The Cat's Whiskers
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This timelapse of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke today is awe inspiring.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlu7...
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Hīkoi mō te Tiriti - A Time-lapse of the Hikoi Protest rolling down Manners St Wellington
YouTube video by The Traffic Fox / Traffic Updates HKW
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Astonishing turnout
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Oh and remeber it came out that seymour didnt even have to fight for it, didnt have to make it his red line issue. Luxon didnt even have the political instincts to know this was toxic waste
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Oh and remeber it came out that seymour didnt even have to fight for it, didnt have to make it his red line issue. Luxon didnt even have the political instincts to know this was toxic waste
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I'm sorry but what fucked up world is this????!! Why is this not the biggest headline this week??
Nat and NZF agreed to pass a law they don't like just so they could form a government? What info is Seymour blackmailing them with??
Absolute fucking spineless IDIOTS!! 🤬🤬🤬
Govt of integrity my ass.
Nat and NZF agreed to pass a law they don't like just so they could form a government? What info is Seymour blackmailing them with??
Absolute fucking spineless IDIOTS!! 🤬🤬🤬
Govt of integrity my ass.
I do not know off the top of head what is in the oath an incoming government makes to the Governor General, but it seems like passing legislation you actually think is bad should be some kind of breach of it
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'It's not impossible': Willis says National may join other parties to repeal Regulatory Standards Act
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'm sorry but what fucked up world is this????!! Why is this not the biggest headline this week??
Nat and NZF agreed to pass a law they don't like just so they could form a government? What info is Seymour blackmailing them with??
Absolute fucking spineless IDIOTS!! 🤬🤬🤬
Govt of integrity my ass.
Nat and NZF agreed to pass a law they don't like just so they could form a government? What info is Seymour blackmailing them with??
Absolute fucking spineless IDIOTS!! 🤬🤬🤬
Govt of integrity my ass.
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Speaking of things that aged like wine, back on Twitter I remember @lewsos.bsky.social said that he thought Luxon had the skillset to be PM and we just had to see whether he would utilise it appropriately
Oh Lew. The optimism was nice, in retrospect
Oh Lew. The optimism was nice, in retrospect
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Speaking of things that aged like wine, back on Twitter I remember @lewsos.bsky.social said that he thought Luxon had the skillset to be PM and we just had to see whether he would utilise it appropriately
Oh Lew. The optimism was nice, in retrospect
Oh Lew. The optimism was nice, in retrospect
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#NZpol
Absolutely unacceptable given rising unemployment overall + losing plane after plane of good people offshore!
PSA's Fleur Fitzsimons:
"These figures show that delays in recruitment are a deliberate cost-saving tactic, driven by the government's failure to fund the health system properly."
Absolutely unacceptable given rising unemployment overall + losing plane after plane of good people offshore!
PSA's Fleur Fitzsimons:
"These figures show that delays in recruitment are a deliberate cost-saving tactic, driven by the government's failure to fund the health system properly."
Wellington Hospitals waiting up to six months for Health NZ approval to recruit
Data obtained under the Official Information Act shows 219 recruitment requests took more than two months to be approved, 91 waited more than 20 weeks, and 45 roles applied for in March were still vac...
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
#NZpol
Absolutely unacceptable given rising unemployment overall + losing plane after plane of good people offshore!
PSA's Fleur Fitzsimons:
"These figures show that delays in recruitment are a deliberate cost-saving tactic, driven by the government's failure to fund the health system properly."
Absolutely unacceptable given rising unemployment overall + losing plane after plane of good people offshore!
PSA's Fleur Fitzsimons:
"These figures show that delays in recruitment are a deliberate cost-saving tactic, driven by the government's failure to fund the health system properly."
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Unlike the majority of other winners, just lacking actual train services 🫠
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Unlike the majority of other winners, just lacking actual train services 🫠
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The previously unknown gold, well mapped by prospectors who knew about it in the late 19th century:
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The previously unknown gold, well mapped by prospectors who knew about it in the late 19th century:
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NZ national’s had a ‘deplorables’ moment. While bottom feeders’ should have haunted National but hasn’t (because poor & vulnerable communities are not the focus of this particular govt) calling the actions of middle class communities supporting Triti in schools, ‘disgusting’ will haunt them #nzpol
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
NZ national’s had a ‘deplorables’ moment. While bottom feeders’ should have haunted National but hasn’t (because poor & vulnerable communities are not the focus of this particular govt) calling the actions of middle class communities supporting Triti in schools, ‘disgusting’ will haunt them #nzpol
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A manifestation of Simeon Brown's faith-based brain-fart reckons vs all the experts in the world and a mountain of facts and evidence.😡
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
Fears thousands of medicinal cannabis users set to be caught out in new drug-driving laws
It comes as police prepare to test drivers as part of a nationwide rollout of new driving laws.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
A manifestation of Simeon Brown's faith-based brain-fart reckons vs all the experts in the world and a mountain of facts and evidence.😡
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
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#NZPOL Mr wealthy and sorted knows just what it’s like for the wet and whiney.l. He’s just like the common person… he s gotta work work work, there’s bills he’s gotta pay
Contributions may be offset by “lower-than-otherwise wage increases” in the public sector, but National says it has always been the case with KiwiSaver.
National admits KiwiSaver changes may affect public sector pay
Contributions may be offset by “lower-than-otherwise wage increases” in the public sector, but National says it has always been the case with KiwiSaver.
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
#NZPOL Mr wealthy and sorted knows just what it’s like for the wet and whiney.l. He’s just like the common person… he s gotta work work work, there’s bills he’s gotta pay
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Sounding awfully familiar.
#NZPOL
#NZPOL
Hundreds of jobs destroyed at the iconic CSIRO while we subsidise the US and UK military industrial establishments with no guarantee of ever receiving nuclear powered subs designed to attack China, our most important trading partner. Militarism gone mad! Well said Ed Husic 👏
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sounding awfully familiar.
#NZPOL
#NZPOL
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In the last few days Hipkins has categorically ruled out a wealth tax or expanded CGT, and said that it will be a bottom line for Labour to NOT support those measures in any negotiations.
Could he be more uninspiring? Seems Labour have settled on "Better things aren't possible" as a slogan🤦🏽♂️
#nzpol
Could he be more uninspiring? Seems Labour have settled on "Better things aren't possible" as a slogan🤦🏽♂️
#nzpol
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In the last few days Hipkins has categorically ruled out a wealth tax or expanded CGT, and said that it will be a bottom line for Labour to NOT support those measures in any negotiations.
Could he be more uninspiring? Seems Labour have settled on "Better things aren't possible" as a slogan🤦🏽♂️
#nzpol
Could he be more uninspiring? Seems Labour have settled on "Better things aren't possible" as a slogan🤦🏽♂️
#nzpol
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This government is failing us, and leaving feels like my own personal “fuck you”. The fact that there’s thousands of others just like me is enough of a statement itself.
#nzpol
#nzpol
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This government is failing us, and leaving feels like my own personal “fuck you”. The fact that there’s thousands of others just like me is enough of a statement itself.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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If any other political party pulled what Nats have on Kiwisaver this week and the comments on the regulatory standards bill, they would have been raked over the coals given their history. No one would have made it out alive from the news cycle.
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If any other political party pulled what Nats have on Kiwisaver this week and the comments on the regulatory standards bill, they would have been raked over the coals given their history. No one would have made it out alive from the news cycle.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Everyday I wake to headlines that baffle me. Both good and bad.
The bad stuff is absurd & I'm shocked when anything good comes out of this shitty timeline we're living through.
What's kept me going is the progressive community that has risen up to make it a better world, esp the #bhn fam ❤️
The bad stuff is absurd & I'm shocked when anything good comes out of this shitty timeline we're living through.
What's kept me going is the progressive community that has risen up to make it a better world, esp the #bhn fam ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Everyday I wake to headlines that baffle me. Both good and bad.
The bad stuff is absurd & I'm shocked when anything good comes out of this shitty timeline we're living through.
What's kept me going is the progressive community that has risen up to make it a better world, esp the #bhn fam ❤️
The bad stuff is absurd & I'm shocked when anything good comes out of this shitty timeline we're living through.
What's kept me going is the progressive community that has risen up to make it a better world, esp the #bhn fam ❤️
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So good:
“Every bike you pass represents one less car in front of you at the lights.”
In other words, politicians have a choice: make a bunch of motorists mad once by building a bike lane or two, or make thousands of them intermittently mad indefinitely.
#nzpol #urbanism #bikeAKL #LoveToRide
“Every bike you pass represents one less car in front of you at the lights.”
In other words, politicians have a choice: make a bunch of motorists mad once by building a bike lane or two, or make thousands of them intermittently mad indefinitely.
#nzpol #urbanism #bikeAKL #LoveToRide
Why are New Zealand drivers so aggro?
Anyone who’s ridden a bike or scooter on our roads has a story about a driver seemingly wanting to murder them.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So good:
“Every bike you pass represents one less car in front of you at the lights.”
In other words, politicians have a choice: make a bunch of motorists mad once by building a bike lane or two, or make thousands of them intermittently mad indefinitely.
#nzpol #urbanism #bikeAKL #LoveToRide
“Every bike you pass represents one less car in front of you at the lights.”
In other words, politicians have a choice: make a bunch of motorists mad once by building a bike lane or two, or make thousands of them intermittently mad indefinitely.
#nzpol #urbanism #bikeAKL #LoveToRide
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“Other small, successful democracies have far fewer ministries&ministers in central govt than in NZ, with far more power & resource retained by local communities. Governance is close to the grassroots, & the principles of localism & subsidiarity allow for a high degree of local decision-making.”
Anne Salmond: We're reforming the wrong part of government
Coalition Govt ministers insist their reform of regional councils is 'not a power grab' - but all the evidence suggests the opposite, to democracy's detriment
newsroom.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Other small, successful democracies have far fewer ministries&ministers in central govt than in NZ, with far more power & resource retained by local communities. Governance is close to the grassroots, & the principles of localism & subsidiarity allow for a high degree of local decision-making.”
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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If you are flying this week
you need to be prepared:
always bring an extra book,
don’t pack too much,
check often for delays,
get to the airport early,
but most importantly
be sure to wear a mask,
for airplanes are not
the only airborne thing
for which you need to be prepared.
you need to be prepared:
always bring an extra book,
don’t pack too much,
check often for delays,
get to the airport early,
but most importantly
be sure to wear a mask,
for airplanes are not
the only airborne thing
for which you need to be prepared.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you are flying this week
you need to be prepared:
always bring an extra book,
don’t pack too much,
check often for delays,
get to the airport early,
but most importantly
be sure to wear a mask,
for airplanes are not
the only airborne thing
for which you need to be prepared.
you need to be prepared:
always bring an extra book,
don’t pack too much,
check often for delays,
get to the airport early,
but most importantly
be sure to wear a mask,
for airplanes are not
the only airborne thing
for which you need to be prepared.
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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.
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The government’s god-awful plan for regional councils will further reduce the already lax and under-resourced oversight of destructive behaviours like this 👇
#nzpol
#nzpol
Despite warnings, between 1 Feb – 3 Oct 2023, 26 inspections found effluent being discharged from a piggery to adjacent land then flowing into streams that flow to the Waihou River. Yes, they’ve been fined, but it's repeated environmental & health vandalism and the piggery can still operate 🧵
Watch: Raw effluent from piggery gushes into local streams
Toxic effluent from the farm polluted streams feeding the Waihou River.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The government’s god-awful plan for regional councils will further reduce the already lax and under-resourced oversight of destructive behaviours like this 👇
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Truly one of the most bizarre portraits ever
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Truly one of the most bizarre portraits ever
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Captures the mood of much of the country under this government - bleak, with a sense that everything is broken, that there is no opportunity for young people to get ahead, and that the government simply doesn't care.
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Captures the mood of much of the country under this government - bleak, with a sense that everything is broken, that there is no opportunity for young people to get ahead, and that the government simply doesn't care.