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Tūhoe. Health law & policy in Aotearoa NZ - Te Tiriti, mental health, Māori health equity & hauora Māori. No TERFs. Opinions my own.
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🧵This thread sets out important context for the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Before commenting, bear in mind that this context comes from:
- Crown appointed judges
- Established historical record
- Independent commissioned research
- Multiple year fact-finding court cases.
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Some TERF just told me she supports my right to exist, but I shouldn’t use women’s bathrooms 😂 Jesus wept, I am a cis woman. Doesn’t it say everything about their narrow worldview that they assume anyone supporting trans rights must be trans themselves?
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@bestofdyingtwit
"Woke people" "woke culture" 🙄 Yt people using it to mean anything they disagree with
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My kid's high school is having a fun Pride week. Well, it was supposed to be fun. Pride flag scavenger hunt, picnic, rainbow bake sale. Chalk drawing.
Now there are parents outside with signs like "this school is making kids fa***ts."
Is this really us Aotearoa? I'm heartbroken.
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I do not accept that Te Tiriti o Waitangi, or its interpretation, should ever be subject to a popularity contest. The promises made are to stand in perpetuity. If you are Pākehā or tauiwi, I sincerely hope you will stand up and make your voices heard. History will be watching.
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This may be one of my less popular opinions, but I hate hearing Luxon talking about the 'obligations' of beneficiaries. People don't owe society or the government just for being given the bare minimum to survive. Bring on a UBI.
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@ask_aubry
Why would he be bothered by her seeing other people if there’s no emotional commitment on his part?
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Our media is breathlessly reporting that “research has found” every $1 invested in Gumboot Friday results in $5.70 of social return.
These downstream benefits are notoriously difficult to measure so I went digging to find who did the “research.” You’ll never guess… 🧵
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This is a lie. The new govt is inheriting a triple A rated economy, if they fuck that up that's on them. However, it speaks to how the coalition plans to use disinformation in order to justify their cuts to public services and other policies of austerity. Don't believe it.
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We lost because:
- Labour was insipid & didn’t stand behind their record
- The right had money coming out of their ears
- A credulous media treated parties like ACT seriously instead of like fascists
- NZ is racist & hates poor people
That last one is the hardest to stomach 💔
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What I can gather from 'New Zealanders' trending on Twitter is that we're going to have fewer visits from Covid deniers and TERFs, and more from people who got vaccinated & support trans rights. This being exactly what we wanted, I accept the terms of the trade 😆🌈🇳🇿
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@_celia_bedelia_
Nobody’s ever asked me to be a surrogate and I’m a cis woman. I don’t think this is something that everyone is just going around randomly asking strangers to do for them 😂
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The government saying it wants to have a “debate” about Te Tiriti, but then having none of its leaders come to Tūrangawaewae, shows exactly the kind of “debate” they’re interested in: completely one sided, and all on their terms.
How feeble.
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If it was just about the name, and people (rather implausibly) not being able to understand what Te Whatu Ora is… Why’d they also get rid of the Māori weaving design in the background?
Before & after. I hate this racist, sexist, white supremacist, plutocratic timeline.
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People don’t go to hospital for shits & giggles, and nobody’s being provided with ‘too much’ healthcare. Therefore, the current situation at Health NZ represents UNDER-FUNDING to the tune of $130m per month.
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Sorry, WTF? Sexuality education has been a normal part of the school curriculum for decades, because parents don't always provide reliable information on sex ed in the home (in the same way we don't expect all parents to know algebra either). Seriously regressive take here
#nzpol
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Wellington is in freefall today. This is catastrophic for our local economy, our families, and frankly for all the work that was being done by govt agencies that will have to stop. If you thought the health system was in poor shape now, wait 'til you see it in 6 months.
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I didn’t especially rate Labour but you can’t inherit an AAA rated economy (after a once in a lifetime global pandemic, I might add) and accuse Labour of “economic vandalism” with a straight face. Just shameless.
‘Fiscal time bombs’ and a ‘fragile economy’: Nicola Willis unveils ‘mini mini mini budget’ and finds $7.5b in savings.
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@chrisluxonmp
3 Waters was a normal water management law reform until your party turned it into an anti Māori dog whistle for the election campaign. The only debacle here is your useless, incoherent coalition
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F_ck these c_nts, honestly.
Sorry - I'm out of words today.
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Do the people against 3 Waters know that the legislation was based on a government inquiry in 2017 that found that at least 750,000 New Zealanders were drinking from water supplies that were “not demonstrably safe”?
How do you think the current govt will improve that situation?
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When I say this government is anti-democratic, this is what I mean (a 🧵).
1. Extensive use of Parliamentary urgency to pass bills without public consultation or time for media scrutiny, in the absence of any need for urgency
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Absolute ghoul
"When it came to COVID, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I’ve never seen such a high value on life.”
- Brooke van Velden, ACT Party
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@KilmoreKarina
@NeilMcMahon
Um no, mansplaining is about men explaining to women a subject where the woman is already an expert. Hence the term. If you’re talking about *anyone* explaining then you’d use the term “explain”, like a normal person…!
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3 Waters was introduced because 4 people died, 60 were hospitalised and 8,000 were poisoned by sheep shit in the water back in 2016. This is the water system National is taking us back to - with upgrades to be funded by unaffordable rate increases. Racist, reactionary govt.
Three waters will be repealed by the end of next week.
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Nicola Willis says the public service cuts are actually "job neutral" because the upcoming Budget will create more front-line roles than have been lost. What an incredible, disingenuous take... 🧵(1/6)
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FYI, you can’t just use blood straight off the street for a baby’s heart surgery 🤦🏻♀️ All blood products have to be filtered, and the filtration process doesn’t separate blood in this way. Is the whole NZ Blood service supposed to close down to cater to this request? 🧵
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If Te Whatu Ora is in danger of going broke, maybe the govt could consider PROPERLY FUNDING THE HEALTH SYSTEM
fucks sake
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Words I didn't know in primary school that I know now: internet, cellphone, YouTube, ipad, router, disinformation, Covid-19. We've all learnt heaps of new words in my lifetime.
If you can learn any word except those in te reo Māori, then the problem isn't with the Māori language.
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🧵I want to say something about marae tikanga and speakers being cut off before their speech ended.
For those who may be unaware, the general purpose of the pōwhiri is to debate. The strength of one’s argument is indicated by support shown by others. (1/3)
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We need to stop pretending this shit is normal. I’ve lost count of the number of Wellington protests where public servants have been told to stay home or hide their IDs. The only people public servants need to hide their ID from are fascists.
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Well, this is awkward. Te Whatu Ora released its nationwide Health Status Report today and it turns out that Māori health inequities are not simply due to different 'lifestyle choices', but due to health system failures that govts are responsible for.
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Te Whatu Ora is offering staff voluntary redundancy. So much for HNZ being excluded from public sector staffing cuts 🙃 This is such bs. Compared to other OECD nations, we have one of the most productive (bang for buck) health systems in the world. The issue is UNDER FUNDING.
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Thank god for Māori news bc this hasn’t been reported anywhere else.
For the first time ever, the WT has summonsed a sitting minister (Chhour) because she’s refusing to show up & answer questions on the repeal of section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act.
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So sorry. Defs won’t do anything like that again 🥴
Today Parliament accepted, with deep sorrow and regret, the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.
To survivors who took part, I say thank you for your exceptional strength, your incredible courage, and your confronting honesty.
Because of you, we know
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"Christopher Luxon said Health NZ was not meeting the outcomes against the targets the Government has set."
...The health targets the govt set only 4 months ago, during the period of time where there's been a recruitment freeze?! What a rort😒
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David Seymour says he opposes big govt. But he’s now part of a govt with more ministers than any other, he’s creating a new agency, reaching into educational institutions to tell them who they can accept as a student, building more prison beds & expanding the Covid inquiry. (1/2)
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Te Tiriti looks like this because for years it was neglected; lost, flooded, saved from a house fire, and nibbled by rats.
This coalition want to do more than nibble around the edges - they want the whole thing to go up in flames.
That's why I'm protesting.
We won't go back.
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We live in a world which serves Pākehā as the default. Almost everything is built around Pākehā norms, needs, and values.
The outrage about a tiny % of spaces catering to another group is not about racial equity, but a backlash to the questioning of Pākehā cultural hegemony.
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@ask_aubry
Holy internalised misogyny. These “boy moms” have developed a weird identity around believing their experience of parenting is fundamentally different, both more exuberant & more challenging. That identity relies on sexist gender stereotypes such as the passivity of girls & women
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I am in my thirties. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this new government intends to erase most of the gains Māori have made over the course of my lifetime.
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As a break from my raging… Look at this pounamu I bought today for my youngest brother. It’s a graduation gift. For years we had plans to buy each other a pounamu hei taonga, but never had money at the same time 😂 He’s living overseas now & I can’t wait for it to reach him 🥰
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Landlords make up only 2% of our population, and the rest of us are paying for their tax cuts. We need to make serious changes to our election donation rules so that this tiny cohort of the population are no longer able to buy power.
The Council of Trade Unions says landlords will get $3 billion in tax cuts thanks to National and ACT's coalition agreement.
That's about $1 billion more than the National Party fiscal plan outlined before the election. Who voted for this? No one.
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So freaking cool 😭 This has given me such a buzz lol. Just what I needed after an awful week. Thank you universe ✨
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@TorinMonahan
My lecturer friends have started putting the essay question into ChatGPT themselves in order to spot the content in their students’ papers
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If you had told me a year ago that an associate Minister of Health would send a note to MoH staff saying "the tobacco industry is on its knees in New Zealand" and that they would propose cutting tobacco taxes as a result, I would not have believed it.
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If it WAS research it would have been good to compare to the cost/benefit ratio of other programs. but we know that didn’t happen because the govt never held an RFP process before funding Gumboot Friday.
It’d be great if media could ask these questions themselves. /ends
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The same power to shut down debate that is not constructive, or offensive, or in line with protocol is wielded by the speaker of the House but we don’t question that when it’s used - because that is the tikanga of that house and we respect it. (3/3).
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Luxon's comments that "I put it to you, no other country has done more to right past wrongs" has real 'you people should be grateful' vibes.
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Minister Reti: No comment, the cuts are operational.
Minister Doocey: It’s misleading to say the Office of Suicide Prevention is proposed to be cut.
Robyn Shearer (MoH): No, actually it is proposed to be cut.
Doocey: I’m now directing MoH to keep it open.
What. A. Shambles.
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The gall of Luxon saying Māori who disagree with the government need to learn to celebrate and cherish our differences. Is that what stamping on te reo in the public service was?
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Honestly, what an asshole. Another 1,000 people found out they're losing their jobs today, and the PM is still insulting the work they do.
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“His comments come the same day a new study was released that found food poverty was contributing to New Zealand's poor performance in international education achievement.”
'Should be gone': Free school lunches scheme fate to be considered by Coalition Govt, Seymour slams it as 'wasteful'
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Why should renters have to pay extra to have a pet? They *already* pay bond to cover any accidental damage. It should be covered!
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In 2017 people died bc of sheep shit in the water supply.
This led to a national review of water infrastructure which found widespread safety concerns, very poor maintenance by councils & it was a miracle we hadn’t had more deaths.
That review was the impetus for 3 Waters.
The Government will repeal Three Waters early next year.
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I think we're beyond needing to use the word "perceive" here 🙄 When this government is trying to trample our rights under Te Tiriti and our reo, and doesn't care about our safety & culture (clause 7AA, OT Act) or our lives (Smokefree legislation), they simply ARE anti-Māori.
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@DuchessSexpert
Student loans in New Zealand are 0% interest, and run through the govt student loan scheme. Repayments are automatically deducted from your salary at 10% of your income, once you start earning over the repayment threshold. It’s very straightforward.
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If you feel that this govt is not acting the way it should, that the right process hasn't been followed and your voice hasn't been heard; and that the will of the people you identify with has been mowed right over: Please understand that is how Māori have felt since 1840.
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This is why waiata are so significant - they either show support for or even complement the speech given, or as happened to Seymour, they are used to shut down a speaker whose kōrero is not considered worth hearing by the collective. This happens on a marae all the time. (2/3)
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Someone needs to start a proper rebuttal campaign on social media that provides evidence to counter Act's new Tiriti disinformation website. The Voice referendum in Australia was sunk through disinfo like this - I worry the Treaty Principles Bill will succeed because of it.
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If you wanted to know what this Government cares about (and what it doesn't): Today ALL Ministry for the Environment permanent employees were offered voluntary redundancy.
The whole agency.
Who needs a planet, anyway? 🌏🙃
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The race was cancelled because of the presence of an endangered endemic dolphin. It's on brand but still very worrying that Act thinks that is an "absurd," "nonsensical regulation."
You can race a boat anywhere, anytime, but you can't bring these taonga back once they're gone.
My ancestors sailed here in 1842. They totally raved about those foils
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Not many people would be impressed if I said I had found hundreds in "savings" by choosing not to buy enough groceries to feed my family, and only paying half of my electricity bill.
We'd all realise that was a short-sighted and ultimately harmful approach, right...?
#Budget24
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$100k per kid, who will spend 9 months away from their whānau. Imagine how much good that money could do if they just gave it to the whānau instead.
So many behavioural issues can be traced back to poverty as the root cause.
#BREAKING
: Our Military Style Academy pilot for serious young offenders will start on July 29!
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For all of you whinging that there are more important things to be spending money on than road signs, may I introduce you to the actual policy
#nzpol
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One of the times I was in an ambulance I ended up naked as they had to cut my clothes off me. Some people have missed that an ambulance ride is not like a taxi for the slightly unwell. The last thing people going through whatever horror is unfolding is a politician watching them!
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Luxon wants to stop the Ministry of Health from doing all the "dumb stuff, all the programmes we don't want."
What exactly does he think that is? And is he suggesting 180 jobs can be cut because those public servants were all doing "dumb stuff"...?
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You’ve got to be kidding me. We are fine with genocide but draw the line at shipping delays?!
Live: NZDF team heading to Middle East to protect shipping in Red Sea
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The govt says funding Gumboot Friday will "more than double" the number of young people accessing counselling. Um, GF only offers each person a maximum of 2 counselling sessions?
That hardly counts as doubling what currently exists (counselling available as long as necessary).
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Surprise! It’s Bill English. Yes, the same National party partisan who recently decided that, having sold off a record number of state houses while he was in government, Kāinga Ora building more state houses was unequivocally terrible.
But wait, there’s more.
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@ShazTheUnique1
This is the weirdest racist diatribe I’ve read in a while. Māori street names really upset you that much? How is a street name “bastardising” anything?
And what’s “white culture”, while I’m at it?
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“I don't care what you say about whether it does or doesn't work.”
Our Prime Minister, folks 🥴
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Nice work by
@drayeshaverrall
, but an absolutely damning indictment of the incompetence and dishonesty of this government.
There was never a plan to fund the cancer drugs, because there *could never have been* a plan. We all deserve better than a govt that pretends otherwise.
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Can we please have some media reporting about the Overton shift that’s happened in this country?
The last National govt made significant settlements with iwi, targeted funding for child poverty, & provided insulation for low income homes. To be clear: they were still bad. 1/2
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Holy shit. Good on him.
Pharmac director quits over Government's Treaty rejection
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The Bill to disestablish Te Aka Whai Ora wasn't due to be introduced until 8 March. They've shifted that to 28 Feb to get ahead of an urgent WT hearing on Feb 29. Disgraceful, anti-democratic action by a racist coalition that thinks it's above the law.
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Luxon & Willis' repeated insistence that "this election is all about the economy" is irritating. Like... Don't tell me why I'm voting?! I'm not that concerned about the economy. I AM concerned about Māori health, access to abortion, education, & support for people on low incomes.
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Oh my fucking GOD. There was one email newsletter providing various updates to staff, including a link to a new page on the intranet which has a few karakia on it.
They are actually obsessed.
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And as a last note on this (for now). In the past I have worked for a bunch of different Ministers of Health. As an official I was never ONCE sent this sort of bizarre and unprofessional political diatribe by a Minister. This coalition truly has no idea how to do their jobs.
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Nat MP Simon O'Connor is literally pushing replacement theory on Facebook today: "They are not seeking plurality but replacement."
Not so much a dog whistle as a foghorn, and boy are the racists of NZ lapping it up 🤢
Where's the media scrutiny when you actually need it?
#nzpol
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Surely this is an argument for better te reo Māori education instead of this fearful, backwards approach to a beautiful language that is unique to Aotearoa
Do you know the difference between Waka Kotahi, Te Pūkenga and Te Whatu Ora? Christopher Luxon says some Kiwis don't.
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Winston's transphobic rant about a c1s woman athlete not being female enough is a perfect example of how transphobic attitudes hurt everyone. There is normal variation in what women look like and this gender policing creates a narrower & narrower 'acceptable' lane for us all.
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Supporting carers costs less than carer burnout.
School lunches cost less than lower academic achievement & earning potential.
Smoking tax is less than the health costs.
Stop saying this govt are good economic managers when they'd fail a basic marshmallow test time & time again.
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You can’t be lazy on $385/week because it’s HARD WORK (& ironically, expensive) being that poor. You can definitely be lazy when you own multiple properties and have passive income though.
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John Key says Luxon is doing "a great job," leading to speculation that he has been in a coma for the past 6 months.
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7 media staff and between them they still decided, “yep that’s the one. Post it.”
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This argument that "sex ed should be taught at home" is so disingenuous. Firstly, parents can already opt their child out if they don't want them learning sex ed at school. This is about removing the choice from those of us who WANT our kids to have good quality RSE at school. 🧵
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Oh FFS, this really is the Cooker Coalition. We're going to go from a world leading pandemic response to being the most poorly prepared.
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MSD is introducing new rules to cut down on the number of people using emergency housing, including tougher eligibility and a stand-down for 13 weeks on the housing grant if a person breaks the rules.
Where will people live if not in *emergency* housing?
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A referendum on Te Tiriti is like a referendum on a contract - it's not a popularity vote, it's a signed agreement that's done and dusted.
ACT's proposed referendum on the Treaty principles - their Treaty Principles Act - effectively cuts out Māori authority from future understandings of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. It deletes the tino rangatiratanga of Māori from Treaty principles. This is very far-reaching & dangerous. >
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Not when it's someone like Mark Mitchell, no.
But for someone like Metiria Turei, well - people like *that* should be chased out of Parliament for their past actions, naturally.
The two standards of scrutiny apply.
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