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"[Aotearoa] continues to run current account deficits – importing more goods and services than it exports, often loosely described as 'living beyond our means'. The deficit will be a large 8.1% of GDP this year, falling to 4.3% in 2027."
A result of successive govts doing anything they can to increase exports, while being effectively banned from reducing imports - even of designer landfill like the garbage sold in $2 stores - by "free trade agreements".
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"[Aotearoa] continues to run current account deficits – importing more goods and services than it exports, often loosely described as 'living beyond our means'. The deficit will be a large 8.1% of GDP this year, falling to 4.3% in 2027."
A result of successive govts doing anything they can to increase exports, while being effectively banned from reducing imports - even of designer landfill like the garbage sold in $2 stores - by "free trade agreements".
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"Well planned, inclusive and accessible infrastructure benefits all members of society, especially the marginalised. Lack of cycle infrastructure is negligent, ableist and ageist." -EJ Barrett
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-08-2023/i-use-a-wheelchair-and-i-want-more-bike-lanes#MoveEquity #accessibility #WheelsMoveMe #MobilityJustice #CarCulture #BikeLove #BikeTooter #cycling #transportation #infrastructure #ageism #ableism
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The Side Eye - Deeper Roots [Cyclone Gabrielle, Tairāwhiti (Gisborne), New Zealand]
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https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-07-2023/the-side-eye-deeper-roots <-- Spinoff Side Eye story
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https://teweu.nz/towards-an-indigenous-bioeconomy/ <-- towards an indigenous bio-economy in Tairāwhiti
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“Months after Cyclone Gabrielle smashed Tairāwhiti [Gisborne, New Zealand], locals are still cleaning up the damage. The Side Eye travels to the erosion-prone region to meet the people asking hard questions about a plan for the future…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #massmovement #climatechange #CycloneGabrielle #Tairāwhiti #Gisborne) #NewZealand #extremeweather #geomorphology #fluvial #fluvialgeomorphology #Gabrielle #cyclone #flood #flooding #water #hydrology #ecosystem #monoculture #forestry #forestry #risk #hazard #mitigation #monitoring #erosion #landslides #slumps #slips #slash #forestrestoration #pine #planning #impacts #humanimpact #publicsafety #economy #economic #governmentplanning #indigenous #Maori #firstnations #bioeconomy -
"Something has to change so markets and systems provide the best environmental choices to consumers – but that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook entirely."
Why it’s so hard to make good climate choices: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/25-07-2023/why-its-so-hard-to-make-good-climate-choices
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CW: Corporate cowardice -- NZ telcos
Supporting Shaneel Lal's call to have no TERFs on Threads was a great thing for our major telcos to do.
Until they walked it back.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/11-07-2023/sometimes-its-better-to-say-nothing-at-all
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"In 1995, Otago and All Blacks flanker Josh Kronfeld used his head – literally – to make a unique protest. The Side Eye looks back at a memorable example of a New Zealander going against the grain."
#NZHistory #protest #TheSideEye #webcomic #TobyMorris #NuclearTesting #France
https://thespinoff.co.nz/sports/29-06-2023/the-side-eye-sticking-your-neck-out
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"In 1995, Otago and All Blacks flanker Josh Kronfeld used his head – literally – to make a unique protest. The Side Eye looks back at a memorable example of a New Zealander going against the grain."
#NZHistory #protest #TheSideEye #webcomic #TobyMorris #NuclearTesting #France
https://thespinoff.co.nz/sports/29-06-2023/the-side-eye-sticking-your-neck-out
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"In times of difficulty throughout history, people have found less powerful groups on whom to blame society’s problems. The Side Eye asks if trans people are simply the latest in a long line of scapegoats."
#TransRights #NZCulture #Scapegoat #Webcomic #TheSideEye #TobyMorris
https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-side-eye/02-05-2023/the-side-eye-the-trans-tipping-point
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‘I’m Māori first’: The vision-impaired community finding strength in whakapapa.
Read more about research with tāngata kāpō Māori led by AProf Bridgette Masters-Awatere with myself and Chrissie Cowan. Mīharo! 👇
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Maybe it's time that professional journalists in Aotearoa (NZ) started doing some targeted surveillance of privately-owned #SecretPolice forces like Thompson & Clark:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-04-2018/why-have-thompson-clark-been-allowed-to-keep-spying-on-us-in-your-name/This could also include #WilsonSecurity (who run both parking buildings and refugee camps), the various ex-cop run drug-testing and "education" companies like #MethCon and so on?
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Man, Kawaiicon (Kiwicon) and Purplecon sound extremely brilliant. Also this article is written very well, highly recommend: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/11-11-2019/from-bogans-to-bubble-tea-the-wellington-hacker-war-that-wasnt/ #purplecon #kawaiicon #kiwicon
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"Normalising not desiring sex or assuming everybody wants sex promotes a healthy consent culture for everybody – for allosexual people who enjoy sex to have great sex, and for it to be respected if people aren’t into it. Asexuality is a valid and healthy identity."
#otherpeoplesexperiences #ace #asexuality
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/30-10-2022/essay-on-sunday-asexuality-and-the-artist
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"In response to Chris Luxon’s comment about potential gang members ‘sitting in a garage in South Auckland’, artist-curator Ema Tavola shares some photos of people who visited her own garage over the years."
#NZCulture #NZPol #GiveNothingToRacism
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/11-12-2022/in-celebration-of-my-south-auckland-garage
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"Women Mean Business tells the stories of no less than 600 colonial-era New Zealand women who set up enterprises in industries from millinery, hotel keeping and travelling showmanship through to New Zealand’s first registered female chemist..."
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England had Canute the Dane. Auckland has Wayne the Brown. #nzpol #Auckland #Aucklandflooding https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-01-2023/wayne-brown-pens-strongly-worded-letter-to-the-rain?utm_source=mastodon
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CW: TheSpinoff porn week - The SideEye
"Most young people will have seen porn well before they start actually having sex. In the hope of settling anxieties and managing expectations, The Side Eye has a gentle talk about the differences between sex in porn and sex in real life."
#webcomic #comic #consent #sex #porn #tobymorris #thesideeye
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-11-2022/the-side-eye-porn-sex-and-real-sex
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CW: TheSpinoff porn week - The SideEye
"Most young people will have seen porn well before they start actually having sex. In the hope of settling anxieties and managing expectations, The Side Eye has a gentle talk about the differences between sex in porn and sex in real life."
#webcomic #comic #consent #sex #porn #tobymorris #thesideeye
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-11-2022/the-side-eye-porn-sex-and-real-sex
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"We wouldn’t just dig up a mountain… would we? A new Side Eye comic about Tāmaki Makaurau’s volcanoes and reckoning with the past."
#nzhistory #colonisation #thesideeye #tobymorris
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-06-2022/the-side-eye-we-destroyed-mountains
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"We wouldn’t just dig up a mountain… would we? A new Side Eye comic about Tāmaki Makaurau’s volcanoes and reckoning with the past."
#nzhistory #colonisation #thesideeye #tobymorris
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-06-2022/the-side-eye-we-destroyed-mountains
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Cartoonist Toby Morris serves up a comparison between the way alcohol and cannabis are currently regulated (or not) in Aotearoa, and the proposed system for cannabis regulation that we're voting on in the upcoming reeferendum:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/the-side-eye/24-08-2020/the-side-eye-weed-versus-booze/ -
Cartoonist Toby Morris serves up a comparison between the way alcohol and cannabis are currently regulated (or not) in Aotearoa, and the proposed system for cannabis regulation that we're voting on in the upcoming reeferendum:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/the-side-eye/24-08-2020/the-side-eye-weed-versus-booze/ -
'Fairer Future: Fixing Poverty in #Aotearoa', a cartoon by #TobyMorris about the history of the social welfare system in #NZ:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/cpag/30-01-2020/fairer-future-fixing-poverty-in-aotearoa/ -
"I’m on the panel overseeing the NZ On Air-funded music heritage site #AudioCulture, which cancelled all Facebook advertising shortly after the atrocity."
https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/actionstation/12-04-2019/this-is-not-the-internet-you-promised-us/WTF is a publicly-funded, not-for-profit website doing spending money to advertize itself on FB in the first place?!?
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When i turned up in Aotearoa back in I got that #FlyingNun Popeyed electric compact disk and it was that #KingLoser tune that sizzled in a field of some very good companions.
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"... the pro-market revolution in societal governance also has its victims – those who think that a local body’s public spaces should be operated in a way that pays due attention to the citizenry’s expressive rights ... you can’t have organisations that are both designed to take control from politicians and the public to get things done in a business-like manner and also ... [respect] individual speech rights when deciding who to contract with."
- #AndrewGeddis
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-10-2019/how-the-free-market-squad-devoured-its-free-speech-children/ -
I love this Podcast. In this episode it tells the story of how New Zealand getting MMP was in no small part due to a mistake... It also charts the rise of some bloke named Winston Peters.
The series (both 1 & 2) should be required listening for all Kiwi, not just imports like me to (re)learn our modern history.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-11-2025/juggernaut-2-the-wild-story-of-the-first-mmp-election
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"On paper, the system had worked. What does not appear in the metrics is the cost of proving oneself worthy of discretion. The hours spent clarifying. The fatigue of repeated explanation while living with a disabling autoimmune disorder. The quiet erosion of dignity when integrity is defined externally and applied retrospectively. Power does not need to be loud to feel absolute. It only needs to keep reinterpreting your circumstances."
#poverty #disability #inequity
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-04-2026/the-cost-of-proving-youre-poor-enough
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"On paper, the system had worked. What does not appear in the metrics is the cost of proving oneself worthy of discretion. The hours spent clarifying. The fatigue of repeated explanation while living with a disabling autoimmune disorder. The quiet erosion of dignity when integrity is defined externally and applied retrospectively. Power does not need to be loud to feel absolute. It only needs to keep reinterpreting your circumstances."
#poverty #disability #inequity
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-04-2026/the-cost-of-proving-youre-poor-enough
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"On paper, the system had worked. What does not appear in the metrics is the cost of proving oneself worthy of discretion. The hours spent clarifying. The fatigue of repeated explanation while living with a disabling autoimmune disorder. The quiet erosion of dignity when integrity is defined externally and applied retrospectively. Power does not need to be loud to feel absolute. It only needs to keep reinterpreting your circumstances."
#poverty #disability #inequity
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-04-2026/the-cost-of-proving-youre-poor-enough