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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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. Does breathing contribute to CO2 ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: KiwiRail’s seemingly endless requests for more money is damning. At one point, KiwiRail assured Robertson when he was the Finance Minister that the worst-case scenario would be an extra $300 million before requesting $1.2 billion a few months later. Not what most people ...
No one knows what it's likeTo be the bad manTo be the sad manBehind blue eyesNo one knows what it's likeTo be hatedTo be fatedTo telling only liesHave you ever wondered what life must be like for Mike Hosking? Seeing things in black and white through blue tinted specs? In ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past two week’s editions.Share More Than A FeildingBike bling, London Read more ...
Hi,I think we all made it through another week — congratulations. I’ve been digesting the new Arab Strap record, which is astonishing. In other news, I’m going to be doing a Webworm popup in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday July 13. I’ll bring a bunch of merch, and some other ...
The Fast-Track Approvals Bill enables cabinet ministers to circumvent key environmental planning and protection processes for infrastructure projects. Its difficulties have been well canvassed. This column suggests a different way of thinking about the proposal. I am going to explore the Bill from the perspective of its proponents with their ...
New Zealand First Cabinet Minister Shane Jones has become the best advertisement against the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill. In selling the radical new resource consenting processes, in which ministers can green light any mine, dam, or other major development, Jones seems to be shooting the proposal in the foot. ...
Buzz from the Beehive Associate Education Minister David Seymour is urging the PostPrimary Teachers Association to put learning ahead of ideology. He wants the union leaders to call off their teachers meetings around the country where they hope to muster the strength to undo the government’s plans to establish several ...
What are police for? "Fighting crime" is the obvious answer. If there's a burglary, they should show up and investigate. Ditto if there's a murder or sexual assault. Speeding or drunk or dangerous driving is a crime, so obviously they should respond to that. And obviously, they should respond to ...
Michael Reddell writes – I got curious yesterday about how the Australia/New Zealand real exchange rate had changed over the last decade, and so dug out the data on the changes in the two countries’ CPIs. Over the 10 years from March 2014 to March 2024, New Zealand’s ...
Graham Adams writes that 20 years after the land march, judges are quietly awarding a swathe of coastal rights to iwi. Early this month, an hour-long documentary was released by TVNZ to mark the 20th anniversary of the land-rights march to oppose Helen Clark’s Foreshore and Seabed Act. The account ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: Suspended Green MP Darleen Tana has passed an unpleasant milestone: she has now been absent for as many parliamentary sitting days as she has been present for this year. Tana is on full pay while she is suspended, and will benefit from a ...
Peter Dunne writes – It is no coincidence that two Labour should-have-been MPs are making the most noise about public sector cuts. As assistant general secretary of the Public Service Association, Fleur Fitzsimons has been at the forefront of revealing where the next round of state sector job ...
Bryce Edwards writes – It’s becoming a classic case study for why lobbying deals with politicians need greater scrutiny. Former National Minister Steven Joyce runs a lobbying company with a major client – the University of Waikato. The University desperately wants $300m+ of taxpayer funding to establish a ...
This is one of the (extra) weekly columns on music or movies. Plenty of solid analyses of Possession exist online and most of them – inevitably – contain spoilers. This column is more in the way of a first-timer’s aid to getting your initial bearings. You don’t need to have ...
I am painting in oil, a portrait of a manWho has taken all the heart aches,And all the pain he can stand.I am using all the colors of blue,I have here on my stand.I am painting in oil, a portrait of a man.This has been an interesting week for me. ...
Helen Clark joins the Hoon as a special guest talking whether Aotearoa should join Aukus II, and her views on the fast track legislation and how Luxon and the new Government are performing. File Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts ...
With an election due in less than nine months, Britain’s embattled PM, Rishi Sunak, gave a useful speech earlier this week. He made a substantial case for his government, perhaps as compelling as is possible in the current environment. Quite an achievement. His overall theme was security, first pulling ...
Open access notablesPublicly expressed climate scepticism is greatest in regions with high CO2 emissions, Pearson et al., Climatic Change:We analysed a recently released corpus of climate-related tweets to examine the macro-level factors associated with public declarations of climate change scepticism. Analyses of over 2 million geo-located tweets in the U.S. showed that climate ...
You can be all negative about these charter schools if you want, but I’m here to accentuate the positive. You can get all worked up, if you want to, by the contradiction of Luxon saying We’re going to make sure that every school in the country is teaching exactly the same ...
Losing The Room: One can only speculate about what has persuaded the Coalition Government that it will pay no electoral price for unreasonably pushing ahead with policies that are so clearly against the national interest. They seem quite oblivious to the risk that by doing so they will convince an increasing ...
Name suppression decisions can be tough sometimes. No matter your views on free speech, you have to be hard-hearted not to be torn by the tug of the competing arguments. I think you can feel the Supreme Court wrestling with that in M v The King. The case for ...
The Merchants of Menace: The Coalition Government has convinced itself that the “Brahmins’” emollient functions have become much too irksome and expensive. Those who see themselves as the best hope of rebuilding New Zealand’s ailing capitalist system, appear to have convinced themselves that a little bit of blunt trauma is what their mollycoddled ...
When National first proposed its Muldoonist "fast-track" law, they were warned that it would inevitably lead to corruption. And that is exactly what has happened, with Resources Minister Shane Jones taking secret meetings with potential applicants:On Tuesday, in a Newsroom story, questions were raised about a dinner Jones ...
Buzz from the Beehive One day – hopefully – we will push that Russian rascal, Vladimir Putin, beyond breaking point. Perhaps it will happen today, when he learns that Foreign Minister Winston Peters is again tightening the thumbscrews. Peters announced further sanctions, this time on 28 individuals and 14 entities ...
How Labour’s and National’s failure to move beyond neoliberalism has brought New Zealand to the brink of economic and cultural chaos.TO START LOSING, so soon after you won, requires a special kind of political incompetence. At the heart of this Coalition Government’s failure to retain, and build upon, the public ...
“Members of Parliament don’t work for us, they represent us, an entirely different thing. As with so much that has turned out badly, the re-organising of MPs’ responsibilities began with the Fourth Labour Government. That’s when they began to be treated like employees – public servants – whose diaries had ...
It’s becoming a classic case study for why lobbying deals with politicians need greater scrutiny. Former National Minister Steven Joyce runs a lobbying company with a major client – the University of Waikato. The University desperately wants $300m+ of taxpayer funding to establish a third medical school in New Zealand, ...
Time To Choose: Like it or not, the Kiwis are either going into AUKUS’s “Pillar 2” – or they are going to China.HAD ZHENG HE’S FLEET sailed east, not west, in the early Fifteenth Century, how different our world would be. There is little reason to suppose that the sea-going junks ...
Henry Ergas writes – When in Randall Jarrell’s Pictures from an Institution, a college president is accused of being a hypocrite, the novel’s narrator retorts that the description is grossly unfair. After all, the man is still far from the stage of moral development at which the charge ...
David Farrar writes – Radio NZ reports: The Education Review Office says too many new teachers feel poorly prepared for their jobs. In a report published on Monday, the review office said 60 percent of the principals it interviewed said their new teachers were not ready. ...
New Zealand’s economic performance and the PM’s vision Michael Reddell writes – When I wrote yesterday morning’s post, highlighting how poorly both New Zealand and its Anglo peer countries have been doing in respect of productivity in recent times (ie, in the case of New ...
Hi all,Firstly - thank you! You guys are awesome. The response I’ve received to last night’s mail has been quite overwhelming. It’s a ghastly day outside, but there are no clouds in here.In case you didn’t read my email and are wondering what on earth I’m talking about you can ...
If there was still any doubt as to who is actually running this government – and it isn’t the buffoon from Botany – then this week’s announcement of a huge spend up on charter schools has settled the matter. While jobs and public services continue to be cut in the ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Gaye Taylor As widespread drought raises expectations for a repeat of last year’s ferocious wildfire season, response teams across Canada are grappling with the rapidly changing face of fire in a warming climate. No longer quenched by winter, nor quelled by the ...
Half of Christchurch City Holdings Ltd’s directors and its chair resigned en masse last night in protest at Christchurch City Council’s demand to front-load dividends File Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The chair of Christchurch City Council’s investment company and four of its independent directors resigned in protest last ...
The University of Waikato has reworded an advertisement that begins the tender process for its new $300 million-plus medical school even though the Government still needs to approve it. However, even the reworded ad contains an architect’s visualisations of what the school might look like. ACT leader David Seymour told ...
As a follow-up to the Rings of Power trailer discussion, I thought I needed to add something. There has been some online mockery about the use of the same actor for both the Halbrand and Annatar incarnations of Sauron. The reasoning is that Halbrand with a shave and a new ...
This isn’t quite as dramatic as the title might suggest. I’m not going anywhere, but there is something I wanted to talk to you about.Let’s start with a typical day.Most days I send out a newsletter in the morning. If I’ve written a lot the previous evening it might be ...
Buzz from the Beehive The promise of tax relief loomed large in his considerations when the PM delivered a pre-Budget speech to the Auckland Business Chamber. The job back in Wellington is getting government spending back under control, he said, bandying figures which show that in per capita terms, the ...
Yesterday de facto Prime Minister David Seymour announced that his glove puppet government would be re-introducing charter schools, throwing $150 million at his pet quacks, donors and cronies and introducing an entire new government agency to oversee them (the existing Education Review Office, which actually knows how to review schools, ...
Seeing that, in order to discredit the figures and achieve moral superiority while attempting to deflect attention away from the military assault on Rafa, Israel supporters in NZ have seized on reports that casualty numbers in Gaza may be inflated … Continue reading → ...
David Farrar writes – Newstalk ZB report: The man responsible for a horror hit and run in central Wellington last year was on a suspended licence and was so drunk he later asked police, “Did I kill someone?” Jason Tuitama injured two women when he ran a red ...
Muriel Newman writes – Former US President Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” The fight for ...
Why Courts should have said Waitangi Tribunal could not summons Karen Chhour Gary Judd writes – In the High Court, Justice Isacs declined to uphold the witness summons issued by the Waitangi Tribunal to compel Minister for Children, Karen Chhour, to appear before it to be ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The number of voices raising concerns about the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill is rapidly growing. This is especially apparent now that Parliament’s select committee is listening to submissions from the public to evaluate the proposed legislation. Twenty-seven thousand submissions have been made to Parliament ...
An average of 166 New Zealand citizens left the country every day during the March quarter, up 54% from a year ago.Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The economy and housing market is sinking into a longer recession through the winter after a slump in business and consumer confidence in ...
The government has made it abundantly clear they’re addicted to the smell of new asphalt. On Tuesday they introduced a new term to the country’s roading lexicon, the Roads of Regional Significance (RoRS), a little brother for the Roads of National (Party) Significance (RoNS). Driving ahead with Roads of Regional ...
School is outAnd I walk the empty hallwaysI walk aloneAlone as alwaysThere's so many lucky penniesLying on the floorBut where the hell are all the lucky peopleI can't see them any moreYesterday morning, I’d just sent out my newsletter on Tama Potaka, and I was struggling to make the coffee. ...
Hi,I wanted to check in and ask how you’re doing.This is perhaps a selfish act, of attempting to find others feeling a similar way to me — that is to say, a little hopeless at the moment.Misery loves company, that sort of deal.Some context.I wish I could say I got ...
I have hitherto been fairly quiet on the new season of Rings of Power, on the basis that the underwhelming first season did not exactly build excitement – and the rumours were fairly daft. The only real thing of substance to come out has been that they have re-cast Adar ...
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 ...
“The thing is,” Chris Luxon says, leaning forward to make his point, “this has always been my thing.”“This goes all the way back to the first multinational I worked for. I was saying exactly the same thing back then. The name of our business needs to be more clear; people ...
Buzz from the Beehive It’s been a momentous few days for Children’s Minister Karen Chhour. The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision which blocked a summons order from the Waitangi Tribunal for her. And today she has announced the Government is putting children first by introducing to ...
In 2014 former Australian army lawyer David McBride leaked classified military documents about Australian war crimes to the ABC. Dubbed "The Afghan Files", the documents led to an explosive report on Australian war crimes, the disbanding of an entire SAS unit, and multiple ongoing prosecutions. The journalist who wrote the ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – According to the respected Pew Research Centre, “In seven of eight [European] countries surveyed, the most trusted news outlet asked about is the public news organization in each country”. For example, “in Sweden, an overwhelming majority (90%) say they trust the public broadcaster SVT”. ...
David Farrar writes – Kata MacNamara reports: Details of Tony Blakely’s involvement in the New Zealand Government’s response to the pandemic raise serious questions about the work of the Covid-19 Royal Commission of Inquiry over which he presides. It has long been clear that Blakely, a ...
Chris Trotter writes – Are you a Brahmin or a Merchant? Or, are you merely one of those whose lives are profoundly influenced by the decisions of Brahmins and Merchants? Those are the questions that are currently shaping the politics of New Zealand and the entire West. ...
RNZ reports – It’s supposed to be a haven of healing and spiritual awakening but residents of the Kawai Purapura community say they’ve been hurt and deceived. It’s the successor to the former Centrepoint commune, and has been on the bush block opposite Albany shopping centre since 2008. It ...
Treasury officials have outlined many ways in which the Fast Track Approvals Bill is deeply flawed, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking says. ...
Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick used this year's State of the Planet to call on the Government to prioritise people and planet as the delivery of the Budget approaches. A full transcript of their speeches can be found below. ...
Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick have used their State of the Planet speeches to challenge the Government to prioritise people and planet over profit as the delivery of the Budget approaches. ...
The Government’s introduction of legislation that would enable landlords to end tenancies with no reason marks a dark day for the 1.4 million people who rent their home in Aotearoa. ...
The Minister for Mental Health has found the Suicide Prevention Office and mental health support for 111 calls slipping through his fingers, says Labour spokesperson for Mental Health Ingrid Leary. ...
Today’s justification from the Minister for Children for scrapping protections for our tamariki was either a case of ignorance or deliberate deception. ...
The Green Party says the Government’s misguided policy on gangs will fail, following the announcement of the establishment of a national gang unit and district gang disruption units to target gang activities. ...
“With Police pay negotiations still unresolved after six months in Government, Mark Mitchell has today rolled the Commissioner out for a rebrand of their approach to gang crime,” Labour police spokesperson Ginny Andersen said. ...
The Government bringing back 50 charter schools will not increase achievement and is a distraction from the core mission of the education system, Labour education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
Te Pāti Māori is showing extreme concern over the Environment Select Committees adoption of a lucky dip draw to determine hearings for the Fast Track Approvals bill. Of the 27,000 submissions, 2,900 requested to present. All organisations will be heard; however, the remaining 2,350 submitters will be subject to a ...
Today New Zealand First will introduce a Member’s Bill that will protect women’s spaces. The ‘Fair Access to Bathrooms Bill’ will require, primarily in the interest and safety of women and girls, that all new non-domestic publicly accessible buildings provide separate, clearly demarcated, unisex and single sex bathrooms. This Bill ...
The Green Party is welcoming Climate Change Minister Simon Watts’ continuation of Hon. James Shaw’s cross-party work on climate adaptation, now in the form of a Finance and Expenditure Committee Inquiry. ...
The National Government plans to cut 390 jobs at ACC, including roles in the areas of prevention of sexual violence, road safety and workplace safety. ...
The Government has been caught in opposition to evidence once again as it looks to usher in tried, tested and failed work seminar obligations for job-seeking beneficiaries. ...
The Green Party is welcoming the announcement by the Minister Responsible for RMA Reform Chris Bishop to approve most of the Wellington City Council’s District Plan recommendations. ...
David Seymour has failed to get the sweeping cuts he wanted to the free and healthy school lunch programme, Labour education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
Hon Willie Jackson has been invited by the Oxford Union to debate the motion “This House Believes British Museums are not Very British’ on May 23rd. ...
Green Party MP Hūhana Lyndon says her Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment Bill is an opportunity to right some past wrongs around the alienation of Māori land. ...
A senior, highly respected King’s Counsel with decades of experience in our law courts, Gary Judd KC, has filed a complaint about compulsory tikanga Māori studies for law students - highlighting the utter depths of absurdity this woke cultural madness has taken our society. The tikanga regulations will compel law ...
The Government needs to be clear with the people of the Nelson Marlborough region about the changes it is considering for the Nelson Hospital rebuild, Labour health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. ...
Ministers must front up about which projects it will push through under its Fast Track Approvals legislation, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
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 ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour is pleased that Pseudoephedrine can now be purchased by the general public to protect them from winter illness, after the coalition government worked swiftly to change the law and oversaw a fast approval process by Medsafe. “Pharmacies are now putting the medicines back on their ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced that the Government will make it easier for lines firms to take action to remove vegetation from obstructing local powerlines. The change will ensure greater security of electricity supply in local communities, particularly during severe weather events. “Trees or parts of trees falling on ...
Wairarapa Moana ki Pouakani were the top winners at this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy awards recognising the best in Māori dairy farming. Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka announced the winners and congratulated runners-up, Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board, at an awards celebration also attended by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister ...
"On the 27th of March, I sought assurances from the Chief Executive, Department of Internal Affairs, that the Department’s correct processes and policies had been followed in regards to a passport application which received media attention,” says Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden. “I raised my concerns after being ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins has announced the appointment of three new District Court Judges, to replace Judges who have recently retired. Peter James Davey of Auckland has been appointed a District Court Judge with a jury jurisdiction to be based at Whangarei. Mr Davey initially started work as a law clerk/solicitor with ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour is calling on the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) to put ideology to the side and focus on students’ learning, in reaction to the union holding paid teacher meetings across New Zealand about charter schools. “The PPTA is disrupting schools up and down the ...
Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly today announced the appointment of Craig Stobo as the new chair of the Financial Markets Authority (FMA). Mr Stobo takes over from Mark Todd, whose term expired at the end of April. Mr Stobo’s appointment is for a five-year term. “The FMA plays ...
Surf Life Saving New Zealand and Coastguard New Zealand will continue to be able to keep people safe in, on, and around the water following a funding boost of $63.644 million over four years, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Associate Transport Minister Matt Doocey say. “Heading to the beach for ...
New Zealand and Tuvalu have reaffirmed their close relationship, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says. “New Zealand is committed to working with Tuvalu on a shared vision of resilience, prosperity and security, in close concert with Australia,” says Mr Peters, who last visited Tuvalu in 2019. “It is my pleasure ...
New Zealand is gravely concerned about the situation in New Caledonia, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The escalating situation and violent protests in Nouméa are of serious concern across the Pacific Islands region,” Mr Peters says. “The immediate priority must be for all sides to take steps to de-escalate the ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon met today with Samoa’s O le Ao o le Malo, Afioga Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II, who is making a State Visit to New Zealand. “His Highness and I reflected on our two countries’ extensive community links, with Samoan–New Zealanders contributing to all areas of our national ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has announced that he has approved Waiheke Island ferry operator Island Direct to be eligible for SuperGold Card funding, paving the way for a commercial agreement to bring the operator into the scheme. “Island Direct started operating in November 2023, offering an additional option for people ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters today announced further sanctions on 28 individuals and 14 entities providing military and strategic support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Russia is directly supported by its military-industrial complex in its illegal aggression against Ukraine, attacking its sovereignty and territorial integrity. New Zealand condemns all entities and ...
A year on from the tragedy at Loafers Lodge, the Government is working hard to improve building fire safety, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “I want to share my sincere condolences with the families and friends of the victims on the anniversary of the tragic fire at Loafers ...
Ka nui te mihi kia koutou. Kia ora and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for having me here in the lead up to my Government’s first Budget. Before I get started can I acknowledge: Simon Bridges – Auckland Business Chamber CEO. Steve Jurkovich – Kiwibank CEO. Kids born ...
New Zealand and Vanuatu will enhance collaboration on issues of mutual interest, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “It is important to return to Port Vila this week with a broad, high-level political delegation which demonstrates our deep commitment to New Zealand’s relationship with Vanuatu,” Mr Peters says. “This ...
Minister for Land Information, Chris Penk will travel to Peru this week to represent New Zealand at a meeting of trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region on behalf of Trade Minister Todd McClay. The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting will be held on 17-18 May ...
Minister of Education Erica Stanford will head to the United Kingdom this week to participate in the 22nd Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) and the 2024 Education World Forum (EWF). “I am looking forward to sharing this Government’s education priorities, such as introducing a knowledge-rich curriculum, implementing an evidence-based ...
Minister of Education Erica Stanford has today thanked outgoing New Zealand Qualifications Authority Chair, Hon Tracey Martin. “Tracey Martin tendered her resignation late last month in order to take up a new role,” Ms Stanford says. Ms Martin will relinquish the role of Chair on 10 May and current Deputy ...
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and President Emmanuel Macron of France today announced a new non-governmental organisation, the Christchurch Call Foundation, to coordinate the Christchurch Call’s work to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. This change gives effect to the outcomes of the November 2023 Call Leaders’ Summit, ...
Distinguished public servant and former diplomat Sir Maarten Wevers will lead the independent review into the disability support services administered by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. The review was announced by Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston a fortnight ago to examine what could be done to strengthen the ...
Today’s announcement by Police Commissioner Andrew Coster of a National Gang Unit and district Gang Disruption Units will help deliver on the coalition Government’s pledge to restore law and order and crack down on criminal gangs, Police Minister Mark Mitchell says. “The National Gang Unit and Gang Disruption Units will ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today expressed regret at North Korea’s aggressive rhetoric towards New Zealand and its international partners. “New Zealand proudly stands with the international community in upholding the rules-based order through its monitoring and surveillance deployments, which it has been regularly doing alongside partners since 2018,” Mr ...
Air Vice-Marshal Tony Davies MNZM is the new Chief of Defence Force, Defence Minister Judith Collins announced today. The Chief of Defence Force commands the Navy, Army and Air Force and is the principal military advisor to the Defence Minister and other Ministers with relevant portfolio responsibilities in the defence ...
Legislation to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act has been introduced to Parliament. The Bill’s introduction reaffirms the Coalition Government’s commitment to the safety of children in care, says Minister for Children, Karen Chhour. “While section 7AA was introduced with good intentions, it creates a conflict for Oranga ...
Defence Minister Judith Collins will this week travel to the UK and Italy to meet with her defence counterparts, and to attend Battles of Cassino commemorations. “I am humbled to be able to represent the New Zealand Government in Italy at the commemorations for the 80th anniversary of what was ...
The upcoming Budget will include funding for up to 50 charter schools to help lift declining educational performance, Associate Education Minister David Seymour announced today. $153 million in new funding will be provided over four years to establish and operate up to 15 new charter schools and convert 35 state ...
“The results of the public consultation on the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into COVID-19 Lessons has now been received, with results indicating over 13,000 submissions were made from members of the public,” Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says. “We heard feedback about the extended lockdowns in ...
Foreign Minister, Defence Minister, other Members of Parliament Acting Chief of Defence Force, Secretary of Defence Distinguished Guests Defence and Diplomatic Colleagues Ladies and Gentlemen, Good afternoon, tēna koutou, apinun tru It’s a pleasure to be back in Port Moresby today, and to speak here at the Kumul Leadership ...
Health, infrastructure, renewable energy, and stability are among the themes of the current visit to Papua New Guinea by a New Zealand political delegation, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Papua New Guinea carries serious weight in the Pacific, and New Zealand deeply values our relationship with it,” Mr Peters ...
The coalition Government is launching Roads of Regional Significance to sit alongside Roads of National Significance as part of its plan to deliver priority roading projects across the country, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The Roads of National Significance (RoNS) built by the previous National Government are some of New Zealand’s ...
A high-level New Zealand political delegation in Honiara today congratulated the new Government of Solomon Islands, led by Jeremiah Manele, on taking office. “We are privileged to meet the new Prime Minister and members of his Cabinet during his government’s first ten days in office,” Deputy Prime Minister and ...
New Zealand voted in favour of a resolution broadening Palestine’s participation at the United Nations General Assembly overnight, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The resolution enhances the rights of Palestine to participate in the work of the UN General Assembly while stopping short of admitting Palestine as a full ...
Introduction Good morning. It’s a great privilege to be here at the 2024 Infrastructure Symposium. I was extremely happy when the Prime Minister asked me to be his Minister for Infrastructure. It is one of the great barriers holding the New Zealand economy back from achieving its potential. Building high ...
Defence Minister Judith Collins today announced the upcoming Budget will include new funding of $571 million for Defence Force pay and projects. “Our servicemen and women do New Zealand proud throughout the world and this funding will help ensure we retain their services and expertise as we navigate an increasingly ...
New Zealand’s ability to cope with climate change will be strengthened as part of the Government’s focus to build resilience as we rebuild the economy, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “An enduring and long-term approach is needed to provide New Zealanders and the economy with certainty as the climate ...
Jobseeker beneficiaries who have work obligations must now meet with MSD within two weeks of their benefit starting to determine their next step towards finding a job, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “A key part of the coalition Government’s plan to have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker ...
A new standalone Social Investment Agency will power-up the social investment approach, driving positive change for our most vulnerable New Zealanders, Social Investment Minister Nicola Willis says. “Despite the Government currently investing more than $70 billion every year into social services, we are not seeing the outcomes we want for ...
Check against delivery Good morning. It is a pleasure to be with you to outline the Coalition Government’s approach to our first Budget. Thank you Mark Skelly, President of the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce, together with your Board and team, for hosting me. I’d like to acknowledge His Worship ...
Your Excellency Ambassador Meredith, Members of the Diplomatic Corps and Ambassadors from European Union Member States, Ministerial colleagues, Members of Parliament, and other distinguished guests, Thank you everyone for joining us. Ladies and gentlemen - In diplomacy, we often speak of ‘close’ and ‘long-standing’ relations. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Renzella, Lecturer, Director of Studies (Computer Science), UNSW Sydney An example of shrimp Jesus.Shutterstock AI Generator If you search “shrimp Jesus” on Facebook, you might encounter dozens of images of artificial intelligence (AI) generated crustaceans meshed in various forms with ...
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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.