To solve our housing crisis, we should look to Vienna thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350205…

Unemployment data today from Stats NZ today shows a rise from 3.4% in March 2023 to 4.3% in March 2024. That's an extra 31,000 people unemployed - with the data showing the fastest rises for women, kaimahi Māori, and Pacific Peoples. The time to act is now. A 🧵

John Campbell: My pre-Budget roadie to Northland was an eye opener 1news.co.nz/2024/05/25/joh…

MP David MacLeod now referred to police over secret donations from a shareholder in seabed mining company TTR. TTR plans to use the fast track bill to override Supreme Court rejection of its mining proposals. Macleod was chair of the committee that was overseeing the bill.

Boot camps are back, but the evidence they don't work never went away rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-in…

Our young people deserve an equal chance and a society in which they are empowered and given the essential support they need to thrive. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/say-… via Marc “Action” Jackson

“I am haunted by the lives that do not matter to us. There are more than 80,000 people displaced in the highlands of West Papua . . . Why do these neighbours’ lives mean so little to us?” — Catherine Delahunty Catherine Delahunty e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/we…

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Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of November 4 - 10 nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmerso…

The government announced new sanctions for those on Jobseekers. Why? A look at the evidence suggests that they do little to help. Might they be about demonising the poor instead? A 🧵beehive.govt.nz/release/new-be…

I just signed - will you join me? our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/say-… via Marc “Action” Jackson

“The political action stems from ideology grounded in ignorance, racism and fear. It has nothing to do with evidence, or public health priorities, or quality of life for people.” — Sir Collin Tukuitonga e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

“These children are in the care of the state, meaning the ultimate parental responsibility sits with the prime minister of the day.” — Aaron Hendry e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

Voting rights don't stop at the prison gate newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/04/vot…

Today’s Budget takes $12.8bn from low-income, female dominated workforces to prop up the governments failed economic policies. It's a Reverse Robin Hood Budget that steals from working people. This is a Budget that isn’t working for working people. A 🧵

“When a young parent and their baby sleeps in a car, it’s not just a housing failure, it’s a failure of our collective memory and responsibility to one another and our most vulnerable.” — Lizzie Strickett e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

Quick vid for the all the 'gubmint saved too many lives, then spent too much, sent inflation to the moon, forced interest rates up, and caused all the mess we're in now' crowd. You know who you are.

Verity Johnson speaks truth here. The govt handling (all govt’s) of the state wards has been appalling, but this latest attempt to bar wards who went on to commit crime from getting compensation, which is already paltry, is despicable. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360865…

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