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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 11h

He wouldn't have had to step in if he hadn't stopped councils doing their own plan changes in the first place too 🤦🏻‍♀️

TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

And all done. A good night and engaged audience. Thoughtful questions and clearly interested in the answers. Some additional chat with candidates as the chairs being stacked.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

Last q: Party vote or candidate vote? Alliance, Lab, Nat = both. Opp and NZF = party vote. Green = party vote Green to get me in eith 16% and maybe 4 Green MPs for Ōtautahi and give Rata your candidate vote.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

Nat - we already have rules. Lab - no specific policy on donations but regulate lobbyists. Green - it's a serious threat to democracy. Cap donations, lobbyists register. Alliance - democracy at risk, lots of policy. 2/2

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

Last q on political donations: Opp - clean up politics inc donations and lobbyists. NZF - no new regulations. A laugh when he said NZF don't get influenced by donations. 1/2

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

Me too, but might be feeling a but burnt after last time. Selwyn candidate is here instead.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

First murmurs from the audience around answers to question on wealth inequality. Audience sympathetic to the very wealthy and large corporates paying their fair share.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

Q on engaging young people to vote. Opp - bring back polling day enrolment. NZF - more referenda. Nat - if own a home will vote. Lab - make voting 16 alongside civics ed. Green/Alliance - what Lab and Opp said.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

Not getting to outline all questions, sorry. Currently on housing density. Lab n Green = density close to central city, address Air BnB. Nat = out in greenfields as well as up. NZF = out and up. Opp, density better than sprawl over versatile soils.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

Excuse typos pls! Forgot to my glasses on 😆

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 13h

Climate Change Com Q: Opp = take it seriously. NZF = leave the Paris Agreement. Nat = we'll meet targets early. Lab = can't keep selling houses to each other if we're underwater. Green = need to do fair share and take the lead as we're running out if time. Alnc = ball dropped by govt n MfE gone.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

Do you support Fast Track processes without community input *around Avonhead development)? Alliance, Greens, Labour, Opp = no. National, NZF = it's a process and should run its course. Nat = it does have consultation.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

NZF 'Treaty Partnership' invented by activist judges and no such thing as the 'principles'. (Disappointing as he's a final year law student). Greens n Lab to repeal Reg Standards Act.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

Q: Should sn MP that makes a clearly racist comment be sacked, yes or no? All but National said yes, who said 'It's up to the electirate'.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

First question on the Doors to Dignity campaign and housing for seniors in Ilam were rents are the same as the pension. Greens, Alliance and Lab = build more community housing. Nat, NZF mentioned more homes but not govt ones. Opp said KO needs to build right type. Only Green knew of the campaign.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

Home baked bikkies and a cuppa tea in the break. Candidates all chatting to residents. Lots of questions submitted and about to restart with 'brief' answers to them.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

Nope. Been a hard working MP for the year hes been in. Done a lot with the Firefighters stuff and local govt.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

Two candidates are still students at UC - Labour and NZF. He's the second very young male standing for NZF i e seen this election, still seems odd to me as NZF seem so much an older persons' vibe.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Davidson. Started with vision for Aotearoa, then went into the destruction this term and finished with the Green's solutions.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

Hard to get a gauge on the audience vibe as cheers and boos not allowed, just polite clapping for each candidate. Paper slips available for people to submit questions in the break.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 14h

Labour then Greens and now the Alliance (all 5m). Act are a no-show and while Opportunity don't have an electorate candidate, they're allowed a 3m intro.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 15h

Doing my civic duty at the Ilam meet the candidates meeting. Moderator clear it's not a debate. Church hall is nearly full, though average age is high. NZF the National candidates so far.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 16h

I know. How about instead of giving women what men get, we give men what women get and call it even? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 18h

Agree re some of the candidate non-selections, but it's still the most diverse line up of any of the parties, so not by any means a move to be 'mainstream'

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Health targets. My #cartoon today #Health #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Health Targets” Simeon Brown pushing a patient in a wheelchair, in an Emergency Department. He’s wheeling her towards a cupboard that is stuffed full of people, and saying, “Technically, this isn’t the ED. Our targets are working!”

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fucking the basics, burning the future 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Women are still carrying the cost of that '$12b savings' that the coalition found when it cut pay equity.

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TheSarapocalypse @sarainchch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm also interested in how many put themselves up for candidate selection at local branches and lost out to men due to bias etc. We'll never know, but it'd be interesting to see if fewer stood and if the % selected dropped too.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh Ho Ho...corruption on top of corruption.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Countries That Have Public and/or Live Streamed Executions Context: www.reuters.com/world/us-li...

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

National has tried drug testing beneficiaries before. MSD caught a few people using for recreation or pain relief while they're not working. In 2019 of 39,341 referrals for testing there were 114 failed tests, and 72 sanctions applied. A costly exercise! #NZpol www.msd.govt.nz/documents/ab...

msd.govt.nz

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 08/10/2026

This piece absolutely nails it and is a must read. This paragraph brought me to a standstill because it's also how we've gone from broad acceptance of trans people to journalists including comment from "gender criticals" fighting for "common sense" on every trans story.

Another layer of consideration: even if this is a genuine representation of a plethora of parental voices, we should consider also how it can be deployed in media disputes going forward. It is expressly positioned as a voice for parents, in opposition to teachers or public servants. What this will mean in practice, it seems likely, is that every time something new is introduced to the education system, the media will balance out the teacher or ministry explanation with a Parents Alliance reply. Detailed research and evidence-based conclusions will be held to the standard of
"common sense". And that, de facto, will serve the greater project of the right, undermining the idea of government itself.

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Krystal Chandelier @krystalchandelier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ACT getting 5x as much in donations as the Green party but still polling at about 2/3 of the Greens really shows how hard right wingers have to work for people to actually like them. Imagine if a left wing party had that kind of money. Imagine if right wingers couldn't splurge money like that.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026

Peters can bluster all he likes but I won't stop fighting for all trans people's right to bodily autonomy and self determination, including trans kids, and I've got a lot more years left on the clock than he does. If he thinks he can touch the conversion practices ban he's in for a fight. Tick tock!

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Lan Pham @lanpham.greens.org.nz · 07/10/2026

The only part of te taiao nature that gets to vote.... is you 🦞🌏 Let's vote Green for an Aotearoa where everyone, especially our kids &future generations have healthy freshwater and oceans to Drink Swim and Fish in, forever ✊️ Affordable lives, healthy nature and honest politics - For all of us.

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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Auckland drivers who work for Waste Management go from job security, guaranteed hours, minimum wage protections, holidays, KiwiSaver contributions, a union and the right to bargain collectively... to contractors with no job protection or work rights and massive financial debt to the company. #nzpol

text reading "Today's ridiculous news:
Waste Management makes drivers buy their own rubbish truck - and lose their work rights."

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

McKenzie Scott is a good case study that showcases we should tax the hell out of billionaires. She got $36billion, has given away like $25-$26billion and she is still worth around $35billion. There’s no reason for this to be happening while people are starving.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All the men writing about this might be a little less chinstroke-y if they came to the shocking realisation that OUR MONEY WAS STOLEN

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don’t be left standing in the rain after October 25th begging for a second chance, enrol to vote now! If you like this comic, and want to support, grabs pre-order of my new comic book: danielvernon.bigcartel.com

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should send a shiver down our backs. It grimly shows why Nationals new citizens arrest laws are a recipe for disaster. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/laki-save...

nzherald.co.nz

Supermarket security guard loses licence after forcing cucumber into shoplifter's mouth

The man suffered an hour-long ordeal before money was taken from him by Laki Savelio.

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Una mujer y dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If this is now $1B for 11km of road, that is what the new Dunedin hospital is meant to cost. ELEVEN KILOMETRES of ROAD or one brand new hospital for 300k people. #ohffs #nzpol

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Studied ~1.5k+ comments across mainstream media Facebook accounts that feat. reporting on this event. To Russell's point, most of the discussion is around how the near accident was 'staged'. Near 0 engagement around substantive policy related to better/more affordable public transport. #nzpol

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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

www.greens.org.nz/vote_2026 #nzpol #votegreen

www.vote.nz

This is your enrolment reminder
Deadline is midnihgt, 25 October

Authorised by Miriam Ross, greens.org.nz

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#nzpol Never loose sight of what more of the same will do to the ones you love. Vote them out. Vote them all out.

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