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Janet Greig

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Vegetarian. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️ #FuckThePatriarchy #TeamSussex Levin, NZ Aotearoa 🇳🇿

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · Jul 24

Where are the ferries??? ⛴️ ⛴️ ⛴️ #NicolaNoBoats
This National led #CoalitionOfChaos have stolen all the/our money allocated for ferries ⛴️ hospitals/health 🏥 schools 🏫 teachers 👩‍🏫 pay equity 👫🏻 & the environment 🌳.
To spend it on landlords, and on trying to erase Māori, te Reo, & Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Nicola Willis's NZ Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government” - but it’s been spent on the richest, & stolen from the poorest NZers #nzpol
thestandard.org.nz/nicola-willi...

Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government

Current & planned debt will surpass Labour’s full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson’s bar Covid.

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 14h

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44/44 words (+14 bonus words)
📖 In the top 6% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 318

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 1d

Ray Chung may have been democratically elected, but Andrew Little should not have given him a Committee Chair, given his absolutely disgusting, abusive, and misogynistic conduct.

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Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 1d

Unions Wellington asked, "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦. 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮?"
This was my answer
nzpol #health #privatisation
unionnursegrant.org/2025/10/29/p...

Privatising healthcare – Kōrero at the Unions Wellington Labour Day panel

Unions Wellington asks: People may have heard that the government has increasingly outsourced hospital procedures to private hospitals in order to meet care targets, often at great expense. Wh…

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

It's genocide. That's all it has ever been.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate "powerful" strikes in Gaza.

Netanyahu says remains returned by Hamas are body parts of a hostage previously retrieved in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the remains of a hostage returned by Hamas overnight are body parts of a hostage who was recovered in Gaza by Israeli troops almost two years ago.

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Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 1d

I'm reading the new Social Sciences curriculum content and I wasn't prepared for how sad I would feel. We spent thousands of hours working with the previous iteration and the NZ history content and all that enthusiasm and excitement was just killed for something so bad.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever wondered how amazingly short sighted the NZ fishing industry is, get this: as orange roughy numbers collapsed, fishing companies targeted spawning events to catch their quota. They deliberately disrupted the production of the next generation of fish. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/30/g...

Govt to restrict bottom trawling during orange roughy spawn

Allowable catch in the troubled East and South Chatham Rise fishery has been slashed by 88 percent.

newsroom.co.nz

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol The CTU is releasing the latest policy on its programme for the next election - a New Deal for Workers. Fair Pay Agreements. Preventing workers from being forced to be contractors, when they are really employees. Simplifying access to
Unions.

More at: union.org.nz/wp-content/u...

union.org.nz

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 1d

"Property investors want Labour to keep tax break for landlords"

Labour: Sharn't
#NZPol

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks 😁

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes economists say the dumbest things. Yes, house prices have to rise for capital gains to be a thing. But then, people have to have jobs for PAYE to be a thing, and that’s also looking pretty bloody tenuous these days

#nzpol

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

Labour's capital gains tax relies on house price rises - economist

Meanwhile, property investors want Labour to promise to keep existing tax breaks for landlords alongside its capital gains tax plan.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 1d

'What's good for Māori is good for workers' - iwi and unions unite in solidarity
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

'What's good for Māori is good for workers' - iwi and unions unite in solidarity

The mobilisation coincided with the 190th anniversary of He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni (the Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand) and the first Labour Day ...

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Toby Morris @xtotl.bsky.social · 1d

People Watching: Royal New Zealand Ballet, St James Theatre, Wellington, as they prepare for their new production of The Nutcracker

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Cilla Wehi @cillaw.bsky.social · 1d

I attended the Royal Society #NZ awards last night. A beautiful event with inspiring winners from Logan Walker on RNA splicing and genetic health (Liley medal) to Jacinta Ruru on legal personhood and legislative reimagining (Aronui medal). Any reporting of this in NZ? I’ve seen nothing. 🧪

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

NZ gov make the rules, they made the gentailers, they made the cartel that keeps our power prices high

They make a shit ton of money off kiwi's in terms of dividends paid to the gov through majority shareholdings

They keep fossil fuels in the mix because it makes money for them

Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Your high power bills are a political choice.

"We’re Digging Deeper to Make Your Power Bill Steeper!" is a literal description of how the Luxon Government and the Big Four power companies are colluding to keep you paying more.

Christopher Luxon and three other men hold hands against a backdrop of oil wells, burning hillsides and dead animals.

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 1d

“So either he’s (Luxon) totally insincere, and he was bullshitting me, or he’s incompetent and doesn’t realise that he, himself – and his own Government, the people he’s put in power – have signed off on pennies on the dollar for scientific funding in this country"

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Nicola Willis. On RNZ going on a bullshit attack about the leaking of the policy rather than any substance questions.
She had no substance questions. Was it fair to give tobacco free money or landlord welfare that broke the bank.
She throws up red herrings.

We need a capital gains tax.

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Wednesday and Israel is bombing Gaza after already violating the ceasefire 124 times

Rally for Palestine
1.00pm
Saturday November 1st
Bridge of Remembrance
Ōtautahi

#NZPol

Photo from the rally on 25th October

Several people are holding up a banner with the Palestinian flag in the centre

Left side says “Let Gaza Live”
Right side says “Boycott Israeli Apartheid”

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

Coalition attack on the CGT will be a wild shit show of lies.
It will be evidence and fact free, made up of unsubstantiated anecdotes and weird stories.

Remember her “snakes and snails” and “fiscally neutral” lies? They cost billions in debt for NOTHING - less than nothing.

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 1d

😂🤣😂 🌟🌟🌟

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 1d

The feckin’ wind.
My Stuff #cartoon today #Wind #ClimateChange

Cartoon. Title: “A Thought for the Sorely Tested” Image shows three figures. The first on is grimacing, walking into a gale. Underneath it says, “A pessimist complains about the wind” The second has a smiling person hanging onto a pole, having been blown off their feet, and their dog also blown off their feet. Beneath it says, “The optimist expects it to change” The third image shows a woman with the wind behind her, struggling with her skirt and coat that are wrapped around her head. Below it says, “The realist adjusts the sails” At the bottom it says, “Penned by Readers Digest Epigram Writer William Arthur Ward”

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

i think Labour's tax plan should be stronger, but the full media & economist press against it is fucking ridiculous & shows the majority of these institutions have heavy political bias. You *barely* see "this is why National's plan won't work" while they're in GOVERNMENT & openly destroying things!

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

will be on Kathryn Ryan's show on RNZ in 20 min or so about this. anybody know if I'm allowed to say "batshit" on the radio?

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis

does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain

Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest.

newsroom.co.nz

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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhh 😔 I’m sorry to hear that. 🫂❤️🫂 That’s good you’re taking time out away from the internet and all the bad news. (Why is it never good news going on? 😭)
Be gentle on yourself 💖🌸💖🌸💖

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1d

Rewriting history is common a fascist pastime, alongside starving the poor and fuelling hatred against minorities.

Now they’re crowing about it.

But they got there through a concerted control of the cultural narrative and this is just the start.

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