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Gday, kia ora from Aotearoa NZ. Toitū Te Tiriti. Ngāpuhi/Pākehā. He/him. Rangimariē/Peace✌🏼🍉🥝 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Apple workers could have gotten $4 MILLION each over 8 years. Instead, Apple spent $650 BILLION on stock buybacks. Shareholders got rich. Workers got nothing. This isn't investment. It's theft. Tax the rich.
This seems like a weird argument to make when put up alongside National, ACT and NZ First's social conservatism, cuts to science funding and focus on roads at the expense of everything else. Who is really looking backwards here?
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 5d agoColumn today on the Green Party's decision to be the party of "no" once more: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Here’s an challenge for @nzgreens.nzcow.com or @nzlabour.nzcow.com or the Mayor of @aucklandcouncil.bsky.social
They Call Me Gary@theycallmegary.bsky.social · last wk.Mamdani’s Grocery Stores Will Offer 30 Percent Discount on Some Products Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s five city-owned grocery stores will provide a 30 percent discount on produce, meat, bread and milk. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/n...
But we think they can spend our money better than National can. In either scenario we are not spending our own money bro my income to cost ratio hasn’t improved under your little govt.
a decade long program to update and unify all the DHB's onto the same system was WEEKS away from delivery before this govt came to power and cancelled it. the whole thing just flushed. friend of mine worked in a hospital admin team, and when she found out about this she started planning to leave NZ.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2w agoHospital IT problems the result of years of under-investment, experts say
1/6 Did you know that Aotearoa New Zealand has some of the worst lobbying in the world? The waters have only gotten murkier since National-NZ First-ACT took office. #nzpol
Thankfully the Govt used its mandate to get the cost of living back on track, legislating to bring our many monopolies (supermarkets, electricity, fuel, bdlg supplies) into line and preventing baseless price gouging at every opportunity oh hang on www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Inflation rises to highest level in two years
Inflation hit a two year high as the full impact of the Middle East war made itself felt on prices.
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Another death caused by NACT’s deliberately cruel policies. RIP Caitlin 'Christchurch is my tomb': From homelessness to hopelessness www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
'Christchurch is my tomb': From homelessness to hopelessness
Tormented by transience, Caitlin McDonald's life was as fragile and fleeting as the butterflies she saved from the street. Surviving less than two years homeless in Christchurch, she chronicled her jo...
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Seeing as everyone is sharing Paul Henry stories, here’s mine. c2009 when he was on Breakfast he made fun of a guest, a spokesperson for Greenpeace, after her interview had finished, based on her appearance, undermining her message (which he didn’t like). A bunch of cool folks called this out…
Fare well Sam. So many good memories crafted by a good bloke. www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/...
Actor Sir Sam Neill dead at 78
The Kiwi star died on Monday in Sydney, Australia, his family says.
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This a v similar to the chart that #BHN shared earlier. Labels are easy to misinterpret. Nicola Willis has moved the needle a bit, for stupid reasons, but national debt is still reasonable as % of GDP. #nzpol Source: badj.github.io/NZGovDebtTre...
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has been absolutely killing it, and here's another one
The policy was changed so that if a poor person contributed to their housing deprived situation by not paying rent then they would be considered ineligible to seek emergency housing. Being poor & not able to pay rent prevents them from using emergency housing #NZGovt thestandard.nz/this-governm...
