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Open mike is your post.
For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Step up to the mike …
Mr Luxon, in space nobody can hear you scream.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/575154/how-many-job-hunters-are-there-for-each-job-ad
The Coalition sometimes feel like we’re in a dystopian horror movie that’s not entertaining but stress-inducing.
Visualised.
@musicalchairs.bsky.social
Someone asked me yesterday for data comparing jobseeker recipients to job vacancies across the country. There are limitations to the job ad data (from trademe), but as a rough estimate, here you go… Our Hunger Games labour market has crazy odds in some places ay? A few more reckons… [🧵 1/n]
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Here's jobseeker recipients as a % of the working age population (aged 15-64) by district for Q2 2025. Similar ranking obviously. Remember some people on jobseekers work, and lots of people out of work don't claim jobseekers (phew 😅). [2/n]
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Forgive the assault on your eyesight – this is jobseeker recipients as a % of total jobs by district. Our one-sized fits all, laissez-faire approach to economic management leaves vast swathes of the country in a permanent state of depression… [3/n]
https://bsky.app/profile/musicalchairs.bsky.social/post/3m2dl4obiys26
Yet another policy Labour will criticise followed by a refusal to reverse it when in government next. Our benefit system is littered with "reform" that's taken this precise route before embedding itself into what we say is acceptable, for the poor of course.
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In the USA, there is the effort to eliminate from public society, all those not American citizens if they are pro Palestinian and also vetting the social media of those wanting visas.
As if being pro Palestinian was unAmerican or UNinAmerica.
There they hound those not seen as honouring the legacy of Charlie Kirk as some patron saint of free speech by cancel culture and against anyone seen anti-fascist. Why the GOP has a problem with anti-fascism, one can only guess. Maybe its because of the book alongside Donald Trump's bed during his first marriage. His guide to politics.
(the GOP of the 30's/40's wanted the commies of Russia defeated, thus McCarthyism after the war)
Here there is the now the effort to attack the Green Party by associating then with protests and what protestors do.
For the record, I oppose a one state river to the sea outcome and thus find the Knesset claiming sovereignty over the West Bank this year of concern.
Why has our government made no expression of concern over this?
The Israeli government has approved plans for a new development that is the most major breach of UNSC 2334 that has been made since.
Something our government sponsored and again they say nothing.
Greens to blame for what pro Palestine protestors do, is in lockstep with the scarcely credible American government. It is not of an independent foreign policy, it is not ethical.
A broken window. How is the anti-low-tech-stalking legislation going by the way, deep state people?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/575205/nicola-willis-urges-greens-to-call-off-protesters-outside-winston-peters-home
Employment cancel culture. Nice.
Keep to your lane and do your job should have been the PM’s advice.
In this case she got the job to do the PM’s dirty work woman to woman – the protestor and the attack on CS.
What leadership.
Now I know what Winston means every time he says he and NZ First stand for One NZ.
Acacia O’Connor the One NZ actor who gave out Winston's address is being removed by One from the adverts.
One NZ to remove woman who publicised Winston Peters’ address online from ads – NZ Herald
Actions have consequences.
Those were the days.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/02/22/winston-peters-tours-parliament-protest-camp/
To be fair, at least the protest was outside parliament rather than outside Jacinda's house…
Premier House, while Ardern lived there.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360846372/opposition-accused-weasel-words-over-outlawing-protests-mps-homes
I wasn’t thinking of the protest(ers) but rather of the
agitatorMC at the time …Just as well no one lives at parliament, apart from the Speaker.
National Party at work this week.
Winston Peters and a broken window as a sign the righteous ones are not safe when people criticise their Ministerial performance.
(not quite a Reichstag fire – but it will have to do, it reminds one of the German spy in New Zealand and a film made about him).
1.blaming the Greens for the protests outside the home of Peters.
2.conflation of group protest last week with an action by an individual of Monday of this week.
3.conflation with placing something on a door and breaking a window with violence, when it is vandalism.
There is anti-stalking legislation before parliament. It was not in the coalition governments plans initially. Activism was required. It proceeded in July. It has yet to have its third reading.
https://bills.parliament.nz/v/6/bdb818e0-3135-4d91-e700-08dd18052784?lang=en&Tab=history
The right to protest is part of freedom of speech.
Is that for the public space alone and not in the orbit of the home residence?
It is a valid question.
It was put before parliament in August.
But the Justice Minister lies that opposition to his bill, is in favour/support for protest outside the homes of MP's. When the bill proposes more than that.
How does one trust a government that lies so readily?
One now has to wonder, if one of the reasons for their UN decision was to provoke protest.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360846372/opposition-accused-weasel-words-over-outlawing-protests-mps-homes
The Listener's 'DM' E-diction, notes that some triangles operate like dysfunctional circles.
Whether food prices, water reform outcome, foreign or energy sector policy.
https://archive.li/yjPb5
There is a chance of SI drought in 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573595/stormy-september-surrenders-to-sunny-la-nina-summer-start-says-scientist
Meanwhile, in the West Bank where there is no Hamas.
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Attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank have surged since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023. Since then, such attacks have killed at least 1,047 Palestinians and injured more than 10,000, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Attacks by settlers, who rampage and mete out violence against unarmed Palestinians with impunity, have targeted Palestinian property more than 2,400 times in the last two years, displacing at least 3,055 people, including 1,529 children – most belonging to Bedouin or herding communities, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/1/israeli-settlers-burn-palestinian-home-fell-olive-trees-in-west-bank
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/humanitarian-situation-update-328-west-bank-enar
Today Nicola Willis was again misrepresenting and twisting facts about social housing, this time in Parliament during Question Time.
https://www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20251007_20251007_28 07.10.25
Question No. 11—Infrastructure
…"Hon Ginny Andersen: Does she accept that cutting almost $1 billion of Kāinga Ora's building spend has contributed to the 20,000 jobs lost in the construction sector; if not, why not"?
Hon NICOLA WILLIS: "You cannot cancel projects that didn't have funds. Let me step you through the numbers: in the last 23 months under this Government, we have delivered over 7,000 new-build social homes. By comparison, under the entire past three years under the last Labour Government, only 6,000 homes were delivered, so I'll take our record over your record any day"…
Willis omitted to say that the thousands of social houses built over the past two years were commissioned and paid for under Labour. In fact, the Coalition has funded a minimal number of social houses:
https://www.labour.org.nz/news/release-housing-under-national-goes-from-bad-to-worse/ 13.08.25
“Chris Bishop has finally admitted only 45 social houses have been built by his government,” Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said."…
“Perhaps he may want to inform Christopher Luxon who said yesterday in the House that 7000 homes had been built"….