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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Failing to check the weather forecast ahead of their outdoor promotional event, then declaring themselves heroes for having to run out with an umbrella when it rains, seems symbolic of this government.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

There has never been a “public-private partnership” that provided a higher quality service or cost less money than the public just doing the job in-house. PPP’s exist to transfer more public, taxpayer money to private entities. It’s welfare for the immortal, immoral, unaccountable corps.

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Hopefully the NZ govt will now backtrack on deeply unfair & undemocratic plans to change electoral processes - plans which threaten to erode trust in govt & elections. The National govt needs more experienced MPs to help it regain the middle ground it is losing #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/28/a...

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Attorney-General rules her own Govt’s voting crackdown breaches human rights

The young and Māori, Pasifika and Asian communities will pay the 'heaviest price' by being disenfranchised, warns Judith Collins, KC. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

THIS. I know this is a really uncomfortable conversation to have, but righteously reading Ray Chung for filth should never obscure that so many of those frantically distancing themselves are only doing so because he couldn't spin his way out of a tumble dryer. #nzpol

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Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

northandsouth.co.nz/2025/07/02/t... Feeling safe is a rare feeling…sparse or nonexistent resources make everyone feel like they’re stretched thin, knowing that errors leading to patient harm are more likely. But there’s also a real fear that just speaking out will draw a large target on their back.

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The Inconvenient Truthers: doctors speaking out

Freedom of speech in the health profession is like walking the knife edge - particularly so for doctors who are faced with egregious professional and personal implications for speaking out. According ...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools. The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So cuts for real people, tax breaks for business, all paid for by stealing from women. Oh, and deliberately conflict the government in its role as regulator for the fossil industry. What a crock of shit. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Budget 2025: Coalition claws back savings from pay equity, KiwiSaver in Budget

There's big cuts and savings, changes to Best Start and a surprise tax cut for businesses as the government opens the books.

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Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Super chuffed to have these up again: 16 poems/ poetry extracts from poets over 45 years of Poetry Live! Catch them today if you’re in the Auckland CBD. For more : poetrylivenz.wixsite.com/poetrylivenz...

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Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

My latest North and South column is live! I talk about why feeding children at school makes sense, health and education wise. I also invoke the word 'fiscal' twice in honour of Budget Day tomorrow - let's hope there are some nice, not nasty surprises in there. northandsouth.co.nz/2025/05/21/s...

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School Lunches

Nurturing young minds: the case for a high quality, universal school lunch programme.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

You just traveled to the Middle East, Donald. They let you go, no issues.

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The last few years have been pretty hard & I’ve largely become a bit of a hermit. But I’ve briefly emerged to talk about the thing that’s reignited my spark - menstrual cups! Thanks to NZ Women’s Weekly and Elizabeth Easther for coaxing me out of my shell. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/si...

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Dr Siouxsie Wiles' Covid curse: ‘Abuse changed my world’

Pandemic fallout turned her into a hermit, but her future’s looking brighter.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Te Pāti Māori MPs to be temporarily suspended from Parliament over haka

MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke faces a seven-day suspension for her actions.

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Nathan Simms @nathansimms.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A reminder that Judith Collins, the defender of Parliamentary "civility" leaked a Civil Servant's personal details to her Dirty Politics attack dogs, who then followed her orders to try and destroy that Civil Servant. "Civility", she calls it.

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hey just a random reminder, as the coleaders of te Pāti Māori are suspended for three weeks over a haka... David Seymour *personally* fought for the rights of anti-choice protesters to scream at pregnant people outside abortion clinics because that's the kind of "free speech" he approves of

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Channelled these posts into something longer, linking to the work of black feminist women and highlighting how Brooke and Nicola are performing white womanhood while simultaneously suppressing legitimate resistance to their oppressive acts: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

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Civility as a Weapon: The Performance of Power

Respectability politics and the suppression of resistance

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Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

So now the women who have disempowered tens of thousands of women with a misogynistic bill rushed through without any discussion are claiming victimhood and wanting 'right of reply' to being called out as sexist by a journalist. Classic bully playbook.

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Thinking a hand full of women being called cunts is worse misogyny than stealing wage increases from 10s or 100s of thousands of women is whack as hell and just the kind of thinking you'd expect from Tory women #NZPol

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is what a collapsing health system looks like-trying to push thinner, riskier margins of efficiency from exhausted doctors rather than doing the mahi & fronting the resources to support it from the ground up. These moves will only INCREASE costs and REDUCE safety. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Health NZ aims to cut surgery waitlists by outsourcing to private hospitals, extending doctors' hours

And it also plans to ask surgeons to work longer hours in a bid to cut the waitlist.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Together we must be united as a country make the necessary sacrifices during these hard times so we can help pay for these landlord tax cuts! 🫡✊ yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/actively-e...

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Erin Burrell says protect trans kids @erinkb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

More unemployed people. Removing pay equity. Rising food costs. No infrastructure building. Hmm

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We endured six months of submissions and process for the Treaty Principles Bill, a bill cabinet knew would never pass. Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This government's entire vibe is: - fuck poor people - fuck women - fuck Māori - fuck evidence - fuck the public good - fuck the environment - fuck the economy - lie about it #nzpol

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 06/05/2025

#HikoiForHealth was in Palmy today. Had a great chat with Dr Glenn Colquhoun. He told us that in doing this hikoi he has seen the strength in communities all along the way. They are keen to hear from more people at the link below (bottom of the page). Please help them help everyone. 1/3

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Reform New Zealand's Public Health System Together | Waka Whakatou: Driving for Health Reform

Join us in our mission to reform New Zealand's public health system. We invite Kiwis to share their stories and suggestions for a healthcare system that prioritizes the wellbeing of every citizen. Tog...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 26/04/2025

Week in Review: Comment: Underneath the health ministry's 'milk and honey' report on the regulation of health professions a more sinister picture emerges, writes Ian Powell

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How our health workforce is jeopardised by political meddling

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Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My latest column on @north&southmagnz: why is the govt trying to take control of regulation of Drs and psychologists? What’s their agenda and why is this unsafe for patients? northandsouth.co.nz/2025/04/23/p...

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Politicians want to choose who treats you

At Sunnynook Primary School, we were made to stand in silence for ANZAC Day. I thought I understood the sacrifices and the reasons for our remembrance. Today, I wonder if those often-elevated lessons ...

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

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Bronwyn Clark @bronwynhill1.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Here’s my statement for when I’m a man & get caught out doing something vile… I am sincerely sorry for any offence taken. It was intended as a joke but I now regret my lapse in judgement, which does not reflect my core values or beliefs. This is not who I am. I will reflect on this and do better.

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Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Most doctors, certainly senior ones, are driven, dedicated and massively hard working.The level of professional insult it takes to get them to strike is a very high bar indeed.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

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Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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Kara Jane Adams @ghostinexile.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

John Campbell shows empathy for rangatahi in prison, says facts & gets accolades; a young brown woman MP does the same & is subjected to a deranged media circus. Todd Muller's breakdown gets the kid-glove treatment; Golriz is still being hunted like prey. If only this phenomenon... had a NAME??

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Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My latest column has landed: northandsouth.co.nz/2025/03/25/c... It's meant to go with my 2019 essay that has just been republished (was hard to find before) and is still, sadly, pretty much topical: northandsouth.co.nz/2025/03/11/a....

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Child Poverty

A picture of children living in poverty does not fit the stereotypical image you might imagine. The spread is far wider and more devastating long-term on families in Aotearoa NZ.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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