Paulo Whakaahua Aotearoa

"On the whole, New Zealanders are decent, good-hearted people, who deserve to be governed wisely and well."

If that's true, why did the majority vote for a coalition of overt arseholes in the last election? And why are we so tight-fisted and racist?

How Israel made Gaza deadliest place on earth for journalists Israel has targeted at least four Al Jazeera journalists in attacks on press-marked vehicles, offices, and makeshift news tents.

Israel has made Gaza the deadliest place in the world for journalists — killing 270+ reporters and media workers in the last 22 months.

Israel cannot continue killing Palestinian journalists with impunity—it must be sanctioned.

Instead of scrapping NCEA can we scrap this government 🫠🫠🫠

it genuinely galls me that TPM and the greens get called "too extreme" but the same is never said of NZ first and ACT, who are literal fascists.

Oh, does Bloxham not like personal attacks then? He should tell that to *checks notes* Graham Bloxham then

Clearly in damage control mode after losing their billionaire family funding, Michael Laws specifically claimed The Platform's YouTube channel gets *half a million views* (i.e. 500k) a week in a video posted today, pitching the advantages of advertising on the eponymous platform. Prima facie, huge.

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It is right that images of starving children in Gaza have moved our political leaders, but it is shameful that it took this long. This appalling situation did not develop overnight and there have been many many warnings signs over the past nearly two years.

The Life and Death of Alex 6000 messages show the real story behind the horrific reporting on the death of a trans teen.

Finally we get to hear the voice of the trans teen who died, whose transphobic parents completely controlled his narrative in that appalling RNZ article last week.

We hear you, Alex.

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Israeli bombing in Gaza ‘worse than ever’: UK doctor after latest mission | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera Victoria Rose says the scale of recent bombardment is the ‘worst’ she has witnessed since war began.

"This could be turned off immediately if people put enough pressure on the right governments, the right leaders.

I think, if we don’t turn it off soon, there won’t be a Gaza and there certainly won’t be Palestinians in Gaza."

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That was the most ironic part of the interview. I wish that they'd pushed back on that in the interview.

Worst results for Budget in nearly 30 years, says pollster Nicola Willis says the Budget will help economic recovery.

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Renowned musician Don McGlashan was seen on the video confronting Bishop, but McGlashan said he did not realise at first that it was the minister. "I could hear an enormous amount of ranting, kind of against the whole thing. I didn't get the full gist of it, but it was basically - 'the hīkoi is ages ago, sit down everybody' - so this geezer was just ranting away and telling everybody to sit down," McGlashan said. "After a while I turned to him and said 'ah shut up you dickhead' and I looked at him and I thought, oh I know that face. Then he said 'what did you say to me?'". McGlashan said that he again told Bishop to "shut up you dickhead and he said 'I could say the same to you', and I said, well I wasn't talking and you were. And then I realised I was talking to the leader of the house".

Being told to "shut up you dickhead" by Don McGlashan is literally the worst thing that can happen to you as a New Zealander

Worst results for Budget in nearly 30 years, says pollster Nicola Willis says the Budget will help economic recovery.

Lol. Nobody's buying the whole "We had no choice"

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A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...

Texas cops tried to find an abortion patient by using data from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR), which gave them access to over 83,000 cameras across the country.

The dystopian future feminists have been warning about is already here.

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“We’ve been measuring New Zealanders’ reception of government budgets for nearly 30 years. This is the worst we’ve ever recorded,” said David Talbot, director of Talbot Mills Research.

+ This is the worst we’ve ever recorded

+ This is the worst we’ve ever recorded

In case you missed it.
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Wait until he finds out about alcohol.

Still, if superannuation is off-limits, Willis' second-best fiscal option at least has the virtue of also tackling schemes that trap almost the whole population in welfare while also operating as corporate welfare, deterring investment in plant and equipment. Massive cuts would be needed to Working for Families and housing subsidies, which have doubled over the past decade, to generate the same medium-term savings as the more modest 20% cut to superannuation. In practice, they'd need to be abolished entirely. But that would also open an opportunity to comprehensively reform the personal income tax system at the same time, since it, Working for Families and housing subsidies are so intertwined. Under the great prime ministers and finance ministers of the 1930s and 1940s, and then the 1980s and 1990s, that is something that would have been easily accomplished in a year, or even between an election and pre-Christmas mini-Budget.

Now that they have stolen from women they are looking to which other theft can be achieved without political damage. Hooton discounts the idea of cutting super and says instead they should take from Working for Families

First they came for the working women... #NZPol

LIVE: Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed over 54,000 since start of war | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera World Health Organization tells of ‘horror on horror’ in Gaza’s hospitals as medicines run out to treat dying, injured.

The death toll in Gaza has surpassed 54,000

(And that number doesn't include those buried under rubble and presumed dead)

At the current rate of killing, it will probably reach 56,000 by the end of next month

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Dr Siouxsie Wiles' Covid curse: ‘Abuse changed my world’ Pandemic fallout turned her into a hermit, but her future’s looking brighter.

The last few years have been pretty hard & I’ve largely become a bit of a hermit. But I’ve briefly emerged to talk about the thing that’s reignited my spark - menstrual cups! Thanks to NZ Women’s Weekly and Elizabeth Easther for coaxing me out of my shell. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/si...

Small community hits back at couple who claim they are ‘prisoners’ on land Carl Watters and Leah Gibson claim they are virtual ‘prisoners’ on their own land because a neighbour has stopped them using an access track. But they have a history of disputes.

Man holy crap. I read the original story & thought it sounded a little off & lo & behold turns out the Poor Me complainers have a *substantial* degree of form.

Imagine having this much on the record diagreeableness & still running to the media with your story expecting no one to push back.

I will always feel better knowing that you're out there making a difference for people. Ngā mihi nui.

a man in a suit and hat is standing in front of a sign that says haere atu ALT: a man in a suit and hat is standing in front of a sign that says haere atu

Is this better then? Given your fantastic understanding of all things Māori, you will deeply appreciate it.

Of all the ignortant shit takes that I have seen today, this is definitely the shittiest and most ignorant.

Hurting his delicate feelings. He seems to be quite a snowflake when it comes to other people's opinions about him, but we should unquestionably accept his ignorant takes on anything he deems worthy of his consideration.

Do you want to compare the meme to Jan 6 too?

It's a beautiful shot.

My favourite fountain as a kid, jumping over the moat surrounding it 😁