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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 11h

What has this government been up to? Brad knows. Brad's been keeping a list (over on FB)... #nzpol

Over the last three years, I’ve been keeping a list of the rubbish this Government has done.
Stopped work on Auckland light rail.
Stopped all work on the Lake Onslow renewable battery project.
Disestablish the Ministry for the Environment.
Scrapped the smoke-free law to fund tax cuts.
Scrapped Fair Pay Agreements.
Gave $3 billion in tax cuts to landlords.
Tired to paid himself $52,000 to live in one of his own many properties, on top of his half a million dollar salary.
The so-called party of infrastructure ... cut Cook Strait ferry deal, then paid $8 million for consultants to tell them they need new ships. $700 million wasted in total. Still no ships.
Stopped the Clean Car Discount, after Luxon took an $8,000 discount himself.
Blocked statistical reporting on who does and doesn’t pay their share of tax. Think about that!
Broke its election promise and didn’t scrap the app tax.
Scrapped Three Waters, pushing costs onto ratepayers and increasing rates.
Used $4,150 of taxpayers’ money to pay for his te reo Māori classes after saying, “People in the real world should pay for it themselves.”
Halved the crayfish take for locals, but cut the commercial take by only one-fifth.
Gutted freshwater protections so cruel intensive winter grazing could continue to pollute water ways.
Took $80 million from hospitals.
Cut DOC funding by $125 million.
Scrapped the First Home Grant.
Gave half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money to their mate Bill English to do a "review".
Blew $8 million on consultants for a proposed tunnel under Wellington.
Wasted $4 million on a six-person advisory group to talk about crime and reduce youth offending. They achieved nothing.
Gave big tobacco a $216 million tax cut.
Refused to reinstate Jobs for Nature while unemployment soared.
Reduced the qualifications needed for relief teachers.
Introduced new road tolls.
Deprioritised police responses to mental health and family violence call-outs.
Slashed $107 million a year from school lunches, costing…

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 59m

Omg! Good one. Upload it to w.wiki/UYBq with its address if you’re happy to let others use the picture :)

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 10h

It’s Buckingham Palace - great name!

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 13h

Aw cute! When it grows up it wants to be a braided river!

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 15h

I might drop him a message and ask…it is a beauty!

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah it’s annoying cos I can type it from memory! It works if you click on it

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 16h

Whānau, yesterday I posted a link to this documentary. Today, I am asking for your help to spread the word by clicking through to our community site, clicking on the share button, and sharing with other social media sites you are on. I am trying to achieve two things with this request. 🇳🇿 #NZPOL

te-ara-paerangi.community

Hīkoi for Health Documentary

I was really impressed with the team when they came to Palmerston North. They are passionate, knowledgeable, and downright determined to fight for a health care system that works for everyone. One of ...

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 17h

Be careful with pics of artwork though, you’d want to exclude this mural for Wikimedia Commons as it infringes the artists’s copyright. Upload your photos at w.wiki/UYBq for a chance to win!

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User is blocked - Meta-Wiki

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 17h

Another beautiful Ōtepoti Dunedin for taking flat pics to document student life in the South! Who knows the name of this one? #WikiLovesScarfieFlats

Flat with large mural of a crowned celebrity on the side

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 23h

Too right there are! But I’m not sure many people really think about that when feeding stuff to AI (which is why I think guidance about how you deal with other people’s work is a useful thing to include)

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fuck yes!!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞 🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️ 🚇🚇🚇🚇🚇🚇🚇🚇🚇🚇🚇 🚊🚊🚊🚊🚊🚊🚊🚊🚊🚊🚊 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 #nzpol

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Greens' $4b rail plan: Overnight trains, Christchurch-Dunedin service

The passenger rail plan includes routes from Auckland to Wellington, Christchurch to Dunedin and extending the current Te Huia train to Tauranga.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

dear university libraries....

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is there anything about the ethics of sharing info you don’t own? (Thinking about people who feed papers they’ve been asked to review into AI to generate a review or summary)

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Bee @dailybee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WAIT so I just looked up House of Science, it's part of the Wright Family Foundation?? NZ is just a couple gross orgs stacked on one another in a trenchcoat. #nzpol

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Bee @dailybee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'Before the tender began House of Science chief executive Chris Duggan was also added to a group helping to write the science curriculum, on Stanford's recommendation [...] she stood to gain materially from being on it.' #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/10/01/l...

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Labour calls for investigation into $40m school science kit contract

The House of Science had repeatedly lobbied the Education Minister for funding – but Erica Stanford insists it’s all above board.

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Michel Mulipola @bloodysamoan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

STOP. DROP. ENROL! STOP what you're doing DROP into www.vote.nz ENROL TODAY! or help ENROL your friends and family 18-24yo rangatahi of Māngere are sitting at 45.16% enrolment rate. That's over 5000 rangatahi still not enrolled

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 02/10/2026

Today's chart after National Party got $100k, Labour with a cheeky $20k The system is rigged #nzpol

ACT $2,347,033
National $2,190,954
Labour $869,896
NZFist $753,000
Opportunistic $491,660
Greens $343,194
Te Pāti Māori $114,000

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's October 2026. Someone at Labour needs to better appreciate the fact that RCR explicitly promotes, week after week, month after month, w/out exaggeration, exactly the same violent extremism that the ChCh killer based his 'manifesto' on. This isn't a platform that should be engaged with. #nzpol

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Applications for the University of Otago College of Education Children’s Writer in Residence (14 weeks plus stipend and accommodation) close on 18 October - have at it!

otago.taleo.net

College of Education Children%27s Writer in Residence for 2027

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the more famous flats!

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why run a photo competition for #Dunedin scarfie flats? Well for a start our named flats are a unique phenomenon. Documenting them is fun! Flat names are often puns like this one from Hyde St. Contribute your pics here w.wiki/UYBq

Image of a student flat named “Hydetide” on Hyde St

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

“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 · 01/10/2026

Perhaps what National really mean is “no new taxpayers”

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#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 · 01/10/2026

#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 · 30/09/2026

"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 · 30/09/2026

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

Oh wow she came and opened our fete once. Amazing woman.

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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...

elections.nz

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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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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ooh I’d forgotten! I have edits about pay equity that need making! (Also happy to print my own zine to save on postage)

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

I fully endorse all shades of pink! 🥰

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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

Yeah it’s a year since I posted but it has been around quite a few years before then, I understand, with very little anyone can do about it

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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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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you for shining a light on these scams! I understand the actual RSNZ here has been playing whack-a-mole with this site for years.

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