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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 8h

SHORT NOTICE CALL TO ARMS FOR DUNEDIN FOLKS

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h

Australian minister cited US influencer's public comments downplaying the Holocaust and making Islamophobic remarks.

Far-right US influencer Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia

Australian minister cited US influencer's public comments downplaying the Holocaust and making Islamophobic remarks.

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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · 8h

#NZpol

Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 8h

SHORT NOTICE CALL TO ARMS FOR DUNEDIN FOLKS

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 9h

There is no better dressed MP in Parliament than Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan and he NEVER wears a tie.✌️👍🥰
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol

Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan standing on the red carpet in a Parliament corridor wearing a black full length buttoned silk gown with a black waist belt and embroidered green and yellow trees and plants and vines and a jade or pounamu pendant.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 9h

It's fair to be asking, "who radicialised him?"

People with big online audiences spread hate targeting Doyle, making it more likely someone would act this way

www.nzherald.co.nz/gisborne-her...

Gisborne youth accused of threatening to kill Green Party MP Benjamin Doyle appears in court - NZ Herald

The charges relate to threats allegedly made earlier this year.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 9h

It could be a huge advance for transplant surgery, but it will still have to clear the FDA hurdle in years to come - who knows how big that hurdle will be, even in post-Trump times.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 9h

Can't quite see Wendy Richards there, but otherwise spot on.

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 16h

Gendered disinformation, harassment, threatening online behaviour is causing democratic decay (and not just in NZ). We should all care about that. #nzpol

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Polls and trolls: is violent online abuse turning women off local politics?

Tory Whanau's candid speech on the relentless online abuse she faced as Wellington mayor would not been reassuring for candidates waiting for local election results.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 9h

ROFLnui and yippee - we now have a serious to rightwing hate speech. The FSU admits it. #nzpol

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Winston Peters accuses Broadcasting Standards Authority of 'Soviet era stasi' censorship

It follows a decision to begin regulating podcasts and online media.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 16h

www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-media-li...

The media literacy game

There's a game that my children do not like, but I insist we play it. We have talked before about manufacturing consent for genocide in our media - this post is an extension of that. So, let's play....

www.emilywrites.co.nz

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 16h

Thread 👇

deb te kawa nō aotearoa @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social · 19h

Agree with Sacha below. Māni is always offering a masterclass. One caveat, though, and this is absolutely not for Māni or Mihi or the other journalists skilled in Te Ao Māori me Te Ao Pākeha politics.

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 20h

The masterful Māni Dunlop on where things are at with Te Pāti Māori, with context.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 16h

Ooof ... Australian Court just upheld Australian Govt decision to refuse Candice Owens Farmer (she drops the last name in her promo stuff) a visa to do a paid speaking tour. I assume that'll kill off her trip here, too (on practical grounds, even though Chris Penk gave her permission to come).

In a lengthy ruling, the high court upheld Burke’s findings. The court said:

In the absence of evidence, or agreed facts, it is not obvious that the opportunity to hear Ms Farmer speak in Australia (the so-called “lightning bolt” effect) could add anything to political communication in Australia.

Owens will have to pay the costs of the appeal.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21h

"The case is proceeding."

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says the US-backed agreement to end Israel's war on Gaza will have no bearing on his country’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/xhyzpq

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mikeybill.bsky.social @mikeybill.bsky.social · 21h

Shocked! I am shocked I tell you!

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

'Excessive': Exec pay at Mike King’s charity soars after $24m public funding boost

I Am Hope has defended a significant increase in executive pay over the last year.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23h

Israel has destroyed the "ceasefire" in hours.

It is murdering Palestinians, and maintaining its illegal siege.

Not a ceasefire.

New post 👇

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Israel destroys ceasefire in hours

Today, Israel slaughtered Palestinians and resumed siege. Not a "ceasefire"

www.owenjones.news

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Alison Campbell @acampbelteacher.bsky.social · 21h

Chris Slane is on point.

Cartoon by Chris Slane showing a couple with a young child at their front door, looking with sad puzzlement at their teenaged son, who is standing on the path with all his worldly goods. The son is saying "I'm moving home. The government has freed me from dependency on employment *and* benefits."

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 20h

The masterful Māni Dunlop on where things are at with Te Pāti Māori, with context.

Analysis: Te Pāti Māori turmoil exposes a deeper hurt for Māori

Te Pāti Māori faces turmoil over leaked allegations, financial overspend, and leadership rifts, undermining its kaupapa and risking wider harm to Māori amid unresolved internal strife.

www.teaonews.co.nz

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

This $300,000 was clearly as useful as the $100,000 NACT threw away on the road cone hotlines & the $500,000 to Sunny Kaushal to stop talking about retail crime. #nzpol

'Extremely wasteful': Cook Strait ferry ministerial advisory group paid $300,000

$300,000 spent on the Cook Strait ferry Ministerial Advisory Group has been criticised as wasteful, as a contract for new ships is yet to be signed.

www.newstalkzb.co.nz

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

No ceasefire is ever a ceasefire when you're dealing with a genocidal occupying state with the support of the world's powers.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The death toll has risen to five after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to medical sources.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 1d

Especially after Laura Fergusson Trust closed the Auckland facility.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1d

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

The attack on southern Lebanon in October 2023 killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six other reporters.

NGOs welcome Lebanon’s push for justice over Israeli attack on journalists

The attack on southern Lebanon in October 2023 killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six other reporters.

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 1d

NZ has appalling leadership supported by appallingly ignorant, selfish, greedy, short sighted individuals #nzpol

Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a good time to share this again - given the government's decision to weaken the methane emissions target and not to put a price on agricultural emissions northandsouth.co.nz/2021/10/18/n...

"We Spent 25 Years Doing Virtually Nothing"

Why New Zealand is one of the developed world's worst climate laggards

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping this thread in light of @ben.gracewood.nz uncovering that there is no record of David Seymour ever being told (as he had claimed) that alcohol warning labels hamper craft brewers ... a non-issue that would require us to break from our international agreements to fix ...

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