In 2010 the whole of the public sector made up 19.7% of NZ’s total workforce. In 2023 it made up 18.8%. Claims there has been an explosion in the public sector are pure spin to justify sacking hard working Kiwis to pay for unaffordable tax cuts. This govt has the wrong priorities

It's a very strange framing of a problem to set a goal of having 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker, as opposed to having 50,000 fewer people in poverty. Like if you change the Jobseeker rules, you hit the target.

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To run an event in a wildlife sanctuary and agree to a plan and use those plans to promote event then throw your flash toys out of the gold-plated cot is the height of it...🤦🏽‍♂️

Mediawatched the audacious and frankly woke attempts to make SailGP adhere to the marine mammal management plan it voluntarily developed and marketed heavily as part of its effort to stage a high-speed race in the breeding grounds of an endangered dolphin rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

This might be one of the better Penrith Panthers 🏆🏆🏆 squads of the last 4-5 years which is both surprising and scary! 🙌🏽 #NRL RoostersPanthers #NRL

It is a bankrupt Christianity that sees a demagogue co-opting our faith and even our holy scriptures for the sake of his own pursuit of power and praise him for it rather than insist that we refuse to allow our sacred faith and scriptures to become a mouthpiece for an empire.

No one is making you attend a storytime. Just like no one is making you attend church.

We all get to choose where we and our families spend our time.

Pick what suits you, leave the hate out of it.

In 2023, SailGP literally celebrated its Marine Mammal Management Plan as an “industry-leading example of SailGP’s commitment to environments in which we operate”

SailGP moved the event from Auckland which is not a hector breeding sanctuary.

Disappointed to see iwi being blamed

DANN: 'The average for most Parliaments is 10 [bills passed under urgency] across the whole term. You've done 14 in 17 weeks.'

LUXON: 'Yeah, isn't it great?'

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Winston is out of touch. 'Whatungarongaro ngā kāwanatanga toitū te Tiriti' (governments come and go, the Treaty endures) draws on an old whakataukī 'whatungarongaro he tangata, toitū te whenua (people come and go, the land endures) to make an elegant reflection on current reality

John 3:16 says “God so loved the world.”

Not “God so loved just Christians.”

Or “God so loved just America.”

It says “for God so loved the world.”

It’s really easy to make God’s love exclusionary. But it’s the way of Jesus to embody a love that can embrace the whole world.

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Be great if Nesbo was kept away from commentating Moana Pasifika games.

The irony of our time:

Some Christians are convinced that our culture is pulling away from Christianity.

So they declare war on our culture and support political and religious tyrants to enforce their way on our culture, which pushes our culture away from Christianity.

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Absolutely disgraceful comments given the fairly extreme lengths mana whenua went to in extending manaakitanga to Seymour and the rest of the government at Waitangi. To spit in their faces like this is shameful.

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This is simply ridiculous. No credible historian would accept this egregious misreading of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

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