“A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who challenge Peters’ conduct.” #nzpol

The Speaker’s selective severity: Rules for Swarbrick, rank for Peters

A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who c…

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This is Aus. Are they selling them in NZ too?

Raindrops_on_Roses@kateraindrops.bsky.social · 12h ago

An easy one to sign.

#nzpol In light of the -10⁰C predicted for tomorrow, can the Aotearoa NZ Govt press pool ask the PM and his many ministers what is being done for the thousands of homeless around the motū who are now forced to sleep rough, in bushejs, under bridges, or in garages, or in their cars. #MontageTime

At 1276 signatories (right now), we are fewer than 100 signatures away from the statement of solidarity with @wikiworkersunited.org becomes the most supported statement or petition *ever* published on the English Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Heading out!

More on the way Dunedin #DunnerStunner of a different kind

LOL nice to hear it from social media before we hear it from school! I wouldn’t have chanced it anyway

David Hood@thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Schools are out for all of slushday (I realise there is snow on the hills)

Sugar water feeder v busy with silvereyes and bellbirds this morning. School open from 10 apparently but no way am I driving on those roads

People in the Tāmaki electorate, this is the election event to attend. Max Harris is hosting Marilyn Waring, chair of the People's Select Committee into pay equity. events.humanitix.com/fighting-bac...

Fighting Back Against this Govt's Pay Equity Cuts

Join Max Harris, Labour's candidate for Tāmaki, alongside Dame Marilyn Waring and other special guests to discuss the fight back on this Govt's pay equity cuts

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Second part: a senior figure in Young New Zealand First has ties to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...

NZ First youth leader linked to neo-Nazi network

A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 5d ago

Part one of my investigation into a group of young men trying to import “remigration” into New Zealand politics www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

To vote in this years general election you need to be enrolled by midnight, 13 days before Election Day. Days left to enrol or update your details. Maori Roll: 3 days General Roll: 83 days Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol

You'd think that unions 🤝🏻 & the wiki ethos were perfectly aligned, not however according to the Wikimedia Foundation who are currently throwing all the union busting tools at its workers 🤯 solidarity with all those unionising.

Wiki Workers United@wikiworkersunited.org · 3d ago

“Solidarity with the union is solidarity with Wikipedia and its values.” - Technolalia, Wikipedia volunteer w.wiki/T3MX

Absolutely guarantee that this is what will happen to any of the fast tracked mining projects in Aotearoa New Zealand if they're rubber stamped Millions channelled offshore and no tax paid #nzpol

Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine

Indian conglomerate offsets earnings from Carmichael mine to report $340.6m loss, after promising billions in taxes and royalties

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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%

The bargain price of $138 million per km. Or one postdoc per metre.

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 6d ago

one road, not even long enough to run a marathon on, for the low low price of 42 times the entire 2027 budget for scientific research in new zealand #nzpol

TOPs policies about automation and cutting admin at MSD (and elsewhere) is just "let's do AI everywhere". They don't have a clue about risk, about bias, about error rates, about the balck box, about how getting it wrong can lead to people experiencing homelessness, starvation, or death #nzpol

#nzpol Electricity costs up nearly twice the rate of inflation since the 1999 market reforms www.interest.co.nz/public-polic...

Household electricity costs up 177% since 1999 reforms, nearly twice the rate of inflation

Consumer NZ calls for changes to electricity market saying NZ can continue to patch over the problems, or it can redesign the electricity system around customers

interest.co.nz

Enrol now! If Luxon fires Peters then Peters brings down the government And the we have a snap election If you haven't enrolled by two weeks before the election the new voter suppression laws will prevent you from voting

CindyBax@cindybax.bsky.social · 6d ago

Luxon has no choice but to fire this minister he is actively endangering our global reputation #nzpol

Delighted to stand with @nzpsa.bsky.social and Deb, who works for Nurse Maude. She is one of the 250 care workers on strike today, because their employer wants to cut sick leave, and has offered no pay deal. Deb & other care workers deserve decent pay, decent conditions, and our total support.

Baby Globe finally meets desk. Back to work! And very happy to report that Can I trust Wikipedia? works on the big touchscreen! 😁 (yes I will do a video! But not today)

Pear’s junior encyclopedia which was infuriatingly incomplete. And the big book of questions or something which was massive and full colour and fascinating

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

Unfortunately this is a subscriber only article, but the gist of it is nobody knows the actual demand of this datacentre, apparently even Datagrid don't know. It's anywhere between 280MW and 1000MW. What a shitshow. #nzpol www.odt.co.nz/news/southla...

Mystery over true size of power-hungry Southland data centre

Mystery over true size of power-hungry Southland data centre

odt.co.nz

Labour's Rachel Brooking promises to repeal RMA reform provisions that force councils to foot the bill for environmental rules on private land.

Labour vows to keep billions in conservation costs off councils if elected

newsroom.co.nz

Reminder that this role closes on Sunday 2 August, so there are just a few days left to get an application in!

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand@wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 2w ago

This isn't the kind of job listing you see very often! 👀 Our friends at Auckland Museum are looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to join the team! Get more information and apply via Seek: nz.seek.com/job/93393322

what so fun (sarcastic) about this is how US states are now ramping up adoption of this "to protect children...it has enrolled millions of British adults in mandatory identity-check systems run by third-party vendors with documented histories of data breaches." NY just announced this exact thing

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 7d ago

UK's admit the that Online Safety Act has in large part failed, and announce an inquiry into why the age-verification bill has not worked as (age-verification providers) promised.

At Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Senior Lecturer Dr Claire Timperley has successfully incorporated active engagement with Wikipedia into her political science course, with students both reviewing and contributing content. Read the full case study on our website 👇

Case study: From knowledge consumer to knowledge contributor

Case study From knowledge consumer to knowledge contributor At Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Senior Lecturer Dr Claire Timperley has successfully incorporated active engagement wi...

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So the Dunedin Hospital replacement was paused, costing money, then restarted but scaled down so the new hospital will have fewer beds than the old too-small hospital, so the Government could save money to build roads in the North Island they're not going to build any more. Anyone going to say that?

The FSU are explicitly anti Māori and explicitly anti women and explicitly anti trans So putting them on the medical council is an ideological act that WILL harm New Zealanders Minister Brown is not fit for office

Finally home and restoring with tea and a recap of everything that has happened since I left (and showing the fam all my Paris photos). Thanks to all the Wikimania team and the Wikimedians I met and Wikimedia Aotearoa NZ for sending me!

Baby Globe and I doing a quick bit of editing whilst waiting for the last flight home from Wikimania. Travelled in an ever-decreasing group of Wikimedians until parting just now with @siobhanleachman.bsky.social at Christchurch. Nearly there!