South Island Tronvert in the Waikato. Keen on coffee, beguiled by cheese, works hard. Views own.She/her.
Waikato District, New Zealand
Joined July 2011
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We can confirm a Police Dog has been suspended from active duties following an incident at a mostly peaceful far-central-rightish protest
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I repeat - most NZers just don’t know how lucky we are.
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A Budget whose tax cuts give 2x more to the PM than to minimum wage workers, has $2.9bn in tax cuts for landlords, and excludes many poor families from many initiatives, will officially maintain or worsen child poverty rates. Unacceptable. 1/
Aus vs NZ
A (politically conservative) friend described why work in Aus was better. “The unions are really strong”
In NZ was excepted to be online/available at all times but much fairer in Aus - an interesting discovery for them, we’ve lost a lot downgrading the unions here.
Consider the value of the detailed reports from StatsNZ
stats.govt.nz/reports/
A vast body of data to drive decisions about business, health, crime, economic well-being etc.
I fear the govt will struggle to track their proposed marvellous improvements without this capacity 🤔
Six years training for a job you still can’t do….?
Doesn’t seem like a very good ROI for the @NZNationalParty or the people who voted for her
Am very sorry about the cuts to the @MinistryofEd
Stuffing up important, & agreed to,NCEA changes that are already underway is wasteful and will have a ripple effect into schools & for already overworked teachers. Hey but let’s sort that bottom line 🙄
Oh you just do you angry person, and let other people claim some space.
It’s almost like she has missed missed the hundreds of churches all around the country that represent a more main stream belief systems
Two days into annual leave & finally turned notifications off for
Outlook
Teams
LinkedIn
It’s time ☀️ 🍹 📚
Cool cool… letter from @ECan saying the river at the wee family bach (& which supplies Timaru’s drinking water) “is unsuitable for swimming” Rated as “poor” due to “levels of E. coli above Te Whatu Ora thresholds. unsuitable for contact recreation.”
So why could this be?
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Factors sited “summertime rain events that cause run-off from paddocks, birds using the riverbed & stock access to the waterway”.
Water quality has been dropping since the late 90’s when there was a massive increase in conversions to dairy farming. Since 2013 Ecan has tried 1/3
Really enjoyed the interview with @kirsty_johnston and @jameshollings this morning @SaturdayRNZ about their new book on the Crewe murders. Congrats for this work 👏
Watching Season 2 @WrexhamFX over here in NZ & even though we sorta know outcome, we’re still on the edge of our !@c#*! seats Every Single Episode! Thanks @VancityReynolds @RMcElhenney @Wrexham_AFC you genius bastards ⚽️ #welcometowrexham
Bad luck to the @AllBlacks
So proud of the team getting to the final @rwc2023updates