The Nats are so much better at managing the economy‘. 🙄Comparing real gross domestic product per capita, converted for purchasing power parity, New Zealand ranks 25th out of 43 for growth over the past decade and 37th for the past two years’ New Zealand income growth one of the worst in the world’

Good read jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

Surviving measles (again, even mild cases) wipes out a portion of your immune memory and weakens your body's defenses, leaving you vulnerable to infections you were previously protected against through years of exposure or immunization.

Screening for lung cancer reduces mortality by 20-26%. Open access article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apropos of the recent Southland times article documenting the chronic severe shortage of nursing staff at Southland hospital…. Open access artilce qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Tangential, but related for #NZ While we have an emergency alert system through mobile phones, personally I’d still like an official national app that pulls together warnings from different sources that apply to an area.

I feel seen

Another male blaming a women for his behaviour. Should never get his license back. And shouldn’t have name suppression either. Paramedic loses medical registration after strangling partner, biting nose

Are there any Tangata Tiriti groups in Tauranga? A friends parents want to join one.

Man fails to realise his behaviour needs to change. ‘Shepherd also said he… …now "views most women now as a potential complainant".’ Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust founder Craig Shepherd keeps security licence despite assault convictions www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

When your party had 8.6% support at the election, having well over 90% of the population objecting to you hijacking parliament and the legislative process sounds like a pretty "representative sample" to me.

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Ngā mihi Environmental Defence Society. Great work!According to Bishop giving community earlier access to documents would lead to lobbying… Bit rich considering how much lobbying NACT is happy to receive behind closed doors of course. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/29/f...

I found the Good news app (sometimes the wairua needs a break from the awfulness of lots of media). The European one not the US based one (better privacy requirements on the EU). Found this story… maybe the ‘market’ will force change?? www.ecowatch.com/ev-sales-pro...

No association found between miscarriage and history of COVID-19 vaccine. #obsky #fmsky #medsky #research #COVID-19 journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

NZ last in ranking for effective alcohol policy. Oh so back on track.... www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/int...

One thousand strong! More Maori doctors! Keep going, only 5.1% of doctors registered are Maori. . . Keep going. www.mcnz.org.nz/about-us/our...

Pay equity… From NZ Doctor ‘About half of the impacted claims are in health, including primary care nurses, Plunket staff and community midwives.‘ www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/news...

I’m shook. Who would have thought? ‘IR said there was a pattern of property developers claiming significant tax refunds when they incurred costs, but not paying tax when the properties sold.’ www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Tautoko. Also seen with the repeal to tobacco control legislation

For people wanting to boycott US companies that are rolling back their DEI programmes, here's a list as of 11 April. Forbes has a paywall but gives you 4 or 5 free articles. www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Aue aue aue. Arohanui ki ēnei wāhine toa. Tino nui tōku aroha mō Olivia rātou ko tōna whānau, ōna hoa hoki. Into the light: Why Nicholle Bailey and Jess Massey waived suppression to tell the truth about Olympic cyclist Olivia Podmore’s tragic death

Late to the party here but have just become aware of issues around Substack’s support of Nazi people/groups on the platform. Disappointed because, having ‘left’ a lot of traditional media and all SM except Bsky I had developed a small group of people on Substack whose work I wanted to follow…

So good… substack.com/@denzien/not...

Two threads/posts that speak to my heart….

Clever use of barcode on the back of the “Māori Picture Dictionary” #TeReo #Māori #language

Protest against David Seymour at 4.30pm tomorrow in Ōtautahi organised by Peace Action Ōtautahi. #NZpol

Vale Dr Ron Jones - an unsung hero indeed. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/15/d...

Perhaps forestry comps could pay for removal of their slash & compensate for damages. Landowners could use that $ to plant permanent natives & other forms of investment. Tai Rāwhiti to replant 100,000 hectares of forestry with permanent bush, but at whose cost? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Fairly low bar for Hipkins to better…. www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/08/p...

And my message tonight goes out to the members of the press gallery representing our major media companies. “MIHI FORBES STOOD IN FRONT OF YOU AND SHOWED YOU HOW IT’S DONE. NOW AOTEAROA NEEDS YOU TO STEP UP AND FOLLOW HER LEAD. -DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU INTERVIEW. -ASK UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS.

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This is exciting…

📚🇳🇿 Needed a break from reading Character Limit (about EM & Tw1tter take over). Had a great chuckle from this gem ‘so he delivered a benevolent mini-lecture (he was a university lecturer, he enjoyed lecturing even more than the average man)’ (Liane Moriarty, from Here One Moment).

An Indian urologist, European English urological surgeon and the male of 12 Years a Slave talk prostate cancer. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/do...

Will the govt set up support for our exporters to increase trade with non-US countries. Better to do that than have them face reduced US sales because of tariffs?

Hoping that this happens…https://x.com/cfishman/status/1907574154359918751?s=12

Seems to me that Trump and his wealthy associates are expecting to benefit from all the ‘renewed manufacturing’ they’ll fund in the US now tariffs are in place. Two problems - tariffs on imported products needed in manufacturing & whether ‘non-immigrants’ will work in manufacturing

#BelieveTheDrs Revealed: Senior doctors told PM Gisborne Hospital is on 'brink of collapse' newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/03/r...

For sure. But let’s look at what happened in the US that led it to vote for this self-destruction (twice)? The rest of us would specifically like to avoid that.

Petition about the school lunches. ‘Petition launched against 'horrible, disgusting and inedible' school lunches www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Here’s a link to the Stuff poll re coalition performance. Get stuck in team 😁 #nzpol www.tickaroo.com/e/FNRa8SlW3r...

"The real crisis is not that public health — which is fundamentally about policies dictating the distribution of resources required to protect human life — has been politicized. It is that it has not been politicized nearly enough."— @ericreinhart.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great article by Rawiri and e-Tangata e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Ngāpuhi leader Sonny Tau jailed after seven-year indecency case www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... Im full of admiration for this wahine toa and her determination for the truth to come out. She was 16 years old at the time, and close to Tau and his whānau.

@nzdoctor.bsky.social reporting today that the govt is establishing a taskforce to review and potentially replace the health system reset plan put forward be Lester Levy. The taskforce’s plan is apparently being referred to as a 90 day turnaround.