Sue Marsh
@suepmarsh.bsky.social
Aussie moved to Aotearoa NZ. Grow food and despair at the state of the world. Born at 314.3 ppm.
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need a break from rest of the world so going to unfollow non kiwi. no offence. The NZ govt antics are distressing enough.
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Even more reason for us to mobilise, organise and get people to register and VOTE
#nzpol
#nzpol
Enrol or update online
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vote.nz
December 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Even more reason for us to mobilise, organise and get people to register and VOTE
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Winston Peters criticised it as a "tawdry repetition of history" and "creative accounting of the worst sort".
He's right y'know.
#nzpol
He's right y'know.
#nzpol
Government pushes ahead with sale of Chorus debt
Government pushes ahead with sale of Chorus debt
The plan is to free up money for capital projects.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Winston Peters criticised it as a "tawdry repetition of history" and "creative accounting of the worst sort".
He's right y'know.
#nzpol
He's right y'know.
#nzpol
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This will include employees contributions to KiwiSaver. Theft from the Govt and theft from staff. #nzpol
Shoplifters stealing food to feed kids get more jail time than the very rich every time and still Luxon’s limo glides away over hills…. and not far away enough
Shoplifters stealing food to feed kids get more jail time than the very rich every time and still Luxon’s limo glides away over hills…. and not far away enough
more two-tier justice system updates
massive tax evasion - home detention in his 7 million dollar home
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
massive tax evasion - home detention in his 7 million dollar home
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
High-flying Auckland super yacht designer sentenced for tax evasion
Charles Robinson will serve 11 months' home detention in a luxury $7 million house.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This will include employees contributions to KiwiSaver. Theft from the Govt and theft from staff. #nzpol
Shoplifters stealing food to feed kids get more jail time than the very rich every time and still Luxon’s limo glides away over hills…. and not far away enough
Shoplifters stealing food to feed kids get more jail time than the very rich every time and still Luxon’s limo glides away over hills…. and not far away enough
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#nzpol In the house today, Nicola Willis said that in my recent book I thought the debt limit for the government should be 80-90% of GDP. As is clear in the book - that is the Treasury's position, not mine. See P.14 of www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
#nzpol In the house today, Nicola Willis said that in my recent book I thought the debt limit for the government should be 80-90% of GDP. As is clear in the book - that is the Treasury's position, not mine. See P.14 of www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
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I'm interested to know more about street trees. But sre you sure that's the article you meant to link? It looks like it's on a completely unrelated topic.
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I'm interested to know more about street trees. But sre you sure that's the article you meant to link? It looks like it's on a completely unrelated topic.
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Street trees do more than look good—they help clean our water! 🌳💧 New research shows how green infrastructure boosts water quality. Investing in nature pays off! #ClimateAction
nature.com/articles/s44168-...
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Street trees do more than look good—they help clean our water! 🌳💧 New research shows how green infrastructure boosts water quality. Investing in nature pays off! #ClimateAction
nature.com/articles/s44168-...
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Automated fact-checking of climate claims with large language models - npj Climate Action
Accurate identification of true versus false climate information in the digital age is critical. Misinformation can significantly affect public understanding and policymaking. Automated fact-checking seeks to validate claims against trustworthy factual...
nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Street trees do more than look good—they help clean our water! 🌳💧 New research shows how green infrastructure boosts water quality. Investing in nature pays off! #ClimateAction
nature.com/articles/s44168-...
🌎🌍🌏
Street trees do more than look good—they help clean our water! 🌳💧 New research shows how green infrastructure boosts water quality. Investing in nature pays off! #ClimateAction
nature.com/articles/s44168-...
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A second levee broke south of Seattle last night as our relentless parade of atmospheric rivers continues.
Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.
Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A second levee broke south of Seattle last night as our relentless parade of atmospheric rivers continues.
Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.
Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.
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🍃🌹🌿 I’m voting #NZGreens next election =For Free #GP, #Dentist, & #Childcare; #people #planet #biodiversity #climate #payequity #evidence #health #GreenBudget #jobs #wellbeing #Democracy #Sovereignty #Gaza, #WealthTax on billionaires, & a safer future! #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
Green Budget
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
www.greens.org.nz
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
🍃🌹🌿 I’m voting #NZGreens next election =For Free #GP, #Dentist, & #Childcare; #people #planet #biodiversity #climate #payequity #evidence #health #GreenBudget #jobs #wellbeing #Democracy #Sovereignty #Gaza, #WealthTax on billionaires, & a safer future! #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
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🍃🌹🌿 #NZ Greens “Green Budget” is fully costed & fantastic. Free GPs & Dentists & childcare. Less tax for the majority of NZers, a little more for the richest few, who mostly avoid paying now, & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia’s! #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
Green Budget
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
www.greens.org.nz
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
🍃🌹🌿 #NZ Greens “Green Budget” is fully costed & fantastic. Free GPs & Dentists & childcare. Less tax for the majority of NZers, a little more for the richest few, who mostly avoid paying now, & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia’s! #nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
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🍃🌹🌿NZ Greens promise #wealth #tax as research reveals the “rich” stash $470b in trusts: #nzpol #Greens fighting #inequality & #climatechange. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Greens promise wealth tax as research reveals rich stash $470b in trusts
The golden age of stashing vast sums of money in trusts, or indeed anywhere, may be over.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
🍃🌹🌿NZ Greens promise #wealth #tax as research reveals the “rich” stash $470b in trusts: #nzpol #Greens fighting #inequality & #climatechange. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Hipkins thinks Greens are disenfranchising voters. As an ex Labour voter that became distant from Labour after Hipkins binned many progressive policies and went on to insult Wahine Māori it's your party disenfranchising people Hipkins. I'm not the only ex Labour voter thanks to you either. #nzpol
December 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Hipkins thinks Greens are disenfranchising voters. As an ex Labour voter that became distant from Labour after Hipkins binned many progressive policies and went on to insult Wahine Māori it's your party disenfranchising people Hipkins. I'm not the only ex Labour voter thanks to you either. #nzpol
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Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'.
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'.
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I'm quite critical of our media but I think it's equally important to recognise when something is done well, and this piece is really good.
Another very useful thing to come out of this case regardless of final result. Finally an on the record position from the leader on behalf of the party.
"Hipkins said Labour's position was that it was a matter for the young person concerned, their family, and their physician."
"Hipkins said Labour's position was that it was a matter for the young person concerned, their family, and their physician."
Puberty blockers ban delayed by judicial review
The ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria in young people was due to come into effect this week.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I'm quite critical of our media but I think it's equally important to recognise when something is done well, and this piece is really good.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The Green Party of Northern Ireland have hit a high of 5.1%.
This is a +3.8% swing compared to the previous NI election in 2022.
(Source: Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool - Samhain/Nov 2025)
This is a +3.8% swing compared to the previous NI election in 2022.
(Source: Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool - Samhain/Nov 2025)
December 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Green Party of Northern Ireland have hit a high of 5.1%.
This is a +3.8% swing compared to the previous NI election in 2022.
(Source: Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool - Samhain/Nov 2025)
This is a +3.8% swing compared to the previous NI election in 2022.
(Source: Institute of Irish Studies, Liverpool - Samhain/Nov 2025)
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There was a tiktok account that showed the architecture around the country built for segregation that are hidden in plain sight. Like walk up windows at diners, separate entrances at movie theaters, etc.
One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There was a tiktok account that showed the architecture around the country built for segregation that are hidden in plain sight. Like walk up windows at diners, separate entrances at movie theaters, etc.
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These southern resident Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them
Actions by heartless Trump will be final nail in the coffin of these majestic marine life as Trump threatens to stall, diminish or stop a swath of conservation studies
www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...
Actions by heartless Trump will be final nail in the coffin of these majestic marine life as Trump threatens to stall, diminish or stop a swath of conservation studies
www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...
These Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them
Inside the desperate rush to save the southern resident killer whales
www.scientificamerican.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
These southern resident Orcas Are on the Brink—And So Is the Science That Could Save Them
Actions by heartless Trump will be final nail in the coffin of these majestic marine life as Trump threatens to stall, diminish or stop a swath of conservation studies
www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...
Actions by heartless Trump will be final nail in the coffin of these majestic marine life as Trump threatens to stall, diminish or stop a swath of conservation studies
www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...
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The NZ Govt has announced that it will be reducing support for the Total Mobility scheme that subsidises travel for some disabled people
That money being taken from disabled people is 25% of the tax rebates that were introduced for a tobacco company
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
That money being taken from disabled people is 25% of the tax rebates that were introduced for a tobacco company
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Why it will soon cost more for disabled people to travel
Disability advocate Blake Forbes says the Government is severing a “lifeline” for some disabled Kiwis, after it confirmed prices would increase.
www.stuff.co.nz
December 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The NZ Govt has announced that it will be reducing support for the Total Mobility scheme that subsidises travel for some disabled people
That money being taken from disabled people is 25% of the tax rebates that were introduced for a tobacco company
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
That money being taken from disabled people is 25% of the tax rebates that were introduced for a tobacco company
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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“The green entrepreneur and Labour donor Dale Vince has faced condemnation for saying the Israeli government is partly responsible for a rise in antisemitism globally”
He’s not wrong, though, is he? To explain something is *not* to excuse or to justify it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
He’s not wrong, though, is he? To explain something is *not* to excuse or to justify it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labour donor Dale Vince criticised for post following Bondi beach attack
Tories accuse Vince of ‘morally repugnant statement’ after he says Israeli government is partly responsible for rising antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
“The green entrepreneur and Labour donor Dale Vince has faced condemnation for saying the Israeli government is partly responsible for a rise in antisemitism globally”
He’s not wrong, though, is he? To explain something is *not* to excuse or to justify it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
He’s not wrong, though, is he? To explain something is *not* to excuse or to justify it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I still remember the night they banned smoking inside NYC bars and restaurants. So many articles claiming it would be the end of NYC nightlife.
It was 2003.
Things can change. Faster than you might think.
It was 2003.
Things can change. Faster than you might think.
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I still remember the night they banned smoking inside NYC bars and restaurants. So many articles claiming it would be the end of NYC nightlife.
It was 2003.
Things can change. Faster than you might think.
It was 2003.
Things can change. Faster than you might think.
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Pretty much tbh
They want to turn NZ into a rich man’s country club. The rest of us can just stay out of sight.
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Pretty much tbh
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Seymour in the news saying he'll never stop fighting for democracy and equality, when he literally wrote a book saying be hates both #nzpol
Seymour is so full of shit, he talks about how he's fighting for democracy and equality when he loathes both, he wrote a book with a chapter called: "Democracy, too much of a good thing?" And quoted OWH saying "I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy"
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Seymour in the news saying he'll never stop fighting for democracy and equality, when he literally wrote a book saying be hates both #nzpol
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For every 1°C that we heat the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more water.
Extreme precipitation willl become more frequent putting people living near seasonal rivers at great risk.
We need robust early warning systems for people living near rivers!
youtu.be/93K0ZyfTUPs
#ClimateLiteracy
Extreme precipitation willl become more frequent putting people living near seasonal rivers at great risk.
We need robust early warning systems for people living near rivers!
youtu.be/93K0ZyfTUPs
#ClimateLiteracy
Flash floods kill dozens in Moroccan town of Safi • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
For every 1°C that we heat the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more water.
Extreme precipitation willl become more frequent putting people living near seasonal rivers at great risk.
We need robust early warning systems for people living near rivers!
youtu.be/93K0ZyfTUPs
#ClimateLiteracy
Extreme precipitation willl become more frequent putting people living near seasonal rivers at great risk.
We need robust early warning systems for people living near rivers!
youtu.be/93K0ZyfTUPs
#ClimateLiteracy
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Can we please all, collectively, and finally, use our vote to tell Seymour to fuck off?
December 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Can we please all, collectively, and finally, use our vote to tell Seymour to fuck off?