It seems like sheer idiocy
Health NZ have committed to  employ all graduate nurses, but for most or possibly even all, it may mean just 24 hours of work a week. Fgs what the hell IS wrong with this govt, are they quite determined to destroy our health system by every means possible & so move to a privatised health system?

They seem headed towards being a one term govt, & perhaps that's the problem; they've realised they won't be voted back & now want to do as much damage as they can before the next election.



https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/05/propos...ng-footed/

How very unusual for this govt....

Disgraceful. This shouldn't be happening, no one should be homeless.

 It wasn't always like this. It doesn't have to be like this.

Once upon a time decades ago, in 1935 " Then Minister of Housing Walter Nash told New Zealand it could not prosper or progress with a population that "lack[s] the conditions necessary for a 'home' and 'home life', in the best and fullest meaning of those words".

So basically saying that no one could prosper until all were housed. Which is a very different view to the present & some previous govts.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5722...missioners

So far, just five ships have made it to Gaza. They're hoping that this flotilla makes it because there are 70  this time, more than ever before.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5722...k-blockade

Are there any NZ owned banks left in NZ?.

Been put onto this new cellphone banking system and cannot get into bank from laptop.

Last month was our last laptop statement process and trying to print off our latest August one, we cannot get it from the lappy!!!, only the cellphone, if we know how to that!, which we were not shown!.

lurking.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/06/the-se...last-days/

Which raises the question that, if this person is an Australian then surely so are all those 501's the Aussies keeps sending here.

NOT that I'm in favour of this nasty, thuggish racist being sent here but if he's an Aussie then so are the 501's.

I suppose though, they could give him a raft with adequate food & water & let him make his own way back...


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572...mas-sewell


It seems the Aussies have now arrested him as being 'too dangerous to walk the streets'


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/571972/...nty-attack

China flexes military might with new weapons of war rolling down Beijing streets - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-03/c.../105726630

The situation there seems pretty grim. If we perhaps paid our nurse sufficient to live on, fewer might decide to cross the ditch where conditions & wages are better.


https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/situa...ed-stories

Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph

https://v.redd.it/83lwwqibxtmf1

Whilst we fall backwards into the past.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/02/a-mess...1756754069