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Today’s welcome arrival:

Today’s welcome arrival:

“The passing of the Employment Relations Amendment Bill is a dark day for Aotearoa, and shows this government is on the side of big corporates and against the workers.” says Green Party Workplace Relations spokesperson Teanau Tuiono. www.greens.org.nz/government_r...

Please sign this Greenpeace petition.

Honestly if NZ parties don’t front up about their plans for climate & basic infrastructure we should be deeply ashamed -NZ has a sewerage crisis in all our major cities, we have flooding & landslides causing loss of life & critical failure s- thinking we can cap rates & manage this, is crazy

#nzpol The Employment Relations Amendment Bill has passed. This is a dark day for working New Zealanders. Our Government has let Uber and the ACT Party set the agenda for employment law in this country. They need to grow a backbone and stand up for the interests of New Zealand workers.

As per usual, a loud and feral minority hijacking the conversation with misinformation. Also seeing a disturbing & very familiar pattern of hostility toward Tamatha Paul. Our community must stand behind her. We can’t allow another Māori leader to be worn down and pushed out. #nzpol

If you're interested in MfE's reports or use their data, better load it up to the wayback machine pronto. #nzpol

Friends, I'm quote posting this and asking you to let your friends and family know this is the lived reality for many of the people doing the teaching at our universities. Just imagine trying to do any kind of life planning with an employer like this. Precarity is the norm. #NZPOL

Holding a flimsy umbrella against the weather to protect pork barrel funding for foreign sporting organizations while the country drowns and is flattened by wind and being sycophantically praised for it by your own team really should be a symbol of this govt's priorities but let's see how it's read.

When government ministers dismiss deadly storm events as "just weather", as Mark Mitchell did on RNZ just now, they reveal themselves to be unfit for government. It's thinly veiled climate denial.

Please consider submitting INDIVIDUALLY ⬇️ as your sub will carry much more weight. It takes minutes. A bulk submission is better than absolutely nothing at all, however. It allows the organisation to gather your data, course. This is not a bad thing, or a criticism, but it is a thing. #nzpol

How many more people have to die before the central government understands we’re in a climate crisis in little old NZ? (Rhetorical, I know 🙄😑) Vote these fuckers out & get everyone else you know to vote them out too #nzpol

Folks, Are you aware the submissions for the proposed Arms Bill are due by 16th?

Today’s welcome arrival:

YOU HAVE UNTIL 4:30PM TODAY TO GET YOUR SUBMISSIONS IN!!!

More reasons why the government's LPG plans are strategically stupid: #nzpol theconversation.com/importing-ga...

Heads up, for those of you interested in this sort of thing – this book is now available: www.routledge.com/The-Roland-x...

Heads up, for those of you interested in this sort of thing – this book is now available: www.routledge.com/The-Roland-x...

Huge if true.

This LNG terminal is such a bad idea that the government literally don't want their own Bad Idea Speeding Up system to look at it www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A rare good news story… Auckland secondhand bookshop owner saves store from closure finding new location www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Quite.

FAFO, slaphead…

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FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...

Timely repost from @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social

Renting in Aotearoa NZ? Please fill in the survey; if nothing else the results will help me with council decision-making! Own your home? Please share it widely to get max responses.

I’m gonna go out on a limb with “Bonkers” here… New liquified natural gas terminal: 'Vital' or 'bonkers'? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Govt plans to force NZers to pay even more fossil fuel subsidies, this time via our electricity bills for an LNG import terminal. Govt wants us to pay Big Oil to make the climate crisis worse. Gross moral turpitude and economic illiteratacy www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

So the disaster around my on-going employment at UOA continues, so I'm looking for other ways other making money and I'm wondering two things: A) if I were to make some video lectures/short courses on NZ music history would people be willing to pay for access to them (Patreon or similar)?

Quelle surprise, Veolia - in it for the profit - fails the to do the basics. “An independent report released today has found the French-owned multinational Veolia failed to carry out basic asset management, including regular maintenance.” #nzpol They join CompassNZ on the DO NOT USE LIST.

The activists who were arrested in civil disobedience actions against seabed mining can wear their convictions with honour. Everyone who attended a protest, made a submission, signed a petition, donated money, you changed the course of history.

At the moment, small victories like this should be celebrated!

Meanwhile, on Abebooks…excited to get a notification that a book on my “wants” list is now available – and at a reasonable price. But then.. LOL shipping…

Allan Holdsworth (1946–2017) is not just for guitarists. Recommended:

Irony is… A NZ government that gave landlords a massive tax break now campaigning saying trust us on tax & no frivolous spending As 2 of NZ’s largest cities Christchurch/Wellington face critical wastewater infrastructure crises (& National climate risk) if only NZ govt planned long term #nzpol

“If there is a recovery going on in the economy, it's not happening for working people.” Thread from @clrenney.bsky.social

Bloody hell. More people out of work. Time to stop wittering about "green shoots" and face the reality: this government is failing New Zealanders. #nzpol www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/u...

Reprehensible dereliction of duty by the Government again. Risk reduction makes sense and saves lives. “The research showed that 97% of the central government expenditure was on responding to and recovering from natural disasters, with only 3% spent on risk reduction and resilience” 1/2 #nzpol

Today’s welcome arrival…

Today’s welcome arrival…

“We’re all in this together” Oh. Sobering thread from @clrenney.bsky.social

#nzpol Any political party that allows themselves to receive instruction from this repulsive turd deserves nothing short of electoral oblivion. The sooner this prick shuts his corrupt face the better for all of us 🤬🤬🤬🤬

“Basically - we can brush our teeth each day or get a painful root canal…and at the moment we're going to the dentist screaming." Great piece from @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social which rightly excoriates the current Ao/NZ government’s response to climate crisis events. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"A few countries stood out as exceptions: New Zealand and Luxembourg managed to keep deaths at or below expected levels across the entire period. For most wealthy nations, however, the study suggests the damage done during COVID-19 was real — and not simply a matter of timing."

“Basically - we can brush our teeth each day or get a painful root canal…and at the moment we're going to the dentist screaming." Great piece from @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social which rightly excoriates the current Ao/NZ government’s response to climate crisis events. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Today’s welcome arrival, from Book Express in Te Maire/Shannon