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Ethnic communities generate a third of Auckland’s GDP Report reveals that Asians, Europeans, Middle Easterns, Latin Americans and Africans contributed $50 billion to the local economy in 2023.

Source: RNZ
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Let's remember this when NZ First, Act and National start borrowing their right wing bull kaka from overseas.

It's coming. #nzpol

First look inside the new Wellington Library Sewing machines, 3D printers and a taniwha slide sit among the hundreds of thousands of books inside the freshly refurbished five-storey library.

First look inside the new Wellington Library

Scan of Post article. WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL Julie Jacobson Wellington mayor Andrew Little has put the kibosh on an extravagant $405,000 knees up to celebrate the opening of the city's new library. The library - Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui - has been closed for strengthening since 2019 when engineers raised concerns about the building in the event of a significant earthquake. It reopens on Saturday. However a massive two-day party slated for the weekend has been scaled back following a directive from mayor Andrew Little. Original plans for the opening weekend included a large civic ceremony, with invited guests, a street festival, food trucks, Te Ngäkau plaza activation, road closures and performances by local artists, with a budget of $405,124, the annual rates bill for 80 property owners. However, that has since been slashed to less than half - $178,078 - after Little saw red. "I became aware early this year about the budget for the opening of Te Matapihi Central Library and expressed concern, given the financial constraints that the council is under," he said yesterday. "I've since been advised that the budget has been reduced."

The mayor taking bold action to ensure We Can’t Have Nice Things.

My kid and her flatmate are down at Wellington Library Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui for the flatmate’s birthday adventure. Sounds like all of Wellington is queuing to get a look.

i'm sitting at home working and taking wee crying with happiness breaks looking at library opening photos. Fuck its been a long time between 'good news for Wellington' drinks. Libraries really are the best thing we invented as a species.

Thousands queue as doors open at revamped Wellington Library after seven years Two significant central Wellington landmarks have drawn significant crowds at their reopening after years-long closures.

Thousands queue as doors open at revamped Wellington Library after seven years

A boy standing beside steps with the Grouns floor of the library behind him

A boy crouched down looking at books. He got there under the beam, I could not fit through there

A boy holding a clapper in front of a desk that’s in front of a green screen. There are 2 cameras pointing at him

A boy looking over a railing. A band is playing in the corner

In the words of the 7yo, the new Pōneke library is “amazing”

Does anyone in Pōneke have a fejoa tree with spare socialist fruits? A bag of succulent fruits? Asking for a friend*

*Ko au i te hoa i tonotono

Proud of our decisions, and especially proud of the team who did all the mahi to make it happen. It’s so important we join up the network to enable safe, low cost and low carbon transport choices for Pōneke.

Maria Laach Abbey library, Germany - marvelous photo of metal winding staircase between high bookstacks, leading to balcony-bridges crossing from one side to the other

Another in my series of libraries
Maria Laach Abbey library, Germany
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

The re-opening of Wellington library Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui is a game-changer for the capital We take a tour ahead of its re-opening on Saturday....

The re-opening of Wellington library Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui is a game-changer for the capital

The Library of Congress has the largest flute collection on earth.

Dayton C. Miller, born #OTD 160 years ago, is the person to thank for that. Miller amassed nearly 1,700 wind instruments during his lifetime, donating them to the Library of Congress in the 1940s. ⬇️
www.loc.gov/collections/...

A stylized owl sculpted into a heating grate at Walter Library.

One of many owls carved into the stone wall of the Walter Library Reading Room.

An owl sculpted into a metal gate on the first floor of Walter Library.

The vast majority of the owls can be found in light fixtures of the library. There are 946 of these stylized owl logos.

Screw it. It is Spring Break here at the U and I've finally done something I have always wanted to do: count all the owls at Walter Library. For the first time since the library was renovated in 2002, here is a complete count of all the owls carved, chiseled, and sculpted into the library: 1,167!

a rack of zines

vibrating with excitement because they have zines at the library now 🙂

tree is here watching the band

heavy insecurity (security guard with insecurity on the back of his jacket)

band playing in the library to happy onlookers lots of sax, trumpet, trombone

busy with people in the main foyer

absolute scenes after the reopening of te matapihi ki te ao nui 🙂

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

25 Premium 21 25 Retail Woolworths boss warns supermarket breakup could push grocery prices higher 2 hours ago

Big Bad Wolf warns reinforcing brick housing could make them easier to blow down #NZPol

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March 11, 2026 (London, England) - Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 First Nations Grand Chief and Sunchild First Nation Chief Joey Pete and Louis Bull Tribe Chief Desmond Bull met with His Majesty King Charles Ill today.

Aaron Gunn: If the federal government truly believes in the private property rights of Canadians, they should probably stop opening every public meeting by proclaiming the gathering on the “unceded territory” of this or that First Nation. Doing so reinforces the radical and dangerous legal concept that most Canadians live on “stolen land”. This is Canada. One country. For all Canadians.

𝗠𝗣 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙣: “𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙭, 𝙗𝙪𝙙.” March 11, 2026 Chiefs from four First Nations communities are urging the public to please approach Aaron Gunn with no caution whatsoever. He is completely harmless, though momentarily unsettled by the alarming possibility that someone might acknowledge the land before a meeting. Yesterday on social media, the MP appeared to crash out and demand to speak to the manager of land acknowledgements, a position that observers confirm does not exist. Chiefs whose territories make up the riding had two words for the MP - Chillax, Bud. Land acknowledgements have never seized private property, cancelled a mortgage, repossessed a pickup truck, or altered a single title deed anywhere in Canada. They are simply people recognizing the history of the place where they are standing. No one is going anywhere. Canada will survive the brief moment of honesty. Until then, Chiefs across the region continue to reassure the public that land acknowledgements have not, to date, resulted in any land back. Hegus John Hackett, Tla’amin Nation Chief Darren Blaney, Homalco Nation Chief Nicole Rempel, K'ómoks Nation Chief Kevin Peacey, Klahoose Nation

Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli

King Charles expressed concern over Alberta separatism in meeting with Indigenous leaders: grand chief | CBC News The grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations says King Charles "expressed his concern" after hearing about a separatist push in Alberta during a face-to-face meeting with Indigenous le...

The grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations says King Charles "expressed his concern" on Wednesday after hearing about a separatist push in Alberta during a face-to-face meeting with Indigenous leaders.

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#Alberta #abpoli

First Nations leaders unveil more items repatriated from the Vatican OTTAWA — First Nations leaders on Tuesday unveiled five items repatriated to their communities after being held at the Vatican for more than a century. They also unboxed another two crates of items wi...

First Nations leaders unveil more items repatriated from the Vatican #Canada

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Resharing this great article about Jody @akchick.bsky.social shared earlier. It talks more about the blankets & gives credit to the talented Indigenous/First Nations artists who made them!

www.vogue.com/article/idit...

Here are some photos from that article (but there are more & videos!)
#UglyDogs

King expressed 'concern' over Alberta separatists, say First Nations chiefs after meeting Indigenous leaders made Charles aware of the "threat" posed by the movement during a meeting in London, they say.

King expressed 'concern' over Alberta separatists, say First Nations chiefs

Crow stands in the fresh snow

Crow in snow

#birds #crow #corvid #birding #snow

We are a city of nerds! How cool!

My mum used to take us to this library every week growing up. We’d leave with so many picture books, we’d inevitably set of the alarm on the way out. Then I’d get a millionaire at Clark’s Cafe and feel like one.

A very long windy queue in Civic Square in Wellington

The line keeps getting bigger! Wrapped all around Civic Square! People still coming in!

A selfie of me standing in a sunny crowded square, I have an umbrella up

And they thought I was silly for putting on sunscreen for a library opening.

An ambulance outside a library with many people outside, also several people in high vis vests

The enormous queue around the back of the library

Pōneke, where we need an ambulance at a library opening in case people get crushed

holy shit you guys