It's incredible that it is still acceptable for Ministry for Primary Industries staff to be seconded to private sector agricultural organisations.

Imagine the uproar if a Ministry for the Environment | Manatū mō te Taiao staffer seconded to Greenpeace Aotearoa!

This 👏👏👏👏

'RNZ has also been told consulting firms are now asking some of the staff being made redundant to work for them, essentially doing the same work but at double the price the ministry would have paid.' 🤦‍♂️ rnz.co.nz/news/political…

This is so transparently stupid. There’s not even any pretence from the govt that it is going to save money. Its all about wealth transfer from public to private

Ministry already preparing to hire consultants to do work of axed staff rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

The NZ Govt is weakening freshwater rules. Yet this is the current situation in Canterbury: 'Nitrate levels appear to be increasing in 59% of the wells surveyed, with only 17% likely decreasing.' This what you want Fonterra and Nestlé? ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/n…

An open cast coal mine that has already been roundly rejected by the courts now rises from the dead, zombie-like, at the urging of NZ First Minister. #FastTrack newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/14/jon…

#FastTrackWrongTrack No need for a lottery if the time to hear from submitters (and report back of the bill) is extended. Timeframes are a choice. And govt should extend for both original subs and the mystery listed projects 👇🐸🌏⛏️🦭🎰 rnz.co.nz/news/political…

This is such a dog whistle when you know what the Christchurch Call was set up to prevent.

Can we stop pretending the “17k public servants under Labour” is actually a real number? Every national government hides the real number of public servants it employs by using contractors, who aren’t counted in the figures even though they’re paid a lot more.

Dropping a nuclear bomb on one of the most densely populated territories on earth would, by definition, be genocidal.

Inciting genocide is illegal under US law.

I’ve been consuming a lot of Star Wars content recently. I love the Clone Wars and how it truly depicts the war & its impacts.

& we all love Star Wars, we love to root for the resistance, we love our brave clones & fighters…but in reality we’d call them terrorists.

who gets the public schools' assets? privatised?

also, note the plan is to sign contracts to lock charter schools in for 30 years. As with PPPs, it's about permanently changing policy, even if future governments disagree.

‘What separates Israel, the US and other democracies when it comes to difficult situations like this,’ the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, declared on 11 October, ‘is our respect for international law and, as appropriate, the laws of war.’

BUT that is NOT the case, is it?

I literally cannot unsee this now

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