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Our PM needs to ensure our borders are able to detect Omicron coming in from overseas cause that is where it will come from.
Exactly – but will they bother or let the business and immigration free for all, get more bodies in to live in NZ houses, that they seem unable to build?
Just like the roads where it’s the blind leading the blind as NZ experts have left NZ in the last 10 years tired of low wages and poor conditions and those left working in NZ and the replacement workers seem to be led and managed by the clueless or greedy or both.
Revealed: Flawed chipseal behind latest Transmission Gully delay
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/revealed-flawed-chipseal-behind-latest-transmission-gully-delay/65ORTKE35WVBRR7IT4YZ7W7REY/
One of the reasons NZ’s building shortages of materials and runaway inflations is that much construction effort is completely wasted and needing to be redone from building houses, to roads.
Not to mention the carbon emissions from not being able to get it right, first time.
You don’t save money by employing a bums on seats approach who don’t understand NZ construction conditions, don’t have extensive NZ construction experience and have language difficulties throughout the supply chain. Mistakes keep happening and nothing gets done, at great cost.
Expert migrants don’t stay in NZ, expert professionals and workers don’t stay in NZ?
NZ has a skills retention problem while enabling those who have no skills to easily get here and ‘have a go’!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/458107/bloomfield-to-speak-to-minister-about-changes-to-vaccine-booster-programme
…Some health experts were calling for the booster to be available more quickly – something Bloomfield would be speaking to ministers about today.
“We want to be going into winter next year with the highest possible level of population immunity and so far in rolling out our booster programme we’ve seen at that six month interval, about half of people are booking in and having it at six months and it may well be we need a shorter interval to make sure people do get it on time.”
Ninety percent of eligible New Zealanders were now fully vaccinated.
New Zealand’s first case of Omicron was reported yesterday after it was found a person who tested positive for Covid-19 in a Christchurch managed isolation facility had the variant.
The person arrived in New Zealand on a flight from Germany via Dubai that landed in Auckland before they transferred to Christchurch on a chartered domestic flight.
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told Morning Report the person was vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and is doing well.
“Pfizer does afford protection against this variant which is really good however it does seem that a third dose, that booster dose, is really important to get that level of protection up to about 80 – I think it’s 85 percent protection against even symptomatic disease, and of course an even higher level of protection from hospitalisation or death.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/458136/covid-19-more-passengers-on-flight-with-omicron-case-test-positive
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018824864/omicron-can-be-kept-out-of-nz-professor-baker
Let’s try!
NSW – 17 Dec.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/458127/nsw-records-highest-daily-covid-19-cases-ever-and-one-death
…The transmission rate and concerns over the Omicron variant has prompted NSW Health to issue a “red alert” for hospitals meaning restricting the number of people allowed to visit healthcare facilities.
NSW Health is urgently trying to contact hundreds of people who went to a Taylor Swift-themed party at the Metro Theatre in Sydney last Friday night.
So far, 97 people of the 600 people who attended the event have tested positive for Covid-19.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018824864/omicron-can-be-kept-out-of-nz-professor-baker
Time to stop undesirable people coming to NZ and living here while victimising others.
NZ taxes instead of being used to fund good benefits like hospitals and schools for NZ citizens, are instead supporting those who are not NZ citizens and should not have been allowed to live here and harm others, as so easy to come to NZ with ulterior motives. (And taking up housing and resources, competing against NZ poor.).
Christchurch terror attack: Taxpayers foot $392K legal bill for man behind mosque massacre
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch-terror-attack-taxpayers-foot-392k-legal-bill-for-man-behind-mosque-massacre/FQ5SR5YI2MBB4R7BJAEE44TL44/
New Zealand stabbings: officials tried for years to deport terrorist prior to Auckland attack, Jacinda Ardern says
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/05/new-zealand-stabbings-officials-tried-for-years-to-deport-terrorist-prior-to-auckland-attack-jacinda-adern-says
Oamaru attempted murder case: Manu Hausia admits frenzied stabbing attack witnessed by children
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/oamaru-attempted-murder-case-manu-hausia-admits-frenzied-stabbing-attack-witnessed-by-children/MOGYQAFIXEPL56MEKCOVCMCU6Q/
The woke are increasingly out of alignment with majority thinking, in supporting terrorists and people that harm others physically or financially into becoming NZ citizens and residents, instead of making NZ safe for the general population and children to grow up safely here.
At present criminals get rewarded by staying in NZ for humanitarian reasons. Not sure it is that humane for their victims!
Child abuser wins right to stay in New Zealand for humanitarian reasons
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/84891031/child-abuser-wins-right-to-stay-in-new-zealand-for-humanitarian-reasons
Child abuse dad avoids deportation on humanitarian grounds to stay with family
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/76059417/
New resident convicted of sex offending twice, won’t be deported
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11837608
Judge’s difficult sentencing of a former refugee who won’t stop offending
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111480343/judges-difficult-sentencing-of-a-refugee-who-wont-stop-offending
Rapist wins case to be allowed to stay in NZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/327784/rapist-wins-case-to-be-allowed-to-stay-in-nz
And murder – no problem!
Judge: Extraordinary that killer Rohit Singh maintained fiction during murder trial
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12254105
Mandeep Singh sentenced to life in prison for central Auckland murder
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/72529233/Mandeep-Singh-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-central-Auckland-murder
Dunedin doctor Venod Skantha found guilty of murder of Amber-Rose Rush
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12288940
West Auckland stabbing: Man remanded in custody after been charged with murder
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/114976886/west-auckland-stabbing-man-remanded-in-custody-after-been-charged-with-murder
Indian sentenced to life for murdering wife in NZ
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/indian-sentenced-to-life-for-murdering-wife-in-nz/story-MpDOdR9DJXcKI2pkfpBTMK.html
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/458102/bad-then-worse-now-how-covid-19-will-hurt-retired-women
“This isn’t necessarily an active choice by women to have lower retirement savings,” Retirement Commission director of policy Suzy Morrissey says. “It’s a function of how their labour market experiences have been over the years.”
The gender pension gap highlights the exponential power of compound interest, a savings principle that’s so powerful over a lifetime it’s been dubbed “the eighth wonder of the world”. Even starting small, early, frequent saving means compounding interest creates a snowball effect, resulting in an impressive nest egg for retirement.
A large part of the problem is the innate conservatism of many women who don’t opt for higher education to gain specialist skills to be self-supporting if necessary, preferring to rely on their male partner’s wage while they carry out home-based duties and random child-rearing, and add to household funds with unskilled labour.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/458120/squirrel-fails-to-carry-out-independent-reviews-for-five-years
Oh nuts!
The Financial Markets Authority said Squirrel P2P Trustee, which provides custodial services for Squirrel Money’s peer-to-peer lending service, failed to obtain assurance engagements in each year from 2016 to 2020.
Custodians hold a customer’s money on trust, separate from the lending service’s own money to ensure it is protected from the risk of loss, such as insolvency.
An assurance engagement is an independent review that assesses whether a custodian’s processes, procedures, and controls are suitably designed and operated effectively throughout the most recently completed relevant period.
You can lead financiers to the legal requirements, but you can’t make them think.
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