COVID-19 crisis leading to potential hunger crisis – CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group is releasing research today showing that families’ most basic need – of having access to good…
New Zealand Politics
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MUST READ: Snakes and Mirrors – National Sat On Covid-19 Infection Information For Hours Before Dropping Political Bombshell In Parliament
It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their want to GET their opponents – the Ardern Government – ahead of concerns that Covid-19 was potentially un-contained and again infecting New Zealanders. Is this a step too far for the Todd Muller-led party?
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Flat Earthers: For how much longer must New Zealand be damaged by Neoliberalism’s demented perceptions of reality?
The events of the past few days: the appalling failure of our neoliberalised state sector to keep our borders secure from the threat of the Covis-19 virus; ought to produce the same reaction from its defenders as a person who, having jumped off a roof, mysteriously finds himself failing to float gently to the ground.
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But What Of The Real Culprits ? Covid Quarantine Crisis And The Rush To Judgement And Blame
Phrased another way: I have no reason to doubt that Bloomfield et co, and even the hapless David Clark *genuinely* believed they were in possession of the facts. That procedures were being followed. That we *were* in possession of what we said we were, doing what we said we were doing, things working basically as they almost ideally should.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – I welcome the proposal to substantially reduce the number of DHB’s
Too much public money has been going into management instead of the frontline and there have been several alarmin examples in recent years of inept governance.
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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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A Vigorous Rearrangement of Deck Chairs: Heather Simpson’s Neoliberal Prescription For New Zealand’s Health System
MUCH WILL BE WRITTEN about Heather Simpson’s plans for the New Zealand health system.
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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.