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@vebate.bsky.social
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Thinking about climate, equity, rainbow/trans rights. Toitū te Tiriti. Mum. She/her. Love a good book, especially NZ fiction. Cat person with a dog. Aotearoa. 🍉

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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They're being bred to think this is okay. And the interrogation into their bad behaviour was undertaken by Jago... so 😳
David seymour standing at bbq at University wearing a pink tshirt that says "got meat?" And has a silhouette of a naked female figure reclining with a bulls head.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And what is included in the operating costs? Is it the marketing costs the stores need to pay to head office? What we need to know is what is the total profit from $1 that Foodstuffs makes as a whole entity.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
100%. We should interrogate the numbers he gave: Every dollar is made up of: 1. 66.5c Supplier 2. 13c GST 3. 16.9c Operating store 4. 3.6c Profit Who is the supplier? Is that Foodstuffs Wholesale? It's not the producer based on what we've heard from growers. So head office profit?
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Labour's response was pathetic. Instead of doing a detailed analysis and explaining the impacts of privately owned transmission, they used a non-specific, broad, ill-informed "more reviews, haven't done anything for 3 years" response. We need better responses.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you!
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Complain to ASA
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I want to share this with my conservative family, have you got a link you could share?
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Overnight to Wellington on a train rather than getting up before 5am to catch the 6:30am flight. Luxury!
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
💚💚💚 Brilliant Louise!! 💚💚💚
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was so pleased when I saw 16% in the poll because it meant Louise would be in the House. 💚
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Need them in Epsom and Tāmaki!
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's a great summary. The other thing we need is for state media to stop taking these orgs at face value and start treating them like the disingenuous heavily aligned lobbyists they are.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think he's definitely biased. He's got a history of snuggling up to National especially. But also a tad dim, I agree. But if you heard the 2 candidates you're interviewing mentioning the 3rd candidate and still choose not interview him... that's a bias.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, unfortunately the people that watch 1News are plentiful in the Tāmaki electorate and have been left with the impression that it's a 2 horse race.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Worth a watch to hear about Jason Walls bias at play again, this time in the Tāmaki electorate. #nzpol www.instagram.com/reel/DdxNqRh...
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Jordan Rivers on Instagram: "Now to be clear tvnz usually does a pretty good job and I actually rate most of their coverage but slip-ups in quality reporting, like this, are not just embarrassing but ...
375 likes, 17 comments - jordan_rivers.nz on September 26, 2026: "Now to be clear tvnz usually does a pretty good job and I actually rate most of their coverage but slip-ups in quality reporting, like...
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ugh...I know exactly where these complaints come from. People who live on Tāmaki drive expect it to be a nice quiet suburban experience. Of course it won't be, but they ooze entitlement and yet again are being indulged by ACT.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
100% Just compared it to a regular societies constitution and it is so different. Members have no say. Directors select directors. This is not a representative organisation at all. Why don't journalists take a second to peruse the docs available on the companies register before interviewing?
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unfortunately for Cameron, people have to like you to be on the BoT. 🤣
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As bad as I thought. He came close to questioning them about being TPU but accepted them at face value. He's useless.
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At least one of David Seymour's ECE announcements had to switch venue because the parents at the first kindy it was scheduled to happen at objected Ayling had to start his own school to make other parents talk to him Farrar can't win a BoT seat
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not only is it telling that all these groups are basically the same five agitators with different tour bands, we must remember that they had to form a fake parents' advocacy group because they are utterly unpopular losers
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do parents not know who this guy is? #nzpol
Stay away from the children: David Seymour at left is holding (shaking weirdly?) the hand of a young boy.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A very deliberate move to have a female front media given the repulsive behaviour of Williams that is outlined in Dirty Work. Anyone that thinks having female employees means he couldn't possibly sexuality harass females is delusional or hasn't worked.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a great time to remind the general public that under NZ legislation corporations are defined as individuals. So every time Seymour talks about individual property rights, he's not talking about your house, he's talking about protecting these mega corps.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love how the TPU are going to media to try and discredit Hager's book, and in doing so, they're revealing more of the allegations in the book. Great job numbnuts.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible mahi, thank you!!
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thank you, will have a listen in a bit.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I missed it. He's been very excited in the past about interviewing US alt right wing parenting advocates. I was quite worried about how much he was into their religious conservative approaches, which are similar to Ayling's charter school approach.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
100% guilty by association 👨‍⚖️
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh no 😞 Fake grass sucks. BTW, talking of AstroTurf, did you know both Jordan Williams and Ani O'Brien live in the electorate 🤮
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That's what I'm doing this election since we have the excellent Max Harris as Labour candidate and he has a real chance to win. At a recent debate the Green candidate told the audience to vote for Max but give the Greens their party vote.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah, so many red flags in that group!
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yup...US bollocks incoming.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absolutely! So many red flags in that list esp Farrar and Ayling. I thought it might be useful for a bunch of us to join as members and destroy it early but they actually get to choose who can't and can't become a member and it doesn't look like members can select the board and directors.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah. Max is amazing and has written in the past about the benefits of proper taxation. I'm not a Labour supporter but I'm a Max supporter and I totally see the benefit of getting a bunch of these progressive candidates into parliament so we can push Labour further left and improve NZ.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Parents ‘have no one’: New group promises to stick up for parents in education battle
It is designed to counterbalance the teachers' unions and principals' associations.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New AstroTurf org released: Parents Alliance. Filled with all the usual TPU aligned folk. No doubt the ultimate purpose will be to ensure the reign of charter schools. #nzpol
6.7. Upon incorporation, the following persons are the Directors of the Society: 
6.7.1. Anya Zohrab; 6.7.2. Cameron Bagrie; 6.7.3. Catherine Moody; 6.7.4. John Fiso; 6.7.5. Joanne Chaplow; 6.7.6 David Farrar; 6.7.7 Jonathan Ayling
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It hadn't been announced at that point.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Completely agree. My hope is that these guys won their electorate and along with a few other progressive candidates they're able to push Labour in a more progressive direction.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Standing ovation for the standout candidate of the election. Max Harris. #nzpol
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
400+ people turned out to the campaign launch of Max Harris in Tāmaki. It's rare for an electorate candidate to attract such a crowd, let alone a progressive candidate in a traditionally right wing electorate.
Huge crowd at Auckland Netball Centre for Max Harris campaign launch
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gee I wonder who has been captured by alternative health providers. 🤔
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you for your service! I stopped watching him about 45 seconds in. Love your graphs and will bookmark to share with the conservative trolls.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes, very good point. Handily I have some Unity vouchers from a recent birthday, so will enjoy purchasing his book on launch day.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yup.
A black and white picture of Jordan Williams holding a diploma amongst other people. Sourced from Atlas Network Annual Review.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So dodgy!
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