cooltide-aotearoa.bsky.social
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Aotearoa 🇳🇿, functioning introvert, permanently married, middle everything (aged, class, road). Sail, read, walk, tv.
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These mining fast-track applicants don't appear to genuinely benefit New Zealand.

Removing limited resources, returning 2-5% royalties, and paying no tax.

Then we get lugged with clean up costs (like Tui oilfields that cost $500m for taxpayers to clean up)

#nzpol #Kiwi #NZ
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Paywall now lifted: Big industrials are slated to close or switch off gas whether the proposed LNG terminal goes ahead or not, new modelling has found.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/12/m...
Most economic damage from gas crisis 'locked in', officials warn
Big industrials are slated to close or switch off gas whether or not the proposed LNG terminal goes ahead, new modelling has found
newsroom.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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More anti worker shitfuckery from the Princess of Darkness
#nzpol
Government tweaks law so contractors can't challenge employment status retrospectively
The workplace minister says it has nothing to do with the Supreme Court's Uber decision.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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The #nzpol and #kikorangi feeds often follow similar themes, and I have often thought about the fact that a lot of what people want it already being offered, by the @greens.org.nz
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January 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Clean drinking water is an essential need. Will the new RMA put it at risk?
Clean drinking water is an essential need. Will the new RMA put it at risk?
A decade on from the Havelock North water crisis, there are fears we're 'loosening the safety net'....
thespinoff.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM