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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 1h

Beef mince is $13 a kilo in Australia, we should be storming the Beehive! #NZPol

Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 1h

I'm vego so had no idea what the Aussie price was. I checked and thought I'd share. From Woolworths

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Environmental Law Initiative - Aotearoa NZ @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social · 1h

He said the hoiho habitat from the Taieri Mouth south was crucial as it was one of the few places the penguins still existed.
Read more at the link.
#hoiho #penguins #nzpol

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Environmental Law Initiative - Aotearoa NZ @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social · 1h

As RNZ reports: "Catlins Tours owner Lyndon McKenzie said he'd noticed fishing boats in areas he hadn't seen them before since the set net ban area was extended last month.
"It goes north of us & then stops & just today I saw another six boats that we normally don't see just off that coast close in.

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Environmental Law Initiative - Aotearoa NZ @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social · 1h

Today we announced legal action challenging the limited emergency setnet ban Minister Shane Jones put in place, to protect hoiho yellow-eyed penguins.
We argue the Minister failed to consider the economic impact of #hoiho deaths on the region's eco-tourism operators.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Charity takes legal action over set net fishing ban, says hoiho need more protection

The Environmental Law Initiative has filed court proceedings against the oceans and fisheries minister, saying the ban fails to protect hoiho, or yellow eyed penguins, from the risk of extinction.

www.rnz.co.nz

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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · 49m

Our national museum is going through yet another restructuring and this one is far deeper an d wider than previous ones. The rest of the staff learned their fates yesterday. It is going to take *years* for it to recover. It is *not* the answer. #kikorangi #nzpol

www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...

The Post

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Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social · 38m

I will be involved with this & DJing alongside some great local talent. Do come along, as this sale represents one of the last words of the Black Star Books collective which was foundational for me and many others in discovering radically left-wing politics in #Ōtepoti. #dunedin #nzpol

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 53m

"There's nothing more Kiwi than ... selling a cake to your friends"

Don't you *give* food to your friends? Weirdos

Government to loosen rules for home-based cake makers

It's promising to make it cheaper and easier for hobby bakers to sell their goods.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 33m

It's almost like climate change is costing us money #NZPol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 3h

Fixing storm-damaged roads in Ruapehu could cost millions

The district, as well as areas like Waitomo and Awakino, are in clean-up mode.

www.rnz.co.nz

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

Fucking cake stalls - literally let them eat cake is this miserable pack of wankers answer to the crumbling economy.

They're not even fit to run a cake stall at a Kindy let alone treasury's books.

#GeneralStrike #SnapElection #DoYouHearThePeopleSing

Some strategically shaved baboon in a suit making nonsensical announcements - I wonder if there's a corner of that sad pathetic polluting brain that questions his life choices 'if only I'd listen to Jim Anderton more as a kid'.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 29m

🧵 #Auspol & #NZpol

This is what the “think” tank operation that has forged our “conservative” space since the 80s looked like, from an American account by an erstwhile insider.

The trajectory to the more radical present should be clear from these descriptions.

Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 33m

The outstanding Know Your Enemy podcast knows about the impact of the Atlas Network even though I haven’t heard them name it. Matt was, for a while, one of the conservative students picked up & fostered by the Heritage Foundation. (Now left wing)
This description of eugenicist Charles Murray is it.

How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicte...
15 October • Ep 122 • 1 hr 33 min. • E
Charles Murray said that. Now, what I thought was so interesting about that was, to me, this is just such an incredible, incredible illustration of what right-wing money, what their networks can do.
Literally pluck him from obscurity, place an op-ed of his in the Wall Street Journal, which leads to the book deal, which they give him the funding for a think tank position, so he can write the book.
Then once it's out, all the publicity efforts the right has. I mean, we know how that works still to this day. The books the movement buys to make them appear to be selling better than they are, the promotion, helping each other promote these books on the right, the podcasts and magazines.
It is a big family, and they do write by each other when the books come out on the right. And I think, basically, this might be putting it strongly, but there's a real sense in which it is only because of right-wing money aimed specifically at creating a kind of counter-class of

How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicte...
15 October • Ep 122 • 1 hr 33 min. • E
creating a kind of counter-class of experts on the right that could be quoted in a both sides way, as expert on the right, expert on the left, in newspaper accounts or on television. It is only because of that money that someone like Charles Murray is even known.
He would not have made it on his own in academia. He might not have even made it as a writer without this extreme largesse and push and help and support from the right-wing philanthropic network of foundations and then think tanks and other programs. This is like the money does matter.
They created this entire platoon of people like Charles Murray, who we would not have known otherwise if all they had to go on was their own intelligence, writing, and the kind of rigor and persuasiveness of their work.
And then his ideas get instantiated in law by a putative democratic administration.
That's like the almost the best right-wing case studv ever. Ten vears from book

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Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social · 27m

Look. What I say to you is this.

Once our young, paper round CEOs are done with clogging their neighbours' letterboxes with the print opinions of hoskin and HDA, they can crack on with their baking side hustle.

This is the future I want for our youth.

#nzpol

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Government to loosen rules for home-based cake makers

It's promising to make it cheaper and easier for hobby bakers to sell their goods.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Dave @dpdiver.bsky.social · 1h

Are we back on track yet?
#nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1h

Consumer inflation set to break 3% level

New data shows higher food, transport, and energy prices during September.

www.rnz.co.nz

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chairmanknow @chairmanknow.bsky.social · 2h

Another poll, same result... Can I get an 'embattled'?

From grantduncanphd.substack.com/p/local-gove...

#nzpol

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Char @kiwichar.bsky.social · 2h

Ffs. It even costs more now to get the fuck out of this shit loop. 🤦‍♀️🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NoConfidence #CostOfLuxonCrisis #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Election2026 #VoteThemOutNZ

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Green Party NZ (unofficial) @nzgreens.nzcow.com · 2h

📺 NZ Green Party #nzpol
📢 We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

👉more news/weather bots

Govt for the rich failing unemployed New Zealanders

www.greens.org.nz

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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · 2h

The Drs are striking because the woeful state of our health system is endangering patients (and them) and they simply can’t stretch themselves or their resources any further. It’s a last resort.
It is NOT them who need the lecture on ethics.
#nzpol #solidarity

Simeon Brown accuses doctors of crossing 'ethical line' with mega strike

There were audible cries of disbelief during Simeon Brown's speech to senior doctors.

www.rnz.co.nz

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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 2h

#nzpol

This tracks

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2h

Sad for Bolger's family of course , but lets not whitewash his absolute disaster of a legacy of Ruthinasia that transferred wealth, destroyed manufacturing , wholesale public assets sales & plunging massive numbers of people into poverty. The only positives were his treaty settlements..

#nzpol

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 2h

It takes 5 of these stacked sheets to cover the official front groups partnered with the Atlas Network just for America.
There are more added since the list went dark in 2021.
They are think tanks (junktanks)/college beachheads/astroturfing bodies.
There are 100s more linked around the world.

United States
ACADEMY ON CAPITALISM AND LIMITED GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION
ACANTHUS EDUCATION
ACTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND LIBERTY ADAM SMITH PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
ADVANCE ARKANSAS INSTITUTE
ADVOCATES FOR SELF GOVERNMENT AGENCIA INTERAMERICANA DE PRENSA ECONOMICA
AIC AMERICAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS
ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE
ALASKA POLICY FORUM
ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALLIANCE FOR THE FAMILY AMERICA'S FUTURE FOUNDATION
AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION CAMPUS
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION
AMERICAN CONSUMER INSTITUTE, CENTER FOR CITIZEN RESEARCH
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT AMERICAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS
AMERICAN JURIS LINK
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL
AMERICAN MEDIA COUNCIL, INC.
AMERICAN PRINCIPLES PROJECT AMERICAN TRADITION INSTITUTE
AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY - OPENTHEBOOKS
AMERICANS FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION
AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM
AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM FOUNDATION
ANNECY INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF VIRTUE AND LIBERTY ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE
ARIZONA CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM ARKANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
ARKANSAS POLICY FOUNDATION
ATLANTIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
ATLAS ECONOMIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION
ATLAS SOCIETY
AYN RAND CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS (ARC)
AYN RAND INSTITUTE
BADGER INSTITUTE
BALLOTPEDIA
BASTIAT SOCIETY
BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE
BEACON HILL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE
BENJAMIN RUSH SOCIETY
BETTER CITIES PROJECT
BILL OF RIGHTS INSTITUTE
BLACKSTONE & BURKE CENTER FOR LAW AND LIBERTY BLUEGRASS INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SOLUTIONS
BROAD + LIBERTY
BUCKEYE INSTITUTE
BUREAUCRASH
BYU CENTER FOR ECONOMIC SELF-RELIANCE
CAESAR RODNEY INSTITUTE
CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER
CALVERT INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC.
CALVIN CO…

CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXA CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT
CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE RESEARCH
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE (CIPE) CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS CENTER FOR POLICY RESEARCH OF NEW JERSEY
CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT (ST. VINCENT COLLEGE) CENTER FOR PUBLIC CHOICE & MARKET PROCESS CENTER FOR RESTRUCTURING GOVERNMENT CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY
CENTER FOR THE DEFENSE OF FREE ENTERPRISE
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CARBON AND ENERGY MARKETS CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ECONOMIC LIBERTY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM & DEMOCRACY
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LIBERTY
CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES AT GROVE CITY COLLEGE
CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
CENTRO PARA RENOVACIÓN ECONÓMICA, CRECIMIENTO Y EXCELENCIA
CERTELL, INC.
CHARLES G. KOCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
CHARTER CITIES INSTITUTE
CITIZENS FOR A SOUND ECONOMY
CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM CIVITAS INSTITUTE
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE POLICY INSTITUTE
CLAREMONT INSTITUTE
CLEMSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CAPITALISM COALITION TO REDUCE SPENDING COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW
COMMITTEE FOR MONETARY RESEARCH & EDUCATION
COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE
COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION
COMPACT FOR AMERICA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM
CONSENSUS OF THE AMERICAS
CONSUMER ALERT - WASHINGTON OFFICE
CONSUMER CHOICE CENTER
CONSUMERS FOR HEALTH CARE CHOICES
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
DEFENDERS OF PROPERTY RIGHTS
DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
DONORSTRUST
E FOUNDATION FOR OKLAHOMA
ECONOMIC THINKING
ED SNIDER CENTER FOR ENTERPRISE & MARKETS
EDCHOICE
EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT LEGAL INSTITUTE
ETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE
ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER
EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION
EXCELINED
FAITH & REASON INSTITUTE
FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE
FLINT HILLS CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY (FOR…

STATE FOUNDATION
FREE THE PEOPLE
FREE THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION
FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE
FREEDOM FOUNDATION
FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA
FREEDOM WORKS
FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION
FRIEDMAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL CHOICE
FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM
FUNDACION CALIFORNIANA
FUTURE OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION
GALEN INSTITUTE
GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT
GEORGIA CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY
GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION
GOLDWATER INSTITUTE
GRANITE INSTITUTE
GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII
GREAT PLAINS PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE
HEALTH & ECONOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
HISPANIC AMERICAN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH (HACER)
HISTORY AND ECONOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
HOOVER INSTITUTION
HORIZON INSTITUTE OF ALASKA INC.
HOWARD CENTER
HUDSON INSTITUTE
HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION
IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION
IDEAS BEYOND BORDERS
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
IMMORO
INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE
INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE
INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM (IWF)
INDIVIDUALS FOR CAPITALISM
INITIATIVE FOR PUBLIC CHOICE & MARKET PROCESS
INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE FOR FAITH, WORK & ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH FREEDOM INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES (IHS) INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION INSTITUTE FOR PRINCIPLE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INSTITUTE FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES
INSTITUTE FOR TRADE STANDARDS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS (IWP)
INSTITUTO INTERAMERICANO PARA LA DEMOCRACIA
INTELLECTUAL TAKEOUT
INTERAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY
INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW & ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL CONSUMERS FOR A CIVIL SOCIETY
INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM EDUCATION FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
INTERNET EDUCATION EXCHANGE
ISLAMIC FREE MARKET INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
JAMES BUCHANAN CENTER FOR POLITICAL ECONOMY JAMES G. MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL
JAMES MADISON INSTITUT…

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Kaz @serenity22.bsky.social · 1d

More misleading BS from min of Ed, Stanford. #nzpol

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 17h

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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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 3h

As well as cutting social welfare benefits, Bolger presided over the destruction of the union movement, so I won't be shedding any tears either #nzpol

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DudeWTF @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 2h

"But Ram Raids are down!!!!"

#ChristopherLuxon #nzpol #nzcrime #violentcrimenz

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

Restaurant worker injured trying to stop robbers armed with bats, hammers

Police say diners were still inside the restaurant at the time of the robbery.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 2h

Laser-focused on the big issues. Still no word on who will pay for climate disaster mitigation and recovery in the decades ahead, but … cakes

#nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 2h

Government to loosen rules for home-based cake makers

It's promising to make it cheaper and easier for hobby bakers to sell their goods.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 15h

Here's the job ads online index - adjusted for working-age population. Good news is that we've stopped falling. Bad news: we're back to 2012 - a low point in the economic cycle. We are facing years of stagnation / slow recovery without some kind of large, strategic intervention. [2/3]

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