Robert Reid

omg nzh - the photo remains online and was posted to social media because YOU LEAD WITH IT

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sorry-foo... Foodstuffs admits its security staff leaked photo of ex-MP Golriz Ghahraman as new privacy breach emerges

Efeso Collins, passed away on 21st February 2024.

We’re still noticing your absence, Efeso. Very very much. ❤️ #nzpol

So, NZ sent a warship into the 130 km wide Taiwan Straits a few months ago without consulting China.
... but now has kittens because China has repayed the visit by dropping into the north of the 2,250 km wide Tasman Sea without consultation.

The @NewstalkZB audience is foul. Matched by its principals.
Some of the grossest, most ignorant people on earth.
ZB featured Ardern promoting a book. The commentary it engendered is disgraceful. Does ZB moderate that. Of course not. It invites it.

Haere rā Tari.

My boss, my mentor, my guide, my friend.

A great life.

Tears.

Nurses' union calls nationwide strike over pay dispute with Health NZ Nurses are "tired and frustrated" and there is no evidence their work is valued, union says.

"Nurses were also alarmed at plans to pause a digital staffing system used in hospitals to indicate how many full-time staff were needed on duty at any given time, the union said."

Oh, and avoid being ill on 3 December.

A blurry shot of the Hikoi crossing Tāmaki Makaurau Harbour Bridge.

Best my phone can achieve but go hikoi! Make this government hear you.

The fog of war.

Written before the bombing and killing of the Central World Kitchen staff.

thegrayzone.com/2024/03/27/u...

'A disgrace': Families doing it tough after government cuts funding to food bank There's been an avalanche of demand for kai, but not enough money coming in to help.

'A disgrace': Families doing it tough after government cuts funding to food bank

Cutting funding for for foodbanks to pay for tax cuts to landlord. This Sherriff of Nottingham government must be stopped!

'A disgrace': Families doing it tough after government cuts funding to food bank There's been an avalanche of demand for kai, but not enough money coming in to help.

'The government recently told [foodbank operator] BBM it would have to wait for the new financial year if it wanted funding.' 🇳🇿

youtu.be/FfSS-dzucsU?...

A sobering watch on Good Friday.

NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content The case is part of a pattern, globally and in New Zealand, of minors being radicalised online and seeking out a variety of illegal content.

NZ teen arrested with trove of violent, sexual and terrorist content
newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/27/n...

Look familiar, Aotearoa?

We're being played.

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Perhaps I should get up and have a great day.
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Care and protection, or containment and punishment? How state care fails NZ’s most vulnerable young people Analysis - Care and protection residences are increasingly used as a solution for young people with complex needs. What needs to change?

- somehow we have a govt who, in spite, of all the evidence, is choosing "boot camps" for young troubled people-

How Roads Fail... And Why They’re Set To Get Worse Sick of potholes? Thanks to climate change and heavy trucks, we’ll likely see more of them in future

For those who cannot / don't wish to access this article on Forbes, I've added it to my site (where it is completely free to read) www.lauriewinkless.com/journal/how-... #nzpol

How Roads Fail... And Why They’re Set To Get Worse Road transport produces tonnes of emissions, making it a driver of climate change. It is also one of the sectors most susceptible to the effects of climate change.

The heaviest vehicle allowed on (some of) Aotearoa New Zealand's roads is the 50MAX truck. A single 50MAX truck applies as much stress to a road as ~1,582 cars (or quite literally billions of bicycles) www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

War on future potholes as public transport funding cut, tax and fees to rise for drivers Big roads will be back on track, while funding for cycling, walking and rail has been cut.

Want to know the best way to prevent potholes? Reduce the number of enormous, heavy trucks using those roads, by shifting as much freight as possible to rail. Is that what Brown and his cronies are proposing? F*CK no. #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...

Two bows.

Since we're doing throwbacks, here's that research on how austerity policies deepen inequality, which "can significantly lower both the level and the durability of growth" from that bastion of leftist cant, the IMF which I think stands for the International Marxist Front. www.imf.org/external/pub...

Ka taki te kākau i te whakaaroiti.

Those three new anti-mandate astroturf unions aimed at doctors, nurses and teachers? You'll never guess who's behind them.

I once went to a mandatory MSD seminar about 'making your disability work for you' and it was honestly Kafkaesque. The MSD worker had a glass eye and pointed out that he still had a job.
There was a deaf woman who had no idea what he was saying as there was no NZSL interpreter.