There's been a lot of rhetoric about public sector cuts not impacting frontline services but every signal we have had at every level of Te Whatu Ora is that they are trying to find savings & make cuts & these are going to impact patient care.

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'We need more doctors, not spin doctors' Luxon says repeatedly, as his government effectively puts a hiring freeze on hospitals.

The govt talk about boosting 'frontline staff' seems hot air.

Leaving shifts uncovered, hiring freezes, roster gaps, sick leave unfilled.

Every unfilled shift is $$ that will go to tax cuts for the wealthy and 2,900,000,000 dollars straight to landlords. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

The thing about telling hospitals to 'live within their means' is that it's govt who decides what those means are.

A hiring freeze on doctors and nurses is a political choice.
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North Shore hospital can’t open because the this govt won’t fund it newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…

Thousands of jobs cut, but where’s the plan?stuff.co.nz/politics/35024…

Devastating news for staff working with some of our most vulnerable children today. The people losing their jobs at Oranga Tamariki and the Ministry of Education do amazing work. They have homes and families too. Once again we see how wrong this government’s priorities are.

The brutal and rushed nature of the Government’s spending cuts have been exposed with two critical agencies supporting children, and young people proposing to shed 1012 jobs.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/4b1aU0t

This is cruel. Graduate jobs are so hard to get right now. Imagine getting one and starting on your career with high hopes, only to be kicked out the door a few months later.

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In a much needed absurdist interlude from graver matters, the Liz Truss memoirs are an unbroken stream of unintended comedy...
But it does include the remarkable encounter of a wise, experienced, old Sovereign and her shortlived Minister.
'Pace yourself,' says the Queen.…

Good to have space to make nuanced points about #Aukus & related issues in Q+A i/v w/ Jack Tame this morning. Advocating for NZ to be a voice for deescalation of tensions & not a contributor to them.
Association w/AUKUS jeopardises that
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Colleen Brown (Disability Connect) at public meeting in Akl on disability funding cuts, hosted by Priyanca Radhakrishnan, says: to carers for disabled people - “you are worth it and you’re not alone”. She says: “I think you can gather, I am pretty angry about this [these cuts].”