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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
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Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:
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Can’t explain it really,God. I just like awful people
October 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Can’t explain it really,God. I just like awful people
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Paywall now lifted: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground.
The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance
The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.
newsroom.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Paywall now lifted: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground.
The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
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Be mindful today @nzlabour facilitated historic Pay Equity w/ nurses & set money aside for future PE claims for non-dhb ie aged care etc & money aside for claims from other workforces like teaching. It is this piggybank National, Act & a complicit NZFirst raided for Nicole's budget #NZPol
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Be mindful today @nzlabour facilitated historic Pay Equity w/ nurses & set money aside for future PE claims for non-dhb ie aged care etc & money aside for claims from other workforces like teaching. It is this piggybank National, Act & a complicit NZFirst raided for Nicole's budget #NZPol
Be mindful today @nzlabour facilitated historic Pay Equity w/ nurses & set money aside for future PE claims for non-dhb ie aged care etc & money aside for claims from other workforces like teaching. It is this piggybank National, Act & a complicit NZFirst raided for Nicole's budget #NZPol
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Be mindful today @nzlabour facilitated historic Pay Equity w/ nurses & set money aside for future PE claims for non-dhb ie aged care etc & money aside for claims from other workforces like teaching. It is this piggybank National, Act & a complicit NZFirst raided for Nicole's budget #NZPol
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A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
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Heather Orsborn renewing white road markings.
Wellington, 21st May 1960.
Ref 1/2-045139-F, National Library of New Zealand.
Wellington, 21st May 1960.
Ref 1/2-045139-F, National Library of New Zealand.
October 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Heather Orsborn renewing white road markings.
Wellington, 21st May 1960.
Ref 1/2-045139-F, National Library of New Zealand.
Wellington, 21st May 1960.
Ref 1/2-045139-F, National Library of New Zealand.
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If the government doesn't have enough money to pay for things like schools and hospitals, maybe they should follow Simeon Brown's advice and get a paper round?
October 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If the government doesn't have enough money to pay for things like schools and hospitals, maybe they should follow Simeon Brown's advice and get a paper round?
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Young Republicans refer to themselves as "alpha males" and "irresistible men." But when they get caught posting something offensive, JD Vance defends them as "young boys" and "kids" making "jokes". (They're 24-35yo.) Which is it?! #USPolitics
October 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Young Republicans refer to themselves as "alpha males" and "irresistible men." But when they get caught posting something offensive, JD Vance defends them as "young boys" and "kids" making "jokes". (They're 24-35yo.) Which is it?! #USPolitics
Following months of death threats & public safety concerns for themselves & family, Green MP Benjamin Doyle leaves NZ parliament. Sadly for Doyle many voices, already primed to hate differences, brayed as one, when Free Speech Union's Ani O'Brien amplified false accusations 🧵
September 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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#nzpol Me aro koe ki te hā o Hine-ahu-one. Respect us. Value us. Pay us. This was the message that came from thousands of New Zealanders today, as we gathered across the motu to celebrate wāhine and fight back against the Government’s horrendous attacks on pay equity.
September 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
#nzpol Me aro koe ki te hā o Hine-ahu-one. Respect us. Value us. Pay us. This was the message that came from thousands of New Zealanders today, as we gathered across the motu to celebrate wāhine and fight back against the Government’s horrendous attacks on pay equity.
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“Never, ever believe that undermining the voices of workers and women is something that just has to happen for the sake of the economy. That is a political choice and the Greens will fight back always.”
@maramadavidson.bsky.social with the goods as always 💚
@maramadavidson.bsky.social with the goods as always 💚
September 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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rimmer and the fsu strangely quiet on this. #nzpol
WaPo: Pentagon says it will require reporters "to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey."
September 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
rimmer and the fsu strangely quiet on this. #nzpol
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“While I do not accept that change is impossible from the inside, I have come to learn that it comes with a price, of violence and hate towards my people. This is a price I am no longer willing to pay.”
‘This place was not built for people like me’ - Benjamin Doyle delivers valedictory speech
The Green MP talks about the impact being in Parliament can have on a person and those they love. “I have seen that play out in violent, toxic and real world ways.”
www.thepost.co.nz
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
“While I do not accept that change is impossible from the inside, I have come to learn that it comes with a price, of violence and hate towards my people. This is a price I am no longer willing to pay.”
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Better Wellington/independent Together not even managing to switch to the right Facebook account to claim they’re not the same organisation is some kind of performance art, right?
September 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Better Wellington/independent Together not even managing to switch to the right Facebook account to claim they’re not the same organisation is some kind of performance art, right?
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#nzpol “[CTU Secretary Mellissa] Ansell-Bridges said this was "more than a protest — it is a celebration of the women who nurture, lead, and resist".
"It honours the suffrage legacy and amplifies our collective power to shape the future."
www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/p...
"It honours the suffrage legacy and amplifies our collective power to shape the future."
www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/p...
Protestors march against Government's pay equity changes
From Whāngarei to Invercargill, women and allies gathered at more than 20 events across the country to protest pay equity.
www.1news.co.nz
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
#nzpol “[CTU Secretary Mellissa] Ansell-Bridges said this was "more than a protest — it is a celebration of the women who nurture, lead, and resist".
"It honours the suffrage legacy and amplifies our collective power to shape the future."
www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/p...
"It honours the suffrage legacy and amplifies our collective power to shape the future."
www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/p...
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Great to be out on the streets today with many others protesting our rightwing govt's sudden overturning of decades of struggle for pay equity. But - will the Labour folks out on the marches today actually ensure any future Lab-led govt will fully reinstate/improve access? #nzpol #PayEquity
September 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Great to be out on the streets today with many others protesting our rightwing govt's sudden overturning of decades of struggle for pay equity. But - will the Labour folks out on the marches today actually ensure any future Lab-led govt will fully reinstate/improve access? #nzpol #PayEquity
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Following months of death threats & public safety concerns for themselves & family, Green MP Benjamin Doyle leaves NZ parliament. Sadly for Doyle many voices, already primed to hate differences, brayed as one, when Free Speech Union's Ani O'Brien amplified false accusations 🧵
September 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Following months of death threats & public safety concerns for themselves & family, Green MP Benjamin Doyle leaves NZ parliament. Sadly for Doyle many voices, already primed to hate differences, brayed as one, when Free Speech Union's Ani O'Brien amplified false accusations 🧵
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Charlie Kirk said Joe Biden should be executed.
When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.
When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.
"Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia-filled, Alzheimer's, corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America."
-Charlie Kirk (07/24/23)
-Charlie Kirk (07/24/23)
September 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Charlie Kirk said Joe Biden should be executed.
When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.
When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.
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#nzpol Big turnout for the Women’s Day of Action for pay equity. Billions of dollars have been stolen from low-paid female dominated workforces. This government can find huge tax cuts for tobacco companies, landlords, and big businesses - but not fair pay. That must change.
September 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
#nzpol Big turnout for the Women’s Day of Action for pay equity. Billions of dollars have been stolen from low-paid female dominated workforces. This government can find huge tax cuts for tobacco companies, landlords, and big businesses - but not fair pay. That must change.
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Reform UK’s conference earlier this month revealed a party entranced by conspiracy theories and riven by internal division – with one of its own employees calling Reform’s Kent councillors “wankers” who “hate” and “fight with each other”.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/18/r...
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/18/r...
Reform’s Kent councillors are ‘all wankers’ who ‘hate each other’, Reform staffer says – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate can reveal that Reform’s councillors in Kent are “all wankers” who “hate” and “fight with each other” – according to the party’s...
hopenothate.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Reform UK’s conference earlier this month revealed a party entranced by conspiracy theories and riven by internal division – with one of its own employees calling Reform’s Kent councillors “wankers” who “hate” and “fight with each other”.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/18/r...
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/18/r...
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Proud of this kaupapa. Iwi and unions uniting for the first time is a historic moment and gives me hope for the future.
In a historic first, iwi leaders and unions have united to call for mass mobilisations against the Government on the 28th of October. Rā Whakamana will affirm tino rangatiratanga and workers' rights and mark He Whakaputanga and the first Labour Day in Aotearoa.
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Proud of this kaupapa. Iwi and unions uniting for the first time is a historic moment and gives me hope for the future.