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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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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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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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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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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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"This nonsense that we live with, whereby we're just not even acknowledging the tension between the sort of chaos, information libertarianism of the internet, and this old, structured [media] world. And the fact that one is clearly eating and destroying the other."
#DuncanGreive, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/the-fold
Firstly, it's kind of weird to claim that nobody is acknowledging this. Discussions about the state of the media industry and the future of journalism mention it *constantly*.
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"[Charlie Kirk] was described as anti-immigrant, and that's true, but the way that he described his anti-immigrant stance was ... the more that you have vast numbers of people coming in to compete with you, the more that suppresses wages. That's a doctrinaire left-wing perspective in a lot of countries now."
#DuncanGreive, 16 Sept, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/the-fold
Which ones?! This is bog standard, 20th conservative anti-immigrant cant, and it's wrong on at least 2 levels.
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"Back at home, Ruth Richardson pushes on. Asset sales continued; the BNZ is flicked off, so is NZ Rail."
#TobyManhire, 2025
https://www.thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
So having severely impoverished a million kiwis during an economic crisis, supposedly to afford the cost of bailing out the BNZ, within a couple of years Richardson has sold it.
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"The changes this bill heralds, are revolutionary; do destroy the traditional relationship between workers, unions and employers; are the beginning of a spiral of poverty for many in this country."
#AngelaFoulkes, CTU, speaking about the bill that became the Employment Contracts Act in 1991. Quoted in Juggernaut 2, ep 2;
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CW: NZPol Pike river
This was written in 2017. 8 years on and nothing has changed.
"It’s infuriating because it’s so simple. When a mine explodes, you go in to find out why. When a crime happens, you investigate the crime scene. When 29 men die in a New Zealand workplace, someone has to be held accountable. It’s the only right and proper thing to do. But it hasn’t been done."
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CW: NZPol summary of education changes
"It’s all unfolding upon the foundations of an industrial dispute between the government and teachers that contributed to one of the largest worker strikes in this country since 1979. In short, there is an awful lot going on in this country’s schools. So, in case you blinked, here’s a rundown of the recent education changes worth having on your radar."
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CW: NZPol summary of education changes
"It’s all unfolding upon the foundations of an industrial dispute between the government and teachers that contributed to one of the largest worker strikes in this country since 1979. In short, there is an awful lot going on in this country’s schools. So, in case you blinked, here’s a rundown of the recent education changes worth having on your radar."
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CW: NZPol summary of education changes
"It’s all unfolding upon the foundations of an industrial dispute between the government and teachers that contributed to one of the largest worker strikes in this country since 1979. In short, there is an awful lot going on in this country’s schools. So, in case you blinked, here’s a rundown of the recent education changes worth having on your radar."
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CW: NZPol summary of education changes
"It’s all unfolding upon the foundations of an industrial dispute between the government and teachers that contributed to one of the largest worker strikes in this country since 1979. In short, there is an awful lot going on in this country’s schools. So, in case you blinked, here’s a rundown of the recent education changes worth having on your radar."
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My novella Where We Land and novel Emergency Weather are keeping some great company in this article by Claire Mabey on recommended climate fiction (cli-fi) from Aotearoa and the world! Pretty neat to have my work listed alongside Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Richard Powers!
https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-11-2025/what-is-cli-fi-and-why-is-it-so-hot-right-now
#ClimateFiction #clifi @bookstodon #books #nzbooks #NewZealand #Aotearoa
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Labour’s desperate, doomed, decades-long effort to get farmers to like them reared its haggard head again in the announcement of the capital gains tax policy.
For no good reason, Hipkins gave farmers a free pass and undermined his own policy.
The Labour party’s decision to exclude farms from its proposed capital gains tax is just the latest overture in parliament’s most long-running one-sided love affair.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-10-2025/labours-desperate-doomed-decades-long-effort-to-get-farmers-to-like-them?utm_source=nickofnz&utm_medium=nickofnz #nzpol #farming #toomanycows -
Hard to know what to say about the removal of Māori wards in 25 local councils in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The decline in voter turnout is bad enough, and the rejection of Māori representation at local level is mostly in regional areas.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-10-2025/local-elections-live-decision-day-2025
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CW: NZPol Pay equity
"He explained: the “principal argument against equal pay is based on economic factors … rather than the moral principle, (which is) of paramount importance. Right down through history, we have heard the same old argument. Removing children from mines and factories, the eight-hour day, the 40-hour week, annual holidays for all workers.”"
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CW: NZPol Pay equity
"He explained: the “principal argument against equal pay is based on economic factors … rather than the moral principle, (which is) of paramount importance. Right down through history, we have heard the same old argument. Removing children from mines and factories, the eight-hour day, the 40-hour week, annual holidays for all workers.”"
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CW: NZPol Bastion Point
"The Takaparawhau green ban was an example of a successful practical alliance between indigenous people and unions, .... Its apparent defeat due to state repression turned into a win when, after a Waitangi Tribunal hearing in 1987, the government eventually returned most of Takaparawhau to Ngāti Whātua – the land had remained undeveloped, and the green ban remained in force after the eviction. "
#NZHistory #GreenBan #BastionPoint #NZPol #Unions
https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-09-2025/the-forgotten-union-green-ban-that-defended-bastion-point
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"Growing up, one of my dad’s favourite sayings to me was: “Don’t be just another statistic.” ... However, as I grew older and wiser, I began appreciating what he was trying to tell me. Don’t be another statistic, because so many Māori men are.
We are among the most measured and studied group of people in the world."
#OtherPeoplesExperiences #LongRead #Māori #Aotearoa #Culture #Colonisation
https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/22-09-2025/hawaiki-hou-maori-men-at-the-turning-point
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"Father’s Day. Ah, the warm glow of parenthood, paternal or maternal. And the chill terror.
Terror? The 40-something son of friends died last month. ... When we heard, my wife Beth and I felt sorrow for those friends. We also felt fear."
#Parenting #FathersDay #children #future
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-09-2025/the-spinoff-essay-day-of-reckoning
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"Our invisibility perpetuates a cycle where parenting and family norms remain unchallenged, leaving services without a reason to build their capability for inclusive practice at a systemic level through, for example, inclusive data collection systems and the provision of rainbow inclusion education to providers."
#QueerRights #QueerIssues #QueerParenting #lgbtqia #heteronormativity #society #Aotearoa
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"Our invisibility perpetuates a cycle where parenting and family norms remain unchallenged, leaving services without a reason to build their capability for inclusive practice at a systemic level through, for example, inclusive data collection systems and the provision of rainbow inclusion education to providers."
#QueerRights #QueerIssues #QueerParenting #lgbtqia #heteronormativity #society #Aotearoa
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"Our invisibility perpetuates a cycle where parenting and family norms remain unchallenged, leaving services without a reason to build their capability for inclusive practice at a systemic level through, for example, inclusive data collection systems and the provision of rainbow inclusion education to providers."
#QueerRights #QueerIssues #QueerParenting #lgbtqia #heteronormativity #society #Aotearoa
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"Our invisibility perpetuates a cycle where parenting and family norms remain unchallenged, leaving services without a reason to build their capability for inclusive practice at a systemic level through, for example, inclusive data collection systems and the provision of rainbow inclusion education to providers."
#QueerRights #QueerIssues #QueerParenting #lgbtqia #heteronormativity #society #Aotearoa
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"Our invisibility perpetuates a cycle where parenting and family norms remain unchallenged, leaving services without a reason to build their capability for inclusive practice at a systemic level through, for example, inclusive data collection systems and the provision of rainbow inclusion education to providers."
#QueerRights #QueerIssues #QueerParenting #lgbtqia #heteronormativity #society #Aotearoa
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CW: NZPol Tolled roads
"Maintenance is the overlooked and unsexy part of funding new roads, but it’s incredibly important. And when discussing how to pay for it, it’s important to ask: what does the damage? The answer, overwhelmingly, is trucks. Approximately 80% of all road maintenance costs in New Zealand are the result of the damage caused by trucks."
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"The Evening Post page might have been unusually elaborate – with its levels, prizes and competitions – but for years, newspapers around the country had pages for young readers and writers. Many people have told me they wrote for them, and some famous New Zealand writers appear in them."
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CW: NZPol NCEA Lack of time to prepare
"In reality, we don’t have two and a half years to deliberate and prepare for this change. We have less than a few months from the period for feedback closes in September until 2028’s year 11s begin their journey through high school. You cannot in good faith argue that this is “careful phasing” when you are giving teachers so little time to prepare and implement this new set of qualifications. "