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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The law says CNZ / the Arts Council must set guidelines for the allocation of funding. I asked for those guidelines. They do not exist.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Big Idea is doing so much good heavy lifting on the heartbreaking demise of arts funding in Aotearoa. Thank you Samuel Walsh for this deep dive through OIA. www.thebigidea.co.nz/stories/omis...

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Omissions, inconsistencies, and red flags: Inside CNZ’s AOG…

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Finance Minister Nicola Willis and one of her plans for saving her Budget. My #cartoon today #NZpol #PublicService

Cartoon. Title: “Cooking the Books” Three panels. 1st panel: Finance Minister Nicola Willis holding a bunch of public servants, saying, “Today I’m cooking Stock de Fonctionnaires Transpirants (A Stock of Sweaty Civil Servants) First, take a bunch of 8,700 anxious public servants”
2nd frame shows a pressure cooker, and Willis is saying, “Cut off the MFAT and put it aside for an elderly relative. Place the rest in a pressure cooker until they sweat, then reduce for four years” Last frame Willis is making a toast with champagne, and smiling. She says, “Now, throw away the public servants and enjoy! Bon Budget!” Below it says Note: This dish counts toward future budgets.

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Gordon Lawrence 💯🏆🏆🏆🎾🐐 @666tweet.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Shades of Paula "Benefit Fraud" Bennett. #nzpol

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This is why I mask indoors when sharing air with others, regularly test, use air purifiers, and get a COVID booster every six months, most recently on Monday. Saddens and infuriates me governments and organisations are letting us down despite all the evidence these protections are still needed.

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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

There's a novel The Giver by Lois Lowry which has a utopian community that has NO KNOWLEDGE of the past except two members: The Receiver of Memories and The Giver of Memories. Our protagonist is The Receiver but he's so disturbed by these memories, he risks everything to take the knowledge to all

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Jane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Next week, I'll be joining some cool kids' book people in Ōtautahi for the Books Alive/Word Chch sessions for the 2025 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults! #nzcya Schools can book here: www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...

Books Alive presents David Riley, Jane Arthur, Rachel Clare, Kiri Lightfoot, Juliette MacIver, Rachael King.
Friday 8 August, Te Aratai College, Phillipstown, Christchurch, hosted by WORD Christchurch

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Spiral Collectives @spiralcollectives.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Brilliant! So much to think about. bsky.app/profile/tani...

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Spiral Collectives @spiralcollectives.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Yikes! But totally fascinating. & I hadn’t realised that a copyright holder has to give permission to show an art work in public, had always thought whoever owned the work could choose. www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New draft government procurement guidelines would remove wage protections for thousands of low-paid workers in New Zealand - taking away the gains they have made from the Living Wage. Why? A 🧵https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/going-growth-new-procurement-rules

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Health Minister Simeon Brown announces decision to reallocate money for earlier bowel screening of Māori and Pasifika, to the general population. My Stuff #cartoon today #BowelScreening #HealthNZ #NZpol #Māori #Pasifika

Cartoon. Title: Inner Turmoil. PM Christopher Luxon having a colonoscopy. The doctor in charge of the procedure is looking at a screen that shows Simeon Brown’s face growing out of the bowel wall. She’s saying, “Don’t worry. It’s only a Brown polyp. It poses more of a risk to brown people”

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Spiral Collectives @spiralcollectives.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Writers! Check out Riley Chance's article re his nightmare experience with the Public Lending Right? Maybe it's time for more letters to Brooke van Velden? newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/11/d...

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Dear Brooke van Velden, please help

An author's nightmare dealings with the Public Lending Right

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Some follow-up thoughts on BF today about our friend R. E. Burke if you want to know more about her contributions to the UK comics community. She's one of the kindest and most generous people I've worked with at BF and her detention by ICE is horrific. - Andy www.brokenfrontier.com/bring-becky-...

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#BringBeckyHome - UK Comics Creator and Former Broken Frontier Team Member R. E. Burke Detained by ICE Since February – Broken Frontier

UK cartoonist and former Broken Frontier team member R. E. Burke has been detained by ICE since the end of February.

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Annette Lucksinger (she/her) @annettelucksinger.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I 🥰 indie bookstores. Thanks for this, @bookpeople.bsky.social and @bookpeoplekids.bsky.social, Austin, Texas.

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Spiral Collectives @spiralcollectives.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

From the Topp Twins: We will not be intimidated We will not stand for violence We are vibrant, strong, beautiful,and loving We will not go away

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Spiral Collectives @spiralcollectives.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Another stunning e-tangata essay! e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/... #poverty #aotearoa #hope (Hope, like love, means taking risks and being vulnerable to the effects of loss...recognizing the uncertainty of the future and making a commitment to try to participate in shaping it — R Solnit)

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Rebecca Macfie: 'What do I know of hardship?' | E-Tangata

“There we were. Heaps of kids. Isolated location. A stoic, hardworking young mum struck by an awful disease. A husband out until all hours. But no one turned up at the farm to take us into care. No. I...

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Tonight at Unity Books the poetry year gets underway with the launch of the debut collection by 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry winner Nafanua Purcell Kersel: come and welcome it into the world!

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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Oyez oyez! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 This is big!

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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The cover of the french language edition of 'Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea' publication date is end of March 2025 auventdesiles.pf/a_paraitre/c...

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Spiral Collectives @spiralcollectives.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

'Fighting Words for Despairing Times'. Powerful. Utterly beautiful. From Karlo Mila and Friends & free to download. drive.google.com/file/d/1oDt8...

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

In this week's episode, we chat with The Last Showgirl screenwriter Kate Gersten bout drawing from her own experience of Las Vegas nightlife, her transition from writing for television (The Good Place, Mozart in the Jungle) to film, and more. 3rdandfairfax.libsyn.com/ep-393-kate-... #WGAWPod

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Adelaide Ghoul 👻 @adelaidejewel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Check out the updated COVID safety resource list! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Still a few sleeps for you North Americans to discover @pipadam.bsky.social's Dublin-longlisted Audition, but a heads-up in any case! Out in June from these stellar presses! Canada: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/760990... US: @coffeehousepress.bsky.social coffeehousepress.org/products/aud...

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Audition by Pip Adam | Penguin Random House Canada

Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award“Profoundly anti-carceral, abundantly queer, and weird as f*ck, Audition will lead you to spine-tingling places if you are willing to navigate its corridor...

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