Great photos, there are clever and justifiably angry voters sending a clear message from the South. Didn’t Doctor Death (Reti) look absolutely impotent while playing wah wah girl to Bishop’s unannouncement!
Just imagine if that was replicated across the motu on a whole range of isseues: Tiriti o Waitangi bill, climate change and the environment, oil and gas, health, education Strength in numbers. Mauri ora!
If the 35,000 figure is correct, and acknowledging that people would have been there from other parts of Otago and Southland, that's about a quarter of the city's population, which is very impressive and quite the challenge to other cities!
My favourite placard - "it's so bad, even introverts are here!"
Yes I think a lot of us would have chuckled and understood that one. A great result indeed but I did note that in scanning the papers this morning only RNZ features it on any landing page.
If only their social media team (how many of them?) actually read the media and social media and passed the message back to the CoC that a very large proportion of the population are no pissed off, even the National voters.
This is a fascinating figure: "a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change" 35,000 was waaaay more than 3/5% of the Dunedin and surrounds population.
Once around 3.5% of the whole population has begun to participate actively, success appears to be inevitable.
🫂Way to go Otepoti! 👍🏾 Great turnout, great signage, and a very strong message to Reti et al 👏🏾 Frankly the message about them not having a 💓means it probably won't shift THIS lot immediately, but again it signals to the Opposition parties where their messaging & policy commitments should be to put the pressure on now, and hopefully kick this lot out ASAP and get to work repairing the damage
Pure gold, what a wonderful selection of placards........and all of them true. Scumbuckets and yep, putting the 'n' back in cuts. Brilliant and there will be more of this we hope..............watch them slide out of this....just watch.
There currently is a protest being set up by the unions (the normal unions, not the bad ones) against the cuts. So far I know this was sent to members of the PSA, but potentially also sent to the members of ~17 other unions, Teachers, Nurses etc.
It’s set for Wednesday 23rd October, multiple locations up and down the country, everyone should get involved!
Great photos, there are clever and justifiably angry voters sending a clear message from the South. Didn’t Doctor Death (Reti) look absolutely impotent while playing wah wah girl to Bishop’s unannouncement!
Shane Reti is certainly swallowing a lot of rats...
Thankyou Tui,
Those banners put a smile on my face this morn.
Now we need to find a redneck with an operating brain to notice.
Just imagine if that was replicated across the motu on a whole range of isseues: Tiriti o Waitangi bill, climate change and the environment, oil and gas, health, education Strength in numbers. Mauri ora!
If the 35,000 figure is correct, and acknowledging that people would have been there from other parts of Otago and Southland, that's about a quarter of the city's population, which is very impressive and quite the challenge to other cities!
My favourite placard - "it's so bad, even introverts are here!"
Yes I think a lot of us would have chuckled and understood that one. A great result indeed but I did note that in scanning the papers this morning only RNZ features it on any landing page.
If only their social media team (how many of them?) actually read the media and social media and passed the message back to the CoC that a very large proportion of the population are no pissed off, even the National voters.
They know. They just don't care. Also I realise that their messages to sow doubt, blame the last government etc. is very very effective
I liked the "Putting the 'N' into Cuts" 😆
me too....
Great turn out! We just need this replicated throughout the country.
Thank you for the powerful visuals.
Good that it led TV1 news. But no data - filled interviews.
Yes very little real analysis
A pictures worth 1000 words! Great scoop this morning MT!!
This is a fascinating figure: "a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change" 35,000 was waaaay more than 3/5% of the Dunedin and surrounds population.
Once around 3.5% of the whole population has begun to participate actively, success appears to be inevitable.
Source: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820
I love it Oliver. Thank you.
🫂Way to go Otepoti! 👍🏾 Great turnout, great signage, and a very strong message to Reti et al 👏🏾 Frankly the message about them not having a 💓means it probably won't shift THIS lot immediately, but again it signals to the Opposition parties where their messaging & policy commitments should be to put the pressure on now, and hopefully kick this lot out ASAP and get to work repairing the damage
Tu meke Ōtepoti
Didn't they do well
Very.
They did and all volunteers . Reti is a private health supporter
He most certainly is. Doesn't he own medical practices or some such thing?
he does...
Pure gold, what a wonderful selection of placards........and all of them true. Scumbuckets and yep, putting the 'n' back in cuts. Brilliant and there will be more of this we hope..............watch them slide out of this....just watch.
Maintain the rage, Dunedin. The South Island could vote the clown show out of government next election.
#onetermgovt
Such a good run in Dunedin! Let’s keep it going!
There currently is a protest being set up by the unions (the normal unions, not the bad ones) against the cuts. So far I know this was sent to members of the PSA, but potentially also sent to the members of ~17 other unions, Teachers, Nurses etc.
It’s set for Wednesday 23rd October, multiple locations up and down the country, everyone should get involved!
https://www.together.org.nz/fight_back_together_maranga_ake?recruiter_id=224970
It's starting to look like they're a parade of incompetents. But as John Campbell said, “what have we done”.