Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Farmer Green,
the waters that Forest and Bird et al want most to be cleaned up , will never be "swimmable" because they are under the ground.
You are conflating the recently announced Green party policy on aquifers with Forest and Bird mapping which waterways the govt's new water standards apply to.
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
the whole Social Investment Strategy is another way for the Government to contract out work and services
Which is why they want to track individuals over time - so they can tie contracted payments for long-term individual outcomes rather than single interventions and population-level results.
They intend to apply privatised insurance industry actuarial models across all social services. Very similar to how the US health system is organised - ie: a costly disaster. This is the endgame Bill English, Steven Joyce and Paula Bennett have been working towards for many years now without effective opposition. Time to step up.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Welcome back…, in reply to Russell Brown,
that Pitch Black show tonight
have a great one for me
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Hard News: Hep C: When doctors do the…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
one can complain to the H&D Commission about services rendered but not services denied
Correct in general (and a huge problem in itself), but this seems to be about the nature of delivered services (ie: the conduct of the consultation session itself rather than any subsequent potential treatment).
If any person does not feel they have been listened to, understood, acknowledged - respected - then by all means they can complain. Being the first formal Right shows where the women's health advocates who drove the Cartwright process prioritised that.
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Hard News: Mt Albert: Cooperating,…, in reply to Ben Austin,
If Lab do not lift their party vote, list places will be scant anyway (including his).
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you can't complain to the Health and Disability Commissioner about rudeness, but people shouldn't come away from their doctor crying and hurt.
see Right 1 of the HDC Code: "Respect".
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Hard News: Mt Albert: Cooperating,…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I disagree that there are too many old people in parliament.
Graph shows too many middle-aged to be directly representative (though I'd expect that because of the nature of the role). Not enough other diversity yet, for sure.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Nadia 2, in reply to Russell Brown,
Not officially released, but some copies floating around ..
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NewShub backs the PM's desperate dog-whistling anecdata.
CEO of Horticulture New Zealand Mike Chapman says it's a real problem, and he has many employees not willing to give up drugs.
"We are getting 50 percent of these Kiwis saying 'no, sorry, I'm not prepared to change my lifestyle, I like taking drugs'," he told Newshub.
The same goes for the dairy industry. A mid-Canterbury dairy farmer who didn't want to be named told Newshub he employed and housed four immigrant workers, and has just employed another one because the only two Kiwis who applied had drug records.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Bart Janssen,
when he decided to make that claim he knew it was false, he knew that what those employers said to him was false.
Joyce and comms staff will have been in charge of the line-making. English just delivers what he has been told to, like his predecessor did.
No doubt *some* employers have said this to him so it's true for them. Subsequently exaggerating the scale of the matter to avoid talking about the real problems is the sort of lying that politics abounds in. Not quite as bad as Trump's "the sky is green"-type nonsense but corrosive of public trust over time.