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We still have a fantastic health system with dedicated people like this hospital intern and the specialist Neurosurgeon who saved this girls life…
NZ needs to fight to keep it that way and make NZ’s health system MUCH better. It is not just equipment it is also the people who make NZ’s health system work.
“She was assessed three times over 11 days, but it was thought she had the flu.”
It is also very important that first line medical staff are as good as they can possibly be because my feelings that the NZ health care is fantastic in an emergency but less so to actually access the system and get a diagnosis that is correct, sometimes in the time it takes, people are dying. But thankfully not in this case.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/114708096/meningitis-warning-christchurch-teen-with-flu-saved-minutes-from-death
We can’t keep expanding these rubbish dumps in particular in fragile areas and all the pollution that involves and species like the long finned eel being wiped out.
There is so little interest in NZ to actually reduce waste instead. Why would you when you can make so much private profit from expanding more waste sites in NZ?
For example making manufacturers and retailers be responsible for packaging and e waste. This would instantly drive them to stipulate and sell products that have less waste packaging and last longer and be more recyclable like cardboard not plastic.
Not have products being produced in the building industry that don’t last aka cladding now only lasts 15 years and is not necessary recyclable. Again manufacturers of building materials need to have a plan to dispose of their waste and make their products last longer.
Not have Green waste ever get into recycle centres. In every area there should be areas to put green waste and convert to compost aka in schools to have worm farms and libraries to have the old recycling depots for bottles, paper etc.
If we keep allowing the RMA to expand waste management areas for dumping rubbish then the issue will never be solved in an environmental way. They should BAN more waste management expansion in NZ and use the funds to reduce waste and treat waste with more environmental care.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/113228228/aucklands-proposed-dome-valley-landfill-could-spark-rahui
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/114639907/dump-valley-frustrated-locals-fight-tip-extension-plans
“For Buller Mayor Garry Howard, it is the erosion of a historic landfill with four hectares of toxic rubbish that’s keeping him at night.
“We’ve got old oil containers. This is an oil filter, oil bottle, and really it’s just going to get worse,” he said.
With each high tide, the old rubbish is loosening its hold.
“We know that there’s industrial oil, paints, asbestos. It’s an industrial dump. It’s not your normal domestic dump.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/weather-land-eroding-residents-fearing-for-lives-as-king-tides-thrash-west-coast.html
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/114664746/bnz-accidentally-sent-foodstuffs-100-million
Banks are not encouraged to take much care with customers money. For example with ASB if you paid someone via internet banking and pressed go back then it would pay the person again. If you bothered to complain to ASB then they would not get the money back for you. It was your problem that they had poorly functioning IT. Not sure if they even bother to correct this as it happened to a mate of mine a few years ago.
Regulators do absolutely nothing in NZ to stop banks which is why they make such massive profits here and money laundering is encouraged or at least ignored.
“The stakes were high for banks in mid-2018. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) had been shredded in the media for failing to prevent crooks laundering money through its smart ATMs, and was just two months away from agreeing to pay A$702 million to settle the case with Australian regulators.
But the leaked documents show that BNZ was confident it would not be pinged by New Zealand authorities and rated the risk of fines as “minor”, though it worried about the public finding out, and its reputation being damaged.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/114664719/bnz-struggled-to-abide-by-antimoney-laundering-laws
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