The Real Marc Spring

MAYBE LINDA TOPP can let us know which of these were successful?

637 projects have received taxpayer funding under the Arts Continuity Grant, including the following:

Eamonn Marra
To research and write the first draft of a novel about male affection in hypermasculine spaces.
AWARDED: $13,000

Fireplace Arts & Media
Towards the composition, recording and production of music inspired by the psychogeography of the West Coast.
AWARDED: $34,900

Julia Gray
To support the personnel costs and post-production editing for an art documentary based on Papua New Guinea tattoo practice and revival.
AWARDED: $27,500

Donovan Bixley
Towards one phase of illustrating a biography of Leonardo da Vinci.
AWARDED: $21,080

Alison Foster, Catherine Cooper
Towards writing a children's picture book (text only) about sustainable community activist Helen Dew.
AWARDED: $3,200

Glitter Garden
To create and develop an online publication, arts learning resources and musical content based on children's drag theatre show, The Glitter Garden.
AWARDED: $18,000

Jess Johnson
To create a new series of collaborative quilts with my mother, textile artist Cynthia Johnson.
AWARDED: $17,850

Kate Newby
Towards intensive artistic research and development.
AWARDED: $49,368

Kath Bee
Towards the composition and instrumental arrangement of 10 songs for children, from ideas given by children.
AWARDED: $24,600

Tamara Neilson-Tetzlaf
Towards a live event watch party and livechat with fans online.
AWARDED: $24,153

Tayi Tibble
Towards writing poetry that explores indigeneity and love in the time of climate change.
AWARDED: $17,798

Duncan Sarkies
Towards writing a novel about the collapse of democracy in an association of alpaca breeders.
AWARDED: $26,000

Kimberley Young
Towards a dance concept video showcasing the impact Coronavirus has had on the New Zealand Chinese community.
AWARDED: $24,500

Rosemarie Kirkup
Towards the development of a first draft of a play that explores the menstrual cycle.
AWARDED: $16,766

Nicole Duckworth
To record and livestream a performance from Fat Freddy's Drop.
AWARDED: $44,007

Khali Philip-Barbara, Te Kahureremoa Taumata
Towards an Indigenised Hypno-soundscape to take you to the imagined worlds of our Kōrero Pūrākau.
AWARDED: $49,999

Connor Masseurs
Towards development of a movement technique that guides and empowers the participants in becoming specialists in their own body.
AWARDED: $4,530

Iain Gordon
Towards 3 x hour-long live-streamed electronic music performances with live visual animations, from a kitchen in Paekakariki.
AWARDED: $47,703

Mad Ave
Towards a wananga for Maori healing theatre practitioners.
AWARDED: $50,000

New Zealand Comedy Trust
To examine what changes need to be made to better support a more diverse and sustainable comedy industry in Aotearoa.
AWARDED: $49,780

Benedict Fernandez
Towards composing and recording ten original compositions inspired by emotions felt during the Covid-19 lockdown.
AWARDED: $8,885

Imogen Taylor
Towards development of a new body of work exploring modernism, feminism & q***rness, with specific reference to the Otago region.
AWARDED: $30,089

Claire O'Loughlin
Towards revision and editing of a sailing memoir.
AWARDED: $7,200

Jared Kane
Towards a Māori, q***r, young adult novel adaptation of Hamlet based on my innovative unproduced screenplay ‘Hamarete’.
AWARDED: $21,000

Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa
Towards designing new Māori typefaces for print and digital.
AWARDED: $22,110

Peter Daubé
Towards the writing, arranging and preproduction of music that forms a song-cycle from the suburban labyrinth.
AWARDED: $21,800

Hipkins take note … Now that stalking is illegal, that will stop Covid going door to door seeking out the unvaccinated.

Pretty disgraceful.

Fresh off Chris Hipkins suggesting Nicola Willis needed medical help, Barbara Edmonds has been caught on audio describing her as a “duck-faced horse.”

“Every week I have to stand up in the House and ask a duck-faced horse questions,” Edmonds says. “I have the dubious glory of being able to question her, debate her in the House, and take her on in the media.”

Given media’s coverage of the National party recently, the press gallery should apply a full-court press on Hipkins — especially after someone in the Labour Party leaked the audio directly to the media, just two weeks after he pledged that Labour would run a clean campaign.

Clearly Hipkins has lost control.

THE END OF TEA PARTY TAMIHERE?

A six-figure bonus paid by Waipareira Trust to its chief executive John Tamihere was unwound after a long-running Charities Services investigation into charitable resources being used to fund Tamihere's political campaigns.

Just one of the many many many issues with Waipārera Trust

TPM still no accounts filed yet - multiple breaches.

Go back further to ROAST BUSTERS … remember that ? JT and Willie Jackson booted off their own radio show for vile r**e comments and ridicule of victims.

LETS HOPE THIS IS THE END

Public service announcement

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Samuel Hudson of thisquality: Why haven’t police prosecuted the alleged public ma*******or?

Story today ….
MATUA KAHURANGI
MAY 03, 2026

Allegations last year raised serious questions about the priorities of the New Zealand Police, it seems they are more focused on policing online speech than addressing severe criminal behaviour.

Samuel Hudson, the self-important founder of the fringe micro-blog thisquality and his “Quiet Pact Network,” keeps dragging more sleaze into the spotlight. Last year, broadcaster Sean Plunket blew the lid off Hudson allegedly running a Pornhub channel under the charming alias - where he filmed himself ma********ng in public places. Multiple people lodged complaints with police. Some of those videos are still floating around online and in Google search results. Some videos have background noise of people nearby. This guy was allegedly flogging his bishop in public, risking exposure to strangers, which is straight-up illegal in New Zealand.

The worst thing it involved Big Mac’s and carrots - I haven’t eaten a Big Mac since.

Anyways... crickets from the cops. No confirmed investigation. No charges. Nothing.

Making it even more rancid are the whispers about Hudson’s connections in policing circles. Both he and Jevon McSkimming - the former deputy police commissioner who resigned in disgrace after being caught with child s*x exploitation material and be******ty filth on his work devices - come from Kapiti. Funny how that works. These overlapping ties have people openly asking whether certain individuals get a special “Kapiti discount” when serious allegations land on their desk.

Meanwhile, New Zealand Police seem laser-focused on hunting down offensive tweets and wrongthink from regular citizens, especially if it offends the right ideological crowd. Actual predators, public perverts, and child exploitation cases? They’ll get to it... eventually. Maybe.

While cops chase keyboard warriors for mean words, an alleged public ma*******or with possible police connections gets a free pass. The public is rightly wondering whether our police force exists to protect community safety or to play ideological enforcement for the regime and its mates.

It is believed Samuel Hudson, is or was a student at Otago University. A formal email has been sent to the Proctor detailing his alleged illegal public ma********on activities.