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#nzpol Don’t get me started on the Electoral Roll registration changes. This is a ham-fisted effort to disenfranchise people who have other shit going on in their lives. This smacks of risible UK Tory efforts to off-roll people without the right kind of ID.

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Just saw a post from IRD on face plant - Landlord tax cut is retrospective for interest deductibility for 2021 2022 2023 WTF past tax years - lolly scramble - no wonder we can’t have hospitals school lunches & ferrys. Nikki no boats is bankrupting the country

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Filthy lowlives #CosplayBarbie #Auspol #Cdnpol #USpol ##UKpol #Wales #England #Scotland #Ireland #NZpol #EU #Europe #Mexico #Asia

"Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb says yes,because methane is much shorter lived than the other main heating gases, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide."

Yes,methane is "short lived".It breaks down.

It breaks down into CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER VAPOUR, and OZONE - all of which are greenhouse gases!

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A timely reminder for Australian voters, too, from this New Zealander writing about the NZ negative experience of privatisation of publically-owned assets.
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#RSB Regulatory Standards Bill: #submission guide 🍃🌸🌿

Even if you #submitted on this under the discussion documents, earlier -we have to do it again to #StopTheRSB
Submissions close: 1pm 23 June #nzpol
Send copies to MPs, SelectCommittee + keep one
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Stolen from facebook. Love these 2

Sex work is "real" work.

Sex workers are "real" workers - and are entitled to the same freedom from abuse, harassment and exploitation as everyone else.

This is only as controversial, or weird and awkward, as we all choose to make it.

Pass it on.

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Just part of the plan to strip public assets and sell them off to their puppet masters

Funny how, after attacking women's pay equity, with their leader's press sec just revealed to have been an utter creep taking nonconsensual pictures of sex workers and random women at the gym...

... suddenly Collins goes all in on anti-trans culture-warring in oral questions.

Distraction, much?

Why do I find this so incredibly moving?

Chris Bishop was famously shut down by Don McGlashan at the 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards and told him to "Shut up, you dickhead". Bravo, Sir, Bravo!

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The National government’s decision to cut $20 million towards Māori Trades Training in the budget will mean a further drop in apprentice numbers that we desperately need. In 2024, apprentice numbers declined by a further 11.8%. That’s more than 8,500 apprentices that will not be working here, on top of those that have already left for Australia. This cut only makes this shortage worse, despite national unemployment being at 5.1%. Minister Penny Simmonds has cancelled a plan that was addressing the financial viability of the vocational sector and has replaced it with legislation that provides no details and does not give the sector any certainty. She has failed to deliver on her promises. Minister Simmonds needs to front up and explain why she hasn’t ensured the continuation of this programme that would help more Māori train and contribute to alleviating critical workforce shortages. We know that Aotearoa New Zealand faces workforce shortages across the trades sector, as many of our young tradespeople are choosing to leave for Australia. A vital part of ensuring that we have the workforce we need to build the future New Zealand is that there are accessible opportunities for training and re-training, including those that are tailored for Māori. That is why Labour was proud to fund the Māori Trades and Training Programme alongside the Apprenticeship Boost Scheme. The programme helped to ensure that Māori organisations could offer employment-based training alongside support services that would help people to see a programme through to completion and make them more employable.

Nats: We are going to chuck 17 and 18 year olds off Jobseekers

Labour: We are going to help young people into apprenticeships

Which of these strategies do you really think works? #NZPol

Nicola Willis's Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government Current & planned debt will surpass Labour's full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson's bar Covid.

One of Mountsin Tui's best - and most damning - blogposts yet. This is the kind of insight and analysis missing from msm.

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Submissions against the Regulatory Standards Bill are now OPEN! 28 Days left. Submissions close - 1pm 23rd of June. Don't wait e te iwi - educate your families, work colleagues and communities. This bill is as harmful if not more harmful than the Treaty Principles Bill. It must be stopped. This is where we need to bring our HIKOI ENERGY.

This one's very important for EVERYONE - the RSB opens us up to an American hellscape with many unintended consequences. It's part of the Coalition agreement, and they passed the first stage through urgency.

But this Select Committee process is arguably MORE important than the TPB. SUBMIT.

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What an incredibly facile understanding of our Parliamentary democracy.

All MPs can vote whichever way they like.

They *choose* to toe the party line on most instances, meaning

" ... I cannot vote other than along party lines"

is really

" ... I am only here to follow orders".

Once we know exactly how many billions were stolen from the Pay Equity Fund nothing else matters. Not if it was moved to education, or police, or health - they had to pay for all of those things anyway, they didn't have to pay for them of the backs of women #NZPol

Food, a non essential

But what are bottom feeders supposed to eat, just bottoms?

"fuck you, starve" isn't the central point of wins..

Goose chase meme The scene at the top shows a goose with the words: "If your party won't fight for you, why are you still fighting for them?" The scene below shows a person running away with the goose chasing them, with the words: "WHY ARE YOU STILL FIGHTING FOR THEM?"

If your political party isn't fighting for your rights, find one that will.

(Thanks for the inspiration, Te Pati Maori 🙏🏻❤️🤍🖤)
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#ToitūTeTiriti#PeopleAndPlanetOverProfit
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#NZPol It's not that they can't improve things, it's that they won't.

We need to fight this like we never fought before

Government: We sold everything and lowered taxes, now we can't afford to contribute to your KiwiSaver

You need to live within your means!
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RNZ headline wich a picture of Christopher Luxon, imagine a thumb that has been hit by a hammer a few times, "'No-brainer' : Luxon says that raising the super again on cards for election". What an absolute cockwomble. I am pretty sure if he had to dig holes or do any sort of manual labour to pay his way in the world he would not be proposing raising the super age. But as usual it is make the poor work longer and harder to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

It's what they wanted all along! Now pay for the rich tax breaks by breaking your back for longer.
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Image of Instagram story featuring a post from Aotearoa Liberation League "So the pay equity changes will create $12b? The same amount they need for military funding? Straight from hard working kiwis to the pockets of weapons manufacturers and war profiteers" Magenta added text that says "if you aren't fired up and keen to participate in politics you should be. No more excuses e hoa mā, it's not just politics it affects all of us in real ways"

I'm done, as a nation we all need to take shit more seriously.

We should all educate ourselves on politics and become active members of democracy.

You might not fuck with politics but politics will fuck with you - @philipdefranco.bsky.social

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Taking money from people struggling and funnelling it straight to offshore multinationals.
Words can't convey my anger and disgust
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