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So would this website need a promoter statement? splityourvote.co.nz Pretty explicitly recommends people to vote in particular ways.

splityourvote.co.nz

Split Your Vote | National, Act and NZ First

This web site has been created to explain the advantages of splitting your vote.

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 7h

We've just heard the terribly sad news that Phil Gifford has passed away. Chris Bourke says, "Gifford was a giant in New Zealand journalism for half a century...What is missing from the reports of his unexpected death, on Tuesday, aged 79, is that he was also one of NZ’s best music writers... 🧵

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The Riverboat Captain @riverboatcapt.bsky.social · 6h

Mowbray dismissed Hipkins' criticisms of him, telling The Post most of his family’s money was made overseas and that he was not part of an “entrenched interest”. " Not sure that's the devastating burn Mowbray thinks it is.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 7h

I suspect those who been watching me update this chart over the months are not mind-boggled

Oh no, it is the consequence of their actions.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 11h

OMG full page full racist Hobson’s Pledge in The Post today is this even legal? #nzpol

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

What? Abandoning the institutional infrastructure of a $3 billion industry to save … $1 million? This the guilds, the orgs representing different communities, Equity, Spada. www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

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'Significant change': NZ Film Commission scraps major source of funding for organisations

A major source of public funding for film and screen sector organisations is set to end after more than two decades of it being offered.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've written a review for the Listener of Agnes Obel's show last night at the NZ international convention centre. But while that makes its way online, a word for the remarkable light and video element of the performance. I've never seen anything quite like it.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

anyone who understands how buffered systems work is petrified by this

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Trump's new AI powered website confirmed Biden won in 2020 and that Trump's name is in the Epstein files. Classic

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"In 2023, we were told we were told we'd have a $2b surplus now. Instead, we have a $9b deficit by the same measure." - Seymour admits Treasury forecast of last Labour government's economic performance was much better than the current govt has delivered. #NzPol

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ACT: 'We have to go further'

ACT: 'We have to go further'ACT leader David Seymour says the PREFU figures have "vindicated" his party's "drive for savings" in the coalition Government."The number one result is we cannot afford Lab...

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Simon Wilson @simonbwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My Listener column on rough sleepers, move-on orders and the wonderful Helen Robinson at the Akl City Mission is now online ($) but you can also read it in the magazine in shops this week www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

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Simon Wilson: Wider Auckland needs about 1000 emergency beds. Move-on orders won’t fix that

Why aren't we listening to those with solutions to NZ's rough-sleeping crisis?

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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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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.

David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A classic Simeon Brown move here, much like his work on Local Water Done Well and Health NZ Te Whatu Ora - it always comes down to a gargantuan cost being punted beyond his responsibility and landing on taxpayers and ratepayers which is "Fixing the basics and building the future".

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NZ should move on. There are no genes from other species in these bananas. These bananas have three genes involved in browning disabled, to reduce food waste. By one estimate, “more than 60% of exported banana currently go to waste before reaching consumers”.

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Gene-edited bananas that don’t go brown could hit UK supermarkets

Scientific breakthrough could reduce food waste and make it easier to add the fruit to prepackaged food

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...

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Transport borrowing comes back to bite - Greater Auckland

Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expendi...

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got 5/15 and I was actually trying. This should be Seymour's menu for the rest of his rotten life.

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When @graemeedgeler.bsky.social says you're "the worst Speaker I can recall" you know it's bad. Gerry Brownlee, Parliament's ineffectual policeman, wraps up chaotic term newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/24/g...

Brownlee is the worst Speaker I can recall. A single ruling during the committee stage of the fast-track law is sufficient for him to earn this title. A basic and long-standing rule in the House is that the admissibility of amendments in the Committee of the Whole is a decision for the Chair and that this will not be interfered with by the Speaker. The Chair ruled out National’s list of projects to add to the law. The Government asked for the Speaker to be recalled, and to get the government out of a jam, the Speaker intervened, undermining the Chair and decades of practice, just so the Government didn’t have to wait to use the Parliamentary options open to them. Completely unjustified and the worst Parliamentary action I can recall a Speaker taking.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The automated YouTube subtitles on the trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' render the words "Department known as DOGE" as "Department of Donated Organs". Freaky.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have often been at pains to explain to people that psychedelics do not automatically fix everything and make everyone good. In this case, they're helping feed the messianic complex particular to leading-edge tech workers. When you believe you're the chosen, your worst urges seem like inspiration.

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Christopher Luxon: Hipkins doesn't have a path to power without the radical parties and their taxes. Also Christopher Luxon: NZ1's radical "nationalise BNZ plan" has no bearing on my next government. #nzpol

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"At least one pause in Nicola Willis’ speech that seemed timed for applause or cries of “shame” did not get answered - although Simeon Brown did get people to chant “no new taxes”." This really is Simeon Brown's campaign. (Henry also reported that boxes of "no new taxes" banners went unopened.)

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bumped into my former neighbour, a commercial electrician. For the past two and a half years, his company has had virtually no work. Suddenly, it's happening – but it's all house renovations. Commercial construction projects are so rare they've stopped tendering for them. Make of that what you will.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not only is it telling that all these groups are basically the same five agitators with different tour bands, we must remember that they had to form a fake parents' advocacy group because they are utterly unpopular losers

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is no vaccine for dengue that's approved for places without endemic dengue. This isn't a vaccine story, it's a story of how Donald Trump and Marco Rubio trying to do regime change in Cuba via fuel blockade has caused a massive dengue outbreak there that's spread to Florida via travel to Cuba.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was an incredible test match – and what a heartbreak for the Black Ferns to go down to an intercept try in the 82nd minute, after playing most of the rugby all day. The unlucky yellow card to Mahutariki-Fakalelu was the difference in the end. Next time.

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Simon Wilson @simonbwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At the heart of Nicky Hager’s book is a tale of how a group of cynical hard-right ideologues made racism a winning political platform, not because they’re white supremacists, but because it suited their interests. My Hopetown post is here #nzpol simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/dirty-work...

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Dirty work and the disinfecting sunshine it deserves

Nicky Hager’s new book ‘Dirty Work’ reminds us how much we’ve lost in the last three years

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is JD Vance-level comedic timing. A true master of the craft.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I blocked Dane Giraud before he was famous. He was an annoying, self-aggrandising weirdo.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2026

I've finally seen the light. I urge everyone to visit taxpayersunion.org.nz and see the good work that they've been doing on behalf of the hard-working taxpayers of New Zealand

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Countries by how New Zealand they are

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 26/09/2026

The next 40 years are going to be very challenging for multiple reasons but top of the list is the damage that will come from insane weather as a result of this kind of thing. I’m sure Shane will go to his grave confident of his position, but it is wrong and provably so.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

$100,000 each!? What are they buying, vintage Neumann u47 microphones used by Frank Sinatra himself? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Borrowed a big chillybin from the neighbours to defrost the freezer, like I've been meaning to for months. Truly hilarious numbers of partly-used loaves of bread being discovered.

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Denise @denisest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Labour has just shown off their new mobile billboard on FB. #nzpol

Labour Party mobile billboard reading "Cry me a river" with Luxon's face on it

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 25/09/2026

Pols journos sneering that “everyone knows about the Taxpayers Union” and ”it’s just lobbying” are telling on themselves; the fact is that the public *doesn’t* know about the TPU‘s antics and that is because of the failure of mainstream journalists

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having been the Free Speech Union’s nemesis for a couple of years now, I can confirm everything Dane says in this op-ed is false and he is the king of disingenuousness! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nicky-hag...

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Nicky Hager is part of an elite intelligentsia who hold a Free Speech Union derangement

OPINION: Hager’s book Dirty Work went looking for foreign money. Instead, he found Kiwis.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#NZpol Health still mostly stuck in funding freeze mode after all?

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who amongst us has never written accuntant?? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday, busy day. New record hits the spot.

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This really is the kind of passion I want to see from politicians opposing this dreadful government. To take just one statistic from this speech: there are now 47,000 more children living in poverty in Aotearoa than there were 3 years ago. #nzpol

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Chantalle Smith @chaneyz85.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It must be all Stuff owned papers… The Post has them too…

Two of the pages showing stats for Te Whatu Ora for the central region

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Health NZ Te Whatu Ora have 3, yes 3, full page ads in The Press today telling everyone how great our health system is. Voting starts in 4 weeks, its the #2 issue, and no more opportunities for opposition MPs to formally question the motives or $. Coincidence? #nzpol

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

great stuff. really worth everyone's time.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chris Penk getting his new column off to a great start by reviewing a book he hasn't read and declaring that it belongs "in the fiction section". I hope Stuff's editors are proud of themselves.

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is 💯. It has been notable that a lot of media have led with the sexual harassment allegations, even saying that they are the most or only (‼️) serious thing in the book. As much as we need to take sexual harm seriously, that is wrong & Nicky Hager has said so. It’s the democracy, stupid

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Dirty work and the disinfecting sunshine it deserves

Nicky Hager’s new book ‘Dirty Work’ reminds us how much we’ve lost in the last three years

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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here it is! The BLACK SHEEPS poster – featuring our spectacular star, Tabatha Killick, the incredible Joe Witkowski and the mighty (honorary) Dane Nathan Meister! Opens mid-November in NZ!

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