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For our friends in Aotearoa-New Zealand as they head to an election on Sat 7 Nov 🇳🇿 👉 Make sure you’re enrolled to vote: https:/:vote.nz 🚨 Enrolments close October 25!

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 8h

Again: $4.5b still costs less than National's Holiday Highway PPP to the border of Northland

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Michelle Suiter 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ @michellesuiter.bsky.social · 6h

“The ATO’s transparency database for 2024-25 shows more than one-quarter of big companies, often based overseas, regularly pay no or little corporate tax in Australia” Your friendly reminder that those earning just $20k p/yr pay more tax than these companies making billions #auspol

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 10h

#WikiLovesScarfieFlats And we have our first entry! Disfellowship on York Place! Don't forget to include the address of the flat in your photo, and add your email to your Wikimedia account so we can contact you!

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 10h

#Dunedin The Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats competition is officially live! See a student flat in Dunedin? Take a snap and upload it to Wikimedia Commons for posterity! w.wiki/UYBq for more details.

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Gir @edufk.bsky.social · 15h

"On roads with a 60km/h or lower speed limit, if bus drivers are leaving a bus stop, the side of the road or moving out of a bus lane, other drivers must give way to the bus." www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

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Explainer: What you need to know about road rules changing on 1 October

Explainer - Road rules are changing from Thursday. Here's what you need to know.

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Rob Langridge @aotearoa-unzpd.bsky.social · 14h

Congrats to AF8 (see X/alpinefault8) for 10 years of science and emergency management collaboration in NZ.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pssst #Dunedin it’s still beautiful out there…

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@universityofotago.bsky.social @otagobiochemist.bsky.social @zoologyotago.bsky.social @otagoreligion.bsky.social It's a beautiful day to go and take a photo of a student flat so you can enter the Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats photo competition tomorrow! w.wiki/UYBq for more info and to register

Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats Want your flat to be immortalised? Get it into Wikimedia Commons and be in to win, 1–23 October 2026

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Cait, Jarl of the Bread Makers 🏳️‍⚧️ @jarlbreadmaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In case this gets missed in all the news today #nzpol

Reporting of Hipkins on RNZ talking about enrollment, saying they would reverse changes to enrollment cut-off and calling it designed to take away votes for the left

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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can someone who's clever and computer screen-based please put these declared donations on a map so its explicit which cities and suburbs of wealthy and sorted types are buying this govt. I genuinely believe that mapping these individual bribes will be very interesting. elections.nz/democracy-in...

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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Event:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love that the Greens themselves are saying: "The poll's fun but let's keep doing the Actual Work together, here are some ideas" #nzpol

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Cyn @cyncharron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you’ve got kids studying in Dunedin who aren’t yet enrolled to vote, encourage them to get along to this all ages, alcohol free, voter enrolment music festival. Loads of really great bands in the lineup! (Yes including my kid, but genuinely, lots of great talent.) #nzpol

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Rock The Vote - Live at Southern Lights

An outdoor music festival to encourage youth voter enrolment . raise the youth vote! all ages / alcohol free

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Move to Ōtepoti Dunedin for the lifestyle where we definitely don’t kill 3.6 people per person every six years…

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did a leaflet drop through the student area in Dunedin and one of the reasons young people aren’t enrolled at high numbers is they just don’t check their mail (also these are probably for last year’s tenants so why bother?)

Overflowing mailbox with enrolment forms lying on the grass that have clearly been there a while

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is GOLD!!! Ngā mihi nui @abelsteve.bsky.social Ka whawhai tonu mātou AKE! AKE! AKE! #nzpol

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why social media bans for kids don’t work, reason number 123 they’ll just find another way (and boost your podcast while they’re at it)

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 25/09/2026

Shakespeare’s Globe has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive. 👇

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Otago is running a Scarfie Flats competition, starting 1 October. It's to get people to document and upload photos of classic Dunedin flats under an open licence, for Wikipedia and the historical record. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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Event:Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats 2026 - Wikimedia Commons

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It would be a shame if this was framed as “collecting all the lizards”. Bathurst are proposing the rip up and destroy the entire ecosystem, dig out all the coal, then reconstruct some vague approximation afterwards. It’s not about saving a few rare snails. But Bathurst wants to frame it that way.

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 23/09/2026

More staff have alleged the Ministry of Education encouraged verbal communication to avoid creating OIA‑accessible records, prompting urgent intervention from the Chief Ombudsman.

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More Education Ministry staffers allege culture of avoiding OIA paper trail

More staff have alleged the Ministry of Education encouraged verbal communication to avoid creating OIA‑accessible records, prompting urgent intervention from the Chief Ombudsman.

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laragreaves.bsky.social @laragreaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been again exploring ways to make public information and data a bit more accessible. Enrolment and turnout is a big issue this election and a lot of organisations have been working to get as many people enrolled as possible. #nzpol So we made: vote.inzight.co.nz

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Voting and enrolment rights in New Zealand

Enrolment and voting information for people in various situations in New Zealand.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Catherine Law's (OIA concealer) PhD supervisor is Elizabeth Rata. Elizabeth Rata is Erica Stanfor'd's key education advisor Rata and Stanford have a stated common goal: To stop the success of decolonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. The OIA concealment from one of Rata's people is no surprise

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Whistleblower video of Catherine Laws instructing Ministry staff to conceal from OIA

YouTube video by Mountain Tui

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

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This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chris Bishop calls Nicky Hager a "far left" figure. Guess fact based is "far left" Chris Bishop's Dad co-founded TPU with Jordan & David Farrar Bishop is best remembered for failing to roll Luxon twice in two years while enabling corrupt, anti community fast track laws in #NZ

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We need to get MADDER about all of this AotearoaNZ! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I encourage relevant people to apply for this, even though it means I will no longer have the Children's Writer's office space on campus to occasionally hang out in myself, though I could come and say hi.

Office I have been working from once a fortnight

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Somewhat relevant #nz (so glad we have a local hero busy saving UBS)

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The surprise isn't that foreign fossil fuel & tobacco funded astroturf group Taxpayers Union is the subject of Nicky Hager's new book It's that NZ media including The Post, Stuff, RNZ, TVNZ etc keep profiling & interviewing these people and groups #NickyHager #Dirtywork

Newsroom: Chiding in Plain sight
An article on Taxpayers Union and Jordan Williams from 2024

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“If not for this independent inquiry into the actions of Tom Phillips and the agencies that failed the children, the Netflix documentary may have been the only version of the story.” #nzpol mihiforbes.substack.com/p/marokopa-t...

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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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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's absolutely exhausting and heartbreaking watching every single thing Labour does. The last thing we need is a second party for landlords. Why centre your criticism of the government on a choice you are also going to make? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Property investors relieved at Labour's landlord tax deduction promise

The Property Investors Federation is hailing Labour's decision to leave interest deductibility settings alone, if elected.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That's around 20-odd jobs per data centre.

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Stop voting for parties that promise tax cuts.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Make sure you cast your votes carefully in #BOTY today….

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

If you see this, post your bird art. I made this unofficial "I voted" sticker for Bird of the Year in 2018

Similar to the no longer produced NZ voting stickers, it is a Yes I have voted sticker featuring orange election bird.

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've been told The Post is going to remove the paywall on this article because the issue is so important. Please read and share with your friends. Ask your local candidates if they will fight to strengthen the #OIA and will resist efforts to weaken it #nzpol #FOI www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

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OIA crackdown: Government eyes tougher rules, fees and limits on requesters

Exclusive: Justice officials have mapped out post-election changes to the OIA, including tougher refusal grounds, new fees and restrictions on frequent requesters - backed by a disputed $750m cost cla...

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David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Deborah Russell knitting during QT got more critical coverage than Paul Henry calling the Greens subhuman and Christopher Luxon's "cry me a river" combined. #nzpol

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University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka @universityofotago.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Aotearoa’s longest-established residency for children’s writers is back 📚🏡 Otago’s College of Education Children’s Writer in Residence resumes its vital role in supporting children’s literature, in partnership with Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust, after receiving Creative New Zealand funding ✍️

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Otago celebrates return of Children’s Writer in Residence

New Zealand’s longest established residency for children’s writers returns and with it the promise of more stories for, and about, our children and young people.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Second event today - on Tuesday we improved ten articles and made one new one! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_K%C5...

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He Kōrero: Words Between Us; First Māori–Pākehā Conversations on Paper - Wikipedia

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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Simeon Brown: 'year-on-year improvement as we work towards our 2030 health targets.' Same article, same day: • ED 6h target: 68% (goal 95%). Unchanged from 12 months ago. Some regions 57%. • 54 new FTE nurses hired in two years — during a documented 'hiring crackdown'. #nzpol

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Simeon Brown says health system is improving despite ‘very challenging’ winter

The health system has been under significant pressure this winter, with Auckland City Hospital saying it's been worse than expected.

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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In 2024 a book was published identifying the 180 most significant Māori-authored works of non-fiction. Books of Mana is a valuable resource for covering Māori authors on Wikipedia, so for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, editors in Ōtepoti Dunedin will be improving coverage of authors with articles.

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