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@mingming02.bsky.social
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Architecture & Aotearoa. Opinions are my own.

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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
When Nanny Herald is practically campaigning for Stanford you know he’s got to go 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ #nzpol
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Project 10: How the government kept the pay equity law change secret
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Project 10: How the government kept the pay equity law change secret
Documents reveal how the government worked to keep sweeping pay equity changes hidden until the last minute.
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Luxflakes pointing to Australia as a country that doesn’t have same day enrolment for voting… remind me what they do have? OH! Compulsory voting with 90% turnout. Silly goose! #nzpol
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Yesterday's govt. voter suppression tactic affects hundreds of thousands of Kiwis, and will unduly impact young folks, Asians, Māori, Pacific. But it also impacts anyone who is moving, about to turn 18 in the days before voting day etc. What's true is "If the Left Vote, The Left Win" #nzpol
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"If The Left Vote, The Left Win"
National's Electoral Voter Suppression Tactic Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Kiwis
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Strain on the system.” SYBAU Mr. Goldsmith. People wanting to vote is strain? Franchise comes before democracy itself. If there’s strain - that means more people want to vote. How can that be spun as a bad thing? Fund it. Employ for it. The last thing you should be doing is restricting it. #nzpol
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If you’re not allowed to enrol to vote after advanced voting has begun, surely the parties shouldn’t be allowed to campaign either? A lot can happen in the last two weeks before election day, and what about those waiting in line after the polls close? Are they also drop-kicks? #nzpol
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Adzes @adzes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I found the links below super helpful in making a submission against the Regulatory Standards Bill. #nzpol My comments attached, make your own at www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...
My/our comments: I strongly oppose the Regulatory Standards Bill being passed.  In my opinion the Regulatory Standards Bill fundamentally breaches Te Tiriti o Waitangi and undermines the Treaty Principles of tino rangatiratanga and partnership.  Excluding Maori from regulatory decision-making undermines the principle of partnership enshrined in Te Tiriti, and forcing all legislation to consider the economic principles included in this bill disenfranchises all citizens and residents of Aotearoa New Zealand while prioritizing the voices of industry and the wealthy.  The Regulatory Standards Bill centralises minoritarian power in the hands of David Seymour and the ACT party, while diminishing the role of Parliament and the voices of all New Zealanders.  Finally, The Regulatory Standards Bill will facilitate the exploitation of natural resources at the expense of our beautiful natural environment by weakening environmental protections, and accelerating the loss of endangered species.

My/our recommendations: I strongly recommend that the committee not put the Regulatory Standards Bill forward to the full Parliament.  Kill the bill!
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Another case of taxpayer handouts for the developers, and “work just a little bit harder and you might be able to afford a house” to the workers from the neolibs. But no, let’s punitively micromanage the unemployed. #NZPol newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/16/t...
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The property developers who win from Govt's big housing underwrites
The first three projects to receive a Crown underwrite through a programme to support the residential development sector have been revealed.
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This granny-flats policy just represents that NACT1st believes in landlords providing sub-par housing. “Oh but the building code…” is a minimum, not a standard. It’s firefighting housing demand to inflate asset portfolios. #nzpol
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Interesting how Meager is criticising Labour’s voting record in the committee proceedings when it was his government that voted for the TPB to pass first reading. This government can’t decide if it wants to reduce waste or not, time/money - and can’t decide if it wants democracy or not. #nzpol
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Why is no one talking about how GenZ and GenAlpha TikTok have been using -ussy at least a year? Fridgeussy, Bookussy, Doorbellussy. I’ve seen it all. I’ve used it. Are the older gens just projecting they don’t understand youth slang, which by design is meant to outgroup them to begin with? #nzpol
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Nationals Ferry Break Fee: $300M Labour’s School Lunches: $323M Choices choices! #NZPol
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If I accounted as creatively as #NickyNoBoats - surely this counts as public asset sales. Not denying Uni’s don’t price gouge rents, but a public institution selling assets for revenue to balance the books is unsustainable. Maybe fund our education? Invest in better in our future workforce? #NZPol
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 07/02/2025
Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety shuns typical monthly meetings but makes time for ‘fake unions’ linked to anti-vax movement, reports Alice Peacock
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Van Velden turns down union meetings in ‘unprecedented’ lack of engagement
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Lululamarmiteontoast @lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Apply this to David Seymour & Shane Jones's rhetoric. There is no proof of a "Maori elite" or that the "Treaty of Waitangi" has led to racist policy but this deliberate disinformation is given even media weight despite statistics showing the opposite #nzpol www.michigandaily.com/opinion/colu...
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Don’t fall for ‘bothsidesism’
False balance does a disservice to the public by equating truth with falsehood. In an age where misinformation can have dire consequences, as serious as a potential end to democracy, it is more import...
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Before Seymour has a tizzy about being de-mic’d and “just wanting a democratic debate” at #Waitangi - We have been listening to his garble for the past year. He has his freedom to speak, we have the freedom to not engage. #NZPol
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WomenAotearoaNZ @weavinghouse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#NZ “Equality is never achieved through equal treatment.” ~ Marilyn Waring 💥 #SubstantiveEquality: an analytical framework to address just about everything discriminatory.
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Chris Hipkins @chrishipkins.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Christopher Luxon appointing the governments newest and most junior minister as Minister for the South Island shows this govt’s absolute contempt for the mainland. He won’t sit around the Cabinet table when all the big decisions are being made, so what’s the point?
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A tough line on beneficiaries follows a National election victory just as night follows day. Soon after comes the evidence that it doesn’t work, writes Max Rashbrooke. #nzpol
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What happened last time we had a beneficiary crackdown?
New Zealanders have been here before, and have kept the receipts.
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Sam Sachdeva @samsachdeva.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Officials were working on a secret proposal to withdraw NZ from a global transparency initiative - only for ministers to reject the advice and choose to stay in. A (mostly) good news story before Christmas! @newsroom.co.nz newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/20/c...
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Coalition scraps plan to leave open government pact
Officials argued a global transparency initiative was costing too much and delivering too little.
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Does anyone know how to find where public debt repayments (to the RBNZ or otherwise) are recorded? Trying to gauge whether the government is committed to reducing debt i.e increasing payments ahead of inflation, or relying on growth to balance books in terms of debt/GDP ratio. TIA #nzpol
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Adam @hellomotorbike.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Quite literally. #nzpol
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Waiting to be told the new boats will be rail-enabled as there will be a rail around the top deck to stop people falling overboard. #nzpol
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Could’ve told them that after the 2011 Earthquakes 😘 #nzpol
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Chris Hipkins @chrishipkins.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
One year after Nicola Willis cancelled the $551m contract to buy two new Interisland ferries we’re no closer to knowing what will replace them. We do know the PM has asked Winston Peters, who setup the initial project to replace the ferries, to clean up the mess Willis made by cancelling them.
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Pat Brittenden @patbrittenden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#BHN About the new ferries all you need to hear is “the expected cost of the project is commercially confidential” by #NickyNoBoat to know once again they f**ked up. How dare they scuttle the better deal, then not be open and transparent about their deal #nzpol
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Steph Phi @freestylesteph.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#BHN looks like Nikki no boats still stands
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Barb Edmonds MP @barbedmonds.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A great week for the government…said no one. Ok maybe just the PM 🏠
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 06/12/2024
‘Great danger’ to South Korea unless President Yoon suspended, says ruling party leader
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‘Great danger’ to South Korea unless President Yoon suspended, says ruling party leader
Head of the People Power party claims there is a significant risk that president could order ‘extreme actions’ The South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, could put citizens in “great danger” if he is not suspended, the head of the ruling party said on Friday, increasing the likelihood that parliament will vote to impeach Yoon over Tuesday’s failed martial law declaration. “[If] President Yoon continues to hold the office of the presidency, there is a significant risk that extreme actions similar to the martial law declaration could be repeated, which could put the Republic of Korea and its citizens in great danger,” the head of the People Power party, Han Dong-hoon, told an emergency party leadership meeting. Continue reading...
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
@xkaosmagex.bsky.social is 100% better with numbers than Nicky No Boats - kia ora for this gem 😭 Let us be wary, the premise of the filler phrase #wiwstyi enables the answerer to spin their agenda, steering the discourse away from the question. #bhn #nzpol
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Chris Hipkins @chrishipkins.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just another week under the Coalition of Chaos…!
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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Is this terribly clever, or just plain stupid? (See pt 4)
List of National “achievements”. Number 4 is “Sturctured Maths/Literacy”
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Fiscal responsibility must always account for social responsibility. Stanford‘s anti-bespoke #architecture stance shows she doesn’t show care to understand what the needs of our mokopuna are, and how the design of learning environments help meet them. #nzpol architecturenow.co.nz/articles/arc...
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Architects not required
Editor of Architecture NZ magazine, Chris Barton, considers the current government’s call to put an end to “fancy, architecturally designed classrooms”.
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Tamatha Paul (MP) has done an amazing 5 part series on TikTok about how to write an effective submission the the #TreatyPrinciplesBill, what to highlight and what is most impactful for Select Committees. You’ve got till January 7th - Get into it 🫶🏼 #nzpol vt.tiktok.com/ZSj7bvocd/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#SpotifyWrapped2024 Interesting year from me :) #FredAgain, #slchld, #DPR, #OSN #Knock2
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Would the Coalition criticise spending choices if #KaingaOra mandated the use of wool carpets? I support our farmers, but Patterson seems only concerned about environmental costs (of synthetic alternatives) when it comes to his voter base. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #nzpol
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported." The changes are bad for science, they're basically fatal for meaningful govt support of humanities and social sciences. Blatant and unashamed anti-intellectualism.
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#SouthKorea: President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared martial law “in order to safeguard constitutional order.” Arising during budget disputes, opposition leader Lee says the Assembly will try to nullify the order. www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-president-yoon-declares-martial-law
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South Korea President Yoon declares martial law
He said the measure was necessary to protect the country from “communist forces”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Punangairi is Paparoa National Park’s new visitor centre by Sheppard and Rout. Green roofs are always a calcuated design choice, however this project aims to be double-carbon-zero, offsetting twice the embodied carbon over its lifecycle. 📸: Phil Rossiter (Doc) #architecture #nz
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I can always be critical, but what a massive undertaking this was! In great anticipation to see if these amendments, as intended, will positively affect the City and local centres, while maintaining socio-environmental accountability. #nzpol #christchurch www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/m...
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Major new planning rules approved for Christchurch
Christchurch City Council has agreed to a raft of major new rules which will allow greater business development and more housing choice under the city’s planning rulebook – the District Plan.
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Clint Smith @clintvsmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Just catching up on Luxon's Q+A interview (yikes) and something that I noted was he kept saying that rents have stopped rising under this government. That isn't true. Not only are rents rising fast relative to past years, they're now rising faster than wages
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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This is happening on the National Party’s watch. Tax cuts for unproductive housing speculators, firing masses of public servants, stopping construction projects - all pulling the rug out from under the economy. The multiplier effect multiplying the damage. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Business insolvencies 'much higher' than in the global financial crisis
"From a historical perspective this is really bad," economist says as the number of business insolvencies hits more than double last year.
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’ve been hesitant to support Hipkins. I’ve often concluded the current messaging isn’t going to reach the centre. Very impressed by his speeches at the Labour conference - great talking points, ‘Savage 😜’ Labour values. Hope this translates into their policy platform and campaign! #nzpol #labournz
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Covid-19 Royal Commission releases first report – what you need to know
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Covid-19 Royal Commission releases first report – what you need to know
Lockdowns, mandates and MIQ were all scrutinised in the commission's first report....
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Loving the festive campaign from #AucklandTransport on Ponsonby Road🎄 #nz #publictransport
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sending my love to everyone in the #NzHerald comments section. The media by nature relies on baity headlines, even non-MSM outlets. Let’s demonstrate Kiwi pragmatism and read the articles before we weigh in 🫶🏼 #nzpol
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Status quo, if not worse: Govt announced 50 new senior doctors & 75 nurses, BUT; - PSA says 1500 jobs at risk - 700 vacancies stuck in a hiring freeze - Te Whatu Ora says net loss of 57 - Also consulting on Māori Health Service and Pacific Health restructures #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Te Whatu Ora staff 'filled with anxiety' over proposed job cuts
Employees at risk of losing their jobs say the restructure process has been gruelling and decisions being made will impact the quality of care for patients.
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matt 🐼🌹 @mingming02.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
When you vote for tax-cuts from the central Government, costs are passed on and YOU still end up paying for it. Rates go up, public transport goes up. People can’t afford a ticket, routes are cut, accessibility hindered. How is this in the interest of productivity? #nzpol #nzherald #publictransport
(From NZ Herald) Bus and train fares set to soar with new NZTA targets.
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