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I'm not going to vote for Chris
January 19, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I'm not going to vote for Chris
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I hold together a bunch of people who neither agree nor like each other, doesn’t sound like the flex that Luxon says it is.
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I hold together a bunch of people who neither agree nor like each other, doesn’t sound like the flex that Luxon says it is.
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“With her usual searing insight, Emily Writes wrote:
This fantasy that the country shuts down is only one in the minds of those people who don’t see working class people.
People like Luxon don’t see who is serving them their flat whites & mimosas, who is stitching up their foot..”- Dr Bex #nzpol
This fantasy that the country shuts down is only one in the minds of those people who don’t see working class people.
People like Luxon don’t see who is serving them their flat whites & mimosas, who is stitching up their foot..”- Dr Bex #nzpol
Only millionaires would complain about other people's holidays
And forget about unpaid family carers
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“With her usual searing insight, Emily Writes wrote:
This fantasy that the country shuts down is only one in the minds of those people who don’t see working class people.
People like Luxon don’t see who is serving them their flat whites & mimosas, who is stitching up their foot..”- Dr Bex #nzpol
This fantasy that the country shuts down is only one in the minds of those people who don’t see working class people.
People like Luxon don’t see who is serving them their flat whites & mimosas, who is stitching up their foot..”- Dr Bex #nzpol
I’m confused. Is having a job leave balance bad, or is taking a holiday bad?
Pick a lane.
Pick a lane.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I’m confused. Is having a job leave balance bad, or is taking a holiday bad?
Pick a lane.
Pick a lane.
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Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
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Stanford played a role in the writing of the senior English curriculum, reviewing documents and providing feedback to Ministry officials on at least 10 February, 14 March and 27 March.
Stanford Admits Involvement in the Development of the Senior English Curriculum
While it is usual for a Minister to be aware of the different iterations of a curriculum, it is unusual for a Minister to have input. And yet, this is exactly what has happened with the Engli…
bevanholloway.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Stanford played a role in the writing of the senior English curriculum, reviewing documents and providing feedback to Ministry officials on at least 10 February, 14 March and 27 March.
Albany park and ride is full of recreational fishermen about to convoy in protest.
And it’s a glamour day on the water.
This govt is achieving unprecedented political engagement.
And it’s a glamour day on the water.
This govt is achieving unprecedented political engagement.
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Albany park and ride is full of recreational fishermen about to convoy in protest.
And it’s a glamour day on the water.
This govt is achieving unprecedented political engagement.
And it’s a glamour day on the water.
This govt is achieving unprecedented political engagement.
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Auckland’s traffic is bad because we built all our houses in Massey and Papakura to avoid upsetting the inhospitable residents of our inner city suburbs thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-1...
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Auckland’s traffic is bad because we built all our houses in Massey and Papakura to avoid upsetting the inhospitable residents of our inner city suburbs thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-1...
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"She seemed to be focusing all the time on the employers and I sat and listened to it for a little while and then I just couldn't stand it" - Sonya Rockhouse. #PikeRiver
Meeting with govt 'complete waste of time', Pike River families say
Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse sat down with Brooke van Velden on the 15th anniversary of the disaster: "She seemed to be focusing all the time on the employers."
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"She seemed to be focusing all the time on the employers and I sat and listened to it for a little while and then I just couldn't stand it" - Sonya Rockhouse. #PikeRiver
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This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.
NEW: Chris Bishop used housing money to fund a bridge in his electorate his own Govt had killed off.
Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Chris Bishop diverts Kāinga Ora money to fund a bridge in his electorate
Officials warned against the use of housing funds for bridge building but Bishop says it was a “pragmatic choice”.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.
Interviewing a Mitsubishi dealer about the EV market seems poorly targeted RNZ
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Interviewing a Mitsubishi dealer about the EV market seems poorly targeted RNZ
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
My son wanted to be a cop until he interacted with some. Cultures replicate themselves even before recruitment.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My son wanted to be a cop until he interacted with some. Cultures replicate themselves even before recruitment.
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it would be cool if we had a functioning media who could ask this dipshit if he agrees with *that* dipshit's regime disappearing citizens of his own country illegally, instead of sycophantically asking about golf and how much they flattered each other.
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
it would be cool if we had a functioning media who could ask this dipshit if he agrees with *that* dipshit's regime disappearing citizens of his own country illegally, instead of sycophantically asking about golf and how much they flattered each other.
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Letter to Stanford from
The NZ History Teachers’ Association about that complete fuck up of a social sciences curriculum #nzpol
The NZ History Teachers’ Association about that complete fuck up of a social sciences curriculum #nzpol
NZHTA Special Pānui 29 October
mailchi.mp
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Letter to Stanford from
The NZ History Teachers’ Association about that complete fuck up of a social sciences curriculum #nzpol
The NZ History Teachers’ Association about that complete fuck up of a social sciences curriculum #nzpol
The education minister just dismissed educational theory as “nerdy stuff”.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The education minister just dismissed educational theory as “nerdy stuff”.
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I feel like this entire story is getting an international relations expert to tell us things that we all knew and have known for some time as if they are revelations. But perhaps they are revelations to our hapless government.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
October 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I feel like this entire story is getting an international relations expert to tell us things that we all knew and have known for some time as if they are revelations. But perhaps they are revelations to our hapless government.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
TIL they made Weekend at Bernie’s II.
October 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
TIL they made Weekend at Bernie’s II.
How much chat traffic on Teams is debates and questions about how Teams actually works?
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
How much chat traffic on Teams is debates and questions about how Teams actually works?
TBF Reducing emissions controls so that climate change will interrupt protest marches is a boss move.
October 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
TBF Reducing emissions controls so that climate change will interrupt protest marches is a boss move.