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Rebecca T

@rjthomson.bsky.social
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Pākehā. She/Her. Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington. Aotearoa/NZ. 🇳🇿🥝 Comms & Media person. Up for Good yarns and content.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Happy Mother’s Day from the Coalition Government My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #WomensPay #Fairpay #Equity #KissMyFatArseMyDarling
Cartoon. It says, “Happy Mother’s Day to all you women, mothers and child-free alike! Thank you for selflessly giving up fair pay and for sacrificing your families, your welfare, your security, and your retirement, to save our budget. YOU ARE THE BEST!” In the lower right corner are Finance Minister Nicola Willis and PM Christopher Luxon applauding. Luxon is looking a little anxiously at MP Brooke van Velden, who has gone into robot mode and sending signals to the mother ship.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Aotearoa New Zealand, just putting this here. You know what to do! www.charities.govt.nz/charities-in...
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Charities Services | Making a complaint about a registered charity
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Oh look, Luxon was wrong about NZ being in recession for three years. www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ne...
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New Zealand PM Luxon wrong about 'three-year recession' | AAP
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
As always, incredible words from John Campbell. He puts so much care and heart into his pieces. #kikorangi www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/07/j...
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John Campbell: Waitangi in the age of the Treaty Principles Bill
ANALYSIS: The crowd was smaller, the Prime Minister was absent and, one year after the jubilation of 2024, the mood was different.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Not like we need more reasons to hate Musk. But here we are. #Kikorangi he's destroying our night sky "Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites have already interfered with a tuku wairua ceremony during Matariki, when whānau who have died are released to the stars." www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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They were sending spirits to the stars, then Elon Musk's Starlink cut in front
Māori science, navigation experts warn of ‘obliteration’ of indigenous knowledge as satellites flood Earth’s lower orbit.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Hi you don’t have to post it. And you don’t have to re-post it. And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over. You can just not post it.
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🧵Topic: Seeking Illustrators/Artists from Aotearoa Hello lovely people. We're looking at putting together a book of my Spotted posts this year. And the first thing is to find an artist! So, if you're a kiwi artist/illustrator with commissions open, I'd love it if you could share some details (1)
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Algeria Worblebot @algeriaworblebot.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill by Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey. It articulates (quite succinctly, considering) all the many *many* ways in which this bill is terribly flawed and a betrayal of democracy & our nation. #kikorangi #nzpol melanienelson.substack.com/p/jane-kelse...
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Jane Kelsey's Submission on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill
A guest post by Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey, sharing her in-depth knowledge of neoliberalism and the Regulatory Standards Bill
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Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
*** ⭐️ GOOD NEWS ⭐️ *** The public will now have until next week to submit on the Treaty Principles Bill. Parliament's justice select committee has agreed to re-open submissions from 1pm Thursday to 1pm Tuesday 14 January after technical issues. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Treaty Principles Bill submissions re-open after website woes
Parliament's justice select committee has agreed to extend the deadline after receiving a record 300,000 submissions.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Very helpful guide to all the bills, what they mean, and how and when to submit.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Reposting as a reminder. Get your submission in. You can literally write something like: I oppose the Treaty Principles Bill because it is unjust and ripping New Zealand apart. I recommend this bill be ditched.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
There is still time New Zealand!! I can not stress how important this is. Your submission doesn’t have to be long. Your English doesn’t have to be perfect. You can submit in te reo Māori. But please just get something in by 11.59pm Tuesday, 07 January 2025. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This time of year can be really, really hard. If you’re in Aotearoa New Zealand and want/need some support free call or free text 1737. You’ll get to talk to or text with a trained counsellor or with peer support worker. 1737.org.nz
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1737 - Need to Talk?
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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Policy interventions can do amazing stuff. This newish analysis of the intensive Healthy Homes Initiative finds: - 18.6% drop in hospitalisation, or about 10k/year. That's a small hospital. - 5% drop in school absenteeism. - Slight increase in wages. www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/publications...
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Healthy Homes Initiative: Five-year outcomes evaluation - Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
The report highlights that the Healthy Homes Initiative has had a significant impact for over 200,000 referred whānau members, including children resulting in fewer hospital visits and trips to the GP...
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Well, yes, if you cut 8500-10,000 public sector roles, and drive 79,000 people to leave NZ, plus give landlords a tax break, of course the tax take will be lower 🤦🏽‍♀️ This is a very simple maths equation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Government's financial update expected to show bigger deficits for longer
Broad expectations are for the budget deficit to push out by more than $1b from the budget forecast towards $15b for the year ended June.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Pukeahu and pōhutukawa. A Wellington story today.
Image shows pōhutukawa trees blossom red again blue sky in Wellington, NZ
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New Zealand’s new school lunch scheme is a prime example “enshitification” - Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year. Compass Group’s lunches don’t look great, nor nearly enough for growing tamariki. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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Toitū Te Tiriti @honourthetreaty.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
@rjthomson.bsky.social Hi! #ToitūTeTiriti The #Hikoi march and the struggle should be on Wikipedia's main page. Spread the word! Join the discussion here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... For Freedom.
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Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates - Wikipedia
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hang on, this huge for Wellington. And very cool. "The conference will be hosted in October 2028 on the Pipitea campus of Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, and is expected to deliver an economic impact of close to NZ$1m (US$590,000) to the city."
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This!!!!!💯 Enrol to vote link here: vote.nz/enrolling/en...
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Victoria✏📚🐈🌏 @slumguzzled.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hīkoi signs are part of our history. National Library will preserve as many as they can.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
National Library also takes digital collections. So if you have photos, have at it natlib.govt.nz/blog/tagged/...
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hīkoi sinage game was strong. If you have hīkoi signs, don't throw them away. Take them to the National Library of NZ (Molesworth St). The library is collecting. This is a part of NZ'S history. Toitū te Tiriti
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Just a tired tauiwi @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Mōrena e te whānau folks from Tauiwi Tautoko are meeting at Phillipstown hub āpōpō Sunday 1 to 3 pm, to write postcards to MPs about the Treaty Principles Bill, in support of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Come with? I’m going to bring some focaccia too for no particular reason 🇮🇹❤️
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
A $3billion hospital or a $10 billion tunnel and a highway that’ll cost 10% of total infrastructure spend. New Zealand’s current government is choosing roads over hospitals. That is all. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/01/r...
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Dunedin Hospital cuts spark roads v health debate
Today from The Detail: Questions are being raised about our healthcare infrastructure taking a back seat to roads after the Dunedin Hospital back-track
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Kikorangi whānau if you haven’t signed the petition to save Dunedin Hospital, please do. Thank you. Even if you don’t live in Otago/Southland, this is really important. Your hospital could (and probably will) be next. #HospitalCutsHurt www.change.org/p/reverse-th...
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Sign the Petition
Reverse the announced cuts to the New Dunedin Hospital
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Oh look, Academies are kind of shit. amp.theguardian.com/education/20... And so are Free schools (uk charter schools). NZ should definitely not go down this path www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/au...
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Social segregation increases where primary free schools open
On average, social segregation of students has increased in neighbourhoods where mainstream primary free schools opened, and neighbouring schools have lost students, finds a report by UCL researchers.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Just putting this “The faster you go, the bigger the mess” New Zealand Transport Safety ad here for no particular reason at all. Nope, can not think of a single reason Also content warning: people may have forgotten how grim this campaign was youtu.be/v_AMEYsBxZA?...
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The Bigger the Mess
YouTube video by Toestubber
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Great to see this published, about the govt’s ‘needs base’ he’s directive. “Ethnicity, especially Māori ethnicity, is the strongest predictor of avoidable deaths, even after adjusting for deprivation and rurality. “ www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3504...
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
New Zealand has a major problem with “short-termism”. Building for the now rather than the future because “costs”. The thing is, that actually ends up costing us more down the road. Case in point, Wellington Regional Hospital
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
This is really bad. Gove severely limiting work-from-home for public sector will hit parents and caregivers, which in general means women, as well as disabled and for many others. It will drive people out of public sector (which, granted, they want) and overseas www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...
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Stuff
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Seymour needs a reality check. - In 2018 Govt Inquiry into Māori mental and wellbeing covers general health . - Royal Commission on Social Policy. 1987. A Fair and Just Society. mentalhealth.inquiry.govt.nz/inquiry-repo... gg.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
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3.4 Whakawātea te Ara – Māori health and wellbeing | Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
Oh look, CNN has absolutely zero problem using “Aotearoa New Zealand” in a piece about NZ. It’s almost like people outside of NZ get it. Also this is a really good read edition.cnn.com/2024/08/10/c...
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By land, sea and sky, Māori are using Indigenous knowledge to combat climate change | CNN
Justin Parkin-Rae takes a break from pulling chunks of weeds from one of the many rivers that snake through Kaikōura, a quaint fishing town on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, named Te Wa...
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Unlikely Cyclists 🚲 Jenn @unlikelycyclists.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Aotearoa are moving up the only Olympic medal table that really counts: medals per capita. 🤣🥇🇳🇿 medalspercapita.com#golds-per-ca...
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Olympic Medals per Capita
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
Aotearoa’s favourite all time favourite medal count - per capita.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Cloudy along Wellington's south coast, but a bit of a glow. #auroraaustralis
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, absolutely savage when it comes to feeding the Whittakers addiction
Shelves of Whittakers chocolate left nearly empty at local supermarket
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
AoNZ get in there and vote. Voting opens today. Where are some of the places you've voted from? Me: Karori Normal School, Wellington Town Hall, Wellington High School, Wellington Musuem, Aro Valley Community Hall vote.nz/2023-general...
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Find a voting place
Find a voting place near you. You can find voting places on a map or look them up in a list.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
I have voted here too previously and it is cool. Wellington Museum is on the places to vote list. Wellington Central people, here are your voting places (you can also vote outside your electorate) vote.nz/2023-general...
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
This is great! Get in on the action
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Hang on 🤔 Economists: unemployment must rise National : Sanction beneficiaries i.stuff.co.nz/business/300... i.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...
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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
It's nice here eh? People chatting, joking, sharing opinions without abusing each other.
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Rebecca T @rjthomson.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Terrifying
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David Hughes @filmcritic.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
Standards for safety in the 1960s were a little different than from today.
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Corey @thisiscorey.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
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Handy
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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Kia Ora Tatou
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Delwyn @delwynm.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
A state of emergency in Gore due to flooding. The highest North Island temperature on record in September, in Wairoa. Snow warnings in Canterbury. Scrub fire around Twizel. This 'four seasons in one day' thing is going to extremes.
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 20/09/2023
Now that BlueSky is getting a lot of users from #Aotearoa I'm just going to put this out there... I'm working on coshop.nz, a startup that will hopefully solve some of the social and environmental problems around food production and distribution in NZ (and globally!) Leftie devs, please reach out!
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