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I’m Mountain Tui and I write about socio-political developments in NZ and abroad.

In case you’re wondering, I started my interest in politics on Reddit and wrote posts like this:

• Do you know what the Coalition Government has done for you in its first 100 days? Here's a list I've compiled.

• Calm down NZ: Christopher Luxon claiming a $52,000 taxpayer allowance isn't that bad

• ACT are deeply affiliated with Atlas Group. Atlas are “The Mother of all Right Wing Think tanks”

The latter is something I’m proud of as it raised awareness. By the time RNZ posed the question to David Seymour, and he lied about it, my evidence was publicly tabled and I was able to respond with firm facts and figures.

Unfortunately my posts ultimately earned me a ban on Reddit’s main NZ subreddit, although they later let me go back with handcuffs.

That led me to decide to write elsewhere in a place where I wouldn’t have to beg or argue for my posts to be allowed to be made public.

And for now that place is Substack.

Since joining I’ve written posts such as Curia Market Found in Breach of Industry Standards and First they came for the Māori.

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Tui (the name I used on Reddit)

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