Scoop is wholly owned by the Scoop Foundation for Public Interest Journalism which is a Not-For-Profit charitable trust. Therefore, not exactly the mainstream I was referring too. And although they have published their press releases, I've yet to see any actual coverage regarding them.
But good on them for publishing their press releases. And good on you for highlighting them. Moreover, thanks for posting up the link to their website.
"Cancelled by the mainstream" is a gloriously Orwellian way to say "not many people bothered".
A more reasonable conclusion would be that political parties need to win 5% or an electorate, and anyone with a grasp of electoral reality realizes there are more useful ways of campaigning for women's rights. Not letting Luxon become PM would be one of them.
Perhaps you missed Posie Parker's visit. It got coverage.
Every 3 years there are potential parties, and they get coverage when they have gone from potential to registered. They put up candidates. Even fringe parties like Advance, the cannabis party and Tamaki's lot have done this.
Of course not, Sean Plunket is a nasty misogynist who long since stopped doing journalism. He has lied about Ardern (and subsequently apologised) and his platform exists only because he is funded by a far right wealthy man.
As for the new party, if they have sufficient members then they are fully entitled to stand at the election. Engaging in the democratic process is always good, though as I stated, I doubt that wasting votes is the most effective way to do it.
These are the current registered parties. Several have had no MSM coverage. Happens every election (do you remember Heartland or TEA? Of course not).
You did make a comment (re not letting Luxon become PM) based on an incorrect assumption which you would have picked up on if you had viewed the interview.
You seem to be incorrectly blaming these women for leaving Labour and standing up for their rights as the reason behind a potential Luxon win.
You seem to enjoy misrepresenting, so there's not much purpose debating further. Feel free to engage with what I actually say, not what you imagine and invent (like "Labour can do no wrong", something you plucked out of thin air). Otherwise please don’t waste my time.
I didn't misrepresent you. I asked you a question.
[Yes, you did misrepresent @ 7:27 pm and again @ 8:36 pm and your question was a leading one coming from nowhere other than the inside of your skull. Please stop it while you still can – Incognito]
Can someone please explain the mechanics of the 1980s job losses? Was it primarily deregulation of imports/exports leading to many manufacturers shifting offshore or closing?
I'd suggest the largest impact on employment was the downsizing of public employment…certainly initially but the impact of freer imports (the removal of import licensing?regulation) also resulted in a redistribution of employment opportunities which took time (in some instances considerable)
I'd vote for deregulation of import tariffs, and lack of govt subsidies for middle-sized business. My mum was a machinist, and went from 30 h a week to piece work, to no job, as the firm downsized, contracted workers, then moved off-shore. The Warehouse and undercutting Chinese imports collapsed many small retailers, clothing manufacturers and small-tool manufacturers.
Open international tendering of government contracts, eg, army uniforms, and closure of eg the railways workshops drpped off more, as middling businesses will need one or two large-scale contracts to stay afloat through the business year. There are economies of scale once your enterprise is a certain size. A single market with Oz probably also killed some of that middle-sized manufacturing.
NZ government has also taken a minimal subsidy approach to our industry, to position us for free trade negotiations – few tariffs, few subsidies. The most obvious industry subsidies I can think of are for the film industry, Comalco, and petroleum processing (which was removed recently), but little else.
Looks like Oz states still give tax concessions to local industries. The EU, of course, is chocca-full of subsidies, while China in rapid industrialisation essentially allowed manufacturers to write off thd cost in plant. Plus, of course third-world worker conditions in Asian factories.
Yes clothing manufacturers were hard hit though if memory serves it took some time to really hit…LWR was just down the road from where I worked and it was some years before their numbers really took a hit.
It took time for the new import regime to impact the existing structure but it was only ever going to be in a downward direction…as it proved to be.
And the '87 stock market crash. A bubble had built up, banking was partly deregulated – we had new Banks popping up (NZIBank etc). There was a strike of Trading Bank workers in late 1985 as their wages had not kept up with changes in the market, staff had left for the new Banks, there was constant restructuring. "Greed was Good" – remember "yuppies"? The bubble burst in October 1987.
The major public service restructuring started 1 April 1987, though it was known to be coming in advance of that date. Previously many parts of the public sector had acted as an employer of last resort, which may explain why unemployment had not gotten out of hand during Labour's first term in office. A lot of the deregulation and removal of tarriffs, etc… changes were implemented during the first term.
The other significant event would be the 1987 share market crash. Certainly the following Ruthenasia budget extended the period of elevated unemployment which followed from 1987 (government budgets work in reverse to the countries budget, and so should usually be offsetting it). Ruthenasia was cutting at the same time as NZ was in recession.
I can well recall my friends who worked for the rail and MED being made redundant well before the crash of 87 (years not months)…in many instances being told by the Labour dept that if they were over 45 not to expect to work again,,,the 87 sharemarket crash was the icing on the cake.
In Germany is was outsourcing. My hometown lost several big companies, and most of my male relatives lost their jobs. It also resulted in a huge shortage of three year apprenticeships. The Reagan years. The funny thing is, it seems as if it was almost co-ordinated considering that it happened everywhere in the 'western' world.
Government restructuring followed as there was sadly not enough tax income to pay for many burocrats. Unemployment was quite high and never went below the 10% as far as i can remember.
In my burg it was the loss of more than 1000 government jobs, the assistance to farmers and the huge knock-on effects. Everything from the stock and station agencies, motor vehicle and equipment retailers, trade services, and main street outlets through to suburban retail, pie shops/lunch bars and >$$ dining establishments suffered.
Big box outlets finished the job on local retail.
By 2013 the region's overall population had declined to pre-1960s levels, the rural population nearly halved and some small towns all but disappeared, and today the urban population is similar to what it was 50 years ago.
( more lotto shops, beer shops and greasy takeaways than ever, though)
It was a wrecking ball swung through the provinces by Roger Douglas and friends.
Forestry, Fishing, Coastal Shipping, Ministry of Works, and in towns and cities, Manufacturing, all took a hit, and unprecedented sales of taxpayers assets, and the penetration of public infrastructure and services by private capital…what more do you need to know?
Almost 40 years on now, Aotearoa NZ remains strangled by a neo liberal monetarist state. Time to move on surely, which is why the Greens GMI is a great idea.
a one word answer is globalisation….the free movement of capital and the removal of trade barriers promoted the (eventual and inevitable) decline of manufacturing in higher labour cost economies.
Without the liberalisation of international banking much of what happened would not have been able to occur, but western govs essentially agreed to hand over control of the economy to the international banking sector.
And now they find they have created a monster they cannot control.
Subject to correction by better economic historians than myself, I'd say the mechanisms were:
Devaluation of the NZ dollar (probably the least important – but happened first)
Deregulation of the financial sector – and removal of controls on foreign exchange.
Removal or heavy reduction of subsidies (very significantly in agriculture, but also in other sectors).
Removal or heavy reduction in protective tariffs.
[These two had a huge impact on local production and manufacture – and drove a lot of the early job losses.]
Reduction in top income tax rate (66% down to 33%) – and imposition of GST to replace it.
Conversion of government departments (like the postal and forestry services) to State Owned Enterprises – and the consequent requirement to balance the books – resulting in massive job cuts.
Mainly acts of the NZ Parliament…
• Reserve Bank Act
• State Sector Act
• Floating the New Zealand dollar.
• Introducing GST
• Privatising state owned enterprises
• Local Govt. amalgamation, “Tomorrow's Schools” and so on
It basically allowed private capital, and business models, to be involved in previously public infrastructure and services.
and…a number of more right wing unions went along with this–Engineers, Hotel Workers etc., and one of Roger Douglas’ moves was the the abolishment of the Joint council of Labour where the NZ Federation of Labour previously met with the Labour Caucus to duke it out over general wage orders etc.
I found myself enormously informed on listening to Defense Politics Asia's Q+A on the topic. Listen between 30min to 1.30h -ish to learn DPA's in-depth analysis of the coup attempt, the Russian Federation's geopolitical repositioning with the Ukraine war, and other geopolitical shit you were completely ignorant of.
Forget US and RT pundits, this is the place to go for political and military strategic analysis without propaganda. You may not agree with DPA, but your mind will be broadened.
We found ethnic disparities in care and outcomes following stroke which were independent of traditional risk factors, suggesting they may be attributable to stroke service delivery rather than patient factors.
Ethnic differences in stroke outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand: A national linkage study
This is yet another important piece of information that highlights the importance of ethnicity in improving health outcomes for minority populations that lag behind in health statistics.
I do enjoy these videos. We don't seem to have any established political satire of our own. (But that my be my view only, which is hampered by not watching TV)
Thanks. It's a brutal admonishing of the National Party approach under Luxon by one of their own in Audrey Young.
But I note her biggest salvo was directed at Amelia Wade for having the temerity to explain to Luxon, Goldsmith and Mitchell how much it costs to house an inmate, on live TV.
I think they are toast because the media usually sympathetic to them are revolting.
This is a very interesting article about Maori rates of breast cancer.
“Wāhine Māori and Pacific women were more likely to have higher-risk HER2-positive breast cancer than Pākehā women.”
It seems that Maori have higher rates of HER2 positive cancer which is more aggressive and less easily treated that HER2 negative. So like Jewish women who have very high rates of Braca genes which gives them the most deadly of all cancers. It may well be down to genetic misfortune. Sad
Or something to do with how the genes are expressed. Like proportionally higher rates of smoking, drinking, low nutrition, deprivation, and I dunno about 150 years of the same. Still, never let any of that feature in a ranked care process.
There is genetic risk e.g HER 2 or triple negative associated with the braca gene mutation.
And there is environment. Any consumption of alcohol, even a very moderate amount increases risk. Not exercising increases risk. Being over weight increases risk and lack of Vitamin D increases risk.
Once cancer has metasticized outside of the breast, the prognosis is poor, and the" best "one to have is ER positive
Sadly for the other two there is limited treatment
I suspect you get great pleasure from picking apart everything I say Incognito.
I have first hand knowlege of BC. I have had it as has two of my siblings. If caught early then breast cancer is treatable.
Once it metastisizes the treatment for triple negative and Her 2 positive is not very promisisng at all. There are newer drugs for ER positive that extend life, but they don't cure it.
I take cancer very seriously and it causes me great displeasure when somebody is making inaccurate misleading claims about it.
I’ve already corrected you about BRCA genes, which you accepted, and I’ve challenged you on the alleged lack of treatment options for triple negative and HER2-positive breast cancer. However, your reply leaves much to desire and is not informative or helpful, i.e. you still haven’t answered what you consider ‘limited treatment’ nor have you detailed any of those ‘newer drugs for ER positive that extend life’.
The prognosis is poor for all types of cancer at stage IV, i.e., when it has spread to other tissues. Metastatic breast cancer is incurable. As with most cancers, the earlier it is detected the better the chances for a cure or long-term survival.
All women (and men alike) have the BRCA genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, but only some have certain mutations that can turn normal healthy cells into cancer cells.
About 50 out of 100 women with a BRCA gene mutation will get breast cancer by the time they turn 70 years old, compared to only 7 out of 100 women in the general U.S. population.
About 30 out of 100 women with a BRCA gene mutation will get ovarian cancer by the time they turn 70 years old, compared to fewer than 1 out of 100 women in the general U.S. population.
FYI, the BRCA genes play crucial roles in the protection of DNA in a major repair pathway of DNA damage. When the genes, or rather the gene products aka the proteins, function as they should they protect cells from DNA damage occurring during DNA replication, which of course happens more in dividing cells such as epithelial cells. Epithelial cells that become cancerous can give rise to cancers known as carcinomas.
In addition, cancer is also an age-related disease, i.e., age is an (independent) negative risk factor.
FYI = For Your Information; I was doing the same as you (although I’d already read the link, of course, and I was not arguing with or against you.
Oops, I see I left the first sentence out of my comment @ 9:31 pm, my apologies. Here it is:
Indeed, it is an important risk factor for women but male carriers of BRCA mutations are also more susceptible to certain types of cancer such as prostate cancer (and male breast cancer).
Oh yes you are correct Incognito. It is the braca mutation. I was tested to see if I have it and I don't. I therefore tell myself I don't have the Braca gene, but technically that is incorrect
So the screening program is very important, more important than the surgical program. It's better to pour resource into screening and the education around that than the low percentage surgery outcomes which eventuate after a screening program fails.
No, you got that wrong. Screening is aimed at early detection, so that early intervention, incl. surgery if needed, has better outcomes. In other words, you need both: screening and treatment (incl. surgery). In addition, screening doesn’t pick up all breast cancers.
Did it get that wrong? This discussion formed a few days ago with some commenters putting the boot into Maori women again because of perceived favouritism. I read their idea is to not bother with early detection with weighting, rather pick up the pieces with far more surgeries at the bottom of the cliff.
I have no idea what you’re referring to without links but I have a feeling you have misread one or two things here on TS.
In any case, the whole furore was about including ethnicity in prioritising patients on waiting lists for elective surgery. These are not specific to women and even the singling out of Māori is a red herring because ethnicity can and probably will equally be used to prioritise other ethnic minority groups in other healthcare settings, as indicated by clinical data. Unless we get a NACT government …
If you cant get the assessment (due to a lack of capacity) you dont even register in these statistics…as noted in the piece, there is an iceberg of unmet (and unmeasured) need.
It's because you refuse to pay more tax. It's that simple.
again, the root cause of our failing health system is a structurally low tax base. we pay low taxes and, as a result, wages for doctors are systemically low and laughably uncompetitive on the international market. pay doctors more? then pay more tax
Pat, regular, free, breast cancer screening mammograms are organised directly with the screening facility, not through a GP. If you have an abnormal scan, there is an on-site specialist who performs the biopsy within days. After that, you funnel straight to the hospital breast cancer surgical/therapy team. So the diagnosis to treatment pipeline is well established for this particular cancer.
That may or may not be the case for breast cancer screening….it certainly is not the case for many assessments which require a GP request (or accessing private services along with the associated expense)…that investigation is required to then submit a request for assessment for suitability to be placed on a surgical/treatment waiting list….which may or may not be accepted….only after that acceptance do you join the waiting list.
Those services are so constrained that GPs tell their patients that they will submit such requests but warn that it is unlikely to be successful and if at all possible the private service is the only realistic option.
Im not sure if they can access the waiting list however on RNZ yesterday a GP stated that the GPs have limited access to referrals for testing and much less than hospital registrars so they must have some access to that information somehow.
It would be interesting but I suspect also quite disheartening if the lack of capacity was transparent to everyone.
We were discussing lab-grown meat the other day. The tech is further along than I thought, with the FDA in the US just approving it for human consumption.
Meanwhile, yet another court case in the UK finds that gender critical views are 'worthy of respect in a democratic society' (WORIADS)
PRESS RELEASE: Gender critical beliefs are protected by law. Another victory for women and for common sense.
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In a unanimous judgment of the Leeds Employment Tribunal Ms Fahmy succeeds in her case that she was subjected to harassment for her gender critical beliefs.
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Denise instructed Elizabeth McGlone of didlaw alongside Anya Palmer. Elizabeth and Anya are delighted at this outcome which is another step forward in the protection of women’s rights in the workplace. The case highlights the hostility faced by women in the workplace when they seek to express gender critical views that are considered to be transphobic.
We are aware that many women remain fearful to speak out and express their beliefs. This judgment is dedicated to those that do not feel able to speak freely for fear of reprisals in this space.
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didlaw is a specialist discrimination practice. Elizabeth has a keen focus on women’s rights in the workplace and is a vocal and fearless advocate for the rights of women. This outcome is welcomed and moves us one step further ahead in shining a spotlight on this unnecessarily controversial and political issue where there is a need for rational and respectful debate.
Argument in this space has been toxic to the point of abuse and hate speech. The right to freedom of speech has also been endangered. Perhaps this judgment will serve as a reminder of the need for reasoned debate around an unnecessarily toxic issue. As the judgment itself states “it has been made nearly impossible to have any kind of reasonable discussion to discover what those shared beliefs might be”.
There are whole swathes of work being done in the UK by gender critical feminists and other women that have nothing to do with KJK.
It's a damning indictment of liberal politics that women have to go to court in 2023 in order to protect their beliefs about women's sex based rights.
In this particular case, the meeting where Fahmy first disclosed her GC beliefs was an Arts Council meeting about funding that had been granted to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance and was then withdrawn. So not only do women have to use the courts to re-establish rights, lesbian, gay and bi people do too. Because gender ideology activists have convinced institutions like Arts Councils that homosexuality is transphobic.
Because gender ideology activists have convinced institutions like Arts Councils that homosexuality is transphobic.
They have also convinced some in the public that supporting women's issues per se is transphobic. Hence my view that we are dealing with an off shoot of misogyny, pure and simple, seeking to force its views on others, rather than a group seeking a fair go.
A group seeking a fair go would be aware of other marginalised groups and would not seek to ride roughshod over them. This has been done in sports where women have had to work really hard over the years to gain acceptance and prize money only to find that their sport now has to include men.
I think it's an inherently misogynistic movement too, but given how many liberals who otherwise support women's rights are involved in it, I don't think it's an overt intention to undermine women's rights. Unlike say someone like Matt Walsh, who clearly believes strongly in specific roles women, opposes abortion etc.
This is what makes it so hard to address. There are at least three sides and one of the sides is in large denial of this (the liberals).
The Arts Council withdrew funding for a group which is trans-exclusive. That group represent a very small number of activists within the homosexual community and is not representative of the gay community as a whole.
[please provide evidence that the LGBA excludes trans people. This means an explanation, quotes and links. It doesn’t mean someone on the internet saying they are trans exclusive, it means evidence that they are.
I’d also like to see evidence that LGBA represent “a very small number of acvtivists within the homosexual community” Same standard with regards to evidence – weka]
LGB specifically excludes transgender people from the LGBT initialism:
The term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which began to replace the term gay (or gay and lesbian) in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT.
Even if you don't agree with transgender people's inclusion in the gay community in the first place, to remove them from decades of recognition in that community is exclusion.
I looked up LGB only and found a very short Wiktionary entry which said:
In recent years, LGB has come to be used to intentionally exclude trans people. Sometimes this is by people who intend to exclude trans people from the queer community in general (such as the LGB Alliance), and sometimes it simply indicates that trans people are not in the group being discussed (e.g. "transphobia among cis LGB people").
There's quite a bit on the Wiki page for LGB Alliance:
It has opposed a ban on conversion therapy for trans people in the UK, gender-affirming care including puberty blockers for children reporting gender dysphoria, and gender recognition reform.
Here, LGB Alliance supports a ban on conversion therapy for cis genders, but not trans genders. The assumption is same sex attraction is a right but gender identity is something from which to be cured.
They oppose gender affirming care and gender recognition reform. Both examples of removing, or excluding the rights of transgender people.
Founder, Kate Harris, says this:
The main difference is that lesbians, gays, and bisexuals have something in common because of our sexual orientation, that has nothing to do with being trans. We welcome the support of anyone — gay, straight or trans — as long as they support our commitment to freedom of speech and biological definitions of sex. So we are a very broad and accepting group. We will be called transphobic, but we're not.
Appears they claim to support trans people but only if those people rescind any claim to have changed sex, and only if they are attracted to the same sex. Therefore a transgender woman is still a man and only acceptable if they are attracted to other men.
They claim by Harris above that LGB Alliance is supportive of transgender people does not sit well with LGB Alliance policy which is to deny or obstruct transgender people from existing rights.
Co-founder Bev Jackson said that lesbians are in danger of extinction due to disproportionate focus on transgender issues in schools: "At school, in university, it is so uncommon, it is the bottom of the heap. Becoming trans is now considered the brave option." She also voiced concern that "If you do not accept that everyone has a gender identity then you are automatically labelled transphobic which means you can no longer discuss women's lives and what's happening to lesbians. We are increasingly discovering that lesbians are no longer welcome in the LGBTQ+ world, which is astonishing."
Bev Jackson claims lesbians are at risk of extinction and no longer welcome in the LGBTQ+ world but happily founds an organisation which excludes trans and queer people from their very name.
From the LGB Alliance wikipedia page:
According to journalist Gaby Hinsliff, "The Alliance is seen by many in the LGBT sector as a fringe organisation at best, and at worst a hate group." It has been described as a hate group by Pride in London, Pride in Surrey, the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights, the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, barrister Jolyon Maugham, Green Party of England and Wales co-leader Carla Denyer, journalist Owen Jones and Natacha Kennedy, co-chair of the Feminist Gender Equality Network. Broadcaster India Willoughby has described the group as "baddies masquerading as the good guys." The group has also been described as "anti-trans" by the Trades Union Congress and Hope not Hate. Paul Roberts OBE, CEO of LGBT Consortium said of LGB Alliance "they exist to oppose free, safe and empowered trans lives".
This to whether LGB Alliance is a small number of activists within the gay community. Many gay pride organisations and their supporters are critical of the LGB Alliance mission, summed up by Paul Roberts at the end of the above quote. And further:
A 2021 article in the International Journal of Sociology listed LGB Alliance among "UK lobby groups [that] are successfully pushing a radical agenda to deny the basic rights of trans people." Mike Homfray of the University of Liverpool has argued that "there is ample evidence that the LGB Alliance, far from respecting the existence of trans people, has as a central aim their isolation and separation from LGB people."
There's a lot more material on that page but now I am stuck because Weka will not accept my quoting and analysis of what other people have said about LGB Alliance or even what they have said and done themselves.
I fully expect to be permanently banned for this pathetic effort.
ah, no, the problem I have is that you haven't provided links. Can you please do that now, for each things you have quoted. Other than that, I can see you have made an effort and I will respond to the points once the links are available.
Wikipedia content has a lot of links embedded and when you quote a passage those links appear in the quote. I know that The Standard system doesn't like multiple links so I helpfully and carefully unlinked them all before posting in order not to trouble the moderators. Was on autopilot and removed the important links by mistake.
LGB specifically excludes transgender people from the LGBT initialism:
The term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which began to replace the term gay (or gay and lesbian) in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT.
Even if you don't agree with transgender people's inclusion in the gay community in the first place, to remove them from decades of recognition in that community is exclusion.
I've not seen LGBA say that LGBT+ shouldn't exist. Have you? They've set up their own thing, based around homosexuality and bisexuality. This has nothing to do with gender identity, and trans people who are homosexual are served by LGBA just like the rest of the constituency.
If you reject all exclusion, then there should be no women's spaces or sports. No Māori seats or roll. No Grey Power or Disable People's Assembly. Everyone should be able to join everything. That's obviously silly, so what is the problem exactly with people wanting to organise around homo/bi sexuality?
There's quite a bit on the Wiki page for LGB Alliance:
It has opposed a ban on conversion therapy for trans people in the UK, gender-affirming care including puberty blockers for children reporting gender dysphoria, and gender recognition reform.
Here, LGB Alliance supports a ban on conversion therapy for cis genders, but not trans genders. The assumption is same sex attraction is a right but gender identity is something from which to be cured.
You should have been able to easily link to something from LGBA on their position on conversation therapy and their rationales. Instead you draw inaccurate conclusions base on your own prejudices. I encourage you to learn what the progressive argument against conversion therapy legislation was about and then you can make your arguments from an informed place.
They oppose gender affirming care and gender recognition reform. Both examples of removing, or excluding the rights of transgender people.
Citation need.
Founder, Kate Harris, says this:
The main difference is that lesbians, gays, and bisexuals have something in common because of our sexual orientation, that has nothing to do with being trans. We welcome the support of anyone — gay, straight or trans — as long as they support our commitment to freedom of speech and biological definitions of sex. So we are a very broad and accepting group. We will be called transphobic, but we're not.
Appears they claim to support trans people but only if those people rescind any claim to have changed sex, and only if they are attracted to the same sex. Therefore a transgender woman is still a man and only acceptable if they are attracted to other men.
They are using the definition of homosexuality that most people, including most homosexuals, use.
You on the other hand appear to have the position that lesbians should have sex with trans women and NB men who are in fact biologically male. This is a horribly regressive position.
They claim by Harris above that LGB Alliance is supportive of transgender people does not sit well with LGB Alliance policy which is to deny or obstruct transgender people from existing rights.
Co-founder Bev Jackson said that lesbians are in danger of extinction due to disproportionate focus on transgender issues in schools: "At school, in university, it is so uncommon, it is the bottom of the heap. Becoming trans is now considered the brave option." She also voiced concern that "If you do not accept that everyone has a gender identity then you are automatically labelled transphobic which means you can no longer discuss women's lives and what's happening to lesbians. We are increasingly discovering that lesbians are no longer welcome in the LGBTQ+ world, which is astonishing."
that quote doesn't support what you said about them.
Can't be bothered with the rest. You are making arguments based on propaganda. This is evidence from the fact that you don't even understand what the argument is that you are against.
In future, you have to provide links with each quote. If you don't I will dump the whole comment in the trash for wasting moderator and commenter's time. It doesn't matter what your rationale is for not providing links.
I've explained below how to get around the spam filter.
I'm also going to make a note in the back end about the problem here of using anti-LGBA positions as your only source when you patently don't understand the issues. There's nothing wrong with using references critical of gender critical positions, but they have to have some meaning and be grounded in reality, not just a rehash of anti memos being circulated on the internet. Dig a bit deeper into your references, follow up and make an actual argument.
Just because someone says something on the internet doesn't make it true and this kind of argument here is tedious. If it seems too much work, just pick one issue and present that well.
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Our trust in our political institutions is fast eroding, according to a Maxim Institute discussion paper, Shaky Foundations: Why our democracy needs trust. The paper – released today – raises concerns about declining trust in New Zealand’s political institutions and democratic processes, and the role that the overuse of Parliamentary urgency ...
This article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today …. Buzz from the BeehiveThere we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones. Shane Jones. ...
New Zealand now has the fourth most depressed construction sector in the world behind China, Qatar and Hong Kong. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 8:46am on Thursday, May 2:The Lead: ...
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...
Winston Peters’ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard “boilerplate” Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of “benign” becoming “malign” and old truths giving way to ...
Graham Adams assesses the fallout of the Cass Review — The press release last Thursday from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls didn’t make the mainstream news in New Zealand but it really should have. The startling title of Reem Alsalem’s statement — “Implementation of ‘Cass ...
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture. This newest poll should make ...
The latest labour market statistics, showing a rise in unemployment. There are now 134,000 unemployed - 14,000 more than when the National government took office. Which is I guess what happens when the Reserve Bank causes a recession in an effort to Keep Wages Low. The previous government saw a ...
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...
National's Finance Minister once met a poor person.A scornful interview with National's finance guru who knows next to nothing about economics or people.There might have been something a bit familiar if that was the headline I’d gone with today. It would of course have been in tribute to the article ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Throughout the pandemic, the new Vice-Chancellor-of-Otago-University-on-$629,000 per annum-Can-you-believe-it-and-Former-Finance-Minister Grant Robertson repeated the mantra over and over that he saved “lives and livelihoods”.As we update how this claim is faring over the course of time, the facts are increasingly speaking differently. NZ ...
Chris Trotter writes – IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in acknowledgement of electoral victory: “We’ll govern for all New Zealanders.” On the face of it, the pledge is a strange one. Why would any political leader govern in ways that advantaged the huge ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 10:06am on Wednesday, May 1:The Lead: Business confidence fell across the board in April, falling in some areas to levels last seen during the lockdowns because of a collapse in ...
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not ...
Auckland Transport have started rolling out new HOP card readers around the network and over the next three months, all of them on buses, at train stations and ferry wharves will be replaced. The change itself is not that remarkable, with the new readers looking similar to what is already ...
Completed reads for April: The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Carnival of Saints, by George Herman The Snow Spider, by Jenny Nimmo Emlyn’s Moon, by Jenny Nimmo The Chestnut Soldier, by Jenny Nimmo Death Comes As the End, by Agatha Christie Lord of the Flies, by ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
Have a story to share about St Paul’s, but today just picturesPopular novels written at this desk by a young man who managed to bootstrap himself out of father’s imprisonment and his own young life in a workhouse Read more ...
The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill English, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, Roger Sowry, ...
Newsroom has a story today about National's (fortunately failed) effort to disestablish the newly-created Inspector-General of Defence. The creation of this agency was the key recommendation of the Inquiry into Operation Burnham, and a vital means of restoring credibility and social licence to an agency which had been caught lying ...
Holding On To The Present:The moment a political movement arises that attacks the whole idea of social progress, and announces its intention to wind back the hands of History’s clock, then democracy, along with its unwritten rules, is in mortal danger.IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in ...
Stuck In The Middle With You:As Christopher Luxon feels the hot breath of Act’s and NZ First’s extremists on the back of his neck and, as he reckons with the damage their policies are already inflicting upon a country he’s described as “fragile”, is there not some merit in reaching out ...
The unpopular coalition government is currently rushing to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. The clause is Oranga Tamariki's Treaty clause, and was inserted after its systematic stealing of Māori children became a public scandal and resulted in physical resistance to further abductions. The clause created clear obligations ...
Buzz from the Beehive The government’s official website – which Point of Order monitors daily – not for the first time has nothing much to say today about political happenings that are grabbing media headlines. It makes no mention of the latest 1News-Verian poll, for example. This shows National down ...
It Takes A Train To Cry:Surely, there is nothing lonelier in all this world than the long wail of a distant steam locomotive on a cold Winter’s night.AS A CHILD, I would lie awake in my grandfather’s house and listen to the traffic. The big wooden house was only a ...
Packing A Punch: The election of the present government, including in its ranks politicians dedicated to reasserting the rights of the legislature in shaping and determining the future of Māori and Pakeha in New Zealand, should have alerted the judiciary – including its anomalous appendage, the Waitangi Tribunal – that its ...
Dead Woman Walking: New Zealand’s media industry had been moving steadily towards disaster for all the years Melissa Lee had been National’s media and communications policy spokesperson, and yet, when the crisis finally broke, on her watch, she had nothing intelligent to offer. Christopher Luxon is a patient man - but he’s not ...
Chris Trotter writes – New Zealand politics is remarkably easy-going: dangerously so, one might even say. With the notable exception of John Key’s flat ruling-out of the NZ First Party in 2008, all parties capable of clearing MMP’s five-percent threshold, or winning one or more electorate seats, tend ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is ...
Luxon will no doubt put a brave face on it, but there is no escaping the pressure this latest poll will put on him and the government. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political ...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the wake of any unusual weather event, someone inevitably asks, “Did climate change cause this?” In the most literal sense, that answer is almost always no. Climate change is never the sole cause of hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, or ...
Something odd happened yesterday, and I’d love to know if there’s more to it. If there was something which preempted what happened, or if it was simply a throwaway line in response to a journalist.Yesterday David Seymour was asked at a press conference what the process would be if the ...
Hi,From time to time, I want to bring Webworm into the real world. We did it last year with the Jurassic Park event in New Zealand — which was a lot of fun!And so on Saturday May 11th, in Los Angeles, I am hosting a lil’ Webworm pop-up! I’ve been ...
Education Minister Erica Standford yesterday unveiled a fundamental reform of the way our school pupils are taught. She would not exactly say so, but she is all but dismantling the so-called “inquiry” “feel good” method of teaching, which has ruled in our classrooms since a major review of the New ...
Exactly where are we seriously going with this government and its policies? That is, apart from following what may as well be a Truss-Lite approach on the purported economic “plan“, and Victorian-era regression when it comes to social policy.Oh it’ll work this time of course, we’re basically assured, “the ...
Hey Uncle Dave, When the Poms joined the EEC, I wasn't one of those defeatists who said, Well, that’s it for the dairy job. And I was right, eh? The Chinese can’t get enough of our milk powder and eventually, the Poms came to their senses and backed up the ute ...
Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is higher than for any other mayor ...
Buzz from the Beehive Pharmac has been given a financial transfusion and a new chair to oversee its spending in the pharmaceutical business. Associate Health Minister David Seymour described the funding for Pharmac as “its largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff”. ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government is trying to achieve and its ...
TL;DR: Here’s my top 10 ‘pick ‘n’ mix of links to news, analysis and opinion articles as of 10:10am on Monday, April 29:Scoop: The children's ward at Rotorua Hospital will be missing a third of its beds as winter hits because Te Whatu Ora halted an upgrade partway through to ...
span class=”dropcap”>As hideous as David Seymour can be, it is worth keeping in mind occasionally that there are even worse political figures (and regimes) out there. Iran for instance, is about to execute the country’s leading hip hop musician Toomaj Salehi, for writing and performing raps that “corrupt” the nation’s ...
Yesterday marked 10 years since the first electric train carried passengers in Auckland so it’s a good time to look back at it and the impact it has had. A brief history The first proposals for rail electrification in Auckland came in the 1920’s alongside the plans for earlier ...
Right now, in Aotearoa-NZ, our ‘animal spirits’ are darkening towards a winter of discontent, thanks at least partly to a chorus of negative comments and actions from the Government Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on ...
You make people evil to punish the paststuck inside a sequel with a rotating castThe following photos haven’t been generated with AI, or modified in any way. They are flesh and blood, human beings. On the left is Galatea Young, a young mum, and her daughter Fiadh who has Angelman ...
April has been a quiet month at A Phuulish Fellow. I have had an exceptionally good reading month, and a decently productive writing month – for original fiction, anyway – but not much has caught my eye that suggested a blog article. It has been vaguely frustrating, to be honest. ...
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 21, 2024 thru Sat, April 27, 2024. Story of the week Anthropogenic climate change may be the ultimate shaggy dog story— but with a twist, because here ...
Hi,I spent about a year on Webworm reporting on an abusive megachurch called Arise, and it made me want to stab my eyes out with a fork.I don’t regret that reporting in 2022 and 2023 — I am proud of it — but it made me angry.Over three main stories ...
The new Victoria University Vice-Chancellor decided to have a forum at the university about free speech and academic freedom as it is obviously a topical issue, and the Government is looking at legislating some carrots or sticks for universities to uphold their obligations under the Education and Training Act. They ...
Do you remember when Melania Trump got caught out using a speech that sounded awfully like one Michelle Obama had given? Uncannily so.Well it turns out that Abraham Lincoln is to Winston Peters as Michelle was to Melania. With the ANZAC speech Uncle Winston gave at Gallipoli having much in ...
She was born 25 years ago today in North Shore hospital. Her eyes were closed tightly shut, her mouth was silently moving. The whole theatre was all quiet intensity as they marked her a 2 on the APGAR test. A one-minute eternity later, she was an 8. The universe was ...
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Is Antarctica gaining land ice? ...
Images of US students (and others) protesting and setting up tent cities on US university campuses have been broadcast world wide and clearly demonstrate the growing rifts in US society caused by US policy toward Israel and Israel’s prosecution of … Continue reading → ...
Barrie Saunders writes – Dear Paul As the new Minister of Media and Communications, you will be inundated with heaps of free advice and special pleading, all in the national interest of course. For what it’s worth here is my assessment: Traditional broadcasting free to air content through ...
Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government is trying to achieve and its arguments for such a bold reform. ...
Peter Dunne writes – The great nineteenth British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, once observed that “the first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.” When a later British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked a third of his Cabinet in July 1962, in what became ...
Ele Ludemann writes – New Zealanders had the OECD’s second highest tax increase last year: New Zealanders faced the second-biggest tax raises in the developed world last year, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says. The intergovernmental agency said the average change in personal income tax ...
We all know something’s not right with our elections. The spread of misinformation, people being targeted with soundbites and emotional triggers that ignore the facts, even the truth, and influence their votes.The use of technology to produce deep fakes. How can you tell if something is real or not? Can ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has attended the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva and outlined the Government’s plan to restore law and order. “Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council provided us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while responding to issues and ...
The Government and Rotorua Lakes Council are committed to working closely together to end the use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua. Associate Minister of Housing (Social Housing) Tama Potaka says the Government remains committed to ending the long-term use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua by the ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay heads overseas today for high-level trade talks in the Gulf region, and a key OECD meeting in Paris. Mr McClay will travel to Riyadh to meet with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “New Zealand’s goods and services exports to the Gulf region ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford has outlined six education priorities to deliver a world-leading education system that sets Kiwi kids up for future success. “I’m putting ambition, achievement and outcomes at the heart of our education system. I want every child to be inspired and engaged in their learning so they ...
The new NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) App is a secure ‘one stop shop’ to provide the services drivers need, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Digitising Government Minister Judith Collins say. “The NZTA App will enable an easier way for Kiwis to pay for Vehicle Registration and Road User Charges (RUC). ...
Whānau with tamariki growing up in emergency housing motels will be prioritised for social housing starting this week, says Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka. “Giving these whānau a better opportunity to build healthy stable lives for themselves and future generations is an essential part of the Government’s goal of reducing ...
Racing Minister Winston Peters has paid tribute to an icon of the industry with the recent passing of Dave O’Sullivan (OBE). “Our sympathies are with the O’Sullivan family with the sad news of Dave O’Sullivan’s recent passing,” Mr Peters says. “His contribution to racing, initially as a jockey and then ...
Assalaamu alaikum, greetings to you all. Eid Mubarak, everyone! I want to extend my warmest wishes to you and everyone celebrating this joyous occasion. It is a pleasure to be here. I have enjoyed Eid celebrations at Parliament before, but this is my first time joining you as the Minister ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced Pharmac’s largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff. “Access to medicines is a crucial part of many Kiwis’ lives. We’ve committed to a budget allocation of $1.774 billion over four years so Kiwis are ...
Hon Paula Bennett has been appointed as member and chair of the Pharmac board, Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced today. "Pharmac is a critical part of New Zealand's health system and plays a significant role in ensuring that Kiwis have the best possible access to medicines,” says Mr Seymour. ...
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. “We know FASD is a leading cause of preventable intellectual and neurodevelopmental disability in New Zealand,” Dr Reti says. “Every day, ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
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Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
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Update on the Women's Rights Party NZ.
It seems they have been cancelled by the mainstream, yet to attain any MSM coverage.
And yet to attain 500 members.
Good news though, they were on The Platform with Sean today.
It was a good and interesting interview.
For those that are interested, the interview can be found here:
According to Scoop, they've been active recently: https://info.scoop.co.nz/Women%27s_Rights_Party
Plus they have a website & it presents them with competent design: https://womensrightsparty.nz/
Love Scoop.
Scoop is wholly owned by the Scoop Foundation for Public Interest Journalism which is a Not-For-Profit charitable trust. Therefore, not exactly the mainstream I was referring too. And although they have published their press releases, I've yet to see any actual coverage regarding them.
But good on them for publishing their press releases. And good on you for highlighting them. Moreover, thanks for posting up the link to their website.
"Cancelled by the mainstream" is a gloriously Orwellian way to say "not many people bothered".
A more reasonable conclusion would be that political parties need to win 5% or an electorate, and anyone with a grasp of electoral reality realizes there are more useful ways of campaigning for women's rights. Not letting Luxon become PM would be one of them.
Cancelled by the mainstream means they are not attaining any MSM coverage.
They are a new party advocating for an important and widely interesting matter. Which is totally news worthy, yet no coverage. Orwellian indeed.
Perhaps you missed Posie Parker's visit. It got coverage.
Every 3 years there are potential parties, and they get coverage when they have gone from potential to registered. They put up candidates. Even fringe parties like Advance, the cannabis party and Tamaki's lot have done this.
The media cannot invent members.
Indeed it did. It was a huge story.
Therefore, even more reason why a political party that was born out of that visit is totally news worthy.
Don't you worry. I'm sure they will get the numbers. Less than a hundred now required.
And as for "not letting Luxon become PM…" did you actually view the interview?
Of course not, Sean Plunket is a nasty misogynist who long since stopped doing journalism. He has lied about Ardern (and subsequently apologised) and his platform exists only because he is funded by a far right wealthy man.
As for the new party, if they have sufficient members then they are fully entitled to stand at the election. Engaging in the democratic process is always good, though as I stated, I doubt that wasting votes is the most effective way to do it.
These are the current registered parties. Several have had no MSM coverage. Happens every election (do you remember Heartland or TEA? Of course not).
https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/political-parties-in-new-zealand/register-of-political-parties/
Didn't think so. Hence, you don't really know what it is you are commenting on re this interview.
As for there being other parties not attaining coverage, clearly they are not in the same news worthy category as this one.
you don't really know what it is you are commenting on re this interview.
Which is why I haven't commented on the interview.
You did make a comment (re not letting Luxon become PM) based on an incorrect assumption which you would have picked up on if you had viewed the interview.
You seem to be incorrectly blaming these women for leaving Labour and standing up for their rights as the reason behind a potential Luxon win.
Labour can do no wrong is it?
You seem to enjoy misrepresenting, so there's not much purpose debating further. Feel free to engage with what I actually say, not what you imagine and invent (like "Labour can do no wrong", something you plucked out of thin air). Otherwise please don’t waste my time.
I didn't misrepresent you. I asked you a question.
[Yes, you did misrepresent @ 7:27 pm and again @ 8:36 pm and your question was a leading one coming from nowhere other than the inside of your skull. Please stop it while you still can – Incognito]
Mod note
Good points The Chairman.
It will be interesting to see if the party gets mainstream coverage, bearing in mind the biased or missing coverage of PP visit.
There is a new party PoW in the Uk that PP is setting up and is/was launching after the Coronation.
Of course it is sad that the supporters don't feel they have a home or their voices heard in exisitng parties.
Can someone please explain the mechanics of the 1980s job losses? Was it primarily deregulation of imports/exports leading to many manufacturers shifting offshore or closing?
and government 'restructuring'?
I'd suggest the largest impact on employment was the downsizing of public employment…certainly initially but the impact of freer imports (the removal of import licensing?regulation) also resulted in a redistribution of employment opportunities which took time (in some instances considerable)
Here's a few ideas from me…
I'd vote for deregulation of import tariffs, and lack of govt subsidies for middle-sized business. My mum was a machinist, and went from 30 h a week to piece work, to no job, as the firm downsized, contracted workers, then moved off-shore. The Warehouse and undercutting Chinese imports collapsed many small retailers, clothing manufacturers and small-tool manufacturers.
Open international tendering of government contracts, eg, army uniforms, and closure of eg the railways workshops drpped off more, as middling businesses will need one or two large-scale contracts to stay afloat through the business year. There are economies of scale once your enterprise is a certain size. A single market with Oz probably also killed some of that middle-sized manufacturing.
NZ government has also taken a minimal subsidy approach to our industry, to position us for free trade negotiations – few tariffs, few subsidies. The most obvious industry subsidies I can think of are for the film industry, Comalco, and petroleum processing (which was removed recently), but little else.
Looks like Oz states still give tax concessions to local industries. The EU, of course, is chocca-full of subsidies, while China in rapid industrialisation essentially allowed manufacturers to write off thd cost in plant. Plus, of course third-world worker conditions in Asian factories.
Yes clothing manufacturers were hard hit though if memory serves it took some time to really hit…LWR was just down the road from where I worked and it was some years before their numbers really took a hit.
It took time for the new import regime to impact the existing structure but it was only ever going to be in a downward direction…as it proved to be.
And the '87 stock market crash. A bubble had built up, banking was partly deregulated – we had new Banks popping up (NZIBank etc). There was a strike of Trading Bank workers in late 1985 as their wages had not kept up with changes in the market, staff had left for the new Banks, there was constant restructuring. "Greed was Good" – remember "yuppies"? The bubble burst in October 1987.
The major public service restructuring started 1 April 1987, though it was known to be coming in advance of that date. Previously many parts of the public sector had acted as an employer of last resort, which may explain why unemployment had not gotten out of hand during Labour's first term in office. A lot of the deregulation and removal of tarriffs, etc… changes were implemented during the first term.
The other significant event would be the 1987 share market crash. Certainly the following Ruthenasia budget extended the period of elevated unemployment which followed from 1987 (government budgets work in reverse to the countries budget, and so should usually be offsetting it). Ruthenasia was cutting at the same time as NZ was in recession.
The public service downsizing began well before 87…especially amongst NZR and the power companies.
I'm sure your correct about that, but the public sector appears to have soaked up a lot of otherwise unemployed people until the 1987 changes.
I found this article descriptive of the impact of these changes.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/91005330/towns-full-of-weeping-women-rogernomics-30-years-later
Note the date of the article.
I can well recall my friends who worked for the rail and MED being made redundant well before the crash of 87 (years not months)…in many instances being told by the Labour dept that if they were over 45 not to expect to work again,,,the 87 sharemarket crash was the icing on the cake.
Fortunately, after many reforms and a name change your now expected to work immediately at WINZ.
Fortunately?…theres always something to be said for honesty…many didnt.
In Germany is was outsourcing. My hometown lost several big companies, and most of my male relatives lost their jobs. It also resulted in a huge shortage of three year apprenticeships. The Reagan years. The funny thing is, it seems as if it was almost co-ordinated considering that it happened everywhere in the 'western' world.
Government restructuring followed as there was sadly not enough tax income to pay for many burocrats. Unemployment was quite high and never went below the 10% as far as i can remember.
"The funny thing is, it seems as if it was almost co-ordinated considering that it happened everywhere in the 'western' world."
Not funny…but essentially it was.
In my burg it was the loss of more than 1000 government jobs, the assistance to farmers and the huge knock-on effects. Everything from the stock and station agencies, motor vehicle and equipment retailers, trade services, and main street outlets through to suburban retail, pie shops/lunch bars and >$$ dining establishments suffered.
Big box outlets finished the job on local retail.
By 2013 the region's overall population had declined to pre-1960s levels, the rural population nearly halved and some small towns all but disappeared, and today the urban population is similar to what it was 50 years ago.
( more lotto shops, beer shops and greasy takeaways than ever, though)
It also pays to remember how in the face of neoliberal-incrementalism..the nz union leaders largely folded like wet bus tickets..
Unlike in australia..where they were staunch..(for want of a better word..)…and told the neoliberal revolution to eff off…
So then until the recent revival…the union movement in nz was pretty much emasculated…
The union leaders in nz of the time just went and stood in a corner…and waited for their rewards…in the form of company directorships..and the like…
It was a shameful display…
It was a wrecking ball swung through the provinces by Roger Douglas and friends.
Forestry, Fishing, Coastal Shipping, Ministry of Works, and in towns and cities, Manufacturing, all took a hit, and unprecedented sales of taxpayers assets, and the penetration of public infrastructure and services by private capital…what more do you need to know?
Almost 40 years on now, Aotearoa NZ remains strangled by a neo liberal monetarist state. Time to move on surely, which is why the Greens GMI is a great idea.
https://www.greens.org.nz/gmi_needed_to_cushion_impact_of_growing_underemployment
The ruling class hates it!
the mechanisms.
a one word answer is globalisation….the free movement of capital and the removal of trade barriers promoted the (eventual and inevitable) decline of manufacturing in higher labour cost economies.
Without the liberalisation of international banking much of what happened would not have been able to occur, but western govs essentially agreed to hand over control of the economy to the international banking sector.
And now they find they have created a monster they cannot control.
Subject to correction by better economic historians than myself, I'd say the mechanisms were:
[These two had a huge impact on local production and manufacture – and drove a lot of the early job losses.]
Mainly acts of the NZ Parliament…
• Reserve Bank Act
• State Sector Act
• Floating the New Zealand dollar.
• Introducing GST
• Privatising state owned enterprises
• Local Govt. amalgamation, “Tomorrow's Schools” and so on
It basically allowed private capital, and business models, to be involved in previously public infrastructure and services.
and…a number of more right wing unions went along with this–Engineers, Hotel Workers etc., and one of Roger Douglas’ moves was the the abolishment of the Joint council of Labour where the NZ Federation of Labour previously met with the Labour Caucus to duke it out over general wage orders etc.
Not exactly what you asked for – but an excellent documentary on the subject is "Someone else's country" by Alister Barry
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/someone-elses-country-1996
thanks, I remember this from when it came out. Maybe I will rewatch.
For fans of the Russian 'coup' attempt.
I found myself enormously informed on listening to Defense Politics Asia's Q+A on the topic. Listen between 30min to 1.30h -ish to learn DPA's in-depth analysis of the coup attempt, the Russian Federation's geopolitical repositioning with the Ukraine war, and other geopolitical shit you were completely ignorant of.
Forget US and RT pundits, this is the place to go for political and military strategic analysis without propaganda. You may not agree with DPA, but your mind will be broadened.
Listenable at double speed.
Ethnic differences in stroke outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand: A national linkage study
https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930231164024 [First published online March 5, 2023]
Ethnicity in this study was self-identified.
This is yet another important piece of information that highlights the importance of ethnicity in improving health outcomes for minority populations that lag behind in health statistics.
Shit lite party. NZ labour
This Honest Government Ad sums up nicely the problem NZ labour has. With the lack of not shit policies it has.
Begs the question how many on here have been patting this government on the dick for their shit lite policies. I'd say too many.
Thanks Adam.
I do enjoy these videos. We don't seem to have any established political satire of our own. (But that my be my view only, which is hampered by not watching TV)
Anyone with a subscription care to give us the gist of this article?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/audrey-young-luxon-takes-aim-at-sepuloni-in-question-time-over-the-economy/BJRQKRKNYNHIZID3VI3EHG7LW4/
From the limited info I have, and reading between the lines, it seems Audrey Young is not happy with the misogynist National Party.
Found it. Audrey Young of the Nats hates Luxon:
https://twitter.com/David_Cormack/status/1673596664366661632
I would fly commercial at twice the cost, then I’d charter a plane and then I’m obviously just making stuff up as I go and can’t be bothered checking.
The knives have been out for Luxon in the Nats for a long time, he just seems to keep hanging on…
Don't know if it's the entire article.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FznD0V3WcAEF7gN?format=png&name=large
Thanks. It's a brutal admonishing of the National Party approach under Luxon by one of their own in Audrey Young.
But I note her biggest salvo was directed at Amelia Wade for having the temerity to explain to Luxon, Goldsmith and Mitchell how much it costs to house an inmate, on live TV.
I think they are toast because the media usually sympathetic to them are revolting.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/maori-and-pasifika-women-have-lower-survival-rates-for-breast-cancer?utm_source=Newsroom&utm_campaign=0012316572-Daily_Briefing+26.06.2023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71de5c4b35-0012316572-97938636&mc_cid=0012316572&mc_eid=e19e6c4f94
This is a very interesting article about Maori rates of breast cancer.
“Wāhine Māori and Pacific women were more likely to have higher-risk HER2-positive breast cancer than Pākehā women.”
It seems that Maori have higher rates of HER2 positive cancer which is more aggressive and less easily treated that HER2 negative. So like Jewish women who have very high rates of Braca genes which gives them the most deadly of all cancers. It may well be down to genetic misfortune. Sad
Or something to do with how the genes are expressed. Like proportionally higher rates of smoking, drinking, low nutrition, deprivation, and I dunno about 150 years of the same. Still, never let any of that feature in a ranked care process.
I know the risk for breast cancer really well.
There is genetic risk e.g HER 2 or triple negative associated with the braca gene mutation.
And there is environment. Any consumption of alcohol, even a very moderate amount increases risk. Not exercising increases risk. Being over weight increases risk and lack of Vitamin D increases risk.
Once cancer has metasticized outside of the breast, the prognosis is poor, and the" best "one to have is ER positive
Sadly for the other two there is limited treatment
It depends on how you define ‘limited’ but I’d say that this is quite an inaccurate claim and thus quite misleading.
I suspect you get great pleasure from picking apart everything I say Incognito.
I have first hand knowlege of BC. I have had it as has two of my siblings. If caught early then breast cancer is treatable.
Once it metastisizes the treatment for triple negative and Her 2 positive is not very promisisng at all. There are newer drugs for ER positive that extend life, but they don't cure it.
And you suspect wrong.
I take cancer very seriously and it causes me great displeasure when somebody is making inaccurate misleading claims about it.
I’ve already corrected you about BRCA genes, which you accepted, and I’ve challenged you on the alleged lack of treatment options for triple negative and HER2-positive breast cancer. However, your reply leaves much to desire and is not informative or helpful, i.e. you still haven’t answered what you consider ‘limited treatment’ nor have you detailed any of those ‘newer drugs for ER positive that extend life’.
The prognosis is poor for all types of cancer at stage IV, i.e., when it has spread to other tissues. Metastatic breast cancer is incurable. As with most cancers, the earlier it is detected the better the chances for a cure or long-term survival.
Here’s a fairly good overview of targeted therapies for HER2-positive breast cancer in NZ: https://www.breastcancerfoundation.org.nz/breast-cancer/treatment-options/targeted-therapy
That's interesting Anker.
Really good article. Thanks
All women (and men alike) have the BRCA genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, but only some have certain mutations that can turn normal healthy cells into cancer cells.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/young_women/bringyourbrave/hereditary_breast_cancer/brca_gene_mutations.htm
The risk factor that mutation confers is quite high:
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/young_women/bringyourbrave/hereditary_breast_cancer/jewish_women_brca.htm#:~:text=One%20in%2040%20Ashkenazi%20Jewish,cancer%20at%20a%20young%20age.
FYI, the BRCA genes play crucial roles in the protection of DNA in a major repair pathway of DNA damage. When the genes, or rather the gene products aka the proteins, function as they should they protect cells from DNA damage occurring during DNA replication, which of course happens more in dividing cells such as epithelial cells. Epithelial cells that become cancerous can give rise to cancers known as carcinomas.
In addition, cancer is also an age-related disease, i.e., age is an (independent) negative risk factor.
Why is this a "FYI"?
I was not contradicting you, just providing extra information.
As you have done.
FYI = For Your Information; I was doing the same as you (although I’d already read the link, of course, and I was not arguing with or against you.
Oops, I see I left the first sentence out of my comment @ 9:31 pm, my apologies. Here it is:
Indeed, it is an important risk factor for women but male carriers of BRCA mutations are also more susceptible to certain types of cancer such as prostate cancer (and male breast cancer).
Oh yes you are correct Incognito. It is the braca mutation. I was tested to see if I have it and I don't. I therefore tell myself I don't have the Braca gene, but technically that is incorrect
So the screening program is very important, more important than the surgical program. It's better to pour resource into screening and the education around that than the low percentage surgery outcomes which eventuate after a screening program fails.
No, you got that wrong. Screening is aimed at early detection, so that early intervention, incl. surgery if needed, has better outcomes. In other words, you need both: screening and treatment (incl. surgery). In addition, screening doesn’t pick up all breast cancers.
Did it get that wrong? This discussion formed a few days ago with some commenters putting the boot into Maori women again because of perceived favouritism. I read their idea is to not bother with early detection with weighting, rather pick up the pieces with far more surgeries at the bottom of the cliff.
I have no idea what you’re referring to without links but I have a feeling you have misread one or two things here on TS.
In any case, the whole furore was about including ethnicity in prioritising patients on waiting lists for elective surgery. These are not specific to women and even the singling out of Māori is a red herring because ethnicity can and probably will equally be used to prioritise other ethnic minority groups in other healthcare settings, as indicated by clinical data. Unless we get a NACT government …
Early detection is crucial for BC.
"However, GPs warn many people aren't even being counted."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018896034/patients-waiting-months-for-specialist-appointments
If you cant get the assessment (due to a lack of capacity) you dont even register in these statistics…as noted in the piece, there is an iceberg of unmet (and unmeasured) need.
It's because you refuse to pay more tax. It's that simple.
https://twitter.com/MorganGodfery/status/1673265248625889282
or is it because you refuse to pay more tax?
I'm happy to pay more tax, or at least happy to not indulge in paying less tax.
I do this calculation in the polling booth every three years.
and yet you assume you are the only one
Which party was it that got one vote last election?
Pat, regular, free, breast cancer screening mammograms are organised directly with the screening facility, not through a GP. If you have an abnormal scan, there is an on-site specialist who performs the biopsy within days. After that, you funnel straight to the hospital breast cancer surgical/therapy team. So the diagnosis to treatment pipeline is well established for this particular cancer.
That may or may not be the case for breast cancer screening….it certainly is not the case for many assessments which require a GP request (or accessing private services along with the associated expense)…that investigation is required to then submit a request for assessment for suitability to be placed on a surgical/treatment waiting list….which may or may not be accepted….only after that acceptance do you join the waiting list.
Those services are so constrained that GPs tell their patients that they will submit such requests but warn that it is unlikely to be successful and if at all possible the private service is the only realistic option.
This is true.
With that in mind, GPs must have access to some kind of up-to-date scheduling system that allows them to estimate the time on the waiting list.
Surely this must exist somewhere. And publication of it would allow everyone to monitor the health of our health system.
Wouldn't that be interesting?
Im not sure if they can access the waiting list however on RNZ yesterday a GP stated that the GPs have limited access to referrals for testing and much less than hospital registrars so they must have some access to that information somehow.
It would be interesting but I suspect also quite disheartening if the lack of capacity was transparent to everyone.
We were discussing lab-grown meat the other day. The tech is further along than I thought, with the FDA in the US just approving it for human consumption.
RNZ interviews Opo-bio, who produce seed cells for cultured meat
The interesting interview covers the meat making process.
Posie Parker demonetised:
https://twitter.com/shaneellall/status/1673466631148933120
Tell us something we don't know…
Meanwhile, yet another court case in the UK finds that gender critical views are 'worthy of respect in a democratic society' (WORIADS)
https://didlaw.com/denise-fahmy-v-arts-council-england
Three important points here.
There are whole swathes of work being done in the UK by gender critical feminists and other women that have nothing to do with KJK.
It's a damning indictment of liberal politics that women have to go to court in 2023 in order to protect their beliefs about women's sex based rights.
In this particular case, the meeting where Fahmy first disclosed her GC beliefs was an Arts Council meeting about funding that had been granted to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance and was then withdrawn. So not only do women have to use the courts to re-establish rights, lesbian, gay and bi people do too. Because gender ideology activists have convinced institutions like Arts Councils that homosexuality is transphobic.
They have also convinced some in the public that supporting women's issues per se is transphobic. Hence my view that we are dealing with an off shoot of misogyny, pure and simple, seeking to force its views on others, rather than a group seeking a fair go.
A group seeking a fair go would be aware of other marginalised groups and would not seek to ride roughshod over them. This has been done in sports where women have had to work really hard over the years to gain acceptance and prize money only to find that their sport now has to include men.
I think it's an inherently misogynistic movement too, but given how many liberals who otherwise support women's rights are involved in it, I don't think it's an overt intention to undermine women's rights. Unlike say someone like Matt Walsh, who clearly believes strongly in specific roles women, opposes abortion etc.
This is what makes it so hard to address. There are at least three sides and one of the sides is in large denial of this (the liberals).
The Arts Council withdrew funding for a group which is trans-exclusive. That group represent a very small number of activists within the homosexual community and is not representative of the gay community as a whole.
[please provide evidence that the LGBA excludes trans people. This means an explanation, quotes and links. It doesn’t mean someone on the internet saying they are trans exclusive, it means evidence that they are.
I’d also like to see evidence that LGBA represent “a very small number of acvtivists within the homosexual community” Same standard with regards to evidence – weka]
mod note. please attend to this before posting on TS again.
LGB specifically excludes transgender people from the LGBT initialism:
Even if you don't agree with transgender people's inclusion in the gay community in the first place, to remove them from decades of recognition in that community is exclusion.
I looked up LGB only and found a very short Wiktionary entry which said:
There's quite a bit on the Wiki page for LGB Alliance:
Here, LGB Alliance supports a ban on conversion therapy for cis genders, but not trans genders. The assumption is same sex attraction is a right but gender identity is something from which to be cured.
They oppose gender affirming care and gender recognition reform. Both examples of removing, or excluding the rights of transgender people.
Founder, Kate Harris, says this:
Appears they claim to support trans people but only if those people rescind any claim to have changed sex, and only if they are attracted to the same sex. Therefore a transgender woman is still a man and only acceptable if they are attracted to other men.
They claim by Harris above that LGB Alliance is supportive of transgender people does not sit well with LGB Alliance policy which is to deny or obstruct transgender people from existing rights.
Bev Jackson claims lesbians are at risk of extinction and no longer welcome in the LGBTQ+ world but happily founds an organisation which excludes trans and queer people from their very name.
From the LGB Alliance wikipedia page:
This to whether LGB Alliance is a small number of activists within the gay community. Many gay pride organisations and their supporters are critical of the LGB Alliance mission, summed up by Paul Roberts at the end of the above quote. And further:
There's a lot more material on that page but now I am stuck because Weka will not accept my quoting and analysis of what other people have said about LGB Alliance or even what they have said and done themselves.
I fully expect to be permanently banned for this pathetic effort.
ah, no, the problem I have is that you haven't provided links. Can you please do that now, for each things you have quoted. Other than that, I can see you have made an effort and I will respond to the points once the links are available.
Wikipedia content has a lot of links embedded and when you quote a passage those links appear in the quote. I know that The Standard system doesn't like multiple links so I helpfully and carefully unlinked them all before posting in order not to trouble the moderators. Was on autopilot and removed the important links by mistake.
Wikipedia page on LGBT here.
Wiktionary page on LGB here.
Wikipedia page on LGB Alliance here.
thanks. The baseline rule is you have to always link. Always.
The way to manage that with wiki quotes is to split your comment into two or three different comments.
I will have a look at the points later.
I've not seen LGBA say that LGBT+ shouldn't exist. Have you? They've set up their own thing, based around homosexuality and bisexuality. This has nothing to do with gender identity, and trans people who are homosexual are served by LGBA just like the rest of the constituency.
If you reject all exclusion, then there should be no women's spaces or sports. No Māori seats or roll. No Grey Power or Disable People's Assembly. Everyone should be able to join everything. That's obviously silly, so what is the problem exactly with people wanting to organise around homo/bi sexuality?
You should have been able to easily link to something from LGBA on their position on conversation therapy and their rationales. Instead you draw inaccurate conclusions base on your own prejudices. I encourage you to learn what the progressive argument against conversion therapy legislation was about and then you can make your arguments from an informed place.
Citation need.
They are using the definition of homosexuality that most people, including most homosexuals, use.
You on the other hand appear to have the position that lesbians should have sex with trans women and NB men who are in fact biologically male. This is a horribly regressive position.
that quote doesn't support what you said about them.
Can't be bothered with the rest. You are making arguments based on propaganda. This is evidence from the fact that you don't even understand what the argument is that you are against.
In future, you have to provide links with each quote. If you don't I will dump the whole comment in the trash for wasting moderator and commenter's time. It doesn't matter what your rationale is for not providing links.
I've explained below how to get around the spam filter.
I'm also going to make a note in the back end about the problem here of using anti-LGBA positions as your only source when you patently don't understand the issues. There's nothing wrong with using references critical of gender critical positions, but they have to have some meaning and be grounded in reality, not just a rehash of anti memos being circulated on the internet. Dig a bit deeper into your references, follow up and make an actual argument.
Just because someone says something on the internet doesn't make it true and this kind of argument here is tedious. If it seems too much work, just pick one issue and present that well.
@ MB
And you are linking to Shaneel Lal.
I know which person I believe has integrity and it is not the Fiji-born NZ resident. His actions in the stirring of the crowd at Albert Park were a dark day in NZ which resulted in the assault of an elderly woman.
what's the relevancy of Lal's country of origin and residency status?
Not really, she just can't make a buck on youtube. She will be doing fine on all other platforms.