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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

8 months

Some day this war’s gonna end

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

In case you forgot how weird reality is becoming, a pop singer sent Hilary Barry a death threat, Tariana Turia called Ardern a Nazi and Gilda Kirkpatrick and Russell Coutts have joined the resistance. And that’s just the last 24 hours.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

"As of 3pm Wellington Free Ambulance has made the difficult decision to no longer enter the protest area at Parliament. "This decision has been made to prioritise the safety of our paramedics following the increase in hostilities experienced both this morning and yesterday."

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

Some places in the South Island don't even have traffic lights. We're going to have to explain this entire concept to them.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Shambolic scenes at the National Party border. MPs keep escaping.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

New Zealand summer press conference

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

Imagine being this upset about a bar of chocolate

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

Anti war protests in Russia put the self indulgent protests against a tyrannical and oppressive regime in Wellington in perspective don’t they

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

I just think it's interesting that the second wave of Covid was reported in the week starting August 10, which is of course 10/08, which is more or less 1080. Just interesting that's all. Then divide 20 by 5(G) and you get 4, and I hardly need to spell that out.

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Philip Matthews

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3 years

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

10 months

Jenna Lynch: "So you could change the name of Te Papa?" Luxon: "Look, we'll work that out in government." That Luxon even had to hesitate FOR A SINGLE MOMENT about the idiotic idea of changing the name of the national museum we've all used since 1998 ... unbelievable.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

5 years

More importantly, it gives blameless kids something to eat.

Newshub

@NewshubNZ

5 years

#OPINION : Free lunches gives bad parents an out - Duncan Garner

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

You can't police Wellington on a good day

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

5 years

Will the Turn Ardeners try to ... turn back Time?

TIME

@TIME

5 years

TIME’s new international cover: A year after Christchurch, Jacinda Ardern has the world’s attention. How will she use it?

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

I'm pretty sure the Govt's largely successful quarantine measures have been called "a fiasco" or "a shambles" more times in one week than the previous Govt's actual mismanagement of post-quake Chch was in six years.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

Sean Plunket really seems to think the Booker Prize is no longer called the Man Booker Prize because "luvvies in the book world said we can't have man in there". Er, it's because the Man Group stopped sponsoring it in 2019.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

Kind of wishing McAnulty had been in charge of selling cannabis reform. "Gidday, here's the guts of it. Heaps of people smoke cannabis in New Zealand. It's no worse than alcohol. Let's have a controlled market instead of letting gangs get rich and we get to keep the tax."

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Interesting point about perceptions that Collins dominated: the way it was directed, she literally did.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Amazing but true: National did not win the party vote anywhere in the South Island, not even Selwyn

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Imagine how boring level 4 would have been before the internet and wifi. Imagine level 4 in 1970s New Zealand.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

A pandemic is sweeping the world and its worst effect in New Zealand is that some viewers wish the prime minister would make the preamble shorter when she's announcing stuff

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

At least it's easy to do wastewater testing in Wellington

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Letting people live proves popular with people

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Imagine being cranky because a guy who spent SIX YEARS in a refugee camp found a way to get out

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

5 months

Feeling just a bit like things aren't going that great in New Zealand

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Now that coronavirus has put an end to sport, TV news is going to spend 15 minutes a night talking about books and music instead.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 months

A couple of things: Luxon looks angry in this interview, and that doesn't help; people don't want to hear it's not easy from someone who's earning half a million and owns seven houses. He and his ministers nearly always look defensive and negative. There's not much aspiration.

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@StrayDogNZ

4 months

Chris Luxon: "You think you've got it tough, I'm the one who has to cut thousands of jobs & kick people off benefits and evict people from public housing. No one's doing it tougher than me."

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

7 years

I think Harry Styles in DUNKIRK should make any top 10 list of pop singers who act in movies.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

11 days

Take it back from who? You’re the Govt

New Zealand First

@nzfirst

12 days

Our New Zealand First team hard at work this week to take back our country.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

Just wrapping up my new documentary, THEY ARE NOT US: THE TEAM NEW ZEALAND STORY

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

9 months

Winston Peters: "We are going to go back to calling our country New Zealand. We are not going to have a French Polynesian name that is offensive to people in the South Island."

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

6 months

Remember when Kiri Allan talked about RNZ? This is what David Seymour said at the time: "There is a real problem when the people who hold the purse strings aren't absolutely critically cautious about even the perception of interfering with media. 1/2

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 months

Walks up to the counter of a bookshop. “Can I get 1kg of fiction, 500g of poetry and 2kg of prime New Zealand non-fiction.”

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

9 months

Can’t wait till I no longer feel ashamed to speak English in public. For so long us English speakers have been marginalised, practicing our culture in secret.

New Zealand First

@nzfirst

9 months

Did you know that English is not an official language? Well, we're changing that by delivering on a key campaign promise - we are making English an official language of New Zealand. We will continue to fight for common sense ideas and work in the interests of all New Zealanders.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Judith Collins is in Dunedin today. I hear that Hamish Price will be disguised as a burning couch.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

I once asked Jacinda Ardern if she is religious. It was a week after the mosque shootings. She said: "I consider myself to be agnostic, but given I was raised in a religious household, I like to think I'm very open-minded to everyone's choices and faiths and their ways of life."

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

It’s a long time since politics in New Zealand was this depressing

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

I think I saw a different press conference. I saw someone who was as shocked as the rest of us are by this madness.

Rachel Smalley

@Rachel_Smalley

3 years

The PM looks uncomfortable. Her pinched voice and body language suggests she does not 100% believe what she’s saying. Ardern is laying blame. This isn’t leadership. It’s opportunism.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

6 months

Those Enid Blyton books are becoming very topical

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

Pretty hard for middle New Zealand to argue with a bloke who rocks up in his ute and says “Gidday here’s the guts of it”

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

In Christchurch, we had the earthquake first and the shanty town and portaloos second

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

7 years

Labour: "We're in disarray." Greens, a week later: "Hold my spirulina."

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

"Remember Parihaka!" says an angry man to people defending a marae.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Muller reminds me of bosses I haven’t liked and ex-girlfriends’ dads who didn’t like me. That kind of NZ authority figure.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

26 days

Weird that the official ACT account picks fights with ordinary people on Twitter

ACT New Zealand

@actparty

27 days

@hellomotorbike Educator? Damn. We feel sorry for your students.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

Wow, actually shocked

Newsroom

@NewsroomNZ

2 years

Philip Matthews’ fine writing for Newsroom’s ReadingRoom wins the Voyager Media Award for Best Reviewer. Congratulations Philip!

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

5 years

Rock photo of the year. @KimletGordon at the Louvre.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

Deporting a family at Christmas because the father fraudulently used food vouchers to feed his family in the middle of a pandemic is some Herod-level shit

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Remarkable how Sir John Key can say the most obvious stuff and be treated like he’s come down the mountain with the Ten Commandments.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

New Zealand viewers might get a jolt a few seconds into this

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

The last line of the Hosking column is interesting. "They sold-out mainstream New Zealand, and divided the country in the process, only to see their best efforts rewarded with electoral humiliation." Mainstream here means white. To be Māori is not to be mainsteam.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

Freedom camp, photo from Stuff live blog

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 months

Two years ago, Winston Peters visited the Wellington occupation and "encouraged the protesters to demand they be heard". Now ...

Shane Jones

@mangonui08

4 months

"It's not only sending negative signals through to the rangatahi, the young people, but it elevates lunatic fringe thinking which has got no place in modern New Zealand politics given the economic challenges that we face."

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

@ChrisPenknz The thing is Ardern didn’t keep talking about a fish and chip shop as ideal background to being PM whereas Luxon does it all the time with Air NZ

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

7 months

National's Chris Bishop at Waitangi (Stuff photo: Lawrence Smith)

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

Body language

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

5 years

Home finally. As with the earthquakes, we can’t thank Christchurch’s teachers enough for the amazing job they did with our children. Also the police, other responders, nurses. The adrenaline wears off and now it’s just sadness and disbelief.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

10 days

In that place that used to be Rhodesia?

Peter Burgoyne

@PeterBurgoyne5

10 days

@dissdisinfo @David_Cormack Just been holidaying in Zimbabwe and Namibia. In the middle of nowhere when we said we were from new zealand even waiters said All Blacks. Can you imagine if we said aotearoa🤔

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

It's appalling that anyone thinks they have a right to hide books in a bookstore from buyers and readers, because they dislike the author. It's cancel culture and a kind of vandalism. It's also childish and stupid. Whether the author is Ardern, Shaneel Lal or anyone else.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

We cross live to the RNZ newsroom

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

9 months

Suggesting we put aside our differences and consider one of the all-time best "it's summer!" pictures of a NZ prime minister

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

People who complain about Christian holidays, Maori holidays, who just want us to work and shop. What a bland, conformist worldview. Let’s have more holidays, more diverse ones: Muslim holidays, Hindu holidays, Jewish holidays.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

It hasn't just gone global, it's gone intergalactic

George Takei

@GeorgeTakei

2 years

They shut that down pretty quickly, didn't they?

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

One News just cut off Simon Bridges.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

9 months

So we’ve got a poet who just won the PM’s Award for Literary Achievement getting harassed by a party in govt, which threatens to cut arts funding over one poem she wrote (not that it has the power). And from the PM? The Arts Minister, Paul Goldsmith? Creative NZ? Nothing.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

5 months

What the heck?

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

6 months

Never expected that starting an email with "Kia ora" could become an act of resistance

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

This is utterly bizarre. Here is Sean Plunket claiming the Chch terrorist (a term Plunket questions, btw) had no widely held or clear philosophy. Bro, he wrote a manifesto.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 months

Headline of the times: Balance had swung 'too far' towards environment, Environment Minister says

Balance had swung 'too far' towards environment, Environment Minister says

Laws had become too favourable toward the environment at the expense of development, Penny Simmonds told MPs. What do you think? Have your say below.

www.thepress.co.nz

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 months

Press pic by the great Iain McGregor of the scene in Chch

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

I’m so tired of broadcasters (and it’s only ever broadcasters) desperate to prove they alone can’t be fooled by plans backed by actual experts.

Newstalk ZB

@NewstalkZB

4 years

Kate Hawkesby: We need faster, bolder action on coronavirus

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Herald photo of Ahad Nabi delivering his victim impact statement to the Chch gunman, who killed his father.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Love the idea that New Zealand tried to troll Donald Trump by not dying of an infectious disease

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

7 years

During all of the eulogies for honest, earnest Bill English, don't forget he joined in on the $11.7 billion hole baloney.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

Simple and direct. And it took a little over a minute. Where was this explanation two years ago?

antihobbes

@antihobbes

1 year

Kieran McAnulty is pretty good at this gig

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

Spare a thought for the persistent chancers and conspiracy theorists who never get to run for a DHB again

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Not checking whether an eyewear store was National friendly? I call that bad optics.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 months

Giant metaphor runs aground near Picton

Live: Aratere back at shore in Picton

After running aground on Friday, the Aratere ferry is finally back at the dock.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

I had a drink every time Collins said “Ms Ardern” and now I can’t stand up

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

I remember when one of our kids texted me from CGHS on March 15, 2019, to say there was a gunman on Deans Ave and she was scared. This is before the mosque shootings had been reported. So maybe we need to let kids have phones in schools.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Stupidest comment ever made on Twitter

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Are these for real?

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 months

Good on Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau for speaking so openly about neurodiversity and how it can/should be accommodated in workplaces

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

7 years

Something about an older Catholic man telling everyone the abortion law works fine just seems wrong. #Decision17

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

If this press conference was any more shabby, it would be at Four Seasons Landscaping

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Don’t call people with autism “autism sufferers”, @NewshubNZ

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

I beg to differ: I'm getting the jab next week and my incentive is not dying

Newstalk ZB

@NewstalkZB

3 years

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

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

I always find that rhetoric around “people know best how to spend this money” quite strange. I’m not going to buy my own school, hospital, army or highway.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

7 years

Nikki Kaye yesterday: students should learn a second language at secondary school, such as Mandarin, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and potentially Hindi. Bill English today: but it's up to Māori to keep the Māori language alive.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

6 months

Is Act going to question every single TVNZ decision that doesn’t fit with its ideology?

ACT New Zealand

@actparty

6 months

Why is TVNZ’s youth platform promoting (and the "content partner" for) an event featuring past and present Māori Party MPs that will “debunk colonial narratives, examine the implications of Tiriti mythmaking and discuss how sovereignty was never ceded”? Will it also join with

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

2 years

What goes on in National Party selection if you can hear that story and think "fine"?

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 year

Anti-trans activists in London are protesting against NZ, a country where (checks notes) Immigration approved PP's visit, the High Court agreed she could enter, she was able to speak in public despite poor security and organisation, and where she was given police protection.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

4 years

Hard to think of any other recent NZ prime minister delivering this message so well.

1News

@1NewsNZ

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“Be strong. But be kind. We will be OK.” That was @jacindaardern 's message to New Zealanders, as her Government announced a $12.1b relief package. Read more:

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

1 month

Feeling so disgusted and ashamed of the way people have talked about Imane Khelif for the past 24 hours. Imagine being at the centre of this.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

1 month

I want to apologise to Khelif - Italian boxer Carini

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

Got to agree with Trotter: "In a week when smoke billowed over Kyiv and Wellington: when New Zealanders had been frightened and angered by a series of shattering and bewildering events; what did National’s leader offer? "Tax cuts."

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

6 months

Poua again calls out government with haka | RNZ News

Poua win thriller after again calling out government with haka

The Hurricanes Poua have again called out the government in a haka, and Winston Peters has said the team may "lose support" by "going woke".

www.rnz.co.nz

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

I kind of dig Rawiri Waititi’s view that you should try to be on the right side of history when it happens, and when it matters, not in retrospect. As you get older, you can recognise those moments when they appear.

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Philip Matthews

@secondzeit

3 years

This is just to say I have eaten the sausage rolls that were in the pie warmer and which you were probably saving for a snack with a coffee Forgive me they were delicious so warm and so flaky

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