That last line is FIRE 🔥

Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Te Tiriti is for everyone. Please sign. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

Deeply grateful to the cops who pushed hard against this, the journos like Paula who get the sunlight disinfectant out, & Ms Z who has been victimised at every turn.

"Aotearoa plummets from 2nd to 53rd in Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index ranking" NZ getting back on track - to those times when tobacco lobbyists had free reign #nzpol www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/aot...

We are supposed to honour our agreements, and that's what a treaty is! - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

“Wow I can't believe that 40 years of maximizing shareholder value at the expense of everything else didn't improve society at all.” 🤷‍♀️ #nzpol

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

A report from the Minister for Growth, on the unemployment rate. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #unemployment #joblessness

Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution newrepublic.com/article/2020...

We have seen 90 patients waiting for a ward bed in ED. And 100 patients arriving in a 3 hour period. The extra staff will be nice but need to fund primary care, community care and long term infrastructure. 140 new hospital beds coming in 'rapid-build' wards | The Post share.google/sgUv6kghiUXB...

New blog: Fresh dueling guidelines about post-arrest care from the AHA and ESICM 💔 BP targets 💔 Who needs an emergent cath? 💔 O2 targets 💔 pan-CT scans 💔 temp targets 💔 neuroprognostication Which guideline do I love? 😍 You'll have to read the post to find out. emcrit.org/pulmcrit/202... #EMIMCC

The patient safety specialist role was introduced in 2020, bringing new forms of expertise to improve safety in the NHS. We looked at the challenges specialists faced in trying to define their role and advance their status. Full paper: ths.im/47jOmI8 THIS summary: ths.im/47l8t8A

There are now just under 50 days to CCR Down Under 2025. The programme is out - 8 superb trial results coming up. Join us in Melbourne, in person or virtually, to discuss the best critical care trials in the world! criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr...

#NZ Measles “The person was at Auckland City Hospital's emergency department for nearly 10 hours from 10.30am on Friday.” – if you were there, check if you’re vaccinated, and watch for symptoms. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies. Pass it on. #ActOnClimate

Can’t wait to see the regulatory impact statement that outlines the impact of this decision on everyone who isn’t a farmer www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Nation upset at the inevitable result of its own actions

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target. My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The Govt wants to cut Health NZ staff working on alcohol harm & end its research & social marketing campaigns. Sixty five organisations have signed an open letter to the PM, calling for alcohol industry to be excluded from policy making. My #cartoon today #NZpol #alcohol #Health #PublicHealth

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Woohoo Dr Jamie Lee Rahiri! 🎉🎉🎉 Can someone convince her to get on Bluesky? We SO need her voice here. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025...

It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.

OECD comparison of changes in unemployment relative to 2019 average. Second image shows all oecd countries. I remain baffled by the media not asking the obvious questions here: 'How have we fked up so badly? Who is accountable?'

Begging media folk to do their job here.

Vaccination during pregnancy was associated with lowered maternal risks of COVID infection, stillbirth, preterm birth (including a 34% lower risk of severe preterm birth before 28 weeks), neonatal intensive care admission, & congenital anomalies 1/2

A good thing for New Zealanders to consider every time a local politician starts to make noises about moving toward privatized healthcare, or a "competitive insurance market"

Every new funding announcement is no new funding #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

🚨Deadline extended 🚨 Get your abstracts in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 by Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/vdMooRs2srtz... #cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

Excellent message from Chlöe Swarbrick and the #nzpol Greens. www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

. Gaza The dead boy tries to open his eyes. He wants to see the world he is leaving. But there is nothing to see here, nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone. His parents held him while he died but they are both dead, too. Or he held them, no one remembers. .

"I believe Health NZ needs to have a long talk to the government about the funding parameters in place … "The answer is not in private hospitals and outsourcing - it's in sustainably staffed public hospitals, with many more doctors, nurses and allied health professionals than we have now." #nzpol

New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza

I wish every country had a leader like Jacinda Ardern. Including New Zealand. Maybe ESPECIALLY New Zealand. The world would be a better place. Watch the interview if you haven’t. #Leadership @jacindaardern.bsky.social

🇳🇿 #OTD in #History 19 September 1893, #NewZealand became the first country to grant all women the right to vote. #WomensRights

My entire operating theatre (surgeon, anaesthetist, nurses, techs, registrars) stayed late today so that a patient could get her procedure done instead of having to sit around waiting for a slot next week. And not that this sniveling weasel will care, but the SMOs involved did it for free.

Look, did a bunch of us organise to have a pro Māori wards billboard on the same sign Hobson’s Pledge put their bullshit? Absolutely. Did we all put our names to it cause we're community leaders staunch in our position? Absolutely.

The hikoi over the bridge this Saturday is now starting from Onepoto Domain. #nzpol

This is so good. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiX...

Doctors are concerned the Healthy Futures Pae Ora law change will stop health workers speaking out about things they think are detrimental to healthcare and the public. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #PaeOra #HealthNZ #PublicHealth

“Using woke as a slur dismisses not only a word but the centuries of struggle, pain, and progress it represents. Whether intended or not, it aligns with the same forces that upheld slavery, apartheid, and white supremacy.” — Gregory Fortuin.