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“Outsourcing is essentially an admission that we have not got an adequately funded and resourced health system.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/560757/health-nz-aims-to-cut-surgery-waitlists-by-outsourcing-to-private-hospitals-extending-doctors-hours
“Outsourcing is essentially an admission that we have not got an adequately funded and resourced health system.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/560757/health-nz-aims-to-cut-surgery-waitlists-by-outsourcing-to-private-hospitals-extending-doctors-hours
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/561003/aramu-walker-jailed-for-shooting-his-partner-in-the-face-while-on-bail-for-hammer-attack-on-mongrel-mob-member
…As Rangi was brought into the courtroom, he was greeted by a large group of whānau and friends, pleased to see him from the public gallery.
Judge Gregory Hikaka warned Rangi, who was addressing his supporters, to save his socialising for another time, leading defence lawyer Paul Keegan to apologise and say Rangi had not seen them for a while.
As the sentencing progressed, Judge Hikaka detailed how the shooting happened on 23 November 2023, after a night of drinking at an address in New Plymouth.
About 3.20am, Rangi began firing shots out a window at the house…
Rangi’s partner of one month was sitting in the driver’s seat of the car and was hit in the face by one shot, which had ricocheted off the car’s roof…
Rangi took the woman to the emergency department, where she was treated for grazes to her nose and upper lip, and fractures to the bone at the base of her tooth.
It is a lessening of personal integrity to consider that if someone is related to you it does not matter what they do, and blame it all on colonialism. We all have personal volition and so have families. If the family consider that violence, bad behaviour, is all right for one then all share part of the guilt. That plays into the vicious pakeha political authoritarian approach that is so hard to change; worse when people seem to accept that anything goes. It is a truly vicious circle.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/560990/dog-owner-prosecuted-after-toddler-viciously-attacked-in-own-front-yard
…The child was attacked by two American bulldogs. File photo. Photo: 123RF
An Auckland woman has been sentenced to community work after her two dogs seriously injured a toddler in an attack in his own front yard.
The two-year-old was mauled by two roaming American bulldogs that came onto his South Auckland property in March last year.
His shoulder blade was fractured, and he had several serious wounds to his head and neck from the “unprovoked and sustained” attack, the council said.
The dogs continued to attack as the boy’s mother lifted him to safety and other people tried to help.
CCTV footage showed the attack only stopped when the dogs were removed by the owners’ relatives and driven away, the council said.
The toddler had to have multiple operations and a long stay in hospital.
The dogs’ owner Janna Faumui pleaded guilty to charges of owning dogs that attacked a person causing serious injury, the council said.
The judge said he was considering a jail term, but Faumi did not have a previous criminal history, did not appear to be a threat to the community and had shown remorse.
She was sentenced to 150 hours community work and told to pay $2000 in emotional harm reparation to the boy’s family.
Both the dogs were voluntarily handed over to the council and euthanised after the attack.
Auckland Council said the case was a wake-up call and all dog owners should make sure they were well trained animals and never allowed to roam….
So a warning etc nothing new here. It’s been said before. Our country can’t run itself, doesn’t want to try, leave it to foreign types or our own wealthy to set standards that suit themselves and leave the rest of us to stew in our own juice, powerless when we want, need something. Must have consultations with the community perhaps, and then deliberate and then don’t do what the community wants.
What a farce when this is the too frequent behaviour. Meanwhile the rates go up. And life goes on without noticeable awareness. CCTV footage? Why was this? Do we have to be watched to see if behaviour is bad enough to warrant action. It would make me cry, but that would make me more depressed than I am already.
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