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Kevin Hague
1 day ago
An email about official business sent to a Ministerās personal email address is still ABSOLUTELY covered by the OIA. Does this apply to a senior staff member also? I expect the answer is yes
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Michael Bain
1 day ago
Let's be clear. This isn't a rookie error. It's an intentional decision to bypass scrutiny & transparency. Luxon would've known & is now trying to move the blame off himself & onto his staff. This is unacceptable. Luxon needs to resign over this corruption.
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Climate case briefing against major emitters sent to former Beehive staffer's private email
Christopher Luxon says he's taking it "very seriously", but Labour leader Chris Hipkins says it "stinks to high heaven".
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/597026/climate-case-briefing-against-major-emitters-sent-to-former-beehive-staffer-s-private-email
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Kevin Hague
1 day ago
It strikes me, on the balance of probabilities, that 1. Fonterra and Z sent their lobbying to Matt Burgessā personal email address in order to try to avoid public scrutiny; 2. They were given that address to facilitate avoiding public scrutiny;
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Idiot/Savant
1 day ago
The implication here is that vGrid has a long-term ANPR database of vehicle movements, so we have private mass surveillance, which govt agencies can query at will
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NZTA pauses using billboard cameras to detect WOF fraud, despite success
Billboards cameras are successfully spotting WOF fraud, but the agency says it doesn't have the money to keep going.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_waikato/596954/nzta-pauses-using-billboard-cameras-to-detect-wof-fraud-despite-success
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Larissa needs more sleep
1 day ago
1 Luxon is the worst, least accountable, most entitled & most corrupt PM this country has ever had. He never answers a question with an actual answer. He has threatened a journalist for asking him hard questions. His government have threatened another journalist & got rid of another.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
5 days ago
If Iām reading this correctly, the federal government is now running its own phishing sites.
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Sarah Z
5 days ago
One MUST resist the urge to lolcow. I'd call it one of the most important urges to resist on the contemporary internet, actually
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Char
6 days ago
Tell me again dear RW voters, about how our Democracy has not become completely corrupted by a billionaire boys club coalition of cunts. š š°šø
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#OneTermGovernment
#NZ
#AtlasNetwork
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Kevin Hague
9 days ago
Iām sure I must be remembering, but I think in olden times it was considered a sackable offence to have meetings with lobbyists that werenāt in a Ministerās diary.
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Sooz Kempner
9 days ago
The sprinter that said he would "destroy" Bolt's 2009 World Record won the 100m in...9.97 seconds. This time would have seen him finish last in the Paris Olympics.
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Andy McKay
9 days ago
If I was a journalist I would have also mentioned how funding for wilding pine control was cut by two thirds by the same government in 2023/24.
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Government doubles funding for wilding pine control efforts under a Budget 2026 boost
The announcement would lift annual spending on the control efforts to around $36 million a year on average.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/596174/government-doubles-funding-for-wilding-pine-control-efforts-under-a-budget-2026-boost
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David Slack
10 days ago
The thing about āBluesky is a bubbleā takes is that they start with the false assumption that social media is our job or some sort of responsibility. This isnāt my job. Itās probably not yours, either. Itās not our responsibility to ruin our days on a Nazi hellsite or to talk to dummies here.
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D Jukic She/her
10 days ago
No record is not the same as not knowing, I mean just because you donāt keep the info and/or files on file or record meetings - which is of concern - doesnāt mean you didnāt meet or didnāt receive files Mr Luxon.
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Russell Brown
10 days ago
Holy shit. This is quite serious.
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'A co-ordinated campaign of secret lobbying' - climate activist
Climate activist Mike Smith says government changes to climate law have "exposed" what appears to be a "deliberate effort" to conceal communications.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/596197/a-co-ordinated-campaign-of-secret-lobbying-climate-activist
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Bauhausandmies š³ļøāšš³šæ
11 days ago
Untitled, c2026.
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Adam
12 days ago
"I can't afford to buy" guy is a lying tosser. Much like the Minister of Housing who lied about renting while he was living in a family owned property and building in Eastbourne. They are crooks.
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Although they have had to worry if it will affect Washington's propaganda goals and therefore funding.
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kyle
13 days ago
the kind of heartless & ignorant comment that in another time would lead to a resignation. but Willis has been more or less untouchable by the media, despite a litany of disastrous failures. Whatās that about? Why cant publicly destructive cruelty be hounded at least to the extent wahine MÄori are?
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Idiot/Savant
13 days ago
So this then
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Hayden Donnell
13 days ago
one of the major clues that social housing tenants haven't in fact won the lotto is that they need social housing
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Hayley
13 days ago
Having a group of hollow men who would sell their own souls for power in charge of the nation is devastating - thinking about the same ghouls having the votes to continue to do catastrophic damage to vulnerable communities, to the land, to anyone not protected by wealth is frankly terrifying.
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Margaret Killjoy
14 days ago
this week's post is about how AI doesn't even do the things people pretend it does
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...
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Eddie Clark
14 days ago
A selection from speeches from the debates on the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Recognition Act 2021. Any journos reading this feel free to ask any of the speakers whether they stand by these comments made less than five years ago. At the second reading: Nicola Grigg:
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Idiot/Savant
14 days ago
What "socially liberal national party people"? All their MPs are religious weirdos and bigots, or people willing to work for them. There's no social liberal strand left there anymore. And the proof is that they're voting for this piece of shit hate bill.
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Eddie Clark
14 days ago
Grim. National and ACT backing a bill - at least at first reading - which fundamentally undermines the self-ID law both parties voted for *unanimously* just a few years ago.
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National and ACT to vote through NZ Firstās gender bill
National and ACT are supporting NZ Firstās gender bill to legally define woman and man in biological terms at its first reading.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361007763/national-and-act-vote-through-nz-firsts-gender-bill
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Craig M. Ranapia
14 days ago
Is it just my pettiness speaking, or does every politician babbling about "unleashing AI" give off the energy of someone who is not terribly bright, really lazy and doesn't even have work friends?
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Butters Stotch & Awesom-O: I Can Tell You Everything
Alt: Butters Stotch & Awesom-O: I Can Tell You Everything
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Musical Chairs
15 days ago
Days like this when you realise that Government Ministers, their reckonomics advisors, and the ghouls in the lobby groups, are *fking dangerously ill-informed* about how Govt spending actually works. Let's have a look why this matters... [š§µ 1/n]
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Char
15 days ago
Have we considered that replacing kiwi human beings (public servants) with imported Artificial Intelligence in our public services, is actually just placing a group of roughly 4 or 5 American billionaires, the worst kind of Americans, in charge of how we get to experience LIFE in AotearoaNZ?
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Dylan Reeve
15 days ago
Hahah, it's so much more ridiculous than you'd possibly imagine. Google has made their primary headline product so much more useless... for what?
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M R. X. Dentith
15 days ago
Sometimes I think both Luxon and Hipkins are in a race to lose their parties the election
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Char
15 days ago
Is Nicola going to require the handful of American AI creators to pay the lifetime salaries of 9 thousand human employees that sheās just unilaterally decided to destroy the financial security of? Asking for humanity.
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David Farrier
15 days ago
i don't mean to be petty, but i get so bummed when links to mainstream outlets get shared, but webworm gets ignored - when we were first to report it and talk to those involved etc. a reminder all webworm stories exist on the webworm site, are sharable, and have zero ads running!
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton š³ļøāš
15 days ago
Addendum: AI use to justify this is just an absolutely ridiculous idea.
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Tom Coates
17 days ago
Itās weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isnāt. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day šŖ
19 days ago
š R3 PanSTARRS: An Orion Comet Image Credit & Copyright:
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Sassy Little Hobbit
20 days ago
Ever since the whole FBI office in Wellington malarkey things have been weird and uncomfortable. The rare minerals stuff. The complete lack of opposition to the genocide. This partnership is deeply troubling. This should be a bigger election issue.
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Jason Kemp
21 days ago
āNo lessons learnedā is the motto of the present government
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Bart Janssen
21 days ago
Of course the Aussie banks who are all big donors to National want the government to sell off the only real independent competitor This government is corrupt
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Robšø
21 days ago
Sure , this is absolutely the answer to [checks notes] profiteering by Australian banks Has NZ not learned privatizing things costs us all more?
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Partial sell-off of Kiwibank back on the government's agenda
The bank has been instructed to once again look at its options for long-term growth, including the possibility of partial privatisation.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/595059/partial-sell-off-of-kiwibank-back-on-the-government-s-agenda
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Bruce Hodges
27 days ago
Coming to a theater near you on Friday, October 16. I saw this once, after viewing two other Russell films, "Women in Love" (1969) and "The Boy Friend" (1971). Then it basically disappeared. Mostly I recall the towering, beige brick sets, which I found out later were designed by Derek Jarman.
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Ken Russellās Controversial āThe Devilsā Restoration Will Be Warner Bros. Clockworkās First Repertory Release
Warner Bros. Clockwork will release Ken Russell's cut of 'The Devils' in theaters after premiering a restoration at Cannes.
https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/ken-russell-the-devils-release-warner-bros-clockwork-1235192564/
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Idiot/Savant
27 days ago
Right-wing parties hate public broadcasting because its not owned by their billionaire friends and not subject to billionaire direction.
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Gillian Martin
27 days ago
Robin knew
#corruption
#bribery
#kleptocracy
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Frank
27 days ago
This is Trumpian. So much for Seymour and Act being free speech warriors.
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David Seymour says changes are coming for RNZ leadership, RNZ disagrees
Seymour has intensified his attacks on the country's state broadcasters, suggesting changes are coming for RNZ's leadership as the government reshapes its boards.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594557/david-seymour-says-changes-are-coming-for-rnz-leadership-rnz-disagrees
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Grumpy
27 days ago
Easy! I know the answer! It's because she was being racist as fuck and they received a complaint that she was being racist as fuck.
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Russell Brown
27 days ago
This woman is an evangelical church member and an obsessive racist. All she posts is defamation of Indians, Muslims, etc ā including clandestine photographs of people in public places (with a side of Charlie Kirk and Winston Peters and herself in a bikini). I can see why police may have had a word.
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Idiot/Savant
28 days ago
Saluting the flag is basically fascism, so no wonder Winston is keen on it.
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tanya
29 days ago
in New Zealand
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Oppose it? š© Accept it? š„ Encourage it? š¦
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PERFECTLY NORMAL
29 days ago
Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee, quite why people rate Bishop is beyond me. He's just a shit Boris Johnson and as bad as the rest (if not worse because he knows what he's doing)
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amanda moore š¢
about 1 month ago
Everything else aside, Iām too much of a control freak to write with AI, and too arrogant to let my name appear on an article that AI wrote. My weaknesses become my strengths.
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine
about 1 month ago
Heads up, 2022 journalists: he was lying
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