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Terry Bellamak
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ALRANZ Life Member. All in for reproductive rights. Mother of Terriers.
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What are they doing over the ditch? They could have had a flacid Emissions Trading Scheme instead of these ridiculous, distorting subsidies. Idiots.
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Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point
The NActF obsession with destroying the public health system and encouraging private health insurance is one of the best reasons to vote them out next year.
#nzpol
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As Labour finance minister Grant Robertson borrowed about $140Billion between 2017 & 2023 including paying for the economic shock of Covid-19

As National finance minister Nicola Willis has borrowed >$140Billion between 2023 & 2025 what crisis has she had?

Borrowing to pay for tax cuts #NZPol
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15,000 homes that could be one solar and 🔋 to help keep the lights on

Solar up take in Australia approaches 40%

In NZ it is a pathetic 5%

Australia doing the Mahi again
And trust me, I love our solar and 🔋. Power Bill reduced and power when the grid fails.
"The state of emergency in Southland and Clutha will remain in place into next week.

Nearly 15,000 homes are still without power after severe weather downed trees and powerlines and shut down over 100 cellphone towers last week."

#nzpol #kikorangi
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I always wondered what the lead up to the Battle of Cable Street would look like if there were camera phones and I kinda imagined it would be like this.
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This guy is a pathetic douche canoe
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Meanwhile some candidates broke electoral law with zero accountability. If our progressive parties are serious about democracy, they need to commit to full local government reform including aligning our elections with the General Election. Equal representation and true democracy depend on it. 2/2
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You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage
The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.
www.rnz.co.nz
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OPINION: While ordinary workers tighten their belts, the prime minister trims his rates bill. Luxon’s government has turned Bolger’s “decent society” into a dog-eat-dog one.
From decent society to dog-eat-dog
OPINION: While ordinary workers tighten their belts, the prime minister trims his rates bill. Luxon’s government has turned Bolger’s “decent society” into a dog-eat-dog one.
dlvr.it
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Speaker Gerry Brownlee not happy about Te Pāti Māori burning a copy of the Marine and Coastal Areas Amendment Bill on Parliament steps.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Māori #MarineAndCoastalAreasAmendmentBill
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The same goes for Aotearoa NZ if the coalition of corruption has their way. #NZpol
Coming to the UK if Reform UK get into government and destroy the NHS - which is basically what they intend to do.
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Human Experience Engineering. It is a thing, if you want to avoid physical soulless monoliths devoid of human interaction!
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“We don’t have illegal aliens. The legal term for my people was slaves! The last thing that I'm going to do is accept the type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.”
~Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

Major props to the mayor for correcting their racist & dehumanizing language!

#Chicago
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This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
Baseball is weird.
Cricket is absurdist.
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Poverty costs society year on year MORE than it would cost to solve.

So why are we not fixing it?
Who is happy for society to bear the burden so that they can have more?

We would ALL be better off without poverty. But we’ve been convinced that is not the case.
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#NZpol

As we should, because we've been and *are being* absolutely spineless, we're not living up to the "values" we purport to stand for, and thus failing, completely, to abide by the very basics of this supposed "rules based order" that for us in particular is crucial to ensure *actually* exists.
“New Zealand gets directly called out by Francesca Albanese as a part of the "Third Party" nations which are collectively responsible for genocide in Gaza,”

Full report here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

www.facebook.com/share/p/17TQ...
#nzpol
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“Rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it” is absolutely what is happening with the Regulatory Standards Bill and many others in New Zealand.
With a deliberately weakened media the sheer scale and extent of the damage is unreported, normalised - and because of this, mostly irrevocable.
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Child harm is not only higher, Oranga Tamariki told Chhour they can't investigate most tips so the real numbers are worse #nzpol
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Nelson Hospital's generator failed this week for an hour. Simeon Brown labelled it "unacceptable".

This is the same Simeon who instructed authorities to do "absolute minimum" in works - even though he knows risks incl. equipment failure #nzpol
Health authorities recommend doing 'absolute minimum' to fix Auckland City Hospital
Documents show the decision could lead to critical assets failing, resulting in patient harm.
www.rnz.co.nz