The Daily Blog Open Mic – 23rd July 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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And there it is
State-owned enterprises sale
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/522870/state-owned-enterprises-sale-decisions-will-not-happen-before-election-minister
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522923/woman-born-into-gloriavale-vows-to-see-it-shut-down
Good on them. We need to show more oomph for all downtrodden people in Kiwi land. Starting talking about what’s going on, regularly but in little bits otherwise people will stop listening.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/522865/australian-private-equity-firm-bids-up-to-590-million-for-the-warehouse-retail-group
This year the company has also dealt with the abrupt departure of its chief executive and the sale of its sporting good chain Torpedo7 for $1. Do we need a Kiwi battler? Was he forced out? I thought competition was the bees knees! Seems like a manoeuvre with Sun Tzu elements. Watch this space.
Midwives finding difficulty in getting trainees. School buses cancelled.
This is what being run by people who are dead from the neck up and think like machines is like. Their only interest is putting on a show enough to get good money for themselves.
This isn’t NZ or is it? Sleepy hollow – no. Bogside, that’s how far down we are. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522928/school-bus-cancellation-leaves-hundreds-of-families-in-limbo
The bus service travels 60 to 70 kilometres every day to drop students off and bring them back. But it is going to be canned at the end of this school year after the ministry carried out a review that found a number of students using the services were not eligible…
The ministry has denied the changes were a cost-cutting measure, telling the New Zealand Herald it “does not undertake route reviews with the specific intention of saving costs”.
It said the region had been given an extension until the end of 2024 so schools and parents could make arrangements, and had assistance available for those willing to send their kids to “their closest state or state-integrated school”.
Hint – find Catherine Cookson’s books about people trying to manage in poverty and how mean life can be. And how supportive to the pretentious upper classes.
Is RadioNZ changing (apart from just calling itself by initial letters with no substance)? There are four mentions of the Generation X story on the featured page tonight. Is the trend to fade away into detritus news?