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[miket12]

I know that there are some absolute shit of slum lords/landlords out there... but if you're a landlord in Hamilton/Waikato watch out for this one.......

‘Quite unusual’: Woman’s extravagant lengths to get free rent

After being arrested, Christine Scott carried out more offending.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Worse bit is.... like the guy who has been charged with executing the insurance boss in NYC, there will be some (not necessary on this forum) who will consider her actions justified. He was sticking up for those who had had medical insurance claims dismissed while she's just "sticking it to the rich prick landlords".

 

[defensivebomb]

Worse bit is.... like the guy who has been charged with executing the insurance boss in NYC, there will be some (not necessary on this forum) who will consider her actions justified. He was sticking up for those who had had medical insurance claims dismissed while she's just "sticking it to the rich prick landlords".

The thing about that NYC guy is he was a rich kid that lived a life of privilege. His actions weren’t that of some valiant Robin Hood. Another way to look at it was he was a spoiled prince that was told “no” and couldn’t deal with it

Makes me cringe when losers hold him up as some sort of hero for shooting a CEO / father / accountant in the back

 

[MaybeTop8]

The destruction of new zealand democracy in favour of those on the right and far right continues.

Seymour's authoritarian power grows daily.

David Seymour’s subtle power play

The soon-to-be deputy PM has already had a crucial win behind the scenes.

thespinoff.co.nz

 

[Damo]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

Interesting! Talk that Simeon Brown will take over.

 

[Noitall]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

Looks like Reti might be the victim of a reshuffle?

 

[MaybeTop8]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

Looks like Reti might be the victim of a reshuffle?

I'm suspecting he's uncomfortable with swathe of cuts that are costing new zealanders their lives. They've stopped reporting on ed overflows and have actually culled waiting lists to avoid them appearing as late.

Generally - we can't afford the tax cuts, or the subsidising of the landlords at all.

The health system is being laid waste to purely as part of the neoliberal ideology and to extract wealth into private hands.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

or the subsidising of the landlords at all.

what subsidies are paid to landlords?

 

[MaybeTop8]

what subsidies are paid to landlords?

Landlord tax break cost rose by $800m to $2.9b

National’s pre-election fiscal and tax plans costed the policy at $2.1b.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Landlord tax break cost rose by $800m to $2.9b

National’s pre-election fiscal and tax plans costed the policy at $2.1b.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Ahh yes the left, always claiming your money as theirs. So no direct subsidy, unlike every beneficiary, just an adjustment to tax deductions for all property investors.

Labour had removed the ability for residential investment property owners to deduct interest costs from their tax bills, which has the effect of increasing the amount of tax investors pay. The three parties of Government campaigned on reversing the policy, which will have the opposite effect and reduce the tax paid by landlords.

Returning to the status quo is a subsidy? This is why no one can take lefties seriously..

 

[MaybeTop8]

Ahh yes the left, always claiming your money as theirs. So no direct subsidy, unlike every beneficiary, just an adjustment to tax deductions for all property investors.

Labour had removed the ability for residential investment property owners to deduct interest costs from their tax bills, which has the effect of increasing the amount of tax investors pay. The three parties of Government campaigned on reversing the policy, which will have the opposite effect and reduce the tax paid by landlords.

Returning to the status quo is a subsidy? This is why no one can take lefties seriously..

It's 2025, I haven't said this yet. Man made accelerated climate change is real Frank.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

It's 2025, I haven't said this yet. Man made accelerated climate change is real Frank.

thats a quote from that article.. Did you not read it?

 

[Inruin]

I'm suspecting he's uncomfortable with swathe of cuts that are costing new zealanders their lives. They've stopped reporting on ed overflows and have actually culled waiting lists to avoid them appearing as late.

Generally - we can't afford the tax cuts, or the subsidising of the landlords at all.

The health system is being laid waste to purely as part of the neoliberal ideology and to extract wealth into private hands.

Sigh, the current government is having to respond to the rapid decline over the last six years from a completely mismanaged country where every key metric was going backwards despite the increases in borrowing and spending. The sky had already fallen Henny Penny, you may have missed that being protected in your echo chamber. You seem to like misinformation and misappropriation of facts. So here is some reading for you, I know not your strong suit but thought I'd provide it anyway, showing the huge decline over recent years and shock horror, reported waiting times in ED! Interestingly it really started to fall away with the so called 'well being' budget that actually has delivered worse results for everyone.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/were-...shane-reti-claims/4LQDFJLN36Z5XWX3JGZY5DTKTI/

Middlemore Hospital: 36% of ED patients waited more than six hours, latest figures show

New data from Te Whatu Ora shows 36 percent of Middlemore Hospital emergency department patients waited more than six hours to be seen in December.

www.rnz.co.nz

ED Wait Times Hit New Record

Former Health Minister Andrew Little stopped publishing emergency department (ED) wait times, and now we know why, with Health NZ quietly revealing they continue to grow, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “After wait times hit ...

www.scoop.co.nz

 

[MaybeTop8]

Sigh, the current government is having to respond to the rapid decline over the last six years from a completely mismanaged country where every key metric was going backwards despite the increases in borrowing and spending. The sky had already fallen Henny Penny, you may have missed that being protected in your echo chamber. You seem to like misinformation and misappropriation of facts. So here is some reading for you, I know not your strong suit but thought I'd provide it anyway, showing the huge decline over recent years and shock horror, reported waiting times in ED! Interestingly it really started to fall away with the so called 'well being' budget that actually has delivered worse results for everyone.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/were-...shane-reti-claims/4LQDFJLN36Z5XWX3JGZY5DTKTI/

Middlemore Hospital: 36% of ED patients waited more than six hours, latest figures show

New data from Te Whatu Ora shows 36 percent of Middlemore Hospital emergency department patients waited more than six hours to be seen in December.

www.rnz.co.nz

ED Wait Times Hit New Record

Former Health Minister Andrew Little stopped publishing emergency department (ED) wait times, and now we know why, with Health NZ quietly revealing they continue to grow, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “After wait times hit ...

www.scoop.co.nz

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Sigh. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national...ack-alert-for-emergency-departments-in-crisis

Spinning so hard on the right

 

[Inruin]

Sigh. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national...ack-alert-for-emergency-departments-in-crisis

Spinning so hard on the right

Sigh, so you have taken putting a consistent measurement in place nationally and put the required spin on it to try and catastrophize it. How very left of you

From the actual article you posted:
A senior consultant - who wished to remain anonymous - said getting national consistency could be helpful.

"It doesn't matter whether it's colour-coded green, pink or purple, as long as it recognises when there's a threat to care and it triggers the necessary response. That's the important thing."

That doctor was hopeful that a new acute care advisory group within Health NZ would bring positive change.

A Te Whatu Ora spokesperson said the agency was in the process of improving the "sometimes disparate" data reporting systems used by former district health boards to make them nationally consistent.


The graph I posted previously is as simple as I think it can get for you. The last 6 years has resulted in heavy decline in results. Its not something that has happened in the last 3-6 months because of this government. We have actually seen a slight improvement in ED waiting times recently. Isn't that a positive step?

 

[Inruin]

Watch live: Christopher Luxon announces cabinet reshuffle​

Jenna Lynch
Jan 19, 2025 •03:01pm

Shane Reti has lost his job as health minister, Melissa Lee is no longer a minister, while rising star James Meager has been promoted into the ministry following Christopher Luxon’s first major cabinet reshuffle.

Simeon Brown will take on the troubled health role with his Transport portfolio being taken on by Chris Bishop while Simon Watts will be responsible for Energy and Local Government.

Lee’s Economic Development portfolio has been renamed “economic growth” and shifted to finance minister Nicola Willis - who hands responsibility for the Public Service over to Judith Collins

Shane Reti has lost his health portfolio in Christopher Luxon’s first major cabinet reshuffle.BRUCE MACKAY / The Post
Reti has been bumped five spots down the cabinet rankings and will now be in charge of Science and Innovation (previously held by Collins), Statistics and Universities, which has been separated out from a wider tertiary portfolio held by Penny Simmonds. Simmonds will now be in charge of Vocational Education.

““Last year, Dr Shane Reti worked hard to reset the culture and performance of Health NZ. It was critical to establish targets and refresh their leadership – and I am confident the organisation is heading in a much better direction that it was when we entered office,” Luxon said in a statement on Sunday.

"But I have also heard Kiwis’ concerns that they expect to see even more progress – ensuring they can access the care they need, when they need it. To deliver on that expectation, I have decided Simeon Brown will become Minister of Health.”

He labelled Brown an “outstanding and diligent” minister who’d done an excellent job.

Off the back of that performance, I have decided his skills are best placed to take leadership of our health system going forward.

“Dr Shane Reti will take on an important new role assuming responsibility for New Zealand’s universities and our science sector – both of which are expected to play a critical role in our economic growth plan.

Police Minister Mark Mitchell adds Ethnic Communities, formerly held by Lee, and Sport and Recreation to his responsibilities.

James Meager - a first term MP who has impressed many in the short time he has been in Parliament - will be a minister outside cabinet, becoming Minister for Hunting and Fishing, Youth and a newly created role - Minister for the South Island.

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[Inruin]

I feel a little sorry for Reti. It's a poisoned chalice he had picked up after the last 6 years. I suppose though, when you look at it, it is probably the one area that needs even stronger focus to address the issues there. I wonder how much being a former medical person adds to being able to do the role as Minister of Health or whether it's a potential hindrance instead. If will be interesting to see how Simeon Brown goes in the role.

 

[MaybeTop8]

I feel a little sorry for Reti. It's a poisoned chalice he had picked up after the last 6 years. I suppose though, when you look at it, it is probably the one area that needs even stronger focus to address the issues there. I wonder how much being a former medical person adds to being able to do the role as Minister of Health or whether it's a potential hindrance instead. If will be interesting to see how Simeon Brown goes in the role.

Your neolib cult is destroying the health system in new zealand with the end goal of a haves have everything, have nots have the crumbs, and the wealth extraction heads off to the lowest bidder in a mass privatisation and americanisation of the health system.

Disgusting sellouts, of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.

 

[Inruin]

Your neolib cult is destroying the health system in new zealand with the end goal of a haves have everything, have nots have the crumbs, and the wealth extraction heads off to the lowest bidder in a mass privatisation and americanisation of the health system.

Disgusting sellouts, of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.

You seem to be struggling with the fact you are late to the party. Everything points to the health system already having been bought to the point of being destroyed in the last few years.

Posting conspiracy theories and name calling doesn't change that

 

[Bay39er]

You seem to be struggling with the fact you are late to the party. Everything points to the health system already having been bought to the point of being destroyed in the last few years.

Posting conspiracy theories and name calling doesn't change that

& with respect you are struggling with the fact that it has occured over the last couple of decades

 

[Inruin]

& with respect you are struggling with the fact that it has occured over the last couple of decades

no, I'm very aware of that, but the data, particularly for ED wait time shows that we were coping until around 2018 where it shows a drop off increasing over the next years until now.

its fairly pointless throwing conspiracy theories and name calling out when the history is there to see. We have seen a slight upward tick in ED waiting times in the last couple of reads so maybe we actually wait and see if that's just an anomaly or something is changing over a longer period of time

Of course it could also be a big conspiracy over many decades and changes of government with the end goal of mass privatisation and americanisation of the health system.