“When asked whether they thought wealthy New Zealanders (those earning over $180,000 per year or with assets over $5 million) should pay more tax, 61% of respondents in a representative poll said they should. Only 4% said the wealthy should pay less than they currently do.” Probably the wealthy.
Nice bit of quite surprising news. Dark times, but I love that we are celebrating books and all that they mean to us 💚🤓
Lols I’m gonna keep using that one
Oh that was not what my interpretation was- but I’m going to pretend it was….
I keep misspelling thinking as thinkinking (typing too fast?) and I don’t know, maybe that’s the way it should be. Wouldn’t life be more fun if we thinkink about it?
Starting this evening in Wgtn, Tadra Vata: Beyond Islands, Beyond Borders explores the spaces that both connect and separate us, featuring writers Tīhema Baker, Tagi Qolouvaki, Emelihter Kihleng, Makanaka Tuwe, Gina Cole, Story Hemi-Morehouse, Hana Buchanan, Elsie Andrewes, Emele Ugavule and more.
Cartoon. Title: “Boys’ Trip” The image shows a flooded landscape, with hills, trees, a dead cow, and a car plowing through the muddy floodwaters. In the car are Deputy PM David Seymour, NZ First leader Winston Peters, and PM Christopher Luxon. Seymour is saying, “We’ve gotta be realistic - we can adapt. Well, the ones that matter can” Winston Peters is saying, “It’s climate hysteria! It’s just a bit of rain” And Luxon, who is driving, says, “Hey, anyone wanna hear my Spotify?”
More extreme weather more often. What do our leaders think we should do? In a word, not much.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Climate
The climate enhanced #FonterraStorm hits Canterbury www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Article about flooding with ad for new subdivisions being build on a floodplain
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Jenny Bornholdt and Bill Manhire at number 1 and 2 on Unity Wellington’s bestseller list this week, followed by MA grad Eva Wyles, and only then George Saunders!
Under the previous govt the Wellington harbour would have 2 new purpose built ferries by now.
Under luxon the Wellington harbour just has poo in it.
IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! ^MT
Great news! The debut poetry collection by Kāi Tahu writer, musician, and NZ Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao is coming out 16 April. It's called Pepeha Portal, and will be published by Otago University Press · Te Whare Tā o Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.
oup.nz/library/pepe... #pukapuka #booksky ^DR
Are you a fan of #nzbooks? Tune in to our latest ep of SERVED WITH RICE to hear our convo with former NZ Poet Laureate @chrisjtse.bsky.social — it’s a great ep 🥰 Don’t forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe!
"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh
Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire is a work of stone-cold beauty and genius. Thank you @thwupbooks.bsky.social & @pacificraft.bsky.social
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This weird obsession right wingers have about how long it takes to count votes in NZ is so weird man what difference does it make? We are globally insignificant our election results don’t move the markets. You got something important to do that hinges on election results just go live your life 🙄
Anti-trans hate is an industry. Not a movement, not a moral concern, not an organic uprising of worried parents — an industry, deliberately constructed, lavishly funded, & strategically deployed to protect the interests of the powerful men who finance it
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Ugh autocorrect SUBVERSIVE thinking
Ah the thrill of a new class. Each year I’m humbled by my students - such a wealth of diverse experience and thrillingly subversion thinking. The best antidote to the hellscape outside - not just a balm but active strengthening of resistance & critical thought #creativity @modernletters.bsky.social
MA grad Gina Butson, whose novel The Stars are a Million Glittering Worlds was published last year, is in The SpinOff’s Books Confessional thespinoff.co.nz/books/04-02-...
My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass.
It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved.
I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it.
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And every time you use ChatGPT, an artist dies a little.
Exactly. That’s where it begins and then it just keeps going…
Thanks Jane!
Haha it’s a long list 🙏🏽🌞
Also, one of our staff members, haha… #ThisCompulsioninUs
If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
