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The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren't on the printed roll and who say they're unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/03/t...
Tens of thousands could be turned away from voting – but no one is counting them
The Opposition says people who think they're not enrolled should lodge special votes rather than being turned away from voting entirely.
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I thought students like Stanford - entitled little shits grow up to be entitled shit MPs
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d agoNational wants to show Labour the social media ban bill, but 'we can't', education minister says
Gordon Campbell-On The Public Service Chainsaw Massacre: Essentially, #NZ govt isn’t short of money. It simply doesn’t want to spend the tax take in the areas preferred by most of the public #nzpol #jobcuts #poverty #homelessness #healthcuts #privatisation #austerity werewolf.co.nz/2026/05/gord...
Gordon Campbell On The Public Service Chainsaw Massacre – werewolf
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What I need right now is something humongously good to happen. I am over this bullshit
Elmo Says Burn It All Down
Alt: Elmo Says Burn It All Down
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yet you can absolutely COUNT on pet economists and commentators CONTINUING to cry about "having to make the hard decisions" to normalise this with the centre parties while REFUSING to do the same regarding EASY decisions like taxing billionaires or curtailing political donations
RNZ poll: Most voters want super age to stay at 65
National will face an uphill battle convincing people to lift the superannuation age, with most voters opposed to the idea, according to the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll.
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The Greens eating Labour's lunch here www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
Green Party to take automatic union membership bill to the election
The Green Party wants union membership to become the default for new employees, arguing it would strengthen workers’ bargaining power while still allowing people to opt out.
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Chelsey Edwards, a swimmer, is competing at the Commonwealth Games. Overseas staging/ training camps to the Games are not funded, and so her Give a little is here if you'd love to and are able to support her to bring home a medal, she's third seed givealittle.co.nz/cause/suppor...?
SUPPORT ME AS I APPROACH THE BIGGEST YEAR OF INTERNATIONAL RACING IN MY CAREER
Supporting my journey to represent New Zealand on the world stage at the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships and Commonwealth Games
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NZ politics is now a yawn fest.. its never been as boring
Haha.
Andrew@openpolicy.bsky.social · 2mo agoFollowing the sacking of Ollie Robbins for not advising him of the concerns expressed during Mandelson’s security vetting, shall we place bets on Starmer’s new Cabinet Manual lifting the NZ doctrine of ‘no surprises’? Para 3.26 www.dpmc.govt.nz/our-business...
Labour's plan to not tell you what it stands for & not tell you what it will be fighting for come the election & most definitely not telling you policy yet is really paying off. Worst govt in living memory & Labour aren't on 38%+ is telling.
Two years ago Hazel Ouwehand became the first Kiwi woman to swim under 26s in 50m butterfly. She's now eyeing the 25s milestone, which only five swimmers have ever done; Commonwealth Games trials start tomorrow. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/12/k...?
Kiwi speedster: 'Every teeny, tiny detail matters'
Two years ago Hazel Ouwehand became the first Kiwi woman to swim under 26s in 50m butterfly. She's now eyeing the 25s milestone
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Was 3.9 at election. But as more give up looking for work the rate drops. And it's already out of date.
1News NZ (Unofficial)@1newsnz.nzcow.com · 3mo ago📢 Stats NZ has released the latest unemployment data for the March 2026 quarter.
5 topics I could give an hour long talk on: 1. Why night clubbing is good for those over 50 2. Why the Swimming NZ CEO and board should resign. 3. The relevance , or otherwise, of the Christian churches in a postmodern society 4. Coffee 5. MMP.
Foxes@foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 3mo ago5 topics I could give an hour long talk on - 1. Stephen King 2. Africa by Toto 3. Discworld Terry Pratchett 4. John Hughes Movies 5. The MaddAddam Trilogy Margaret Atwood
So Luxon has more to say about a new sports stadium than life threatening floods in our capital city where he was located 🤬🤬🤬🤬 #NZPol
The PM will still be available to the media on a case by case basis , providing the case contains $10,000 #nzpol
Sky News: Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist. Greta Thunberg: See you all at the next climate strike :) news.sky.com/story/human-...
Vanushi Walter is Labours Foreign Affairs Minister, was on Q&A today. Held in so high regard in Labour that she was too low on the list to get in and she lost her seat. Only in Parliament cos someone resigned.
Week in Review: The environment commissioner says the Government's gas import plans could drive up energy prices. The energy minister says they won't.
LNG plan 'worst of both worlds', environment watchdog warns
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Lo and behold, it seems the Police’s ‘inability’ to apply the #OIA correctly is worse than we thought: it apparently provided incorrect information to the Ombudsman during his investigation. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Netflix Secret: Dame Julie Christie’s company asked police for secrecy on Tom Phillips doco
Police have now revealed that Dame Julie Christie’s company asked them to keep Netflix’s role in the Tom Phillips documentary a secret.
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Andrew@openpolicy.bsky.social · 4mo agoSome people say the OIA is fundamentally sound. I ask them, ‘How is it that 44 years after the OIA was passed the Police is still misusing the Act to claim that it would unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of Netflix to reveal it is working with them?’ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
A year ago, ministers met to consider tightening NZ’s pay equity law. Their decisions went further than officials had advised, hardening the policy to the point some groups were cut out from ever making a claim. Why? And on what evidence? They won’t show us. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How a crucial 45-minute meeting between ministers took pay equity claims away from tens of thousands of women
In a crucial 45 minute meeting, ministers decided to go beyond official proposals, making it even harder for 180,000 workers to ask for pay equity.
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2. I think we can do without incredible insights as 'benefit numbers are high cos job market is grim'. Why is it grim? Cos Govt and RBNZ have worked together to create unemployment. This was the plan; the reckonomists just didn't know how hard it would be to pull out of the dive. They never do.(3/n)
6.9 percent of the working age population are on the Jobseeker benefit
Stuff has put an AI bot on their Covid Inquiry story to let people ask questions about the report... I wonder if anyone will be able to convince it to spit out a recipe for lamb casserole or something?
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
in 60 years ive never seen so many liquidations and redundancies than i have in the past year. And the year before was the worst up til then .
Begging the media to point out that job schemes are pissing in the wind of a depressed economy. There is not enough demand, so not enough jobs, so stop gaslighting poor people and the public you ghouls.
Incredibly funny bit from Chris Luxon to say "I don't comment on polls" after spending 3 minutes commenting on a poll.
Weekly jobs update. Still looks like we are settling on zero jobs growth for a while. I mean it is better than losing jobs, but it's not a recovery is it? (1/3)
