🏳️‍⚧️Marama Davidson MP Right to Repair is a law in the EU + parts of US. Meanwhile, NZ households produce the most solid waste pp out of all OECD countries 😬 It's time for Aotearoa to live up to our clean green name, with a law that allows us to reduce our waste & save money at the same time! 🌱🛠️

This week, we've also got an action to support 🏳️‍⚧️Marama Davidson MP's Right to Repair Bill 🌱🛠️ It stops us from being forced to buy & throw away things, and from mining & extracting endless resources to make these disposables. /1

Aotearoa New Zealand has won one of the world’s most prestigious art prizes.

Mataaho collective have been awarded the Golden Lion by a jury at the 60th Venice Biennale for their large scale work in the main curated exhibition.

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This should not be paywalled, so here it is.

Gordon Campbell: On The Public Sector Carnage, And Misogyny As Terrorism ift.tt/bUkTx4J

Ugh, unlocking my account for a bit to help out my nerds at Population Association of NZ. Any decimated newsrooms out there fancy a solid primer on opinion polling from our best experts; or a media analysis of how to responsibly cover fertility & demography beyond Luxo's 'have more babies'?

Hoping to get my submission on the *appalling* Fast-track Approvals Bill in later this afternoon – I've found the templates/examples by Forest & Bird Green Party NZ MikePole and the Environmental Defence Society to be extremely helpful. So perhaps you might too...

Looked at the claim a young person will spend 24 years on a benefit.

This is strictly true if you are talking about a very specific benefit.

The problem is that only about 0.5% of beneficiaries and 3.6% of 'young pple' on a benefit get that benefit.

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I support you Felix! No one should struggle to pay for their hearing aid batteries.
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This is brilliant: David Seymour roasted on a spit by an education professional of 50 years #nzpol .

They’re telling us that the rental market is tight but also that families only need six weeks notice to find somewhere else to live?

Excellent work from teanau tuiono. I still have not heard a good explanation for why the National Party voted against this long overdue, well-justified move to address what is widely accepted as an injustice.

If the PM really cared about working people, he wouldn’t be getting rid of jobs, he wouldn’t have cut the minimum wage, and he wouldn’t have scrapped Fair Pay Agreements, which would have lifted the pay of hundreds of thousands of low-income workers. nzherald.co.nz/nz/unions-slam…

While David Seymour plans to introduce a daily attendance audit, evidence shows initiatives like the Healthy School Lunch programme have actually resulted in significant increases in attendance.

Ignoring this evidence, Seymour still plans to cut back free lunches for kids.

Māori-owned book publishing company Huia Publishers has been awarded the 2024 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year for Oceania 👇

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Feeling deeply for Newshub whānau today. This is so hard. Thank you all for your mahi, for your voice, 💚

Hora Hora school principal Pat Newman calls David Seymour's attendance plan 'about as much use as tits on a bull.'

'He's the one that says 'we're going to cut lunches... We're going to cut back the transport subsidies.' How the hell is that going to get people into schools?'

Today, the NZ media industry has had to shut down an entire news platform and legacy programmes because they can't compete with foreign tech giants mining our news and content for nothing.

'Perhaps the intent was not just to kill humanitarian aid workers, but to kill humanitarian aid to Gaza altogether. If this was the goal of these murderous missile strikes, it seems to have succeeded.'
Essential to support UNRWA and others that remain.

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