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Worth 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.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · last mo.

Greens put $4.5b bill on first part of reversing government's pay equity changes

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Cutting JobSeeker Support for 18- and 19-year-olds who can’t find work, and whose parents earn as little as $67,225, during a cost of living crisis and high youth unemployment. My #cartoon today #NZpol #JobSeeker #YouthUnemployment

Two towering art works have been unveiled in the Auckland CBD this morning paying homage to waterways that once ran through the city and tangata whenua.

New Auckland artworks unveil the whakapapa and history of the land

Two towering art works have been unveiled in the Auckland CBD this morning paying homage to waterways that once ran through the city and tangata whenua.

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Imagine being so bad at your job that the only way to 'balance the books' is to take money from poor people.

Please please please share this post. There is some bizarre magic spell on the words "pay equity" that makes people's eyes glaze over but there's nothing boring about working women being robbed of BILLIONS of dollars by the chaos coalition

Government's treatment of women in Aotearoa goes to the United Nations

One year after legislation killed existing pay equity claims and basically ended the opportunity to bring new claims, the government is being taken to the United Nations. It's a huge deal. The team ...

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Imagine saying this in this country where 51 Muslims died in a terrorist attack by a white person. We have never even had Islamic terrorism in this country like every day I’m exhausted by pākehā and their lack of humanity.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Auckland mayor refers to RNZ staffer as 'a Muslim terrorist'

"It’s closed out. It's finished. We voted it down yesterday, and it's over, and we're moving forward." - Luxon “Cremated and buried”. - Potaka They lied. Despite over 90% of submitters opposed and massive divisions caused. National Govt continues to roll it out. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Exclusive: Government quietly agrees to repeal number of Treaty references in laws

Ministers made the decision but until now hadn't told the public.

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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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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Grateful for this review of Hailman - & to have it called "a really thoughtful and memorable read"... I love that. Thank you so much @kaggsy59.bsky.social & @theemmapress.bsky.social 🌨️

Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings@kaggsy59.bsky.social · 9mo ago

On the Ramblings today, for #readindies I explore an intriguing book from @theemmapress.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/s...

Yet again, in almost any other NZ government a minister telling NZers to *eat less food* to save money would have them hounded by media and pushed out of politics. Never forget the immensely important protective role that NZ media have played in protecting these fascists from public outrage.

💚🇵🇸What The Fukc Is Happening?🇵🇸💚@dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#GinnyAnderson "Are wages keeping up with the cost of living when white bread has gone up 58.3% in the past year?" #DavidSeymour "Consider wholemeal." Ginny Anderson: "It's more expensive." David Seymour: "Eat less." You first, Scrooge McFuckFace. You first. #nzpol #TheAtlasNetwork

Shops don’t close themselves. It’s not 61 shops, it’s people closing livelihoods, it’s staff losing their jobs, it’s creditors not being paid, it’s parents with no income facing the expense of the start of the school year and a heartless systemically unhelpful WINZ. #nzpol

61 shops announce closures in 10 days: Will liquidation numbers get worse before they improve?

There are warnings the number of businesses closing could get worse before it gets better.

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So happy my short story collection was longlisted for pub @theemmapress.bsky.social - thanks so much to the Birmingham Editorial Readers Group :) and huge congrats to all the other authors on the short and longlists 🌿

The Emma Press@theemmapress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Announcing the Longlisted and Shortlisted proposals from our August 2025 submissions call out! 📣 Thank you to all the writers for trusting us with your work!🩷 Read more about our Longlisted and Shortlisted titles here: buff.ly/YaoW7n9

If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤 go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM

"For a hot moment, I wanted to smash her. No, I wanted to be her." @linedealer.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social

Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We have a great new piece today from @linedealer.bsky.social! Check out “Double Image.” lost-balloon.com/2025/11/19/d...

Wrote a #shortstory abt sneaking smokes & pills, taking photos, & setting a doll on fire. Huge thanks to @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving Double Image a home 🌿 tinyurl.com/mtsn5yha

Double Image by Leanne Radojkovich

I was sixteen, finished with school, and couldn’t see a way forward. Went to stay at Uncle Ray’s. He’d been clearing the guttering and had fallen off the roof. Mum and I went down to look after him…

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Party that was implacably opposed to wasting three quarters of a billion on a bridge that might have got people moving in a new way in Auckland has now wasted three quarters of a billion that leaves us with absolutely nothing at all. NOTHING.

“This weekend, Pātaka Art+Museum in Porirua opens Not One More Acre: Remembering the 1975 Land March, marking 50 years since Dame Whina Cooper and Te Rōpū o te Matakite led a historic protest against the loss of Māori lan” The Call That Still Echoes 50 Years On #nzpol

The Call That Still Echoes 50 Years On

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Tame Iti. I'm here to read the roll. . The Maori Roll Call. Genius performance. Performance art. youtu.be/PeT_SLYJkV4?... 🏳🏴🚩

THE MĀORI ROLL CALL

YouTube video by Whānau Ora

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NCWNZ rightly calls out this govt's War on Women & in 1951 Labour MP Mabel Howard called the National govt's response to the waterfront stoppage a War on Women, too. It's endless, and so is resistance - women organised, fought back. #WarOnWomen heritageetal.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...

The women were marvellous

In 1951, after watersiders had refused overtime work in protest at a low wage offer, the government announced a state of emergency.

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#NZ - The National Council of Women is calling out the Coalition Government for its #WarOnWomen. “This Government is systematically dismantling the democratic safeguards that protect fairness, equity, and public voice in Aotearoa. Full details here: www.ncwnz.org.nz/coalition_go...

Remember during Covid when all those “unskilled” jobs were actually the ones deemed essential. While many with “important” jobs sat around baking bread. Many of those essential roles are the ones being impacted by pay equity shafting. Praised then, scoffed at now. Shame on this Government.

This from Verity Johnson hits what I think is the most important point in this whole thing (I said it in a much more sweary way last night) - women had followed process and were seeking redress through the 'proper' channels. All that was ignored and destroyed. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...

Kate Sheppard would be rolling in her grave after this week’s events, writes Verity Johnson

OPINION: I can’t work out which part of this week’s pay equality law change was the most horrifying.

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Only two The Gold of the Kōwhai study 1 were ever made and are owned by private collectors in Christchurch and New Plymouth. So, Fran Dibble was distraught to discover one on display in the garden of billionaire toy tycoon Nick Mowbray’s sprawling Mahoenui Valley property.

The billionaire, the sculptor’s widow and the fake artwork

The widow of acclaimed sculptor Paul Dibble has tracked a counterfeit to the home of billionaire toy tycoon Nick Mowbray, and wants to have it destroyed.

thepress.co.nz

Excellent story on ReadingRoom - so vivid I thought I was living it, rather than reading it, @ericastretton.bsky.social #https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/22/short-story-drive-by-erica-stretton/

Short story: Drive, by Erica Stretton

'This goddamned place': teenagers in cars.

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If you want to direct your anger at Destiny Church, rather than sign multiple petitions on overseas websites, support the petition open at Parliament #nzpol petitions.parliament.nz/a22e0d59-7da...