Newsrooms = stories, people and livelihoods. 💔

5️⃣ Estonia are making their social housing more climate friendly. ♻️💚

4️⃣ Tallin has a growing light-rail system 🚊🚏

3️⃣ They value teaching children digital skills, coding and robotics. 🕹️👩‍💻

Nicola Willis was scathing when the previous govt adjusted the spending allowance in the Budget. Her solution seems to be to just not set a spending allowance in the first place! It’s easy to see she can’t make the numbers add up. The govts promises are unaffordable.

On becoming govt National scrapped 20 hours free early childhood education for 2 year olds. This week they announced a rebate for ECE that costs $500m less, in other words, they are boasting about a $500million cut to early childhood education funding.

The disability community deserve better. The Minister knew about funding issues at Whaikaha last December, didn’t do anything, and then signed off on changes to funding that would hurt people with disabilities and their carers.

It’s disgraceful and she should go.

Labour’s first 𝟏𝟎𝟎 days of 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 vs National’s 𝟏𝟎𝟎 days of taking New Zealand 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬.

Christopher Luxon is treating hard-working Kiwis like his personal ATM. Premier House needs some work, but he could still live there at no additional cost to the taxpayer. He chooses not to and instead claim an extra $1,000 a week to live in his own house. It’s a rort.

Nek minnit.

Thank you, Grant. ❤️

Alexa play Un-Break my Heart by Toni Braxton. Happy Valentine’s Day. 🌹

Mōrena from Waitangi. Toitū Te Tiriti. ✊

.Chris Hipkins was out on the waka this morning with Te Korowai Waka o Te Tai Tokerau — it was a highlight for him last year and so he wanted to do it again this year! A chance for him to also connect, listen and learn — alongside our own Willow Prime Labour Māori Caucus

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“We acknowledge those that fought for us to have that right and opportunity, and we don’t take it for granted,” - Willow Prime Labour Māori Caucus

#WAITANGI2024 : We’re back at Waitangi — and what a pleasure and a privilege it is to be here. It’s yet another reminder of how far we’ve come as a nation, and the kind of nation we want to be and want for our future generations. 🌿🇳🇿