Like New Zealand healthcare, New Zealand education is a post-code lottery. Or in each case you pay to go private.
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Like New Zealand healthcare, New Zealand education is a post-code lottery. Or in each case you pay to go private.
Education starts at home.
It starts with something as simple yet so effective as parents reading to their kids. Not plonk them in front of a TV or screen for hours and hours.
It continues with parents teaching their kids values & confidence which make them want to achieve great things.
It is about parents valuing education as the greatest equaliser (ever developed by mankind) to close wellbeing gaps in society.
Then, comes school education.
What is so hard about the above?
The answer lies in selfishness - selfish parents who procreate kids into the world without any heed of how they are going to bring up the kids to give them a good life via good education.
It also lies with politicians like the Labour society misfits (Ardern, Hipkins, Jan Tinetti & the Maori cabal) in the last 6 years using education as an indoctrination tool to breed uneducated Labour Party voters who are beneficiaries & losers.
https://www.odt.co.nz/sites/default/...?itok=U0NsdQEy
Surely there is absolutely no excuse for any parent being unable to read in a country with free education like NZ!
Then, there’s night classes for those who want to improve themselves in any number of educational institutions.
And definitely there is no reason for an illiterate parent to bring a child into this world unless they know how to bring up that child properly.
Auckland the least safe city in Australasia - courtesy of Ardern, Hipkins, Wokester Coster and the pro-crime Labour government :
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-z...ew-report.html
A new report has ranked Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland as the least safe city in Australasia as a crime wave continues to grip the big city.
The Committee for Auckland with Deloitte and Tātaki Auckland Unlimited released The State of the City report which found Auckland's safety ranking has fallen for the third time to the city's lowest ranking since 2013.
"Auckland ranks only 124th in safety [out of 195], marking a three-year decline and positioning it among the lowest-performing peer cities on safety and bottom within Australasia," Committee for Auckland director Mark Thomas said.
https://thebfd.co.nz/wp-content/uplo...n-of-crime.jpg
As someone in Auckland, it comes as no surprise. It has been obvious that in the last 5 years crime has increased. It is the deprived and overcrowded areas that seem to be the hotbed for the increase in crime.
Groups of unhelmeted young men on motorbikes also drive around with seeming impunity through red lights and through public parks among families. Of course they don’t always stay in the overcrowded ghettos that the policies of successive recent governments have created.
Sure but priced out of home ownership and moving from one rental accommodation to another in the new-age Victorian gig economy is disruptive for children and their education. It is easier to fall between the cracks. The old age Victorians needed these kids as factory and cannon fodder. Does new age Victorian NZ just use immigrants for that?
At the beginning of this clip, I thought the interviewee was using overly dramatic language to describe the MSM's determined criticism of the newly elected coalition before the House had sat, in fact before the coalition agreement was inked.
Then I heard of his interactions with the MSM over the last few years and the editorial bias that he has personally experienced.
His name is Robert MacCulloch, and he is a Professor of Macro-Economics at Auckland University. Be prepared to have your eyes open as to the corrupt state of our media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ4ghjzMP5M
Shows conclusively how the $55m media bribe worked an absolute treat for Ardern, Hipkins and the Labour government.
The new government simply needs to clean OUT TVNZ and starve the other MSM of government revenues.
Party is over, girls and boys - like Andrew Shaw, pxssed off.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...L2OHCET6YQSCE/
Political wrap: Luxon and Hipkins face off
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Hipkins kicked things off, delivering the first speech in which he described the new Government as “pathetic” and a “disgrace”.
The majority of Kiwi's on Labour's performance & Chipkin's Leadership: "Pathetic” and a “Disgrace” ;)
And one of the more recent Mugshots of Coster - shows the Chief of the Copshop looking like something akin to 'A Fish Out of Water"' :)
How much more time left on the licence that Labour granted to occupy the spot ?
Seriously! The media want to overthrow the Government and don't accept the legitimacy of the election.
What planet are you on?
Isn't it the media's job to critique the Government of the day?
Despite yours and others on here there was plenty of criticism of Labour from the very outlets depicted.
Sean Plunket is a joke.
Anyone who pretends to be a journalist that leads supporting the interviewees position from the outset has no journalistic integrity.
Division in the coalition of chaos already with Luxon basically stating Seymour's divisive referendum will never see light of day.
Seymour must be spitting tacks. Peters is meanwhile running rings around both of them.
Talk about a three ring circus, unfortunately though it's the clowns that are in charge.
A week in and what an absolute mess.
Disappointing the new govt limp response to the catastrophe unfolding before our very eyes in Gaza, especially as incredibly - the slaughter of innocent desperate civilians intensifies.
Ineffectual MP Paul Goldsmith, now promoted to National Minister of Justice refusing to call whats happening genocide, when we can see that's exactly what it is under the internationally recognised definition.
Under the International legal definition of the crime of genocide committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
Article 2 section C,
- Deliberately inflicting on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its destruction in whole or in part.
- 1.7 million Palestinians forced to flee their homes, & flee again & again with no safe area to go, deliberately deprived of clean water, medicines, medical supplies even sterilisation of surgical equipment, food, the most basic hygiene, electricity & power, shelter, communication, the basics of life.
Indiscriminate bombing of schools, medical centres, refugee camps.
Over 47,000 Palestinian citizens severely wounded, almost 20,000 killed, 70% of them women & children, thousands of innocent children missing, thousands orphans.
After 2 months its estimated Israel has killed about 5,000 of the estimated 30,000 Hamas, but Hamas has probably recruited double that number because of & since the bombing & slaughter started.
If Netanyahu wants to eliminate Hamas, France's President Macron & others say this is going to take another 10 years.
When you hear people say Israel must eliminate Hamas, they think its something which will be over in months, it's ignorance.
International pressure must be brought to bear on both sides for an immediate ceasefire & negotiated 2 State settlement.
Tbh, given the history, I am surprised the IDF had not already been patrolling the Gaza border area with a fleet of drones, which may have picked up suspicious activity prior to terrorist incursion.
How can it be genocide, when you compare the population of Palestinians from 1950's to now?
Check out the number of Jews in Arab countrys from 1948 to now. Huge downwards shift. With Palestinians, its the opposite. There are way more now then back in 1948. Not a very successful genocide by all accounts.
Blackcap that is a very simplistic view of what has happened since 1948.
Yes of course Jews from all around the world moved to Israel after it was taken off the local Arab population that already occupied the area.
Here is Jimmy Carter back in 2009 I think it was explaining the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel. Carter was an expert on middle / east affairs.
https://youtu.be/uvtC_qzHVM4?feature=shared
Nothing says freedom for the fourth estate like a witch hunt and installation of “safe” executives at a broadcaster. Complete commercialisation would be the way to go though. We’d then end up with wall-to-wall kardashians and
“current affairs” about cosmetic surgery gone wrong. We’d then need the Brits (bbc), Americans (cnn) and Germans (DW) for in depth telly news about NZ.
Mike Hosking said the Government has had a good first week
TVNZ has been trending that way for a while. Some have said it would be more effective to make RNZ a public broadcaster.
It's nice to have something which can spread NZ values (esp in the pacific region & australia) which doesn't involve x factor nz and building/property shows.
One of your sillier posts. I haven't heard anyone claim that the Israelis have beeen practicing genocide since 1948. Ethnic cleansing of some of the territory of modern Israel, certainly. But the label 'genocide' has been applied to the current performance of the IDF n Gaza. It seems to me to meet the UN definition.
There is no question that Hamas are barbarous thugs, and they are certainly a terrorist organisation by any reasonable definition. They killed around a thousand largely innocent people in Israel. The IDF have so far killed around twenty times that number of largely innocent people in Gaza, and the ratio may well be fifty times that number by the time this terrible business is over. Genocide is a fair call.
Does Stephen Joyce want a board position.. there must be a point to writing all these opinion pieces after all this time.
We're talking about the legal criminal definition of the term Genocide as pertains to the Geneva Convention & defined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, & ratified by the International Court of Justice.
(Not your online dictionary definition of the word genocide) .
I even wrote Article 2, section C out for you so you didn't have to look it up.
I shouldn't have to explain but under the legal criminal definition, genocide does not have a number, it also covers the destruction of part of a national, racial, ethical, religious group by deliberately withholding the basics necessary for life, e.g. medicines, water, power, food, shelter, hygiene etc.
Genocide was first recognised as a crime under international law in 1946 by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/96-I). It was codified as an independent crime in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention). The Convention has been ratified by 153 States (as of April 2022). The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has repeatedly stated that the Convention embodies principles that are part of general customary international law. This means that whether or not States have ratified the Genocide Convention, they are all bound as a matter of law by the principle that genocide is a crime prohibited under international law. The ICJ has also stated that the prohibition of genocide is a peremptory norm of international law (or ius cogens) and consequently, no derogation from it is allowed.
The definition of the crime of genocide as contained in Article II of the Genocide Convention was the result of a negotiating process and reflects the compromise reached among United Nations Member States in 1948 at the time of drafting the Convention. Genocide is defined in the same terms as in the Genocide Convention in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article 6), as well as in the statutes of other international and hybrid jurisdictions. Many States have also criminalized genocide in their domestic law; others have yet to do so.
Definition
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The death of any human due to war, whether they be civilian, military, terrorist, etc is a very sad indictment of mankind. A reflection of how morally low some can steep.
Sadly, over the the last 100+ years we have continued to demonstrate this propensity to brutally & irrationally fight, with there consistently being 20+ wars & "skirmishes" raging across the globe at any one time. In the modern digital era, more so than ever before, the warring parties (and their moral supporters) will endeavour to 'influence' & control the public opinion. "Win the hearts & minds" of all & sundry - especially seen with religious wars. The use of dramatic & gruesome imagery is often deployed as part of any smoke & mirrors strategy. Gaza is a shameful example of this, right now...
- It is primarily Hamas that reports "total casualties" in Gaza are over 15,000. Yet they remain silent on how many of those are actually Hamas & Hezbollah militants & IS Jihadists.
- Meanwhile IDF reports that they have "eliminated" circa 6,000 terrorists & militants.
- Ask yourself, how many rockets are still being fired towards Israel every, single, day? From our couches in NZ, based on MSM reporting (or lack of), you likely think hardly any. Answer: dozens to hundreds, depending on the day.
- Ask yourself, what is the "failure rate" of those rockets fired from Gaza? Failure, as in they lose control of the weapon and it does not maintain the correct trajectory to its intended target.
Answer. 5 to 10%, with many rockets inflicting carnage (destruction & death) on their own territory!
Things are often not as they may appear. In this case, lots of Smoke and a few Mirrors. Lots of misinformation, disinformation & propaganda, from both sides.
I hope the Israel/Gaza war is not going to take over this thread, which was meant for our new Government. The international wars and fights are a whole new and different debate.
What are NZ’s values? It seems no-one can agree on them. Indigenous rights or one person one vote democracy; Right to affordable decent and secure homes or the primacy of landlord investors’ property rights; Freedom to protest and disrupt or the right to use the king’s highways without restriction.
On cue, your ugliness on display for everyone to see. I wonder what my Jewish friends would think?
I would suggest most Jewish people aren't Israeli& I don't hate Israelis either. I just hate the persecution that Israel has inflicted on the Palestinians for decades.
Anyway back on topic.
What can the coalition of chaos inflict on us this week?
What have we had so far? Smoke Free NZ dropped, well that went down like a cup of cold sick.
Peter's threatening the media. All the rightys on here only want their media represented, as we only want to hear what we agree with. We want Hoskins to tell us soothingly how good it is to be one eyed & selfish.
And then there was Luxon letting Seymour know publicly that his referendum has no show. Actually kudos to Luxon for having some ethics & balls, but it won't have given Seymour the warm fuzzies.
Well that should get the thread back on track.
Thank me later.
Garbage from the acknowledged Jew hater Daytr.
Only a Jew hater would go back to 1948 without acknowledging that it was the Arab states and Palestinians who rejected the UN partition mandate. They were the ones who then vowed to destroy Israel & drive the Jews out of Israel.
The fact that Israel was able to win the war then and has continued to defend itself against aggression seems to be a sore point & cause angst with the Jew haters like woke leftist Daytr and Blue Skies.
Israel stands out as a democratic, progressive, successful and stable state in the Middle East vs all the other dictatorships & authoritarian states there. Typical of the woke left, that is an affront to them - they prefer Iran, Hamas and Syria as that’s how they like to govern.
Ardern is the best example of how the woke left behaves when they are in power.
That's because it was Arab land.
Of course they rejected it.
We can go way back to the 12 tribes of Israel and only two tribes stuck with Judaism the rest returned to paganism.
Or that Ishmael was the son of Abraham.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...KG55OBNSB3AU4/
Clear-out at Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency includes exit of chairman Paul Reynolds
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Paul Reynolds, the former chairman of Waka Kotahi the NZ Transport Agency, has resigned from the board.
Reynolds had been on the board only since February.
Cassandra Cowley has been appointed acting chairwoman.
Patrick Reynolds, also appointed to the board by the former Labour Government, has also resigned. Both names have gone from the Waka Kotahi website.
Must have mistaken the Tar Wagon ordered in to fix a few pot holes for a Red Hot poker & flamethrower headed their way ;)
And then there was the Elderly gentleman swinging a sword at the Masthead outside remove any trace of a Waka, while all the boys & girls continued blissfully dreaming away inside, with the stockpile of pot holes multiplying further nationwide unsupervised
Fancy deserting the Waka of Untold Potholes and other humungous Public Craters so fast just after a new Govt appears .. hope the indigestion doesn't lead to something more serious, like falling into a large pothole ;)
You've fallen into the trap either deliberately or through ignorance, of trying to silence criticism of Netanyahu his most extreme right-wing coalition govt, & its current slaughter of almost 20,000 trapped defenceless Palestinians -70% who are women & children, by conflating criticism of Netanyahu & his govt with anti-Semitism.
There was an interesting discussion of this deceitful strategy of conflating criticism with anti-Semitism last night by a panel of Human Rights experts on Al Jazeera.
But we can all see with our own eyes what is happening & you would have to be inhuman not to be shocked & appalled by the scale of suffering.
In case you missed it a telling opinion piece on the new Government from Sir Ian Taylor who was pretty critical of Labour in the last couple of years.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/301019...new-government
How many other people resigned from Gumboot Friday, that hasbeen given millions by the Coalition and for the first time in years, have secured ongoing funding ? Sadly Sir Ian is now just making political statements without any foundation. Unlike what he did during COVID when he talked common sense
Yeah yeah yeah. When he was bagging Labour he was an honest man with unquestionable integrity. Now he is directly comtradicting the lie that Labour effectively bribed the media he is just "making political statements".
When he was echoing the Right's talking points, he was one of the good guys. Now he is criticising the current government's actions, he's gone bad. And he uses Te Reo too!
His opinion piece wasn't about Gumboot Friday but the ability to speak out.
I agree though I am pleased that the new Government is helping fund GumbootFriday. I could never understand why Labour didn't. Well I do, they had stopped listening, like when Maori offered to help roll out the vaccine to their people in the regions. It just made sense but Labour thought they could do better.
Hardly, he has worked on Charitable & Venture Capital Boards and other community based initiatives. Someone who actually gives a sh1t and gives back, whether you agree with him or not. What you state is a clear definition of Tall Poppy Syndrome.
Spot on Davflaws.
Hey but the Far Right only want a media that promotes their agenda and nothing should be scrutinized or criticized.
That is very much in line with Far Right extremism.
Interested to see ACT's David Seymour, saying they intend to repeal Labour's Anti-Hate Speech Laws which they find deeply offensive, while at the same time over in the US, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magil has just been forced to resign over her disastrous testimony to Congress, struggling to say whether calls for genocide against Jews would constitute bullying or harassment under the universities code of conduct.
There have also been calls for Harvard President Claudine Gay & MIT President Sally Kornbruth to resign over not explicitly saying calls for genocide against Jews would constitute harassment or bullying, but depending on the circumstances, & context. Wealthy donors to all these universities have threatened to withdraw funding.
Hard to reconcile free speech & everyone should be allowed to express their opinions (according to ACT election policy) with such hateful rhetoric.
This govt might just be opening a Pandora's box by repealing our Anti-Hate speech legislation.
Yes nothing to see here, move along...
except for,
a new Cabinet Minister (Brooke van Veldon) publicly admonished by the Commissioner for the Environment for misquoting him
not 1 but 2 embarrassing Cabinet leaks in a week,
a significant nationwide protest over anger at the govt stance on Maori, 'Maori Action Day,' a portent of things to come.
The Maori King issuing a Royal Proclamation for a nation wide hui, uniting Maori voices in opposition to the govt's policies undoing decades of justice for Maori.
Tongan Community Leaders in Auckland saying they are saddened & appalled by the govt's anti-Maori policies and the Pacifica community stand with Maori
Strain between National's new Maori MP, Tama Potaka & Chris Luxon over his own govt's policies, saying there have been "robust discussions"
An open letter signed by 105 Health organisations to Chris Luxon strongly condemming the govt intention to repeal Smokefree 2025
Around the world, disbelief, shock & condemnation of the govt's intension to ignore overwhelming Public Health & scientific evidence & repeal Smokefree 2025, in order to pay for tax cuts.
Anger from Environmental Groups at the govt intention to repeal the ban on offshore drilling for oil & gas,
Nicola Willis becoming increasingly anxious as the hard cold reality of being in govt & keeping all 3 Parties election promises with the demands for govt support coming from everywhere, while also giving tax cuts, & maintaining a Public Service capable of delivering for the govt.
NZ's international reputation tarnished as an outlier by not joining 128 other nations & signing the WHO updates & amendments necessary due to the global Covid Pandemic, as a result of NZF's putting its own conspiracy voters support ahead of NZ's interests.
International coverage of our Deputy PM accusing our main media, TV1 & RNZ among others of accepting bribes from the previous govt, again putting the interests of NZF's conspiracy voters ahead of the countries best interests & putting Chris Luxon in a difficult position.
And that's a good week folks.
Chris Luxon looks comfortable in his new role but he's got a heck of a job ahead of him managing this coalition.
Wasn't being disingenuous Blackcap, the term is 'Cabinet Leaks' regardless of who leaked or publishes them, because they are leaks of confidential Cabinet papers, documents or discussions.
Leaks happen but extremely unusual in first week & not once but twice which would have rocked the govt.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...IDVTYC63UYEIE/
Rocked the government? Rocking and rolling more like.
Shows how corrupted and entitled the civil service had become under Ardern, Hipkins and the useless Labour government.
Good news is that many of them are going to be out of their cushy jobs soon.
Most satisfying!
Good riddance.
How has the health system improve with his presence in the last 6 years? Gone backwards big time no thanks to do-gooders like him.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sir-co...NLU26SUACOVV4/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67574419
Looks like a win/ win to this divisive govt but a big loss in reality.
It is interesting as the main focus on helping Maori is to let them make decisions themselves, that better themselves. I am married to a Maori lady and the amount of victim mentality coming from her side of the family is astounding. I try to bridge the gap and don't begrudge them as they are family, but hitting my head against a brick wall only leaves me with the headache. I preach by the OARBED model. I keep saying to stop being the victim and become the victor!!
You're easy meat for believing this govts propaganda,maybe youre a copy writer for them.
"Off the rails "more like it.
Chris Luxon is such a salesman, in defending his govt repealing Smokefree 2025 he keeps repeating smoking rates have dropped to 8% (this is for overall population) & continue dropping.
BUT what he doesn't say but knows (& journalists questioning him seem too dumb or uninformed to raise it,) is smoking rates for Maori are currently 20% & for Pacifica just over 18%
No wonder Maori are furious & many Doctors are now calling for Health Minister Shane Reti to lose his medical registration.
Smokefree 2025 would save thousands of lives & save an est. $2.9 billion in future health care costs, BUT the govt doesn't want all those smokers to quit because it needs those smokers money...for tax cuts!
Because $20 a fortnight is going to solve the cost of living crisis !
National never once mentioned they would repeal Smokefree 2025 prior to the election, they have NO mandate to do this.
Looks to me more like he jumped before the disaster which is te WTF Ora attaches to his name.
Soonest all of Labour’s appointees exit their positions in Health NZ, the better.
Just pxssed off, you useless lot - just know how to spend like Ardern & Robertson without any accountability & delivery.
Why, if Maori want to stop smoking, don't they stop? Why do they wait for the government to force them to stop? Where is it shown that "Maori are furious? Where is the list of doctors that want Dr Reti stripped of his medical registration? Why are those doctors not clamouring for Verall to lose her medical registration in light of the damage she did to the health system? So many questions, but ol BS will have no coherent answers.
Because they want to be PAID to stop smoking.
Just like they wanted (and they were successful) to be PAID to get vaccinated and to be counted in the census.
Primitive mindset - similar to the cargo cult mentality of the Papua New Guineans during and after WW2. If they wait around, goods will fall out of the sky into their laps.
https://jointhedwts.files.wordpress....pg?w=708&h=528
There's lots of research available on this & I was going to post a number of links to research on why smoking rates are still much higher in Maori, but then thought if you & Getty are really interested & not just being anti-Maori, here's some homework for you - look it up yourself.
If you read or listen to any of the main stream media, hard to see how you've missed the shock & anger & widespread condemnation of the govt's plan to scrap Smokefree 2025.
There's a rally hosted by the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists to oppose the govt plan to scrap Smokefree 2025 being held in Wellington later this week.
The Greenies must still have a fair bit of work ahead seeing if they can pass on the ins & outs of growing a bit of green carnation instead and whether it's more to the liking of some ;)
Freedom of choice you know .. must be something in the old Treaty that provided for that too :)
Some might even like some of the other that the Cuzzies on bikes have a bit of stock to move too ..
Some of the population just may not have a lot of trust or can't be bothered with some of the deposed and backward thinking talent from Wellington Glass Towers who tried to decree what vices they could or couldn't have, even after stabbing all the participants badly in the pocket for it :)
The Labour government preferred Māori to get into drugs rather than cigarettes. That’s why the gangs were given money so that they learn how to more efficiently distribute drugs.
Surely you’re not coming to the conclusion that the policies of “for maori by maori” have been an abject failure ?
Maybe it will be helpful for quickly implementing a change that we have people like Sir Collin and others quitting to make way for people that hopefully will be more effective
Yup - Labour’s appointees in all the government agencies & departments are as useless as the Ardern & Hipkins government.
No other way to account for the disasters in health, education, policing and housing.
Appointed to be fat cats, not for their competency & capability but for their ‘diversity’ and loyalty to Labour’s woke, racist & leftist policies & doctrine.
The sooner they all pxssed off like Sir Collin, the better.
Big job ahead for the new government to clean up the messes and wasteful spending by Labour. Starts with getting rid of the fat cats.
No of course not, if you take Maori living in a suburb like Epsom, their smoking rates are about the same as for Pakeha, but if you take Maori smoking rates in a suburb like Manurewa (Sth Auckland) their smoking rates are 3 x higher. So part of it (there's other factors as well ) is to do with socio-economic factors which won't be fixed by scrapping Fair-pay agreements or lower wages.
Maori smokers are also coming off a much higher base.
Maori women have among the highest rates of lung cancer in the world & of course smoking is damaging to unborn babies during pregnancy & second hand smoke damaging to young children.
It's really quite shocking Dr Shane Reti the Minister of Health is complicit in this trade-off of human lives & misery for money... for tax cuts.
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And Andrew Little (with blood on his hands from screwing up the heathcare system) proclaimed that he is happy with the job he did!
https://resources.stuff.co.nz/conten...ptimize=medium
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...ssipating.html
An Auckland hospital worker called Steph told AM the Minister's suggestion demand is dropping is "an absolute lie".
"To hear him say that these situations are dissipating is an absolute lie. I work in a hospital in Auckland - it is rammed," they said.
"Corridors are full, wait times are crazy, elective operating lists have been cancelled because of bed shortages. Staff shortages are an issue, but so is the simple fact that our health system is way under-resourced and nothing changed in the two years the borders were closed and the Government was preparing for the health system to have increased capacity."
I see the indefensible is being defended I.e. the back track on Smokefree NZ, that National & far as I'm aware ACT had backed previously but NZF get this into the coalition agreement despite not campaigning on it. Why didn't they campaign on it?
Because if voters had known NZF may not have got back into parliament.
The reintroduction of the three month trial period for employers to sack staff without cause will have unintended consequences for the movement of labour. The clause itself is unattractive to someone already in a secure job let alone if the have to move for the new job.
Let alone banks may not lend against such uncertainty to buy a house. If you have a mortgage but need to establish a new one for the new house in the new location, banks may want to wait out the three months to get through the probation period.
With the rental market so tight this going to make it very difficult for someone to a new job in a different location.
So much hypocritical BS and crocodile tears about the new government's policies from the LOSERS (sacked by NZers for being incompetent, liars and spin merchants).
Let's examine the casualties from 6 years of the Labour government under Ardern, Hipkins and the Maori cabal :
So how many deaths and severe sickness have resulted from Labour's shambolic restructuring and mismanagement of the health system?
We know waiting lists for surgery, tests and treatment getting ever longer under Labour kill.
We know that shutting the borders to healthcare workers coming into NZ during and post COVID (until it is too late) kill because of the horrendous shortage of health workers.
But the Ardern & Hipkins government was very very happy to spend billions of dollars on consultants instead of on healthcare providers - so that their bureaucrats & fat cat appointees covered their arses for being incompetent & useless.
Labour : Putting their fat cats and rich consultants ahead of the welfare of healthcare workers and patients.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/O...SL5D2VCHTA.JPG
That's okay - for most nothing much positive came out of 6 years of Nanny State Labour & the Loopy Greens in Power ;)
No wonder the majority of Kiwi's were very happy to give them fail marks & out on their backsides last month ;)
If you want to see positive policy change at a huge cost - look no further than Mahuta's 5 Idiots on water thrown through any old how in urgency against wishes of most and the minefield assembled that needs to be disabled ;)
For a Govt to stoop to having to place a minefield around 5 Waters - a hated initiatiove that most did not approve of must surely highlight what a bunch of disconnected incompetent Losers the last mob were ;)
Could I ask you to please read the Smokefree 2025 plan & evidence backed research before expressing unfounded comments.
The old tired & specious 'black market & home grown' claims you repeat, also repeated by Luxon, are rehearsed repeatedly by the Tobacco Industry.
(I presume you're not a Tobacco lobbyist despite your comments.)
Studies show smokers describe 'home grown tobacco' as "vile, disgusting & feral". They are not interested in it.
Studies of smokers also show they remain uninterested in illicit i.e. smuggled foreign tobacco due to concern about the risks of dealing with underground suppliers.
Remember even Nicola Willis said Smokefree2025 will result in a loss of $1billion in excise tax to the govt. (But it will add $2.5. billion in Health care costs in future years)
Here's some worthwhile reading sent with the best of intensions if you would like to be more informed,
https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/u...emoving-it-not
The defence of poor policy by the new Government is to attack the previous.
The previous actions have nothing to do with these poor decisions.
I have commented on some good stuff the coalition is doing, but it's certainly not all good.
There is a group of posters on this thread who have no interest in truth, objective facts, evidence based policies, or any measure that is good for the bulk of the population.
As far as many of them are concerned, anything that the previous govt did or proposed was bad, and anything the present lot does or proposes is good.
Inviting them to inform themselves is wasting your breath. They don't engage on any rational level - either because they can't, or because their identity is so closely tied to their politics that any threat to their political position is experienced as an attack on their personhood.
The truth and the objective facts are that approx 74% of voters decided that the Labour government needed to go. That's right. From over 50% just 3 years prior, Labour's true colours were hung out to dry.
Every indicator I can think of got worse under the virtue signaling pack of cynical pri*ks that made up that Labour government. Sadly they have given unrealistic and false hopes to Maori elites who are now throwing their toys out of the cot. And yet in the heart of Ngapuhi, WTF ORA had the "tooth fairy" of Kaikohe prosecuted for providing services to Maori that they did not. There are no dentists in Dargaville, Hokianga or Kaikohe. So much for Labour delivering to Maori.
Crock of the normal BS we have heard for the last 6 years.
Add to that the trough feeders in Wellington entrenching 5 Waters as much as they can to ensure payouts for when they are sacked is enough to turn your stomach. Sue the instigators for incompetence and send them packing. Hold firm Luxon.
Logic fail from dobby.
Labour apparently knew banning something ‘wouldn’t work!’
But on the other hand presumably they think banning something else ‘will work’.
Oh dear.
Maybe they should have ‘banned crime’, or commanded the tide not to come in.
There is no end to the Left wing magical thinking & outright stupidity.
‘Acting PM Winston Peters has accurately called Greens co-leader Marama Davidson a “bigoted, leftie shill” during Question Time today.’
Hmmm, let's fact check Winston.
Davidson a bigot? "Cis white males cause all violence". Tick
Davidson a leftie? Even she would admit that. Tick
Davidson a shill? Well she is paid handsomely to be the Female, Maori co-leader. If she was a bloke or non-Maori she wouldn't be there! TICK!
Conclusion....Winston is spot on! TICK!
That's exactly the point tim23. We have a Coalition with a new broom. And just in the nick of time. Do you know of a dentist in Western Northland? Population 70%+ Maori. Maybe Ngapuhi will take out a Treaty claim, naming Ardern, Hipkins, Little and Verral as the culprits.