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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 3h

Prices are high because the system is working as it was designed to work – in the interests of gentailer shareholders – not NZ households!
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Why are our power bills so high in NZ? - Greenpeace Aotearoa

TLDR: the big four power companies are cooking the books and the climate.

www.greenpeace.org

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 13h

This is Andrea at her pure best. Phenomenal column.

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Craig Wright-St Clair @craigwrightstclair.bsky.social · 11h

Closeup image of the sun
If god wanted us to have unlimited free energy he'd have put a giant fusion reactor in the sky

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 13h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point

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Terry Bellamak @tbellamak.bsky.social · 10h

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

joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 13h

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 13h

that's why ACT NAT NZF want it

#nzpol

joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 13h

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 12h

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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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 14h

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.

Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 14h

"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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Goth Goad (Halloween Expert) @goad.bsky.social · 15h

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.

Turning Point United Kingdom influencer with bean juice on his face.

Post reads "Antifa thugs threw a full tin of beans for attending a mass-deportation protest."

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Mana Serving Diva @misswhanau.bsky.social · 14h

This guy is a pathetic douche canoe

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Mana Serving Diva @misswhanau.bsky.social · 2d

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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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

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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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 19h

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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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 16h

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

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and MP Tākuta Ferris setting fire to a copy of the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) (Customary Marine Title) Amendment Bill on Parliament steps. Racing down the steps behind them, waving his arms in the air, is Speaker Gerry Brownlee, shouting, “Stop! STOP! That is the dumbest thing you could possibly do. It is unacceptably irresponsible… Here, take the keys to the protest LandRover and drive up the steps instead!”

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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social · 22h

The same goes for Aotearoa NZ if the coalition of corruption has their way. #NZpol

Rev’d Rick Ormrod @rickormrod.bsky.social · 3d

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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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 1d

Human Experience Engineering. It is a thing, if you want to avoid physical soulless monoliths devoid of human interaction!

Human urban eco systems
Lots of little things = eco system
One or two big things = Monoculture

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Terry Bellamak @tbellamak.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball is weird.
Cricket is absurdist.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 1d

#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.

Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 1d

“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.

Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it. They will take your money, they will steal your freedom, and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.
Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

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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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

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

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