https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/131771613/how-an-offensive-joke-reveals-a-problem-with-how-national-chooses-its-mps

#AotearoaPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/04/jacinda-ardern-to-tackle-online-extremism-in-new-role-as-special-envoy-for-christchurch-call

#AotearoaPolitics #ChristchurchCall

From 1 September 2023, the Living Wage hourly rate is $26.00.

https://www.livingwage.org.nz/lw23

#AotearoaPolitics #LivingWage

Kiwibank new uniforms.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/131611585/is-kiwibanks-new-corporate-wardrobe-the-most-inclusive-ever-seen-in-aotearoa

#AotearoaPolitics #inclusion

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487116/shaneel-lal-first-transgender-person-to-win-a-new-zealander-of-the-year-award

#AotearoaPolitics

"Strip club dancers will meet MPs on Thursday to lobby them about the labour conditions at adult entertainment venues that they are calling exploitative and abusive.

An imbalance of power held by strip clubs had gone unchallenged for too long, said a dancer who was fired from Calendar Girls when she queried her employment conditions."

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131432873/dancers-take-case-to-parliament-about-working-conditions-at-strip-clubs

#AotearoaPolitics #LaborRightsForSexWorkers

"She has yet to see evidence humans have contributed to climate change."

@MaureenPughNat
should resign.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/484589/national-s-maureen-pugh-chastised-over-climate-comments-she-s-gonna-be-doing-a-lot-of-reading

#NationalNotFitToGovern #AotearoaPolitics

Mum of four NZ children denied residency visa by Immigration New Zealand

When we treat migrants as less, families suffer and also the human rights of those children are affected. "The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State." - Article 16

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/malaysian-mum-of-four-nz-children-denied-residency-visa-by-inz-dad-had-sponsored-other-partners/JKLAWO72AFGCFICZDSV5TN2ZKQ/

#immigration #migrants #AotearoaPolitics

Yes! A national rent control based on the average income in NZ or another reasonable alternative.

People needs homes. Don't treat them as investments. This is a need.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/483592/greens-back-call-for-rent-controls-after-auckland-floods

#AotearoaPolitics

Had a green Auckland experience. Met Chlöe Swarbrick at an intersection while riding an electric scooter and using the bike lane 😎. Keep up the good work. Happy to be a NZ Greens
supporter. #AotearoaPolitics

"My spiteful, vicious, abusive and threatening hate is NOT misogynistic". We need serious legislation that will tackle violent threats (in person or social media). Intimidation tactics must be stopped.

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/01/27/my-hate-is-pure-and-not-misogynistic-how-the-right-wing-trolls-are-defending-their-toxicity/

#AotearoaPolitics

#NationalNotFitToGovern and more blatantly racist.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/483083/maori-seats-don-t-make-a-lot-of-sense-christopher-luxon

#AotearoaPolitics

"Co-governance should be embraced — not feared"

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/chris-finlayson-co-governance-should-be-embraced-not-feared/

#AotearoaPolitics

"It’s not politics, and it’s not OK"
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/its-not-politics-and-its-not-ok

#AotearoaPolitics

I wish the media will not showcase this as an example but rather as a problem. We must be able to get a reasonable home by working reasonable hours.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/first-homes/130810763/it-was-this-or-live-hours-away-from-work-couple-work-50hour-weeks-to-save-for-a-central-auckland-home

#AotearoaPolitics

NZ remains one of the safer places on the planet. Our level of paranoia about crime is inflated, and has little to do with the actual threat. There has been an equal rise in the paranoia about the government. Our social democratic state is being painted as a totalitarian regime.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2212/S00027/on-becoming-a-nation-of-political-paranoids.htm

#AotearoaPolitics

70k people will lose their job to fight inflation - one economist thinks there’s another way

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/70k-people-will-lose-their-job-to-fight-inflation-one-economist-thinks-theres-another-way/3GQ24OPXORHF5A2QYVTNTWW564/

#AotearoaPolitics

"For seven years, the government has been breaching the human rights of 501 deportees"

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130819353/treatment-of-501-deportee-is-unlawful-and-breaches-human-rights--high-court

#AotearoaPolitics

Make the living wage the minimum wage.

"The Living Wage rate is voluntary and is paid by employers who want to make sure their workers get enough money to live with dignity. The 2022 Living Wage is $23.65."

https://www.livingwage.org.nz/accredited_employers

#AotearoaPolitics

RSE workers being treated ‘like slaves’, Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner says

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/130729008/rse-workers-being-treated-like-slaves-equal-employment-opportunity-commissioner-says

#AotearoaPolitics