Mandy Hager
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Writer, Greenie Granny worrying for my grandkids future mandyhager.com
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tanya
1 day ago
TAUTOKO @tiriti_me_rite Zane Wedding ... CoC tested the waters, FAFO, and the battle will morph. Again.
#TeTaiao
Conservation Amendment Bill
#SCRAPIT
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tanya
3 days ago
Tax Policy
@greens.org.nz
#nzpol
i've watched this several times. it's the best explainer of party policy i've ever seen, & it made clear to me how hungry i am for concise, detailed, relevant policy announcements delivered in real talk.
@taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social
Part 1 of 3 - the Super Rich ✅✅
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tanya
3 days ago
Green MPs and candidates are fielding some OTG responses on FB & IG. on the plus side, many NZers are finally learning how progressive tax rates work 👍 🤦 @tamathapaul
@greens.org.nz
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Huia Sue
3 days ago
#PaulGoldsmith
- AtlasNetwork Zionist who puts other
#AtlasNetwork
#Zionists
into key positions while taking away our HumanRights & Democracy!
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Simon O'Neill
3 days ago
Done, your turn... Say NO to freezing families in winter...
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Huia Sue
3 days ago
Pay $400m more to imprison
#Kiwis
at a cost of $1.7bn a year -a plan laid out last year when Luxon & Goldsmith effectively said when it comes to
#prisons
, there are no financial constraints:
#privatisation
#profit
#nzpol
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KidOf60sTeens; The right wing is not your ally.
3 days ago
#NZPol
Courtesy of Oxfam. Just as valid in Aorearoa
#TaxTheSuperRich
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Huia Sue
3 days ago
US Tech
#Billionaire
, Brian Cartmell, donated to far-RW parties $100,000 to
#Opportunity
Top $201,993 to National $200,000 to Act $205,000 to NZFirst He moved to NZ in 2010 from USA. His Internet Entertainment Group is an online pornography company
#nzpol
#TaxTheRich
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Queenstown-based tech entrepreneur Brian Cartmell donating hundreds of thousands to political parties
Technology entrepreneur Brian Cartmell appears to have donated at least half a million dollars to the coalition parties - and to the Opportunity party.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/589237/queenstown-based-tech-entrepreneur-brian-cartmell-donating-hundreds-of-thousands-to-political-parties
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A-hem:
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kyle
3 days ago
given he was investigated at a previous workplace, then installed by Goldsmith AGAINST advice of selection committee this is wildly unsurprising slightly more surprising this government continues to blunder around like this without consequence Yet another case that should have Goldsmith resign
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Human Rights Commission head to be investigated over conduct
An investigation will be carried out into concerns raised about the conduct of Human Rights Commission chief commissioner Dr Stephen Rainbow.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/617463/human-rights-commission-head-to-be-investigated-over-conduct
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Simon J. Greenhill
3 days ago
"Transition Research Fund": Transitioning New Zealand's research from world-leading to backwater.
#MBIE
#NZScience
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Simon J. Greenhill
3 days ago
"Transition Research Fund": because "Defunding Science With Extra Steps" tested poorly in focus groups.
#NZPol
#NZScience
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KiwiNikki
3 days ago
Finally—a decent bit of reporting from Stuff! Wonders will never cease!
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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Revealed: Millions in taxpayer dollars sent offshore to Big Tech
Foreign big tech companies that operate in New Zealand divert the vast majority of their revenue offshore - typically via an Irish or Singaporean subsidiary - as ‘licensing fees’, ‘purchases’ or ‘serv...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360996282/revealed-millions-taxpayer-dollars-sent-offshore-big-tech
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KidOf60sTeens; The right wing is not your ally.
3 days ago
🎯 This question is bang on the money. The reaction from Hipkins is one of pure entitlement - "it's my way or the highway" and frankly, it beggars belief.
#NZPol
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Cool Hand Fluke
3 days ago
#nzpol
we need some journos who will do this to Winston and Seymour
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Char
3 days ago
“If there weren’t any billionaires nobody would have a jobs” Dude, the billionaires are selling you fucking robots to take your jobs. 🤷♀️
#nzpol
#NZ
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Kent Duston
3 days ago
Exactly 100% this - the entrenched bureaucratic reflex that everyone must be polite to authority and calm at all times, irrespective of the stress and trauma being inflicted by those self same bureaucrats
#nzpol
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Kelly Whyte
5 days ago
Taxing grieving families: Cruel. Causing grieving families: Government policy.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Economic Lunacy!!
Guys, seriously, we don't want to spook our gracious billionaires!
https://yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/economic-lunacy
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Forgot to add: I am an inheritor of privilege with no empathy for those with less opportunities than me.
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James Sugrue
4 days ago
I don't think we've had a Govt made up of such unlikable arsehats before? Sure I've disagreed with policy and direction of Govts before, but usually the people had some level of integrity. The current cohort are just the worst.
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Binkenstein
4 days ago
This description of ACT party policy is fairly accurate.
#nzpol
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Tim
4 days ago
Official History of KiwiSaver: 2006 - National votes against establishment 2009 - National reduces minimum contributions and capped employer contributions 2012 - National reduced tax credit Tell me again how National is a KiwiSaver champion?
#nzpol
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https://assets.retirement.govt.nz/public/Uploads/Retirement-Income-Policy-Review/TAAO-A-Snapshot-of-the-History-of-KiwiSaver.pdf
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Tim
4 days ago
National voted against establishment of KiwiSaver in 2006. National reduced minimum contributions in 2009. National capped employer contributions in 2009. National reduced yearly tax credit in 2012. If anyone thinks National is “KiwiSaver-friendly” - they’re dreaming, mate.
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CindyBax
4 days ago
If Willis really cared anout kiwisaver she’d not have HALVED the govt contribution - now it’s a quarter of the original contribution. Now she’s gaslighting us saying it’s good for everyone (except the govt)to pay more, amid rising fuel prices, stagnating wages, and inflation.
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D Jukic She/her
4 days ago
“Although “non-critical risks” may not sound serious, they actually make up the bulk of workplace harms. They include musculoskeletal injuries from trips, slips & falls, & psychosocial risks that include mental stress, excessive workload & burnout.” ACT putting profits before NZ lives again
#nzpol
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One of Brooke van Velden’s final acts as a politician will also be her most dangerous
The Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill has been opposed by ACC, business owners and economists, yet persists.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-06-2026/one-of-brooke-van-veldens-final-acts-as-a-politician-will-also-be-her-most-dangerous
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Ms Hooper
4 days ago
Jones topped overall domestic travel and accommodation spending this term, coming in at about $420,000; National’s Louise Upston was second at $400,000. Ahhh Upston - who claimed $52,000 a year accommodation allowance for an apartment she owns in Wellington.
#nzpol
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‘Riding the gravy train’: Why our politicians are no longer like us
A $63,000 Canadian trip, an on-call limo, and a $17,000 parking bill show a rapid pattern of personal spending by coalition ministers.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360994940/riding-gravy-train-why-our-politicians-are-no-longer-us
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Char
4 days ago
What a pack of bunglecunted dickheads 😂🤦♀️
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#NZ
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Char
4 days ago
JFC 🙄🤦♀️
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#NZ
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Excellent questions to ask politicians when you get the chance
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Twelve policy questions to ask political parties ahead of the election
The economy and cost of living dominate political debate in the leadup to the November election - but issues of democracy, transparency and scrutiny are vital
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/23/twelve-policy-questions-to-ask-political-parties-ahead-of-the-election/?mc_cid=a2dc098286
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I've just emailed the US ambassador to oppose Luxon’s planned NZ-US war minerals deal. This deal will open up Aotearoa to more destructive mining and make us complicit in Trump’s wars. Please join me and email the ambassador now:
greenpeace.nz/ezw3oytn
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No war minerals! Email the US Ambassador to New Zealand
Send a message to the new US Ambassador Jared Novelly today - the people of Aotearoa won’t supply minerals for US military machine!
https://greenpeace.nz/ezw3oytn
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"Winston Peters - the self-proclaimed Protector of Women from The Woke - was nowhere to be seen while Ms Wihongi and her family lived in anxiety and fear for seventy long, miserable, days..."
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Winston Peters - What is a woman?
But more importantly, for Winston, What is a Vote?
https://frankmacskasy.substack.com/p/winston-peters-what-is-a-woman?publication_id=523722&post_id=198790643&isFreemail=true&r=8fdav&triedRedirect=true
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Sign the open letter: Reject the gender-defining Bill
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Reject the Defining Gender Bill
https://action.greens.org.nz/humanrights_2026?recruiter_id=5966347
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Rob🎸
5 days ago
Every expert - this is stupid! Government coalition funded by Greymouth Petroleum - Lets go ahead!
#nzpol
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Robot Muldoom
5 days ago
Chlöe Swarbrick pressed the Revenue Minister: IRD chased ~900 small NZ companies into liquidation last year. SMEs are 61% of tax debt. The multinationals booking profits offshore keep dodging enforcement. The IRD doesn't lack capacity — it lacks the political instruction.
#nzpol
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Minister pressed to go after Big Tech over tax instead of small debtors
Chlöe Swarbrick asks why Inland Revenue is pursuing small companies while multinationals face no obvious crackdown. Alice Peacock reports
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/19/minister-pressed-to-go-after-big-tech-over-tax-instead-of-small-debtors/
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Craig Shearer
5 days ago
For all the people who think if we tax the super wealthy they'll just leave. No, most of them won't.
#nzpol
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PeteO
5 days ago
I don't know why people in the UK are talking about the situation in NZ do clearly
#nzpol
The political posturing being used here isn't even new - it's just being copied from the UK, with "find and replace" to localise
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿
5 days ago
Their ignorant insistence of blowing a billion on an outdated and unnecessary LNG terminal tells us National is utterly unprepared for the future
#nzpol
#VoteGreen
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Sacha
5 days ago
Clear, measured description of
@greens.org.nz
tax policy. (7m)
#NzPol
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Chloe Swarbrick discusses Green Party’s new tax policy
The Green Party has its tax policy ahead of the election, including wealth and inheritance taxes, and a higher tax for corporations. Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019040231/chloe-swarbrick-discusses-green-party-s-new-tax-policy
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KidOf60sTeens; The right wing is not your ally.
5 days ago
NONE of our councils should be doing this! Please sign 🙏🏻
#Kikorangi
#PalestinianGenocide
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Please consider signing:
#nzpol
c.org/5WprvWrhHZ
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Sign the Petition
Invercargill City Council: Keep ratepayer money out of war crimes in occupied Palestine
https://c.org/5WprvWrhHZ
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Microsoft: Our future is not fuel for your AI empire!
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Simon Britten for Papanui
10 days ago
This conundrum can be cleared up by consulting the minister's diary, right? Right?
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Huia Sue
9 days ago
"A.l. represents a vision of a near-total takeover of the country's economic, social & cognitive lives by tools engineered by just 5 companies, run by 5 particular people, several of whom are widely described as sociopaths." -
#AI
#DataCentres
#nzpol
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PERFECTLY NORMAL
9 days ago
This christo fascist twerp is dangerous, the fact he's in charge of so many critical areas should be of extreme concern
#nzpol
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Doctors slam Health Minister over sudden leadership purge
Senior doctors accuse Health Minister Simeon Brown of political meddling after he replaced the Medical Council's top leadership.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360994231/doctors-slam-health-minister-over-sudden-leadership-purge
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Huia Sue
9 days ago
AtlasNetwork =Massive cuts; demolishing public services; privatising public assets; sacking civil servants; sweeping away constraints on corporations; destroying regs that protect workers, vulnerable people & the living world; supporting landlords against tenants
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What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | George Monbiot
The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network
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Talaria.FYI
9 days ago
Perhaps America would like someone to bomb it to get rid of its REAL evil regime and proxy wars, and remove its nuclear threat. The entitlement and chauvinism of a true vassal of an imperialist country, about an unpopular king,
@maddow.bsky.social
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#NZPol
#NoKings
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nzjanette
9 days ago
I'm old enough to remember what happened to Clare Curran after a couple of undiarised meetings with Carole Hirschfeld (who also lost her job). But here we have Goldsmith just doing whatever he pleases off the record, with no repercussions.
#nzpol
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Minister still chats to broadcast chairs off-record, with no ‘little notebook’
Media Minister Paul Goldsmith ran into political flak over a call from the TVNZ chair in which an editorial matter over political coverage was raised.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/16/minister-still-chats-to-broadcasting-chairs-off-record-with-no-little-notebook/
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
9 days ago
"The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 — strokes, heart attacks, and hospitalization from heart disease — by about 40 percent, according to a new study." Science saves, and improves lives folks.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
9 days ago
Without discounting wrongdoing by officials, by same measure, what then of a Minister who misled entire country, & invites intergenerational harms asymmetrically impact Māori? | New Zealand, WHO, and the conversion of disinformation into foreign policy
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