Daily review 21/12/2022

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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

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Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

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    On Saturday a person, not known to anyone there, attended a Christmas service for the Grace Foundation at an Auckland church and then waits outside and shoots dead someone who also attended.

    The victim was a participant in the murder of someone for being a nark.

    In one sense the hallmarks of a professional hit, and on the other not so – being identified on camera. Given there has been no arrest, the shooter has no local record. So police presume it was not a gang issue … despite the access to a hand gun. Who exactly would not fear being identified on camera (someone who will not be picked up by cameras here later because they have gone offshore, or were brought in).

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    Around 10,000 people get strokes each year

    Stroke patients are failing to recover properly on discharge from hospitals, advocates have warned.

    To add insult to injury, sufferers are not covered by the no-fault state insurance scheme because it is judged a “non-injury disability” – despite the devastating effects.

    “And because the clinical environment is stretched at the moment, the chances of getting an early consult from a physio, occupational therapist in their home or a speech language therapist, they are very hard to get hold of.”

    The Stroke Foundation is able to plug the gap and connect people with those services – but Lambert says there is also no nation-wide electronic system in place to transition patients into their care.

    “If you're deemed worthy enough, you'll get social services. But for everybody else, it's effectively fend for yourself.”

    Ah the important person will be sorted so if Labour do nothing …

    Experts say early intervention is crucial as patients experience a heightened state of neuroplasticity immediately after a stroke, giving a better chance for the brain to rewire itself.

    Lambert says it is also inequitable that those who have experience a stroke are not able to access Accident Corporation Compensation services, like rehabilitation and income cover. It was always intended that the scheme be extended to non-accident disability, but the second stage of that implementation was never completed.

    Stroke is the country’s leading cause of adult disability and the Stroke Foundation is also predicting a 40% increase in stroke rates over the next decade

    “These are big statistics – but people don’t see it, and they associate strokes with old age when in fact people live really good lives after a stroke when they get the right support.”

    Another case where early action affords recovery. So why not?

    A spokesman for ACC Minister Carmel Sepuloni said the Government has no plans to expand ACC to specifically include strokes.

    Why not?

    However, the income insurance scheme administered by ACC, would cover medical conditions like strokes.

    Only in income, not the medical treatment (80% of the pay for 6 months) but without recover from a stroke so one can return to work …

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/130746005/stroke-patients-failed-by-postcode-lottery-rehabilitation

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    Trump's tax returns should be released to the public by the end of the year.

    The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted 24-16 to release former president Donald Trump’s tax returns, capping a protracted legal and political battle that began when Trump was in the Oval Office.

    Democrats have for more than three years pushed to make Trump’s tax returns public, and the documents were finally made available to the Ways and Means Committee late last month after the Supreme Court denied a last attempt by Trump to withhold the records.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/trump-tax-returns-house-democrats/?

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    Sad to see Eddie Osei-Nketia lost to NZ athletics. NZs fastest ever man and internationally competitive in the worlds marquee sprint event.

    Sadly left on the sidelines by the completely inflexible NZOC and Athletics New Zealand who seem far more focused on niche events and dare I say it European atheletes.

    It's a complete missed opportunity for NZ athletics and the sight of the black singlet at the pointy end of top end sprint events would have had the potential to inspire a whole new generation.

    Disgraceful in my opinion.

    2. 8.2

      It would have been nice to see someone try and defend the bronze won in the 1924 Paris Olympics 100 metres in 2024.

      The lack of flexibility in the selection process (catering to younger athletes on the improve) and lack of focus on the purpose of opportunity/need to prepare them for Olympic events with international experience reminds one of the departure of so many successful companies offshore because of lack of investment.

    3. 8.3

      I have some involvement in a very different 'sport' (some would argue it isn't) and Gus's tale is oh so familiar bone headed petty officials driving talent out of New Zealand is far to damn common in my experience.

  10. 10

    The maul that was the Fiji election continues to roll along! The other day Daru toppled Gavoka from the leadership of Soldelpa, today he himself is gone. The 16 to 14 internal vote for the party's crucial 3 MP votes in coalition with Rabuka over Bainimara is being questioned. Meanwhile Fiji first are refusing to throw in the towel yet.

    Things may be spiraling towards catastrophe in Fiji while Christmastide provides a distraction from scrutiny. Thinking of Samoa last year, and how much it took to budge Tuila'epa. Parliament may not open for quite some time. Though I hope I am wrong about that:

    The ruling FijiFirst party is refusing to concede the 2022 election saying it can only be called after the election of the prime minister on the floor of parliament…

    Its general secretary Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum… who is also attorney general – told local media the prime minister's role and the power of the government would not change until the election of a new prime minister was held on the floor of parliament…

    He said concerns raised by the outgoing Sodelpa general secretary, Lenaitasi Duru citing anomalies in the voting process had to be considered.

    Khaiyum said he looked forward to re-submitting FijiFirst's coalition proposal to the management board of the party should it see fit to sit again.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/481243/nothing-to-concede-fijifirst-says-election-can-only-be-decided-in-parliament

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