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Aaron Hawkins

4 days

This is the greatest betrayal of Dunedin (and the South) since Cadbury's packed up and left town. Rally midday TODAY outside the Dental School, ready to march on the Octagon. No ifs. No buts. No Dunedin Hospital Cuts.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 years

Equally inspiring & embarrassing to see our young people take to the streets demanding urgent climate action This has to be a central focus for us as we work through our Ten Year Plan process over the next couple of months #schoolstrike4climate #schoolstrike4climatenz

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

"We don't want 120,000 more voters who pay no tax voting for lots more spending. The Supreme Court needs to stick to its knitting and quit the judicial activism" says David Seymour, oblivious to the fact young people (a) have jobs, and (b) purchase goods and services

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Aaron Hawkins

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7 months

It shouldn’t need to be said, but a school inviting a politician to come visit is an overtly political act To expect your students to play along politely is as naive as it is insulting

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

This is so grim. By now, nobody can pretend that voting for National / Act isn’t endorsing the most openly white supremacist govt of my lifetime You may be prepared to do that in order to pay less tax or whatever, but you can’t pretend you didn’t know the collateral damage

Kate SUNSHINE WAGES Davis

@kateinthebay

1 year

Dear god in hell.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Alas it wasn’t to be. Thanks everyone for their support over my last nine years at the Dunedin City Council, and through this campaign. I’m proud of what we achieved in my 3 years as Mayor, even if we had plenty more work to do. To Cr Radich and his council all the very best

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

I hate to be the bearer of bad news here but there’s no “cost of living crisis” for people in the top tax bracket

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

Humbling to be given the privilege of leading our next council. Thankyou. It’s an exciting and challenging time for the city. Can’t wait to get stuck in.

Chris Morris

@ChrisMorrisNZ

5 years

BREAKING: Dunedin mayoralty goes to Green Party councillor Aaron Hawkins. Vandervis misses out again. More @odtnews .

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 years

Counterpoint: Thousands of dollars are staying in households who need it

RNZ

@radionz

3 years

The head of the gaming machine association is warning that hundreds of community projects will suffer because no money is going into pokies during lockdown.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

11 months

Well well well. Stop 3 Waters, indeed.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Trans rights are human rights. It is unacceptable to come to *any* forum and try to both (a) erase and (b) demonise our friends, whānau and communities in this way

Mayor tells nurse her anti-transgender views are 'repugnant' at public meeting

Dunedin councillors got into a spat when a woman argued transgender people should be excluded from public facilities.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 years

Fewer than 100 people gathered in Dunedin today to protest against overly harsh covid restrictions like … being able to hold events for up to 100 people

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 months

I'm sorry but there's something pretty funny about Seymour's staff sending their emails from the 'Office of Hon David Seymour, Deputy Prime Minister (from May 2025)'

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Couldn’t find a photo with my own Dad so made @TaikaWaititi pose for this one instead. Happy Father’s Day x

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

10 months

“Up to $250 a fortnight better off”

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

BREAKING: Minister Mahuta has announced that the government will remove the requirement for physical / street addresses on election campaign material, before nominations open for this year’s local body elections

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

Trying to explain this to my three year old. “You know how there’s a mayor in Paw Patrol?”

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 months

‘Don’t get political’ says charity who literally included themselves in an election campaign manifesto

Mike King boots Labour for politicising youth mental health

“Our youth deserve better than to have their mental health needs politicised,” the I Am Hope charity founder said.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

I think we’ve found the reason that The Press debate ‘couldn’t be rescheduled’

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

Got asked by an older gentleman on the bus just now if I was a local. He then went on to tell me what our mayor thought about things. I didn’t have the heart to correct him.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 months

I see we’re already at the ‘Austerity govt celebrates with lobster feast’ stage

RJD

@Rjdlandscapes

7 months

@five15design They are celebrating with crayfish..

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

10 months

Never forget that racism stopped us from having a grown up debate about how we fund water infrastructure

Newsroom

@NewsroomNZ

10 months

Newsroom exclusive: The chief executive of NZ's biggest water provider says Aucklanders' charges will triple – unless the new Government agrees to its bailout plan. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 months

Happy Double Your Kids’ Bus Fares Day!

Christopher Luxon

@chrisluxonmp

5 months

Happy No Phones in School Day!

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Still absolutely cackling at the idea that a serious human being has today called for a blanket apology to white men

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 months

Tantalisingly close to getting the point

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

A little bit of a family outing to stand in solidarity against fascism.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

A surreal scene this morning, and in the early afternoon it still feels like walking around in a Tarkovsky film. And here’s our modern day Nero, not just missing in action on climate, but actively promoting the tools of its instability. #AustralianFires

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

It takes a special kind of creature to believe both that ‘the economy demands a certain level of unemployment’ *and also* that ‘unemployed people are feckless layabouts who demand punishment’

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

11 months

How insecure do you have to be to be threatened by Te Reo Māori headings in a report template? This so bleak and backwards and the whole thing hasn’t even started

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 years

For when asking “why bother getting vaccinated?” is no longer gormless enough

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

As we head into our fourth week of lockdown, I remain grateful for our family’s good health. It’s also increasingly necessary to maintain something of a good humour. This gem on the noticeboard of our local Four Square helped this morning! #StayHomeNZ

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

Raiding renters’ superannuation to pay for a landlord subsidy is truly ghoulish behaviour

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Controversial Opinion: It was more fun watching the All Blacks as a kid when they often lost games, than in more recent times when they’ve been expected to win every single time

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

A completely true story about something that definitely happened

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

This response, in contrast, is peak @jamespeshaw : Yes, abuse is worse for women and POC, and we know this because there’s data to prove it

James Shaw on the Prime Minister's resignation

The Prime Minister has shocked the country with her resignation. Green Party co-leader James Shaw says he could see the toll being taken on the Prime Minister, and wasn't wholly surprised to hear of...

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

Sounds great sign me up

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

@TaxpayersUnion

4 years

The @NZGreens want to tax our kids' time in school with this:

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

People are clutching their pearls about a high school NZ history curriculum ‘pushing ideology over facts’ so I hope they don’t find out about how we teach economics

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

Should the voting age be 16? PM: “Let’s get civics right and teach our young people about politics”. They’re marching in the streets in their thousands. They get it. #makeit16

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

Love it

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

You know who does have more than one vote though? Landlords.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

A lot of people are saying this

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 months

The absolute state of it how embarrassing

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

I think I speak for all nerds when I say that the answer to making room for NZ History is banning PE

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Wait did Desley Simpson just *drag the Mayor away* from his angry Q&A? This is extraordinary

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 years

Today I can confirm that I will be standing for re-election as Mayor of Dunedin this October. If the past couple of weeks have taught us nothing else it’s that we need strong, progressive leadership to achieve our city’s goals and honour our commitments.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

I’m starting to think we don’t have many MPs (or candidates for that matter) who have ever been on the dole? Who have suffered the indignity and intrusion of asking the state for help to survive? Who have seen people in need get torn to shreds in open plan offices?

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

People keep saying ‘imagine if this campaign still had two weeks still to run’ and you can’t help but think ‘what if someone had done the work on the Nats tax plan two weeks earlier?’

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

6 months

Shocked to learn that after running a two year long campaign against mandatory regional entities for water services delivery … The new govt will step and force councils to join together for the purposes of water service delivery Whatever could the difference be? 🧐

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Happy Birthday Kate Bush, from Ōtepoti Dunedin

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

An embarrassing list of things that should be publicly funded. Need in our community shouldn’t be determined by the whims of people with money to spare. Good grief.

Rachel Smalley

@Rachel_Smalley

1 year

I’m also very grateful to the wealthy New Zealanders whose philanthropy helps to fund Starship, St John’s ambulances, our rescue helicopters, universities, access to medicines, the arts, Plunket, Rainbow Youth, KidsCan, the NZ Nature Fund…..🙏 Their success is so often our

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Apology accepted.

'Looks good, doesn't it?': George St critic won over

The George St makeover has won praise from one of its harshest critics ahead of the official unveiling of the first stage today. The Farmers block...

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

On Friday (at the local govt conference) Luxon was banging on about local control and decision making, supported by central funding On Monday they’ve committed to over ruling local decision making in Wellington and doing what they want Which is it?

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

He’s certainly not welcome in Dunedin, I can tell you that much

nzherald

@nzherald

2 years

Where can Putin flee to if Russia loses?

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 months

Chlöe is the greatest political talent of our generation. Couldn’t be happier that old mate put her hand up to help lead our movement. (Good grief 2020 feels like a lifetime ago)

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

1. The climate law is significant 2. It is also insufficient 3. These points should be both celebrated and illustrated 4. Anyone doing either is right to do so, we need both 5. We need to keep fighting for more 6. That’s how politics works

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 years

Imagine having ‘tobacco lobbyist’ on your CV and accusing other people of creating a “lottery of misery”

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 months

Imagine looking at the industrial relations landscape in this country and thinking ‘yes, it is the unions who are too powerful’

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@actparty

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The playing field is currently tilted in favour of the unions. @Parmjeet_Parmar 's member's bill is a step towards rebalancing the scales.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

What if I told you the anti three waters mob didn’t care about ‘local control’ at all?

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 months

I guess that’s one headline you could choose for when leaseholders are given four years notice that their leases aren’t being renewed

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

Having seen regional parochialism tear Australia apart, I want to say thankyou to our Auckland friends. Thanks for doing it tougher than us now, so that we all have a shot at coming out the other side sooner

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 months

You’re welcome.

Dunedin's new inner city CBD officially opens

Councillors played on a giant seesaw as part of the opening of the redeveloped Dunedin retail quarter.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

6 years

Loving the new cup library at the Otago Farmers Market. No more need for takeaway coffee and juice cups. Just grab one on your way in, leave it as you go.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

10 months

Oh cool. The new govt are coming for the Māori & Pacific Admission Scheme / Mirror On Society med school programmes Because god forbid we aim to have doctors who understand their patients

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

Did a capital gain write this?

RNZ News

@rnz_news

1 year

Rich paying their fair share of tax, study concludes

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Aaron Hawkins

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1 year

‘We should leave accessible healthcare at the mercy of the Chemist Warehouse’ is … quite the take

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 years

Tonight's debate was substantial, but embarrassing in 2017 that we can go 90 minutes without anyone mentioning climate change #decision17

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

11 months

How is this even remotely controversial? Ceasefire Now!

Green Party NZ

@NZGreens

11 months

The Green Party supports the call from Alternative Jewish Voices, Palestinian Youth Aotearoa, Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation, and Justice for Palestine for the NZ Govt to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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Aaron Hawkins

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1 year

Kia ora for this @JohnJCampbell (and @PouTepou ) It’s getting harder and harder to encourage good people to serve We can’t end up in a situation where politics is the exclusive domain of the thick skinned and the sociopathic

John Campbell: What the Kiri Allan saga says about NZ’s political future

With the increased polarisation of the country's politics and the toll a political career can have on a person, things are looking "bleak", writes 1News Chief Correspondent John Campbell.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

A front page apology from the @odtnews Editor. A full page of letters calling them out. A change of policy for editorial cartoon selection. Thanks for running this letter from my council colleagues and I. Aroha mai to our Samoan community who are feeling this the most.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

I'm not going to give Brownlee's grenades the oxygen of linking to here, but: Any party's Deputy Leader dangling conspiracy bait, shrugging their shoulders; and wandering off is as absurd as it is irresponsible A shameful contribution whatever your political stripes

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

“What would that say to every young Māori person … in our district if I welcomed them with open arms?’ Bryan’s always been one of the good ones. This is what leadership looks like.

Clutha mayor Cadogan tells Stop Co Governance Tour leader to 'get out of town'

"What would that say to every young Māori person and in fact the young people of every ethnicity in our district if I welcomed them with open arms?" Clutha district mayor Bryan Cadogan said.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 months

Wait what? Their terrible fast track legislation brought in too many submitters so they’re going to pull names from a hat for the Select Committee hearings (rather than let everyone speak?) Actually outrageous.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Imagine if the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence *didn’t* understand what the causes of violence were in our community

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

I regret to inform you that I appear to have been banned from Russia 🇷🇺 There goes that Trans Siberian Railway fantasy.

Russia bans 32 New Zealanders from entering the country

The Russian Foreign Ministry said several NZ law enforcement agencies and journalists are "Russophobic".

www.1news.co.nz

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

11 months

National have spent two years providing cover for racism by arguing that their opposition to water reform was about ‘local control’ It was always a ruse, but I didn’t expect them to out themselves like this so soon after the election

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 years

“Ignore the occasional Swastika and Confederate flag”. Counterpoint: Don’t.

Jeff Barnett

@JeffBarnettUSA

3 years

@mtaibbi Ignore the occasional Swastika and Confederate flag. The vast majority of the protestors were/are very decent people - and also our neighbors. But, neither country can afford to continue losing hundreds of millions of dollars in trade each day over an issue like vaccination.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 years

"People will never be able to pronounce Maori street names." We could teach it in schools? "Teaching Te Reo Maori has no practical value."

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

5 years

We don’t have public transport in NZ. We have publicly funded private transport. Shifting this is one of the easiest things cities can do to support a zero carbon future

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

@elamin88

5 years

When cities make transit free, ridership goes up. Not long-term. Immediately. Not up by 2-3%. It jumps up between 20%-60%. An obvious conclusion: public transit is a public good, and treating it as a service means starving access from people who need it.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

Politician says landlords will lower rents Politician is also a landlord Politician won’t say if *he* will lower rents

Kyle Church

@KyleDChurch

1 year

from this slightly longer NZQ&A clip about whether Luxon will put up rents

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

Today we celebrated five years of Dunedin being a refugee resettlement centre. In that time, around 700 new residents have come through the city, largely from Syria but also from Palestine and (more recently) Afghanistan.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 months

15 uncosted highway projects, to be funded through public private partnerships PT infrastructure budget cut by $1b PT fare subsidies cut by $500m Walking & cycling cut by $500m Dark days for a future focused transport network

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Aaron Hawkins

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3 years

Which is ironic, given that most of us are sick of hearing from Bruce Smith

Coronavirus: Westland Mayor Bruce Smith sick of hearing from health experts about COVID-19, wants...

"We see lots on TV and it's always health professionals - we don't see our business community that keeps us alive."

www.newshub.co.nz

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 years

This aged well.

Newstalk ZB

@NewstalkZB

3 years

#LISTEN Heather du Plessis-Allan: There's No Incentive To Get The Covid Jab

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Aaron Hawkins

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3 years

This morning I lost a colleague, a friend, and a mentor in our former Mayor Dave Cull. Politics is unforgiving on families. Most of all today, my love goes out to Joan and their wider whānau, who had only just managed to convince him to retire. Rest easy, e hoa x

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

4 years

I’m not a spiritual person, but I want to acknowledge the sacrifice our faith communities are making this week by staying at home. They’re giving up shared meals with family and communion with their congregations. The least you could do is not go surfing. #StayHomeNZ

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

What the job of PM clearly requires is a former student politician with a background in climate policy

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Aaron Hawkins

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7 months

Sport & Politics Shouldn't Mix

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

Okay. Still in shock after yesterday’s election but trying to focus on the positives locally With Alan Somerville, Elliot Weir and Tim Mepham getting elected - and if Alexa Forbes hangs on in QT - there should finally be political support for prioritising Te Taiao 👊

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

7 years

As a wise one once said: People get angry at beneficiaries because they imagine the dole as exactly like their current life without working

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Aaron Hawkins

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3 months

The public health system has its faults for sure but the children’s ward has a fulltime toy guy, who comes by every few hours to make sure you don’t need any new toys Everything (mostly) under control. More money for hospitals and GPs please. Tax the rich.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

2 years

The ODT still can’t spell Māori words correctly but are happy to run nonsense like this

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

3 months

Wait I thought the problem was drag queens?

Fresh charges filed against ex-Destiny Church disciple accused of sexually abusing teen boys

The 29-year-old now faces 14 indecent assault charges relating to three youths.

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Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

1 year

Racism is literally making people sick

Jonathan Milne

@JonoMilne

1 year

This is why Three Waters reform matters. The Queenstown council failed to install a protozoa barrier that would have averted its crypto outbreak because of the 'tens of millions of dollars' cost. My article is at @NewsroomNZ .

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Aaron Hawkins

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1 year

Ah yes that notably pure language that is English, which is definitely not just three languages in a trench coat already

KDP

@kerrydupont

1 year

"I don't believe that we should mix Te Reo and English together," - Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark doubles-down on his anti-Māori opinions at the 'Stop Co-Governance' rally on Saturday night.

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Aaron Hawkins

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5 months

I can’t imagine a single professional practice in this country where an understanding of tikanga wouldn’t be at the very least an asset, if not essential

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Aaron Hawkins

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2 years

Proof of Life.