Helen Beattie

#Toitūtetiriti

Illustration by Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho

And join us for the handover event at parliament.

Steve Abel MP and Hon. Damien O’Connor are hosting an evening event with a veterinary panel. 530-8pm 25th June - invites out soon!

Petitions - New Zealand Parliament Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

5 days to go!

Please sign and share John’s petition to #protecttheban and #staythecourse on #liveexports and protect #animalwelfare

petitions.parliament.nz/79ff1ae2-f2e...

Petitions - New Zealand Parliament Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

Close to 40 000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand want to #protecttheban #staythecourse on #liveexports and prioritise #animalwelfare.

Want help John get beyond 40 000 & protect the ban on farmed animal exports by sea?

Sign up! And please share.

petitions.parliament.nz/79ff1ae2-f2e...

Fantastic to see so many NZ animal welfare organisations uniting together t o #protecttheban and #staythecourse.

2500 signatures on the petition already! ✍️ 👏 Let’s keep going!

SIGN, SIGN, SIGN & SHARE, SHARE, SHARE 📋➡️ petitions.parliament.nz/79ff1ae2-f2e8-…

1 month to go... - Locks and locks of it! The Big Chop Today marks one month until Chop Day! I'd love if you would share far and wide!

givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/l...

Can you support Isobel?

She’s donating her locks and sharing the profits with three charities!

What a superstar! ✨💫⭐️

Locks and locks of it! The Big Chop I'm donating four years of hair to charity, and invite you to contribute, too.

BSers: can you help Isobel? For a great cause and oh my - LOOK at those locks!

givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/l...

Folks - we urgently need your help!

The Government wants to repeal the ban on farmed animal (livestock) exports. The industry is budgeting a million dollars to make this happen.

VAWA is a charity - without a million dollars.

Can you help? Please re-share.

gal.to/7zsy8

A peacock (now officially known as a disco chicken)

Better names for existing things, number 5…
 
DISCO CHICKEN

You couldn’t write a book… no one would publish it due to inconsistencies and contradictions only a few pages apart…

Oh - and a complete lack of a coherent storyline.

It’s like one of those, ‘pick a page’ books, where you make up the story as you go along. 🤯

Stealing that term, to refer to a bunch of National’s policies!

Made me snigger.

Finally got to reading this; confirms that my decision to fangirl on Emma is legit.

‘Being kind is out. Being strategic is in. In the words of my cousin []; we don’t need allies, we need accomplices. See you on the protest line, e hoa mā.’

Sign me up.

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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says ‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

The ultra rich cause the most pollution yet are sheltered both economically and in terms of health impacts whereas the poorest cause less pollution& suffer disproportionately badly. But what is the chance of wealthy politicians taxing the rich with a carbon tax to start to tackle this inequality?

Graph showing daily temperature anomaly hitting peak of 2.06°C on November 17th, 2023 for the time period starting from 1940 to 2023.

There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph.

November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.

WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

The World Health Organisation has described what it found in Al Shifa hospital, after it led a dangerous mission to reach it.
Among the patients still unable to evacuate are "32 babies in extremely critical condition"
I don't think history will forget this
www.emro.who.int/media/news/w...

The NZ huntaway. The dog of my childhood. Steady. Gentle. Booming. Tough.

They work all day, and get up and do it again … itching to go, and get their whistle to say ‘you’re up.’

open.spotify.com/episode/0SGg...

tom mckinlay who, as well as being a bloody good bloke personally, is also the only nz journalist consistently publishing informed and sensitive coverage of the situation in gaza stripped of all the bullshit platitudes, the passive language, and other rhetorical tricks www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...

I’m good now re COVID but knocked me for a six for 6/7 weeks.
Sorry to hear re LC. That sucks.

I will re VAWA … just need to get off my rear end and do it!

Lol.

Classic example of DARVO

‘DARVO is an acronym that stands for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It describes a manipulative tactic often used by abusers to avoid accepting responsibility for their actions and shift the blame onto their victims.’

Lol… every time.

Wow! If that wasn’t essentially a ‘Don’t look up’ idea, it’d be a fecken awesome idea!

Oh hi!
Glad the crew from the other place is turning up and connecting up here!

You know what? I was telling someone about ghost chips other day and they were all, ‘What are you talking about?!’

Me: 🤯

I mean - not even a real kiwi, right there. We are no longer friends.

I was just going to message and say the same! Hi! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

I hope more AW peps turn up here. 😊

That’s awful re fireworks. So unnecessary.

This picture says it all. Poor Brynn.

Living with Brynn and seeing her trauma first hand consolidated my view that private sales must be banned.

Brynn could not be kept safe due to ongoing, random, private use of fireworks.

#bantheboom #animalwelfare #onehealth #onewelfare

This Guy Fawkes, let's prevent harm to animals, the environment and people.
Don’t buy or use fireworks. 🐾

#bantheboom #animalwelfare #onehealth #onewelfare

Fireworks cause fear & distress to many animals - our pets, wildlife & farmed animals.

The purchase & use of fireworks isn’t controlled, so they are used randomly all year round, making it impossible to keep animals safe from firework’s harm.

They also harm people & our environment.

#bantheboom

This Guy Fawkes, let's prevent harm to animals, the environment and people.
VAWA supports a ban on the public sale of fireworks. 
Let’s keep our animals safe this Guy Fawkes - don’t use fireworks 🐾
#bantheboom #animalwefare