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NZ: Jacinda Arderns Apartheid State

Here’s Māori Party President John Tamihere singling out a group of people by race, saying they have fewer rights, don’t belong, and should leave the country. Anyone heard howls of outrage from the media? Meng Foon? Paul Hunt? Imagine the pile on if someone else made that comment. pic.twitter.com/FB536YJfTP — David Seymour (@dbseymour) July 12, 2022

A Changing of the Guard

  A Changing of the Guard Dr Muriel Newman July 10, 2022 Who could possibly have imagined when Prime Minister Ardern  announced  at a World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland that New Zealand was leading the world in the use of “wellbeing” as a measure of government success, that under her watch public services would fail so badly that an elderly woman would be left to die while living in a car parked on the side of the road in a residential suburb of Auckland – even though concerned neighbours had  contacted  authorities on many occasions. Or that a woman  suffering  from a severe headache would be effectively turned away by the Emergency Department of Middlemore Hospital at 1am because it would be many hours before she could be seen – only to arrive back three hours later in an ambulance, unconscious from such a “massive” brain haemorrhage that she died the next day. Such shocking stories of the State failing the very people it should be serving, ...