Cartoon. It says, “Happy Mother’s Day to all you women, mothers and child-free alike! Thank you for selflessly giving up fair pay and for sacrificing your families, your welfare, your security, and your retirement, to save our budget. YOU ARE THE BEST!” In the lower right corner are Finance Minister Nicola Willis and PM Christopher Luxon applauding. Luxon is looking a little anxiously at MP Brooke van Velden, who has gone into robot mode and sending signals to the mother ship.

Happy Mother’s Day from the Coalition Government
My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #WomensPay #Fairpay #Equity #KissMyFatArseMyDarling

Aotearoa New Zealand, just putting this here. You know what to do!

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Despicable attitude.

Betting kosher meals for Jewish students are in the same boat here too.

Oh look, Luxon was wrong about NZ being in recession for three years.

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John Campbell: Waitangi in the age of the Treaty Principles Bill ANALYSIS: The crowd was smaller, the Prime Minister was absent and, one year after the jubilation of 2024, the mood was different.

As always, incredible words from John Campbell. He puts so much care and heart into his pieces.
#kikorangi

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They were sending spirits to the stars, then Elon Musk's Starlink cut in front Māori science, navigation experts warn of ‘obliteration’ of indigenous knowledge as satellites flood Earth’s lower orbit.

Not like we need more reasons to hate Musk. But here we are. #Kikorangi he's destroying our night sky

"Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites have already interfered with a tuku wairua ceremony during Matariki, when whānau who have died are released to the stars."

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It’s up there with “a bit disappointed”.
Translation: Absolutely seething .

Hi you don’t have to post it. And you don’t have to re-post it.

And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over.

You can just not post it.

Oh this is a great use of that space!
Definitely going to check it out. Might even do that today

🧵Topic: Seeking Illustrators/Artists from Aotearoa

Hello lovely people. We're looking at putting together a book of my Spotted posts this year. And the first thing is to find an artist!

So, if you're a kiwi artist/illustrator with commissions open, I'd love it if you could share some details (1)

Jane Kelsey's Submission on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill A guest post by Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey, sharing her in-depth knowledge of neoliberalism and the Regulatory Standards Bill

Submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill by Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey.
It articulates (quite succinctly, considering) all the many *many* ways in which this bill is terribly flawed and a betrayal of democracy & our nation.
#kikorangi #nzpol
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This way makes such a cute photo though, with wee story.

Love that your wife is looking at you (and the way she’s looking 🥹) but you’re looking at the camera !!

Also this photo looks like out of a film.

Happy Anniversary!

Treaty Principles Bill submissions re-open after website woes Parliament's justice select committee has agreed to extend the deadline after receiving a record 300,000 submissions.

*** ⭐️ GOOD NEWS ⭐️ ***

The public will now have until next week to submit on the Treaty Principles Bill.

Parliament's justice select committee has agreed to re-open submissions from 1pm Thursday to 1pm Tuesday 14 January after technical issues.
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Ok, so I have actually wondered about this!

Also thought the use premier v PM in AoNZ, Aust and Pacific nations seemed like a mish mash.

So Thank you. 🙏🏼

Yes! 2025 is going to the year I become a big submitter.

Every single one of those bills is horrendous.

Very helpful guide to all the bills, what they mean, and how and when to submit.

Thank you! This is really helpful.

Just don’t used the template offered. It’s biased AF. Write out your words .

That template f**ks me off so much.

Submission templates (particularly for Govt depts) shoud be neutral!!

Reposting as a reminder. Get your submission in.

You can literally write something like:

I oppose the Treaty Principles Bill because it is unjust and ripping New Zealand apart.

I recommend this bill be ditched.

There is still time New Zealand!! I can not stress how important this is. Your submission doesn’t have to be long. Your English doesn’t have to be perfect. You can submit in te reo Māori. But please just get something in by 11.59pm Tuesday, 07 January 2025.

www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

2030 if we’re lucky.

So far there only seem to be concepts of a plan.

This time of year can be really, really hard. If you’re in Aotearoa New Zealand and want/need some support free call or free text 1737.

You’ll get to talk to or text with a trained counsellor or with peer support worker.

1737.org.nz

Healthy Homes Initiative: Five-year outcomes evaluation - Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora The report highlights that the Healthy Homes Initiative has had a significant impact for over 200,000 referred whānau members, including children resulting in fewer hospital visits and trips to the GP...

Policy interventions can do amazing stuff. This newish analysis of the intensive Healthy Homes Initiative finds:
- 18.6% drop in hospitalisation, or about 10k/year. That's a small hospital.
- 5% drop in school absenteeism.
- Slight increase in wages.

www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/publications...

Love this.

It’s a golden era for cartoonists. It much be hard to chose what to even cover

Government's financial update expected to show bigger deficits for longer Broad expectations are for the budget deficit to push out by more than $1b from the budget forecast towards $15b for the year ended June.

Well, yes, if you cut 8500-10,000 public sector roles, and drive 79,000 people to leave NZ, plus give landlords a tax break, of course the tax take will be lower 🤦🏽‍♀️
This is a very simple maths equation.

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Image shows pōhutukawa trees blossom red again blue sky in Wellington, NZ

Pukeahu and pōhutukawa. A Wellington story today.

New Zealand’s new school lunch scheme is a prime example “enshitification” - Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year.

Compass Group’s lunches don’t look great, nor nearly enough for growing tamariki.

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