Shane Reti gone burger but personally profited from National's billion dollar privatisation heist His "aspirational" billion dollar cuts will hurt our health system for years to come

What folk seem to forget is that the same people [surgeons & anaesthetists mostly] who work in public health part-time, also work in private part-time. The key limitation is access to a fully staffed and functioning theatre. Just where does Brown think he will magic the people from?

Prepare for meltdowns from any VFF or similar people in your life. I think they genuinely convinced themselves the phase 2 report was going to prove them right. Reader, it did not.

While you may have heard Cr Fletcher blaming City Vision's Richard Northey for the postal voting system, there was a vote last term where we decided NOT to change from postal voting to booth voting. As the sole City Vision councillor I voted FOR booth voting, and Cr Fletcher voted AGAINST booths🤷‍♀️

When Covid lockdowns hit, Grant Robertson acted within hours to provide real financial support so that people continued to get paid and small businesses survived. Willis, faced with a crisis of potentially similar scale, forms an advisory committee and waffles about fiscal responsibility #nzpol

Footage published by Iranian media today shows damage to Chehel Sotoon, a 17th century, Safavid-era landmark palace and garden located in the historic centre of Isfahan, after air strikes in its vicinity. The Persian garden that surrounds the palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Parking fees at New Lynn Secure Parking (Aussie outfit owned by Japanese outfit Park24) just increased their fees by 20% bc yk profiteering.

Oh yay RNZ interviews one of our predatory bankers that strip billions out of AoNZ each year about ... How to ruin our health system but shoveling public money into private health vampires

It's normal to restrict or move away from treatments when evidence of harms starts to outweigh evidence of benefits. It's not normal to restrict or move away from treatments when there is evidence of benefits and none of harms, even if the evidence of benefits is "low quality."

The Government has a responsibility to ensure that technologies launched from New Zealand soil are not being used to help other countries wage war. If Rocket Lab launches from Aotearoa are supporting the illegal war on Iran then the Government must be transparent about this.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA They're platforming an ACTUAL NAZI NOW I'm laughing to keep from screaming

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

How weird because giving the private sector “more scope” in the UK did not work out well - see below headline. Studies consistently show that private sector involvement in public health leads to poorer health outcomes - RNZ noted this last year: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

1) Healthcare "woes" are purposefully engineered by corporate-allegiant politicians, so that 2) banks committed to profit can write reports promoting privatisation, so that 3) compliant media outlets can write headlines like this. This is the process by which we lose our public health system.

12.7% of Credit Card Loans are now in Serious Delinquency (90+ Days), the 2nd highest in history. The only other time the percentage was higher was the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis #EconSky

So the US has bombed the refinery and set fire to the streets, targeted the desalination plants that supply water to the population, and deliberately hit a primary school. This isn't 'regime change'; it's premeditated genocide - just the same as in Gaza

Poverty is a moral failing, just not a failing of the individual. It’s a failing of society.

I would just like to remind everyone that the slimy Atlas operative cancelled the network of community organisation supply good lunch (apparently “woke” to have nice food for kids) in favour of a global corporate to serve up disgusting and occasionally dangerous slop to our tamariki.

How do we get the fake EftPostle Brian Tamaki's Destiny Church on this register?

The wonderful Betty-Anne

Comment from Auckland University: More than half of children experiencing food insecurity in NZ do not get a free school meal

Iran has been screaming "Death to America" for over 40 years and have been waiting for this very moment. They are very capable in technology and maneuvers, while the U.S. regime is compromised and inept to deal with this manufactured crisis.

Luxon, the Hapless Carpet Moth. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #USA #Iran

Musician Dilworth Karaka leaves us. 🇳🇿

RNZ is at it again so here are some pertinent facts about pensions. #nzpol

Good explainer here if you are still on FB: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EN7...

Burton’s execution by nitrogen-gassing is on March 12. It’s imperative people make their voices in opposition to this heard. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinio...

Imagine a parallel world where NZ had spent the last 2 years doing everything possible to reduce fossil fuel dependency in energy and transport. We’d have lower climate pollution and a more resilient economy. Instead the Govt subsidised fossil fuels and now we are exposed to Trump’s madness.

Hey folks, you know the Roads of National Significance are ruinously expensive, with extremely poor business cases? That was before oil prices started rising. Factor in fuel costs and these projects just became even more ridiculous.

And Steven Joyce former National Party Campaign Chair and Minister is chair of the board of NZME which owns the Herald and ZB

Ladies and gentlemen: your Prime Minister

Wikipedia, using UBS's Wealth Databook, places AoNZ as the 8th richest country in the world, and yet we need to reduce dialysis programmes for patients. #NZpol

RATIONING DIALYSIS

Make it stick.

Luxon has gone and gone on 1ZB on a Friday afternoon to say he's got what it takes and won't be stepping down. Clueless till the bitter end eh dude? lol #NZPol

Hamilton could swing red this election... #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Unbelievably on the day Erica the North Shore racist pushes a leadership bid Marc Daalder details her getting a speech from ChatGPT. She actually typed "I want to sounds smart and inspirational." Great use of grammar for an Education Minister. (Currently paywalled)

100% agree re: Curia poll reliability but there's significant fallout in the Beehive today (ie will Luxon be rolled?) and that's newsworthy. So given that other media outlets are covering it, has there been political interference in TVNZ's decision not to report it? It's just plain weird.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, Luxon’s lot are going to kill the Clean Car Standard. At a time when fuel prices are rising and emissions have to come down. Russia is the only other OECD country without these standards, it’s BONKERS.

Key should be embarrassed he gave us this buffoon, but he won’t be. He’s mentored Luxon since day 1 and this is what we’ve got. Key would have voted for Trump because he’ll always put his venal self-interest ahead of the common good in any country. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

On NRT: "Papers, please" for the internet - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/03/pape...

Just talked with my thesis student working in the Persian Gulf area. They are safe, but missiles/drones have hit close by, and they work near a US base. My questions about their safety and best wishes for them were met with "Inshallah" - God willing. This Trump / Netanyahu lunacy must stop.

Sure, we'll retract that paper we published that someone else faked your name on. Just pay us $500.

Do we need National's gas? No, we don't. #nzpol theconversation.com/new-modellin...

Luxon says he doesn’t have the intelligence (or the principles, it seems) I don't think I have ever read a more honest headline, but I doubt Peter Dunne meant it the way I read it. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/05/p...

See lengthy Comment by ex-chief of Statistics for both NZ and UK, Len Cook. Using only admin data is like going back to blocky low-res graphics. Sub-populations get blurry.

Somehow they're not tired of crimes against humanity, and want to do a Gaza on Lebanon. I guess it's like 'well, if we're going to The Hague anyway may as well stack that docket'

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.