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Founder and Editor of The Platform, 2024 Bill Toft Award winner. Broadcaster, journalist, New Zealander.

Wellington, NZ
Joined January 2011
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@SeanPlunket
Sean Plunket
2 years
I’m back.
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2 years
Dear @ThePosieParker I am so sorry NZ has abandoned the principle of free speech and @nzpolice left you in the clutches of a baying mob. Shame on @1NewsNZ @radionz @TheSpinoffTV @shaneellall @max_tweedie for stomping on democracy.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
I’m back buddy.
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2 years
Breaking @ThePosieParker is on her way back to Britain after @nzpolice who hung her out to dry in Albert Park today refused to guarantee her safety for the remainder of her stay. A victory for cancel culture and bullies in the trans and gay communities.
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2 years
Hey @shaneellall how you doing?.
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2 years
An enormous thankyou to all who supported free speech and my unbanning @elonmusk @OzraeliAvi. We may not always agree but we must talk and search for understanding. Also big thanks to the team at @theplatform_nz for you awesome work.
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1 year
Good on @NZStuff for leaving @X and reducing the amount of disinformation it spreads.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Imagine being part of a generation that regards its nuclear moment as fighting for the right for men to say they are woman, beating up real woman and reading books to kids dressed as woman!.
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1 year
The inherent bias of legacy media has been brought into sharp focus by their reaction to the coalition announcement yesterday. Perhaps the best example is John Campbell's typically florid column for state owned TVNZ which is basically a critique of New Zealanders for not.
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2 years
Something very odd is going on in our legacy media. Identical stories sourced to @nzpolice and The Disinformation Project are appearing on feeds from @TVONENZ @rnz_news @NewshubNZ @nzherald they all say that violence against woman is ok and if you disagree you are a nazi.
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1 year
Imagine how different this election result would be with a truly impartial, unbiased and ethical mainstream media.
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2 years
I will say this @nzpolice showed more enthusiasm in arresting and charging @LizGunn18 for breaching airport media policies than they did in upholding the rights and ensuring the safety of 150 women in Albert Park.
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2 months
Still some way to go in treating the cancer of cancel culture in New Zealand. ⁦@RealCandaceO⁩ is no threat to anyone in this country. Candace Owens: Immigration New Zealand denies visa for far-right US commentator - NZ Herald
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1 year
I’ll just leave this here
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1 year
Spare a thought for @NZTrevorIreland the former Speaker now our top diplomat in Dublin now has @winstonpeters who he trespassed from Parliament as his boss.
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Sean Plunket
11 days
Helen Clark totally losing her mind!.
@HelenClarkNZ
Helen Clark
12 days
There’s a pattern here: first the Nazi salute & now addressing an election rally of Germany’s far right party. When does this become too much even for Trump, or are there no limits now? Let’s remember that Nazi Germany was responsible for #genocide:
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Sean Plunket
4 months
The closure of The Disinformation Project is a major victory for advocates of free speech and civil liberty in New Zealand. Kate Hannah and her taxpayer funded colleagues, with the support of legacy media, conducted a campaign of industrial strength gaslighting on the New.
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Sean Plunket
3 years
My absence is due to a minor heart attack. I am being well cared for by the great folk at Wellington hospital. Keep an eye on those nearest and dearest to you. I’ll be back soon.👍.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Hey @mentalhealthnz is the the sort of bullying you are trying to stop with @pinkshirtday
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2 years
Breaking @mentalhealthnz deletes @pinkshirtday video from social media as criticism mounts over the use of @shaneellall in the taxpayer funded campaign.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Thankyou also to @piersmorgan @ThePosieParker @jordanbpeterson @RitaPanahi for helping get me off the naughty step.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Suprised to see @nzherald describe @theplatform_nz as a “right wing” media site. We are an independent media site that takes no government funding. I expect a correction and an apology.
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1 year
I’d say @nzlabour got politically beaten with a bed leg last night. #nzpol.
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11 days
Is @HelenClarkNZ a Nazi???
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Today I’m just a proud Dad
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1 year
I am not comfortable with the mayor of my city sharing this on her social media
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Sean Plunket
2 years
This is awesome! I am a massive fan of @AwakenWithJP and he is using my exchange with @chrishipkins.
@AwakenWithJP
JP Sears
2 years
Yes, the Prime Minister of New Zealand doesn’t know what a woman is! Full video on YouTube!
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Well done Fran.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
I now realise why the woke left went crazy when @elonmusk bought twitter. He really is interested in the truth!.
@JeffreyPeel
Jeffrey Peel
2 years
Here's the video.
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Sean Plunket
11 months
Fun fact at least 20 @nzlabour MPs including Willie Jackson rented their own properties off themselves with taxpayer money. None have paid any of it back.
@Tim_Batt
Tim Batt
11 months
Fun fact: that $55,000 accommodation benefit Luxon claimed is tax free, so he was receiving, in the hand, what a worker earning $68,000/yr receives after tax. Sorry, I meant fucked. Fucked fact.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
So @1NewsNZ you 6pm bulletin contained a report featuring @shaneellall by @LauraFrykberg which made no attempt at balance and was pure disinformation. How can you treat your audience with such contempt?.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
I cannot believe New Zealanders will vote for a party that will not condemn terrorism.
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Sean Plunket
3 years
If I were Trevor Mallard I would turn off the music, put the jug on and invite the remaining protestors in out of the cold and rain for a cuppa and some scones. That is the kiwi way, even if we disagree we look out for each other.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Fun fact @Breakfaston1 actually took money from the government to run content dressed up as real news. Who are the liars now Matty?.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Happy to report that all charges against me in relation to publication of a family court proceeding have been withdrawn by police. I trust legacy media will give this news the same extensive coverage they did when the charges were laid. #realjournalism.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Classic captured msm. No focus on Hipkins failure to answer the question, just trot out some academics to call me an anti-trans racist. ⁦@NZStuff⁩ ⁦@piersmorgan⁩ ⁦@AwakenWithJP⁩ ⁦@jordanbpeterson⁩ ⁦@jk_rowling
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Sean Plunket
1 year
This is a lie ⁦@NZStuff⁩ has taken taxpayers money in return for signing agreements to promote and support the government’s interpretation of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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1 year
Some pointers for young woke people.1: Osama Bin Laden = bad.2: Earth isn’t burning.3: Everyone has anxiety.4: Most people don’t care how you feel.5: Men can’t be women .6: Women can’t be men.7: Strive to be happy.
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2 years
If @NZStuff campaigned to have Chantelle Baker banned from Facebook that is very concerning. I think we need a clear statement from @NZStuff about this.
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Sean Plunket
7 months
What was @golrizghahraman doing dressed up as a terrorist at her sentencing?
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Funny how all the media organisations who took labour’s bribe say it wasn’t a bribe! #nzpol.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
It’s time to start removing all the paranoid green climate change cultists from our social media.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Let’s have a conversation….hang on I’ll just turn the comments off so only I can talk!.
@patrickgowernz
Paddy Gower
2 years
Why can’t we talk transgender without losing our sh*t? It is an ugly, toxic shouting match. Where we don't actually learn anything. Well tonight, we will have a proper conversation. And learn a lot!
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Sean Plunket
10 months
F. king morons in Martinborough
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Sean Plunket
11 months
Maybe Legacy Media, in particular @NewshubNZ might like to reflect on the part they played in fomenting the hatred that led to the bashing of a 71 year old grandmother in Albert Park while they wage a war of hate against the new government and PM.
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1 year
We had a petition called an election and you lost!.
@NZGreens
Green Party NZ
1 year
#BREAKING The Green Party has today launched a petition to save the ban on oil and gas exploration. The new Government’s plan to expand oil and gas exploration is as dangerous as it is unscientific. We need to come together to stop them.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
The axing of @TheProject_NZ is a serious body blow to impartial professional journalism fronted by weather readers and woke comedians.
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Sean Plunket
7 months
I’m not comfortable with a sitting Mp chanting calls to genocide outside our parliament.
@JulietMosesNZ
Juliet Moses
8 months
NZ Green Party co-leader and brave champion of free speech leads chant that “they have tried really bloody hard to take out of my mouth”. You know the one.
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Sean Plunket
2 months
I call on all NZ news media to make the Manurewa marae inquiry their number one story after the holiday break. It is clearly going to be released late this week in the hope it will die over the holidays.
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Dear @TVONENZ did you ask the kid wearing the “boxing club” t shirt if his Dad is a gang member? Asking for all those kiwis who like real journalism.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Why did these MPs dress up like rapists ?.
@JulietMosesNZ
Juliet Moses
1 year
Nothing says “resistance” like a lanyard.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Hey if I’ve ever said anything silly or racist or misandrist or offensive here or anywhere you have to forgive me coz I got hit by a motorbike once. Is that how you do it? @MaramaDavidson.
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Sean Plunket
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So @shaneellall @jacktame @1NewsNZ @MaramaDavidson @RainbowGreensNZ Tory whanau et Al, you haven’t won anything, you haven’t enlightened anyone or convinced anyone of the justice of your position. You’ve just bullied and terrorised @ThePosieParker to silence her. Feeling Proud?.
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This is a new low for @1NewsNZ a major clean out at @tvnz is needed. I’m stunned that any news organisation, let alone a crown owned one, could stoop to dox the relative of a public figure.
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1News
1 year
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's sister-in-law works for the largest tobacco company in the world but he says he has "never discussed tobacco policy with her".
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Please stop gaslighting New Zealand….lots of people have seen the videos.
@_chloeswarbrick
Chlöe Swarbrick
2 years
Organisers went out of their way, consistently, to take responsibility for and diffuse any behaviour they did not condone of. A very different approach to a group that chose not to do so when fundamentalists and self-identified neo-Nazis joined their cause.
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Sean Plunket
2 months
You couldn’t make this up!.
@actparty
ACT New Zealand
2 months
Here is a sample of questions businesses are expected to answer to bid for a STREET CLEANING contract with Wellington City Council.
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2 years
Breaking: Friday morning selected mainstream media will publish stories based on non peer reviewed “research” by the Disinformation Project. These stories will suggest a coordinated campaign of online extremist hate against transgender people. Selected academics such as online.
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2 years
I trust legacy media will send reporters to Auckland District Court tomorrow morning to cover the appearance of the alleged Albert Park granny basher. @NZStuff @radionz @TVONENZ @nzherald @NewshubNZ.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Dear @elonmusk @radionz is totally funded by the New Zealand Government and required to promote certain dogmas and ideologies. Will you tag it as govt funded media aswell? #nzpol.
@rnz_news
RNZ News
2 years
Twitter: BBC objects to 'government funded media' label
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Ok I’m prepared to admit that the Covid vaccines have caused major health side effects.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
It is rare I am lost for words….but this!.
@TeWhatuOra
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
2 years
Using the words “pregnant people” is inclusive of women, girls, gender-diverse people and trans men, all of whom may be able to be pregnant. We will continue to use language that includes us all.
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Shame on you guys for misleading and gaslighting all those kiwis yesterday.
@LabourMaoriNZ
Labour Māori Caucus
3 months
“Shame, shame, shame on you, David Seymour. Shame on you for what you're trying to do to this nation in introducing this #TreatyPrinciplesBill.” @WillieJLabour #nzpol #HikoiMoTeTiriti #Hikoi #ToituTeWhakaputanga
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I’m terrified because your woke parents and teachers have brainwashed you into believing that.
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ɴᴢ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴀ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ
10 months
@actparty Meme from 1News 2024-04-05
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Sean Plunket
5 years
Whatever is happening in the world today seems of little consequence as I face the fact that after 17 years my dog Pax has run his race and the kindest thing I can do is let him go.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Just back from the Brian Tamaki rally at Parliament. Didn’t see a single Nazi.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
In response to falling public trust in msm woke journos and academics have 1: turned off comments 2: told people they are stupid.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Dear TVNZ please stop publishing this rubbish.
@1NewsNZ
1News
1 year
#EXCLUSIVE: New report shows anti-Māori sentiment on the rise.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Is this story even true? Police have released no formal media statement. The claims are unsourced. Respond please ⁦@rnz_news
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Dear @GlennMcCNZ I know you work for @NZStuff but be careful about going to conferences and claiming that @theplatform_nz is a disinformation outlet. We are regarded as more neutral than you.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Well done @damienmgrant this is the sort of call out we need more of!.
@damienmgrant
Damien Grant
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Really @1NewsNZ you simply have to stop publishing bullshit.
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1News
2 years
Anti-trans hate in NZ becoming 'genocidal' - Disinformation Project
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Power in New Zealand is delivered via the ballot box not by the mob in the street. Our Parliamentarians need to be committed to that system and not overturn it when they don’t get their way. #nzpol.
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Sean Plunket
2 months
Did you ask her about that home invasion?.
@JohnJCampbell
John Campbell
2 months
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who I spoke to about her haka, the very many responses to it, her life in politics, and Kiingi Tuheitia's advice to be Māori.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Crazy stuff from ⁦@Maori_Party
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Hey @bridiewitton and @NZStuff are you the original authors of the doxxing article on @chrisluxonmp ‘s sister in law?.Hang your heads in shame you feckless unethical guttersnipes.
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Sean Plunket
9 months
Dear Otago University you are not signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi and you have no obligations to it. Stop being woke.
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Sean Plunket
7 months
Should read “labour MP’s boyfriend throws hissy fit”.
@NewstalkZB
Newstalk ZB
7 months
Pharmac director quits over Government’s Treaty of Waitangi directive.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
250 young people butchered at the Israeli rave! Come on @_chloeswarbrick you have to take a stand.
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Sean Plunket
6 months
Dear @chrishipkins is this a woman?
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Sean Plunket
1 year
You left because you and your cancel culture woke mates hate real engagement and free speech. Why I quit X (the hellsite formerly known as Twitter) for good |
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Sean Plunket
1 year
How can mainstream legacy media companies and their staff expect anything but derision when they complain about how tough things are when their audiences have been telling them for years they are sick of being gaslit and lied to?.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Update: The Platform has obtained what the police really said. We will have full coverage of how this “fake” news story was created by @rnz_news tomorrow from 7am.
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Sean Plunket
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Classic partisan journalist. Sorry Dita no one paid to win this election, the millions who voted did so freely and without corruption.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
No gas in the tank? This looks.Like more fun than losing an election.
@JustinTrudeau
Justin Trudeau
1 year
For years, my friend @JacindaArdern and I worked closely together on issues that matter to Canadians and New Zealanders. Today, we kept that work going – we’ll continue to work on countering violent extremism and implementing the Christchurch Call. #GlobalProgressAction2023
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Disgusting misinformation.
@NZGreens
Green Party NZ
1 year
60% of NZers support a ceasefire in Gaza. Right now we need all of our leaders to stand on the right side of history. Ceasefire. Now.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
This is very serious! Stuart Nash’s misdemeanour’s pale into insignificance in comparison like shoplifting versus a ram raid. ⁦@chrishipkins⁩ must act. #nzpol. Race Relations Commissioner donated thousands to Labour's Kiri Allan
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Cannot believe in the middle of a natural disaster the number of folk including msm who just see as an opportunity to play petty politics.
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Sean Plunket
7 months
At some stage TVNZ must realise this woke rubbish is why people hate them.
@Indiratweets
Indira Stewart
7 months
GANG MUMS: A series of interviews with 4 women affiliated with some of NZ's most notorious gangs. On @TVNZ+ now. Women are the most silenced and invisible members of gangs. This is her story, in her words. 'Why doesn't she leave?' .
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Sean Plunket
2 years
Dear New Zealand you know you are being gaslit when Fire and Firy wins best doco at the @nzmediaawards . Like the msm are just laughing at you now!.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
What a loss!. Stuff Group withdraws from X (formerly Twitter) |
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Sean Plunket
3 months
I was approached to introduce @RealCandaceO at her Auckland event and was happy to say yes. I am hoping Australia sees sense and grants her a visa. This doesn’t mean I agree with everything she says but in an open and free democracy she has the right to speak and others have the.
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Sean Plunket
8 months
Thank god this country isn’t governed by who can get the largest number of hive minded drones to walk down a street chanting things other people put in their heads.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
Wow!.
@robinmonotti
Robin Monotti
1 year
PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE 2022.SIGNS CLIMATE DECLARATION:.THERE IS NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY ‐ CLAUSER & a global network of over 1,609 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message:. Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming. The geological archive reveals that
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Sean Plunket
2 years
David Parker reportedly in A and E suffering from whip lash after putting the brakes on the KiwiSaver gst changes! #nzpol.
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Sean Plunket
2 years
That is anarchy and bullying.
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Sean Plunket
2 months
This a serious concern! Rainbow tick is a private company that uses threats of cancellation to impose its woke philosophy on organisations so wound up in virtue signalling they can’t see they are being extorted.
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Sean Plunket
1 year
I know white old men are out of fashion but just look what happens with coloured young women.Kiri Allen .Tory Whanau .Golriz Gharaman.
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Sean Plunket
5 months
Notice the lack of diversity at TVNZ?.
@MichaelFieldNZ
Michael Field
5 months
A classic, most excellent news team covering a grand moment in Aotearoa history. They did well @1NewsNZ @TVNZ
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Sean Plunket
3 years
Dear @TVONENZ news I get you are required to be woke and progressive but I guarantee less than half your audience knows where Tairawhiti is so why not use language that actually communicates useful information to people?.
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