A good 50% of private healthcare $ comes from the public system as it is. They are like a fat tick with its head burrowed in deep. Best to excise it.
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A good 50% of private healthcare $ comes from the public system as it is. They are like a fat tick with its head burrowed in deep. Best to excise it.
"Human Rights Watch says Israel is using white phosphorus in Lebanon"
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
NZ group STILL Minding the Gap urges women to invoice PM Luxon for wages lost to gender and ethnic pay gaps, pushing mandatory reporting; leaders cite personal inequities and impacts.
Luxon repeating the untrue "NZ has 88% renewable energy".
It has that for electricity, but not for energy in general, which is 40%.
Can we stop underage woman - for 14 yr old child
Thanks.
The way to achieve world peace is to end our dependence on oil.
With the added benefit that if we do it quickly enough, we might be able to avert the climate crisis in time to enjoy the peace.
#MakeOilHistory
What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?
The similar values are racism.
Homelessness is a policy choice
Graph of public pension costs as % of GDP for OECD countries in 2021 (latest data). NZ is lower quartile at around 5.1%. OECD average is 7.8%. Plenty of Euro countries are around 10% or above.
Looks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵
❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌
Seriously, no, for lots of reasons.
1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]
RNZ is at it again so here are some pertinent facts about pensions. #nzpol
We produce some of the world's best wheat, and export it as animal feed. The import inferior wheat for our bread.
All shipped around by burning fossil fuels.
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ros Atkins is one of the BBC's best bullshit-diffusers.
Just envision that a Government came to power and cancelled a whole raft of essential programmes which would reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels, only for there to be a once in a century oil crisis.
“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high taxpayer cost. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.”
Housing the unhoused saves money. Via @fastcompany.com
They seem to think that being reactionary on climate policy will only have political upsides, when the whole purpose of being bought by the fossil fuel industry is that the material upsides accrue to the fossil fuel industry. Which has political downsides. People gonna be mad bro.
#nzpol
More than double!!
Vote for a government that will take proper harm reduction action ASAP.
#TooManyCows
#ReduceNitrates
#ProtectWater
#SwimmableRivers
Problem is, if you like that kind of logic, a lot of countries could say the same thing about the United States.
This could easily be bigger than dairy, but we're beholden to the teat
#nzpol
Nicola Willis - along with the rest of the National government - has a performance review on 7 November this year. And the choice is pretty simple: either we vote for the ultra-rich, or we vote for ourselves.
/end
Urban sprawl is bankrupting us. Applies to NZ (and Auckland gets a mention)
Minister Upston says nothing suggests Gloriavale children unsafe.
Commonsense says otherwise.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Visitors won't see abuse or culture silencing kids
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Is abuse leader Temple back at Gloriavale yet?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
And Steven Joyce former National Party Campaign Chair and Minister is chair of the board of NZME which owns the Herald and ZB
great thread @kentduston.bsky.social. Even if as we wish, it is 'short'..., surely the lesson here is that this will happen again (climate crisis?), making the remedies you refer to earlier in this thread just as urgent as they would be if, perish the thought, the war were to go on, and on,....
There are plenty of things we can and should be doing, as fast as humanly possible, to buffer these entirely predictable shocks. But in the absence of that, our entrenched neoliberal dogma is going to take us down a very bad road
This is, of course, set against a backdrop of two years of utter economic mismanagement. We already have high prices, wage increases below inflation, and high unemployment - for exactly no structural reason at all. All these things will get much worse with expensive oil
The first thing to remember is that every product and every supply chain is literally drenched in oil - from the food on our table to everything in the supermarket to the entire transportation sector. Nothing happens in AoNZ without fuel (typically diesel) being burned
If Luxon DOES go it is a VERY clear indication to NZers that there's a leadership group that is able to both oust a sitting PM AND direct media to *suddenly* decide they're going to pull the trigger across basically every major outlet
Luxon is horrific, but he was THEIR guy. Someone else is now
