The Ex-Pollies at the Trough
When you look at the rewards our politicians reap, it is patently obvious to whom their service was, and is, rendered.
Guest Post
NZ’s Health System in Crisis
It increasingly looks like the Government has realised that its own underfunding of HNZ is causing a problem, but it is seeking to create a narrative that it is due to financial mismanagement and “bureaucracy bloat”.
NZ Politics Daily: 26 July 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ABUSE IN CARE REPORT, CHILD WELFARE Joel MacManus (Spinoff): The shadow of a boot camp hangs over parliament RNZ: Minister can't guarantee abuse won't occur at controversial boot camps RNZ: Christopher Luxon defends boot camps as 'very different'
NZ Politics Daily: 25 July 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ABUSE IN CARE Derek Cheng (Herald): Why some of the Royal Commission’s recommendations will land in the Government’s lap like a tonne of bricks (paywalled) Ric Stevens (Open Justice Reporting): Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care: What the final report
Te Pāti Māori Scandal Gets Worse
It’s worth asking how seriously Te Pāti Māori takes corruption issues and the untoward influence of big money in politics.
NZ Politics Daily: 24 July 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ABUSE IN STATE AND FAITH BASED CARE, ORANGA TAMARIKI Aaron Smale (1News): State care has key role in creating violent gang members – submission Elizabeth Stanley (Newsroom): The least we should expect from final abuse in care report Stephen Winter (The Conversation): Tragedy and hope:
Tantrums From Debs and TPM
Next time these risible claims surface, instead of throwing up our hands in horror, we should just laugh loudly and ridicule their stupidity.
Must the World Go to War?
It would be nice if there was a war and nobody came. But it doesn’t look as if that can happen in the modern world.
NZ Politics Daily: 23 July 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HEALTH Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Te Whatu Ora unable to confirm which hospital departments are safely staffed Rachel Thomas (Post): Is Health NZ overspending or underfunded? (paywalled) Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘I have never known morale so low’: Senior doctors, nurses push back on plans to
NZ Politics Daily: 22 July 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HEALTH Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Role of tobacco interests in making government policy Stuff: Watch: Professor ‘flabbergasted’ over Govt cutting excise tax on Heated Tobacco Products Nick Rockel: Tobacco First Dominic O’Sullivan (The Conversation): Ethnicity, equality and Pharmac: how the Treaty really
Human Rights Are Wrongs When They Transgress God’s Word
I am taking this issue seriously. How dare they tamper with the Human Rights Act?
The Role of tobacco interests in making government policy
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards For the first time ever, New Zealand has just reduced taxes on tobacco products – in this case a 50 per cent reduction in the health taxes on “heated tobacco products”. The move came in very quietly at the start of the month and is
NZ Politics Daily: 19 July 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HEALTH Janet Hoek, Jude Ball, Andrew Waa, Anna Graham-DeMello, Richard Edwards, and Melissa-Jade Gregan (Public Health Communications Centre): Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, align with tobacco industry lobbying Brett Kerr-Laurie (Press/Post): Tobacco companies gain customers as
As “the megaphone” for mining, is Shane Jones too lax on lobbying?
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards As the Minister for Resources, Shanes Jones is happy to declare that he’s on the side of the mining companies, proclaiming that no one “should doubt that I am the megaphone of industry in this government.” While many will appreciate his dogged championing
This Is Not Us
Parlermaid The Settlement Centre Waikato (SCW) in Hamilton, New Zealand, is a place of unity and one which welcomes all people, regardless of their religious or political beliefs, ethnicity or country of origin. A key feature of the newly redeveloped SCW are the ethnic panels that externally wrap the building
NZ Politics Daily: 18 July 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Apologies for the Substack newsletter colours today - there seems to be an error making the links green, which we will fix for tomorrow. GREENS Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): The Greens can own the hypocrisy and push Tana out Ben Thomas (Post): Time for