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Amanda
@ajrouse.bsky.social
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🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍅🇵🇸💉She/her. Twitter’s gone to hell. I’ve worked in health for over 30 years. Originally from the UK but have lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for 23 years
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I'm loaded,
I'm greedy,
What do you mean,
"Rates rebates are
for the needy?"

I'm wealthy,
I'm entitled,
All this free stull,
Makes me delighted!

I'm rich,
I'm sorted,
What do you mean,
"Go and get rorted?"

I'm minted,
I'm a millionaire,
Ask me anything else,
I'm unaware!
#NZPol
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Wright Family Foundation receives over $300 million of taxpayers' funding & posts $41.6 million op. profit. The business was converted to a "charity" & pays no tax.
The Wright Family bankrolled Sean Plunkett & The Platform, which regularly attacks govt 'handouts' #nzpol
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Rich-lister controlled charity posts surplus after Govt funding boost to its childcare centres
BestStart is the largest operator in the early childhood sector, with over 260 centres.
www.nzherald.co.nz
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Also, librarians typically require postgraduate training

There is no such requirement for being a Fisheries Officer (though they do see a degree or postgrad qualification as helpful, neither are entry requirements)

So maybe librarians should be paid more than Fisheries Officers
Here's roughly how Librarian can be compared to a Fisheries Officer: While seemingly different, librarian & fisheries officer both play roles involving info & resource management, require a certain level of knowledge & skills, including communication, research, & problem-solving, serving the public🔚
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Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. 🩷

This government didn’t give roses, they gave austerity with a pink bow.🎀

They scrapped pay equity claims. Silenced working mothers.

Locked in a future where daughters inherit the same injustice.

We will fight for equity, for our mothers and our daughters 🫶🏾

#NZPol
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Health NZ providing a $285m uplift for general practice over three years

There are 1000 practices in NZ

Thats $95k each a year, which is 1 Practice nurse

#nzpol
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New Zealand Winter Games canned after 15 years
Not the growth Willis & Luxon harp on about. So much for improving the economy
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The Ministry for Regulation is consulting on a proposed Regulatory Standards Bill - As it is currently conceived it is a constitutional entrenchment of neoliberal principles, with an accumulation of power in the hands of the Minister for Regulation.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-re...
Why the Regulatory Standards Bill is a Very Bad Idea
The individualism and private property protection Bill David Seymour’s proposed Regulatory Standards Bill seeks to give primacy to two things: individualism and private property. Those two things are ...
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Gonna tell everyone that this is how people in New Zealand do Christmas trees...
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Last post on the ferries**...
Has Willis costed in the extra $325m in maintenance costs for the current ferries?
Cos they're at $65m per year, and 2029 is y'know..5 years away

#nzpol

**it will not be the last post on the ferries
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Zuru’s Nick Mowbray opposes #WorkerRights as they can cause long legal disputes. #NZpol
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/unj...
Unlike his dispute with Lego (lost)
www.odt.co.nz/business/kiw...
Or nappies brand Rascal ...
businessdesk.co.nz/article/law-...
Or Glassdoor (won)
www.webworm.co/p/zurusucks
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How many times have you watched this clip today?
I've watched it over and over.
The power and emotion gives me goosebumps.
I'm also deeply deeply sorry that this appalling government has made it necessary.