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huiasue.bsky.social
#ChlöeSwarbrick: “311 families have more wealth than the bottom 2,500,000 #NZers put together, & they pay half the #tax of our firemen, teachers, nurses & our supermarket checkout operators ” #inequality

Under this #NZGovt those #rich families get richer, while pushing the rest of us into #poverty
June 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
hazmat.bsky.social
Seymour seems to be the “Associate Minister” of most of Govt.
Have a count of how many policy announcements he’s made.
It’s far too many for someone with less than 10% support.
#nzgovt
February 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
NO! -NZ doesn’t want #killer #helicopters, robots & #drones! -we want rail ferries, clean rivers, climate action, & affordable homes, food, health & power-for all- & pay parity with #NZGovt politicians! #Aotearoa #nzpol #pay #rail #ferries #climate #health #equality
www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/21/n...
New planes, helicopters for Defence Force
MH-60R Seahawk helicopters and Airbus A321XLRs will replace ageing Seasprites and Boeing 757s as part of the Defence Capability Plan upgrade.
www.1news.co.nz
August 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social
Let me get this straight. #NZGovt makes an F-ton of $$$ from alcohol sales, so they're relaxing alcohol laws, with no regard whatsoever for the harm caused by alcohol to the people of #Aotearoa.

Did I get that right?

#nzpol
#alcoholnz #NationalACTnotfittogovernNZ

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Watch live: Alcohol laws to be loosened, government announces
The changes come after a leaked cabinet paper revealed plans to make business easier for the alcohol industry.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social
Sorry #EricaStanford, what were you saying today about specialist help for children struggling in school????

#LIARS #NZGovt
#nzpol
#nationalnotfittogovernnz
June 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
Why I convened the people’s select committee on #payequity: When it became clear the #NZgovt had chosen ideology over evidence in its rushed-through changes to the pay equity system, former National MP #MarilynWaring decided to do something about it #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/12-...
Marilyn Waring: Why I convened the people’s select committee on pay equity
The government chose ideology over evidence. We'll uncover what should have been considered – and make it available to all.
thespinoff.co.nz
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
huiasue.bsky.social
#NZ this is shocking.
We need to get rid of this #Nature & #People-hating RW #AtlasNetwork #NZGovt

#IRD offers tax tips for destroying precious wetlands-Forest & Bird: #nzpol
www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/ir...
IRD offers tax tips for destroying precious wetlands
Forest & Bird is asking Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake whether the fines for illegally draining a wetland are also tax deductible, after the department published a "how-to" on claiming expenses for dest...
www.forestandbird.org.nz
June 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
ngapuhi.bsky.social
#nzgovt response to fuel crisis
March 17, 2026 at 4:16 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
#NZ #Health #Cuts Wellington Hospital is cutting 12 beds from gynaecology & maternity wards to make room for patients from the overcrowded #ED Emergency Department, according to a leaked memo. #NZGovt has cut spending on hospitals & Doctors countrywide #austerity #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
July 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
#NZGovt grinches #nzpol
January 1, 2026 at 2:35 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
#NZGovt has one core objective & it continues to execute its plan to single-mindedly reach it: to demonise, denigrate, discredit, damage, downsize, dismantle, & destroy the public sector, & the role & function of Govt in economic activity #nzpol #AtlasNetwork agenda open.substack.com/pub/ganeshna...
Government on track to dismember the public sector
A plea to not believe one's own propaganda
open.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:10 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
#NZ’s #prison population is expected to boom over the next decade as #NZGovt plans to punish the poor, those who protest, or strike, those who protect the environment, the climate, their health & rights, or who are Māori #nzpol #AtlasNetwork #CorporateRights = #RSB www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
June 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social
#nzpol
Our pathetic #nzgovt is responsible for this.

Wait-lists have blown out for mental health services. Kids aren't getting the help they need. Lives are at risk, clinicians are burned out.
#ChristopherLuxon has said it many times...

THEY JUST DON'T CARE.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
‘So broken’: Secret recordings reveal frank confessions from mental health staff
The distressed mother of a suicidal teen began recording conversations with mental health staff in case she ever needed them for a coroner’s inquest.
www.stuff.co.nz
May 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
huiasue.bsky.social
200,000 signatures on the longest petition ever presented to parliament, saying to #NZGovt protect, fund & staff our free #public #health system - & pay proper living wages #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
#NZGovt should back Greens sanctions Bill:
In the absence of measures by NZGovt to respond to #genocide committed by Israel in #Gaza, #Greens Chloe Swarbrick is doing the principled thing & trying to apply pressure on Israel to stop the slaughter #nzpol

www.odt.co.nz/opinion/govt...
Govt should back sanctions Bill
The government should back a Greens Bill on Gaza, John Hobbs writes. In the absence of any measures taken by the New Zealand government to respond...
www.odt.co.nz
April 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social
And...another one.

#nzpol #schoollunchesnz #nzgovt

www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
Late, burnt and leaking: School rejects burnt lunches, opts for pizza instead
Whangārei Intermediate had to send back burnt and leaking school lunches.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social
#NicolaWillis is now blaming #ChloéSwarbrick for the window incident at #WinstonPeters' house.

This #NZGovt is an absolute gaslighting DISGRACE. They are more dangerous than ever.

#nzpol #freepalestine
October 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
aimossy.bsky.social
It got worse overtime and now it has exploded. In this land of plenty!
@mountaintui.bsky.social

#NZPOL #NZGOVT

mountaintui.substack.com/p/homelessne...
Homelessness up by 58%
$250mn in emergency housing "savings" a year under National, while government increases corrections budget to ~$2b a year, and will surpass NZ's ”moral and fiscal prison failure prison rate” by 2026
mountaintui.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social
#NzGovt announced a new $15Million roof for #Auckland's #ManukaDoctorTennisArena!!!
YAY JUST WE NEEDED!!!
I'm SO GLAD it wasn't funding for teachers, schools, hospitals, the poor. I mean, come on, this is money well spent, right?
Right??? Anybody???

🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

#nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government announces new $15m roof for Auckland's Manuka Doctor Tennis arena
The roof project is the first investment announced as part of the government's $70 million Major Events and Tourism Package.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
huiasue.bsky.social
This National Coalition #NZGovt IS the ultra right. They represent the #AtlasNetwork -a network of the world’s nastiest & greedy #corporations, from BigOil & Mining through to Armaments, Tobacco, Alcohol & Drugs: #NZInitiative #ACT & #TPU are Atlas orgs #nzpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Growing questions in NZ about organisation called Atlas Network
In New Zealand, there is now a conversation about an organisation called Atlas Network and whether or not it has influenced the right-bloc government's agenda.
www.abc.net.au
May 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
huiasue.bsky.social
#Gambling: This is immoral of the #nzgovt & along with: Tobacco, Guns, Speed, Coal, Gold, Seabed Mining, Oil&Gas, AUKUS, NATO, #Privatisation #PPPs is yet another sign they work for #foreign #mega-corporations - aka #AtlasNetwork - not #NZ Kiwis!

#nzpol #addiction

www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Offshore operators poised to dominate new online gambling market
Foreign companies are set to dominate NZ's internet gambling as the government auctions online licences for the first time.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
#AtlasNetwork is attacking NZ - #wealth stripping our country for foreign megacorp #profits & this #NZGovt is enabling it. I’ve signed this petition #nzpol greenpeace.nz/ikod8g
April 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
🍃🌹🌿 1. The UN on racial discrimination in New Zealand: The UN committee asked NZ to 'uphold its commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi", work to counter any misinformation & engage in 'full consultation & partnership with Mãori.’ #nzpol #racist #NZGovt #AtlasNetwork
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
UN on racial discrimination in New Zealand
The UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva has expressed concern over continuing reports of racially motivated attacks on Maori, Pasifika and other ethnic and religious c...
www.rnz.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 5:22 AM
huiasue.bsky.social
A stocktake of all the #NZGovt policies rolling back #workers’ #rights in New Zealand- Max Rushbrooke. #nzpol #AtlasNetwork = cuts to #minimumwage , healthandsafety, & work #conditions
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24-...
A stocktake of all the policies rolling back workers’ rights in New Zealand
The government is subtly chipping away at pay, conditions and many of the other things that make work life-giving.
thespinoff.co.nz
April 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
tepaatimaori.bsky.social
Okay whānau, this post is a day late 😅🤣

Hey @whaeadeb.bsky.social out here dancing and there’s only 5 days left to make your #RSB submission.

Go get your dancing shoes on and make a submission and oppose it now ❤️🤍🖤

www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

#NZPol #ToitūTeTiriti
#NZGovt #TePātiMāori
June 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM