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Thinking about climate, equity, rainbow/trans rights. Toitū te Tiriti. Mum. She/her. Love a good book, especially NZ fiction. Cat person with a dog. Aotearoa. 🍉

Peeps in Tāmaki Makaurau, if you haven't already, get your tickets for this event. It's going to be a good one in the build up to the election. Chaired by Sean Ackland, reps from all the political parties are turning up to debate education policies. events.humanitix.com/education-an...

Education & the Election: 2026 General Election Forum

Education is on the ballot. Hear from politicians & have your say at PPTA Tāmaki Makaurau's 2026 General Election Education Forum!

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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.

Watching Laura McGoldrick crying while talking about the para athletes felt like disability porn. When it's her best buddy's family (the Harts) that fund political parties so they pay less tax and therefore cut disability services... this feels gross. This isn't her story to tell.

Anybody else see this yesterday? NZHerald's attempt to explain that ACT was not announcing Henry's candidacy to cover up more of Jago's offending. But in doing so, they've revealed how long ago ACT knew he (TVNZ board member) would be joining them. Why isn't there a fuss like with Rakesh Naidoo?

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Gender definition bill...FYI for those that are wondering where there submission is, I got the attached reply from the committee today. Basically, they're reviewing them before they upload, so are still uploading them.

Email with the following text:

Kia ora,

Thank you for getting in touch.

The Social Services and Community Committee has not yet had the opportunity to review all submissions it received on the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill. If there is an issue with your submission, we will contact you. Otherwise, if you made a submission, you can expect your submission to be published in due course.

Committee Staff
Social Services and Community Committee

What a perfect fit. Racist Paul Henry mocked Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit as "the dipshit woman" is standing for ACT at the next election. Imagine Paul Henry & Michael Laws in Parliament, this is what you get when you get a little horny for TOP. JUST FUCKING VOTE GREEN

An old & genius election campaign for NZ Green Party with some innocent looking kids playing, implying that if you vote Green you're going to make the world a better place for when they grow up

I've attended 3 political events this week. What I learnt last night was the most revealing. Most crowds have been lefties and concerned about the big issues like the Conservation Bill. Last night's RW crowd asked the most fringe, individualistic questions...

At tonight's very right wing residents association meeting in the Tāmaki electorate, Labour candidate (and all round great guy) Max Harris, used a question about equity v equality to advocate for woman's pay equity. Just give him the seat already. #nzpol

Let's see what right wing spin does to the Nelson Tenths settlement. It's already a crap deal, especially for those who've waited since 1839 for redress, but this kind of intervention is going to stoke animosity and division, not improve the outcome #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Nelson Tenths: Nick Smith concerned settlement will mean loss of protection for Abel Tasman

Nick Smith is calling for changes to a bill that seeks to return sections of the Abel Tasman to Māori as part of a historic resolution agreement, over concerns it could weaken the national park's long...

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