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Rachel R

@rachelemridley.bsky.social
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Lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 10h
Wow, when you lie so much that there are consequences. Not included in the correction of course, is the fact that (as reported here) the Ipsos survey “showed more respondents supported than opposed a number of new taxes, including a significant majority in favour of a wealth tax".
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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 14h
Greens light rail plans should be much cheaper than in their policy document They've used the top end of costs identified in the Infrastructure Commissions work (95th percentile at $250m per km) Whereas 75% of surface light rail projects are $100m per km or under. #nzpol
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 14h
This amateur statistician has observed that the NZ media does not cover the parties in proportion to their seats in Parliament. It does not cover them in proportion to their current polling average. It does cover them approximately in proportion to their total donations #NZpol #ViciousCycle
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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 16h
This is brilliant. Exactly what the country needs. Invest in great alternatives to always driving. Even benefits drivers: #nzpol youtu.be/LGX6jjJnFBc?...
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Green Party transport policy sees free travel for children, light rail for key cities and more
YouTube video by nzherald.co.nz
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 18h
Do you like more trains? Because the Greens will push for MORE And unlike a blue or red party that over-promises and/or poorly-delivers We will deliver at the right pace by following the advice by Te Waihanga and our local councils (apparently that's too difficult for some parties to do). #nzpol
Potential routes for mass rapid transit

We’ll take advice from the Infrastructure Commission and councils
on the best mass rapid routes for communities to stay connected.

Auckland Light Rail mass rapid transit proposal map.

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/beachheroes/pages/92458/attachments/original/1791067852/Transport_policy_online_.pdf?1791067852Wellington Light Rail and Christchurch Light Rail mass rapid transit proposal maps

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/beachheroes/pages/92458/attachments/original/1791067852/Transport_policy_online_.pdf?1791067852
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 13h
Ipsos urges National to withdraw inaccurate claim about its polling on tax
thespinoff.co.nz
Ipsos urges National to withdraw inaccurate claim about its polling on tax
‘We take the accurate reporting of our research and survey data seriously.’
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 19h
NY ... and specifically NYC ... has the fastest growing economy in the US.. So much for the rich moving away in the face of increased taxes: didn't happen. #nzpol www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...
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Governor Hochul Announces New York Had the Fastest Growing Economy in the Nation During Second Quarter 2026
Governor Hochul announced that New York State had the fastest growing economy in the nation in the second quarter of 2026, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of...
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Bumbleebee @parrykylie.bsky.social · 19h
Our power company doesn't offer the highest price for our excess solar, but it does offer the ability to donate some of it to households that need help. Not all power companies are dicks. Nau mai ra btw
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Rachel R @rachelemridley.bsky.social · 23h
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We’ve grown old in our own home – we have no plans to leave
More and more New Zealanders are opting to live out their days in retirement villages. David Hill explains why he and his wife won't be moving anytime soon.
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David Pattemore @dpattemore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey Bluesky New Zealand!! Can you help spread the message this weekend?! Yeah sure this is just one video, but so many people haven’t enrolled yet and don’t realise they are running out of time. Thank you! 🇳🇿
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Sacha Judd @sachajudd.com · 03/10/2026
Imagine running a conference for women in Aotearoa and inviting someone who has said he’s proud of his work in the TRUMP WHITEHOUSE as your keynote. F$&k this actually.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
... the only thing holding the numbers up is a chunky increase in the welfare bill caused in broadly equal measure by increased superannuation and working-age benefits (thank you, recession x). Also worth noting the size of that core government services reduction - a 15% cut in real terms. [2/n]
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Post is running one of those 'ignore the austerity hyperbole' stories. A few things to note... 1. The article uses unadjusted figures throughout. If you adjust the $ for inflation and population, Govt operating expenditure in 2026/27 is below 2023/24 levels (by $144 per capita), and.... [🧵 1/n]
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361090646/ignore-hyperbole-has-not-been-austerity-government
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Rachel R @rachelemridley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"We’re supposed to think of women workers, the homeless and the sick as collateral damage, because tough decisions must be made." simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/theyre-los...
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They’re losing their shit over Chloe Swarbrick
The Prefu’s defective, Opp’s got bottom lines and Luxon’s got “balls”, but Chloe doesn’t know finance?
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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The fact that disgraced National MP Chris Penk is now writing opinion pieces on the election for Stuff News is a real bad look for Stuff News. Why would Penks political opinion be anything but bias? He literally campaigned for National Party THIS YEAR
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apparently good economic management involves increasing unemployment until one in six young people are out of work, poor, and increasingly disenfranchised. Is this 'building the future'? Would 'fixing the basics' not involve fixing this disaster?
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Greenhouse gases hit record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows
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Greenhouse gases hit record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows
The greenhouse gases that cause global warming have increased to new record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows.
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🄴🄻🄱🄾🅆 @aotearoaelbow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
National wish to maintain the status quo. #nzpol
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Luxon can crow about no new taxes, but reversing pay equity agreements was a new $4.5B tax on half of the workforce #nzpol
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And this is before the dividends.
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Again: $4.5b still costs less than National's Holiday Highway PPP to the border of Northland
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because of gender and ethnic pay gaps in Aotearoa, Pacific women are now working for free until the end of the year. This election year, we need to vote for pay equity. It’s the only way to make sure that all working people are respected, valued, and paid what they’re owed. #nzpol
Tile showing a rally march with people carrying signs and flags. Text reads: “From today until the end of the year Pacific women are working for free because of gender and ethnic pay gaps. Working for Free Calendar.' Flower logo reads “Respect Us, Value Us, Pay Us.” Footer text: “*Stats NZ Household Labour Force Survey 2026.”
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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This deserves an honourary knighthood
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wonder if anyone willask whether govt has simply given up on people who can't find work in this low demand, sale at briscoes, profits above wages economy? Yesterday's benefit forecasts suggest we will miss the govt's target by over 60,000 people!
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Rachel R @rachelemridley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Opinion: No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-...
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No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government
The $9 million already spent on council amalgamation proposals is just the start.
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
gOvErNmEnTs HaVe MoRtGaGeS tOo No they bloody don't Mr Seymour. What bank has the power to foreclose the New Zealand Government and Public Sector? And why would they need to, when you're happily cutting up the Public Sector for the Private Sector to gobble up? #nzpol
Excerpt from 1news's live election coverage:

"'Governments have mortgages too': Seymour warns on debt

ACT leader David Seymour says the only thing worse than the current state of the books would be a Labour government running them, warning Kiwis "can't afford to relax" about debt."
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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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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#nzpol Today's update from Treasury shows ongoing pain for working people and declining public services if New Zealand stays on the same track:
union.org.nz
PREFU shows jobs pain and service cuts locked in under Luxon NZCTU
Treasury’s Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU) forecasts show ongoing pain for working people and declining public services if the fiscal approach doesn’t change. The election provides an ...
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Ka pū te ruha - Toitū Te Tiriti @kaputeruha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This comment sums it up for me. What good is an economy that crushes its own citizens while lining the pockets of a privileged few? #nzpol
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 28/09/2026
very interesting thread.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When the right say we can’t tax the rich because of the ‘economy’, what they really mean is we can’t tax the rich or the rich won’t be able to afford so many super yachts. www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/29/j...
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Jeff Bezos' $800m superyacht Koru docks in Auckland
The 127m-long, 17m-wide superyacht passed Rangitoto before docking at Wynyard Quarter.
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Poll was released at 6pm last night, took till 12pm following day for the abuse to ramp back up again. And people think it isn't coordinated and deliberate.
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the commitment we've been waiting for since the day this Government ripped away their right to fair pay. It’s time to vote for change. It’s time to vote for pay equity. ✊💜 #nzpol
Media release graphic reading ‘The Union Movement Welcomes Labour’s Commitment to Pay Equity’, with Chris Hipkins and a person in a NZCTU branded t-shirt smiling against a purple background.
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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gosh how can we get this level of economic literacy to spread like wildfire 🔥🔥🔥
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My #NZpol cartoon in the latest issue of the Listener, in print & online. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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Chris Slane’s cartoon of the week
Chris Slane shares his view on the week in politics.
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think the media are really out of touch with how much women want pay equity for all women #NZPol
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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
National scaremongering and telling tax lies again in their latest newsletter. VOTE THIS LOT OUT #nzpol
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Rachel R @rachelemridley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Chris Hipkins promises to reverse pay equity changes in first 100 days if elected
Chris Hipkins has made a campaign commitment to reverse pay equity changes in the first 100 days of a Labour government, during a packed public meeting in Christchurch.
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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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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love that the Greens themselves are saying: "The poll's fun but let's keep doing the Actual Work together, here are some ideas" #nzpol
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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just a reminder of who costs the most and commits the biggest abuses of the OIA... #NZPol
A screenshot of a twitter tweet talking about how the Taxpayers Union cost $61k in OIA requests at just one council.1 Ld
Taxpayers’ Union OlAs
to Hamilton council cost
$60Kk in staff time
14:24 pm on 11 April 2021
Official Information Act requests by the
Taxpayers' Union are costing councils
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Taxpayers' Union spokesperson Jordan Williams
and Hamilton City Councillor, Dave Macpherson.
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Hamilton City Councillor Dave
Macpherson said an Official Information
Act request to his own council showed it
had 58 requests from the lobby group
since the start of 2018, costing an
estimated $61,364 in staff time.
The sheer number and complexity of
requests had meant extra staff had to be
employed, he said.
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No new taxes... #NZpol #Listener #cartoon
Luxon: "No new taxes"Cartoon depicts PM Luxon on an election podium in fron of an audience. Luxon: "No new taxes."
Various audience members heckle: 
"Or nurses
Or Police
Or Ferries
Or houses
Or equal pay
Or libraries
Or Bridges
Or ideas."
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another successful enrolment event. Our small team have done 2 and we will do another at the AGM on the 5th 5th Oct. #nzpol
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today's debate - put on by Enabling Good Lives - a disability leadership group: National: Not there, but Ryan Hamilton supplied answers ACT: Not there NZF: Not there Labour: Not there but had a spokesperson TOP: Was there, but still have no disability policy New Conservatives: Present!
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What The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#nzpol #PartyVoteGreensAotearoaNZ Do it.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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