This is weird, right? We're into day three of eulogies for Chris Penk. A man who's pro conversion therapy, anti bodily autonomy for women, and anti covid vaccines and mandates. He's an extremist whose views are well out of the mainstream. So what are we doing here?
Middlemore has always been a bellwether for the wider system. Previous ED targets had some impact due to frontline driven improvements, relatively high staff morale and supported with additional resources. These are not the conditions currently. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
Health NZ on the nearly a million missed cervical screening notifications: 'not been budgeted for … no funding available. Only about 20% of recipients were likely to act, so this would not be an efficient use of funding.' They chose money over lives.
the BHN debate at Aorere College on Saturday should be required viewing for every RW wingnut in Aotearoa also, i'd not encountered Kirsty Fong before, she is one scary bitch, would love to see more from her as election propaganda ramps up
#NZpol ✅️✅️ From the battlefield to the ballot: NZSAS veteran Josh Jacobsen stands for Green Party - NZ Herald www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/from-the-...
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“I’m getting closer to retirement age, and it’s daunting with the cost of living so high. A Living Wage would allow me to put a little more aside for the future instead of having to scrimp and save just to get by each week.” #nzpol Sign, share, spread the word.
Look. What I say to you is this. You could have had central govt sorting all this out. However, I campaigned on a massive racist lie to stop Labour's Three Waters and dump all the costs on local ratepayers. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
#NZPol latest 2 polls look very damaging for this shiddy coalition.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...
Simon Wilson... "And worse again, they’ve just reminded us that the thing they do best is nothing. Winston keeps his job, they keep their leader, and we keep a cost-of-living crisis, an ED crisis and a GP crisis, ... and unemployment and inflation are rising." substack.com/home/post/p-...
PRESS RELEASE: Thousands of NZers demand ‘hands off conservation land’ in nationwide day of action www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
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The Big Hairy Debate on Te Tititi didn't happen, as two govt. politicians chickened out. It turned into a very informative discussion though. Well worth your time. Pushing the viewing numbers up would be a good thank you to the BHN guys for pulling this off! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jLQ...
haha try telling me that "AI" had nothing to do with this i won't believe you, but you can try
Oh yes, the fact that AoNZ's building code is so succinct is why housing in e.g. Auckland is so affordable. Right, Kiwis? 😛 (Median house price in Auckland is around 940k NZD / ~780k AUD.)
newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/c... Checks notes, this govt is prepared to be anti maori, anti growth, anti woman, anti fair-pay, anti safe staffing, anti sick-leave and of course anti climate change even for our youngsters learning
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