None of our healthcare professional organisations are exempt from this & community safeguards are being torn down at a rate we can barely follow. Patients & whānau will be paying the price for this (in every sense) for years. @greens.org.nz @tepaatimaori.bsky.social we need your plan to fix this

Rhys Jones 🇵🇸@rgjones.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our NZ Medical Journal editorial highlights Health Minister Simeon Brown‘s political interference in the Medical Council. His decision not to reappoint its chair and deputy chair reflects a broader ideological rejection of evidence by this government that threatens patient safety.

Our NZ Medical Journal editorial highlights Health Minister Simeon Brown‘s political interference in the Medical Council. His decision not to reappoint its chair and deputy chair reflects a broader ideological rejection of evidence by this government that threatens patient safety.

Doctors accuse Minister and Government of silencing scientists and threatening patient safety

Four senior physicians have criticised Simeon Brown’s handling of Medical Council appointments, while the Health Minister says the Government is putting patients ahead of ideology.

stuff.co.nz

How many more people have to die before the central government understands we’re in a climate crisis in little old NZ? (Rhetorical, I know 🙄😑) Vote these fuckers out & get everyone else you know to vote them out too #nzpol

1News NZ (Unofficial)@1newsnz.nzcow.com · 6mo ago

📢 A member of the public called emergency services, alerting them to the submerged car on State Highway 39 near the intersection with Kiwi Rd at Puketotara last night. 👉 Latest bot: NZ Transport Agency - Auckland & Northland

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

Tania Roxborogh@taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.

Our article in today's NZ Medical Journal - a disgraceful story of structural racism in NZ health policy. It highlights govt refusal to address a glaring inequity despite clear evidence and sustained advocacy. The result is avoidable disease and mortality for Māori and Pacific people.

That's because we want it to do our housework, not write our novels, ya planks

The Economist@economist.com · 8mo ago

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

NZ Govt suppressing the publication of clinically developed appropriate guidelines for gender affirming care to force Simeon Brown's christofascist extremism on our kids.

Jennifer@jennifilm.nz · 8mo ago

In some good news, today PATHA has finally been able to release the 2025 Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care in Aotearoa New Zealand. You can read them here: patha.nz/resources-an...

👇👇👇 No preemptive capitulation to fascist creep!

Rhys Jones 🇵🇸@rgjones.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"To the medical community, we urge all our colleagues to resist the move toward authoritarianism over our work" I'm reminded of this statement, from the AMA Code of Medical Ethics 2002-03: "In exceptional circumstances of unjust laws, ethical responsibilities should supersede legal obligations."

Statement from Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa (Māori Medical Practitioners Association) expressing its condemnation of the banning of puberty blockers by the NZ government.

Politicisation of medical care. Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent

Analysis: The government's ban on puberty blockers for gender-affirming care prioritises politics and ideology over decades of expert clinical guidance and patient safety evidence.

rnz.co.nz

This government has done some absolutely horrendous shit but this - denial of essential health care for trans youth - is unforgivable. Pure evil.

Mikey Brenndorfer XVX@mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty. 🧵 #kikorangi

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...

Instead of spending billions on fancy new roads, the government should actually consider REMOVING some of the big roads from our cities as well as building more bike lanes and public transport. #NZPOL

This story was devastating to write. Imagine what it was like to live it.

'He begged for pain relief': The story of a boy who was failed by his carers before he died

Oranga Tamariki apologises to the family of a teenager: “There were failings in how we cared for you”

stuff.co.nz

NZ public health, GP and paediatric folk have been warning about this longer than the WHO… World Health Organisation warned New Zealand of measles immunisation gap www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

World Health Organisation warned New Zealand of measles immunisation gap

Latest stats show 72 percent of Māori under-fives are vaccinated, compared to 82 percent for the whole population.

rnz.co.nz

Our university has decided to pander to racists rather than living by its stated values. The new Waipapa Taumata Rau course, which was designed as a core foundation for Tiriti-based learning, will now be optional for most students. This is a shameful and spineless decision.

Mind blowing. The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial. #nzpol

“In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones.

Fifty years of the Waitangi Tribunal | E-Tangata

“In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones...

e-tangata.co.nz

A tragedy as long in the making as it was probably statistically inevitable. It started with lies, planted as disinformation into the vulnerable mind of anyone susceptible. Those that create the lies, spread the lies, reinforce the lies are as responsible as those who aided him. 🧵 #nzpol

David Mohring@nzheretic.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Fugitive Marokopa father Tom Phillips has been shot dead by police after allegedly ram-raiding a building in Piopio. Phillips is dead and a police officer was shot in the incident in the early hours of the morning. A second person is in custody. RNZ Liveblog link [ rnz.liveblog.pro/lb-rnz/blogs... ]

Important commentary on Gaza from my colleague Ritesh Shah, around the nonsense (in both senses) that is the silence of "political neutrality" articulated by universities in the face of genocide, scholasticide, and the requests from staff for divestment.

Is this a 1980s Apartheid moment for our universities?

Academic Ritesh Shah wonders if universities staying neutral on human rights abuses in Gaza achieves the opposite of their desired preservation of academic independence.

newsroom.co.nz

Among all the many reasons to support Gaza, and push for ceasefire, sanctions etc., is scholasticide... Surely as academic communities and professions, we must rally around the attacks on, and obliteration of infrastructure for, our academic peers and students in Gaza.

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

theguardian.com

I direct NZers attention to who was asking in the House if politicians had backbone in 2008

These pictures will be remembered for centuries. Future generations will ask: "Who did what, and when? Who made this abomination possible? Who spoke out - and who remained silent?" Make sure you have good answers.

Sumud: Palestinian resilience and its impact on the world 🇵🇸 Free events including lectures and panel presentations, film screenings, and artistic performances. Every Thursday from 6-8.30pm, from 31 July to 21 August at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland.

the problem is that the first premise - that people on the so-called Right of politics are Decent Sorts who hold similar values to the rest of us and just have Different Opinions - isn't really true, and becomes less true all the time

This coalition government is making #nz a global laughing stock

Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · last yr.

New Zealand used to make headlines for its bold climate commitments. The gutting of those commitments is equally bold, but not getting much attention outside NZ. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, read @roycerk2.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/new-zea...

Zionist apologists being more outraged by a chant at a concert than by children being burned alive & people being starved then shot queuing for food tells you everything you need to know. #gaza #genocide #eyesongaza