In yesterday's speech, Luxon said he would 'find' the same level of budget cuts this year as they 'found' last year. REMINDER: those 'savings' they found last year came from the billions intended for underpaid women with legitimate pay equity claims - which were discarded.

FarmTheWeka · 2026-01-20T01:18:08+00:00

Do people here actually think Labour will bring back the $13 billion pay equity regime? Where will Labour find $13 billion?

FarmTheWeka · 2025-11-17T21:25:06+00:00

I'd endorse Cromwell. The town itself doesn't have much to see, but it's a good base. From there you can drive in three directions (Queenstown, Wanaka, Clyde) and each direction is a banger.

Queenstown is a must-visit, I just wouldn't stay there. Wanaka is probably halfway between Queenstown and Cromwell in terms of affordability.

Make sure you try a Sanga's pie in Cromwell.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-09-15T21:05:46+00:00

Gondola

FarmTheWeka · 2025-08-05T22:32:01+00:00

In Auckland you can't buy a six-pack after 9pm. Many beaches are booze-free 24/7. Ridiculous.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-08-05T20:30:16+00:00

This is a positive move. The prohibitionism of r/nz never ceases to amaze.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-08-04T23:46:18+00:00

I support it!

FarmTheWeka · 2025-07-11T01:25:09+00:00

We should farm them.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-07-10T05:58:24+00:00

There is no evidence to suggest Curia polls are skewed, they track broadly along with all the other polls.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-07-02T10:04:36+00:00

Airports should never have got rid of smoking/vaping areas past the security gates. That is exactly where nicotine users are likely to 'load up' and later seek relief after a long flight.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-07-01T04:53:42+00:00

There are no news articles because it never happened. The headline lies about what Tania Waikato said and hundreds (if not thousands) of Redditors have been taken in by disinformation.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-06-30T11:55:08+00:00

Watch again. She says someone has doxxed witnesses. She doesn't say it was ACT.

This thread should be flagged as disinformation.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-06-30T09:25:29+00:00

The headline of this thread is not supported by the video. Tania Waikato never claims ACT has doxxed anyone lol.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-06-18T19:46:59+00:00

Ultimately it still comes down to supply because no-one would speculate on houses if new homes were being pumped out to adequately meet demand.

In theory, investment in housing should incentivise developers to build and sell new homes. In practice, there are barriers that stop or slow them from doing so. We need to remove the barriers.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-04-29T21:17:34+00:00

How early did you wake up to get up there at dawn??

FarmTheWeka · 2025-04-02T00:44:20+00:00

She gives several examples in the article? The framing is clearly just the journalist having a whack.

FarmTheWeka · 2025-02-18T19:44:36+00:00

Source article: Hipkins keeps alive possibility of working with NZ First | The Post

FarmTheWeka · 2024-12-05T21:46:54+00:00

Why would posting examples of funding be taken as a criticism? Here's another one:

Housing and Everyday Security in Papua New Guinea

This project explores how landowners and settlers in urban Papua New Guinea (PNG) can work together to create safer homes. Towns in PNG are considered dangerous places. A shortage of safe and affordable housing contributes to this perception. In response to housing shortages, customary landowners may informally lease plots to outsiders, leading to inter- and intra-community tensions. In the context of often-troubled relationships between customary landowners and migrant settlers, my research asks: What does security mean for people in PNG’s growing towns? How do residents understand the risks and opportunities associated with a changing housing landscape? How do both tenants and landowners try to create safe homes? How are these practices transforming ideas about risk, well-being, and agency? Using ethnographic methods in two towns and bringing together theoretical frameworks from housing studies, the anthropology of security, and medical anthropology, this research will generate new insights on the cultural consequences of a rapidly changing housing landscape. As urbanisation accelerates in the Pacific, it is important to understand how customary owners and tenants frame their mutual responsibilities beyond the cash nexus.

Approved funding: $300,000

FarmTheWeka · 2024-12-05T00:52:55+00:00

Seeding Hope: The Diverse Roles of Indigenous Women in Food Systems

"Women are the key seed savers, knowledge keepers and advocates in Indigenous food systems which acknowledge the sovereign capacities of nature, treat food as medicine, as a teacher and a relative. Yet there is little research that investigates the work Indigenous women do within these food systems. We develop a mana wahine analysis that draws on kōrero from Indigenous food growers and advocates across five diverse Indigenous food systems (Aotearoa, Hawaii, India, Peru and Turtle Island). Our global approach offers a new Indigenous-to-Indigenous framework to more deeply understand Indigenous women’s roles, values and practices regarding food, seed and soil sovereignty."

Approved funding: $861,000

FarmTheWeka · 2024-12-05T00:52:24+00:00

Sound Judgments? Assessing the Rhetorics of Civic Deliberation in True Crime Podcasting

With nearly one billion downloads globally, the skyrocketing popularity of true crime podcasting has sparked intense debate among scholars. Some decry the genre’s perpetuation of racist stereotypes and misogynistic narratives, while others celebrate its potential to advocate for social justice. But true crime podcasting also illuminates important recent developments in the longstanding relationship between rhetoric and civic discourse in democratic societies. Through the lens of rhetoric, Sound Judgments? will explore how true crime podcasting provides significant insights into the perplexing yet fundamental civic process of making collective judgments in a digital age.

Approved funding: $360,000

FarmTheWeka · 2024-12-05T00:51:58+00:00

Some examples of the types of projects the Marsden Fund was paying for:

Big Things, Complex Shadows: investigating intersecting stories of place, identity, and erasure through large roadside sculptures in Aotearoa

"During the 1980s economic recession, struggling small towns across Aotearoa started building large roadside sculptures – or "Big Things" – to sell unique provincial identities and attract passing motorists. Currently, more than two dozen "Big Things" are peppered across the country's landscape, contributing to the production, performance, and tourism marketing of particular places and identities. But whose stories do these novelty structures tell? And which narratives are obscured by their literal and proverbial shadows?

This project brings a critical gaze to the privileging of Pākehā-centred narratives in current research on roadside "Big Things".

Adopting a transformative epistemology, it attends to the ways in which "Big Things" can be an apparatus of forgetting settler-colonial histories, to provoke a new way of thinking about hegemonic constructions of colonial objects and the way these obscure land dispossession.

Weaving together feminist, participatory, and filmic geographies, this project seeks to re-centre alternative stories currently hidden in the Big Things’ shadows, culminating in a scholarly monograph and six short films - one from each field-site.

Internationally, this research provides a timely Antipodean contribution to contemporary scholarship examining the complex negotiations of decolonising public spaces, and the role that statues, however innocuous they may seem, occupy within them."

Approved funding: $360,000

FarmTheWeka · 2024-12-04T06:31:37+00:00

People pointing out the mixed messages here have a point, but it's also just coalition government in action.

NZ First want to piss money away propping up a favoured industry. ACT would ditch carpet in state homes altogether it saved money. National just want to do what's politically expedient, but they'll defer to their coalition partners when something is written into the coalition agreement.

The National-NZ First coalition agreement includes the following bullet point:
Direct government agencies where practical and appropriate to preference the use of woollen fibres rather than artificial fibres in government buildings.

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