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Sam Wood's avatar

NZ just deserves a leader who looks after NZers, one that does what is best for NZ and not the globalist narrative.

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

Maybe it is time we pulled out of the UN, since all they seem to do is dictate what we must do.

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Michele Bishop's avatar

Sign the petition from Kirsten Murfitt about leaving the WHO. Look it up - google WHO KNOWS. Has to be signed in wet ink for a proper binding referendum so print out the page and get your mates to sign also. Note: Must be written in CAPITALS. Lower case and they will ignor.

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WTF's avatar

You don’t have to look far to see the world falling apart due to mass migration. But you do have to look. The MSM aren’t reporting it and a lot of people I know aren’t looking!

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

What is happening in Europe and the United Kingdom is terrifying.

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Susan's avatar

Something needs to change in the health sector and soon, I have a friend recently struck down with a severe stroke. She now has influenza because it is seemingly impossible for this hospital to isolate anyone with contagious disease. She couldn’t receive prescribed medications because the hospital pharmacy was closed on the weekend, this is third world FFS. Yet still we are seeing new arrivals of unskilled in every cheap homewares outlet clearly buying up trundle loads of new household goods. Not one quality healthcare worker amount them.

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

There is definitely something wrong when you cannot access medication on certain days of the week. In my area it is the same. If I need medication on a Sunday, I have to drive two hours from Houhora to Whangarei just to get to Chemist Warehouse.

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Michele Bishop's avatar

And a lot of those new homewares are paid for by our govt!

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Fiona Mackenzie's avatar

Interesting- I know a Kiwi who’s just graduated as a doctor from a ‘foreign university’ - something which took tremendous effort - but believes there are too many soft road blocks to working in NZ so will first look in the EU, Britain, USA or Australia.

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David Hancock's avatar

That's it....might be the "Health lobby", you know those ones who want to "protect" their patch.....you don't want Cuban doctors who live on $30 a month lobbing up in NZ do you......

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David Hancock's avatar

Yes, but I'm not sure it's that easy. Case in point was an anaesthetist who arrived for a night at our accommodation. Floridian, a really little bright and energetic spark, currently employed in Gisborne hospital. "How's New Zealand for you?"....Love it and everything about it she says, want to live here but they are chucking me out......You have no idea of the form filling and dramas....this from a woman who makes a living from form filling you have to understand....It's just one story but I feel it is apocryphal.......

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

Ah yes, I recall you saying something about her before.

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Glenys Metcalfe's avatar

Did many of the front line staff during the jab get their jobs back?

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Aroha's avatar

As far as I've been able to ascertain maybe 400 nurses nation-wide were mandated out by not getting injected. I've been told anecdotally that even if they went back into the workforce other nurses would refuse to work with them.

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Michele Bishop's avatar

That is ridiculous if nurses wont work with those returning after not getting jabbed. I would say pure jealousy on the part of those who get sick so often after taking jabs. We are all part of the human race after all and should be free to make our own decisions.

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Karin's avatar

I don't think so

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

I am not too sure, to be honest.

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C S's avatar

Fascinating that even left-wing classical Marxist, Martyn Bradbury, decries mass immigration in a recent article (https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/09/14/mass-immigration-is-killing-nz-5-ideas-on-how-to-fix-it/). His thoughtful blog is well worth following even if just to understand the arguments from the other side of politics. You just have to overlook the crude language used in some of the articles and posts. Te Partly Maori also does not support unbridled immigration if for no other reason that it dilutes the demographic clout that Maori have in NZ. The immigrants I have spoken to don't have the slightest interest in the TOW or in giving one race special advantages over the rest. Could that be the silver lining in the cloud of immigrants coming here?

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

That’s an interesting take from Bradbury. I don’t follow his blog, but I do read certain pieces to get a different perspective - I can’t live my whole life in a centre-right echo chamber. I also catch his show from time to time when someone tells me about it.

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Stephanie Van Pelt's avatar

NZF says this every election run up. Every time. It's the same old rhetoric and nothing changes. So I take Shane Jones with a modicum of skepticism. Interestingly I changed doctors surgeries from a conglomerate outfit, where I could never get an appointment with a doctor and had to see a nurse practitioner, to an old fashioned doctors surgery. I get seen by a doctor within a few days, the receptionists remember me. I can contact anytime and feel listened to. I understand what you are saying about hospitals but I have struggled to get timely 'care' from my local hospital for over 30 years - so I'm a bit ??? about it all. I also have a son that won't work - so I can understand employers looking elsewhere for staff. He frustrates the hell out of me and no longer speaks to me so he can't be nagged. :) So many sides to this issue once you start to dig. P.S. - love your writing. :)

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

Thanks for your comment, Stephanie. I always appreciate hearing different perspectives on what I write, whether we agree or not. I’m the same with my GP - usually just a few days to get an appointment, though once I had to wait a week, but that was rare.

You’re also right that some people have it far too easy and simply don’t want to work. I know someone who worked hard their whole life, came into an inheritance, bought a house outright, and then quit their job to live off about $500 a week on the benefit. There’s no changing his mindset now - he’s got it far too easy.

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Stephanie Van Pelt's avatar

Interesting how inheritances and money can bring out the real personality of people. They focus on themselves instead of what we can bring to us as a collective community. Work is healthy for us emotionally, physically, spiritually, but sometimes there are people who don’t want to see that.

I’m so pleased you have a doctors like mine. We even have another doctor in my local shops who’s set up has an op shop running at the front of her practice to help fund her so people can pay what they can afford. I’d like us all to be a bit more like that.

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

The op shop sounds great! How good!

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Stuart Ayton's avatar

Very well said, thank you 🙂

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Michele Bishop's avatar

For those awake enough to look at immigration in Europe, the UK and America, we should be very worried.

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Matua Kahurangi's avatar

No wonder millions took to the streets in the UK to protest mass immigration.

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Michele Bishop's avatar

In the UK British people renting were even kicked out of their rented house so that the property could be converted into many bedrooms for the illegals. That is when all the hotels that had been taken over were full of immigrants. They all got money, phones and whatever was needed. All paid for by the british. In NZ I understand houses are rented for them and fully furnished (fridges, couches, beds, bedding - you name it) courtesy of our taxpayers. Immediately put on benefits so that they can live. It is totally disgusting. That is what Adhern was doing for them.

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