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Look what happens when you build protected bike lanes! Instead of spending billions on new roads, the govt should build more protected bike lanes!

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

Great 101 from @clrenney.bsky.social on why the day to day inflation that *most* of us experience is way higher than the much touted CPI. Just found the podcast and will be listening to more. spotify.link/NBMeS9W1MXb

Choices.

It's all about choices. Low value/bcr roads or healthcare anyone? When they tell us there's no money to pay our healthcare and education staff more, they're lying. Choices.

"The sign of a mature movement isn’t the absence of disagreement, it’s the ability to harness its generative power rather than letting it tear us apart." Sacha McMeeking: Between cohesion and collapse e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Tuesday - storm causing significant damage and one death Thursday - bigger storm resulting in state of emergency Monday - storm forecast to hit same region, which is still without power in some areas NACTFirst govt - argues for MORE fossil fuel

Absolutely this. Christian nationalism is a risk to the Rainbow community, to women - to anyone who isn’t a privileged white cis man. NZ is moving quickly from taking selfies with some of the worst people in the world to implementing the same values and behaviour as policy - it can’t continue.

In today’s NZ Herald #megastrike

This is a real possible future, but it's also a choice that we make everyday - with our purchases and our votes. Hold those in power to account and give those working for a better future your help.

A genuinely good idea - but don't let the right fool you into thinking we'll solve nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes through criminalisation! Even this bill is already behind since it was drafted #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Interesting, accurate info here - but still hunting for any mention of climate change 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In today’s NZ Herald #megastrike

That's enough blow-out to build a new hospital and staff it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Does the highly paid Brian Roche not understand how inflation works? Inflation rates are always historic - the prices have already gone up. Workers are already paying those prices. When the rate drops - prices don’t go down, they just rise more slowly. #nzpol

A sometimes overlooked but very siginficant part of the cost of climate events is disruption and lost productivity, rather than direct damage. We see the damaged infrastructure, but what's the economic impact of a good chunk of Wellington taking the day off tomorrow?

Extraordinary weather events forecast for much of AoNZ tomorrow. NOT usual spring winds, but MEGA RED ALERT WARNING winds. This is climate change. This is climate change HERE NOW. This is why we MUST meet our agreed greenhouse gas emission reductions. It’s not politics - it’s SURVIVAL Mr. Luxon.

There's a lot more energy in the system these days. Pity we're not doing much about it atm apart from fanning the fires by opening up new areas for fossil fuel exploration 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

This 👇 There is money - it's about priorities. Low value roads or healthcare? Taxcuts for tobacco companies and landlords or education? These are real options that the govt has had.

So the Prime Ministers new attack on teachers is their 12 weeks of school holidays which we all know many teachers work through. Regardless. NZ Parliament has 20+ weeks of recess each year including a far longer summer break than most professions including teaching!!!

As National announces more roads

A bit of time for rest and reflection before deciding next steps. #bankspeninsula

Govt says it can't afford to fund health and education properly but found $200m to subsidise fossil fuel cos, $200m for tobacco cos, $2 billion for five new US war helicopters, $3 billion for landlord tax cuts; $1 billion subsidies to dairy cos via ETS etc

This is what a real Opposition Party, standing up for Joe & Jane Public looks like... www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Skin cancer is NZ’s most common and preventable cancer costing $450m a year. Yet government prevention funding is just $300k, one quarter of what it was 20 years ago. Time to make sun safety a public health priority. @NZCancerSo #PublicHealth #skincancer www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/aot...

Right, after 20+ posts a week on the other socials for the last 12 years, I'm here!

@sarainchch.bsky.social 👏

Āpōpō / tomorrow (Weds) - 7PM FREE Our LOCAL ELECTION EVENT 😎 Come & familiarise your sweet self with Sara Templeton (for Mayor) @sarainchch.bsky.social and...

It's all happening If you think stuff sucks, get in & wave your fist / come hear some inspiring kōrero from some local candidates @sarainchch.bsky.social is running for mayor & she'll be here 🙌 @tomforccc.bsky.social (for central) & Andrei Moore (Halswell) will be talking live music in the city!

Sara Templeton at her mayoral campaign launch on Friday. Extremely inspiring, even for somebody pretty much already convinced. "For our city. For our people. For our future"

Sara Templeton (Mayoral candidate for Ōtautahi) will be one of our speakers at our Local Election event 🙌🗳️ AUG 20th (Weds) Calender that 🗓️

I recommended The Authority Gap on here last year... and here's a review I've just done for the Institute of Directors. Addressing unconscious bias and misogeny is tough, but we all benefit when we do.

I wrote a thing 😀 www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...

I have a different definition of both 'shorten' and 'clarity'. 🤔

It's our turn! www.change.org/p/let-s-get-...

I remembered to turn off my alarm for tomorrow 😎

“Professor Andrew Geddis said it was "misleading at best, and borderline unlawful at worst". "No minister can by mere announcement remove an existing legal obligation imposed by a parliamentary enactment," he said.” #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Students excited to see a politician they know... 😁❤

I’ve opened this one up for public reading, listening and sharing after requests from paying subscribers. They pay for me to do this journalism in the public interest and want this one out and about. thekaka.substack.com/p/no-prime-m...

Interesting that according to Nats, Supermarkets wouldn't pass GST on fruit and vege savings on to consumers, but landlords will definitely pass their interest deductibility savings on to renters. #nzpol

This government is going to charge every vehicle road user charges based on km They are reducing public transport and cycle ways They are promoting green field’s developments further from cities They cancelled LGWM and Auckland light rail They are reducing funding for kiwi rail 🤯 #nzpol

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The next 2.5yrs are going to be brutal, and Swarbrick has put herself about as front and centre for abuse as a person can, especially in this age of manipulation and misinformation. I hope, for all our sakes, 4th Estate recognises its role and responsibilities.

The key takeaway from this Hurricanes Poua haka conversation was how woeful Avan Lee’s response was. He should never have made public comment about the team without meeting with them first to find the full facts of the matter. Would have saved himself and the franchise a lot of embarrassment.

Brace yourselves for a relentless barrage of sexism, racism, queerphobia, like you've never seen before. Marama & Chloe are going to be hit with every fucking thing the Right have got.

Extrapolating this out further, "keep the politics out of x" is always, always political. More often than not it is tacit or direct endorsement of the status quo, which it is just obviously false to suggest is something without political content.

Book rec. for International Women's Day! This was a gift last year when I was going through some crap. It covers politics, journalism, business, framing, beauty, intersectional prejudice, and lots of enlightening examples and interviews, including with those who have lived as both men and women.

Early morning dance party on Gloucester St in Ōtautahi this morning 🎶 Cities for Citizens and Streets for People.