both the education and health systems are getting absolutely butchered by this government and this is definitely going to impact you and the people around you.

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    Great. I’m already on month 15 of waiting for an appointment that the letter from the hospital told me was going to be a 6-8 month wait.

    Seems we’re in a “post truth” era here in New Zealand as well. This article has Luxon saying he doesn’t want spin doctors and then Dr Shane Reti literally trying to spin this story.

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    2 months ago

    National: strip-mines the public sector…

    “Oh no, see - this doesn’t work, the public sector can’t do anything right. Obviously the solution is to privatise everything”

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    My wife is a nurse. She has been doing 2-3 double shifts a week due to the ongoing nursing shortage, as have most of her colleagues. This plan means that her ward will be dangerously understaffed for every single shift.

    I cannot comprehend how completely out of touch with reality this plan is.