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Three people die each week from drug overdoses. I’ve noticed from coroner reports, that when someone dies with a cocktail of drugs in their system, it is often a respiratory depressing sedative that actually is the killer, by stopping breathing. New orexin class sedatives are available in Australia, that cause far less respiratory depression. If introduced in NZ, along with better access to noloxone, would be a positive step Mr Stephenson.
(www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526700/three-people-die-each-week-from-preventable-overdoses-report)
Repeat of Debs news flash from TDB earlier date.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/529018/luxon-takes-crack-at-anz-boss-antonia-watson-over-capital-gains-tax-support
Male PM unable to restrict his desires for buying and having housing puts down major bank
chief (female) who he relies on for his political position, standing in community and his house-of-cards meretricious methods to dessicate small nation lying helpless in stormy seas:.
Asked for his response on Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon laughed.
“I love it that the CEO of a big bank from Australia wants to take more money off New Zealanders,” Luxon said.
“You don’t tax your way out of a recession. You grow your way out of a recession.”
(Repeats homilies from Economics for Dummies Level 101 Luxon confirms that he does know what he is doing! National Party is no con-firm! So no excuses.)
As a former CEO, I understand what she’s doing… the big Australian banks make a lot of money off the New Zealand public, and I would just suggest to her that maybe taking more money off New Zealanders isn’t the road forward.”
Finance Minister Nicola Willis also made a pointed suggestion to Watson: “If she’s really worried about the wellbeing of New Zealanders, then there’s a lot the bank could be doing”….
And the miniscule brain of ACT leader, in its withdrawal phase after the shock of being confronted with real and practical banking economics from a successful bank freely operating in Kiwiland, emits ritual squeak.
Compliant female finance politician ministers womanual assistance in support of a strong political dictum.
Treasury head (outgoing) feels brave enough to express support for banking head in favour of CGT heralding ‘The End of the Golden Weather’ and presumably a return to more balanced market conditions.
Labour finds a puddle and jumps gleefully in it, though as usual making sure it has its gumboots on. John Clarke leads the choir: https://folksong.org.nz/gumboot/
If it weren’t for your gumboots, where would ya be? You’d be in the hospital or infirmary ‘coz you would have a dose of the ‘flu, or even pleurisy…
At last –
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2409/S00397/ctv-building-engineering-new-zealand-upholds-alan-reay-complaint.htm
An Engineering New Zealand Disciplinary Committee has today upheld a longstanding complaint against Alan Reay. Dr Reay was the sole principal of the firm that designed the failed CTV building.
The complaint was that Dr Reay’s employee who designed the building lacked the necessary experience to design such buildings, and that Dr Reay knew this and failed to provide adequate supervision.
The six-storey CTV building was designed in 1986 and collapsed in the Christchurch Earthquake, claiming 115 lives.
February 22, 2011
On February 22, 2011, a devastating earthquake hit Christchurch. Of the 185 people killed, 115 of them were in one building…the CTV building.
The Disciplinary Committee found Dr Reay’s conduct fell well below the accepted professional standards in 1986 and breached the Code of Ethics at the time….
The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission of Inquiry established Dr Reay knew the building’s layout could create excessive torsional response [twisting] but that he did not check the design. Dr Reay said it was the design engineer’s responsibility to bring any issues to his attention.
The Disciplinary Committee found “the CTV building was an irregular, highly eccentric, multi-storey building” and heard that “when there was shaking in one direction, the building was much more prone to twisting.” It heard the design engineer had not previously worked on buildings of such scale.
The Disciplinary Committee found that although Dr Reay “considered himself responsible for the projects completed by his company” his oversight of the design engineer was “virtually non-existent”. The Committee found the design engineer “did not have the necessary experience to design or have sole responsibility for the design of the CTV building”. It found Dr Reay’s decision to give the design engineer “responsibility to design the CTV building and take a ‘hands off’ approach was inconsistent with the acceptable standards of the day”.
Ooh this hurts. I have a book that records the happenings for people trapped in the building and knowing that others are dead or dying around them.
The complaint was first brought to the Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ, now known as Engineering New Zealand) in 2012. Dr Reay and his employee were members of IPENZ when the CTV building was designed and the complaint opened. Dr Reay resigned his membership in 2014, at which time IPENZ ceased its investigation. The investigation resumed in 2019 after legal proceedings…
The Disciplinary Committee ordered Dr Reay be admonished, fined $750 and pay costs of $1,000 – the maximum amounts available under the 1986 Member Rules and Disciplinary Regulations.
The Committee also believed Dr Reay should consider issuing a public apology for his failure to adequately supervise the design engineer.
Read the full decision: https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/2276/Discplinary_Committee_decision_25_September_2024.pdf
Alan Reay complaint – timeline of events: https://www.engineeringnz.org/news-insights/ctv-alan-reay-complaint-timeline-of-events/