RochelleJan 8, 2025

Check out @AnneleiseHall ‘s post about the Social Security Amendment Bill: https://mastodon.nz/@AnneleiseHall/113790566385920784

If you have time & energy, could you make a submission on my behalf? My husband & I are both on disability, & will both be affected by this. Having to go in every 6 months mightn’t sound much, but it will be an enormous hardship to us both.

I’m shattered from writing other important submissions, but this one is important too & for me it’s personal.

Submissions are due this Friday (Jan 10)

#SSA

Anneleise Hall (@[email protected])

For those wanting submission guides, here's one from Dr Bex for the Social Security Act Amendment Bill which doubles admin, invades privacy and creates more opportunities for punative rejections. Submissions close Fri Jan 10 #NZPol https://open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/making-a-submission-on-the-social?r=2nt6k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Show threadRochelleJan 8, 2025

The Green Party has put together these suggestions you can use to oppose the Social Security Amendment bill:

https://www.greens.org.nz/liveable_incomes_subs

@AnneleiseHall has posted links to feedback on this bill further down thread.

I asked people to submit on my behalf. My husband & I are both pākehā & cisgender. This bill will have a greater impact on Māori, Pasifika & transgender beneficiaries.

Submissions close 11:59 pm tomorrow, Thursday 10 January.

Make your submission here: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCSSC_SCF_09FDCD32-87EF-4C46-E703-08DD18052784/social-security-amendment-bill

#SSA

Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Jan 8, 2025
@heyrochelle @AnneleiseHall I've just submitted on the Social Security Amendment bill, too. These Coalition assholes are really too much.
Show threadAnneleise HallJan 8, 2025
@lightweight good one Dave 🙏
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Jan 8, 2025
@AnneleiseHall thanks for your nudge, via @heyrochelle - I knew about the Regulatory Standards Bill, but hadn't heard about the Social Security Amendment Bill. They've clearly deliberately used the TPB as a smokescreen to shove these other two through. What colossal dickheads.
Show threadAnneleise HallJan 8, 2025
@lightweight @heyrochelle there are six bills and one consultation doc... I asked journalist Bernard Hickey on 🦋 if he'd seen the like in his career and he said he hasn't seen a dump like this since 90/91
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Jan 8, 2025
@AnneleiseHall @heyrochelle we need to kick this coalition to the curb.
Show threadAnneleise HallJan 8, 2025
@lightweight @heyrochelle look at the State of this with these hugely impactful bills being pushed through at the end of the year with basically a month media blackout.
Show threadStrypeyJan 9, 2025

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@AnneleiseHall
> these hugely impactful bills being pushed through at the end of the year with basically a month media blackout

This is *not* how democratic governance works. It's a cynical dictatorship, claiming a democratic mandate for things the public overwhelmingly disagrees with, on the basis of scraping together a narrow majority in one house of representatives. Grrrr!

@lightweight @heyrochelle

Show threadAnneleise HallJan 10, 2025
@lightweight @strypey @heyrochelle lol did you see my blog, said that in 2000 words instead of 2 sentences. 😅
Show threadStrypeyJan 10, 2025

@AnneleiseHall
> did you see my blog, said that in 2000 words instead of 2 sentences

Exactly the same thing happened to me recently on a private email list. I wrote a couple of my typical novel-length rants, about the politics of responding to the gang patch ban. Someone wrote about 5 sentences on the subject that summed up exactly the points I was trying to make 😅

I think both are great examples of how thinking politically is a team sport : )

@lightweight @heyrochelle

Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Jan 10, 2025
@strypey @AnneleiseHall @heyrochelle yup. One of my points in both recent submissions I've made is that the legislative process is broken - submissions should be *collaborative*, e.g. using a tool like Loomio or similar, where people can flesh out ideas and get feedback on them as *part of the submission process*, collaboratively honing arguments, and improving wording. So much more effective. We used that to create the NZGOAL legislation, and the Software Extension. I thought it would catch on.
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Jan 10, 2025
@strypey @AnneleiseHall @heyrochelle sadly, despite that particular process exceeding all gov't expectations for participation and sophistication of results, I'm not aware of it having been replicated.
Show threadStrypey

@lightweight
> I'm not aware of it having been replicated

Gareth Hughes used a similar process to crowdsource his Internet Rights and Freedoms Bill, but AFAIK that's the only other example.

#GarethHughes #IRFB

@AnneleiseHall @heyrochelle

Jan 10, 2025 at 4:14amWeb