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📚 I'm going steal Henry's idea to make my own thread about the exact same thing 📚
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Here's my piece on being inside the Tamihere fiefdom, why it matters, and why John must stand down now.
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"he said he had failed to comprehend the difference between the Māori cultural values regarding his responsibilities to young people and the professional boundaries of teaching." - No you fucking don't creep!!! This is a You thing, not a Māori thing.
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I've written another piece about Te Pati Maori - this time about last week's protests, who is actually behind them, and the uncritical media coverage they received. Will be up tomorrow around 11 am.
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This idea that, as Maori, we're not allowed to call out fellow Maori for their wrongdoing is very toxic and only hurts us all. It's not an attack on "all matters Māori", just on bad actors like JT.
"Tamihere has released a statement calling the allegations part of a continuing narrative of attack on "all matters Māori".
The witnesses to the misuse are staff who did this for him.
Maori staff.
Maori are attacking Maori.
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Someone (a pakeha) messaged me "sorry for your loss," and it took me three hours to understand why.
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A really bad look here for Stats NZ, but worryingly expected behaviour by TPM. I've long feared JT would sink Wapareira, a once very noble model community health organisation (I worked for, but quit due to these concerns), not happy to be proven right.
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Don't want to spoil tomorrow's piece, but in my first day as Head of Comms for TPM it was made clear that the various leadership structures and boards existed as a smoke-screen. Behind every Oz-like curtain was JT. Every single one.
Some more detail on Andrea Vance’s excellent story about the Stats NZ investigation into the Manurewa Marae and its former CEO and now TPM MP Natasha Kemp.
The Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency (WOCA) is actually the trading name for Te Pou Matakana Ltd. WOCA distributes
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I think this is the beginning of something pretty precipitous.
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The self-inflicted death of the Disinfo Project is a fascinating case of dishonest branding and partisanship drapped in the imagery of honesty. I've got some thoughts eh.
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I'm really worried we're heading towards a very dark period in our modern history where racial hatred will become commonplace. TPM's adoption of Harawira style racial supremacy is sad and incredibly worrying.
It’s hard to believe Te Pāti Māori could sink any lower, but here we are.
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People (online) were furious when I questioned how genuine Chloe's apology was and whether here hubris would come back to haunt her. It is difficult being so regularly proven right.
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The current Minister of Health posted pic of Luxon in a chicken suit claiming he's too "scared" to debate Hipkins... who has Covid. I swear politics is bad for the brain, she was a real doctor recently.
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Efeso was a kind person who will be missed. Chantelle is shameless grifter with zero redeeming features. She has no soul or morality.
Died suddenly? This seems like it needs a full investigation.
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It's very funny and illuminating to see who comes out in defence of the Tamihere fiefdom. There hasn't been a conflict of interest-free one in the bunch. Speaks volumes, really.
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There is this idea amongst some highly privileged Maori that there's a natural caste system in Te Ao Maori - some born to rule, the rest of us born as an underclass to be ruled and dictated too. It should not be encouraged or embraced.
Congrats to the Māori King on denigrating urban Māori and repudiating the current principles 🤦♂️
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Bryce has a very comprehensive wrap-up of JTs fiefdom and the allegations around it. Tomorrow I'll publish a bit on the pre-JT history behind WT, my personal experience working within it, the good work, but why I had to resign before something like this happened under my watch.
John Tamihere essentially controls Te Pati Māori, Waipareira Trust, and Manurewa Marae as his fiefdom. Allegations continue to leak out of the abuse of numerous integrity laws under his direct watch - my roundup on why a proper independent inquiry is now required:
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Our rising levels of political violence and intimidation are really concerning. There will always be unhinged people online, but no excuse for this.
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If I'm Dr Reti would I have sacked the Health NZ board? Yes, but there's another step I would do which Reti probably won't - break Health NZ back down into regional health boards as well. You can keep some functions at a national level but overall centralisation hasn't worked.
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I know two people who have worked for/under Julie Anne Genter who received the same bad treatment daily. She is this abusive, stand over person. Green staffers and volunteers, more than any other party, are devotees who will put up with anything for the cause. JAG abuses this.
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This will be up before 4pm today, just having a quiet beer to steel myself.
Don't want to spoil tomorrow's piece, but in my first day as Head of Comms for TPM it was made clear that the various leadership structures and boards existed as a smoke-screen. Behind every Oz-like curtain was JT. Every single one.
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Here's the link -
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I'm glad I've lived long enough to see the 'churches shouldn't be involved in politics' crowd now become the 'churches should be involved in politics' crowd, and vice versa.
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"If you want to get vulnerable people addicted to a life-ruining drug. If you want to spread human misery around poor communities I'm disconnected from as a stereotype apathetic Twitter lib who lives in an uncaring bubble. If you want to kill each other... no skin off my nose"
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Gotta laugh at this graphic
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Everything that sucks about NZ can be summed up in two annecdotes: both Bar Bodega and the Kings Arms closed down because apartment dwellers (in apartments newer than either venue) complained about noise, but we're spending big on a town hall that will rarely be used.
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This has finally become full parody, which is a bit of a relief. Things were getting quite heated, I'm glad they've gone full McGillicuddy Serious Party.
'Enough is enough': Te Pāti Māori setting up its own Parliament
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Fair enough. With that tight a margin, who could begrudge him feeling a bit salty.
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I've said it before, and not alone, but we should scrap all MP allowances. We might have to boost their salaries a bit, but if they can't manage a reasonable salary and some travel then that's on them.
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Was The Guardian always this insufferable? I swear it was once serious.
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Me, when I was a public servant working at Te Whatu Ora alongside Deloitte consultants being paid 5x my wage just to recommend more billable hours for Deloitte consultants.
A $230,000 investigation? Man am I in the wrong sort of law!
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Oh no, did someone throw a sex toy at a Minister? No. Well surely someone was hit in the face with dirt right? No. Wait so these things all have happened without any pearl clutching for decades but its only a problem now? Riiiiight.
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"offender was witnessed fleeing the scene on a Lime Scooter, wearing distinctive red and black pants and a red hat." - any word from the Mongrel Mob PR team on how they're an innocent 'cultural support group' yet?
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@aniobrien
I have thought this many times, and said it at a few depts too. Basically public service leaders don't know how socials work so they rely on junior staffers who only understand it from a 'build an audience' personal perspective and not a value-add to taxpayers perspective.
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Kiran McAnulty losing Wairarapa would dent the plan b of quite a few in Labour.
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Question: is it okay to ever question a female about their work performance? The answer, if you ask anon accounts, is no. Which then begs the question - so no one can criticise Judith Collins either, right? If so a lot of these same people owe her an apology.
The attack have started. Good old misogyny masquerading as political opinion.
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"Te Whatu Ora" was a branding exercise designed to signify a connection to Te Ao Māori without doing anything to earn it. I know our public health system and its leadership very, very well. Nothing got better with TWO for Māori.
Te Whatu Ora has been directed to change back to Health NZ. This govt is really set on erasing Māori.
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My first piece for
@NewstalkZB
is up now! I might not be on Peeni’s Xmas card list after this 😅
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I feel bad for Karen Chhour and think she deserves more credit for acknowledging that being raised in state care took her away from Te Ao Māori. She's not alone in this and we should encourage her to own it and talk about how it has effected her, not judge her for it.
There were zingers, some worrying knowledge gaps and one clear winner.
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@JonnoL32552677
@NewshubPolitics
The goal is to dehumanise her to the point that anything awful she experiences is just 'alleged' or not even news. It's pretty worrying.
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Just shy of 2k words that boil down to "we've gotten screwed by a lot of highly paid people for two decades, expecting better is naive."
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He was barely on Shorty St, and this was barely a hunger strike, but he's gotten more media coverage than serious allegations of electoral misconduct by a parliamentary political party.
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@rotovegas_taane
I'm sad that a person has died, but I'm getting mighty offended that people seem to think I'm kin to all Maori and that the Kingitanga somehow conquered my iwi and made us their subjects.
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I remember when Martyn sent the NGO I was comms manager of an invoice for unsolicited 'website consulting'. The work was only unsolicited, it was overpriced and crap too! Bizarrely, my boss approved it and told me "let's pay it anyway, he's a mate." That boss, John Tamihere.
In a country with 2.5 degrees of separation these Evil Atlas Network mood boards are pretty silly, for eg Martyn Bradbury has much more direct financial links to being paid by Matthew Hooton, Damien Grant and Pizza Hutt
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This is so funny, and could easily read: unelected public servants paid more than cabinet ministers reject calls for basic level of accountability.
PSA hits out at ACT's promise of performance pay for Govt department bosses
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@PronouncedHare
I've tried to give the benefit of the doubt but I honestly think it is fear. They see someone in a party they hate with a passion, who has a compelling story and could be popular, so they try to tear him down before he has a chance to illustrate other politics are possible.
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It's a sad end to a political career, but, if we're looking at said career and being honest, it wasn't much of a career in terms of achievements.
@benmackey
Her political career died as it lived, narrativised in absolutely insane ways by the left and right
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Are the Greens too big to succeed at this point? Their sems to be a big (racial) divide internally and this is normally when parties start fracturing (see: 2000s Alliance) into splinter groups and unelectable micro-parties.
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In the years I worked in Parliament, and the decades I've been around drunk Parliamentary staffers spilling their guts, I've yet to ever hear of a "false" accusation of bullying or a toxic work environment. There's always been fire, sometimes really bad ones...
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This is such a bizarre angle. The tyranny of the majority shouldn't be why Gloriavale gets shut down, it should be the crimes.
A majority of New Zealanders surveyed believe closed Christian community Gloriavale is “essentially a cult” and should be shut down.
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The next fucking Māori panel show I see with Bomber on it is getting an overly harsh email I'll regret the tone of, but won't regret sending.
@secondzeit
@PronouncedHare
If this was a one-off I wouldn't be annoyed, but the number of panels about Te Ao Māori with either a clear bent or either Simon Wilson or Martyn Bradbury on them depresses me greatly. I think its dishonest to frame them as Māori conversations and not ideological ones, incl this.
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This entire exercise has been impressive in how half arsed it has been, while also attracting attention. As activism, it's beyond slack, but as a publicity stunt, he's done well.
'My health is being affected': Pro-Palestine ex-Shortland St actor ends hunger strike
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I miss when you could laugh at bad dancing for being bad and that was the entire context - that the person was bad at dancing and was somehow at the Olympics for it.
yeah the memes were funny but good on Anna Meares for putting the sharper Raygun critics into a proper context: a long, sorry history of misogynistic attacks on women athletes. no surprise to see who's still running them
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Don't know how I missed this but it's dead on. Te Whatu Ora have been playing a cynical pr game around Dr salaries while failing to admit their own massively bloated salaries at the exec level.
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I did check with the wife whether she was comfortable with the possibility that JT bombarded us with expensive nonsense lawsuits. She helpfully explained that he would be suing "me", not "us", and she had planned for such an occurrence 😂
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Me: people need to stop seeing Maori as this power hungry monolith led by sinister elites, we're just like everyone else!
Te Pāti Māori: we will end democratic rule and replace it with Derek Fox.
Me: sigh, except those guys, but they're nuts.
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Normally MPs use Parliamentary privilege to make principled potentially libelous stands. Such as Kevin Hague called out Scientology for financial abuse. Rawiri did this just to talk shit about someone once connected to a political rival. Its not principled, its childish bullshit.
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This poll really does have the tongues wagging... amongst journalists, who are 81% left leaning. Ultimately, reporting on politics as a horse race is really off-putting for non-partisans and leads to both increasing division and distrust in the media more broadly.
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I used to think Chloe could be the Greens equivalent to early Jacinda. Now, I think she might be their equivalent to Don Brash.
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What is the prison abolition movement? Are they a serious and united force? How would they handle our worst criminals? I looked into it and the answers... probably won't surprise you.
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Still better than the time someone sent me a long DM about how disappointed they were to hear about my crimes... they were talking about Haimona Gardiner. Turns out he didn't read the last name, and didn't know more than one person can have the same first name.
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I don't think this will have the effect the organisers want.
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This is mind blowing shit! Nanaia Mahuta could lose one of the safest seats there is to a 21yo.
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Keep seeing two narratives pushed by the same people that seem to contradict - that NZ is as safe as ever and rising crime is a beat-up, and also that it is not safe to campaign publicly due to the heightened risk to candidates this election. Which is it?
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The problem with making any kind of content is that you end up inundated with the worst kind of people engaging with you on only the smallest details while failing to contribute anything themselves. The upside is that people who also make content are very supportive regardless.
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Labour are properly done now. No new policy can fix this. No new leader could fix this. This is too far gone.
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The idea of the 'Māori' king has me in a tailspin. As Kahungunu he's not MY king, but also as a Scot who supports independence the other king isn't my king either, & my Polish fam are just happy they aren't being invaded by Russians or Germans for once. I can't even unite myself.
The Māori King as issued a royal proclamation calling for a national hui for Māori to unite over ensuring "all voices are heard when holding the new coalition government to account".
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A conviction isn't what impacts your mana, it's the actions that lead to the conviction that impact it.
Logging firm director has conviction overturned due to 'impact on his mana'
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It's weird that Candace Owens even wants to come to NZ. She doesn't need to be de-platformed, it will be a much better statement when she has to cancel her tour after she sells zero tickets.
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Do I think Nikau Wi Neera is working directly for Inflection Point NZ? No. Do I think he's their best selling point and has boosted their credibility and name recognition massively for free? Oh, 100%. I don't know if he's naive or playing a game, but he's not a serious person.
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Sometimes I think "shit that B.A. was a waste of time I could have been getting ahead", but then the Māori Party try to incorrectly claim Ukrainians are just Russians and it all pays off.
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Say what you want about Tana, but this is Andy Kaufman-level commitment to the bit.
Darleen Tana’s lawyers have filed documents in the Auckland High Court seeking a judicial review in regard to the proposed meeting of Green Party members on Sunday to decide whether to invoke the ‘Waka-Jumping’ legislation against Tana.
The hearing will occur at 10am tomorrow.
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I'd say weeks, at least. You'd have to be pretty foolish to poke the proverbial bears that are JT and his fiefdom... oh.
I wonder how much the Post spent on lawyer-proofing this reporting.
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"When will these pakeha stop trying to own every conversation and just shut the fuck up!" - a pakeha, one normally named like Bex or Greg, unironically, as part of an overly wrong thread, in between telling Maori off online for not agreeing with them.
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The sharing this cooked tweet about Nicola Willis' dad are aware Jacinda's dad performed dawn raids, right? And that hundreds of people work for big law firms and can't control their clients, right?
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Everyone remembers the 'poop in the walls' fiasco, but what has been lost to history is that there never was sewerage leaking in any walls. That was disinformation. It was a water pipe that was slightly leaking and was turned into something much more than it was.
Running everything in health is nothing new to Lester Levy - he was simultaneously chair of all three district boards in Auckland under Nats in 2010s… but that was right up to Labour coming in in 2017 and claiming, among many things, sewage in the walls at Middlemore Hospital….
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I was raised connected to both my pakeha and Māori whakapapa. It's not an either/or proposition. When my whanaunga entered Parliament (as Maori Party co-leader), Marama said we all needed to stand up against child abuse. It is very sad to see the same party now ignore it.
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This Kiri Allen saga has been very enlightening of who is allowed to be abusive and what's okay if it's someone Twitter likes. Kiri is outright denying it, at least one public servant is confirming it, the accusations are being widely dismissed online as 'Māori bashing'.
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My quite mean takedown of Ardern govt, several people I went to uni with, and the politics of false kindness.
"To misquote educator Seymour Skinner: It was us, the children who expected that an apology came with the obligation not to do it again, who were wrong."
@Haimonaetc
eulogises the politics of kindness, online now at Metro.
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What I've gotten from maybe the most wild voxpop I've seen is that the PM of NZ should never travel or leave the country ever. Completely ending all diplomacy would save some dough, but it might be a bit awkward when we never sign any trade agreements and stop attending anything.
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If any of my whānau were as out of it as Biden or Trump, conversations around where to hide their carkeys would be had.
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It is very Ashley to take zero accountability for running two DHBs and MoH poorly and instead to blaming the haters.
While the health system is facing serious pressures, even crises, Ashley Bloomfield says relentless negativity is contributing to the problem. Story via
@marcdaalder
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I find these stories about 'dumb boomers' are own goals. Just say "the people who raised me and taught me much of what I know aren't that bright", what does that say about you bud?
"But, son, you make your money by manipulating the truth."
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While this is bad for society generally, it does highlight the influence of JT and his shockjock style. Debbie and Rawiri look and sound more and more like pawns in a game above their pay-grade.
The government is showing "all the traits of typical white supremacists" in the way it's rolling back Māori policies, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says.
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A lot of musicians I like have really dumb politics and shouldn't be listened to about anything other than music.
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Is there a word or term for people who tweet only about international crises they can't influence but are silent on ones at home they could actually help? What's the psychology behind that?
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If the plan involves Shannan Halbert, I don't like its odds of succeeding.
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This is incredibly (and intentionally) misleading. The DG of Health was the one who decided to scrap the SPO, they could have taken a pay cut to save it or found savings elsewhere but... the SPO isn't that effective or worthwhile. The name sounds important, but it's not.
'Lives worth less than your tax cuts': Luxon sent clear message by advocate over possible Suicide Prevention Office closure
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It seems incredibly dicey (and offensively partisan) to try to turn such horrific sexual crimes into political point scoring, but our name suppression rules are a sick joke and need to be scrapped.
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It's mad to think that Wellington once had a street race like Monaco and Vegas! Hard to picture now. Sadly.
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It's quite neat that each 'powerbroker' leader is Maori. We're definitely not a monoculture or hivemind, that myth is very dead these days.
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What are people's biggest gripes about Luxon's National so far? Two big ones I'm seeing online lately are benefits sanctions and supporting then rejecting the Treaty Principles Bill. Any others appreciated (I won't name you in a story unless you want me to).
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This is incredibly sad. Efeso's a lovely person, a family man, and someone who treated everyone with respect. We should all hope to be so honourable. Go with God good man.
Just last week, Fa’anānā Efeso Collins said he wanted to inspire "the square pegs, the misfits, the forgotten, the unloved, the invisible-it's the dreamers who want more, expect more, are impatient for change, and have this uncanny ability to stretch us further."
He did that.
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I've turned this into a full column and called put some people out by name - not to be a troll, but because we have a gatekeeping problem and I'm sick of it not being acknowledged.
The next fucking Māori panel show I see with Bomber on it is getting an overly harsh email I'll regret the tone of, but won't regret sending.
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While we're at it, can we stop platforming unrepentant racist Hone Harawira? The man's rhetoric actively hurts Māori and makes Don Brash look like Hōne Heke.
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I can and will write about other things very soon, but this matters, and I hope to fill a void that I see in coverage on these issues.
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@SandeChin
Publicly. I have spoken with every other authority I could, I followed the proper legal processes, and was repeatedly told I was not the first to raise the concerns and that something would happen.
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