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Lester Levy: “Significant, Not Painless” Changes Needed

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 10:08 am, August 16th, 2024 - 14 comments

Lester Levy gave a keynote address this weak signalling painful, strong medicine is needed for Health NZ. But his claims contradict frontline staff and experts.

Mountain Tui: Luxon’s $1000 A Week Is His “Entitlement”. Just Not Yours.

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 1:06 pm, August 14th, 2024 - 32 comments

When Luxon claimed $1000 a week of tax-free, taxpayers money for accommodation, because he didn’t want the 2 free properties he was offered, he said he was entitled to it. But according to the government, all beneficiaries now require harsher rules or risk having their entitlements stripped. Yet only ~5% aren’t compliant and last quarter, 1500 were cut off. What do the numbers say?

Mountain Tui: Beneficiary sanctions & targets don’t add up

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 1:23 pm, August 13th, 2024 - 9 comments

The jobseeker beneficiary sanctions and targets are not adding up. It also inflicts a lack of dignity and shame on recipients at a time when austerity is actively increasing unemployment.

What does this Government have against Te Ao Māori?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:24 am, August 11th, 2024 - 28 comments

Te Ao Māori forms an increasingly important part of our cultural identity. And most of us realise this and celebrate it. This Government’s stance is at odds with this increasingly strong consensus.

Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Chris

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:19 am, August 7th, 2024 - 18 comments

“Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Rob. I can buzz around like a Beehive boy, but I’d like to see you do my job”

Luxon is numerically illiterate

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, August 7th, 2024 - 5 comments

National has been caught out yet again using dubious analysis of data to justify policy.

Mountain Tui: New Zealanders are now dying from an underfunded health system

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 12:41 pm, August 5th, 2024 - 5 comments

After months of warnings from doctors, nurses and hospitals, a Northland patient is dead after no doctors were present at the hospital. The budget cuts and chosen austerity measures are hurting us all. Here’s more.

ALP knows how to redress wrongs. NZ dithers

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:15 am, August 2nd, 2024 - 5 comments

God Bless the ALP, Bill Shorten and all the Labour MP’s across the ditch for tackling the real issues facing people with disabilities in Australia. It takes courage, fortitude, a good heart to seek redress to wrongs done to the weakest amongst us. They are taking those steps.

NZ government are just good at dithering.

Woefully misinformed or intentionally mangling the truth?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:24 am, July 30th, 2024 - 26 comments

Senior medical figures have questioned the accuracy of what the Government is saying about the health crisis in Northland. And in an example of unbelievably bad timing it has been revealed that the Goverment put aside $216 million to fund a exise duty reduction for Phillip Morris.

Mountain Tui: Who will hold Chris Luxon and Shane Reti accountable for the Health NZ deception?

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 5:20 pm, July 29th, 2024 - 21 comments

Since Shane Reti and Christopher Luxon announced the Health NZ cost “blowout” and an unexpected deficit, the truth has emerged, and it’s all becomes stranger than fiction. Which claims were accurate? And which seemed to be a case of misrepresentation?

They are going to privatise health, aren’t they

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:28 pm, July 28th, 2024 - 50 comments

This Government continues its trend to resembling something akin to Liz Truss’s rule of England. And Health is clearly among its targets.

Mountain Tui: Can we talk about New Zealand’s health system?

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 11:25 am, July 23rd, 2024 - 96 comments

Christopher Luxon and Shane Reti took the extraordinary step of removing the Health NZ Board and replacing it with a Health Commissioner. Why did they do that and will it help the real issues facing our health system?

Mountain Tui: ‘Corruption First’ Strikes Again – Is the National, ACT, and New Zealand Government in tobacco’s pocket?

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 3:53 pm, July 18th, 2024 - 10 comments

A track record of deception and pro tobacco industry policies is becoming evident in the Coalition. Casey Costello is at it again, this time quietly halving excise tax for some tobacco products. This is the first time in NZ’s history to have reduced excise on tobacco. We should all ask ‘Why now?’

Tui: National Party’s Local Water Done Well – A more expensive 3 Waters with potential for privatisation

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 6:30 am, July 18th, 2024 - 4 comments

Simeon Brown is working on National’s New 3 Waters called “Local Water Done Well.” But is it just a more expensive version with a privatisation catch?

Mountain Tui: Crashing New Zealand’s health system is not the way to prosperity, Prime Minister

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 2:44 pm, July 16th, 2024 - 15 comments

The drumbeat of health warnings continues from hospitals, doctors and nurses. But is the Government prepared to listen?

Government is cutting funding for food banks

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:29 pm, June 29th, 2024 - 14 comments

Are things back on track? How about for those who can least afford to feed themselves? It appears not with reports that funding for food banks is being slashed. And the consequence could be dire.

C Listers and tag alongs

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:01 am, June 19th, 2024 - 28 comments

Christopher Luxon has accused senior business leaders who travelled with a trade delegation with Chris Hipkins of being “C listers and tag alongs”.

Who would have thought that he used to run an airline?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:06 pm, June 18th, 2024 - 26 comments

Last year Christopher Luxon said that he would not use Defence Force planes to travel internationally if elected as prime minister. Turns out that this is not actually true.

National’s irksome incompetence is inexcusable

Written By: Incognito - Date published: 6:05 am, June 5th, 2024 - 11 comments

When the fabric of lies unravels the gaslighting increases.

The Big Budget Backflip *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:57 pm, June 3rd, 2024 - 10 comments

* or is it?

Putting Politics over People

Written By: Incognito - Date published: 2:00 pm, June 1st, 2024 - 24 comments

National’s breaking of its election promise to fund 13 cancer treatments is cruel beyond words.

The Luxon Government’s War on Nature

Written By: weka - Date published: 6:10 am, May 25th, 2024 - 10 comments

“But the truth is that real gains only ever come out of a mobilised civil society and achieving a mobilised civil society is exactly what we have to do.”

– Russel Norman

Speech time

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:02 am, May 21st, 2024 - 6 comments

In the past week Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins have both delivered future vision themed speeches. With some dramatic contrasts.

Court of Appeal rules against Chhour

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:51 am, May 15th, 2024 - 16 comments

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the summons issued to Children’s Minister Karen Chhour was valid but decline to enforce it as the date has passed. And the Government has hastily introduced the bill to stop any further action being taken by the Tribunal.

MPs pay increases

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:57 am, May 1st, 2024 - 94 comments

The Remuneration Authority has announced that MPs will be getting a 10% increase in their salaries during the course of this Parliament.

The Liz Truss of the South Seas

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:43 am, April 21st, 2024 - 35 comments

Liz Truss’s short reign as UK Prime Minister foundered after her budget requiring borrowing to fund tax cuts was released. The budget tanked the UK economy and caused Truss’s resignation. This week amongst announcements of massive cuts it has emerged that the Government is also planning borrowing for tax cuts.