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Robot Muldoom @robot-muldoom.bsky.social · 3h

National promises to ban ring-net fishing in the Hauraki Gulf's protected areas, "very quick after the election". Last year National's government added the exemption allowing it, against DOC and Fisheries advice. They could've just not. #nzpol

rnz.co.nz

National proposes new marine reserves, complete ban on ring-net fishing in Hauraki Gulf

An earlier version of this story said the party proposed a ban on commercial fishing. This has been corrected to ring-net fishing.

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 3h

Still reflecting on David Seymour’s comment when asked what his enormous political donors wanted: ‘to keep Labour out’ Lets think about that: A small NZ political party admits it’s taking donations to screw the playing field to stop a legitimate party being fairly elected That’s undemocratic

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Also, the Alberta independent movement basically disappeared after the Yandex site was bombed. Fancy that.

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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Enjoy the peace while it lasts, folks. Vaccines work again. Climate Change is real again. Empathy exists again. Just humans talking to other humans again. Feels like the internet used to. It's pretty neat. 😊

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s happening now in the UK, coming to a car market near you. Corrupt NZ govt and car dealers still pushing soon-to-be-worthless diesel and petrol stinkers on misinformed public: youtu.be/mZx_SjZdYH0?...

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The Tipping Point Is Here: Dealers Are Refusing Diesel Trade-Ins as Resale Plummets

YouTube video by The Electric Viking

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

THIS IS MY WHY

Mike Hosking says "I will leave the country of a left wing government is elected."

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 11/10/2026

Three years of "fixing the basics" and "building the future" to "get New Zealand back on track" And we're worse on every measure.

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If the price of Labour's fresh, locally-made school lunches and school buses, and the Greens' employment for 16 to 24 year-olds, is the cost of billionaires increasing their wealth a little more slowly, I'm ok with that. #nzpol

rnz.co.nz

Election live: 'Exactly what we need': Youth worker praises Greens policy about getting young people into work

It's a busy Sunday again for the political world, with most of the parties out on the campaign trail.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the future tech bros are dreaming of

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Purple Guy panicking in a room full of flames. He screams “Oh God! I’m going to die!”

Panel 2:
Purple Guy is now on the phone (still surrounded by flames). He yells “Fire Service!! My house is burning down”

Panel 3:
Purple Guy (still burning to death) is now hollering “My address? Shit I don’t know! Lemme check my phone”

Panel 4:
Close up on Purple Guy’s phone screen. It reads: Emergency call detected. Pay £45.50 to view address.

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I wore contact lenses in those days so Ruthie had to practice putting them into my eye. Robert Sarkies came to our place in Kingsland to check the result

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Once again, vote! Check your registration at vote.nz

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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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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am constantly reminded that you can't choose your family

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Spent a weekend in Dunedin in 98. Girlfriend (now wife) was working on Scarfies. $10 got me a jug at Gardies, bus to the NPC semi, ticket, bus back, bbq and another jug. Also got to see my girlfriend 😁

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mean... but also 💯 true.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the rare case of trump being one hundred percent honest with you

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This morning at Omaha. Big shoutout to old mate who jogged right through the roosting godwits twice and left the door in the predator proof fence wide open on his way into the sanctuary. 🪶🇳🇿

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well I don't recognize the beer either. TBH Guinness (yuck) is probably the only beer that is visually recognizable

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Damnit! I thought I recognized the sloping glass roof from Wharf St in Tauranga and saw the hop house was opposite.

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm having a cheeky Behemoth Chur at my desk. Today has not been productive, so another couple of hours with a beer may fix it

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Hop House What do I win? 🤣

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Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

110 new taxes coming to you from National.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are you not entertained? @anntelnaes.bsky.social (from Trump 1.0 archives 10/9/18)

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ditto. Steve Abel should be much further up the green party list IMHO, so we'll just have to get the whole green vote up, for morale (and for Steve)

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today's Balls Of Steel Award goes to.... www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#nzpol Atlas Network and RW party donors are rotting the system for tax-free hundreds of millions for their own pockets 😡😡😡 #taxwealthnotwork www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bes...

nzherald.co.nz

Best Start charity has paid founders $287m tax-free

The charity-owned childcare giant pays another $36m to its rich-lister founders.

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

Well there you have it. I rescind all my generosity towards TOP. This 100% confirms they are a Trojan horse, created by RWers to provide a teal party to sap votes from the left. This is the deputy leader, not some backbencher. He wants to vote for Nats. #nzpol www.tickaroo.com/e/GYui53TulW...

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Opportunity's deputy says he'd vote National if he couldn't vote for his party

Opportunity's deputy says he'd vote National if he couldn't vote for his partyDeputy Leader of the Opportunity Party Daniel Eb says he would vote for the National Party if he couldn’t vote for Opportu...

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Impossible to invent something as absurd as the Minister for Cracking Down On Truancy And School Lunches not knowing it is the school holidays www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Oct 6, 2026 2:56 PM
RNZ Live
'Why are you not in school?' It’s school holidays

David Seymour stopped to speak to some children at Velocity Valley in Rotorua, giving them a piece of advice.

“Don’t trust politicians,” he said. “Are you a politician?,” they questioned.

After the three children asked if he was going to be on the news and waved at the cameras, he said: “hey, one question, how come you guys aren’t at school?”

It’s school holidays, they said.

Seymour said they could still go into school, but the kids didn’t seemed thrilled by that idea.

“No, it’s ok,” they said before walking away.
- Rachel Moore, Reporter

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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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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Couldn't find the album cover The Best Years by Netherworld Dancing Toys. Damn near perfect album

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The board is the GMs of Novartis, GSK etc, so they want health budget moved from hospitals/nurses/surgery/drugs etc to more of the drugs bit. At first glance I thought they might have been antivax woowoo RFK www.medicinesnz.co.nz/who-we-are/o...

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Medicines New Zealand: Our People

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/10/2026

the differences in sports across the pond is always interesting. look how the brits do bowling. totally different than how we do it

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The Tim Channel @thetimchannel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The locusts are on line 2 sir.

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Live from National Party HQ

Two panel comic strip

Mr Burns and Smithers look dismayed, with text: Nicola, I'm beginning to think Simeon is not the brilliant tactician I thought he was

Homer rotating sideways on the floor with text: no new taxes no new taxes no new taxes no new taxes

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An essay on privacy, hypocrisy and pervert glasses.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Always nice to see the low-hanging fruit collected. Opposition to this is basically zero, apart from Act weenies who've never been to a good gig in their lives. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

stuff.co.nz

Labour’s ‘simple fix’ to give Kiwi music acts more exposure

Currently, international artists are not required to have a New Zealand support act when they tour here.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am very pleasantly surprised. The owner of multiple properties, who lives of National heartland, is horrified about what this govt has done to pplm. They want to know how to vote to change this government. They don't like what is happening in mental health and community support.

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Tom Butlin @tombutlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#4 Vote National if you and everyone you care about is a landlord

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quick reminder of Nationals biggest promise to you in 2023. Nobody got this.

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