Hayley

Incredibly important to share far and wide this election. As we’ve seen in consistent appalling headlines, and in lived experience on a daily basis, women and children are not a political priority in New Zealand. It’s very clear below who does have this top of mind - it’s vital to vote accordingly.

“Our nation cannot become a place where violent attacks are normalised.” 1 woman is killed by an intimate partner every 10 to 11 days in Australia. 1 in 4 men in Australia aged 18 to 45 say they have employed physical and/or sexual violence. The majority of perpetrators are men. It’s normalised.👇

What I really love during election year and at every other time is think pieces by dudes framing pay equity as a choice/cost versus a basic inherent policy that any democracy should have as a given right - which also wouldn’t be framed as such if men were the ones primarily impacted by its absence.

We are now on hour three of this process.

One day we’ll have a conversation about the things we normalise politically, culturally, systemically that has the end result of women MPs being targeted - and women and girls worldwide. From gutting of pay equity to refusal to hold predators accountable in every single sphere - our choices add up👇

Feels like this should be a much bigger story than it is 🤔

NZ Herald, we’re allowed to say “who was in for violating a restraining order”. “Sending a text message” completely fails to reflect the impact on the woman he was stalking for a decade. Ideally we would reflect on the decision to minimise his actions in this headline / doubt we will etc 🫠

Journalists are crowing 'what's new?!' because they have forgotten that there is a second draft of history, and don't seem to recognise that a book like this, is it. This govt has literally forced the TPU into the *school curriculum* in its ideological vandalism, well here's the primary reference.

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All these elected officials do is go on cable news to blab about problems we know really well because they dedicated decades of their lives to not solving them.

I love this so much.

“The Government has pushed ahead with scrapping the Broadcasting Standards Authority despite warnings from its own officials that audiences could face fewer protections against unfair and inaccurate media content.” Very aligned to brand 🫠 🎁 link:

Just noting it’s the Australian Greens pushing to ban smart glasses, and who have prompted moves to regulate. Something for New Zealand to consider as we go to the polls soon is who consistently looks out for women and girls - and who consistently does not, through silence, inaction or bad policy.

Good journalism holds all corporations and governments to account. Poor journalism is friendly to the powerful. ~ Nicky Hager #nzpol drbex.substack.com/p/nicky-hage...

“We are calling on the Government to start an inquiry into the culture and processes at Work and Income…” Glad NZ Greens are calling for this. The harm Work and Income routinely causes has a long reach - and a huge impact, as evidenced here. Our systems should work for people, not against them.

Not sure if Brooke van Velden’s final speech to Parliament consisting of a roomful of not-listening people too busy panicking about Nicky Hager’s book launch at the same time and then limited media coverage because of the focus on the book is *chef’s kiss* or poetic justice, but why not both 🤷🏻‍♀️

“Why is the book called Dirty Work? First, to signal that it is a sequel to Dirty Politics. But also, because this network of hard right political groups is doing the dirty work for National and ACT against their political opponents…”

“Year in, year out, the Taxpayers’ Union and allied hard right groups assist the National Party. The Taxpayers’ Union raises millions of dollars to undermine National’s political opponents and in return National gives legitimacy to the Taxpayers’ Union.”

“I think the people behind this dirty work are deeply lacking in integrity and have far more influence than they deserve.”

I'm at Unity Bookshop Wellington for the Nicky Hager book launch. The event is not due to start until 6 pm, but the room is mostly full already and filling up fast.

It’s really nice to know that someone is thinking about the health of our democracy as opposed to the current status quo of actively undermining it at every possible opportunity

What that, you say? ANOTHER *astounding* Green policy launched on a Sunday afternoon to influence the upcoming news cycle? Glorious: they are *extremely good at this.* (Also, I'm looking forward to Labour and National trying to concoct their own versions of this.) #nzpol

Nice to see the Greens out and about today, and getting lots of supportive beeps too 🎉

Apparently Chlöe Swarbrick beating Nicola Willis in a poll on who New Zealanders trust to manage the economy came as something of a shock? Not to me. I’ve been listening to how Swarbrick talks about money. There’s something interesting going on. 🧵

So my new article asks why Swarbrick’s economics sounds so unusual in NZ politics, and why voters may be responding to it. Ok fine, I eventually mention Warren Mosler. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...

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Flu cases never need to surge. This is a choice. They could be grumbling at low levels or even moderate levels. Surges cause preventable deaths in ED due to waiting times blowing out and staff shortages. Stop flu surges. 😷

Thread of the day.

Our population is ageing and soon we will have more people outside work than of working age. We aren't having anywhere near enough babies to balance that and babies take time to reach working age, despite what you've been told. This is a global trend and means there's a new gold rush underway. 1/n

Dystopian that “art is political” is grasped when applied to the Hunger Games marketing campaign featuring Fearless Girl but not when the message is applied in practice, when, say, someone speaks out against the atrocities being committed by Israel. If you’re neutral in situations of injustice, etc