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5:30 pm, September 21st, 2026 - 2 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
https://otaihangasecondopinion.wpcomstaging.com/2026/09/20/health-minister-misses-health-targets-yet-again/ [HT to Scoop]
Simeon Brown will continue his destruction of Health NZ’s workforce, in body and in spirit, until he and his target-obsessed ideologues are voted out of office.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/1483178/exasperated-nurses-strike-at-specialist-waitakere-hospital-ward
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/1481407/patient-numbers-soar-for-whanganui-hospital-s-15-bed-emergency-department
https://www.psa.org.nz/news-media/pm-is-right-to-be-surprised-real-pay-data-not-job-ads-shows-public-service-pay-up-1-3-inflation-4-1 [HT to Scoop]
Instead of acting surprised, Luxon could have shown healthy scepticism that one would expect from a PM and former high-flying airline manager. Especially, because the BS claim came from Mike Hosking, which is akin asking the most sycophantic and worst hallucinating AI for an answer and then blindly & stupidly relying on it.