The Manufactured Crisis in Health is underway…
Bloodbath continues for health leadership – Labour
“I am concerned to hear of the resignation of the Director-General of Heath Dr Diana Sarfati today,” acting Labour health spokesperson Peeni Henare said.
“Christopher Luxon thinks a purge of health leadership will turn around the health system while he refuses to invest properly for the health of New Zealanders.
“Dr Sarfati is a world-leading cancer research expert, improving survival rates and closing inequities in treatment. If the Government doesn’t reach its cancer targets without Dr Sarfati they have no one to blame but themselves.
“We acknowledge Dr Sarfati’s leadership when the Ministry of Health continued to give evidenced-based advice on tobacco control despite a hostile government.
“Health is complex, and firing the leadership may come back to haunt the Prime Minister.
“As Simeon Brown struggles to get up to speed on the complex health portfolio, it’s as if Christopher Luxon is getting rid of everyone who disagrees with him. It’s an absolute disgrace, causing damage that will ripple for years to come.
“The Director-General of Health has gone, the Director of Public Health stepped down, the Health New Zealand board was sacked and the Health New Zealand Chief Executive resigned.
“The executive leadership team of Health New Zealand has been gutted, and the organisation’s Chief Financial Officer was structured out of a job. Luxon is fast running out of other people to blame for his Government’s failures.
“I wish Dr Diana Sarfati all the best for her next role and thank her for the commitment, mahi and expertise she gave for the better health of New Zealand,” Peeni Henare said.
…the reason Reti was sacked was because as a Dr there were public health cuts he couldn’t perform, where as Simeon Brown is a sadistic little yes man who will do as he’s told.
This Government purposely under funded Public health so that they could manufacture a crisis and slash costs so as to fund their tax cuts and landlord loop holes!
In the Budget, National allocated just 2.9% increase to health services but inflation was 3.3% and population growth 2.6% while an ageing population adds more to costs.
National gave 2.9% for health but we needed 8% to stand still, that under funding has manufactured a crisis National are attempting to use privatisation to solve.
We will see the exact same games played with public education talon, except here it will be the curriculum that is used as a bludgeon to justify more Charter Schools…
English teachers exit curriculum rewrite, call process ‘shambolic’
- The English Teachers Association has withdrawn from the draft secondary school English curriculum process, citing the Education Ministry’s unreliability.
- The association criticised the draft for being too complex and unrealistic for teachers to cover.
- Post Primary Teachers Association president Chris Abercrombie said the situation was serious and unprecedented.
…I love this so much…
Secretive legal advice argues charter school rules likely to breach FTA, labour rules
A select committee report has revealed previously confidential legal advice that charter school rules will likely breach international labour and free trade agreements.
The advice was sent to MPs and sector groups in a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS), but they were later told it was a legally privileged draft. Another version was then released with some of the advice redacted.
RNZ did not publish it at the time due to legal sensitivity, but the Public Service Association referred to the advice during its submission to the Education and Workforce Select Committee and RNZ published those comments.
Labour, in its minority report on the Education and Training Amendment Bill published on Thursday, revealed the advice – and the attempts to prevent MPs and the public from seeing it.
…so when the Left ever suggest policy that runs foul of free market Treaties, the Right are very quick to point out this will lead us into legal conflict, but when ACT are suggesting deregulating teaching standards so Charter schools can get cheap deals, a move that puts us immediately in conflict with International Labour laws, suddenly David wants to gamble?
There is no doubt at all that the Unions will mount a legal challenge to watering down teacher standards and they will take this channel of dispute.
ACT are trying to hide this because they know it will draw more scrutiny of their neoliberal experiment in education.
I’m not sure this is the flex David Seymour seems to think it is…
…well Duh! Of course there is huge demand for Charter Schools, THEY ARE A RORT!
So Private Education interests who will be able to rort the system and get more public funding at the cost of the actual public education system are rushing to get their snouts in the trough?
That’s what David is boasting?
Isn’t it funny how it’s ‘wasteful taxpayer dollars’ when it’s going on welfare, yet when it’s going to private interests who back ACT, then it’s suddenly excellent use of public money?
At some stage,Kiwis need to take a hard long look at themselves for the far right climate denying racist beneficiary bashing Government they elected, all because a bitter post-Covid electorate hated Jacinda for having the temerity to save 20 000 lives during a once in a century pandemic.
We have mutated into something very ugly under this new Government while the rich laugh at how easily the angry voters were manipulated into giving them what they want.
The privatisation agenda is here and the common good, YOUR common good is being strangled by corporate interests because you were pissed off with Jacinda.
Well played Kiwis, well played.
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The problem with our education is the Tomorrow’s Schools model. Labour was going to fix it by effectively bringing back the education boards to own and run the school infrastructure while the boards and teachers focused on learning. Also, we have aways had issues with people leaving school not being able to read or write. We just hid the problem with the manual jobs on offer.
… we have always had issues with people leaving school not being able to read or write.
Most likely so. But not so straightforward. But we all know people, some older, some younger, who have not had much schooling – for any number of reasons – but still seem to be able to read and write well enough to hold down a job, taking care of children and the household, etc. They are not the high-end professionals but what they did get from their limited schooled education – and lived experience along the way- seemed sufficient for their needs. We also know people who struggled with the printed word at school – often because their brains are evidently wired a bit differently – but developed coping strategies and somehow got by – famously in notable cases. Something has changed, what I can’t quite put my finger on – perhaps the international league tables that tell us that our kids are not performing as well as others in the OECD and as you point out Millsy, largely gone are the manual jobs. I’d say though that the unskilled workers and unpaid housekeepers of the 50s, 60’s and 70’s were not illiterate, ie, not able to read or write, but simply not as ‘literate’ as the professionals – but here also we know of folk that were voracious readers and routinely wrote letters to loved ones. Yep, something has changed and I can’t quite put my finger on it.
It’s all going to turn to custard for the Coalition of Mind Numbing Catastrophic Chaos….and sooner, rather than later.
Such is the river of poor, poor, ignorant, naive decisions that flow from the mouths of Luxon, Willis, Bishop, Seymour, Van Velden, (who looks perpetually stoned, or drugged), Peters, Jones etc.etc. on a daily basis, you have to wonder what they are drinking around the cabinet table..
What is clear, is that the results of their woke right wing ideology group think bullshit sessions are driving this country into the ground at a rate never before witnessed.
Luxon has repeated many many times, both before and after the election, that he is “fantastic” with numbers, (without explaining what he actually meant by that), and also stated that wasn’t about to be lectured to by Grant Robertson and Labour on economics or how to run the country…like he would know with his vast array of experiences running countries.
Well, if he’s as ‘fantastic’ with numbers as he says he is, he will understand that Robertson had New Zealand back to surplus by mid 2027,( as verified by treasury), and under just 15 months of his stint in power he has us, possibly, back to surplus by 2031…with high unemployment , a much depleted experienced workforce, (many of the best having left the country), and major doubts surrounding the country’s critical infrastructure.
…and so what are they focusing on ….cutting the quality of kids school lunches…cutting te reo language from school curriculums…. getting rid of the very best medical management personnel…ensuring that many of the top Engineers are leaving the country by cancelling the pipelines of critical infrastructure work… getting rid of our top scientists et.etc. …
…and yet… financially supporting tobacco companies, landlords, and thus real estate agents, as a way of “growing the economy.”
Fran O’Sullivan recommended Luxon, promoted and pushed hard for him to be PM….how naive!
Her reputation is now in tatters …he judgement so poor…. she should never show her face again in the media… what is abundantly clear, is that her ilk, and the people she hangs out with, know nothing.
It’s clear this govt. wants to ruin NZ forever. They have buyers lined up and we are just merchandise ready to be sold off.
The astoundingly poor judgement shown by this govt. and it’s supporters on everything, isn’t an accident.
It isn’t just bad luck. It is a plan devised to suck NZ dry.
That’s how typical narcissists operate.
They tell us it’s us who have the problem, it’s us who are divisive and difficult, don’t produce enough, aren’t educated enough, won’t make an effort, etc. etc. etc.
By dividing us with their various lies and manipulations, people find it hard to resist the dreadful results. Some people are susceptible to their lies and half-truths.
Luxon may only appear to be a buffoon. It’s a good excuse for him to do nothing to rein Seymour in.
The various fools who backed Luxon on his paltry experience, to be PM, are, I hope, suffering in some way. They won’t all be able to successfully fly the coop to live in luxury in Hawaii.
If state schools used the methodology and curricula that apparently make charter schools appealing to parents, then it follows that the demand for charter schools would generally drop off.
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