#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 13 - A song that reminds you of a first kiss. Ray Columbus and The Invaders – Till We Kissed 🎶Til we kissed, I never knew the years that I had wasted Til we kissed, I never knew the kisses I had tasted But now I see I was waitin' For you to come back 💕

Brisbane. Last time I was here was 24 years ago. Just a few changes 🙀

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 12: A song that sounds like a gentle breeze. Donovan - The tinker and the crab 🎶On the windy beach the sun is shining through with Weather fair White horses riding on the seas pasture onto the sand Over the Dunes came a travelling man...

Famous birds of Brisbane - the Bin Chicken.

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 11: A song about love that changed you The Style Council - Luck

Seeya Perth, it's been fun. Such a great city and much bigger, greener, and easy to get around than I realised.

15 - 20 roles from Waikato, BoP, Tairāwhiti and Taranaki. Pretending jobs they can't fill are unnecessary? What was that I heard from National about caring about rural NZ?

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 10: A song that makes you want to travel the world Wanda – Bologna Nostalgia for Wien… that’s a round the world trip for us. I’d be back there in a heartbeat if the chance came again.

This is definitely vote-worthy, imho

We'd rightly be having international boycotts of any other country if they did this 👇 "preventing him from officiating scheduled matches harms not only him personally but also undermines football’s commitment to fairness, merit, and the spirit of fair play"

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 9: A song that sounds like a painting coming to life Screaming Jay Hawkins – Portrait of a Man Here's an immense live version from Marlon Williams & The Yarra Benders - Portrait of a Man (Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover).

Wiping $140m from Warmer Kiwi Homes is not 'savings', it's stupidity and mean. #nzpol "A 2022 study found every dollar invested in the programme brought more than $4 in social, economic and wellbeing benefits and $1.89 in health benefits."

Not a statue, outside the museum in Perth. Recommend... the museum, that is, not too sure about the ravens.

National are breaching the Fiscal Responsibility Act for starters. But Labour need to grow a set as we know Parliament can NOT bind a future Parliament and nor can its Budgets. Also Currency is Sovereign Also Constitutiional Reforms www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Interesting read - looks like a brilliant example of jobs for Winston's mates at the taxpayers expense. Scott O'Donnell, paid $44,630 -absent for over a third of agenda items (37%) -93 items on the agendas in six meetings: excluded from 15 items due to conflicts and missed a further 19 #nzpol

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 8: A song that uses a scale you rarely hear in pop music Radiohead – Just Octatonic Diminished they say.

Economics is based on vaues, in deivering the budget, what values are displayed? 'If an economy can't feed people and their communities and can't house people and communities - then "what's the friggin point" of it all?' #nzpol

Not much is better than spending time with friends who you've not seen for years, and their family, and enjoying their home turf.

In this election year, I want to be clear that I want a government that functions as a government. Not like a business. Not like a household. These are three very distinct and different things. Conflating them is purposefully misleading. Not to mention absolutely wrong. Let's push back. #NZPOL

Give me the most 80s song you can think of youtu.be/ntG50eXbBtc?...

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 7: A song with odd time signatures Rush – Freewill (13/4)

I just used this great site to submit on nine bills the NZ government is rushing through. It took me 28 minutes including tweaking a few bits to reflect my personal views, clicking the link to open the submissions form for each one, and pasting in the text. Your turn: yeahnahbills.org

The regulatory impact statement says repeal of Te Tiriti principles will increase uncertainty, rather than reduce it. Optio 5 - to repeal “is not a preferred option in this RIS.” Goldsmith's decision to repeal is simply "his view" “in consultation with my [un-named] colleagues"

"more than two-thirds of whom are working families" Set working parents struggling to feed their families against Willis' intent to teach children about the dignity of work by seeing their parents setting off each morning for a job that does not pay a living wage History shows revolutions start how?

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Catch-up Day 6: A song with a pentatonic melody It seems I like these melodies very much indeed Bill Nelson – For Stuart

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Catch-up Day 5: A song with a chromatic melody Smashmouth – All Star (Apparently a great chromatic in the hook)

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Catch-up Day 4: A song with a guitar and voice only Nadia Reid – Richard

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Catch-up Day 3: A song with a piano and voice only. Sharon Van Etten - I Know

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Catch-up Day 2: A song with a full symphony orchestra. James – Love Make a Fool

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Catch-up Day 1: A song with a pre-chorus Temples - Colours To Life

Hello Perth

What they said, right there. 👇

While I’m all for ditching expensive uniforms, ACT make me fucking laugh how they campaign on less government interference in people’s lives, yet everything they suggest requires regulation & policing 🙄 #nzpol

Couldn't possibly go to Canberra without visiting parliament. It is magnificent, and nothing like Hamilton at all :-)

Ham...oops-Canberra

#AoNZMusic #NZMusic #MusicSky APRA turns 100! Choose up to 10 songs from the longlist, and/or add your own that meets the criteria. Waiata 100: what is Aotearoa's favourite song? has been shared with you from RNZ

It's like Canberra had a similar urban plan as Hamilton - put all the central city shops in malls so the streets are dead empty.

How many records is this now? Highest unemployment in 12-15 years. Highest business failures in 13 years. Highest youth unemployment NEET in 20 years. Highest gun related homicide in 20 years. Raging cocaine & meth crisis. Record homelessness. Record domestic violence #newzealand #nzpol

I'm sure we can use this logic elsewhere.

I also get *quite annoyed that it's ok for kids to see their parents in in-work poverty, unable to afford childcare, transport, utilities and food all at the same time - yet somehow that's ok, unrelated to child poverty, and govt won't talk about it. *seriously pissed off. #nzpol

#NZpol China leans on NZ 😔 Four MPs banned from China for visiting Taiwan ⬇️ “The embassy also told the MPs that if they apologised, the sanctions could be suspended or cancelled.” – But apologise for what? – “[…] first time China has sanctioned a group of New Zealand MPs for visiting Taiwan”

Trams! 😍 handy hint - disable/uninstall snapper before using myki 🤷‍♀️

In the city - Collingwood.

Song for the day. For no particular reason, but we are saying bye to the first kidult with a gorgeous smile today after a couple of days with him in Melbourne.

And this never means they'll let the dumb shit go. It just means they haven't quite made enough people feel helpless about it yet. #nzpol

More ideology-led vandalism from Minister Brown. Everything he touches is left in a worse state than before he arrived. #nzpol

I've eaten more Italian food in the last 2 days than in the last 2 years before that. And its all been delicious.

This somehow feels relevant to the NZ situation with the decision to a gas terminal 🤔 US company "AAFS Infrastructure and Energy is close to securing a concession to build and operate a pipeline across the Balkans to allow fossil gas shipped from the US to replace supplies that come from Russia"

This thread is an absolutely brilliant analogy of how Nicola Willis manages the economy. Laugh cry your way through it #nzpol

'Night Melbourne. It's been an excellent day.