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Wonderful write up by Max Rashbrooke for The Spinoff, absolutely spot on - #nzpol #NzGovernment #AotearoaNZ - Opinion: David Seymour’s hypocrisy over drugs and poverty https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/03-07-2025/david-seymours-hypocrisy-over-drugs-and-poverty?utm_source=spinoff-share-button&utm_medium=spinoff-web-mobile
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CW: #NZPol Social workers v air traffic controllers
Marilyn Waring challenges the justifications for the pay equity changes.
"Understanding what a social work qualification means, I would happily employ a social worker as an air traffic controller but never contemplate the reverse. "
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/12-06-2025/marilyn-waring-why-i-convened-the-peoples-select-committee-on-pay-equity #NZPol #PayEquity -
Interesting column from NZ author David Hill on what he would do differently if starting out again. https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/31-05-2025/if-i-were-starting-out-again-life-and-writing-advice-from-david-hill?utm_source=spinoff-share-button&utm_medium=web #Writing #DavidHill
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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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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 -
"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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CW: NZPol Election errors
"Double votes, missing ballot boxes, tired tech and stressed staff: how tick-tallying went astray at last year’s election."
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🗞️ Articles
Thank you as always to our dear friends over at @AdoptOurCrew for keeping us up to date on all the new articles and interviews of our cast & crew!
‘It made me who I am’: The TV series that changed Rhys Darby’s life: https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/25-01-2025/it-made-me-who-i-am-the-tv-series-that-changed-rhys-darbys-life
The 10 Best Sitcoms of the 2020s So Far, Ranked: https://collider.com/2020s-sitcoms-best-ranked
33 TV Couples Who Had So Much Chemistry, They Created The Best Slow Burn Romances Of All Time: https://www.buzzfeed.com/noradominick/tv-characters-best-sexual-tension-slow-burn-gate
15 Best TV Shows On Max, Ranked: https://www.slashfilm.com/1772959/best-tv-shows-hbo-max
#RhysDarby #OurFlagMeansDeath #OFMD #AdoptOurCrew #LongLiveOFMD #OFMDRecaps
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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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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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"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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"It’s worth remembering that the Three Waters Bill included a binding Treaty principles clause which would likely have proved a significant barrier to any plan to privatise New Zealand’s water supply. Perhaps that’s a key reason why it faced such a withering political attack."
#RupertOBrien, 2024
Definitely the reason. Watch them try to do the same thing in the future, in a rush, without those protections.
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Max Rashbrooke gave the NatACTs way too much credit back in 2023
"... an incoming administration can hardly cancel signed contracts or halt work underway."
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-09-2023/did-national-really-just-simply-sell-off-state-houses
If only that were true.
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"Administrative waste in US healthcare – generated by every private player trying to shift the cost onto another – is so great that it would pay for every uninsured American to get insurance. It is also greater than the entirety of Britain’s NHS budget."
#MaxRashbrooke, 2025
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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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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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New #TobyMorris epic.
*Behind the scenes of New Zealand arts funding*
#ArtsFunding #CreativeNZ #Aotearoa
#Webcomic #Illustration
#FundingEcosystemhttps://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/29-11-2024/behind-the-scenes-of-new-zealand-arts-funding
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CW: NZPol Abuse in care
A tough few days for a lot of people as they prepare for the nation's institutions to once again resist responsibility, recommendations or restitutions following New Zealand's latest and biggest report into abuse in care.
TheSpinoff has a primer here:
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"...one senior industry source saying the government is over-reliant on television for advertising due to the fact ministers continue to scrutinise the 6pm news so much."
This looks like an indirect subsidy to TVNZ. On top of accepting no dividend some years, despite the rules saying the state is many to interacts with SOEs like any private owner.
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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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"I can think of one country that is really good at long-term infrastructure planning: China. Why don’t we just go with their approach to elections, and not have them at all."
#TobyManhire, 2025
This is such a common misconception. China does, in fact, hold elections. Just not multiparty elections.
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This is source of many lovely insights into one of Aotearoa's most precious, (rightly) revered, and self-possessed people: https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/23-11-2023/goodbye-kim-hill-a-day-with-the-doyenne-of-nz-radio Well played @tobymanhire! #RNZ #KimHill #StandingDown
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CW: NZPol Tough on crime
"But the coalition government’s tough-on-crime rhetoric has hardly been subtle, and its policies have raised genuine concerns from many different corners, so it’s worth peeling back the layers. "
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"New Zealand’s food distribution system is vulnerable to disasters. Shanti Mathias talks to community farms, food rescue groups and researchers about what a more resilient food future might look like."
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"How a small medical practice caring for its working community led to the public health system we have today."
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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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"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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"Projections for the Ministry of Justice estimated that the government could generate $923 million each year from licence fees, corporate and income tax, excise tax and GST from the [cannabis] product itself."
#RachelJudkins, 2024
"... National promised to spend $280 million on 13 new cancer treatments... funding was not allocated in last week's Budget..."
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"Back in 2013, the New Zealand Treasury estimated that a change in the legal status of marijuana would reduce spending on drug enforcement here by $180million."
#RachelJudkins, 2024
"Nicola Willis has banished at least eight programmes to fiscal purgatory, including $120m in funding needed to keep the lights on at NZ Police."
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/31/critical-police-funding-dangling-over-fiscal-cliff/