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She/her. Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Tīriti-led, climate concerned, gay4all. The plan is healthcare, education, food, housing, abortions on tap 💚

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 11h
this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 14h
The Mowbray's have given National+ACT close to 500k dollars since February 2026 alone - elections.nz/democracy-in... Harry Mowbray's contemplating a 17k+ promotion of his new Split the Vote website, and related campaign. This gels with what VFF is also planning. bsky.app/profile/sanj...
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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 14h
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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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very important thread here from Sanjana.
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Red POP! News @redpopnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Louise Erdrich has spent more than four decades reshaping how American literature represents Indigenous lives and stories. Now, the acclaimed Anishinaabe writer is being honored with one of the country’s major arts prizes. redpopnews.com/louise-erdri...
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Louise Erdrich Receives 2026 Gish Prize, Honoring a Career That Changed American Literature
Louise Erdrich has spent more than four decades reshaping how American literature represents Indigenous lives and stories. Now, the acclaimed Anishinaabe writer is being honored with one of the countr...
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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not content with being firmly allied to the US while it has ravaged majority non-white nations for decades, here’s another instance of NZ becoming entwined with the US while it wages war against Iran, enables genocide in Palestine, subjugates Cuba & assassinates people on fishing boats. #nzpol
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New Zealand agrees to put almost $24 million into military satellite US is building
New Zealand has agreed to put almost $24 million into a military satellite the United States is building.
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 27/09/2026
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick and candidate Julie Anne Genter rally Wellington Bays voters with promises of bold ideas, like taxing the super-rich.
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Greens say change won’t come from reheating the political nachos
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely! So you've got the disability policy here: www.greens.org.nz/manifesto_20... Healthcare: www.greens.org.nz/manifesto_20... Mental health: www.greens.org.nz/manifesto_20... And everything in our manifest can be found here (easy to search!): www.greens.org.nz/manifesto_2026
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Disability
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I love my soundproof headphones. I wear them when I'm at home & today they're blocking the wind outside, the heatpump, the dehumidifier ..bliss 🧘‍♀️
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May Kergen @maykergen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I share this piece a lot. Says a lot of just that. www.unchartedblue.com/vibecoding-t...
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Vibecoding the apocalypse
'AI' products are already wildly dangerous. The companies want to make that a 'you' problem.
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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hiring freeze for last 3 years but hello election.. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
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Health NZ to hire 380 extra staff, 'majority' will be nurses
Health NZ says it will hire 380 extra nurses, midwives and health care assistants as part of its annual review of staffing.
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Save the date: October 17 ✊✊✊
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta glasses are being used for covert harassment and group stalking. Women and girls are being secretly filmed in streets, schools, restaurants and on dates, then uploaded for millions of strangers. Police inquiries now span worldwide. #OpDeathEaters
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Meta glasses used to film women and girls without consent from Seoul to Barcelona as police cases mount worldwide
Police and prosecutors across France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have opened cases against men accused of secretly filming women and girls with Meta glasses. The only warning victims have ...
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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Repeat: Nobody. $24m would go a long way at some of our rural hospitals 😠 #nzpol
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“First and most damaging is the influence of private donors. Private money needs to be banned in our electoral system.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“There is the chapter on their work as tobacco lobbyists, a whole chapter on Jordan Williams’ abysmal attitude to women, a major chapter on the deliberate use of racism as a political tool, a chapter on dirty politics attacks and smears…”
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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm sure it's obvious to anyone; if they cared about nutrition, we wouldn't have Seymour slop. If they cared about healthcare, we wouldn't have the current staffing crisis. If they cared about research, they wouldn't have cut funding to the bone. Look at what they do, not what they say. #nzpol
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New Zealand First reveals plan for 'bold shift' in healthcare
New Zealand First has released its plan to "Make NZ Healthy", promising to put prevention at the centre of healthcare if re-elected.
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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wellington is full of places that have been vacant for years and in some cases a decade or more because commercial landlords will leave them empty and councils have no mechanism against it. This would be huge.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Marokopa: They were telling the truth For years, Storm and Jubilee Dawson warned agencies about their missing siblings. No one believed them but a new report into Tom Phillips documents their efforts and the failures of our system. - MIHINGARANGI FORBES #nzpol 1/3
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Marokopa: They were telling the truth
For years, Storm and Jubilee Dawson warned agencies about their missing siblings. No one believed them but a new report into Tom Phillips documents their efforts and the failures of our system.
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This election, more than any other in my lifetime, it is critical that after we throw out the current vandals and nihilists, the new government acts fast to strengthen our democracy, devolve power and make it far harder for that power to be taken away in future. Big increases to Parliament’s budget.
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Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saturday afternoon in Parliament and legislation is being passed under urgency that has the potential to adversely affect our protest rights.
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Apparently Chlöe Swarbrick beating Nicola Willis in a poll on who New Zealanders trust to manage the economy came as something of a shock? Not to me. I’ve been listening to how Swarbrick talks about money. There’s something interesting going on. 🧵
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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have had a calender appointment to Go to Bed!! at 9:30pm every night for a month & have not listened even once 😮‍💨
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
1-2 years until we lose political power apparently, and all we need to stop the end times scenario is political pressure 😮‍💨 open.spotify.com/episode/0a8k...
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Can We Avoid AI Catastrophe? (with Tech Ethicist Tristan Harris)
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso · Episode
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Imagine working for an organisation like Fonterra or Beef and Lamb whose job was to block legislation protecting the “life-supporting capacity” of ecosystems. In order to maximise profit. Jesus wept. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
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How Big Farm lobbyists helped rewrite new RMA laws
Documents show Federated Farmers, DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb NZ, Fonterra and Horticulture NZ using a private meeting with ministers to push specific changes to the Natural Environment Bill.
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Global Issues @globalissues.org · 10/09/2026
"After a summer of climate-related disasters, there is no global alarm, no placing of nations on a war footing to combat the threat, just business as usual"
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JJW @jjw.wtf · 10/09/2026
i don’t want a foldable phone. i want a fair and just world
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What The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An anti abortionist claims babies are routinely killed up to the day of birth but aren't being put to sleep after birth - which would be Murder. #Aotearoa, I give you (drumroll please) #ElizabethMundt, #NZFirst Candidate, #Selwyn. Heard this before? (*Trump*) www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361... #nzpol
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The truth behind NZ First candidate’s abortion claims
Senior journalist Paula Penfold examines an NZ First candidate’s abortion claims against the law, official data and medical practice.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This isn’t fixing the basics it’s f**king with them. What Luxon’s KPI’s look like in practice. #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/07/m...
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MSD told thousands food was 'not an essential need'
The Ministry of Social Development declined Special Needs Grant applications on that basis on more than 8000 occasions.
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te kootahekore ranapiri @ired0mi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this kind of policy announcement should be treated as if this stupid fuck is threatening us and our younger generations with death cos he is
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Simon Wilson's article is excellent, as always. His question to Quilae Wong is one I would also like an answer to #nzpol
By the way, how good that Qiulae Wong says Opportunity will not join a government in which Winston Peters is foreign minister.

But why stop there? How about a government in which Simeon Brown is energy minister, reinforcing our dependence on fossil fuels? Chris Bishop is fast-tracking the ruination of elite soils and efficient council planning? Louise Upston is the welfare overlord? Shane Jones runs amok in minerals and fisheries? Tama Potaka cancels emergency housing? Nicole McKee oversees the gun laws? Casey Costello protects the tobacco industry? David Seymour tells infectious children to go to school and feeds them abominable school lunches? Paul Goldsmith orders rough sleepers away, even when they’re minding their own business and have nowhere else to go? Where not a single one of them has a decent thing to say about Israel and Gaza?

Or, for that matter, given Opportunity’s clear climate commitments, why support a prime minister who presides over the undoing of climate progress and deliberately, disgracefully, shabbily, greenwashes the whole process?
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh look its another fantastic greens policy (note this shit has already worked for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in New York..) #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Greens vow to break up supermarket duopoly, set up publicly owned 'KiwiMart'
The Green Party is campaigning on establishing a publicly owned supermarket chain to break up the duopoly and drive down food prices.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This election should be a youthquake. Kids: enrol to vote, then vote like your lives depend on it, because they do.✊ Everyone else: vote like those young people (who’ll be picking up after *all this mess*, including you in your vulnerable old age) plan to ask you how YOU voted…because they should.
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#NZpol The party of denial, er, denies – As other media accounts note, insurance companies and others say NZ needs more proactive mitigation of climate change related risks. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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ACT Party revives policy to disestablish Climate Change Commission
The ACT Party has revived its 2023 election policy to disestablish the Climate Change Commission.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To whom it may concern... Gaza is not a fleeting event, a passing feeling, or a limited, transient reaction. Gaza is three years of killing, displacement, and bloodshed. If you don't see it that way, then your eyes are deceitful and your conscience is dead. Mohamad Safa UN
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Vote #nzpol
Time to remember the best voting advice I have heard -Voting isn't marriage -it's public transport.
You are not waiting for"the one" who is absolutely perfect. You are getting the bus.
And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay at home and sulk -you take the one going closest to where you want to be.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 
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Carl B Latro @carlblatro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Nothing was as powerful in improving lives and preventing negative outcomes for children, as unconditional cash." thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-0... #nzpol
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Pennies from Heaven: Why we need to give all parents cash
The amazing truth about reducing child poverty is that we already know what works: regular, no strings attached cash payments. Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw explains the research backing up her call for the ...
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 22/08/2026
Cameras on cats monitoring everything but no privacy impact assessment? Curious.
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'Extended surveillance': Motorist takes AT to court over parking cameras and $85 in fines
AT withdrew four parking tickets after a man challenged its mobile camera footage.
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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On this pissy down day, donate to DCM to support emergency housing for those in Welly without any ⛈️ www.dcm.org.nz/winter-2026-...
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Winter Appeal Campaign — DCM
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’d like to offer a new term for our lexicon in Aotearoa #nzpol : Whitebait - A story, article or media of any kind specifically designed to anger people who identify with the made up race “White” 🤭
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Sherry Cola's Lolo: 'White People'
Alt: Sherry Cola's Lolo: 'White People'
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“The Greens will protect women and girls from harm at home, at work, in the community, and online, and strive for gender equity in all areas and at all times.” Would love to see a government that focuses on this vs. reducing service levels in all of these spheres and introducing misogyny as policy.
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Women's Policy
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 20/08/2026
There’s enough food in Aotearoa to feed everyone. Let’s start by making sure every child has a nutritious lunch at school.
Graphic announcing the Green Party's plan to provide free and nutritious school lunches for tamariki. Below the headline, a school cafeteria counter displays healthy lunch options including fruit, wraps, baked items, and drinks. Two children hold trays at the serving counter. The text reads: “#BREAKING The Green Party will provide free and nutritious school lunches for tamariki.”Campaign graphic showing a child looking into an open refrigerator containing a small selection of food and household items. Text reads: “At a time when more whānau are struggling to afford the basics and 1 in 5 children live in households that run out of food, every child should have access to nutritious food.” Decorative strawberry, arrow, and broken-heart illustrations appear around the text.Campaign graphic showing two children sitting on the floor reading a book together in a classroom or library setting. Text reads: “Our tamariki learn better when they are well-fed. Every child across Aotearoa deserves healthy, delicious, locally prepared kai that helps them thrive.”Campaign graphic showing children seated at a table with trays of school food, including sandwiches, fruit, vegetables, and glasses of juice. Large text reads: “The Green Party will restore, expand and protect funding to feed our kids in schools. No child should come to school uncertain about their next meal, and the Green Party will fix that.”
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runningwhio @runningwhio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We could literally house unhoused people. It's the only proven model to reduce homelessness & restore people's dignity, safety & sense of security
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
oh, this is a pretty big deal www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
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Labour emailed Upston about winter payment issue in June
Upston says the email did not make it to her personally.
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today NZCCSS released the Older Persons Poverty Monitor. Women over 65 face poverty at higher rates than men across all of the measures.
social media tile. text reads, this election every part should be asked, what will you do to stop poverty following NZers into retirement?
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Looks like Greens are going for the Windfall Tax and penalising the living daylights out of Supermarkets option Good
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What Bezos did at the Washington Post could happen in NZ thespinoff.co.nz/media/17-08-... #nzpol
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What Bezos did at the Washington Post could happen in NZ
This past year has seen some worrying developments in New Zealand involving a seemingly politically-driven billionaire seeking media influence and a government that looked like it was attempting to in...
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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'm still committed to lying in front of bulldozers if this fucking thing actually starts being built. It's a plan to further bifurcate the city by people who don't fucking live here. "A National party promise" from the party that came a distant 3rd in 2023 in the electorates this runs through.
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Fast-track process begins for Wellington's second Mt Victoria Tunnel project
The fast-track process has begun for a multibillion-dollar project that would radically change inner-city Wellington - but critics say it's on the "fast-track to nowhere".
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