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One hopes that out-going Police Comm Coster has the time to report on the inexplicable silencing and terrorising of women at Albert Park before he steps down from his post.
Of interest to you – participate with informed opinion?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/yourmediamatters
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/532291/health-system-relies-on-doctors-overworking-says-burnt-out-cardiologist
This is bad and predicted. Example of badly run system, unresponsive to professional informed advice and concern for specialised, rare personnel, very valuable people. Unlike those administering and managing to meet mere theories and targets not reality. We are fools run by bigger fools.
Song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2Ex5wqj-A
https://genius.com/Toni-fisher-the-big-hurt-lyrics
The Big Hurt Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Now, it begins, now, that you’re gone
Needles and pins, twilight ’til dawn
Watching that clock ’til you return
Lighting that torch and watching it burn
[Verse 2]
Now, it begins, day after day
This is my life, ticking away
Waiting to hear footsteps that say
“Love will appear and this time to stay”
[Bridge]
Oh, each time you go
I try to pretend
It’s over at last
This time the big hurt will end
[Verse 3]
Now, it begins, now, that you’re gone
Needles and pins, twilight ’til dawn
But if you go, come back again
I wonder when, oh, when will it end?
The big hurt
The big hurt
The big hurt
Just to recap on already published information about Health NZ and its machinations and gyrations – leading to short rations! Back to Oct.9/24
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/530277/one-page-out-of-454-sheds-light-on-health-new-zealand-money-woes
Interesting paras from Bowalley Road. Something to chew on.
https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2024/10/out-of-sympathy.html
…there is a widespread conviction on the Right that the Coalition Government’s electoral mandate is not respected by institutions whose acceptance of the majority’s right to govern is essential to the proper functioning of a representative democracy.
The impression left with right-wing New Zealanders, from the way these institutions have conducted themselves since October 2023, is that the victory of the three parties making up the Coalition Government represents a deeply problematic triumph of ideas, attitudes, and policies inimical to the optimal development of Aotearoa-New Zealand. [inimical means harmful: does this say that right wing voters consider that the present Coalition has policies harmful to the optimum development of our country? And those charged with implementing policies are holding back on making detrimental change but the determined conservative voters are avowed to blindly follow the sacrosanct simple majority theory despite disastrous effects?]
Public servants, judges, academics, journalists and the liberal clergy are all, rightly or wrongly, perceived to be working against the Government, and doing everything within their power to impede the roll-out of policies deemed morally unjustifiable and evidentially unsustainable. The degree to which conservative voters are invested in these policies is a pretty reliable indicator of the animosity directed at those believed responsible for delaying – or even halting – their implementation.
Is this saying that individuals and sector groups are showing they think they have a moral responsibility to conduct themselves faithfully to honestly serve the people and the country, continuing in ways reflecting long-held standards to be upheld, that transcend what a passing set of mummers bring to town? That there is a higher purpose than democracy by the majority? Yet decisions are then made resulting from a simple majority ie 51% to even 61%, (Brexit as an example), are irrational and simple in all meanings, considering that in relatively unimportant polls the findings will be stated to have a 3% margin of error allowed for.