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Daily review 31/07/2024
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Open mike 31/07/2024
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Daily review 30/07/2024
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Woefully misinformed or intentionally mangling the truth?
The Health sector crisis continues to dominate recent news. And the Government has continued its blitzkreig of apportioning blame to everyone but itself. But there is a growing response from health professionals suggesting that what the Government has been telling you may not be actually…
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Open mike 30/07/2024
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Daily review 29/07/2024
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Mountain Tui: Who will hold Chris Luxon and Shane Reti accountable for the Health NZ deception?
This is based on Mountain Tui‘s earlier substack post. In the days since the bombshell "firing" of Health NZ's board and the appointment of a Health Commissioner, a lot has become clearer about PM Luxon and Health Minister Shane Reti's claims. How accurate were they,…
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Open mike 29/07/2024
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They are going to privatise health, aren’t they
This Government continues its trend to resembling something akin to Liz Truss's rule of England. And Health is clearly among its targets. You can determine this by the level of its propaganda. In the past week the Government has replaced the board of Health New…
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Open mike 28/07/2024
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A short history of National’s fascination with boot camps
I posted recently about the abuse in care report and how the release of the report jarred with National's recent opening of a new boot camp facility. This made me reflect on the history of National's fascination with boot camps. And a quick trawl through…
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Open mike 27/07/2024
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Daily review 26/07/2024
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National sneakily reduces child poverty targets
It has emerged that National has sneakily reduced child poverty targets. Without any publicity it has posted this Gazette Notice changing three intermediate targets under the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018. For the next year the figure for less than 50% of median equivalised Disposable…
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Open mike 26/07/2024
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Daily review 25/07/2024
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The Abuse in Care report and the Government’s boot camp proposal
Yesterday the Royal Commission's report into abuse in care was released. The timing for the Government is unfortunate. Because the report makes a compelling case to suggest that boot camps do not work. Part of the report deals with the Whakapakiri Camp, a form of…
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Open mike 25/07/2024
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Daily review 24/07/2024
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Resisting US pressure for NZ to sacrifice itself to defend US hegemony against China
Twenty years’ ago the then leader of the conservative New Zealand National Party, Don Brash, got into hot water when a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) official reported that he had assured a visiting delegation from the US Senate that if his party…
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Open mike 24/07/2024
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Daily review 23/07/2024
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Mountain Tui: Can we talk about New Zealand’s health system?
By the time Christopher Luxon and Shane Reti fronted the waiting media throng to announce the disbanding of the Health NZ board, they were already down 5 of the original 7 Directors. I wrote about it here, but the upshot of it is that a…
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Open mike 23/07/2024
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Daily review 22/07/2024
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Biden goes, Kamala Harris for US president
from RNZ US President Joe Biden dropped his faltering re-election bid on Sunday, amid intensifying opposition within his own Democratic Party, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the party's candidate against Republican Donald Trump. Biden, 81, in a post on X said he…
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Open mike 22/07/2024
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Will he stay or will he go
I can't remember American politics ever being this weird. Instead of being in Jail Donald Trump is riding a wave of support and risks being returned to the White House as President. The graphics from the failed assassination attempt on him will dominate this election…
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Open mike 21/07/2024
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Open mike 20/07/2024
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