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Stand up for workers rights. Stop the cuts. Honour Te Tiriti. End equality - restore equal pay Secure our future - protect our environment #nzctu #psa #FightBackTogether #marangaake #honourTeTiriti #nzpol

@PhillipLaings @dbseymour I saw him at the Chinese ny festival in Auckland but avoided him

So @dbseymour says he has travelled the length of Aotearoa over the summer talking to lots of people. Were you one of those people? Did anyone see Seymour? He also thought he was making a smart comment in the house but he pronounced thesaurus "theasaurus" Nasty arrogant prick

@StuartBDonovan Most NZ job ads seem to not include $$$. annoying. Asking candidate expectations hoping candidate undervalues the role. No acknowledgment of receipt of application or letting applicants know if unsuccessful really unprofessional. Was a shock for me when I came home from the UK.

@NZNationalParty No. Thru are growing up in the streets, in cars and if they are lucky in unhealthy buildings over filled with other families

#BREAKING: We’ve achieved our 2030 target of 75% fewer households in emergency housing FIVE YEARS EARLY. That means nearly 2,000 children are no longer growing up in motels.

@KeeganLangeveld It’s Clarke Gaylord’s job He’s working

So the PM can't go fishing with his family in summer (like many kiwis) because it's 'elitist' BUT Clarke Gayford can have a television show about traveling the Pacific and fishing and be considered 'down to earth'? If you're going to be outraged by something ridiculous, make it make sense 🤦‍♂️

@Christi62736312 @Jandal_It Is virtue signalling the same as “woke”?

@genebrarian @Jandal_It Social justice. Virtual signaling. 🤣😂

Hey Shane, so when ARE Māori allowed to be Māori? You whinged about a haka in Parliament. Now you are whinging about Te Reo being prioritised at a tangi. You are becoming awfully pākeha. When will you change your name to Karen? newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather…

@Christi62736312 @Jandal_It It’s up to the family/whanau what happens at any funeral/tangi

@Jandal_It Well the whole of New Zealand know what a gracious woman Dame Turiana Turia was, and she would have been ashamed at how people were treated at her tangi.

@phdcommonsense @pearce_murray Families are allowed to choose what they want to happen for their loved ones funerals/tangi Especially who is allowed to speak

@pearce_murray Sir Shane Jones . He not complaining about a funeral wanker . He complaining about the racism and the marae decision

What a wanker. Who on earth complains about a funeral. Totally disrespectful. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360541…

@DrNeilStone I’ve had it twice. Lucky enough to live in New Zealand so though my first infection was bad - it was after vaccination so wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Second time was mild

It's 2025. A full 5 years after the start of the Covid pandemic. Anyone out there not had Covid even once?

In 2025 can the media stop calling the job cuts throughout NZ savings? Apparently we are all going to thrive once mortgage interest rates go down, how do people thrive without a job?

Vile quote of the year Now put in context

Gordon Campbell On Why We Can’t Survive Two More Years Of This werewolf.co.nz/2024/12/gordon… We can't! This is the most appalling govt we've ever had & Willis has to be the most incompetent, clueless finance minister that has ever held the finance portfolio.

@DebNZ4 @NZAllison Yeah I’m renting Dreading it

@NZAllison @genebrarian Sweet Lord, I can only imagine!

I've just received my latest Southern Cross policy renewal. It's going from $290.84 a month to $357.55... or $66.71 extra a month. Time to cancel. I cannot justify it any longer. #HealthInsurancePremiums

@NZAllison Yeah tough choice. I’m still working but I’m considering letting it go too. It’s too dear now. Difficult to trust in our public health system at the moment though …

@genebrarian I know what you mean, but in reality I can't afford it any longer being on the pension alone now.

@Aussiephil2 @Agentsmith_2013 @MsWonderOutLoud That depends on economic climate too. If there are very few jobs and a lot of unemployed then you will get a lot of long term unemployed. This gov has made thousands of people unemployed this year. I know my work gets hundreds of applications every time a job is advertised

@genebrarian @Agentsmith_2013 @MsWonderOutLoud Making excuses for people who should be working im not talking about people on sickness benefits etc. How long is too long?

Looks like the government found a loophole to bring unemployment down. Simply kick people off JobSeekers benefit after 26 weeks? parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-…

@Aussiephil2 @Agentsmith_2013 @MsWonderOutLoud But Gov is counting long term JS with health exemptions into stats for long term JS There are 108k just on JS, and 80K on JS with medical exemption Long term stats are counted from both groups

This is how you undermine democracy. You bombard NZ with a whole lot of legislation submissions right after Christmas. Making sure most people are too busy on holiday to pay attention.

@Suzyiam @MsWonderOutLoud Glad it’s not just me then

@genebrarian @MsWonderOutLoud I'm not sure? Seems a bit weird

@Aussiephil2 @Agentsmith_2013 @MsWonderOutLoud Where is the assumption? Figures for those on JS health exempt was published And those LT over 55 were also published. “Long term” is more than 12 months

@genebrarian @Agentsmith_2013 @MsWonderOutLoud That’s an assumption not fact.

I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.