Daily review 19/05/2025

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1. Muttonbird 1

   19 May 2025 at 6:34 pm

   There's an air of desperation and a total lack of ideas about Luxon and Willis. Even when they do have a thought bubble they don't have any conviction. It's up to everyone else to do the real work:

   $75m to look at ways to give tax breaks to foreigners and startups.

   https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/watch-christopher-luxon-and-nicola-willis-speak-ahead-of-budget-2025/KPI7CSHXQZEH3L6UNV2ZNVBY6Q/

   And $190m to Bill English's social investment fund, and $164m to small town after hours care doctors who don't exist*.

   None of that is going to hit the road before the election next year.

   • I was stunned at this – The patient voice advocates (can’t remember his name) was on Stupidity-Allen’s show and said that a woman in Northland took her husband who had had a stroke to Kataia Hospital where there were no doctors and she was put on a Tele-health call to a doctor in America. This is happening in NZ now so imagine what it’s going to be like after this govt has done its work.

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   • bwaghorn 1.1

     19 May 2025 at 6:56 pm

     $164m to small town after hours care doctors who don't exist*.

     You got that right , pretty hard to get a dr during the day , he'll we haven't even got a qualified chemist for ohakune and raetihi

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     • weka 1.1.1

       19 May 2025 at 7:08 pm

       as an aside, I've got a post going up (probably tomorrow) on the Greens' inheritance tax and what it would mean for farming. If you are around, it would be good to have a rural perspective.

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       • bwaghorn 1.1.1.1

         19 May 2025 at 10:16 pm

         I hate the concept of an inheritance tax but yip sure.

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     • Bearded Git 1.1.2

       19 May 2025 at 9:10 pm

       This Whangarei emergency doctor Gary Payunda (spelling?) eloquently and comprehensively rips apart the $164m Simeon Brown has today trumpeted (over 4 years) for after-hours emergency care. He makes it clear that the money will do almost nothing to solve the health service’s problems, and is simply privatisation-the money will just serve to boost the profits of "a private equity company from Australia."

       Simeon is without doubt a cnut. A must listen.

       https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018987809/northland-emergency-doctor-on-govt-urgent-heathcare-boost

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       • Drowsy M. Kram 1.1.2.1

         19 May 2025 at 11:47 pm

         Public worried about creeping health privatisation, lack of preventative care [18 May 2025]
         Many people they spoke to were angry about what they described as decades-long neglect of the health system and fearful of the way privatisation seemed to be occurring without public discussion.

         [Dr] Nahill said he shared some of those concerns about privatisation, highlighted by a recent decision by Health New Zealand to outsource thousands of operations to private hospitals.

         "We only have a certain number of doctors in New Zealand, and if they work more and more in private, that means there are fewer and fewer of them available to do the same procedures in public, which means the waiting lists grow. We then have to outsource again to the private system, so it seems to me to be a silly way to deal with waiting lists."

         RNZ obtains two OIAs – one redacted, one not [14 May 2025]
         Analysis: The right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing can be a good thing.

         My colleague Anusha Bradley and I did not know we had put in similar requests for information about the outsourcing of operations from public to private hospitals.

         She got back a memo from Health Minister Simeon Brown with two of its four pages of details of risks and mitigations blanked out.

         I got the same four pages back from Health New Zealand with nothing blanked out.

         This itself was unusual from an agency the Ombudsman recently told off for too often taking too long to release too little.

         If you compare the two memos, you get a rare glimpse inside the process of deciding what the public can know and what they can’t.

         Minister Brown boosts private capital chasing 'healthy' profits – it's all about $$$

         

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2. Muttonbird 2

   19 May 2025 at 8:57 pm

   No indication of why the tenancy was initially terminated:

   https://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/threats-to-property-manager-lead-to-family-eviction-in-king-country/RM5BZSMF4NCWPCKHFBVIWRKKT4/

   It's all about threats to the property owning class though, isn't it?

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   • bwaghorn 2.1

     19 May 2025 at 10:20 pm

     No it sounds like threats to a woman , possibly a renter herself going about her job, at this stage

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   • Obtrectator 2.2

     19 May 2025 at 11:32 pm

     Property owners aren't always in the wrong, y'know.

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3. Incognito 3

   19 May 2025 at 9:25 pm

   True liberation lies not in seeking validation from oppressive systems but in creating alternatives that embody Māori values.

   https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2505/S00138/rebuke-and-resistance-te-pati-maoris-protest-abstentionism-and-thepath-to-indigenous-sovereignty.htm

   You can’t judge a book by its cover (or title) necessarily, but this bunch (?) does do some sharp analysis. Was I not meant to become more conservative with age? Maybe I’ve hit my political puberty (or midlife crisis)?

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4. Muttonbird 4

   19 May 2025 at 9:28 pm

   It will be fun for this government when butter runs out or hits $30/kg.

   https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360694475/costco-shoppers-are-stocking-butter-how-long-does-it-last

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