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These news people are all so brilliant, they know everything, why don't you go run the hospitals, than we will see what sort of a mess we would be in, totally sick of Journalists, Newspapers and TV news with your lot going on and on, just jump on everything this Government does one minute after they after they announce it Jenna Lynch, Tova O'Brien two dramatics if I've seen anything, just don't watch this rubbish anymore, you are totally ridiculous, go get a proper job

Maybe Brownlee thinks Seymour is just a snivelling little..

seriously seymour started being cocky and getting his way, but as soon as events go against him he is a snarky schoolboy, and what Chhour is going about is a bit of smoke screen that they are still not addressing 5 00 odd kids protection etc and ministry cutting cost and not explaining what they doing with boot camp etc

By vulnerability, you mean neo-liberalism. The old trick of underfund, run services into the ground and sell off to private interests. Cigereti is incompetent and not a doctor anymore, he's in the business of private sickcare. The government's vulnerability is they are gamg of neo-liberal thieves. Mega wealthy donors have paid big money to this team of ramraiders

This racist colonial thinking national government is going to lose the next election.

The health system is broken why dont you ask that question

Marxist trash media

This govt really don't communicate well, and a lot of cutting, without any plans put in place. I love the media tackle the narrative (luxon dodges questions)and get them to commit, magic word when.

You don't fix a 6 yr old Health system failure in 6 or 8 months. This might take a year or two and then along comes another Govt and around we go again. A 4 yr term might help but is not the total answer at all. Very good administrators are the answer..

You lost me at Andrew Little being one of the best Health Ministers. The system fell apart and costs blew up under his watch.

"Boot camps" and "14 layers of management" are political slogans for messaging, I find it hard to believe that it was something Reti told Luxon, vs something Luxon's political advisors cottoned onto as a neat messaging trick.

Winston is longest serving member

Reti is out of his depth.

The lowest paid dental officer, not a specialist, is paid $142.000 a year. Also paying people fair wage, paid by tax of people that arnt on a fair wage, doesn't sound fair to me! Is underfunding the issue? Or overpaid staff the issue?A dental officer being paid $142,000 a year, imagine what a manager of one of the many departments is paid!?😊 these are tax payer funded services. Yes its great hospital staff then get an extra 7% of their wages to be on call, but maybe seriously looking at the wages of these higher ups and seeing how many and what they get paid may answer the funding allocations and why we dont see outcomes for patients

They may not be novices, but i bet they earned a truck load in wages

Who owns newsroom?

The outgoing directors of Te Whatu Ora / Health NZ : Chair of the medical council Dr Curtus Walker ; Vanessa Stallart who was the GM of Air NZ and Naomi Ferguson who ran Inland Revenue for 10 years are taking PM Christopher Luxon on for lying and misleading the public by characterising the board as incompetent and dismissing them just to cut costs for National's tax cut policy

Gerry is excellent!

The Māori Party is a Race Based Political Party. The Māori Party want a divided society and they don’t want Democracy, they want special privileges and rights over the rest I.e. Pakeha. No Med School for Waikato! This would be stupid. I wouldn’t let a Grad from Waikato Med School Near me. Stick to doing you PhD in Dairy Cows and Musket Wars. And then these turkies are considering setting up a 3rd Medical school based in Hamilton? This is Stupidity……The U of A and the U of O have been training our Doctors the 1800’s in the case of Otago and Auckland since 1960. Both the U of A and the U of O already have all the structure, expertise etc to Train more Doctors……it would be a nonsense to build another Med School. The U of O has campasi in Dunedin, Invercargill, Christchurch, Wellington etc etc. They could easily set one up in Hamilton!

The sticker on Hana's laptop was a Toitu Te Tiriti sticker that the Act party member asked the speaker to be removed, and then Dave Seymour turned Karen when the speaker enforced the terms they(Act) asked for about Hana's sticker, to their little ACT broaches to remove them and they had cry baby tantrum refusing to remove them . Self-righteous pride

BRICS,BRICS,BRICS

BRICS or the US dollar?

more experts with their expert opinions....ha ha ha more clowns trying to undermine the coalition....where were you little sheep when jizzinda stuffed the country?gfw

Bravo! - good podcast. Thanks so much 🙂

I bet Gerry doesn’t want to get into a battle of what is and isn’t a pin

Vaccine?

Thanks team. Good line "The govt ministers start to think it's the media versus them. That is not what's going on there, they are speaking to New Zealanders through the media". Great explanation. The public DOES want to know, and we can spot a lie and lose trust pretty pretty pretty pretty quickly...

Oh people..I too am ashamed.. At how stupid and weak willed you all are....new zealand owes nothing to maori. Weve been inundated with this partial, heavily edited historical narrative for so long now..that its being seen as fact....ITS NOT. Celtic peoples were here Long, long before polynesians.

I cannot trust this government anymore, they are not prepared to be honest with us. The cuts are leading to predictable outcomes that they are determined to deny.

China can never set up shop in the Islands excl Fiji... All the islanders are based here, not in Beijing...

Haha FINALLY! someone called out you don't need a doc or medical profession to run the DHB. Because they are not qualified to be in charge, just to help run hospitals by using their qualifion..

Good points raised by Tim Murphy

What about hats ??

Trump❤

Everyone knows money floats around the top and doesn’t go to where its needed

Time for A I doctors because the human ones only work 3days a week

Trump❤

I don't believe that there is "Financial mismanagement " I believe the under funding of public services is deliberate. When the top 5% of society owns 38% of the wealth and half of society are lucky to earn $24,000 pa it appears to be orchestrated. Some say NZ wealth distribution is near on par with Switzerland and Lichtenstein both probable tax havens and launders of shady money.

Best political analysis as always. Thanks team

Thanks-good backgrounder.

I don't care about Winnie Shoehorning Jacinda into power in 2017. Just let him be the PM already.

I used to practice family law, one of my long standing clients whose children had been severely abused(inc sodomy) in a whangarei care home (the Polynesian male jailed for 14.5 years for multiple abuses on several children) The children hd been telling the Social workers but were ignored; when the abuse reached critical level CYFS dumped the children into the parents care with no knowledge, explanation nor support. The behaviours of the children were escalating resulting in burning the house down. I was told the older daughter traumatic bonding Stockholm Syndrome of 'loving' her abuser and traumatising her younger brother who hd experienced vile sexual in the same paedophile's care home. The girl left her home and the mother concentrated on her son who flourished under her care excelling at school & sport. at onset puberty the boy began to act out inappropriately. I remember attending FGC, with whanau, police, community agencies and CYFs to make care plans and deal with the offending. I was astounded that the obvious solution of the boy return to high school was not even on the table. Rather he ws to do an intensive keeping safe programme and stay in care facility. The boy did return to highschool where he did well. Release was tried back to his mother, however hanging with others in his peer group resulted in aggravated crimes. The boy returned to care for more rehabilitation. During this time, her mokkpuna had come into her care due to violence in their mother's home, consequently the eldest boy was severly abused by the boyfriend requiring hospitalisation. I worked with the mother and she recorded every interaction with police, and social workers. We examined the evidence and knew that abuse was going on in the care home the 3 children were in, as the then 5 Yr old girl was telling her grandmother on the weekly video contact sessions. SW was informed multiple times but she never followed up. We liased with school and bought it to there attention that the young girl was being racially bullied and abused by an older child in residence (the school dropped that info to us that the boy still lived in the care home) The children were also been locked in bedrooms, and forced to call the caregivers Aunties. Eventually, the young girl had a bowl thrown at her head causing serious injury (SW stopped contact until the bruises subsided also refused to show the photos of injury to Whanau) The lawyer for child was appalling, the SW reports on their observations of the Whanau at the meetings with medical doctors, police etc were full of personsal Bias. As the Whanau attended meetings, to hear about the circumstances and horrific injuries they didn't not according to SW display enough tears so they concluded they were callous ( is one line couldn't believe that the only displaying any emotion was the partner of the grandmother and the SW writing the report) The lawyer for child was likening the injuries to the kahui twins and it's reports to the court which was extreme speculation lawyer for children's reports I'd never seen such opinion and speculation opinion and speculation for someone who never even saw the children) in fact the day that they decided keep the children in state care they did not disclose to the court that the assault had happened. on the young girl. By then the grandmother had much experience in dealing with abuse, also she'd done her own rehabilitation and education on the effects and impacts of abuse. We had a very good client /lawyer relationship. We gathered all evidence particularly in recorded conversations and she made a complaint to the Ombudsman who flew up to see us to discuss the matter. I expressed further concerns to to do with the use of te reo by the social worker of non Kiwi culture in the use of the term Whanau Hui, in the reluctance to associate with the independent support agency who had questioned their intention. This resulted in the uplift of the young girl who had been living with her grandmother very happily and safely for a year arrangement between mother and grandmother to keep the child safe. The social worker said they would have a hui and naturally the the whanau was called to attend by the grandmother is the social worker was not clear in her intention to just have an immediate family meeting when they arrived and saw the whanau they got scared and then decided to uplift the child. Upon my instruction advise you to leave the home with the child and that they would have to get warrants which they did and they basically lied to the court resulting in uplift warrants. I immediately went into filing for applications to circumvent including the evidence that we had been collecting however due to the incompetence of the staff at the Manukau Court they blocked my application from proceeding because they realised that that this was going to be a serious issue. Likewise when I rang to enquire if any orders had been made due to the incorrect spelling of the names in the system the the actual application made by the department could not be located so we believed no order had been made. The lawyer for child in this case was a huge problem with eventually OT after the ombudsman's attempting to return the children to the grandmother's care however lawyer for child circumvented that with his Fantastical imagination of The Horrors of the injuries even though the child had made a 'miraculous recovery' The grandmother notified police prior to abuse occurring that this was going to happen, The social workers informed did nothing. The suspended worker that assaulted the child e was charged, prosecuted and sentenced but still the little girl had to remain in the home she had been abused. The children are now back in the care of their grandmother in doing very well.

Halo effect? Haha yea right

Aotearoa? Where's that

Winston is the man

You know they are lieing they are using hand gestures to distract you

Shouldn't have given money to Zelinsky

So when will government sort out the homelessness here in nz and supply housing to the needy

Good stuff. 👏👏

I think the mics are not plugged in. The audio not so good