#emilywrites — Public Fediverse posts

"Almost a year ago, on May 6 2025, the Government announced it was using urgency to alter the historic pay equity process agreed to under 2020 amendments to a long-standing law, the Equal Pay Act 1972.
It's hard to put into words how devastating these amendments were for working women in Aotearoa."

#NZPol #PayEquity #EmilyWrites

https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-issue-this-government-hopes-you-forget-about/

"The strikers I've spoken to are striking because they are being put into situations that are against their moral code. Unsafe situations from classrooms to emergency departments. They're understaffed and under-resourced, which means they cannot do what they chose their professions to do. And they're seeing first hand how public sector cuts have harmed those that they care for, those that they've devoted their lives to ..."

#EmilyWrites #NZPol #Strike

https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/strike/

"And here’s the kicker: that stat Upston loves to throw around, the one about the average beneficiary being on a benefit for 18 years, isn’t what she makes it sound like.
It’s a modelling estimate from MSD that projects how long people might receive a main benefit over their lifetime,
...
But Upston’s been selling it like every young person who signs up for Jobseeker is settling in for two decades of couch time."

#NZPol #Beneficiaries #EmilyWrites

https://www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-governments-creative-storytelling-must-be-addressed/

"If things get any spicier than they already are, no one’s flying down here for a tour of Hobbiton. They’ll be after the water, the food, the infrastructure.
...
And if we’ve already sold off the ports, the supply chains, the processing plants? We won’t even get a say. We’ll be the pantry, not the people at the table."

#NZPol #EmilyWrites #Aotearoa

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/seymours-aotearoa-how-to-lose-a-country

"Seymour has said he would like to see parents prosecuted if their child does not regularly attend school:...

As the parent of a child who cannot currently attend school, I find the idea that supports are available almost laughable. Don’t get me wrong, my child’s school is amazing. But there is only so much they can do without funding."

#NZPol #Education #SchoolAvoidance #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/guilty-shamed-and-traumatised-what

"You’ve worked hard your whole life. You’ve saved. You’ve tried to be kind to others. You’ve volunteered in your community. You have given to others, loved and been loved in return.

You’re struggling to recognise the country you live in. Maybe it’s always been like this but everything feels meaner."

#NZPol #EmilyWrites #SatireButNot

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/a-day-in-the-life-in-the-lucky-country

"This government wants to view our families as businesses. In doing so, they constantly remind me that my family is a failing business. Our costs are higher than our limited value to them.
You’re a stakeholder now, they say.
You’re a drain on the system.
You’re a stakeholder and your family is a business to this government. You’re not profitable. You’re worthless. And worse than that you cost money. You and your family."

#NZPol #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/we-are-not-stakeholders

"You might think that creating your child, birthing them or being at their birth, loving them, feeding them, comforting them, bathing them, cleaning them, clothing them, knowing the difference between a cry that means “I’m wet” and ... “I’m hurt”, helping them walk, talk, grow and thrive over a minimum of five years means you’re pretty well-placed to determine whether or not your child should leave the house – but you’d be wrong."

#NZPol #EmilyWrites

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-04-2024/how-to-tell-if-your-child-is-well-enough-to-go-to-school-or-is-in-fact-sick

I’ve been thinking a lot about poverty. And the rich getting richer.
...
I wanted to really lay out who will pay for this extravagance. The Government’s attacks our country’s most vulnerable are happening at such a frightening pace that it can be hard to even fathom how much has been taken from us to line the pockets of the already very wealthy."

#NZPol #Inequity #inequality #EmilyWrites #WealthTransfer

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/the-crushing-true-cost-of-tax-breaks

"It’s time! We are back with another post in the ‘Explainer’ series. Previously we’ve looked at issues like ‘how rent freezes work’ and ummm ‘what exactly Three Waters is’.
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OK well, let’s do our best to not fumble this particular ball. And it’s a big one - The Living Wage."

#NZPol #LivingWage #EmilyWrites #Explainer

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/what-it-the-living-wage-and-what

"In response to questions asking why our prime minister Christopher Luxon would take taxpayer money he did not need he repeatedly said ... “it’s an entitlement that I’m entitled to”.
...
When I hear [Luxon] talk about what he feels he deserves, what he feels is his right - I can’t help thinking about what it feels like volunteering at a food bank.

And what it feels like using one."

#NZPol #entitlement #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/its-an-entitlement-and-im-entitled

"I’ve been thinking about prioritisation executive dysfunction and this coalition government. It is extremely hard to work out how much bullshit we have to deal with from Luxon, Seymour, and Peters.
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The Government is getting so much time to lay out their divisive bullshit because they have three .. getting equal air time. By the time you get any alternate view, it’s too late - everyone is exhausted from the idiocy."

#NZPol #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/do-we-have-to-care-about-david-seymour

"We’ve been talking a lot about the election and how bloody brutal it is on anyone who gets Government support. There’s also been a lot of talk about ‘the deserving poor’. Helen wrote about what it feels like to be the one who is being talked about, and the one whose life is at the mercy of political parties that loathe anyone who seeks Government aide."

#NZPol #DeservingPoor #PoliticalFootball #poverty #beneficiary #GovernmentSupport #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/im-the-deserving-poor-and-you-could

3/3

"... families like his will never ever work night shifts for minimum wage then rush their kids to school - so tired they can barely drive. ...try to find enough money for a bus that doesn’t come, or drive the car without a warrant ... wait in the public health system for up to a year for physiotherapy for their disabled child. Those parents will never ever have to go hungry so they can eat."

#NZPol #poverty #inequity #classism #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/christopher-luxon-knows-the-truth

2/3

"In the interview the reporter points out that parents taking their children out of school before and after the school holidays is a contributing factor to the ‘truancy’ rates. Luxon scoffs, and says ‘go see some decile one and two schools’.

He says, as they say, ‘the quiet part out loud’.

We’re not talking about families like mine. We’re talking about ‘bottom feeders’. "

#NZPol #poverty #inequity #classism #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/christopher-luxon-knows-the-truth

1/3 Our household is only one pay cycle away from disaster. I share the anger in this piece.

"Poor kids and their poor parents are an easy target for Luxon and the other capitalists. They have always been the target. And they’re almost surprised I think, that journalists get this confused when they’ve never hidden their loathing of the working class, the bottom feeders, that they profit from."

#NZPol #poverty #inequity #classism #EmilyWrites

https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/christopher-luxon-knows-the-truth