Auntymaimai
@auntymaimai.bsky.social
Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau/Airangi/Kōtirana/Bohemia. Therapist/Writer/Guidance Counsellor/Teacher/Facilitator/Optimist/Learner.
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How to reduce youth offending? Better housing!
Research shows offending decreased among teens living in public housing or getting accommodation supplement. Kids are able to attend school and develop community bonds. Parents spend more time with their kids.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Research shows offending decreased among teens living in public housing or getting accommodation supplement. Kids are able to attend school and develop community bonds. Parents spend more time with their kids.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Youth offending drops with safe, stable housing - study
The study found that 3 years after moving into public housing, alleged offences and court charges among young people reduced by 11.7 percent and 10.9 percent more than the general population.
www.rnz.co.nz
June 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
How to reduce youth offending? Better housing!
Research shows offending decreased among teens living in public housing or getting accommodation supplement. Kids are able to attend school and develop community bonds. Parents spend more time with their kids.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Research shows offending decreased among teens living in public housing or getting accommodation supplement. Kids are able to attend school and develop community bonds. Parents spend more time with their kids.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My husband is a teacher aide and I'm a teacher trained school counsellor. This feels personal.
#nzpol Today’s Budget takes $12.8bn from low-income, female dominated workforces to prop up the governments failed economic policies. It's a Reverse Robin Hood Budget that steals from working people. This is a Budget that isn’t working for working people. A 🧵
May 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
My husband is a teacher aide and I'm a teacher trained school counsellor. This feels personal.
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Abused people will bend over backwards to make their abuser more comfortable. This is often not because of any of the weird psychological shit that some people like to come up with.
It is for the extremely logical reason that they are trying not to be abused.
It is for the extremely logical reason that they are trying not to be abused.
January 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Abused people will bend over backwards to make their abuser more comfortable. This is often not because of any of the weird psychological shit that some people like to come up with.
It is for the extremely logical reason that they are trying not to be abused.
It is for the extremely logical reason that they are trying not to be abused.
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#NZpol
An essential read.
"Packing a food parcel is not ‘being the hope of the world’ if you are not concurrently addressing the policies, inequities, and unjust practices driving poverty."
A thousand times this. A THOUSAND TIMES.
Repeat again. Did. I. Stutter? Again, *another thousand times*.
An essential read.
"Packing a food parcel is not ‘being the hope of the world’ if you are not concurrently addressing the policies, inequities, and unjust practices driving poverty."
A thousand times this. A THOUSAND TIMES.
Repeat again. Did. I. Stutter? Again, *another thousand times*.
I've been ruminating on this since that pic of the PM packing food parcels
there are major issues with charity as a response to food hardship:
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
there are major issues with charity as a response to food hardship:
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
The dark side to food charity
Reflections on pre-Christmas publicity stunts
open.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
#NZpol
An essential read.
"Packing a food parcel is not ‘being the hope of the world’ if you are not concurrently addressing the policies, inequities, and unjust practices driving poverty."
A thousand times this. A THOUSAND TIMES.
Repeat again. Did. I. Stutter? Again, *another thousand times*.
An essential read.
"Packing a food parcel is not ‘being the hope of the world’ if you are not concurrently addressing the policies, inequities, and unjust practices driving poverty."
A thousand times this. A THOUSAND TIMES.
Repeat again. Did. I. Stutter? Again, *another thousand times*.
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I have posted my submission on the Treaty Principles Bill here. Submissions close at midnight on 7 January and I have included a link to where you can make your own in the post.
www.meetingplace.nz/2025/01/trea...
www.meetingplace.nz/2025/01/trea...
Treaty Principles Bill
Aotearoa New Zealand history with Dr Vincent O'Malley. The New Zealand Wars, the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti, Māori and Pākehā relations and more
www.meetingplace.nz
January 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I have posted my submission on the Treaty Principles Bill here. Submissions close at midnight on 7 January and I have included a link to where you can make your own in the post.
www.meetingplace.nz/2025/01/trea...
www.meetingplace.nz/2025/01/trea...
Another submission done. This one was much harder for me than the last. A lot of jargon to decipher.
January 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Another submission done. This one was much harder for me than the last. A lot of jargon to decipher.
Just sent. My submission opposing the Treaty Principles Bill. Now to get each member of my whānau to do one.
January 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Just sent. My submission opposing the Treaty Principles Bill. Now to get each member of my whānau to do one.
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All the dudes with the most power in this country right now are the type of guys that you walk away from at parties
January 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
All the dudes with the most power in this country right now are the type of guys that you walk away from at parties
Post a pic YOU took. Just a pic. No description.
December 19, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Post a pic YOU took. Just a pic. No description.
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"in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, the Royal Society Te Apārangi’s president, Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding, said the risks of not investing in social sciences and humanities would be “substantial”.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/marsden-f...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/marsden-f...
Science body urges PM to reconsider cuts to research funding
Royal Society Te Apārangi weighs in on Govt-ordered cuts to humanities research grants.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 16, 2024 at 5:06 AM
"in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, the Royal Society Te Apārangi’s president, Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding, said the risks of not investing in social sciences and humanities would be “substantial”.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/marsden-f...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/marsden-f...
Wow! What an image! What a woman! Wahine Māori Portia Woodman-Wickliffe.
December 4, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Wow! What an image! What a woman! Wahine Māori Portia Woodman-Wickliffe.
Black Ferns season is about to start!
November 30, 2024 at 4:40 AM
Black Ferns season is about to start!
ātaahua! vt.tiktok.com/ZSj4GdNsQ/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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November 27, 2024 at 4:04 AM
ātaahua! vt.tiktok.com/ZSj4GdNsQ/
Anyone else just hear "Toitu te tiriti o Waitangi" 🖤🤍❤️
November 23, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Anyone else just hear "Toitu te tiriti o Waitangi" 🖤🤍❤️
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My favourite sign from the hikoi on Tuesday
November 21, 2024 at 8:10 AM
My favourite sign from the hikoi on Tuesday
What is the best way to have my settings? I keep drifting back to twi#er because it's familiar. How do I curate my feed to enjoy this side better?
November 21, 2024 at 8:09 AM
What is the best way to have my settings? I keep drifting back to twi#er because it's familiar. How do I curate my feed to enjoy this side better?
Victim Support worker ‘bragged’ about smacking his children www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3502...
April 4, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Victim Support worker ‘bragged’ about smacking his children www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3502...
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"New Zealand First would do almost anything for a vote now. They’re as principled as a cigarette": John Campbell
This is fkn great writing. It's a long read, but don't skimp. Treat it as homework but interesting.
www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/30/j...
This is fkn great writing. It's a long read, but don't skimp. Treat it as homework but interesting.
www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/30/j...
John Campbell: Are we on the cusp of something new or something old?
Goodbye 2023 - but is it out with the old and in with the even older?
www.1news.co.nz
December 29, 2023 at 10:04 PM
"New Zealand First would do almost anything for a vote now. They’re as principled as a cigarette": John Campbell
This is fkn great writing. It's a long read, but don't skimp. Treat it as homework but interesting.
www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/30/j...
This is fkn great writing. It's a long read, but don't skimp. Treat it as homework but interesting.
www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/30/j...
Roly poly little bat faced girl
🎶Turn you inside out and lick you like a crisp packet...🎶
December 27, 2023 at 6:08 AM
Roly poly little bat faced girl
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Forgot the fiction of men in dresses threatening women’s sport, it’s reality of these men in suits that have already proven to be the biggest danger to our participation and success.
December 20, 2023 at 11:04 PM
Forgot the fiction of men in dresses threatening women’s sport, it’s reality of these men in suits that have already proven to be the biggest danger to our participation and success.
Senior prizegiving ✅️
Mentor training✅️
Media briefing on the state of school Guidance Counselling ✅️
Arranged puppy sitters for Coco✅️
Finally travelling to MIL's tangi...
Mentor training✅️
Media briefing on the state of school Guidance Counselling ✅️
Arranged puppy sitters for Coco✅️
Finally travelling to MIL's tangi...
November 9, 2023 at 9:07 PM
Senior prizegiving ✅️
Mentor training✅️
Media briefing on the state of school Guidance Counselling ✅️
Arranged puppy sitters for Coco✅️
Finally travelling to MIL's tangi...
Mentor training✅️
Media briefing on the state of school Guidance Counselling ✅️
Arranged puppy sitters for Coco✅️
Finally travelling to MIL's tangi...