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Susie Hanton
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Happily retired, reader, gardener, cook, & traveller. Love my family, my friends & Lily the cat. Enjoy a g&t & a good red wine. Always left & woke. Toitū te Tiriti
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It seems we go from sleepy hobbits to warrior submitters when we realise things we care about are under threat.
a woman wearing a bandana and a hat with the word noice written on it
Alt: a woman wearing a bandana and a hat with the word noice written on it
media.tenor.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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What a deal oil & gas are offering here. We pay the cost of catastrophic climate change if they find oil. We pay their exploration costs if they don't. It's a lose - lose. This is as demented as it gets.
tiny.cc/4agyzz
Oil and gas lobby asks government to underwrite fossil fuel exploration, minister 'considering options'
A fossil fuel body is warmly praising the government's "no nonsense" draft emissions plan.
tiny.cc
December 1, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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TJ Perenara leading Ka Mate for the All Blacks vs Italy, starts with "Toitū te mana motuhake! Toitū te Tiriti o Waitangi!"

That's gonna piss off the racist "keep politics out of sport" dickheads wonderfully
November 23, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Just after midnight police pulled over and arrested a gang member who wasn’t wearing a patch but was displaying gang insignia on the dashboard of his car.
Two days after the Toitū Te Tiriti hikoi and a week after the Abuse in State Care apology.
An old #cartoon
November 20, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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What I'd just say to you is, our donors couldn't be happier & bottomfeeders didn't vote for us anyway.
#LyinLuxon #CoalitionOfCorruption #Idontcare
November 20, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Just a heads up that this $10 billion + difference is the cost of the Cook Strait ferries, Picton and Wellington upgrades, Dunedin Hospital at gold standard, reversing mental health service cuts, and doing the Transport Choices programme.
November 19, 2024 at 3:22 AM
November 20, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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This excellent piece sums up a great deal of what bugs me about the framing of "impartiality" in news media. Nevak Rogers takes leave to march with her whanau and it's news, but Soper and HDPA *use their actual media platform* to scorn the hikoi and that's different? thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-...
Who gets to have an opinion on the hīkoi and who must remain ‘impartial’?
Newsrooms of old were apparently more impartial. But that’s only because everyone shared the same biases.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 18, 2024 at 7:31 PM
November 18, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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Just one post today: Toitū Te Tiriti!
November 18, 2024 at 7:02 PM
November 18, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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New Zealand, Roy Morgan poll:

Vote Intention

National (centre-right): 31.0% (-6.5)
Labour (centre-left): 29.0% (+6.0)
Green (green): 14.0% (-)


+/- vs. 26 Aug-22 Sep 2024

Fieldwork: 23 September-20 October 2024
Sample size: 883

oceaniaelects.com/new-zealand
#NewZealand #Aotearoa #NZpol
November 17, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Health NZ: Costs for consultants soar by millions over past financial year

“NZers std of healthcare being “eaten away,while Govt isn’t controlling costs on contractors

Govt cut a lot of back-office staff, now they’re having to bring in contractors” Labour Health spokesperson Dr Verrall #nzpol
Health NZ costs for contractors and consultants soar by $80m over past year
Labour MP says healthcare quality suffering due to rising contractor costs and staff cuts.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 17, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Paywall now lifted: My interview with the new Climate Change Minister Simon Watts on the Government's plan to restart offshore oil and gas exploration is now free to read.
newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/06/c...
New climate minister defends searching for more fossil fuels
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says the Government is committed to NZ's climate targets, but won't explain how they might be met or promise not to reduce climate finance to the Pacific. He talks ...
newsroom.co.nz
December 6, 2023 at 6:23 PM
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If this administration is so insistent on the accountability of others, then it only behoves the rest of us to do our utmost to hold the administration itself to account.

Every lie contradicted,
Every denial rejected &
Every harm mitigated by
Helping those affected.

#nzpol
December 9, 2023 at 8:41 PM
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No, Prime Minister, people aren't just protesting the week-old Government. They're pretty hacked off with the racist crap its constituents parties were spouting over the nine months following Jacinda Ardern announcing the election date in mid-January. You'd know that if you were listening.

#Nzpol
December 4, 2023 at 11:24 PM
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Sign a petition to help save Fair Pay Agreements www.together.org.nz/keep_fair_pa...
November 30, 2023 at 8:12 PM
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A world of difference to prisoners if you can givealittle:

“Christmas can be a dark time in prison. Our annual Holiday Card Drive can make a world of difference.” givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
Send prisoners some holiday cheer!
Christmas can be a dark time in prison. Our annual Holiday Card Drive can make a world of difference.
givealittle.co.nz
November 25, 2023 at 8:57 PM
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I think I'm so worried about this government because I was hoping against hope that the Nats would be some sort of moderating influence on Act's hardcore libertarian shit and some sort of moderating influence on NZF's hardcore cooker shit and instead they all egged each other on to be WORSE
November 25, 2023 at 7:59 AM
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November 18, 2023 at 6:35 PM
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November 17, 2023 at 7:07 PM
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"While most of us have stopped paying attention to regular Covid case updates, Te Whatu Ora hasn’t. The health agency’s latest update showed an increase in the average number of cases and deaths being reported week-on-week, while hospitalisations had also surged."
#covidisnotover
A pandemic state of play as we enter the fifth Covid wave
As infections, hospitalisations and deaths slowly tick up once again, let’s review where we stand.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 15, 2023 at 6:32 PM
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I’m going to educate every last person on this app about the importance of layered covid protection if it’s the last thing I do
November 15, 2023 at 7:12 AM