"Freedom is not the right to do as you please; it is the liberty to do as you ought..." @marsbutler.bsky.social

Joined March 2022
"NZ's health system at breaking point, evidence that Govt-imposed recruitment restrictions have left essential positions unfilled & what Health Minister Simeon Brown knew about the consequences. youtu.be/Ow17b7QELzo?si=5C4O…
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A Health NZ Board Chair called it in 2024: National Government has manufactured a crisis to privatise health
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80% of $3 billion tax payers dollars allocated to health , that’s $2.4 billion was given to private health care in this last term of government. No wonder everything is falling apart. People dying in ER, on the street. Kids can’t get their cancer drugs on time. #natbastards
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He fails to mention that for 40 years, New Zealanders have been able to enrol right up until midnight before election day. The last two elections we could even enrol on election day. It’s a massive backwards step that many people won’t know about until they try vote.
Luxon on the campaign trail today, last day to enrol in NZ election: "Kiws are twice as smart as Australians so I'm sure we can manage, I'm sure we can get enrolled 13 days before an election." (Australians voting in federal elections have to enrol at least 26 days before)
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They didn’t listen.
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#NZ #Election2026 : National axes Palmerston North electorate committee member Roger Buchanan after learning of sexual conduct with minor conviction nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/n…
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Someone asked me today if Luxon has ever sacked a Minister. No, you can call hard working Kiwis "losers" call other MPs "stupid bitches", hide your 25 rentals from disclosure, sprout racism and lies, obstruct OIAs, and all you will get is warm praise from Prime Minister Luxon.
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Because there's no crime. Or assaults. Especially sexual assault. Homicides. Child abuse. Gang violence. Gun violence. Domestic violence. Ram raids even. Yeah, none of that under this Govt right...? Tui ad. Rampant. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ˜³πŸ₯Ή stuff.co.nz/topics/police
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"Only 2yrs ago politicians were feigning bipartisan empathy as the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care report was tabled in Parliament, telling victims they’d been heard. "Now? They’ve made a subset of those victims a political smear. Powerful story. newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/25/aa…
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"Amid political concerns about Kāinga Ora selling off housing in the shadow of the election, a Mt Albert home on track to be 50th state house sold this yr along with 36 other state housing units." In total, more than 750 homes in past 12mths & 200 more are on the market!! 😳😑
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"For social housing tenants promised some of the 1000s of new, warm, dry homes that the Govt has now indefinitely paused, the sell-off of these houses is worrying. β€œNobody should be selling something so close to an election,” says MP Helen White. "Decisions that can’t be unmade.”
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Today is World Polio Day Polio used to maim and kill millions It doesn't anyone more Anyone guess why? I'll give you a clue Vaccines
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More voter suppression?? What's going on National? Maybe we need to cancel and redo the election properly?? 1news.co.nz/2026/10/24/overs…
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Head DF gang member resigns due to inappropriate behaviour. Head gang boss, Paul Goldsmith says no worries brother. We got you. (...But could you go out quietly so I might still get a cup a tea in Epsom)...
β€œThe head of the New Zealand Defence Force has resigned after admitting an β€œinappropriate relationship” while in a position of command and saying his conduct was contrary to Defence Force values.” stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36105037…
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Comments accepted by 'moderators' on this live NZH link (open) remind me why I cancelled my sub 3yrs ago. Just as disgusting now as then. Appalling from a major NZ media. How far you gave slunk NZH. No wonder there's political violence. 😳😑 nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/e…
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Starship Hospital in #Auckland #NZ has pushed out many cancer treatments for children because of the "worst" nursing shortage they've ever had. Here's why
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