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When Walker gave his maiden speech in parliament he specifically mentioned Boag as his mentor.
I reckon she sent it to him because it supported his contention that he wasn't being racist last week merely accurately summarising that most of the returnees are coming from COVID hot spots.
So charitably: out of a blinkered loyalty to her little protégé she was a dumb fuck.
She says she never thought he'd leak it. What did he think he was going to do with it. He'd already been censured by the party for his comments which should have been cleared by the media team before he released them so he is / was clearly a loose cannon.
Boag should have known better - so either you buy into the wider conspiracy theories or accept that she had a massive brain fart.
Either way she had a lot of cushy little media and board gigs which presumably are toast now.
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@canefan said in NZ Politics:
I guess it's like airlines still using black boxes instead of real time tech. No excuses for it apart from not wanting to spend the money
They should be using both - they can serve different purposes but your point stands - the ability is there so it should be used. In this case it would appear to be lazy or incompetent, rather than expense.
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@Snowy said in NZ Politics:
@canefan said in NZ Politics:
I guess it's like airlines still using black boxes instead of real time tech. No excuses for it apart from not wanting to spend the money
They should be using both - they can serve different purposes but your point stands - the ability is there so it should be used. In this case it would appear to be lazy or incompetent, rather than expense.
I suppose they would need to pay someone to install the required IT systems to safely transfer information? Either way there are no reasonable excuses. Especially considering the supposed level of privacy that we experience in our work when dealing with ACC for example
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MoH has decent systems, but health has become so fragmented that they have no way of centralising using it effectively, and even if they had an externally accessible system with password controls, people would leak stuff.
I mean, why the fuck is the rescue helicopter a charity instead of part of the MoH or the DHB?
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@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
@Godder and why do we have 20-odd DHB in a country of 5 million with centralised funding?
Someone thought democracy was warranted, but it doesn't work for those because if an elected board member makes trouble, they get gagged.
Luckily, H2 gave us a way forward.
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@Godder I know, right. It's like competition in our electricity market, just a bit unusual. Streamlining really important.
I'm not one for centralising stuff, but markets your can't opt out of are a bit weird to me. Water, electricity, health...
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@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
@Godder I know, right. It's like competition in our electricity market, just a bit unusual. Streamlining really important.
I'm not one for centralising stuff, but markets your can't opt out of are a bit weird to me. Water, electricity, health...
Competition means scrimping on stuff like infrastructure improvement
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@JC said in NZ Politics:
@Godder Don’t get me started. WTF is the deal with ambulance services in general? Is there a clearer example of an essential service?
That’s never made sense to me, why are they required (ST Johns) to find raise just to keep themselves going? The other day they were talking about laying off staff because they are way down on $$$ due to covid. The lockdown etc meant their usual fund raising events couldn’t take place.
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@Crucial She keeps digging herself a deeper hole. And now that Woodhouse has come out and said he got emails as well, in JUNE, it just makes it worse.
All National had to do was not be numpties, and let the screw ups for lockdown take their course. But nooooooooo.
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@Godder Rescue helicopters and ambulances plus paramedics, should be fully funded parts of the health system. It pisses me off every time I see they aren't, and are struggling for funding or new equipment. It shouldn't have to be volunteers doing everything. That is a govt dereliction of duty.
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Youd have thought of the fire service or ambulance service, its be the former that would need to raise thier own money (not downplaying thier job either BTW)
Fire service got a huge increase in funding through fire service levies in 2017 I think it was.
Unsure why ambulance isn't funded this way too or through ACC.
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@Crucial said in NZ Politics:
I see Boag has played the sympathy card. 'I got carried away because I am so passionate'
And making it sound like this is a new thing for her. Like she never acted this way previously, during her 175 years with the National Party
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@canefan Currently Labour, NZ First and National are being investigated it seems (well, I suppose technically National's has finished as prosecutions are underway).
Not sure what for unless either one of the Nat donors also donated to Labour, or the known issue around values of donated goods has come up again (it's reported correctly now, but there were no doubt errors by all parties until the Electoral Commission clarified the rules).
For anyone not following that last issue, if an artist donates an artwork for an auction, say, then they are the donor up to the market value and the buyer is the donor above that. Until recently, it was believed that the artist was the only donor, and the buyer wasn't a donor. If the artist sells the art below market value to the party concerned, then that complicates it further (it adds GST complications as well).
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@Godder said in NZ Politics:
Until recently, it was believed that the artist was the only donor, and the buyer wasn't a donor.
... which was used as a means of keeping donations hidden. NZF, Nats, Labour - all doing it. I suspect the Greens and ACT are just smaller and so haven't been pinged yet.
Sunlight is a great disinfectant. I have no issue with people donating to political parties, but checks and balances mean it's important that is transparent.
Everyone does this it appears, including the most open, most transparent Government that New Zealand has ever had
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