Princess Buttercup ☠

holy shit you guys

If you see this, post a blood sucking c**t that isn't Dracula.

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith dismisses officials' advice on 'move on orders' Paul Goldsmith has batted away advice from government agencies strongly urging against the move and pointing to a lack of evidence.

"Ignoring advice since way back" should be the new campaign slogan 🖕🏾 #nzpol

To understand Wellington you have to understand how deeply and profoundly the whole city fucking loves the central library

Reopening today after a near-decade of earthquake repair/strengthening

This piece from Hayden Donnell is absolutely top hat #NZPol

Supermarkets' super profits - where’s the fair pricing for For many New Zealanders, the last few years at the checkout have felt rather grim. Prices have been high, and there’s nothing to suggest they’ll be falling any

Lest we forget:

In the 2022 market report, the Commission dropped the bombshell about Foodstuffs and Woolworths’ profits being consistently higher than they should be, to the tune of $1 million a day. #nzpol www.consumer.org.nz/articles/sup...

We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.

We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming
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'The invisible unemployed': Too much for a benefit, not enough to make ends meet While the rising number of beneficiaries is plain to see, there is another layer of people struggling.

I know this *so well* having lived it - it's really hard.
What's harder is when your partner also loses their job because Jobseeker is dire 😞

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"Poverty is a political choice and this government has chosen to leave thousands of low-income families considerably worse off. The changes to the accommodation supplement are unjustified, particularly in a cost of living crisis.
#nzpol

*do I need more caffeine to tuhituhi i reo Māori i tēnei ata? Aye.

Headline reads "The Covid immunity cycle: Why catching the virus is basically our new booster" below picture of glived hands preparing a wooden syringe or something honestly the picture is weird I can't even tell what it's meant to represent

Dangerously stupid headline.
(It implies catching Covid is a neutral alternative option to getting a booster. It is not).

Does anyone in Pōneke have a fejoa tree with spare socialist fruits? A bag of succulent fruits? Asking for a friend*

*Ko au i te hoa i tonotono

Beneficiary numbers soar to 12-year high despite government's reduction promise Louise Upston vowed to "curb the surge in welfare dependency" after taking office, but the numbers are now the highest since at least 2013.

Because Government Minister’s lied. They knew their policies/actions would make beneficiary numbers soar. If winning needs lying, they lie. If their ideology over evidence policies destroy lives, livelihoods and communities they’re ok as long as it’s not their lives. #nzpol

Covid-19 Inquiry: Swift government action on recommendations is now needed The critical next step is the NZ Government’s response. Aotearoa needs to be ready when the next pandemic hits.

The just-released Phase Two report of NZ's COVID-19 Royal Commission of Inquiry highlights the need to prepare now for the next pandemic.

In a new Briefing, Prof Michael Baker and colleagues outline key steps to strengthen New Zealand’s pandemic preparedness. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/cov...

Can I please have some glitter - I wrote two paragraphs today. They're pretty good too, probably won't delete them 😂

A lot more would have survived with long COVID/post-sepsis syndrome, with little to no wrap around care following discharge. Cause unir. our medical profs are literal gold - we have one of the lowest ave annual mort. rates for hospital-treated sepsis, globally.

The burden would have been immense.

And to think if there had been another leader instead of JA at the head of the table? Like the one we have now? Who fails to string two words together under pressure? It would have been the very young, the elderly, the vulnerable & the ethnically/economically marginalised who would have died enmass.

There are literally PR papers that talk to medical profs in AoNZ & AU, comparing the decisions they have to make about who gets to ICU it's stark. We were lit. prot. from the hideous reality of the first waves of SARS-CoV2 - refrig. trucks, mass graves, people dying alone even in crowded hospitals.

She didn't say because there weren't enough ventilators or ICU beds, or that only those with the likelihood of surviving well got them. But it was there. In AoNZ we have the lowest number of ICU beds per capita for a high income economy country.

The nurse giving a talk to the retirement peeps and having to tell them (in response to it wasn't that bad was it?), was - if you had turned up to the hospital I worked at in London with CoVID you wouldn't have got a ventilator.

I listened to the last of the stuff podcast on CoVID in Aotearoa - the thing I took away was the maxim that when public health interventions work people wonder why they needed them and not what they were protected from.

It's always been about his ego. Standing down would be a upper cut to his sense of self. He won't go.

1 term gov ftw.

Even though I dislike him Bishflaps is probably the better bet.

They want Stanford to be National's Ardern, but they're missing the part that a new leader requires charisma, genuine empathy, and not being despised by parents who know EXACTLY how she's screwed their kids education.

Another wastewater leak hits Wellington Wellington Water crews are responding to a wastewater leak on Marine Drive in Eastbourne.

#nzpol In case yiou missed it...

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Pride in Pōneke will be bursting with major events in town this weekend Pōneke will host two major events this weekend, with Newtown Fair and the Pride Festival bringing fun, food and festivities to the capital city.

Pride in Pōneke will be bursting with major events in town this weekend
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Seen more & more face masks on public transport ki Pōneke this week. Good to see peeps listening to the epi/scientists about the latest wave of COVID - the rise in waste water identification probably due to waining immunity due to decr. vaccination uptake & availability.

*Wear the mask e te whānau

Nats’ press secretary turned government lobbyist to lead NZME editorial board Hamish Rutherford, who is also a former journalist, was named as the leader of the media company’s independent advisory board.

The new head of media company NZME’s editorial advisory board is Hamish Rutherford - former chief press secretary for Luxon and a current government lobbyist #nzpol

I also think a fundamental thing would be to stop expecting people who need help to conform to some moral cookie cutter stereotype eg you have to be suitably grateful, clean, have to say the right things, grovel, to get the support you need to live a dignified life.