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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Shane Jones called a trade deal with India a "butter chicken tsunami" this week. So here's Taika Waititi from 2017, still relevant, still necessary. Give nothing to racism. 🎬 youtu.be/g9n_UPyVR5s
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Give Nothing To Racism
YouTube video by Te Kāhui Tika Tangata NZ Human Rights Commission
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Luxon cancelled Breakfast over TVNZ staff conduct. Hosking named 5 National MPs as disloyal leakers on air. All of them say it's rubbish and fake news. One of those MPs has a formal Media Council complaint pending. Will Luxon cancel his appearance on Hosking's show?
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Luxon cancelled Breakfast after 3 cheeky interviews with Tova O'Brien. Ardern cancelled Newstalk ZB after ~49 hostile interviews with Hosking — four years of being called dangerous, narcissistic, and a control freak. These two things are not the same. open.substack.com/pub/wonderou...
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In the matter of: Hosking v Ardern and O'Brien v Luxon
A case of mistaken equivalence. Three interviews vs. forty-nine. These two things are not the same.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The problem is about distance, not competence. substack.com/@wonderoutlo...
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When Politicians Bypass the ATS Checker
If the Law Commission job was advertised on Seek, would Judith Collins make the shortlist?
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Why is Jacinda Ardern such a threat to so many right wing men? open.substack.com/pub/wonderou...
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Why are so many men still so triggered by Jacinda Ardern?
From “naïve” to “dictator” — and what that contradiction reveals
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Heading into 2026, I’m wishing for politics with less performative certainty, and more authentic care - from politicians, journalists, and all of us.🐎 2026, let’s get the horse back in the stable. Happy 2026. wonderoutloud.substack.com/p/getting-th...
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Getting the horse back in the stable
What it might take to steady the reins in an election year
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Polls bounce. Trust sticks. Who's got it in 2025. Who lost it? And where is it wobbly? wonderoutloud.substack.com/p/a-trust-sn...
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A trust snapshot: how the parties stack up
Who's stacking up, who's wobbly and who's collapsing?
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Love this. This is normal America.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
@clrenney.bsky.social how are under-employed hours counted? I am only employed for 15 hours a week - would like to work full-time, but I don't think I am showing in any data because I do not qualify for government support. I imagine there are many like me in a similar boat?
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
How to Cook Hot Potato Surprise. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #CappedRates #Rates
Cartoon, Title: “How To Cook Hot Potato Surprise” Three frames’ 1st frame shows PM Christopher Luxon lighting the fuse attached to a potato, saying, “We heat it up and serve it capped” 2nd frame, it has been tossed to Chris Hipkins, who is juggling it and saying, “Ow…ah…ow… we may or may not repeal it…ow…hot!” As he tosses it to a woman with a child, where the potato promptly explodes, with the words, “User Pays” and “art galleries, libraries, parks, water, swimming pools” exploding out of it.
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Let's roll up our sleeves and get involved - whether Labour or the Greens (or TPM or TOP). If you want better messaging or more visibility on social media or whatever, then join your local branch, offer your skills, volunteer, donate etc. Send your local lefty MPs positive & encouraging messages.
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Changing this govt will require all of us ordinary ppl to find a way to work together and build each other up and encourage each other and promote a narrative of hope and change and that another way is possible. While also disagreeing with each other 🤣 Harder, but feasible I think?
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It's easy to point at each other and criticise each other for not being left enough or purist enough or good enough etc etc. Especially when we are scared and worried and desperately afraid of what another 3 years of NACT will mean for us all.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Top tip for National for 2026: You got elected on promising to fix the economy and the cost of living crisis. Stop blaming Labour, and just get on with it. Less moaning, and more doing.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
When one MP using ChatGPT it is “cheating”… but a whole room of staff drafting, editing, and pressure-testing questions is “just politics”. Amazing what counts as scandal when you don’t understand the tool.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
David Seymour's view on democracy: Where 300 000 submissions can be ignored, while one email can spark legislative change. wonderoutloud.substack.com/p/selective-...
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The government gives up the ghost on our youth and calls it policy.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Poor people just need better accountants. It works for farmers.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Gaslighting the public can only work for so long. It's time to take responsibility for the state of the economy. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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Stuff
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Opinion: New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...
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New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice
Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Vanessa Weenink reckons it doesn't matter if the leader of the party is not the strongest player? In theory perhaps, but in reality this is how resentment builds. www.facebook.com/share/v/1A4H...
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Redirecting...
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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
There really isn’t any moral test that Luxon can’t fail. #nzpol
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Loved this Jon Stewart and Jacinda Ardern conversation. Too many leaders weaponise fear. True leadership treats power as responsibility—to act with empathy, optimism & courage, and to improve lives. A good reminder right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJg1...
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Jacinda Ardern - “A Different Kind of Power” | The Daily Show
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Chris Hipkins need to say yes to every interview. The more people hear him talk, the more they will like him. Kind of the opposite of the other Chris.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We are told that we should celebrate farmer success and pay extortionate prices for butter? Is it fair?
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
GDP growth doesn’t guarantee affordability, fairness, or shared wellbeing. The story of rising butter prices in a nutshell. www.canva.com/design/DAGq7...
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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 20/01/2025
Anne Salmond: Hayek's bastards newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/21/a...
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Anne Salmond: Hayek's bastards
The summertime call for submissions on a revived Regulatory Standards Bill got Dame Anne Salmond reading and connecting the dots of neoliberal campaigns
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Am I reading this wrong or are they sending a Blackwater mercenary to 'take care of' the ethnic communities, like should we be scared/arming ourselves
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
So I assume the new Minister of Health will be lobbying the new Minister of Transport to undo the speed limit shenanigans of the previous Minister of Transport, right?
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
A government that is more focused on to locking people up in prison for longer, than helping them to live productive lives, have their priorities wrong. Cutting funding to community services is expensive.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Wondering why Liberterians are always trying to call themselves anything but a Libertarian? Are they ashamed of their ideology? I have never come across progressive who do not proudly own their progressive views and work.
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"A picture is worth a thousand words" #nzpol
Title-When one door opens another one closes - a drawing of 3 stories of doors asa building front - each door is labelled -schools,housing,health,youth,seniors libraries,drug treatment,homeless shelters,parks,arts and culture, community services- the last door is a an open prison door …under the drawing are the words - Destroy the prison industrial complex
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cmdr-unifex.bsky.social @cmdr-unifex.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
National:2026 - Pro Bum Cancer newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/04/c... Also, nitrates increase the risk of bowel cancer newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/30/c... #NZPol #FuckWits
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Cancer patients will die waiting on failed election promise
Opinion from the University of Otago: Could National have delivered their pledge to fund 13 new cancer drugs without undermining Pharmac? What’s the truth behind the fiscal cliff?
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Deborah Hart called the situation in Gaza 'perceived wrongdoings.' Let's be clear: killing 44,835 people, including 17,492 children, isn't perceived—it's wrong. Full stop. And yes, antisemitic behavior in NZ is wrong too. Surely we can hold both truths at once? www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
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Israel-Gaza war in maps and charts: Live tracker
The latest death toll stands at 45,646 Palestinians and 1,139 people killed in Israel since October 7, 2023.
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
On the Bridge of the Ferry Simulator. (When we finally get some new ferries, maybe they shouldn’t have an Autopilot, because we really can’t be trusted with an Autopilot setting) My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Ferries
Cartoon. Title: On the Bridge of the Ferry Simulator. Picture shows Winston Peters as Napolean, Nicola Willis hunting for the Start Button, and PM Christopher Luxon looking like it’s a genius plan, but pressing the Autopilot button by mistake. But at least you can’t sink a simulator.
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
ON QUIETLY UPPING THE I-REX FERRIES NUMBER FROM $3b to $4b: Yesterday this govt found a few words for them to use as an excuse to say i-Rex cost $4b Up until yesterday - and for a year - everyone, including this Coalition right wing, agreed on the $3b figure. Don't let it go unnoticed. #nzpol
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Associate Professor Suze Wilson @suzewilson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I'm thinking about the Marsden project I'm part of, only just 8 months into our 3 years, & the data we already have on the truly f*'ing awful experiences of women leaders of online abuse & the work still to be done to help remedy that & IN WHAT GODFORSAKEN WORLD IS THAT WORK NOT OF VALUE?? #nzpol
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I think New Zealand has a religious disagreement with Christopher Luxon. He thinks he's God, and we disagree.😕
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Government waste #cartoon #nzpol #repost
Cartoon depicts seven sinking ships torpedoed by a submarine labelled 'NAF' ( National, Act, NZFirst parties ). In the conning tower Nicola Willis: "We're saving so much money!" Captain Chris Luxon: "Full steam ahead and damn the cost of torpedoes." Sunk ships labelled: Irex Hybrid Ferries, Hopspitals, Public Service, 3 waters low cost water scheme, light rail,public housing, hospitals. Title: 'Sunk Cost Fools At Sea'. ( Rhyming with 'sunk cost fallacy' which does not apply to the above. ) Refers to coalition government cancelling successful projects mid way through, wasting billions of dollars.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes "I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
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Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes
Dozens of Rutherford Discovery Fellows condemned "damaging changes" to the Marsden Fund's terms of reference.
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Did I hear the Mainfreight managing director say "Everything seems to take longer with this government."? I thought business confidence is up? #NZPol
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thanks to the team who put this important piece together so Rutherford Discovery Fellows could unite in their opposition to the Marsden Fund changes.
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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
What an appalling minister he is. It's a very bad sign that coalition members are tossing around 'woke' as a pejorative. It's up there with snowflake and virtue signalling as a marker of sneering right wing rejection of basic decency. #nzpol
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denisebijoux.bsky.social @denisebijoux.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So Te Whatu Ora is canned after a year for so-called failing to deliver but this ferry announcement after a year is professed to be a success. Yeah, right. #nzpol
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MsWonderOutLoud @mswonderoutloud.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I really don't know why people keep voting for Winston Peters. He clearly hates his job. Put him out of his misery.
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Winston Peters is just exhausting to listen to. Argh!
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmer...
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