Open Mike 14/09/25

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  2. 2

    Brian Tamaki, told the crowd: 'Ban any type of public expression in our Christian nation from other religions. Ban Halal, ban Burquas. Ban mosques, ban temples, ban shrines – we don’t want those in our countries.'

    Our boy was a guest speaker of Tommy Robinson at the Anti-Immigrant ‘Unite the Kingdom’ massive march in London yesterday.
    From The Mirror.

  4. 4

    Nurses Organisation Files First Pay Equity Claims Under New Regime
    [8 Sept 2025]

    Doctors fear law change would gag healthworkers from speaking out
    [careful now RNZ, 4 Sept 2025]
    Doctors have made impassioned pleas to the government to step back from a law change they say will gag them from speaking out and cost patient lives.

    At least for now, healthworkers have other ways to express opinions – for example, "playing games with people’s lives". Now there's a quote that provides an insight into the 'mind' of our Minister of Health.

    1. 5.1

      Chumocracy. National, ACT and NZFirst are all engaging with consulting and IT firms for ‘policy input’.
      It will increase as the prospect of loosing seats at the next GE. Many are working on opportunities in the after life.

      1. 5.2.1

        That maybe true Ad, but is it what we need right now, I'll have a guess most "bottom feeders" couldn't give a toss about Pearl Jam

      2. 5.2.2

        It's a result of this.

        https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/28-08-2025/brown-and-luxon-clash-over-bed-levy-as-major-events-slip-from-aucklands-grasp

        It came after they cut government funding for Matariki events. And choice not to provide any money for Auckland to host the return of the Americas Cup.

        Why?

        Risible growth in the local economy and with an election year coming up.

        The underlying factor is appropriate domestic incomes and spending policy, at the personal and government level.

        A working economy.

        1. 5.2.2.1

          It came after they cut government funding for Matariki events. And choice not to provide any money for Auckland to host the return of the Americas Cup.

          This needs to be hammered hard. This isn't something new, it's reinstating something that National cut, and that cut has done damage. It's only when they realise that they are likely to loose significant votes in Auckland that they reverse their damage.

          We'll probably see more of this as the election approaches, reinstate things they've cut, and then crow how great they are putting money into what people want.

    4. 5.4

      Looks like the old "bread and circuses" approach.

      Keep the plebs happy with entertainment, and maybe they won't notice the money (taxpayers' money of course) would have been better spent on more beds or another operating theatre in the Dunedin hospital.

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