Mandy Hager
@mandyh.bsky.social
Writer, Greenie Granny worrying for my grandkids future mandyhager.com
Over 33,000 children & young people in NZ are growing up in severe housing deprivation, more likely to miss school, suffer preventable illness & come into contact with the justice system, & 2.9x more likely to experience abuse #Poverty #nzpol #PartyVoteGreen✅ www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
More than 33,000 children are homeless in Aotearoa. Most are invisible in the data
One in five homeless children has recorded abuse finding, new research shows
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"A.l. represents a vision of a near-total takeover of the country's economic, social & cognitive lives by tools engineered by just 5 companies, run by 5 particular people, several of whom are widely described as sociopaths." - #AI #DataCentres #nzpol www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/m...
A.I. Populism Is Here. And No One Is Ready.
Silicon Valley oligarchs worried about the risks their technology posed to the world. They forgot about people.
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SCOOP: #OpenAl, #Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios. #AI #DataCentres www.axios.com/2026/09/26/o...
Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.
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"There were far too many things that were done in a secretive and unethical way," she said. "Too many financial interests that have no business in that space." “work on the curriculum was heavily politicised and several of the ministry insiders who contacted RNZ made similar allegations.” #nzpol
Whistleblowers offer to aid Education Ministry probe
Education Ministry whistleblowers, who contacted RNZ in the past week, plan to add their voices to an investigation by the Office of the Ombudsman.
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#AtlasNetwork =Massive cuts; demolishing public services; privatising public assets; sacking civil servants; sweeping away constraints on corporations; destroying regs that protect workers, vulnerable people & the living world; supporting landlords against tenants www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot
The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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1. It calls itself a champion of "freedom"-but in reality, #AtlasNetwork is a far-right propaganda machine, funding & training extremists to push corporate interests & dismantle democracy worldwide. NZ is under attack! #nzpol
At the heart of #AtlasNetwork Zionist, Billionaire & Trump policies is Soft Eugenics–the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong (Richest) will survive: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive
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They don't just fund thinktanks. They train operatives to infiltrate media, politics, & policy-making #AtlasNetwork #nzpol theintercept.com/2017/08/09/a...
Sphere of Influence: How American Libertarians Are Remaking Latin American Politics
The Atlas Network has spent decades building up libertarian institutions across Latin America. Now the work is paying off.
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When we 🤞 vote out this coalition in November, someone should write a book about the way a minor party can push its policies through when the Prime Minister is weak They can have this title for free ACTs of Cruelty
Jim Marr@jimmarr.bsky.social · 3mo agoCruel ACT - New Zealand gutting workplace health and safety #nzpol www.publicinterest.nz/fifteen-year...
Great thread. Hope Louise gets in. On current polling she will! #nzpol
Louise Hutt@saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 16h agoToday's questions from a definitely unbiased candidate debate: "Why are the Greens polling so well when you had someone who shoplifted at the start of the term?" "Why do you think people don't like Chloe Swarbrick so much?" I wish I was kidding.
Luxon dumping on Chloe is a sure sign they're shitting themselves. Time for the media to call out Nat lies. If they don't like being criticised in Europe for being climate deniers, they should stop undermining efforts to protect our kids futures.
Who wants to make a complaint to the ASA, 2014 the last time national was elected in charge had united future, ACT and Maori party with them. Let's deal with the misinformation. #nzpol
Call to action for overseas Kiwis There's thousands of you in Australia, please help us boot out this awful coalition government🙏🏼 #auspol #nzpol
A call to action for friends of overseas New Zealanders
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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A Hikoi For Palestine. 10 October 2026, beginning at 11am on Parliament Lawn, Wellington before marching to Te Ngākau Civic Square. #nzpol
With Nicky Hager's Dirty Work exposing TPU's 3W hit job I see Mike Smith is also talking about the Hollow Men doco. Good to see how we got here, the Iwi Kiwi campaign is a ringer for this year's tax one... same blueprint they are using just more emboldened with all the sloshing dark money. #NZPol
Anneleise@anneleise.bsky.social · 2w agoIf anyone is shivering with antici - pation of Nicky Hagar's Unity launch: here's The Hollow Men doco links for a warm up #NZPol www.nzonscreen.com/videos/the-h...
#NZpol The State of Things. Part of the outcome of all the broader underfunding of the health system and its various constituent parts is the distinct lack of help for support workers themselves... and those looking after other family members w/o support. Difficulties can easily compound rapidly.
The cost of being: A part-time worker caring for an elderly parent
'I would once have described us as comfortable, but incessant cost increases are eroding security.'
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That's $4.5b that would be circulating in the economy. Bring it on! #nzpol
Peter Green@petergreen.bsky.social · 3d agoWorth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place.
Dunno if this has done the rounds yet. Brainy analysis of the 'hidden $18bn bill'. #nzpol keenlens.substack.com/p/coughlans-...
Coughlan’s Hidden Bill Is Not a Bill
The Keen-Lens Macro Letter ⚡ Flash Letter New Zealand · Fiscal Capacity & Election 2026 · October 2026
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Billionaires keep tipping the big bucks into ACT and ACT keeps returning the favour, to the growing cost of ordinary New Zealanders #nzpol
NZ Election Donations@nzelectiondonation.bsky.social · 4d agoACT New Zealand received a $25,000 donation from Nicholas Mowbray on 28 September 2026. The filing was received by the Electoral Commission on 28 September 2026. [ source | filing ]
All this harks back a template familiar to those who have read Hager's book, & what Cooke calls a 'reality creation'. That's akin to what study of influence operations warns is the result of sophisticated narratives aimed at shaping attitudes, perceptions, & (voting) behaviours. #nzpol
Other far-right activists, and infamous astroturfers like Cameron Slater are actively promoting the Mowbray campaign - and I expect the likes of The Platform, and the far-right media ecosystem to amplify this more (perhaps organically, but also, through covert funding).
Hosking had his arse handed to him by Chippy live on air yesterday and is now having a massive sook about it. ZB oughta be required to register as a National Party promoter. #nzpol www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-...
Mike's Minute: Chris Hipkins has been found out
Mike Hosking comments on what the PREFU release means for Chris Hipkins and the Labour Party.
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So ... Looking at this, www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... I noticed that watch on Luxon, It cost 25,000 dollars, www.partridgejewellers.com/speedmaster-... Soooo, is that what he considers basics? Cause he said we need to focus on basics....
