Construction chiefs plead with Bishop for pipeline certainty & warn of skilled staff exodus after projects cancelled; Cancer treatment system 'near collapse'; Waikato Uni suspends medical school work
Still haven't seen any rational reason why the Auckland and Dunedin medical schools are not expanded, and why it is better for Waikato University to empire build.
The medical practitioners shortage isn't going to wait.
"a new model of medical education in New Zealand, with new entry pathways attracting a more diverse range of students.
.... new approach to matching medical education with our actual workforce needs, and a new approach to integrating provincial and rural communities into the medical education programme."
Are our existing medical schools in need of diversification? Are they unwilling to diversify? ...evolve "traditional" intake criteria?
Is there a genuine cultural difference, or is this as you say an empire building exercise?
Yet an example of 'another' cosy relationship between the people behind it and the National Party. It laughably clearly must have not survived the initial business case. Time to build the additional capacity where we already do it. Its just a shame that this has already wasted precious time / money.
One reason that Dunedin medical school has not expanded is that they cannot get the staff, tutors and placements now! The hospital is in dire need of doctors, nurses and specialists for the existing services. Recruitment of new staff is not happening due to this mobs farcical policies! Many current staff are reaching retirement age and are overworked and some getting burnt out. But of course, senior management & min of health won't have a bar of it!
Why can Chloe or Chris Hipkins just use the last few minutes of your podcast to nail the government against the debating chamber walls during question time for their inefficiency and crusade-style policies? Are they subscribed? Can we pay them a subscription if they use your well-researched views? my like to open it may help too!
Well that is novel suggestion would any of our 'leaders' be willing to front up. Bernard & Co at Kaka work so hard to ensure folk like myself know there is a community out there who care for all & want equality to reign in NZ, not privilege.
Please release. The “trumpian” idiocy of the three headed Taniwha is coming home to roost. We have a government of 20th or even 19th century economic idiots. “Budget like a household” What
utter nonsense in the 21st century.
To paraphrase the last lines of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address
“And that government of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich shall not perish from this Earth”
My tax cut will go to Prisoners aid rehabilitation society (PARS) which will be needed if we imprison all the poor to protect Rich property rights.
I'm highly cynical and in reality biased when it comes to the airline world. However, those baggage fees haven't been upped in years and don't get me started on the ridiculous conduct of passengers and their baggage!
A market study in a perfect world would be good but I'm left jaded from previous reports paving paths to nowhere.
The barriers to entry in aviation are crazy high and not without good reason. But there is little the government can do about that. History globally has taught us that even much bigger countries struggle to allow a number of airlines to survive. Just look at Australia with a population 5 times ours and at best 3 airlines you could say broadly serve most of the country and 2 of those are part of the Qantas group.
All these years in the industry and I'm horrified at the costs involved and the revenues required to produce such small profits. I wish it weren't so, but it just is. Barrier Air, Sounds Air, Air Chathams, Origin and Texel are doing amazing work in the passenger and freight space but short of subsidies and/or a degradation of Air NZ service I fail to see how we improve domestic aviation scene for the benefit of all.
So a market study could be useful but in all likelihood no more worthwhile than a report produced by Sir Bill English.
How can the politicians be encouraged to tell NZ what their vision for NZ is? What are their beliefs and hence longer term strategies? We can see they believe that government should be smaller, leaner. Why? So the country is more efficient? Ok. So that the average wealth of NZ is higher? Ok but is the distribution Important? Where does the environment sit in all of this? Which countries around the world do out leaders admire and wish to emulate?
When we have a govt controlled by the wishes of donors and lobbyists and crazy neoliberal right-wing policies, it no wonder there is no future planning or cross party agreement.
I'm glad the rebuttal by the KO Directors blew Bill English's self serving report out of the water. One fact from the rebuttal said it all: In the 7 years from 2018 - 2025 KO will have delivered 21,000 homes, (14,000 additional, 7,000 replacements & 3,000 substantially retrofitted). That's a 20% growth in KO's housing stock over 7 years, compared to the pathetic record of the English/Key government - 43 new state houses in 9 years.
Wonderful job Bernard! You put the mountains and the chasms on to our very blurry landscape. When i look at everything i see the kittens in the wool bag and a PM who is as helpless as a worm. I noticed Helen Clark said she had never seen a government like it. Modelled on Alice in Wonderland.
I can't find the post someone did recently about having no say in the time in which we find ourselves only in what we do with it - with quote from LOTR. It was good.
Speaking of KO, 'Newsroom' recently interviewed Debbie, a KO tenant living in a state house in Lyall Bay. Debbie, a cancer survivor, has had the security of living in her state house for 10 years , after a 'terrifying' experience of living on the street for 2 years. However, pre-Budget announcements regarding state housing have triggered Debbie's anxiety - she's not sure she'll be able to stay in her home. Newsroom put Debbie's concerns to Luxon, (whose 7 freehold properties were valued at $18M in 2021). Luxon agreed that everyone has the right to a house & then advised that his grandmother lived in a state house all her life & he therefore knew 'what a state house means to people & the security that it delivers.' However, he then contradicted himself by stating that he 'won't guarantee that people like Debbie ... will be able to stay where they are now.' So, we have a multi millionaire PM whose grandmother had the security of a state house her whole adult life, (as did John Key's widowed mother) refusing to give a vulnerable person like Debbie, an assurance that she can enjoy the same security that Luxon's grandmother enjoyed. The people in this government are so despicable, greedy, vicious & corrupt that they will not last. Willis's 'punching down' austerity budget on Thursday will be another nail in their wretched coffin.
I am not aware of any cosy relationship between the National Party and Waikato University, just see it as Act running the country and National lying on its back and letting them get on with it. They only got around 10% of the vote maybe some checks and balances are required?
Yes I had heard that the Waikato medical school was going to be more tikanga based, so was surprised when Reti announced it was “going ahead”. You can imagine that that model has been whipped out of the business case… and it doesn’t really make sense to have a third Eurocentric medical school. That said there are not enough clinical training placements for interns at the moment ( yrs 4-6 of training). As there is not enough qualified drs to supervise and train them.
There some big irony in Willis railing against Labour’s policies as the main cause of inflation (never substantiated to the best of my memory), while the National policies she’s spearheading are actually increasing inflation.
Still haven't seen any rational reason why the Auckland and Dunedin medical schools are not expanded, and why it is better for Waikato University to empire build.
The medical practitioners shortage isn't going to wait.
Are Waikato genuine in their intention to build
"a new model of medical education in New Zealand, with new entry pathways attracting a more diverse range of students.
.... new approach to matching medical education with our actual workforce needs, and a new approach to integrating provincial and rural communities into the medical education programme."
Are our existing medical schools in need of diversification? Are they unwilling to diversify? ...evolve "traditional" intake criteria?
Is there a genuine cultural difference, or is this as you say an empire building exercise?
https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-events/news/waikato-medical-school-moves-a-step-closer/
February 19th 2024! Three and a bit months ago.
It would be interesting to know how different their nursing students are and, more importantly, how many are still in the country.
Someone in the Coalition has read The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and are having a field day turning the kaleidoscope.
Yet an example of 'another' cosy relationship between the people behind it and the National Party. It laughably clearly must have not survived the initial business case. Time to build the additional capacity where we already do it. Its just a shame that this has already wasted precious time / money.
One reason that Dunedin medical school has not expanded is that they cannot get the staff, tutors and placements now! The hospital is in dire need of doctors, nurses and specialists for the existing services. Recruitment of new staff is not happening due to this mobs farcical policies! Many current staff are reaching retirement age and are overworked and some getting burnt out. But of course, senior management & min of health won't have a bar of it!
Absolutely true thanks Tony.
Another exercise in pouring money into Steven Joyce's bank account/trust, slow clap with eyeroll
Agree Steven Joyce in my view was puppet master in John Key government.
Roads not rail being one of the biggies.
Disappointed to see his influence is still being rewarded by taxpayers $.
Why can Chloe or Chris Hipkins just use the last few minutes of your podcast to nail the government against the debating chamber walls during question time for their inefficiency and crusade-style policies? Are they subscribed? Can we pay them a subscription if they use your well-researched views? my like to open it may help too!
Ha! Thanks Francisco. The Parliamentary Library is a corporate subscriber, so they'll get it.
cheers
Might have to actually put it on their desks.
Well that is novel suggestion would any of our 'leaders' be willing to front up. Bernard & Co at Kaka work so hard to ensure folk like myself know there is a community out there who care for all & want equality to reign in NZ, not privilege.
Those spur winged plovers in the audio background sound just as agitated about the news as we are!
Ha! Glad you know what they are. I'm learning every day. Cheers.
Hard bird to forget - unfortunate call the have!
Hi Bernard,
Please release. The “trumpian” idiocy of the three headed Taniwha is coming home to roost. We have a government of 20th or even 19th century economic idiots. “Budget like a household” What
utter nonsense in the 21st century.
To paraphrase the last lines of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address
“And that government of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich shall not perish from this Earth”
My tax cut will go to Prisoners aid rehabilitation society (PARS) which will be needed if we imprison all the poor to protect Rich property rights.
Patrick Medlicott
I'm highly cynical and in reality biased when it comes to the airline world. However, those baggage fees haven't been upped in years and don't get me started on the ridiculous conduct of passengers and their baggage!
A market study in a perfect world would be good but I'm left jaded from previous reports paving paths to nowhere.
The barriers to entry in aviation are crazy high and not without good reason. But there is little the government can do about that. History globally has taught us that even much bigger countries struggle to allow a number of airlines to survive. Just look at Australia with a population 5 times ours and at best 3 airlines you could say broadly serve most of the country and 2 of those are part of the Qantas group.
All these years in the industry and I'm horrified at the costs involved and the revenues required to produce such small profits. I wish it weren't so, but it just is. Barrier Air, Sounds Air, Air Chathams, Origin and Texel are doing amazing work in the passenger and freight space but short of subsidies and/or a degradation of Air NZ service I fail to see how we improve domestic aviation scene for the benefit of all.
So a market study could be useful but in all likelihood no more worthwhile than a report produced by Sir Bill English.
We are hopeful of a fleet of small electric aircraft doing the domestic routes in future... pipe dream maybe?
It's a hope but it's a fairly long way off for an operation anything like what we experience today
Today is seeming like another country.
You know as well as anyone Kurt…. There’s no money in freight 😂
😂
Bernard and others
How can the politicians be encouraged to tell NZ what their vision for NZ is? What are their beliefs and hence longer term strategies? We can see they believe that government should be smaller, leaner. Why? So the country is more efficient? Ok. So that the average wealth of NZ is higher? Ok but is the distribution Important? Where does the environment sit in all of this? Which countries around the world do out leaders admire and wish to emulate?
When we have a govt controlled by the wishes of donors and lobbyists and crazy neoliberal right-wing policies, it no wonder there is no future planning or cross party agreement.
Does anyone remember one of national’s many leaders had a MAGA hat on show when being interviewed…
"Govt moves to replace or repeal Treaty principles clauses from laws."
How much us this unnecessary law changes I'd costing us? Talking about wasteful spending.
Their hate towards Māori is costing us the world.
I'm glad the rebuttal by the KO Directors blew Bill English's self serving report out of the water. One fact from the rebuttal said it all: In the 7 years from 2018 - 2025 KO will have delivered 21,000 homes, (14,000 additional, 7,000 replacements & 3,000 substantially retrofitted). That's a 20% growth in KO's housing stock over 7 years, compared to the pathetic record of the English/Key government - 43 new state houses in 9 years.
And as Bernard has said, their housing stock is worth billions so they are asset rich!
Wonderful job Bernard! You put the mountains and the chasms on to our very blurry landscape. When i look at everything i see the kittens in the wool bag and a PM who is as helpless as a worm. I noticed Helen Clark said she had never seen a government like it. Modelled on Alice in Wonderland.
I can't find the post someone did recently about having no say in the time in which we find ourselves only in what we do with it - with quote from LOTR. It was good.
Hope for 100 likes for this Morning chorus.
Speaking of KO, 'Newsroom' recently interviewed Debbie, a KO tenant living in a state house in Lyall Bay. Debbie, a cancer survivor, has had the security of living in her state house for 10 years , after a 'terrifying' experience of living on the street for 2 years. However, pre-Budget announcements regarding state housing have triggered Debbie's anxiety - she's not sure she'll be able to stay in her home. Newsroom put Debbie's concerns to Luxon, (whose 7 freehold properties were valued at $18M in 2021). Luxon agreed that everyone has the right to a house & then advised that his grandmother lived in a state house all her life & he therefore knew 'what a state house means to people & the security that it delivers.' However, he then contradicted himself by stating that he 'won't guarantee that people like Debbie ... will be able to stay where they are now.' So, we have a multi millionaire PM whose grandmother had the security of a state house her whole adult life, (as did John Key's widowed mother) refusing to give a vulnerable person like Debbie, an assurance that she can enjoy the same security that Luxon's grandmother enjoyed. The people in this government are so despicable, greedy, vicious & corrupt that they will not last. Willis's 'punching down' austerity budget on Thursday will be another nail in their wretched coffin.
I am not aware of any cosy relationship between the National Party and Waikato University, just see it as Act running the country and National lying on its back and letting them get on with it. They only got around 10% of the vote maybe some checks and balances are required?
Yes I had heard that the Waikato medical school was going to be more tikanga based, so was surprised when Reti announced it was “going ahead”. You can imagine that that model has been whipped out of the business case… and it doesn’t really make sense to have a third Eurocentric medical school. That said there are not enough clinical training placements for interns at the moment ( yrs 4-6 of training). As there is not enough qualified drs to supervise and train them.
Bernard, please publish this to the non kaka and spread the word.
I feel between you and Jack Tane, no one else holds the politicians to account and the country needs to hear it from you much much more.
Please share it to all.
Thanks. Just four more likes to go and I open it up.
There some big irony in Willis railing against Labour’s policies as the main cause of inflation (never substantiated to the best of my memory), while the National policies she’s spearheading are actually increasing inflation.
You know things are going off the rails when the seniors in infrastructure are pleading to a centre-right government to give them job security
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