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#3313383 27-Nov-2024 12:10

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The PSA press release is out. The National government is planning on cutting Te Whatu Ora:

Net 1120 roles to be axed from Data and Digital group - 47% of workforce
Net 358 roles to go from National Public Health Service - 24% of workforce

No problem, the doctors and nurses can do all that stuff instead. It's only backoffice. Anyway totally worth it for $20 a fortnight in tax cuts.

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#3313384 27-Nov-2024 12:12

Public transport hike: Bus and train fares may surge by up to 70% to meet NZTA targets - NZ Herald

Bus and train fares are set to increase across the country, with the transport agency asking councils to hit higher revenue targets.

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) has sent letters to local councils and transport authorities asking them to increase their private share – that is, the proportion of the total cost of providing public transport that comes from things other than rates or government funding.

Greater Wellington Regional Council transport chairman Thomas Nash said meeting the targets set for Greater Wellington would require fare increases of 71% next year, “which is the exact opposite of what we need in a cost-of-living crisis”.

That would mean a Wellingtonian spending $10 a day on Metlink fares would have to spend $17 a day under the new rates.

I don't mind my taxes helping public transport. It means less cars on the roads.

I don't mind my taxes helping pay for health care. It means fewer people die and more people are productive.

I don't mind my taxes helping pay for education. It means more people being productive.

In reality, that's why we already pay taxes.

But tell me how the National government is fixing the cost of living crisis by giving landlords some much-needed tax breaks /s.

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#3313590 27-Nov-2024 23:58

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon claims he’d be comfortable living next to new radioactive waste facility

NZHerald: The Director-General of Health, Dr Diana Sarfati, has defended a decision not to inform the public about the facility, suggesting it could be a target for terrorism. “Terrorism [around the world] has increased over time. So, there is this extra layer of caution to not make public the sites of this sort of material,” she told the Herald.

That worked well then. Somebody with the location should probably check the flooding maps next.

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#3313601 28-Nov-2024 07:00

With all the health cuts happening to IT and other people, I found this hilarious

"“We would do better because we've learned a lot,” he says. “That better preparation is about investing in your health workforce, your infrastructure, your IT systems and it's not just spending all your money on pandemic preparedness."

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360502235/if-you-think-im-ardern-puppet-youll-get-huge-surprise-when-you-open-report-prof-tony-blakely-says

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#3313970 28-Nov-2024 22:40

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/27/eyes-wide-open-one-year-of-luxon-speak/

Luxon keeps saying allowing Seymour's treaty bill was "a compromise" during coalition agreements, but apparently it wasn't.

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#3313973 28-Nov-2024 22:55

Seems to be thirdhand in a long opinion piece..

Newsroom: According to Matthew Hooton, however, Act insists it did not declare the bill a bottom line in coalition negotiations, but only an important priority. Hooton rightly points out that if this is true, then Luxon did not have to accept what he has constantly described as a compromise. I can’t find the source of this statement, and it doesn’t appear to have been put to Seymour or Luxon.

.. with many implied question marks.

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#3314139 29-Nov-2024 11:31

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/high-income-workers-lose-unjustified-dismissal-claim-rights-under-new-policy/DS7NRPEDCRDZ5DYSUSPQWXY5SQ/

Yea I can't see this being very popular; the $180K mark is sub-c suite and quite a few ACT fans will be caught up in this.

Realistically this is the level of income you need to have a single working parent or someone on maternity leave and still pay a mortgage in Auckland so this is going be widely unpopular.

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#3314144 29-Nov-2024 11:49

GV27:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/high-income-workers-lose-unjustified-dismissal-claim-rights-under-new-policy/DS7NRPEDCRDZ5DYSUSPQWXY5SQ/

Yea I can't see this being very popular; the $180K mark is sub-c suite and quite a few ACT fans will be caught up in this.

Realistically this is the level of income you need to have a single working parent or someone on maternity leave and still pay a mortgage in Auckland so this is going be widely unpopular.

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#3314159 29-Nov-2024 12:50

SaltyNZ:

Leopards, meet faces.

$180K, while enough to live comfortably on your own, is not a huge amount if you are supporting family or paying a modern mortgage, and there's a significant chunk of the professional class (engineer, doctors, lawyers, accountants etc) who are not ACT voters by default.

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#3314879 1-Dec-2024 19:39

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/30/the-secret-diary-of-luxons-anniversary/

A Secret Diary of Luxon's 1 year in power.

What a year it’s been for New Zealand. I don’t want to sound arrogant, but I’ve found the job so simple that some days I barely lift a finger. I just prop myself up against the wall and fold my arms. A photographer came along a couple of weeks ago and captured the moment. Well I mean he had all year but good on him. It sends a message to New Zealanders. When it looks as if I don’t have anything to worry about, then nobody else has anything to worry about, either.

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#3315039 2-Dec-2024 09:08

Jack Tame not having a bar of 'What I would say to you is'.

EDIT - have now finished watching. Tame rightly rips him apart over the Treaty Principles Bill.

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#3315879 4-Dec-2024 14:30

Commissioner Lester Levy accused of ‘cooking the books’ in heated Parliament meeting - NZ Herald

"The numbers were bad!"

But were they?

Health Commissioner Professor Lester Levy has been accused of “cooking the books” at Health NZ-Te Whatu Ora to justify cuts to health services.

The claim was part of a heated exchange at Parliament which led to Levy asking for MPs to apologise for what were described as “inflammatory” remarks.

It came after Health NZ revised its deficit for the 2023/24 year down from nearly $1 billion in October to $722 million in its annual report yesterday.

Labour’s health spokeswoman Dr Ayesha Verrall asked whether they had attempted to produce a deficit that looked worse than it was. She said they had employed “creative accounting” to attempt to place costs that had not yet occurred in the previous year’s budget.

Verrall highlighted Levy’s past record at three district health boards, where she claimed that he produced surpluses which turned to deficits when he left. Levy had a “reputation for cooking the books”, she said.

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#3317725 7-Dec-2024 09:41

From Government survives under scrutiny, but crisis in health becoming undeniable - Thomas Coughlan - NZ Herald (paywalled)

She [Finance Minister Nicola Willis] used the week of scrutiny to give an almost unprecedentedly frank confirmation that the Budget is likely to include some form of tax on businesses operating as charities.

Does anyone want to bet that Sanitarium won't be taxed because it's a "religious organisation" or Tamaki's Destiny Church will continue to be exempt, but SPCA will have to start paying tax?

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#3318269 9-Dec-2024 09:59

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/536046/the-government-s-targets-in-charts-more-than-half-behind-track

Some good news, some not so good news...but it looks like quite a few targets are not being met.

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#3318773 10-Dec-2024 13:31

Lost for words.

Children’s Minister Karen Chhour needs to reverse the Government’s funding cuts putting at risk the jobs of more than 300 frontline workers providing vital care for 4000 vulnerable children.

Children’s charity Stand Tū Māia is today taking urgent legal action against Oranga Tamariki for unilaterally reneging on a three-year $21 million contract after only six months.
The contract funds Stand Tū Māia to provide specialised trauma treatment and wraparound support for families with complex needs living with multiple forms of adversity.

Oranga Tamariki plans to end funding under its Stand Tū Māia contract on 31 December 2024. This would see more than 300 workers, the majority of which are registered social workers, lose their jobs from 4 January 2025, says Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi Assistant Secretary Melissa Wooley.

"It is totally unacceptable that the support for 4000 vulnerable children and their families, and the jobs of more than 300 workers should be axed so suddenly, with no thought to the consequences," Woolley says.

"Children’s Minister Karen Chhour needs to step up and put a stop to this appalling and cold-hearted decision which comes just weeks after the Prime Minister delivered an apology in Parliament to the survivors of abuse in care.

"Minister Chhour needs to act quickly to ensure that the Government does not trigger another round of unnecessary suffering and trauma for a new generation of vulnerable children and by so doing write another dark chapter in the history of this country.

"It is unacceptable for the Minister to hide behind the convenient excuse that this is merely an ‘operational matter’. She needs to urgently intervene and ensure Oranga Tamariki has the fundin git needs to honour the contract it signed with Stand Tū Māia," Woolley says.

"Not only is the Government not honouring a contract it signed but it is once again breaking its promise to New Zealanders that spending cuts would not affect frontline services.

"This is just a further example of how the Government’s decision to prioritise funding tax relief for landlords and support for tobacco companies is seeing public services being cut in communities across the motu," Woolley says.

"This is a Government of broken promises," Woolley says.

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