Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Sacha,
to download the Strategy to read for myself,
"All New Zealanders
live well
stay well
get well"(or else!)
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Apologies to anyone who might have followed the link to the NZDoctor site....sends one to a subscriber login page....
Don Matheson's paper "The NZ Health Strategy: refreshed or eviscerated?", evaluating the new Health Strategy, is well worth a read...hopefully available here.
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Joe Wylie,
These guys have their own refinery...processing used cooking oil donated by local businesses.
http://busaboutnorth.co.nz/about/ and their parent group http://www.cbec.co.nz/
And yes...Kaitaia has more eateries per metre than any town we have visited...were we takeaway junkies we'd be in seventh heaven.
All happening in the Far North!
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Let’s face it, we don’t got buses unless you count the 7am bus doing SH1 from AK to Kaitaia.
BusaboutKaitaia Timetable for Town, Pukenui and Ahipara routes.
Reasonable fares, and as an added bonus the buses run on 50% bio diesel made from refined cooking oil. Smell really yummy!
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Where better to post this?
A former America’s Cup official has taken a top job at the Health Ministry as it continues with a major restructure.
and….
Stephen O’Keefe, a former general manager of KiwiRail, will be the new chief financial officer.
The Miserly have their Strategy to implement and clearly need capable hands at the helm.
Not all are happy however..(miserable haters and wreckers)…with the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists having a whinge and with the same organisation currently supporting Christchurch doctors in their latest stoush with the Misery of Health executive and with concerns being raised on the NZDoctor website the future relationship between the Ministry of Hell and doctors (as if they would know anything about health delivery) is going to be a prickly one.
So, while the New Crew on the Health Boat is steering us along the track to a Brighter Future…my constant companions (Syd Cynic and Sally Sceptic) and I are going to have a coffee and leave further analysis and discusiion to the resident PA experts.
“Of the top 13 positions, there is not a single one whose responsibility is about the health of the population of New Zealand.”
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Polity: Geography and housing options, in reply to Hilary Stace,
This used to be the main way people travelled around the country and could be again.
Oh, yes...
Sing it...yodelleee...those city slickers chill me to the bone...
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Polity: Geography and housing options, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
TBH we could do with a bit better customer service in K Town. I mean Kaitaia closes down on Saturday at noon.
C'mon...we were trying to take a leisurely stroll/wheel down the main drag in Kaitaia just the other afternoon and could barely move for folk just hangin'. And that was on a Sunday!
Seriously though...Kaitaia has gone ahead in leaps and bounds over the past few years and yet has lost little of it's rural charm. Still a shit load more beach bashers in the Pak 'n Save carpark than Remuera Tractors.
Thank god.
And even more seriouser...the number of Aucklanders who holiday in the Far North....why? What draws them to these quiet, unsophisticated burgs?
What is it about the remote wild provinces that make so many of them so damned miserable when they have to pack up and head back South? -
Polity: Geography and housing options, in reply to dave stewart,
Why not incentivise Aucklanders and new migrants to move to other centres
No! No!
In some places, where this is already happening, these ex-Aucklanders are trying to turn their new homes into mini-Aucklands.
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Don’t get me wrong, expanding Auckland north and south should and will happen,
Drove from Port Albert in the North down to Hamilton yesterday....gobsmacked at the amount of building activity north and south of Auckland just in the past six months.
The traffic...whew! For those of us who would never choose to live in Auckland, (and to be perfectly honest have no idea why any sane person would) the journey through Auckland is a nightmare. There simply is no direct route for those who want to go through the hellhole as quickly as possible. We know folk who plan their Auckland transit for 2 am.
If intensification of the inner city will mean less traffic on the roads...bring it on I say!
There's plenty of 'unused' land in Epsom, Remuera, Paratai Drive...
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Marc C,
I dread the future,
Mate...methinks the future is the now.