Waatea News Column: Is our public health sector too sick to save us?
The latest review into public health has been released and it has managed to utterly ignore Māori grievances and criticism from the disability sector.
Martyn Bradbury
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Bolton’s revelations – surely the end of Trump?
I can’t work out what is a bigger treat to the planet – climate change, this pandemic or Trump himself.
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New Horizon Poll another body blow to Todd Muller
The new Horizon Poll that was taken during some of the quarantine breaches and it has shown no bounce at all for Muller…
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RIP Aaron Tokana
Many respects to his friends and whanau.
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The Ghoulishness of National
Between now and the election, National will be a Party of Ghouls, always wanting the country to fail and become plague ridden so that they can blame Jacinda and win power, even if all that meant was that they ruled an economic plague wasteland swollen with grief and ruin.
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When kindness endangers: Why Labour need a kick and why a sacrifice needs to be offered up to the public next time
If Nigel can be sacked for a false sexual assault allegation published on The Spinoff , then what the Christ do incompetent Public Health staff who allow the plague back into the country have to do to get sacked?
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Scum National Party MPs set up Covid Karens and used them for political smear???
These National MPs have no honour.
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At what point will Aucklanders turn on Watercare for the water drought incompetence?
There’s nothing I love more than a good old fashioned comeuppance.
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Why Jacinda has called in the military
The caution Jacinda has used in opening up the country has been partly driven by knowledge of how threadbare our public health system is and this lack of strict procedures during quarantine that have been recently exposed is the last straw, hence Jacinda sending in the no nonsense Military to have oversight of quarantines at the border.
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Covid backlash highlights how emotionally fraught 2020 election will be
This flair up is a reminder that this election is different, that peoples vulnerability and gratitude and anger can all be triggered if voters feel that their sacrifice has been taken for granted by incompetence.