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Behind the Cycle podcast: + wherever else podcasts assemble. Phil.quin @gmail .com 🌈

Hastings District, New Zealand

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Phil Quin

5 months

Historian Dr. Vincent O'Malley ( @vomalley ) BLEW MY MIND with his account (in 2 pts) of colonial admins in the yrs after Te Tiriti defying constitutional provisions for Māori self-rule Ep 2 of Behind the Cycle w @PouTepou @KiaOraWilly dropped (full vid 👇🏼)

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2 years

Robbie Coltrane (RIP) will always be Doctor Johnson to me.

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4 years

That reporter @Yamiche is consistently outstanding.

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"You held rallies in February and March," @Yamiche says. "I haven't left the White House in months," except for a ceremony for the USNS Comfort, Trump claims. The correction: "You held a rally in March..."

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4 years

Hakeem Jeffries is often spoken about as a Future Speaker of the House. If you saw him today during the #ImpeachmentHearings , you'll know why.

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “We don’t hate this president, but we love the Constitution. We love America. We love our democracy. That’s why we’re here today.”

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5 months

I write speeches for a living, including for clients speaking at the same event year after year, and would fully expect to be fired if I copied and pasted word for word like this. It is unforgivably lazy, careless and unprofessional.

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Christopher Luxons Waitangi speech was pretty much verbatim of his speech from last year. He has learned nothing and refuses to learn anything because he is only here to serve his shareholders/donors/masters.

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Pettiness + vitriol will subside in no time & @jacindaardern will go down as a PM who guided NZ w peerless grace & skill thru successive crises – & saved countless lives through what history will deem the world's best pandemic response. Thank you PM for keeping my Mum & Dad safe

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2 years

1/ You might well be wondering why I'm making such a big deal about the @NZHerald 's framing of the Kanter poll so, in this thread, I will try to lay out the reasons as clearly and concisely as I can.

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Collins has pulled off the most spectacular murder suicide I've ever had the pleasure to witness.

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4 years

This is a fucking masterclass in preparedness, tone and delivery. @jacindaardern #coronavirusnz

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1 year

My god, Colbert's tribute to Jacinda will blow your mind.

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Jacinda Ardern’s Remarkable Run | George Santos In Drag | Russian Spy...

Stephen pays tribute to New Zealand’s departing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, checks in on the latest lies from Rep. George Santos, and wonders if we should...

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1 year

To be clear, this "clean-up" amounts to a straight out lie. The subject of his remarks yesterday was unambiguously clear. By asking us to believe otherwise in the face of video evidence shows he thinks we're witheringly stupid as well as negative & whiny.

Christopher Luxon says it's Labour that's 'wet and whiny', there's 'nothing wrong' with Kiwis |...

"We are not realising our potential, we are not solving our problems."

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10 months

ACT's attack on mentally ill disgusts me in ways I can't capture in words since cruel, inhumane, punitive, vile don't suffice. Many hv it worse but there are months on end when depression is such that lifting head off pillow is beyond me, let alone seeking help where none exists.

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3 years

Guess I'll never get that 43 seconds it just took to get my vaccine pass back. Bloody bureaucrats.

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2 years

"Mr. Luxon, given a global pandemic, the climate threat, great geopolitical unrest, along with domestic challenges like rising costs & persistent child poverty, how can you justify dedicating even a nanosecond of your big speech to the made up problem of "welfare dependency"?

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2 years

From a very good, very measured friend just now. I'd be Woodward-&-Bernsteining the crap out of the funding question rather than livestreaming a camping site.

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3 years

In Rwanda, they're delivering vaccines to the most vulnerable door to door.

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Mobile teams have continued to move door to door administering #COVID19 vaccine jabs to people with mobility challenges including the elderly as well as people with disabilities. #VaccinesSaveLives

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3 years

If only there had been warnings that withholding vaccines from the African continent while rich countries build mountainous stockpiles would create the conditions for new variants to emerge!

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2 years

This unbelievably dishonest headline would make Newsmax blush. Willful obfuscation fashioned to deceive. Shame on @nzherald for this vile partisan hackery. Will reporters who work hard & prize journalistic standards stand up to this? For democracy's sake, I really hope they do.

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5 months

Andrea Vance's abosulte banger of column today is just brutal on the staggering political ineptitude of our new Prime Minister @avancenz

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11 months

Lie that you've spoken to "many women" about this. Lie that you think trans bathroom access is a remotely pressing or serious issue. Even a lie when you pose as some transphobic bigot, Shane, cos we both know that's not you. Being an MP can't be worth all this lying. Stop.

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3 years

My 82 yo Dad, ever proto-woke, has a letter in the @DomPost today ❤️

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Just discovered that, among many other adventures, my great-great grandmother was arrested in 1890 Dunedin for running a house of ill-repute and then turned up pissed to court. Checks out.

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2 years

15/ It's just one poll and one headline. But I'm making a fuss, and plan to make a formal complaint, because if anything needs nipping in the bud, it's this.

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Phil Quin

2 years

I have vastly underrated @jacktame and been forced to reckon with the fact it stems from an unconscious bias against the very good looking.

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Phil Quin

1 year

Meet Matilda, this bolt of pure, distilled sunshine, born in Hawkes Bay in the early hours of Feb 15 as the cyclone wreaked havoc. Entirely unperturbed and utterly perfect in every way. Where there's life, there's hope.

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Throwing liquid on people was a tactic developed precisely so as to be non-violent. Red paint or Tomato juice is used to symbolise blood on the grounds no actual blood will or should be spilled. She was violently assaulted by a metaphor.

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Phil Quin

5 years

Managed to walk up a hill today. After six months of mostly bedridden depression, that's gold. Gold, I tell you!

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Phil Quin

3 years

In 2012, I asked my dear friend @DavidToovey to come help me for a few months on a project in #Rwanda . Since then, he's started a business, learned the language, built an amazing life in Kigali. Today he was granted Rwandan nationality. 🇷🇼 Bursting with pride 💓

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As I write, the Presidents of France and #Rwanda are side by side, watching a basketball match ( #theBAL tournament is jointly run by the NBA) at the Kigali Arena. Everything about that sentence is utterly extraordinary. And it's streaming live 👇👇👇

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2 years

16/ I saw this movie before during my years in the US, and there's almost nothing I won't do to stop a sequel from playing out here.

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Phil Quin

4 years

Entire framing of the Liddell interview is batshit. He wasn't some disinterested bureaucrat weighing up ethical merits while dutifully enacting presidential edicts. He was at the heart of the Trump project. The Nuremberg defense doesn't apply when it's *you* giving the orders.

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I know a bit about mental health from my own struggles, and I'm not aware of any condition that causes, or excuses, the sending of porn to schoolkids. Part of taking mental health seriously is not using it as a convenient shield against accountability.

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2 years

10/ This is not mere cherry-picking, but the deliberate misrepresentation of data to mislead Herald readers into believing a narrative injurious to Labour and favourable to National. And what a potent narrative!

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4 years

Democratic candidate Mark Kelly flips Arizona in the US Senate. He is a former astronaut and husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords who survived an attempted assassination in 2011.

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3 years

Call me a radical Leftist if you must, but let's not put Don Brash's biographer in charge of the NZ history curriculum.

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1 year

The whole presser was a masterclass but this gem of an answer would bring a focus group of swing voters to their mfing feet.

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Phil Quin

3 years

I hear queues are out the door, round the corner and well down the street as Porirua's Māori & Pacific communities take advantage of the pop up vax centre at North City Plaza, an initiative of Ngāti Toa's Ora Toa health service (with DHB). Credit to all involved!

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11 months

"I was only joking about blowing up the Ministry for Pacific Peoples". Is he really going to get away with this too?

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3 years

Aa Kiwis, we have very few ways to help eradicate the fascist strain in the US. But we CAN repudiate this sustained effort to rehabilitate Chris Liddell via an aggressive and ongoing PR campaign, abetted by guileless journalist. #ShunLiddell is our one job, Tweeps.

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Phil Quin

2 years

I can't be the only one winding down the window to yell "with what exactly?" at those "National Will Repeal and Replace Three Waters" billboards.

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Phil Quin

1 year

I'm voting for this guy.

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1 year

"It is using Māori as a political punching bag. I hate that style of politics" Prime Minister Chris Hipkins believes there is nothing to fear about Co-Governance. Watch the full interview here: @moanatribe @chrishipkins

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11 months

My Dad, a school principal at the time, reluctantly attended the 1984 meeting at the Porirua Police College where Merv Wellington promoted his idea of reintroducing mandatory daily flag raising but he (Dad) reckons Luxon's cellphone ban is dumber. So that's quite an achievement.

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5 months

What a nasty, vindictive, gratuitously cruel, poor-bashing, landlord-fluffing little government this is.

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More beneficiaries will face sanctions under the Government's plans to shake up welfare says the new Social Development Minister Louise Upston.

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Phil Quin

4 months

Congratulations to Grant. This is a great move for him, taking him full circle back to his politico-spiritual turangawaewae. He was, in my view, a highly capable Finance Minister and powerful defender of Labour policies and values.

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‘I gave every single inch of myself’: Robertson retires to head Otago University

The former Finance Minister is bowing out next month to lead the country’s oldest university, with Barbara Edmonds taking up the finance role.

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Phil Quin

1 year

Dawn raids, bootcamps, torturing sheep, evicting tenants. He's not John Key. He's Rob Fucking Muldoon.

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1 year

Immigration NZ needs to 'reserve the option' to use dawn-raid style tactics, Luxon says

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3 years

I'm wary of patriotism but, damn it, #SuperSaturday makes me proud to be a New Zealander.

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Phil Quin

11 months

In a week during which Seymour joked about blowing up the Ministry of Pacific Peoples, it is the PM who gets hauled over the coals by the Herald for daring to call racism by its name. White fragility know no bounds.

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3 years

15 years sober today. A reflection on all that from a couple of years back.

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My last ever drink

OPINION: I adored drinking. Even by the end, when the physical and emotional damage became untenable, booze never let me down.

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4 years

Judith Collins says "one definition of a city is that you can travel from one side to the other in less than an hour". What effing definition? I've lived in about 10 cities but, based on this made-up bollocks, none of them were cities are all. Terrible speechwriting.

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1 year

By Kiwi standards, this was a veritable West Wing moment.

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Phil Quin

3 years

My Mum is the politest, least confrontational person you're likely to meet, which is why I was so moved last night when she related how she once told her hairdresser, after overhearing a homophobic comment, "I want you to know I have a gay son, and I won't be coming here again".

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Phil Quin

10 months

No surprises I endorse the message but, as someone who (a).writes speeches for a living & (b) does not always hold the state of the craft locally in high regard, , I am blown away by the calibre of this effort. Masterful 👏👏👏 Anyone have the video?

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Chris Hipkins: Speech Working with others

NZ Labour Party — Let's keep moving >

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1 year

Just saw a man in obvious mental distress lashing out violently at passers-by on a Hasting street. Random bloke junps out of car – I'm thinking "dude, stay out of it", expecting escalation. Instead, within less a min. he'd calmed the whole thing down . Kudos. It was masterful.

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2 years

"Did not occur as reported in the media" is not an exoneration but expertly crafted lawyerly language.

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Phil Quin

10 months

Why is selling deodorant for Unilever 'real world' experience when being an MP from Upper Hutt isn't?

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9 months

Fuck the both sides bullshit and performative empathy emanating from the Right on this. They, and they alone, have chosen to fan the flames of racism and direct rage & grievance at Māori for their own electoral gain. This is their harvest. Fuck them.

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Te Pāti Māori are not strangers to hate speech and online threats. This week however, a line was crossed. Our Hauraki-Waikato candidate, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi Clark’s home was invaded, vandalised, and left with a threatening letter.

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1 year

When it first popped up in my ferd, I literally couldn't believe my eyes at the contraception carve out....a breathtaking decision. Given the miniscule cost savings, there's no dressing this up as anything other than theocratically inspred hostility to womens reproductive health.

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Phil Quin

10 months

I totally share this assessment. Seymour wants to subject Treaty matters to plebiscite and I can't think of a more dangerous, divisive, destructive idea held by anyone with as realistic a path to power, not even close.

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Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson says in his opinion Act leader David Seymour — who he once described as a useless Māori — is the country’s most dangerous man, and if he gets into power will make life a misery for more than Māori. 🔗 📸 RNZ

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When Ben Thomas writes that Christopher Luxon came into politics as uniter, not a divider, he is either talking about some other Christopher Luxon or he's just emerged from a prolonged coma.

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1 year

Dunno the voices of gallery journalists enough to identify the woman who was a totes baller during stand ups with Nat MPs today. Smart, forensic questions, complete intolerance for waffle, armed with facts, politely relentless. Whoever you are, you are very good at your job.

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2 years

9/ What you CANNOT SAY is that, because Luxon's net approval is higher than the PMs, a fact only made possible by 37% of respondents not really knowing who Luxon is yet, he has "overtaken" Ardern, (not to mention the poll otherwise suggests Labour would be returned).

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Phil Quin

3 years

I'm nobody's idea of a Green Party shill, but Chloe Swarbrick is such a rare political talent. Nobody picks their battles more wisely, or deploys their profile more strategically.

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Swarbrick launches petition calling for more COVID-19 support for students, says Govt's $20 million boost not enough

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3 years

1/ Busting briefly out of my Twitter hiatus because #Rwanda keeps blowing my mind with their Covid response, and people should know about it. A thread.

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1 year

This is disgusting, something no decent leader or just person would do.

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Today is not the day for politicising a tragedy.

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Luxon's "I'm entitled" clip is among the most devastating pieces of video I've seen in politics. Worse than "47%* and Romney didn't know cameras were rolling. If there hadn't been eye witnesses, you'd think it was AI-grnerated by his arch nemesis.

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3 years

Labour's recruitment of @drayeshaverrall is being vindicated in spades.

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Fin.

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This guy is a dangerously ignorant propagandist adept to presenting misinformation in ways that could be mistaken as data-based and credible. Here he totally butchers Jobseeker data, one of numerous egs where he either doesn't know what he's talking about or he's lying to you

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How is it possible there are 177,642 people on a Job Seeker benefit - or 5.6% of working age population - but our unemployment rate is 3.4% 😳 I guess this explains the 52,000 increase on Job seeker benefits since labour took office but the “low” unemployment rate- as it’s

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10 months

The late, great Mandela's grandson has something to say.

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@NZStuff my grandfather definitely loved the people of New Zealand and I can say categorically he would not campaign for this today or any other day in the past. 'If Nelson Mandela was alive today, he would be campaigning for ACT', leader says

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Being inundated with care and professionalism at Wellington Hospital after taking ambulance here a couple nights back with persistent cough, breathing difficulties and extreme fatigue ultimately overcoming my usual preference not to be a bother.

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7 months

So good, this @MorganGodfery column. Provocative, richly sourced, elegant writing. Don't think it's paywalled.

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When it comes to the Treaty principles, David Seymour is right about one thing

OPINION: ACT’s proposed Treaty Principles Bill ignores how the principles exist as a parliamentary and judicial compromise.

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2 years

Luxon went from Teflon to flypaper with unusual alacrity.

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2 years

13/ This all happens because readers trust the Herald to present these things truthfully and in good faith. That bond of trust, built over decades through the dedication and professionalism.of countless reporters and editors, is what separates the Herald from some dude's blog.

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1 year

Can't think of a more seamlessly executed leadership transition within a governing party in any Westminster democracy, at least over the 30 years I've been paying attention to such things.

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Phil Quin

1 year

Dunno bout you but I sense a pattern: 2005 Hurricane Katrina: Fox News later apologises for misreporting widespread looting and gang violence. 2009 'Black Saturday': Sydney Morning Herald later apologises for misreporting widespread looting.

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Phil Quin

4 years

This outrage did real damage to the Yes campaign, and it cannot be undone. But the NZMA should take out full page ads ASAP, retracting their erstwhile public position. Otherwise, they will go down as torpedoeing legalisation via a rogue chair. This is reputation fatal.

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1.1 million New Zealanders have cast a vote. Already misleading “no” campaigns latched onto Dr Baddock’s misrepresentation of NZMA’s view with fervour - all year - and it spread far and wide. It’s far harder to undo a mistruth than tell it. This is just so disappointing.

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1 year

Chippy wasn't fazed one iota but it's sad how the thirst for virality has kinda ruined the interview as an artform. This is just a battery of gotchas. (Corrected earlier tweet).

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4 years

NZ's peak medical body campaigned v. weed reform for months. No group has more sway on the issue. Turns out NZMA members never backed this at all. A rogue zealot in the Chair abused their imprimatur to freelance. They announce this 5 days before election. A TOTAL SCANDAL.

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Phil Quin

3 years

Leslie Jones is now on my dream dinner party list. Sorry, Dame Helen, but you're gonna miss out.

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Leslie Jones 🦋

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This ain’t his house right?! Please God don’t let this be his house!!

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3 years

Many friends are playing a part, and I couldn't be prouder to know them. In Kinyarwanda, they have a word – agaciro – meaning dignity and self-respect. Since the genocide, agaciro has emerged as something of a national ethos. And this rollout is agaciro in action. /Fin

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It's as if Orwell had this vacant, soulless speech in mind when he wrote of "prose consist[ing] less and less of words chosen for...their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house". Utter shite.

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PM promises ‘tough love’ to restore ‘fragile’ New Zealand

Christopher Luxon’s state of the nation speech described the country as overburdened by welfare recipients, short on infrastructure and suffering under cost blowouts.

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6 months

Really hope some media outlets are digging into the back story of how the Coalition agreement ended up giving the tobacco lobby its first major public policy win, at least in the developed world, in four decades. A cracker yarn there for sure.

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2 years

12/ Amplified by their allied network of radio stations, as well as by other outlets, disseminated wildly on social media, soon enough what started out as cyncial data manipulation congeals into common wisdom.

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1 year

I'd be staggered if Nash has lost a single vote in Napier over any of this.

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3 years

Labour could not have stage managed the creaking open of Ruth Richardson's crypt any better.

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2 years

@publicaddress Hasn't all this exposed a real deficiency in the way some in the media assess political decision-making, as if "sticking to your guns" and "never backing down" are virtues in response to a rapidly evolving pandemic, when doing either would be bloody-minded idiocy?

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1 year

I'll admit it, I'm a hugger – and this right here is some quality hugging.

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6 months

This detail from Audrey Young's Luxon profile sends shivers down my spine. Clearly an adherent of the Great Man theory of self, Luxon exhibits in his reading preferences zero curiousity about the world, only with orchestrating his personal advancement within it.

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1 year

Will the media give Seymour another pass for this?

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Phil Quin

3 years

Why are journalists who have been contacted by them not sharing the name of Chris Liddell's PR agent and/or company involved in the gaslighting of the NZ public via strategically placed puff pieces? They have no right to confidentiality. I never ask this, but please RT.

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4 years

"OK, three days out we pivot to fat shaming" – no campaign strategist, ever.

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3 years

Sorry but no news outlet that wants to be taken seriously should be party to this transparent public relations exercise. Completely uncritical stenography that casts this shameful transition in a more flattering light than even Newsmax would dare.

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Liddell stays to manage presidential transition: 'I was horrified by the events yesterday'

The NZer at the heart of Donald Trump's White House administration pressed go this morning on the 'orderly transition' promised, belatedly, by the outgoing president.

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Phil Quin

2 years

Definition of "welfare dependency": Used by wealthy elites, the phrase aims to deflect attention from economic injustice by blaming intergenerational poverty on poor brown people, in order to create resentment towards said people among slightly less poor, less brown people.

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When I take the Herald to the NZ Media Council over this, the expert witness list I will pull together from the global polling industry will blow your freaking mind.

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14/ Without it, the media as an institution, a cornerstone of healthy democracy, will disintegrate over time, becoming just another eyeball-grabber in the attention economy.

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Phil Quin

3 years

Happy Liberation Day to my friends in #Rwanda 🇷🇼 as you commemorate 27 years since @rpfinkotanyi defeated the forces of genocide and set the country on a path to hope and healing. #Kwibohora27

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2 years

11/ "Luxon overtakes Ardern" is truly explosive, a game-changer that could shape the political discourse for months to come.

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Phil Quin

4 years

If you'd told me when I first joined Labour in 85 that I'd be alive to see our 2nd female PM introduce a gay Deputy PM & 2 other LGBTQI Ministers, a Māori deputy leader, a Tokelauan-NZ Justice Minister, and Māori Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs, I'd have fainted.

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Phil Quin

1 year

Short of criminal conduct, don't think there's much lower you can go as a politician that intentionally using terms like."sub-human", especially in a racialised context. DS won't give a shit what someone like me thinks but really hope sober voices on his side rein him in.

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Hypothetically, If data shows that, taking two women of same age, socioeconomic status & risk profile,, a Mãori woman is 50% more likely than a Pākehä woman to face complications in childbirth, why would it be wrong to consider ethnicity as one factor when planning their care?

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Love how Mood of the Boardroom gives voice to the voiceless. Courageous journalism.

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