Rex Widerstrom @RexWiderstrom

Covering Australia | New Zealand | The Pacific News tips to Signal (nzjourno.55) or send via https://t.co/PuLTKdvkeS [email protected] Joined July 2014

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Rex Widerstrom @RexWiderstrom

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@Haimonaetc @AceMcWicked Middle class white uni student with a man bun and scraggly beard working as a barista. In Wellington, anyway.

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@ChrisPenknz @bighairynetwork @GreyPowerUHutt Could not agree more. As a journalist *all* I want to hear from you, and any other politicians, is explanations. People who want to pretend to be journalists are the ones who come out with this sort of trite nonsense.

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2 days ago

@death2nazisxxx @TheNoisyTrunk Surely no amount of money could recompense someone for having a waves of stale alcoholic breath directed at you all day?! 😂 That's an incredibly large amount for managing one extra MP.

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2 days ago

One might almost think that politicians of all stripes - who've have had plenty of opportunity to easily fix the broken OIA system by funding additional staff at the office of the Ombudsman to clear the backlog, then sustaining some positions to make sure it can cope - are allergic to the scrutiny they'd face, indirectly, if the system worked properly. But that'd be the actions of a bunch of shady dissemblers, so surely that can't be it?! #nzpol

Douglas Brown @darkwaterjack

2 days ago

This. So much this. Government departments and agencies make it extremely difficult to obtain information. They know the Ombudsman's office is overwhelmed; they rely on that, plus imprecision in how requesters ask questions, to get away with gaming the system. It is disgraceful.

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2 days ago

And when all else fails, claim they have no records on the matter, as @HuttCityCouncil did after I asked the Ombudsman to investigate why they refused to supply a *number* for people paid severance after the new CEO took over. Something they originally denied on the grounds it was "personal information." As soon as the Ombudsman eventually got to the complaint, a year later, they said it was none, "based on the recollection of people who were there at the time" 😒

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2 days ago

Social media is the main source of news for only 19% of New Zealanders. Given that X (& to a lesser extent, Bluesky) are more news oriented than most (tho I believe Tiktok is starting to emerge among younger age groups) I doubt it's much higher for them. Of more concern is the 78% who suffer from "news avoidance" (in any form). These ill informed people get exactly the same vote as you or I. aut.ac.nz/news/stories/t…

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3 days ago

@Charteddaily The Wild West where cowboys meet at High Noon to politely avoid ad hominem attacks and listen to one another's points of view in the blazing sun.

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3 days ago

@davidcapie I notice there's no explicit time limit on the sanction in that statement. Where did the one year reported by the media come from? Was that in the communique sent to the Clerk of the House?

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3 days ago

@PronouncedHare Welcome to the Land of False Equivalence.

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3 days ago

@TheConsultant18 No less an authority than Meta would beg to differ. People don't come to social media for news but for entertainment, they say - much as I said. (Source: medium.com/meta-australia…)

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3 days ago

@secondzeit @PronouncedHare Culling old tweets? I don't even have time to weed the actual garden.

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3 days ago

@kapiti_coaster If only I could remember the name of the social welfare minister who felt anyone in receipt of taxpayers' money was a lowlife leech, deserving of public approbation, I'd ask her to have a word with Paula.

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Kapiti @kapiti_coaster

3 days ago

The National government say there is no money for our public services which they are busy running down & the replacement interislander ferries.. BUT they have money to give ex-National MP Paula Bennett a 63% pay rise. It's about CHOICES on what a government spends its money on.

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Rex Widerstrom @RexWiderstrom

3 days ago

@LewSOS Firstly, what photo? I still remember Winston's warning about the famous Alexander Downer & the famous "fishnets" photo. Don't do dumb shit around the media was the takeaway. And if you do it's on you. Secondly, it'd be a damn shame if a whole lot of us were to retweet it.

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3 days ago

@truereckons1 @TheConsultant18 Depends on the person. You could probably graph credulousness against age, with the line rising sharply at about 50.

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3 days ago

I get out plenty. I just don't go the weekly meetings of people who think lizard people run the world. As a frequent tweeter I wish it wasn't so, but social media is widely viewed (especially by younger people) with total incredulity when it comes to facts. "Boutiques" tend to be run as a hobby by people who want to showcase their work, but are very poorly visited, so you're probably accurate there.