Daily review 07/11/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, November 7th, 2024 - 16 comments
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16 comments on “Daily review 07/11/2024 ”

  1. gsays 1

    I had the privilege to hear a couple of health professionals talk yesty.

    One a former paramedic that now works for Tele-Health and the other a senior nurse that now works in maternity.

    From Tele Health there are a series of redundancies coming up, just as demand is about to climb as it seems that tele health is a panacea for Levy and Reti.

    The nurses have been offered up to 1% from April next year and up to 1% the year after. Also, getting rid of the CCDM (Care Capacity Demand Management) scheme because of variability. CCDM was introduced to give health bureaucrats. 2005/6 it was introduced as a part of a safe workforce, not compulsory till 2018.

    It is yet to go to ballot, one would hope there is enough gumption for industrial action. That becomes harder though, especially among the younger and the foreign sections of the workforce.

    What they both commented on and were surprised by was the rise and rise of syphilis. Very rare up until the last couple years and now is swiftly on the increase.

  2. Dennis Frank 2

    Elderly mobsters fist-pumping all over the nation…

    The former president returns to the top job as the oldest commander-in-chief in the record books, the second man to win non-consecutive terms in office, and as the first convicted felon to ever win a presidential election.

    It has been a longstanding policy of the Department of Justice (DOJ) that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted, partly because it would interfere with their ability to perform their constitutional abilities.

    In July, the Supreme Court found former presidents did have significant protection from criminal prosecution, delivering a huge blow to the DC case and delaying the trial until after the election.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/donald-trump-could-evade-multiple-legal-battles/104572190

    No need for him to game the system any more: the system puts him above the law. Mobsters will realise they can follow his trajectory into politics, because corruption doesn't really matter when it has been institutionalised. Mana is all it takes.

  3. observer 3

    The Roy Morgan poll has been mentioned elsewhere, but the most important result is not the party vote (fluctuates) or the commentary (irrelevant), it's the government confidence rating.

    National support down significantly in October after the sinking of HMNZS Manawanui in Samoa – Roy Morgan Research

    People are more and more unhappy with this government. That doesn't necessarily translate into votes for opposition parties, they have to be earned.

    But the Luxon "honeymoon" never happened, and a year on, it's a broken marriage. Support is up for grabs, who wants to grab it?

  4. Ric Stacey 4

    I'm pleased the NZ Herald is strongly criticizing the government for wasting 1.6 million of taxpayer money.

    Three years ago a tunnel from Wellington city to near Wellington airport was "deemed eye wateringly expensive". So Simeon decided to order another study and the result was that the tunnel would cost 8 billion dollars. So it won't be built.

    To waste $1.6 million on a second report was clearly a poor business decision by the government. And the new cook strait ferry ?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wasteful-tunnel-spend-from-a-govt-preaching-fiscal-restraint-editorial/K4FWOXGM3VARLBHWKD66TSKBIA/ (pay walled)

  5. joe90 5

    Germans know how it begins..

  6. SPC 6

    Desi explains its not why Harris lost, it's about how Trump won.

    The USA needs to look in the mirror.

  7. ianmac 7

    Another bad poll for theCoC from STUFF

    A poll by Labour’s pollster, Talbot Mills Research, for the firm’s corporate clients that has been obtained by The Post shows the coalition parties — National, ACT, and NZ First — lacking sufficient public support to form a Government, if an election were held today. The next election is in 2026.

    The poll showed Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori together would have a one seat edge in the House, presuming Te Pāti Māori once again won six electorate seats, and NZ First remained aligned with the centre-right parties.

  8. Muttonbird 8

    Uncle Tom Potaka feeling the heat from his own whakapapa in parliament today.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/treaty-principles-bill-senior-leaders-of-ngati-toa-iwi-walk-out-of-public-gallery-in-protest/6K3YJ4F32NBURGLVC5CPTBANKE/

    It won't matter to Uncle Tom, he has the backing of very powerful Pakeha.

  9. Belladonna 9

    Suspect he's more interested in the opinions of the people from Hamilton West who elected him.

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