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Karanga-a-Hape Station platform, part of Auckland’s City Rail Link. Looking down the platform of a futuristic metro station with curved side walls towards a visual vanishing point where the track and platform converge.

Want to end the week with something positive.

This will change Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa in ways we don’t yet understand.

Beyond inevitable teething problems and media beatups, there will be a sense of possibility. We can have nice things. We can incorporate good design into daily life.

My sister has spent a few days in an Auckland hospital. Very grateful for the care she's received but good grief take a look at the food. #nzpol

Black white and yellow bag button top line says start crossing watch for vehicle vehicles. Second line has been covered over with a sticker that says can you imagine.Third line says don’t cross. Fourth line says push

Read it like a poem.

Look who it is! The view from inside the nesting box!

'Significant' Labour Day storm to bring heavy rain, gales, possible snow MetService warns of a "burst of severe weather" on the public holiday, disrupting travel plans across the country.

3rd major destructive storm in a week and not one mention of climate change?

#nzpol #newzealand

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Wanna stimulate the fuck out of the economy?
Pay beneficiaries, pensioners and the working poor/class more. Pay them a living wage, no strings attached & give it a year….. Trickle up is the only way forward.
#nzpol

Decided that rather than put in a whole bunch of effort finding out if I ever had a measles vaccine, I’d just get it done. Easy peasy at the pharmacy, and fully funded too! If you have any doubts about your immunity at all, this is a great time to get yourself sorted.

Tile with text that says Measles update - 2 new cases confirmed.

We have confirmed two new #measles cases in NZ today, with a Cook Strait ferry among listed exposure locations.

Check your immunisation status (you need 2 doses of MMR). Book a vaccine: bookmyvaccine.nz

Full details and exposure locations: tewhatuora.govt.nz/corporate-in...

I think in the coming week or so New Zealanders are really going to notice the shortage of tradies. #nzpol

Three of us in Aotea Square with our colourful signs: nibling’s says “TEACHERS ARE THE BEST”, mine says “Things are so bad even the freelancers are here” (and on the back, “If you can read this, thank a teacher and pay all essential workers properly”), and sister’s says “Happy to be a member of this cult(ure)”

Little kids near us with beautiful hand-drawn signs in rainbow colours and embellished with love hearts: “Teachers Rock! Pay them more!” “We love our teachers!” “I love teachers” etc.

A chaotically brilliant sign that reads: “If Robin White had not been a teacher at Mana College then Noel Crombie wouldn’t have gone to Art School and there’d be no Split Enz and this is massive!”

A fraction of the crowd, with a big sign visible that reads “don’t make me use my teacher voice!”

At the #nzstrike with the fam. Good vibes, massive turnout, righteous signs, perfect birthday outing! 🥳 #nzpol

Joe Daymond here has just taken the words straight outta my mouth.

But watch this govt continue to claim they understand what the public wants and needs.

#nzpol

#Oct23Strike

Purple dinosaur with a sign saying Senior Nurses Are Almost Extinct

#nzpol #nzstrike

#Oct23Strike

Great turn out in Aotea Square for workers standing up against exploitation by this coalition of chaos. #nzpol

Live: Nurses, teachers, doctors and others take part in nationwide mega strike Crowds are swelling in Auckland, Hamilton and other areas after teachers and health workers walked off the job this morning.

RNZ reporting a crowd of 10,000 marching in Hamilton for the strike. That's huge. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

100 reasons to support the mega strike Are you ready to show up? Tomorrow, more than 100,000 nurses, doctors, teachers, health workers, dentists, social workers, support staff, and teacher aides will strike. It's believed to be the larges...

“Why should those in caring professions be the only ones to shoulder this burden? How can we help? What can we do?

That's why I'm asking you to show up in any way you can - whether it's attending an event tomorrow, posting on social media accounts (#Oct23Strike), or writing to your MP…” #nzpol

So lemme get this right, we burned 50k jobs, lost 90k citizens, fucked the energy, retail, hospo, manufacturing businesses, murdered worker rights and equal pay, set fire to public services and threw the entire health service in the dumpster

And we didnt fix inflation?

#Nzpol

Essential election-year viewing, folks. You'll laugh (a bit) you'll cry (a LOT) you'll see ordinary people (legends) fight the system to ensure every worker can come home safe at the end of the day

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To the Right Honorable Simeon Brown Don't lecture us on ethical lines I'm confused about what you think we're crossing As doctor, these are a few of mine Ever heard of non-malificence? That's the one about doing no harm When we're all underpaid and understaffed It risks lives, so we raise the alarm The next one is autonomy Giving people the right to choose But we're struggling to provide all the options As you've gutted all the systems we use Third on the list is justice That's about fairness and equity Pretty much the opposite of your plans Of privatising whilst claiming "efficiency" And the final one is beneficence Taking action that's good for our patients Which includes striking and speaking the truth Whilst our health minister spouts nonsense So those are the principles we work to I often wonder what your ones might be What ethics you use to justify This gaslighting and disinformation spree

My thoughts on the latest shameless attack from our health minister #nzpol

Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan standing on the red carpet in a Parliament corridor wearing a black full length buttoned silk gown with a black waist belt and embroidered green and yellow trees and plants and vines and a jade or pounamu pendant.

There is no better dressed MP in Parliament than Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan and he NEVER wears a tie.✌️👍🥰
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol

🚨 New Epi Alert this week: WPV1 continues circulation globally, while cVDPV2 affects Yemen. Chikungunya shows recent intensification despite overall decline. Dengue surpasses 4 million. An active outbreak of measles in Catalonia, Spain. Read more: ow.ly/PUP350Xb0Na

#IDSky #clinmicro

New Zealand govt has not only unbunckled it's seatbelts, it guzzling down leaded petrol & farting methane in the face of technology

So long umbrella, left behind at Newmarket 🚊station. Go well!

Luxon unable to acknowledge that Unions are made up of workers

Mōrena. A black cat called Blue has jumped into the fridge while the door was open and is checking out the contents.

So nosey!
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Ok after an afternoon of results, texts, calls, messages on other apps and emails, I have some thoughts on today’s Local Election results

1) Voter turnout is depressing. 32%ish on average across AoNZ is pathetic.
2) The Māori Wards referendum should never have happened - it was a racebaiting farce…

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

I hereby nominate the Portland Frog for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mōrena. Waka Moana on Daldy st