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Jennifer Duval-Smith

@jduvalsmith.bsky.social

Art / nature / connection / sniping at the patriarchy / 🇳🇿 #kikorangi

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 2d ago

Point taken Andrew, but my study of the Hansard from 2024 onwards is a clear record of how Winston Peters, far more than any other MP, is responsible for the decline in the standards of the House, which ironically he so often decries. The Speaker appears to be complicit in enabling this. #nzpol

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 3d ago

The wrong, dishonourable MPs: Targeted harassment in New Zealand’s legislature sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/t... (WordPress) www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrong-... (LinkedIn) #nzpol

Huia Sue@huiasue.bsky.social · 6d ago

#NZGovt Trumpian #JobCuts & #science reform uproots the tree it needs to bear fruit-Auckland University Defunding basic #research risks starving NZ’s deep-tech startups before they begin-& more importantly, climate solutions we need to grow food & survive #AtlasNetwork newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/31/g...

Govt science reform uproots the tree it needs to bear fruit

From Auckland University - Comment: Defunding basic research risks starving NZ's deep-tech startups before they begin, writes Dr Nicola Gaston.

newsroom.co.nz

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿@notjustdna.bsky.social · 4d ago

#NZpol Geoffrey Palmer: Be careful what you wish for – MAGA “is not a good formula to be copied in New Zealand.” – “It treats institutions built to check power, such as the courts, the press, the public service, as suspects rather than safeguards.” newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/01/g...

Geoffrey Palmer: Be careful what you wish for, New Zealand

Kiwis wanting to mimic the anti-establishment, anti-elite, anti-media aspects of Trump's America risk dangerous implications for our rule of law and constitutional safeguards

newsroom.co.nz

Jennifer Duval-Smith@jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lessons for NZ - apparently datacentres in Ireland draw =23% of the country's power and household power bills have gone up 600 Euros in the last year as a result. Use urged from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 23% in 2025. Forecast to exceed 30%

Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧵This is significant out of #NZpol The Atlas Network-driven government (c/o Dep PM Seymour with his 2-week Atlas MBA 😂) is passing questions from journos to Free Speech Union. FSUs are in 5+ countries out of UK. Peter Thiel circle? Meant to defend “race science” & bigoted trash as “Free Speech” 🙄

"Simeon Brown seems to be cultivating the so-called Free Speech Union and the so-called Taxpayers' Union as his own personal troll farm. The public can judge him for that." Healt Brown published a 441-word post on X (formerly known as Twitter) later on Monday night, criticising Vance about a separate health story that ran on Saturday. The Post had not received any formal complaints about Saturday's story at the time of writing.Labour leader Chris Hipkins has now delivered a blistering critique of the situation: accusing Brown of using lobby groups as "his own personal troll farm". Brown's office has been approached for a response.Every voice, no matter how controversial, has the right to be heard without fear. The Free Speech Union International (FSU International) came into being in early 2025 to coordinate activities between the Free Speech Unions in the UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand, as well as help new FSUs get set up in other countries. In addition, FSU International defends free speech in international bodies, such as the UN. If you would like help in setting up a Free Speech Union in your country, contact us here. OFSU FREE SPEECH UNION F
CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · last wk.

The Free Speech Union having their CE and board member stand as candidates for Internet NZ and emailing their members to rank them 1 and 2 and not rank any other candidates feels like it should be more of a news story. It's antithetical to a genuine election and the democratic process.

Foxes@foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am not excusing Stuart Nash the fuckin’ meathead but there are plenty of examples of this Government being sexist. Nash paid the price not for being sexist but instead for being sexist to a Nat MP #NZPol

Victoria 💚 🧡 ❤️@vebate.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last night Tāmaki Labour candidate, Max Harris, hosted Bernard Hickey and Barbara Edmonds. Other side of the electorate ACT candidate hosts David Seymour. Approx 50 people turned up to the auditorium to hear Seymour, 140 packed out the community centre for Max Harris. C'mon Tāmaki! #nzpol

Early photo taken at Max Harris event, standing room only. In the end there were 2 rows deep of people (mostly young) standing around every wall. Plus all chairs full. Not shown on stage were Max Harris, Barbara Edmonds and Bernard Hickey. ACT candidate for Whangaparāoa shared this pic of "solid crowd", filled with many ACT candidates. Photo shows Seymour on stage propagandising whilst there are approx 20 people peppered amongst empty seats listening.
Huia Sue@huiasue.bsky.social · 2w ago

A community fighting against a #fasttrack #goldmine in Central #Otago received $22,000+ in donations since the death of Sir Sam Neill, a vocal opponent of Australian company Santana Minerals' Bendigo-Ophir gold mine near Cromwell. NZ gets 2% royalties & pollution #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

'Sam effect' sees donations surge to community group fighting Otago mine

A community group fighting against a proposed gold mine in Central Otago has received more than $22,000 in donations since the death of Sir Sam Neill.

rnz.co.nz

Char@kiwichar.bsky.social · 2w ago

More UK data that might be of interest, & the NZ media’s role during this crucial election cycle in our nations history. What makes more sense to you? Would you leave this beautiful country if you were required to pay an extra 2% tax on your multi-millions or billions of dollars of wealth? #nzpol

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard)@alans-world.bsky.social · 2w ago

#NZpol Read. Get to grips w/ what's really happening here. Stand up for actual academic inquiry. And help do what you can to consign ACT to Opposition (sadly I don't think we can rid ourselves completely of them) They need to be defanged, removed THIS YEAR. Or? This continues AND WILL GET WORSE.

An extract from the blogpost Extract reads as follows: "The party asks whether a first-year student would feel comfortable speaking up. Look at the actual architecture of power in this story. On one side stands a professor, alone, named, her words stripped of context and served to tens of thousands of followers. On the other stands a party in government, with ministers in cabinet, a media apparatus at its disposal, and a demonstrated appetite for legislating over the institutions it is attacking. The vulnerability in this picture does not belong to ACT. And the substance of the charge collapses on contact with the record. Māori students at the University of Auckland have watched this government dismantle Te Aka Whai Ora, strip Te Tiriti references from the statute book, and advance a bill that the Waitangi Tribunal, in its urgent inquiry, found would constitute the worst and most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times. When Parliament voted, the Treaty Principles Bill was defeated 112 votes to 11, opposed by every party except ACT itself. " Original Source Reference: https://culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-party-in-lecture-hall.html
Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him)@andrewjull.bsky.social · 2w ago

Parmjeet Parmar from ACT is threatening academic freedom - university solidarity with the afflicted professor, loud and immediate, is the only communication these campaigns understand. Stand up to ACT @aucklanduni.bsky.social! #nzpol culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...