Labour govt 2020-23

[nztx]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/132...ear-of-closure

Prices set to rise as retailers battle high costs and fear of closure

Prices will continue to rise in the next three months as almost 60% of retailers fail to meet sales targets and others fear closure within the year.

The latest Retail Radar report from Retail NZ found many of the challenges that retailers reported last quarter had continued into the winter months, with inflation, increasing wage costs and retail crime proving stubborn.

Almost 60% of retailers did not meet their sales targets over the past three months, which was up from 44% in the previous quarter, Retail NZ’s chief executive Greg Harford said.

“Much of the same outlook continues for the next three months, with half of all retailers not expecting to meet targets again in the third quarter of 2023.”

Thanks Labour - As many thought was coming - All Consumers going to suffer more Wallet Sting courtesy
of your clueless economic management

but Guess who is likely to score a severe dose of backside hurt in October ?

[nztx]

I can get my free prescriptions here though and enjoy my extra public holiday. It's rather nice

Dont forget to ask for your free complimentary one way tickets for holiday in Cuba

[nztx]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-ahead-of-nato

Live: PM to give foreign policy speech ahead of Nato

The Prime Minister is delivering a speech on foreign policy, ahead of his trip to Lithuania for the Nato summit and less than a week after his trade trip to China.

Have to make most of FREE overseas trips before Travel Gravy Train come to abrupt halt

Also must make impression while away .. so don't forget to demonstrate How Opening the Legs keeps Covid away .. then they won't forget who you are

[Panda-NZ-]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-ahead-of-nato

Live: PM to give foreign policy speech ahead of Nato





Have to make most of FREE overseas trips before Travel Gravy Train come to abrupt halt

Also must make impression while away .. so don't forget to demonstrate How Opening the Legs keeps Covid away .. then they won't forget who you are

Maybe another surprise trade deal will be announced.. great for the farmers eh.

[Blue Skies]

The wet and whiny comments are coming from the Labourites who are seething over the prospect of more homegrown doctors and nurses.

You miss the point entirely.
If you want the smartest, quickest most efficient increase the number of doctors coming out of our medical schools, it's simple, increase funding for more places at Auckland & Otago.

NZ now has a significant problem with too many tertiary institutions competing against each other for the size of our population.
Medical schools require huge levels of subsidising from taxpayers, so we don't want 3 schools competing against each other when a smarter policy is to increase the number of placements available in our 2 schools.

Building another medical school, with all the academic scaffolding needed to turn House officers into doctors who can work independently without supervision & Specialists, just down the road from Auckland medical school & hospital, is copying a broken model.

[nztx]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...DFFHYNHVCXHZA/

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins confronts Nanaia Mahuta ‘haranguing’ in speech on China and world affairs

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins addressed head-on reports that his Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta received a “haranguing” at the hands of her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang, in a March meeting this year.

Reports of that conversation, published in The Australian, leaked out shortly before Hipkins’ trip to China last month.

In his first major foreign policy speech as prime minister, Hipkins addressed the issue head on.

“Reports emerged just before my trip of a robust conversation between our Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and the Chinese Foreign Minister,” Hipkins said.

“You might have noticed we didn’t deny that,” he said.

So it didn't happen .. and Mahuta just got put into the backroom Broom Cupboard for a little Nap instead ?


and the Aussies must have just been imagining they saw some dirty water instead ?


Likely story - Chippy - spin us another one

[nztx]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/wai...nd-new-zealand

Housing sign-off saga affects more than 1000 properties around New Zealand


Looks like a slight Housing C*ck Up - Boys and Girls

Is Megan Housebuilder still sound asleep like a fallen log or revising the forward tallies further downwards ?


Someone best wake her up on another huge Crisis and Red Tape shambles headed her way

[Logen Ninefingers]

You miss the point entirely.
If you want the smartest, quickest most efficient increase the number of doctors coming out of our medical schools, it's simple, increase funding for more places at Auckland & Otago.

NZ now has a significant problem with too many tertiary institutions competing against each other for the size of our population.
Medical schools require huge levels of subsidising from taxpayers, so we don't want 3 schools competing against each other when a smarter policy is to increase the number of placements available in our 2 schools.

Building another medical school, with all the academic scaffolding needed to turn House officers into doctors who can work independently without supervision & Specialists, just down the road from Auckland medical school & hospital, is copying a broken model.

I get it: “Let’s not do this!”

[Panda-NZ-]

You miss the point entirely.
If you want the smartest, quickest most efficient increase the number of doctors coming out of our medical schools, it's simple, increase funding for more places at Auckland & Otago.

NZ now has a significant problem with too many tertiary institutions competing against each other for the size of our population.
Medical schools require huge levels of subsidising from taxpayers, so we don't want 3 schools competing against each other when a smarter policy is to increase the number of placements available in our 2 schools.

Building another medical school, with all the academic scaffolding needed to turn House officers into doctors who can work independently without supervision & Specialists, just down the road from Auckland medical school & hospital, is copying a broken model.

In addition to bringing back the DHBs and returning water assets to 78 councils… National will be busy expanding the public service.

[Panda-NZ-]

Also unwinding the polytech reforms, each of our regions much have their own set of wasteful administrators.