The Savagery Directed at Golriz New Zealand has an amazing ability to drop the mask, and its not very pleasant underneath.

David Farrier | The Savagery Directed at Golriz
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Was v. honored to speak with Jacinda Ardern & her health team about Covid19 late last year. I'm happy to share the recording (took a while to be posted)-
masscpr.hms.harvard.edu/masscpr-symp...
Thanks to New Zealanders here who gave me insights🙏 Dame Jacinda, Sir Ashley & Dame Juliet were 🤩

NZ Govt: We’re going to protect women in sports

Women: Awesome! You’ll do more to protect women from sexually abusive male coaches?

NZG: Ah, no

Women: Equal pay for sportswomen?

NZG: Haha no

Women: Funding better facilities?

NZG: You’re not gonna believe this, but also no

Govt push to ban transgender athletes from all women's sport Government funding could be withheld if trans athletes aren't separated from competitions.

I don’t know any trans people that play competitive sports, but I know plenty of people who will hear, as intended, the hateful message that they don’t belong in everyday life. Fuck these people trying to boost themselves up by finding a small group of people to vilify.

FPA Repeal Contravenes EU Free Trade Agreement, Says NZCTU New Zealand’s recently signed Free Trade Agreement with the European Union threatens to derail the coalition Government’s aspirations to remove the Fair Pay Agreements by Christmas, said the NZ Co...

FPA Repeal Contravenes EU Free Trade Agreement, Says NZCTU #AoNZpol

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO23...

It's one of her best, def read it.

Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act

With scarcely a voice being raised against it, we are sliding into a police state, in which an entirely peaceful protester, trying to prevent a societal catastrophe, can get six months in jail for marching slowly down the road.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In which Craig Renney outlines the costs and relative benefits of spending money on the ferry vs landlords.
A must read.
#nzpol

Maori language edicts strains NZ government As New Zealand grapples with a new style of government and a new approach to the Maori language,...

So Luxon thinks public servants should pay for te reo Māori lessons but taxpayers should pay for his. Righto. Personally, I think te reo Māori lessons should be free for everybody but his hypocrisy is next level. #nzpol

How about yearly testing Luxon's Te Reo literacy and numeracy to see if the tax payer is getting value for money.. #nzpol

NZ banks have not passed on recent falls in wholesale interest rates, inflating their profit margins on mortgage lending by ~100 basis points. That's potentially $2-$3b in extra profit per year for the largest banks. Chart from @alex sinton. Plus Dawn Chorus. thekaka.substack.com/p/we-cooled-...

Screenshot from Instagram: Te Ao Māori News Picture of presenter and behind her Shane Jones smirking "Shane Jones has only. Even a monster again for a fortnight, but he's warning opponents of deep sea oil drilling, commercial fishing in tbe Kermadecs, and mining of conservation land that big changes are on the way."

More shock doctrines on their way via the sell out Shane Jones. A minister again for only 2 weeks and this is what he wants to unleash on us and our country.

Minister pulls brakes on cycling and walking initatives In a letter to local authorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown said he told Waka Kotahi to halt work on cycling and walking initiatives.

Seriously what do these idiots stand for. On almost every policy they have positioned themselves at odds with how the rest of the world is attempting to tackle complex challenges, be it climate change, more liveable cities, wealth inequality, you name it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Self-identification law kicks in A law change allowing New Zealand citizens to change their registered sex on their birth certificate has kicked in from today.

Officially 6 months since gender Self ID came into force in New Zealand, and not a SINGLE issue has arisen from it.
Not ONE.

We were promised a wave of men invading women’s spaces, record numbers of rape, women too scared to leave home.

All of it theatre for bigotry.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

every story about a breakthrough in women’s health is like, previously doctors thought the symptoms were caused by their abnormally small and hysterical brains but researchers have found there is a legitimate medical explanation that has been ignored for 70 years.

Opinion: Treating people equally can be bad for their health We don’t all start out in life from the same place, writes Richard Shaw, and that's why treating people equally can mean unequal outcomes.

“So it’s important to remind ourselves that, historically, Māori have often been treated differently – and almost always to their detriment.” www.1news.co.nz/2023/12/12/o...

The sign, held by Christopher Luxon reads, “Tories, putting the N in cuts since 1936”

We knew it was going to be bad but holy shit, this bunch of fucking clowns now running the show have gone beyond the worst I could’ve ever imagined #nzpol

Covid-19 vs the flu: Death rates compared Covid-19 is killing three times as many New Zealanders as influenza does in a typical year.

Thank you @kiwifarah.bsky.social for this
article
#CovidIsNotOver

A call for genuine accountability: How do I explain health equity to the ACT Party and Mr Luxon? Lucy O’Hagan, drawing on personal experience, pens an impassioned letter to the incoming government not to disestablish Te Aka Whai Ora in the interests of genuine equity in healthcare

“From behind your high fences, you will only understand your people who are also my people: white, entitled, demanding, always with the unspoken threat of a complaint in the offing if things are not done right in our way – the right white way.”

www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/opin...

So ironic that when the world thought we in Aotearoa were suffering under a fascist, authoritarian regime, we were merely doing good public health and now that we are actually under the 'governance' of whatever this RW, backwards, now authoritarian nonsense is, nary a word out of them.

LOL A follower has reminded me that Nicola Willis said this #NZPol

The Aotearoa books of the year for 2023 The best fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books published in New Zealand this year, according to our panel of readers.

What an incredible year for Aotearoa books. From Bird Life to Birnam Wood, to Blood & Dirt to Big Fat Brown Bitch - and that’s just the Bs! thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-12-...

Luxo: "I'm going to make your life really shit"

Everyone: "Fuck this!"

Luxo: [Crying, snot running down his face] "Why is everyone so mean to me, this is unfair. I haven't made your life shit yet! It's only been one week!"

The 2021 General Social Survey found that 57% of NZers thought the government should support the use of te reo Māori, 62% thought it should be a core primary subject and 56% wanted bilingual signage. Still only 7.9% of the population (and 34% of Māori) could speak te reo 'at least fairly well'.

We put "New Zealand flightless birdfruit" on our pavlova at Xmas! Yeah this is going to be verrrrrrrrry sensible, this move

What is ‘NZTA’? A user’s guide to the new, English names Struggling with the new titles for everything? Here to help.

Currently sitting in the Fern Frond lounge and let me tell you, I laughed.

@rodemmerson.bsky.social has absolutely nailed it #NZPol

luxo: prohibition doesn’t work so you can all smoke now

also luxo: no weed or mobile phones

“Congratulations on turning 18. We can now legally tell you that gay people exist, it’s not okay for others to touch you without your consent, and those feelings you’ve been having are totally normal and nothing to be ashamed of. Sorry if not knowing any of this screwed up your childhood”