Greg Blue

Rugby, Community, Rural & Mental Health enthusiast, been in the fresh food game, can be contentious& cranky, another Kiwi supporting Oz economy. rt not endorse

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Aussies are bringing game. 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏

[Selçuk Beylerbeyi @kriptoselcukk]

🚨SON DAKİKA:

Vladimir Putin: "Eğer Rusya, İsrail'in Gazze'de yaptıklarının sadece %10'unu yapmış olsaydı, NATO şu anda Moskova'nın kapısında olurdu."

Batı bize insan haklarının İsrail'in çıkarlarının sınırlarında başlayıp bittiğini öğretti."

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

@agvocate_au Yes minister

[Ben Dooley 🧢 @BenDooley8]

If you'd ever wondered about the scale of the wilding pine issue (not to be confused with pinus radiata, unfortunately), have a watch of this wee clip.

https://t.co/J4d4S4tncD

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

Maniototo in national awards finals | Otago Daily Times Online News https://t.co/ZcN3sxJS5x

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

Sport can be more effective than politics

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

Noruega le da una paliza histórica a Israel y dona TODAS las ganancias del partido a Palestina.

Noruega aplastó 5-0 a Israel y celebró con una alegría que se sintió en todo el mundo.

Pero lo más poderoso no fue solo el resultado: el equipo y la federación noruega decidieron donar el 100% de los ingresos del partido a Palestina.Esto no es solo fútbol.

Es una declaración política clara y valiente en medio del Mundial 2026. Mientras Israel sigue con su campaña de destrucción en Gaza y Líbano, y amenaza a Irán, Noruega elige ponerse del lado correcto de la historia.Un país que entiende el valor de la solidaridad y la justicia.

Un equipo que transforma una victoria deportiva en ayuda concreta para un pueblo que sufre ocupación y masacres.

Este gesto contrasta fuertemente con la hipocresía de la FIFA y de varios gobiernos occidentales que protegen a Israel pese a todo.

Gracias, Noruega.

El mundo necesita más acciones concretas como esta.

¿Qué opinas tú?

¿Crees que más selecciones deberían seguir el ejemplo de Noruega?

Comenta, comparte y celebra esta victoria con significado.

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

@toddthepainter Yeah possums would love them , we have the same with lorekeets eating the new growth , possums do enormous damage to nz native trees , classic introduction of species that did not evolve in the same environment

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

@agvocate_au Tasty ,very hot pan,sear quickly on each side ,serve with southland swede and peas

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is blowing up entire villages in Lebanon, killing 200 to 300 civilians every 48-96 hours, calling it a ceasefire, with absolutely no consequences.

Israel is killing so many Lebanese so regularly that the world has lost interest. Just like has lost interest in Gaza.

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

@BenDooley8 I can imagine the governance and jurisdiction clashes would be enormous the way their system is , lots of bodies hanging on to power , similar but not as bad in aus ,state federal and local governments all with different objectives and regulations

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

@AngelaCuming @QuinnRod Not enough outdoor dunnies since the sewer was connected in Dunners , the natural habitat of the choko

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

In the old days before politicians who never had worked a real job took over the party system there would have been a farmer or 3 somewhere in the system who would have fixed this before it even started

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep.

The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements.

For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep.

A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own.

The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing.

Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin.

So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good.

A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off.

You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

[Noel Whittaker @NoelWhittaker]

A lot of people can't understand how we have come to have an oil
shortage in Aust. Well, there is a very simple answer.

Nobody bothered to check the oil level! We just didn't know we were getting low. The reason is purely geographical.

Our oil is located in the USA, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and other
parts of the Middle East!

Our dipsticks are located in CANBERRA!!

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

@timgortonz Like most things out of the Maniototo

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Yet another parliamentary inquiry recommends a full ban of gambling advertising.

What will it take for govts to put people first, act on the evidence and reduce harm?

The evidence is there we just need the political will.
https://t.co/2evTxJXPLy

[Mal Peters @peters_malcolm]

In Australia, feral pigs are estimated to number more than 20 million, according to the Invasive Species Council, and the animals cost farmers more than $100 million a year. - abc

It is tragic resources are not redirected protecting threatened species when pigs do so much damage

[Just a gardener/sheep farmer @Dayzie72]

Found this tonight on facebook. Just needed to share.

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

This bloke is doing a good job highlighting the dodgy way lobby groups influence the 2 big political parties , no wonder people are going to alternatives when the big parties are so deaf to the people , getting kids hooked on gambling is massive problem

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Banning gambling ads to protect young Australians is not a left vs right issue.

We’re seeing yet again vested interests control of the major parties meaning the Australian people lose.

MPs across the Parliament support stronger action on gambling ads. If there was a conscience vote on a full ban, as was recommended by the Murphy Review, it would pass.
https://t.co/t1bvEhdk47

[Greg Blue @gjblue]

@bouta_nt @AdamCoffeyNT @benhayesTEH Very tough to hear , thoughts are with you