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Social Development Minister says nothing suggests Gloriavale children unsafe following visit Louise Upston visited Gloriavale on 30 January where she met Overseeing Shepherd Stephen Standfast, senior leaders and other Gloriavale members.

So Louise Upston is going to ignore decades of evidence from women and children who lived at Glorivale based on a visit. Ffs, did she honestly think they’d be exhibiting abusive, coercive or inappropriate behaviour in front of her. #nzpol

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I gotta admit, a bunch of government MPs that have let lobbyists run amok in Parliament putting the integrity of the public sector under scrutiny is pretty damn funny

#nzpol

Maybe it's futile to ask conservatives to think a little harder, but the answer to "why are we bringing in immigrants when youth unemployment is at 15%?" Is actually pretty simple

Those unemployed 19 year olds are not qualified nurses, software developers, or engineers

In terms of coherence of policy positions, Labour were moving towards lowering the voting age to 16 years old.

They would also be in favour of civics education for children, so that when they can vote, they understand some of how the system works.

But now they support cutting off access to info?

Good to see differing views put forward by the Greens and ACT*

*broken clocks etc etc

Me when Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui opens

About 5500 Waikato Health New Zealand staff not paid overnight due to glitch One of about 5500 Waikato Health New Zealand employees whose pay was missed told RNZ she has been dipping into her son's account while she has just $2 in hers.

The other “shocking” factor (I’m not shocked) is that our full time health professionals aren’t paid enough (& living costs are so high), that they are basically living pay to pay to survive.

About 5500 Waikato Health New Zealand staff not paid overnight due to glitch www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

NZ Herald: "Did Nicola Willis promise to reduce food prices? Labour says so Julia Gabel Multimedia Journalist - NZ Herald • 5 Mar, 2026"

Did Nicola Willis promise to reduce food prices? Yes.

Have they? No.

But, y'know, we gotta appear neutral I guess so fuck what's true, let's make it "he said, she said" and continue to wonder why no one trusts the media anymore.

Sticker on lamp post "Luxon supports bombing schoolgirls "

Seen in Ōtepoti today

Hot take: most of the students who you laughed at for majoring in critical theory or comparative lit dense in French theory are more prepared for the 21st Century than computer scientists and engineers.

AI VR just transcribed "4 out of 10" as "4%". That's probably fine, right?

Every time Emma posts about how AI in her clinical setting is going, I'm like 'how are they allowed to experiment on patients like this'

It's not like we have examples from *checks notes* last week of the corruption that results when these sorts of public functions are privatised. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Hello this is privatising a public sector job and depowering local government even further

The sheer amount of deliberate and avoidable harm NZ's justice system does to victims and their families is abhorrent. It is simply not possible to respect a system that at every turn panders to violent abusive white men.

Fight continues to stop Christchurch terrorist from giving evidence at inquest The second-phase inquest began in October 2024.

Disrespectfully, fuck the New Zealand justice system. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I muted some weirdo the other day who was like "do you call pumping kids full of drugs medical care" and yes actually, medical care frequently involves administering drugs, how did you reach adulthood without learning this

NZ spy chiefs warn of extremism risk as teenage boys dominate investigations Our national security agencies are worried about New Zealand’s young men.

In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Lot of misspeaking going on for a government that had to pass an "english is an official language" bill

the army surplus store used to have one of those cooker posters up about how no parking would kill their business, but it got removed in time for parking day. funny that

Science job cuts ‘erode sector capacity’ More cuts at BSI are proceeding without a clear strategy, says scientists association.

Another 86 (!) scientists gone. These were voluntary redundancies, but very hard to not assume it's because they find it hard to see a future for their work in the current AoNZ science system.

This is the big secret of LLMs. A lot of people don't want to do the reading, they see the development of expertise through reading primary sources as a chore that can be sidestepped via summarization because all they're really interested in are the benefits of being perceived as an expert. .

Not ‘a cycling crash’, because that’s when one bicycle crashes into another.

This was a car crash. Someone driving a car into him.

Episode 9,421 of NZ media playing down the culpability of car drivers in killing people.

Cancer campaigner and ex-wife of Olympic legend dies at 48 Jackie Robertson leaves behind her only child Zac, 14, who is non-verbal.

We are framing the deaths of accomplished women through the frame of 'She was this guy's ex wife' but please, tell me again how men are feeling marginalised by our culture. She even says in the article that he's been a dick to her!

Thoughts with her loved ones.

Screenshot of clearsky showing Ben McNulty blocked me 2 days ago

Wondering what to make of Ben McNulty unblocking and reblocking me in recent days 🤔 Worried I was still making sure people knew I think he's a misogynistic shit?

I refuse to accept “less bad” as a replacement for actual good.

There’s a lot going on but noting as of today RNZ and Waatea News appear to be the only NZ media who have picked this up and run with it.
In light of continued, blatant disregard for domestic and international law from the US it’s even more important to scrutinise this deal beyond one news cycle.

If anything, I'm inclined to be doubly sceptical of anyone claiming to be operating in an intelligence space, open source or otherwise.

Friends, someone calling themselves an OSINT specialist doesn't make their skeets any more credible than any other anonymous person on here. If someone's making claims about current events with zero evidence to back up what they're saying maybe don't repost that shit eh.

Genuinely don't know how anyone manages to live in Tauranga without dying of sheer embarrassment at the absolute state of their fellow Tauranga residents.