Malcolm Fitzgerald
@malcolmfi.bsky.social
Vainglorious, cowardly, unreliable, noncommittal, know-it-all, muttered the people around him.
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Nasty nut-job policy centre with Atlas affiliations doing education reform? UK, AU and NZ all simultaneously seeing a need to redo education? What are the odds? #nzpol
This is important reading for #Auspol
30th Oct @jasonclaremp.bsky.social Education Minister is on an Atlas Network partner panel with Stanford from #NZpol and UK Tory self-styled Edu expert. CIS has been fighting for charter schools/academies. www.cis.org.au/event/reform...
30th Oct @jasonclaremp.bsky.social Education Minister is on an Atlas Network partner panel with Stanford from #NZpol and UK Tory self-styled Edu expert. CIS has been fighting for charter schools/academies. www.cis.org.au/event/reform...
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Nasty nut-job policy centre with Atlas affiliations doing education reform? UK, AU and NZ all simultaneously seeing a need to redo education? What are the odds? #nzpol
Don't make Halloween macabre. Tell Amazon: Stop the trinket trade with the painted woolly bat! action.eko.org/a/painted-wo...
Save the painted woolly bats
UPDATE: eBay has banned the sale of painted woolly bats on its platform! Now let's keep up the pressure to make sure Amazon follows suit.------Painted woolly bats are selfless little forest guardians,
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October 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Don't make Halloween macabre. Tell Amazon: Stop the trinket trade with the painted woolly bat! action.eko.org/a/painted-wo...
What do you know #nzpol? Luxon gets his instructions from the same place this guy does.
Mike Johnson: "We said, 'don't sit on your couch and play video games'- by the way, also not a talking point. There was an AEI study, I think one of the organizations that polled this, and most of these young men who are not working are sitting around literally playing video games. Get back to work"
October 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What do you know #nzpol? Luxon gets his instructions from the same place this guy does.
Reframing hype around AI will help us understand the why of its sudden and undeserved popularity.
October 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Reframing hype around AI will help us understand the why of its sudden and undeserved popularity.
Don’t drink the water! New Zealand’s rural community should be turning their backs on the farmers when they come into town. They are poisoning our water and poisoning us. #fonterra #nzpol #nztourism www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
Country's largest study into drinking water nitrates reveals rural freshwater at risk
Canterbury, Waikato and Southland had the highest amounts of contamination.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Don’t drink the water! New Zealand’s rural community should be turning their backs on the farmers when they come into town. They are poisoning our water and poisoning us. #fonterra #nzpol #nztourism www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
#nzpol any lessons for us here?
Helsinki hasn't had a traffic fatality in a year: "Helsinki's current traffic safety strategy, covering 2022–2026, is nearing completion. It has focused on improving safety for children, youth, pedestrians and cyclists with safer crosswalks and smarter intersection design."
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
yle.fi
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
#nzpol any lessons for us here?
Aotearoa / New Zealand now has highest youth suicide rate in the world. Very sad news and an awful result of the brutal stupidity and narrow minded cultures that thrive here.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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'More needs to be done' to reverse dire well-being ranking
Aotearoa has been ranked last in the world for child and youth mental health in the latest UNICEF report.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Aotearoa / New Zealand now has highest youth suicide rate in the world. Very sad news and an awful result of the brutal stupidity and narrow minded cultures that thrive here.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Libs: Wait for the prepolls to come in!
May 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Libs: Wait for the prepolls to come in!
I'm so pleased that the Greens are making my views appear conservative. Totally weird that anyone could think that the ALP, LNP occupy "middle ground" positions.
#AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/PIdTdfyDqEd6...
#AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/PIdTdfyDqEd6...
My Vote Compass Results - 2025 Australian Election
Vote Compass calculated my alignment with the candidates running in the 2025 Australian election. Try it for yourself!
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May 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I'm so pleased that the Greens are making my views appear conservative. Totally weird that anyone could think that the ALP, LNP occupy "middle ground" positions.
#AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/PIdTdfyDqEd6...
#AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/PIdTdfyDqEd6...
NZ Health Minister demands the “flat earth” morality led theory of biology be used in all communications. There are only two sides, she explained, to bureaucrats and scientists. #nzpol
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Coalition directs Health NZ to stop saying 'pregnant people'
Associate Health Minister Casey Costello has told the agency to use "clear language" and that "only women and people of the female sex can get pregnant".
www.rnz.co.nz
April 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
NZ Health Minister demands the “flat earth” morality led theory of biology be used in all communications. There are only two sides, she explained, to bureaucrats and scientists. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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This isn’t either/or. It’s neither/ nor.
April 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This isn’t either/or. It’s neither/ nor.
Flying #schoolLunch in from overseas, and the price is still $3 per meal?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol
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#nzpol
School lunch provider turns to Australia for help
With its main food manufacturer, Libelle, in liquidation, the School Lunch Collective has turned to Australia to ensure it had enough meals.
www.rnz.co.nz
March 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Flying #schoolLunch in from overseas, and the price is still $3 per meal?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol
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#nzpol
March 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
February 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@jlovividwater.bsky.social a whole new world of ways to lose time.
February 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
@jlovividwater.bsky.social a whole new world of ways to lose time.
Reposted by Malcolm Fitzgerald
NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me.
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How to Survive the Broligarchy
Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.
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February 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me.
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💙📚 #authoritarianState. The USA DoD finally sees the need for my degree in Lit/Phil.
“the Department of Defense circulated a memo stating that it is examining library books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
“the Department of Defense circulated a memo stating that it is examining library books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration
The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order
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February 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
💙📚 #authoritarianState. The USA DoD finally sees the need for my degree in Lit/Phil.
“the Department of Defense circulated a memo stating that it is examining library books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
“the Department of Defense circulated a memo stating that it is examining library books “potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics”.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
NZ puts LNG suppliers in charge www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Energy minister Simon Watts delivers ultimatum to gentailers
The government is playing its part to unshackle the energy sector and now, the sector must deliver - or face further action, Simon Watts says.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
NZ puts LNG suppliers in charge www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
December 18, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Reposted by Malcolm Fitzgerald
“Coal companies & politicians keep telling us that coal royalties are huge, & that they fund schools, hospitals, & regional communities all across the state. This report shows that these claims simply aren’t true.” - @rodcampbell.bsky.social
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/coal-ro... #auspol
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/coal-ro... #auspol
December 17, 2024 at 6:02 AM
“Coal companies & politicians keep telling us that coal royalties are huge, & that they fund schools, hospitals, & regional communities all across the state. This report shows that these claims simply aren’t true.” - @rodcampbell.bsky.social
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/coal-ro... #auspol
Read: australiainstitute.org.au/post/coal-ro... #auspol