I hate it. Seriously though, props for highlighting this culinary and cultural crime against young humanity… people need to know!

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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 28/09/2026

I was contacted this morning by Stuff asking if I would have a chat to discuss the quiz. I declined as the images speak for themselves and all I am doing is collating those images. However, more than happy for the quiz to be spread far and wide so please share with your networks.

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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 27/09/2026

This is your school holiday assignment. Complete the school lunch quiz by matching the image to the name - a quiz based on the school lunch images sent by @ninjakitty.bsky.social this past school term. There are 15 images in total. forms.gle/et7qDL4VGBJH...

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The Aotearoa New Zealand School Lunch Quiz

The images show 15 school lunches delivered to a school in August 2026. Your task is to pick the name that was assigned to each one.

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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 28/09/2026

Also please share this page which contains all of the images and shows the quiz images were not cherry-picked to show the worse. (Don't consult this page until after you've taken the quiz of course!) www.nickbaker.digital/nz-school-lu...

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NZ School Lunches — Nick Baker Digital

This is a gallery of images of daily school lunches provided in New Zealand from July 23, 2026 along with the title of each lunch.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@sandragreynzctu.bsky.social spoke to NZEI Te Riu Roa Hui-a-Tau this morning and asked the questions below. I tautoko these questions. If you're on Facebook, follow Save Our Schools NZ to be part of the discussion on ensuring free quality public education for all.

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 10/09/2026

Just to keep the record straight. Remember this when Willis tries to tell you about Labour's "recklessness" and how they saddled generations with debt. note: they didn't, but they did borrow to save lives and jobs and keep businesses alive in a pandemic, not to fund their tax cuts. #nzpol

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I already have regrets about today

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The man has been charged with "harming people in a family relationship". I guess we can't be too rash and call it MURDERING YOUR FAMILY from the outset. I know the police have processes to follow, but this sticks out like dog's bollocks.

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#nzpol It's far too easy for the politically cruel classes to make financial, accommodation, and health attacks on our vulnerable people and systems. Vote for this to change. If you don't vote for change, it could be you or your loved one next on the list for service and support cuts.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just remembering how before the internet you had to find stuff to do, and a lot of the day was "is there anything even on TV" (and in NZ there often wasn't because we had 3 channels in the early 90s), and there you were, reading books and magazines and sighing and staring into the middle distance

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Imagine if we had wind in Aotearoa New Zealand. *stares at the camera*

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remembering how Jamie Whyte, the leader of ACT in 2014, wanted to legalise incest? As well as being hard right, ACT have always been dodgy as #nzpol

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I spoke to Serena Solomon from RNZ about smart glasses. Yes, they're being used for voyeuristic behaviour and making social media content out of unsuspecting women/girls. There's some law for possible redress, but the tech is outpacing privacy laws. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifesty...

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Worried someone may film you with smart glasses?

Smart glasses could make it easier for perpetrators of voyeurism to commit crimes.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Woman and two children killed in Rotorua home. What's the bet that this is a domestic violence situation, where the man and woman are separated, but he can't handle that and now he's done the worst to them because he isn't man enough to accept rejection. www.rnz.co.nz/news/regiona...

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Woman and two children killed in Rotorua home

A woman and two children have been killed at a house in Rotorua.

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yep. His contempt for basic human decency was laid bare with the number of times he answered a question with “so what”?! There is not a single shred of integrity in his entire sack of flesh & bone.

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Anne Marie @anniemc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Most Definetly, shades of Luxon marketing waffle. Applied for the job now doing her best as she tries to sell herself and the party to voters in her business hat.

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Jim Marr @jimmarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Goldsmith showed how intellectually vacant/dishonest he is when he denied compulsory voting in Australia was relevant to considering the effects of similar, or longer, enrolment periods in Australia

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Q from the Opportunities Party scrambling to explain how the Party Board can override caucus decisions... especially since one of their biggest donors is on the Board. #nzqanda

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

'Collapse' is deeply bad when clinicians say it. 494 patients in 24 hours at Middlemore, when 280 was the record last winter.

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Auckland hospital hits 'terrifying' record as patients treated in corridors

Healthcare workers say the 'broken' system is 'on the brink of collapse'.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“A Living Wage would allow me to put a little more aside for the future instead of having to scrimp and save just to get by each week. Most importantly, it would mean it’s not only the students who value my work. It would show that the university recognises my contribution too.” #nzpol Sign&share🙏

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The online campaigning arm of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi

Join us in building a better world

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Liam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pretty goddamn telling how Chris Penk fucking over his own political career and having to leave politics as a result is being hyped up as this great tragedy, when NZ's first non-binary MP having to leave politics due to threats to their and their family's lives was just the price of doing business m

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“We keep talking about the health system being ‘under pressure’, ‘stretched’ or experiencing ‘high demand’. “Those words no longer adequately describe what is happening. We are on the brink of collapse.” Hey Opposition - Middlemore collapsing seems like something to loudly, you know, oppose? 🤔

nzherald.co.nz

Auckland hospital hits 'terrifying' record as patients treated in corridors

Healthcare workers say the 'broken' system is 'on the brink of collapse'.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

He's a fascist, plain and simple. The only reason that man is in National is because he wanted power (same with Luxon to be honest) and was prepared to lie to get it. And now they're a hollowed-out party full of far-right destroyers because everyone thought the same

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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Richard Dawkins, who has previously led online attacks on Māori scholars, is one of the more prominent online trolls who mounted a vitriolic online crusade against Prof Jason Arday. He is now on X trolling a Muslim scholar at Cambridge. The howls of white rage continue unabated.

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There are so many sick students & staff at school. The scramble to provide cover (that's a qualified teacher in the classroom) is immense. So many teachers giving up their planning/marking/everything else time to ensure school carries on as usual. #nzpol

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 15/08/2026

National's dirty big secret is that it has been $17 billion out on its 2023 promise to fix the Government's books, writes Gareth Morgan

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Who’s the fiscal blowhard, Mr Luxon?

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Paul Goldsmith is a heartless, miserable, snivelling excuse for a Minister full of assumptions and no evidence to back him up. His big changes in law and order are not even supported by the Police. FFS "reasonable force" and "mechanical restraints" can be used on 14yo children! #nzqanda

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Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

$2bn already spent. Not only did they not find any more, they found they didn't even have what they thought, and had declared, they had. This is insanity. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/15/t...

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The mystery of the disappearing gas reserves

NZ's proven gas reserves have fallen by two thirds in the past four years, but we've only burned half that amount. What happened to the rest?

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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Geologist here who's worked in the NZ oil and gas industry. This is bullshit.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 18/07/2026

Just so fucking typical of a conservative man, taking credit for a woman's effort.

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Last night I went to my BFF's house to watch All Blacks v Ireland. It was a great game and I agree D Mac was player of the game. But I am ruined for watching rugby on any other TV now. BFF & hubby have an 85" TV - it is huge!! He may be over compensating for his right wing leanings.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The NZ media have a lot to answer for, they give us the undiluted uncritiqued reckons, without context if NZF and ACT Leaders/Ministers because at their core that’s who they are and who they support, they’re both regressive and in bed with the money.

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OnThePaepae @peteraranyi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Andrea Vance, referring to certain media gushing over comedian Paul Henry ... "There hasn't been such interest in an unranked ACT party placeholder since Tim Jago's name suppression lifted." #nzpol #lol

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Paul Henry bemoans the fact we've "lost" the atmosphere of no excuses from when he grew up... in the dark ages. #nzqanda

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Kitten in a shopping bag... because...

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Latest weekly jobs data. This is not what a recovery looks like. Job ads online from MBIE is the second chart. Wellington / Auckland stuck at GFC levels. At some point, folks will work out slumps stay slumped until something changes.

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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We're going to lose most of native birds, aren't we. Then these feckless goons will be able to mine everything fucking thing and 1/2 wit New Zild will vote them back in because they are better economic managers. Fuck them all.

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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Cutting funding for science has a very nasty habit of being a really big problem in both expected and unexpected ways. This may not be relevant to last nights problems, but I can assure you that cutting funding for geohazard monitoring is - of concern.

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Government Cuts – New Zealand’s ability to monitor geohazards weakened by science job cuts – PSA – LiveNews.co.nz

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am having chocolate cravings. Specifically Whittakers chocolate. I bought some to thank my neighbour, but ate it.

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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 03/07/2026

The point and purpose of education isn’t what parents get but what happens day after day in the classroom. And for that to go well you need pros, not programmes.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

He’s not “ charming, cheeky or outlandish” He’s childish, misogynist, racist and has value for far right ACT because he’s walking clickbait. He gets away with it because he’s white, connected, entitled & wealthy & media are willing to do puff pieces like this that excuse him because of it. #nzpol

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The cussing character that may become the PM’s latest curse

If a celebrity candidate can claw some right voters back to ACT - National could be headed for devastation station

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Fiona McKenzie @feever.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ohh! Look over here! It’s Paul Henry ! Look at Paul Henry! Don’t look at THIS! Look at PAUL! Don’t look at TIM! OMG #ActParty #NzPol

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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Incentive. Has anyone looked into the list of shareholders of electricity gentailer stocks (aside from the 51% stake that the NZ Govenment retains) & compared the list to major donors to NZ political parties & maybe MPs & their extended families? Is National & Labour just all talk on Solar? #nzpol

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Power companies’ spending on new renewables fell off a cliff

New figures bolster the claim spending on new renewable electricity projects by Meridian, Mercury and Genesis collapsed after they were listed

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I was today years old when I learned that domestic violence and sport linkage isn’t only when teams lose and it goes up when they win too?! Mens pls wtf man how are we the emotional gender?! Incredible propaganda.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Health Minister Simeon Brown on health imperatives. My #cartoon today #HealthCare #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Time and No Emotion” Picture shows Health Minister Simeon Brown standing in an Emergency Department, wearing a white coat, with staff working around him. He’s shouting, “Come on, people! Save them! Save them!” Someone from the side is saying, “Do you mean these people, Mr Brown?” And he says, “Pfffft! No! Dollars!”

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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Is there no Q+A on TVNZ1 this week?

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