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pls everyone sign our petition xx our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

#nzpol

Bring back Tiriti-based, inclusive Relationships & Sexuality Education in schools The importance of effective violence prevention cannot be overstated: for example, around a third of women in Aotearoa NZ have experienced sexual violence [8] and many more experience non-sexual relat...

That petition link, once more with feeling: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

pls everyone sign our petition xx our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

I managed to navigate the Auckland Writers Festival website to buy tickets AMA

We're looking for an election-year social media project contractor! This is an opportunity (approx. 15hrs pw on average until Dec 2026) for a creative digital campaigner to shape and grow the Centre's online awareness-raising. Applications close 4pm, 27/03/26 awc.org.nz/vacancies

How can I save the world without a cafe in my neighbourhood that will let me sit on one coffee while the whir of my laptop contributes to the vibes between 3pm and 6pm on a Monday

Government passes retrospective law codifying debt for beneficiaries The Government has passed a controversial law that will codify more than $63 million in debt owed by beneficiaries with ACC claims.

What the fucking fuck??
They voted down and amendment that would excluded victims of abuse in state care.
They are Tory scum

sticker with a kiwi on it that says ‘ love your society vote for a wealth tax’ the kiwi is labelled ‘tax billionaires’

👍🏻

Was there a Zoom meeting where the US told the entire Western alliance what would happen to them if there was any mention of anyone having violated Article 2 of the UN Charter by engaging in the crime of aggression

Sleeping rough is a particular type of homelessness - and it is currently increasing at record proportions due to this govt's cuts to emergency housing. Systemic factors like policies must be a focus - because we're all accountable and politicians can, and do, change them.

International Women’s Day 2026: Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls. | UN Women – Headquarters On 8 March 2026, rally with women and girls around the world to demand equal rights – and equal justice to enforce, exercise, and enjoy those rights.

PSA: UN International Women's Day is coming up (Sun 8 Mar) yay! The 2026 theme is *not* the transactional bullshit slogan "Give to Gain" declared by IWD corporate usurpers. The real theme is badass: “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls". 2 weeks to prep! www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

yay, congrats on getting it over and done with and omg that's an epic session! Mine was far gentler

I'm going today too! Not sure if that helps?

Every official tweet is a nod to child abuse OPINION: Why is a social network under criminal investigation for child sex abuse material treated as a legitimate podium for government messaging?

Excellent article from Andrea Vance today - few quotes

"There is a weak argument (usually put forward by white men, those least likely to suffer abuse online) that staying on X somehow moderates the awful. You can’t dilute a cesspool."
1/5

Times article has an incredible illustration

A photo looking out at the harbour at dawn from the bridge at Waitangi, with the tino rangatiratanga flag flying

Toitū Te Tiriti

https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/monthly-reporting/index.html

MSD have been delaying their December benefits data release due to data processing issues but they shared headline numbers yesterday. If the data is correct, this is a huuuge increase. We now have nearly 1 in 7 adults on a working age benefit. Link in ALT. (🧵 1/n)

between this and Kākāpō egg watch, nz birbs really helping this year

Boyd gave Epstein his bank acct - if he didn't receive any money it wasn't from lack of trying

Public Enemy Flips 1998’s ‘He Got Game’ Into Women’s Empowerment Anthem ‘She Got Game’ Featuring Flau’Jae Public Enemy flips their 1998 "He Got Game" into a women's empowerment "She Got Game" featuring Flau'jae.

That Flau’Jae verse,,, SHE GOT GAME and bars

www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...

Youth unemployment rate is now over 16% (1 in 6). The underutilisation rate - young people wanting work or more work - is 38% ffs - 190,000 young kiwis. That's nearly half of the total. It took a fking decade for youth unemployment to recover last time. Same plan this time. No plan.

Benefits are too low, so debt cycle exacerbates.

$802,105 pw [$41.8Mpa] was taken from income support & sent directly to creditors in Aug 2025 [nom 45% rise in 4.5 yrs.]

Women [bc more families w children] are approx 2x as likely to have wages or benefits docked through attachment orders as men."

Spent a decade working for the Jobcentre. By the letter of the law could have referred many for a probable sanction. Unless blatant pisstakers, rarely did, as at worst, some of them would've ended up dead. Making it out of the house for a chat with me was often achievement enough

We could print with only the cheapest possible filament and get our whistles down to like $0.008 per whistle BUT there are joy advantages to really colorful whistles.

How NZ’s own laser kiwi influenced this viral anti-Ice flag in Minnesota Over a decade on from New Zealand’s flag referendum, the influence of cult favourite laser kiwi continues to be felt around the world.

see also: thespinoff.co.nz/society/04-0...

NZ mention alert

text reading "Flash protest at Brooke van Velden's office. 11 a.m. this Thursday 5 February 2026 35 Saint Johns Road, St Johns, Auckland Ditch the "Fire-at-Will" Bill."

Auckland whānau!

See you at the flash protest this Thursday, at Brooke van Velden's office. It's time to kill the "Fire-at-Will" Bill!

11am - 12pm, 5 February
35 Saint Johns Road, Auckland

Please share, attend (bring a sign if you like), and ask your MP to oppose the bill. #nzpol #auckland

Marilyn Waring: Librarians’ work is essential – and still treated as expendable After hearing their testimony to the People's Select Committee, I'm outraged at how brutally librarians' right to equal pay was legislated away....

Marilyn Waring: Librarians’ work is essential – and still treated as expendable

I ended up not voting in the flag referendum bc I argued myself into the position that "our incumbent derivative flag that's truthy about our ongoing colonisation is.... maybe ideal?"
An official Laser Kiwi would've unleashed appalling levels of self-identification with our imagined community in me