Alison Ayr

TVNZ’s new documentary wants to challenge our idea of what a criminal looks like Crime: Need vs Greed investigates the true cost of white collar crime.

Great documentary.

Fraud is the number one crime in NZ and it costs kiwis over a billion dollars a year. And yet if we look at our TV screens and listen to our politicians you would think the only criminals are in gangs and poor kids committing ram raids

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Screen grab of LinkedIn CV saying Tutor/Lecturer - Massey University - Feb 2019 - Present. With the highlighted phrase "in the second semester I began lecturing for the third level Media Law and Ethics paper"

Oh wow, you cannot make this up Kelly Dennett, who was on the byline for the first muckraking Golriz story is actually a lecturer of media ethics at Massey University!? #nzpol

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It was actually 1893.

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Marilyn Waring, former National MP, is on the hikoi. Says the bill is intellectually lazy, betrays the party's long history of working with Maori, and upends the preamble of the Coalition agreement. See RNZ live updates #NZPol

(A Thread) Spotted on market day in a small city in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A lady with a tiny dog telling a mushroom vendor that she can't buy oyster mushrooms because her tiny dog is terrified of them. Meanwhile tiny dog is at her feet, making sure his personal mushrooms are perfectly polished. (1)

Sounds like Brian Tamaki and his mates.

Both. Although it's a bit like the chicken and the egg. Not sure which came first.

The goal isn't to get people into work -
if sanctions actually lowered unemployment that would be a disaster.

The point is to keep unemployed people applying for jobs so that the competition keeps low wages low. (That was the point of Reserve Bank engineering higher unemployment, after all.)

They
Told
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What
They
Would
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Multiple times in the election they fronted their cruelty, ignorance and barely suppressed violence and hatred towards anyone different from their mirror.

And a majority voted for them, some by casting a vote, some by choosing not to vote

And here we are

Horrifying questions being which is malice or wilful ignorance?

Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence.

There seems is overwhelming evidence either way in each of the 49 actions I covered in the quoted thread
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“The October election in NZ was a… constitutional coup in which an authoritarian coalition gained a majority of votes without revealing its full policy agenda.

It is now implementing that … agenda by rewarding its allies and ignoring the public good. That approach … is precisely how juntas govern”

Drive north on SH10, take the coastal road via Matauri Bay, Te Ngaere Bay, to Whangaroa. Stunning scenery. Then head to the Mangonui Fish Shop for lunch, over to Cable Bay for an ice-cream. Check out Taipa, then back to Kerikeri on SH10.

Spend a day visiting Waitangi and another day in Russell.

Mary Poppins declaims SUPER CALLOUS FASCIST RACIST TORIES ARE ATROCIOUS

Watch Nancy Maclean from Duke University talk about how Charles Koch (part of the Atlas Network) has used James Buchanan's (who advised Pinochet) ideas to create the libertarian world most of us absolutely do not want. ACT uses these ideas.
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John Campbell: Are we on the cusp of something new or something old? Goodbye 2023 - but is it out with the old and in with the even older?

If you only read one thing today, make it this one. Savagely beautifully and empathetically brilliant. And do watch her maiden speech (see end). It’s spine-tingling. #nzpol

Ditto for me, too.

Well I suppose the next Left-wing Government can just rush through Capital Gains, Wealth Tax, Rent Controls, Emissions Tax and Legalize Marijuana under urgency without announcing any of those policies during election.

#NZpol

The PM said of his taxpayer-funded Te Reo lessons: “They have got a PM who is actually keen to learn Te Reo..."   Which is a good thing. But he also said, “In the real world … people who want to learn Te Reo … pay for it themselves”
My Stuff #cartoon today. #nzpol

Can I have (c) ... all of the above?

Government decision to suspend policy process called 'reckless' by Grant Robertson, David Seymour sa... Luxon said he's here to do things differently.

Proof from the horse’s mouth that the government doesn’t read and won’t read. No need for bookcases; no need for papers written by Wellington bureaucrats; no need for thinking, research, evidence. We know what’s good for you: the grandpappy state #nzpol

Christopher Luxon insists fees-free prescriptions will go Prime Minister defends scrapping free prescriptions for people who can afford it.

Free prescriptions
$618 million over 4 years*

Accelerating landlord tax deductibility
$900 million over 4 years*

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*See links in comments

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www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/11/c...

Covid-19 vs the flu: Death rates compared Covid-19 is killing three times as many New Zealanders as influenza does in a typical year.

Thank you @kiwifarah.bsky.social for this
article
#CovidIsNotOver

Winston Peters appears to claim credit for making 'three women PM' in speech, audience member calls ... "He was trying to convey he wasn't being sexist whilst being sexist," one said.

STOP USING THE PASSIVE VOICE YOU FUCKING COWARDS.

he did not 'appear' to take credit, his words were literally ""By the way, in my career, I made three women Prime Minister"

He *literally* took credit for it you fucking hacks.

Maybe it’s going to be strong and stable govt by ditching democratic process. Dictatorships can be very strong and stable #nzpol

He's fine with commoditizing it as a product to sell for NZ. It's the culture they hate.

I feel like CLux is ok with Māori cultural elements at state occasions and to impress visitors a la AirNZ - it's Māori having any power that he's not in favour of