Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: The Shaken Generation https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356410#post356410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356410#post356410 We need to talk about Cbristchurch.
Noon Today!!
(Sunday 21st Feb)

Give Chchch a fair shake!

]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2016 09:29:06 +1300 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356408#post356408 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356408#post356408 We need to talk about Cbristchurch.

__If you’d asked me a fortnight ago what the mood of Christchurch folk was, asked for a precis of our psychological landscape I would have said that we were doing okay. That we were finally moving on from our quake traumas, at least those…

]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2016 09:17:10 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356377#post356377 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356377#post356377 Health Minster Jonathon Coleman responds

Rearranging the deckchairs...Are we on a sinking ship?

]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 07:32:41 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356376#post356376 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356376#post356376 CDHB member and former Ecan councillor Jo Kane yesterday broke the board members' silence on the machete being taken to mental health – and the rest of the health sector – and what it means for the Canterbury health system.

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/health/exclusive-funding-shortfall-will-cut-chch-mental-health-services-cdhb-member-says/

Health Minster Jonathon Coleman responds
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/christchurch/canterbury-mornings/audio/dr-jonathan-coleman-17-feb/

]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:40:03 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356325#post356325 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356325#post356325 It really is the most awful example of faux reasoning.

Roughan for sure, then

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:44:30 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356324#post356324 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356324#post356324 everyone I know who works in health, education and welfare is already doing a lot with next to nothing

for love of fellow humans.

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:41:54 +1300 LeighKennaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356314#post356314 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356314#post356314 What is abundantly clear is that the folks in parliament and the plonker who wrote the editorial can’t conceive of anyone doing their job without having a big stick waved over them. Which leads me to the conclusion that far from targeting health workers we should be targeting Herald opinion… ]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:44:15 +1300 B Jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356313#post356313 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356313#post356313 less prime ministering, tbh. ]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:31:27 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356311#post356311 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356311#post356311 I wholeheartedly agree with that. We should start at the top, by demanding that the prime minister produce 10% more prime ministering on 10% less money, every year.

I believe you've got to the nub of it, Moz.

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:50:05 +1300 Kyle MacDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356309#post356309 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356309#post356309 Couldn't agree more. I worked in the public system for about 12 years and the only waste I saw was the endless restructures, and name changes, forced on us by central government.

Fundamentally this government seems to consider all public servants as lazy and docile, and that crunching everyone to…

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:35:00 +1300 Moz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356308#post356308 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356308#post356308 can extract better value for the taxpayers' outlay. It has to come from the top where the demand will never be popular.

I wholeheartedly agree with that. We should start at the top, by demanding that the prime minister produce 10% more prime ministering on 10% less money, every year.…

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:32:26 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356307#post356307 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356307#post356307 The Herald editorial is here if anyone wants to read it. And it's a truly pissweak effort at editorial-writing.

This paragraph:

The point, economists will say, is to put public hospitals under the sort of financial discipline that works in the private sector. The so-called "required savings" should really be called…

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:26:27 +1300 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356304#post356304 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356304#post356304 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:30:14 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356303#post356303 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356303#post356303 In stark opposition to the Herald today, which supports Health cuts on the efficiency argument…

What struck me most about the editorial and the whole efficiency argument is that it make the presumption that health workers would naturally skive off and waste money if they could.

It's the idea that…

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:03:53 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356301#post356301 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356301#post356301 Roughan being an arse again, I'm guessing?

Meanwhile, the Herald's radio arm has interviewed a CDHB board member and the Minister (who frankly does not seem to know what his ministry have been up to).

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:43:24 +1300 Kyle MacDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356299#post356299 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356299#post356299 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:57:00 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356292#post356292 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356292#post356292 there will come a tipping point…

There will.

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:49:21 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356291#post356291 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356291#post356291 Press editorial doesn't mince words. ]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:37:26 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356283#post356283 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356283#post356283 there will come a tipping point…

Really? 'cause ya know John Key is such a nice man and if our Richie likes him then he must be good.

I'm sorry to rag on those who vote National, I'm certain there are those who genuinely believe that making the rich richer…

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:15:45 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356281#post356281 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356281#post356281 Like.
it works the other way too:

Once you take the ’silence’
out of resilience
all that’s left is ‘ire’ …

there will come a tipping point…

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:45:24 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356277#post356277 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356277#post356277 This....http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/76938252/jonathan-coleman-annette-king-in-numbers-war-as-row-over-dhb-funding-heats-up

and on http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/20160217

Guyon Espiner interviews Coleman and has a 'pant's on fire' moment'.

(There will be two protesting in spirit on the 21st)

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:03:08 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356276#post356276 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356276#post356276 This explains a lot too...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/76957685/government-agencies-inventing-numbers-to-meet-targets-says-report

These people are no longer fit to govern.
we need a paradigm shift from 'fear' to 'care'!

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 07:35:27 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356274#post356274 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356274#post356274 PLUS:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/76934698/editorial-mental-health-funding-cuts-a-disgrace

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:35:56 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356273#post356273 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356273#post356273 The people seeking help specifically for earthquake related trauma are just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of people are doing sort of OK but doing that much is taking all their reserves so it just takes one more bad thing – a bereavement or illness or relationship breakdown to… ]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:59:58 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356272#post356272 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356272#post356272 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:58:18 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356261#post356261 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356261#post356261 How those tax cuts looking now?

muh increased income from top-skewed personal tax cuts and them lovely untaxed capital gains are lush, thanks

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:29:42 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356260#post356260 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356260#post356260 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:24:27 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356259#post356259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356259#post356259 Once you take the ‘ire’
out of resilience
all that’s left is ‘silence’…

Like.

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:56:28 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356257#post356257 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356257#post356257 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/76927843/cashstrapped-womens-centre-turning-people-away
More women than ever before are visiting the Women’s Centre, for help with stress, depression, anxiety and suicide.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/76894335/mike-yardley-gaping-reality-of-unmet-medical-need-is-undeniable
At 77, Margaret’s knackered foot didn’t pass muster on the agony index, part of the rather perverse rationing apparatus, that crowd controls access to elective surgery.
Her story was all…

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:33:49 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356256#post356256 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356256#post356256 Not to mention the TPPA inevitably putting
pharmaceutical costs up as well...

the conversion from dairy farming
to organ farming will be swift and profitable!

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:26:49 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356255#post356255 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356255#post356255 Resilience in Adversity
Once you take the 'ire'
out of resilience
all that's left is 'silence'...

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:24:35 +1300 Kyle MacDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356254#post356254 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356254#post356254 http://nzh.tw/11590079 ]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:59:09 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356252#post356252 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356252#post356252 it just takes one more bad thing – a bereavement or illness or relationship breakdown to tip them into a much darker place than they would have gotten to had the background radiation of quake stress not been there.

Yes. Sadly, all the ordinary shitty things still happen in the…

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:29:52 +1300 lynne walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356251#post356251 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356251#post356251 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:17:41 +1300 Isabel Hitchings https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356250#post356250 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356250#post356250 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:13:55 +1300 Dr Robyn Hewland Q.S.M. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356249#post356249 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356249#post356249 Robyn Hewland
10:28 AM

From: Robyn Hewland ()
Sent: Tuesday, 16 February 2016 10:28:56 AM
To: RadioNZ ()
QUAKES-
As in my text to RNZ at 6am today, as effects of quakes affect physical changes in brain circuits and body , could you provide on air a health info session…

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:43:29 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356248#post356248 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356248#post356248 Unfortunately we have a Health Minister than is more interested in financial performance than people’s wellbeing and a government that has a track record of slashing counselling services and underspending on public mental health services.
You mean a bunch of total arseholes. It just gets more and more depressing...
That…

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:37:55 +1300 Christopher Dempsey https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356244#post356244 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356244#post356244 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:54:42 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356242#post356242 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356242#post356242 Why can't the government sort this out?

Because they are incompetent and ideological, and they keep getting re-elected despite that.

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:42:20 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356240#post356240 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356240#post356240 All of New Zealand should be deeply ashamed that their government is doing this to the people of Christchurch.

The Minister is pretty much only interested in carving another few dollars off the budget so his party can buy the next election with a tax cut. Contempt is hardly a…

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:35:31 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356236#post356236 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356236#post356236 I got this from a quite a few Christchurch people. James Dann, who was robust (bolshie even) through the aftershock years, admitting how vulnerable and upset he felt when the quakes came back on Sunday.

And that’s just the people who can talk about it. The gap between the National…

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:08:08 +1300 Dr Robyn Hewland Q.S.M. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356235#post356235 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356235#post356235 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:41:25 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356234#post356234 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356234#post356234 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:38:20 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356230#post356230 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356230#post356230 In addition schools which have acted as safe community hubs have been closed by Government decree and children relocated to bigger more distant schools, and Relationships Aotearoa lost contracts and closed, so a skilled workforce lost.

I was saddened that many of the commentators on Sunday mentioned the ongoing insurance…

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:46:20 +1300 Robert Fox https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356228#post356228 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356228#post356228 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:21:00 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356227#post356227 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-shaken-generation/?p=356227#post356227 Discussion from blog post.

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