Dame Anne Salmond wrote “Where will the bellbird sing?”. Yesterday the bellbirds sung physically to those present and figuratively via Justin Tipa’s fine Waitangi Day speech saying “We are not the radicals … A nation is not a blank canvas”. Worth reading. ngaitahu.iwi.nz/connect-2/conn…

In Dunedin and looking for a 10 hour a week job helping the local MP with coms, research etc? Apply now (ASAP because this is my first post about it) 🙏 livehire.com/careers/parlia…

2/4: National isn’t listening to the advice of Police, who have consistently warned that letting Kiwis take the law into their own hands is unsafe, both for retailers and the public

#Aotearoa Good answer to point of order from Kieran McAnulty MP 👇

During question time, Stanford said Seymour had informed her of some "high-level supply challenges" at Libelle on February 11. Did he keep her informed since February 11? 1news.co.nz/2025/03/12/sta…

Great work Camilla Belich MP & Ibrahim - theft is theft!

Before the election National said our govt hadn’t done enough to build more intensive care (ICU) beds. Now they’ve cut the 30 we were building in Dunedin back to just 20. Is there any promise they won’t break?

Golly gosh. Several impt bills are today being passed through all stages under urgency and without select committee scrutiny/public subs -- and bills with constitutionally objectional features, such as retrospective effect; nullification of existing ct proceedings etc. #wildwest

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#cynical #awful 👇

A process the Minister just called “robust” - a disgrace to use all stages urgency to stop women being paid fairly 👇

At 5pm yesterday, the Treasury informed the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi (NZCTU) it has been barred from attending the Budget lock-up on 22 May. This is the first time the CTU has been prevented from attending a Budget lock-up in living memory

Budget 2025 is a disaster for our environment. Conservation investment is MIA while 75% of native species face extinction. The Govt is gambling with $133B in natural assets and our economy. This is environmental neglect, not leadership. We demand better. forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no-n…

In the midst of a climate and biodiversity crisis, the Government is ploughing $200 million into underwriting new gas fields and scrapping major nature funds. Make it make sense 🤦‍♀️ Our response to #Budget2025: wwf.org.nz/news/general/n…

#NZ 🚩This is near to the head of Te Waipounamu / South Island’s longest river-The MataAu. Flows another 300km + to the ocean. Everything is downstream. Two public meetings: Dunedin, 7pm Tues 17 June &Wānaka, 7pm Thurs 19 June Details: sustainabletarras.com/2025/06/08/our… #OursNotMine

Moving dawn pōwhiri, for the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei led the powerful list of speakers who spoke of the importance of activism against the destruction of our environment back then & it’s still needed today. Greenpeace Aotearoa