Every year, a staunch few seek support for the noble pūteketeke. And this time - with the aid of a little foreign interference - this glorious creature might become 🥁🥁🥁 #BirdOfTheCentury 😅🥳
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Thanks, John Oliver 👍🏻

The scale of the fires currently burning across northern Australia is pretty unfathomable.

This animation visualises just the last two months of fire captured by #DEAHotspots - for context, the map covers an area larger than France, Spain and Germany combined...

West Rolleston School held a Bricksibition fundraiser today. Just for Foxy, yes that Foxy here be a Hogfather scene, and at the head of the Santa parade was Dr Siouxsie Wiles on a Unikitty 😅

With a larger share of the vote and more MPs than we’ve had before, Green Party will lead the ongoing fight to eliminate poverty, honour Te Tiriti, protect nature, and build a climate-resilient future for our mokopuna.

'Here we stand, on the edge of status-quo orthodoxy, or vapidity [..]. Waiting to see whether the cost of a coalition will be an unnecessary and incendiary referendum. Waiting to see whether Winston Peters will be required, with whatever Faustian pact that may involve.'

😆 (true though).

Contrast with the early days of KKM:
'That was life. Just so busy. Total faith and belief in the kaupapa. Nothing to do with money. Nobody’s earning money. My boss at the kura kaupapa was paid with grocery vouchers and petrol vouchers. It was all about belief. Amazing times.'

'The Māori social paradigm is not based on a model of scarcity, but one of balance. We co-exist not at the cost of each other, but in a state of social and political equilibrium. This could be the basis of Aotearoa Hou, our new country.'

Why health and wellbeing should be at centre of urban planning theguardian.com/environment/20…

I’m constantly in awe of more and more Palestinians refusing misleading framings from mainstream media. This @Yaraeid_ interview on Sky News is an absolute must-see.

Bryan Habana was asked on the Boks Office podcast who the top RWC try-scorer was as they wanted him to say himself (he's tied with Jonah Lomu with 15 tries). But instead he answered Portia Woodman-Wickliffe (she has 20). That's how representation grows 👏👏

My teen's laptop top is a dazzling array of fab stickers. Some are just from the Warehouse, but the best are from 🌙 Pepper Raccoon 🌙 and Jessica Hinerangi 🤩

🇳🇿 From New Zealand. Around the recent general election, @Marcdaalder writes for Newsroom about the town of Westport – and how it’s a microcosm for broader questions around climate resilience and “managed retreat” 
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Why do Palestinians have little to no international support?

Noam Chomsky explains.

EVERY PERSON WHO SIGNED THIS PETITION WASTED THEIR TIME. No respect for us AT ALL! Sunak is absolute #ToryScum !!!🤬

I have no idea how Moana M managed to avoid multiple jaw-drops during this interview. The framing of inequity as something done to society as a whole by current interpretations of te Tiriti is mind-boggling, as is the constant metaphor of roads as indigenous rights.

Chris Luxon's new Govt puts New Zealand's celebrated oil and gas exploration ban under threat. Let's make it clear to the oil industry that they are not welcome here and will be resisted! Sign the open letter now to #ResistOil : greenpeace.nz/qawihx via @greenpeacenz

This is an insane and gross advert.

The person on foot was in a HAWK crossing, the driver was looking at their phone - the moral of their story: “what was she wearing?”

Treaty partners/allies this is your time to shine. For generations Māori have been educating about the impacts of colonisation. Clearly more is needed and the emotional/spiritual/physical labour associated with such change needs to be shouldered by our Treaty partners.