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Kyle MacDonald @kylemacd.bsky.social · 6h

Lies, lies and damned statistics…

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When Phonics Isn’t Reading: Why Today’s ‘Literacy Breakthrough’ Doesn’t Add Up

This afternoon, the Minister of Education announced what she called a “transformational boost” in reading achievement, crediting the government’s mandated structured literacy programme and newly intro...

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly! The cookers are anti GMO for same reason they’re antivax

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 13h

Not even donors. Hoggard, ACT associate ag minister, used to run Fed Farmers FFS.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 13h

… a warming world where farmers will be hit hard: droughts, storms. What we’ve witnessed to date is just the beginning

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 16h

My analysis: The Government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis.

The headline effect of a new, weaker climate target is a warmer, more dangerous world.
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Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 13h

It does. I’ve rarely heard Chippy speak abt climate except to say what he won’t do.
Climate can’t be shuffled to a lowly green minister outside cabinet - it takes a whole of government approach, with clout. If Labour starts at such a low point, it’ll be a big fight to get decent climate policies.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 17h

There's been SO much that's SO wrong, esp for Māori, right? Exhausting. A bridge hikoi against the Treaty Principles Bill def more appealing than postal voting for what one sees as a bunch of old white men... in an election where in many places the Māori Ward candidates were even left off the list?

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 17h

With Chippy's climate policy bonfire in 2023 after two terms of Jacinda keeping the CC Minister outside cabinet, a weak target, no new coal ban as promised, I have very little faith in Labour's commitment on climate change, esp Chippy.
This press release is more interesting for what it doesn't say.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 19h

In both cases you’re still
promoting Stuff.
Non subscribers don’t get behind the paywall. A screenshot gives non subscribers a better opportunity to read it than sharing a link.
Also, Atlas isn’t an operator here. It enables networking, but it’s not running anything in NZ. We do that ourselves

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine enrollment being cut off two weeks ahead of election day 😬🤬

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 19h

Jeez the media police out in force. Who are we allowed to share? Is dangerous and stupid to write off an entire media chain when we have so little choice. There’s fine journos at Stuff as there are at (most) other outlets. We don’t have anything like the choice we need.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20h

They also cooked up an “independent panel” to give them exactly the advice they and the wanted.
And let’s not forget the associate ag minister used to run Fed Farmers.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20h

Have local elections ever been a harbinger for the national ones though? I don’t think the popn sees them as the same tbh. Turnout is entirely different. Party lines also not as clear.
But noting ACT got only 17% of the seats it went for; Labour got 70%.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20h

Our sole media climate specialist, yeah.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 21h

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

newsroom.co.nz

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20h

OMG don’t tell me you’ve gotten drawn into this road cone nonsense.
Is it an issue of actual concern? Really?
Road cones represent roads being repaired, safely. And a LOT more roads need it, in our climate-changing world, and will into the future.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20h

People just didn’t vote. Labour voters stayed away in droved.
Next year will be different: people have something awful to vote against

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20h

Well that’s a bit pathetic, and fairly obvious.
Noting he doesn’t mention climate.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 20h

I did vote Labour last election but purely a strategic electorate vote. They lost my party vote a long time ago.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 1d

Great insight, thanks! So it’s a small step forward, even though it feels awful and shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

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Nandor Tanczos @nandortanczos.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like I'm gonna be mayor. 500 special votes to count and I'm expecting them to widen my lead.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 1d

Released automatically?

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 1d

And he is SO reluctant to say he’d roll back a single NACT policy, even the fast-track

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 1d

Hipkins started rolling back climate policies the second he became PM, so I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Climate policies burn on the bread and butter bonfire

Chris Hipkins won media plaudits for his political strategy after scrapping or deferring some of Labour's policy in his latest policy bonfire, including ones to reduce emissions. But a poll released j...

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 1d

With a quick count it looks like ACT Local have won 8 of the 47 (17%) local government contests they stood in. They just lost out in a decent number of other races too. #nzpol

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 1d

A beacon in midst of the bad stuff. Mind you ACT got v few of its candidates elected

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