Chlöe Swarbrick is fronting a consultation on cannabis policy to mark the 5 year anniversary of the 2020 referendum on full legalisation;
https://action.greens.org.nz/cannabis_anniversary
This is both principled and clever.
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"... there is no point knowing that we are right if we are left clinging to our mountains of evidence when the last tree is cut down.
What we actually have to do is not wring our hands about the 'missing million' voters. We need to go out and we need to find them, and we need to build trust with them. Not just when it's easy and convenient in election years, but outside of that."
#ChlöeSwarbrick, Co-leader, #NZGreens, 2025
Ika Makimaki
boosted
Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill
Submission closes at 1pm, TODAY 18 August 2025
#NZGreens submission guide: https://action.greens.org.nz/paeora_subsguide
Protect Public Healthcare:
https://bsky.app/profile/pph-nz.bsky.social/post/3lw6wbmp4gc2z
Some links that may help
* NHS (UK) privatisation drive linked to rise in avoidable deaths, study suggests https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/29/nhs-privatisation-drive-linked-to-rise-in-avoidable-deaths-study-suggests 29 Jun 2022
* Health report: 'Significant differences' persist for Māori, Pasifika https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/20/health-report-significant-differences-persist-for-maori-pasifika/ February 20, 2024
"Māori women die on average seven years earlier than European/Other women, and Māori men eight years earlier than European/Other men," the report found. "The life expectancy gap for Pacific women and men is six years compared to European/Other people."
* Outsourcing being used to pretend hospital wait times are being fixed - doctor https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545877/outsourcing-being-used-to-pretend-hospital-wait-times-are-being-fixed-doctor 25 March 2025
* Some patients waiting for heart scan given death sentence due to delays, cardiologists say https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/545502/some-patients-waiting-for-heart-scan-given-death-sentence-due-to-delays-cardiologists-say 21 March 2025
* Asian Kiwi women getting breast cancer younger than any other ethnic group, report shows https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477699/asian-kiwi-women-getting-breast-cancer-younger-than-any-other-ethnic-group-report-shows 30 October 2022
* Rise in younger people with colorectal cancers prompts call for screening change https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495125/rise-in-younger-people-with-colorectal-cancers-prompts-call-for-screening-change 4 August 2023
* Thousands missing out on bowel cancer screening - study https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526042/thousands-missing-out-on-bowel-cancer-screening-study 24 August 2024
"Bowel cancer - also known as colorectal cancer - was the second-highest cause of cancer death in New Zealand, behind lung cancer. Around 3000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and the rate amongst under-50s was increasing."
* Māori, Pasifika and disabled hardest hit by 'postcode lottery' healthcare - expert https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/565305/maori-pasifika-and-disabled-hardest-hit-by-postcode-lottery-healthcare-expert 27 June 2025
* Postcode lottery persists three years after creation of Health NZ https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/07/28/postcode-lottery-persists-three-years-after-creation-of-health-nz/ 27 July 2025
Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill
Submission closes at 1pm, TODAY 18 August 2025
#NZGreens submission guide: https://action.greens.org.nz/paeora_subsguide
Protect Public Healthcare:
https://bsky.app/profile/pph-nz.bsky.social/post/3lw6wbmp4gc2z
Some links that may help
* NHS (UK) privatisation drive linked to rise in avoidable deaths, study suggests https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/29/nhs-privatisation-drive-linked-to-rise-in-avoidable-deaths-study-suggests 29 Jun 2022
* Health report: 'Significant differences' persist for Māori, Pasifika https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/20/health-report-significant-differences-persist-for-maori-pasifika/ February 20, 2024
"Māori women die on average seven years earlier than European/Other women, and Māori men eight years earlier than European/Other men," the report found. "The life expectancy gap for Pacific women and men is six years compared to European/Other people."
* Outsourcing being used to pretend hospital wait times are being fixed - doctor https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545877/outsourcing-being-used-to-pretend-hospital-wait-times-are-being-fixed-doctor 25 March 2025
* Some patients waiting for heart scan given death sentence due to delays, cardiologists say https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/545502/some-patients-waiting-for-heart-scan-given-death-sentence-due-to-delays-cardiologists-say 21 March 2025
* Asian Kiwi women getting breast cancer younger than any other ethnic group, report shows https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477699/asian-kiwi-women-getting-breast-cancer-younger-than-any-other-ethnic-group-report-shows 30 October 2022
* Rise in younger people with colorectal cancers prompts call for screening change https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495125/rise-in-younger-people-with-colorectal-cancers-prompts-call-for-screening-change 4 August 2023
* Thousands missing out on bowel cancer screening - study https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526042/thousands-missing-out-on-bowel-cancer-screening-study 24 August 2024
"Bowel cancer - also known as colorectal cancer - was the second-highest cause of cancer death in New Zealand, behind lung cancer. Around 3000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and the rate amongst under-50s was increasing."
* Māori, Pasifika and disabled hardest hit by 'postcode lottery' healthcare - expert https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/565305/maori-pasifika-and-disabled-hardest-hit-by-postcode-lottery-healthcare-expert 27 June 2025
* Postcode lottery persists three years after creation of Health NZ https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/07/28/postcode-lottery-persists-three-years-after-creation-of-health-nz/ 27 July 2025
Jack Tame asks Nicky No Boats why her government are on track to borrow about as much in 5 years as Labour did in 6. Including the pandemic response years. Instead of answering the question - or even acknowledging the fact - she continues to burble her talking points about the "reckless" borrowing and spending of the previous government;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjwdFeAcGoA
I'm so tired of having NatACT First piss on me and tell me it's raining.
Just to show that Jake Tame asks the hard questions of all politicians, regardless of their political alignment, here's the recent Q+A interview with Chlöe Swarbrick about the Greens' alternative budget;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl1slr5sXvk
I was surprised by how many of these questions she couldn't really answer. Although to her credit, she didn't pretend she was, while answering their own patsy question, as Luxon and Willis do, constantly.
"It goes on. If you're prescribed sleeping pills you'll test positive to benzodiazepines. So as well as the inaccuracy of the test, you also get these false positives to other substances."
#ChrisFowlie, 2024
https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16924333/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-thursday-19-2024
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Chris also mentioned that the #NZGreens are fighting tooth and nail against the amendment to the Land Transport Act that would bring in this highly dodgy testing. On the basis that it violates a bunch of basic civil liberties.
Another good sign for their return to a focus on universal human rights and freedoms. On top of Kahurangi Taylor's bill on protecting satire from copyright SLAPPs, and Marama Davidson's Right to Repair bill, this makes the trifecta.
Keep fighting the good fight!
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