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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 1d

I particularly laughed at the lack of conscience available amongst Govt MPs. Seems they are the last ones to notice

Last week, a conscience vote on a Government bill fell over

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, the regime's "redress scheme" for abuse in care - a crime against humanity - requires criminal background checks and a presumption against any redress for serious sexuala nd violent offenders (which the state created with its abuse) www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

Redress System for Abuse in Care Bill 209-1 (2025), Government Bill Contents – New Zealand Legislation

www.legislation.govt.nz

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 1d

But Prime Minister Christopher assured us he was committed...

PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 1d

We knew everyone on our party line, and they knew us.

Sadly, it defined a generations approach to privacy - there was no expectation of it at all...

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 2d

Fwiw, red clover has been incredibly important to NZ agriculture for over a century

It fixes nitrogen (reducing dependence on fertilizers), it is (fairly) drought resistant (extending the grazing season), and it is a good quality stock feed (in moderation). And popular with bees.

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 2d

Alternatively, people could realise that road cones are a red herring, and are not the reason NZ has increasing debt, increasing unemployment, low productivity
#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

The Government may need to “adapt” its strategy for this war on road cones, van Velden said, after being asked to respond to new research,

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

And now, Fonterra has sold the parts of their business that added value to our milk production - while we take all the consequences of the high production

Minister Seymour may claim NZ has the most productive farmers, but once farmers in Niger Delta were told the same by the oil companies

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

"Climate Change Minister Simon Watts said the government remained committed to New Zealand's climate change commitments "

So committed that "The Government has almost halved New Zealand’s target for reducing the emission of climate-warming methane gas"

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

"It would rely heavily on possible scientific solutions to reduce methane emissions"

This is 100% lobbyist talking point.

NZ needs a Chief Science Officer who will bring so reality to those conversations, rather than relying on the scientific interpretation of Todd McLay and Simon Watts

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

This is the first year I have sat down and asked AI to create profiles of each for the candidates and their historical activities

It's vulnerable to anyone who has cleansed their timeline, but for someone not on FB or Twitter, and who has spent hours doing this manually in the past, this was great

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, that campaign stuff about a return to localism, and less centralized power didn't last long after people voted.

I find that funny from a Govt that keeps saying Councils weren't the right kind of democracy if they didn't hold referendums on Maori wards

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 3d

“Shane Jones throws a tantrum that anyone else or any other body can make rules for the fishing industry that is bribing the shit out of him, and demands that all authority over fisheries be placed in his hands so he can make more money”

- Corrected the headline

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

The arrogance of the Council using the law to get things done. No wonder Shane Jones is upset.

The slight irony is, that like so many of Coalition policies, when the Govt chose amended the RMA in 2023 and 2024, the Govt circumvented review by the Govts Ministry of Regulation

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 4d

“With COVID, vaccines, Lyme disease, any of it — I’m not your enemy,” I told my seatmate as we were getting ready to disembark. “And I know you’re not the enemy, either.”
“True,” he agreed. “But they always want to make someone your enemy.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/infect...

I Sat Next To An Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorist On A Plane. Then I Told Him What I Do For A Living.

"As someone who recently completed 15 years of training to become an infectious diseases physician-scientist, I can’t avoid these conversations."

www.huffpost.com

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

Two lessons I have learnt from the local body elections
- sometimes in a democracy there is no real choice
- being able to use AI made selecting candidates so much faster than previous years of reviewing to try to figure out which of them is a nut job

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 4d

A beautiful Freudian slip there at 0:46

"We will not be delivering"

At least she was honest there. Increasing Crown debt by $27.7 billion in six months while cutting services, and not having a pandemic to worry about is definitely "not delivering"

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 4d

And despite all those claims in 2023 of being open and evidence based, "The prime minister says he's "really comfortable" with the public not knowing the reoffending rate for the coalition's pilot boot camp programme"

Time the PM read the Abuse in Care executive summary. And kept to his word

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 4d

This is the same PM who said:

"I don't care what you say about whether it does or doesn't work. We can have that intellectual conversation all day long, but we are, dammit, going to try something different because we cannot carry on getting the results that we've been getting (sic)."

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 4d

A comparison:

20% reoffending vs 70% reoffending
No prizes for guessing which one our PM supports

Our kids are too important to be political pawns. Our PM needs to realise that some of them may not actually move to Australia, and these are our future citizens

#nzpol #bootcamps

Iwi-led youth scheme outshines bootcamps in cutting reoffending
https://www.stuff.co.nz/te-ao-maori/360845064/iwi-led-youth-scheme-outshines-bootcamps-cutting-reoffending

Military style bootcamps: Seven of 10 participants reoffended but official says there were ‘successes’

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/military-style-bootcamps-seven-participants-reoffended-but-official-says-there-were-successes/ZT64KFHPJNAGNIS3V6ZJVN6JTA/

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes it feels like I am the only person Jeffrey Epstein never visited at home, never golf played with, never invited to a party, never shared a plane ride with. If only I could figure out what those people have in common...

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 7d

ACT sinking to TPM levels in the latest Curia poll at www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT

They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance

#nzpol

Party vote
Labour 31.2%, down 2.6 points
National 29.6%, down 3.5
Greens 12%, up 1.3
NZ First 10.6%, up 2.5
ACT 6.6%, down 0.1
Te Pāti Māori 4.4%, up 0.1

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 8d

PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia. Here’s my daily Chorus email newsletter, video and podcast. The newsletter is open to all, while the full video and podcast are for paying subscribers. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/pm-tells-j...

PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia.

PM says: "If you want a job, you go where the jobs are." He points to 'plenty of jobs' in horticulture in Hawkes Bay. Hipkins says: "NZers are hearing that signal & leaving the country - 200 a day."

thekaka.substack.com

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 7d

"It's an entitlement that I have and I'm just entitled to the entitlements that everyone else has. It's an entitlement. I'm entitled to my entitlements"
source: an anonymous PM

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 8d

Hey remember when Brooke van Velden pretended she was really shocked to be called a cunt about stealing women's money and made a big song and dance of it in Parliament? But it didn't work and none of us forgot that she stole our money?

Thinking about that for no reason in particular #nzpol

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 7d

In 1984, the Govt altered what Truth was through historical revisionsim, doublethink and the use of language and fear.

NZ is showing that it works.
The US is showing what happens

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