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Amanda
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🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍅🇵🇸💉She/her. Twitter’s gone to hell. I’ve worked in health for over 30 years. Originally from the UK but have lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for 23 years
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Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands.

www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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We are hosting Cole Martin in Palmerston North. Come along & hear about the experiences of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Cole is also giving talks around the motu
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thyme4actionThyme4Action welcomes Cole Martin, a New Zealand journalist recently returned from six months in the West Bank. This will be an amazing, informative evening with Q&A and a cup of tea to follow. Friday 21st November at the Kelvin Grove Community Centre, 68 Kaimanawa Street, Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North. Koha entry at the door. All welcome. Please come along and support ❤️🍉
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November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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I'm loaded,
I'm greedy,
What do you mean,
"Rates rebates are
for the needy?"

I'm wealthy,
I'm entitled,
All this free stull,
Makes me delighted!

I'm rich,
I'm sorted,
What do you mean,
"Go and get rorted?"

I'm minted,
I'm a millionaire,
Ask me anything else,
I'm unaware!
#NZPol
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Wright Family Foundation receives over $300 million of taxpayers' funding & posts $41.6 million op. profit. The business was converted to a "charity" & pays no tax.
The Wright Family bankrolled Sean Plunkett & The Platform, which regularly attacks govt 'handouts' #nzpol
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Rich-lister controlled charity posts surplus after Govt funding boost to its childcare centres
BestStart is the largest operator in the early childhood sector, with over 260 centres.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.
October 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ca...
Please sign & share our petition to PNCC calling for a ceasefire in Gaza & ethical action for Palestine
Call for an Immediate, Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza and Ethical Action for Palestine
Local governments have a role to play in upholding this legal framework and ensuring our cities do not profit from or contribute to the normalisation of human rights violations by dealing with the lis...
our.actionstation.org.nz
July 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ca...
Please sign & share our petition to PNCC calling for a ceasefire in Gaza & ethical action for Palestine
Call for an Immediate, Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza and Ethical Action for Palestine
Local governments have a role to play in upholding this legal framework and ensuring our cities do not profit from or contribute to the normalisation of human rights violations by dealing with the lis...
our.actionstation.org.nz
July 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: action.nzei.org.nz/petitions/ba...
Please sign & support our vital ECE teachers
Back quality early childhood education for all tamariki!
Early education has a huge an effect on children's life outcomes.  Right now, the Government is progressively removing important regulations and teachers' rights that ensure quality early childh...
action.nzei.org.nz
May 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Also, librarians typically require postgraduate training

There is no such requirement for being a Fisheries Officer (though they do see a degree or postgrad qualification as helpful, neither are entry requirements)

So maybe librarians should be paid more than Fisheries Officers
Here's roughly how Librarian can be compared to a Fisheries Officer: While seemingly different, librarian & fisheries officer both play roles involving info & resource management, require a certain level of knowledge & skills, including communication, research, & problem-solving, serving the public🔚
May 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. 🩷

This government didn’t give roses, they gave austerity with a pink bow.🎀

They scrapped pay equity claims. Silenced working mothers.

Locked in a future where daughters inherit the same injustice.

We will fight for equity, for our mothers and our daughters 🫶🏾

#NZPol
May 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Look at this
May 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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I commented how bad this consultation document was when it was released. Glad to see there are official complaints about it. Misleading and dangerous #NZpol

www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
Feedback doc using fake patient questions labelled ‘slippery’
Minister Simeon Brown stands by a Ministry of Health document featuring made up patient scenarios, saying it’s about “making healthcare more accessible and responsive”. But the move has sparked compla...
www.thepress.co.nz
April 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
consult.health.govt.nz/regulatory-p...
The government is proposing to change health workforce regulation. Please read and submit feedback. The consultation closes on 30 April
Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation - New Zealand Ministry of Health - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by the New Zealand Ministry of Health
consult.health.govt.nz
April 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Health NZ providing a $285m uplift for general practice over three years

There are 1000 practices in NZ

Thats $95k each a year, which is 1 Practice nurse

#nzpol
March 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Gestapo shit
January 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
New Zealand Winter Games canned after 15 years
Not the growth Willis & Luxon harp on about. So much for improving the economy
January 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/23/n...
New Zealanders voting with their feet. Not sure this is the growth Luxon wanted
Number of people leaving New Zealand hits 'highest on record'
The number of people heading off to live elsewhere reached its highest on record last year, according to new figures.
www.1news.co.nz
January 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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The Ministry for Regulation is consulting on a proposed Regulatory Standards Bill - As it is currently conceived it is a constitutional entrenchment of neoliberal principles, with an accumulation of power in the hands of the Minister for Regulation.
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Why the Regulatory Standards Bill is a Very Bad Idea
The individualism and private property protection Bill David Seymour’s proposed Regulatory Standards Bill seeks to give primacy to two things: individualism and private property. Those two things are ...
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January 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Gonna tell everyone that this is how people in New Zealand do Christmas trees...
December 23, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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Last post on the ferries**...
Has Willis costed in the extra $325m in maintenance costs for the current ferries?
Cos they're at $65m per year, and 2029 is y'know..5 years away

#nzpol

**it will not be the last post on the ferries
December 11, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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Zuru’s Nick Mowbray opposes #WorkerRights as they can cause long legal disputes. #NZpol
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/unj...
Unlike his dispute with Lego (lost)
www.odt.co.nz/business/kiw...
Or nappies brand Rascal ...
businessdesk.co.nz/article/law-...
Or Glassdoor (won)
www.webworm.co/p/zurusucks
December 2, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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How many times have you watched this clip today?
I've watched it over and over.
The power and emotion gives me goosebumps.
I'm also deeply deeply sorry that this appalling government has made it necessary.
November 14, 2024 at 9:07 AM