From the University of Auckland: In the complex battle against Parkinson's disease, a holistic approach is offering a promising way forward, one that targets the connection between the heart and the brain, writes Dr Victor Dieriks newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/11/exc…

Helen Clark Please sign and share Emma’s petition to Parliament to immediately reinstate the Fishing Related Mortality Limit (FRML), the official limit for ‘acceptable’ sea lion deaths.
#SaveTheSeaLion

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Extraction companies that threaten to cause irreparable damage to Aotearoa’s unique offshore ecosystems SHOULD NOT be invited to apply for the fast-track process.

Unforgivable incompetence from Christopher Bishop

#FastTrackWrongTrack
#waronnature

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#NZ sea lion is classified as endangered & as the most threatened sea lion in world. Main breeding population in Auckland Is declined 50% between 2000-2014. Yet Oceans/Fisheries Minister is scrapping limit fishing industry can “accidentally kill. Tragic: newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…

There's a stunning silence mimd boggling revelation on Twitter this morning that Luxon/Lee have met discreetly with a Rupert Murdoch executive.If this claim is true it is the most alarming development facing Aotearoa NZ..Murdoch is extremist far right evil personifird & a cancer.

The consequences of lying that 'schools are safe', 'COVID isn't airborne' and 'masks aren't effective '.

It really is unacceptable that HIV lead to the use of gloves for 40 years in all medical settings yet HCWs ditched masks a couple years into Covid

Old saying: what isn’t measured doesn’t count. This apparently now applies to child poverty in #NZ :
“Stats NZ scraps survey gathering key child poverty data”. Seems that anything goes in order to fund tax cuts which are set to widen inequality. UNICEF Aotearoa newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/04/sta…

Van Velden says the COVID response 'may have saved a few lives but it's hard to know'.

Nope. real experts, using age-mortality data & intl comparisons, say 20,000 lives. One in 250 Kiwis.

Can't ignore the facts to please the cookers.

Week in Review:

Opinion: The 20 hours fees free policy hasn't worked as it should have. The $723m funding for ECE should be given directly to parents in the form of a child benefit or a cash transfer, argues Dr Naomi Pocock newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/03/sub…

After making obscene profits driving the #climatecrisis , the oil industry lets the rest of us pay to clean up its mess.

And Luxon wants to set them loose on Aotearoa.

Taxpayers to foot Shell's bill for dismantling toxic oil rigs telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

#MakeOilHistory #nzpol

We recently received news that Israel has killed 5 more members of our family in Gaza. I’m told over 80 members of the Shawa family have now been killed since Oct. I’m not asking for condolences, I just wish they’d get even a fraction of the recognition foreign aid workers got.

Will your tax cut cover the extra rates you're paying because water reform was scrapped & the copayment on prescriptions & the increase to rego & the higher cost of public transport & the below-inflation minimum wage rise?

Evidence IUD insertion causes 'severe pain' has existed since 2013, but medical practitioners continue to ignore it. Now, a generation of women have undergone a medical procedure for which they did not provide informed consent. Me for Healthy Debate

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Hey NZ Twitter (Auckland especially) - I have an urgent request for anyone who may be able to recommend an endocrinologist or endo surgeon who is available before June. 😖 (private health insurance).

Some vape retailers appear to be openly flouting new regulations first enforced on March 21 by continuing to advertise and sell products that are now outlawed, concerning the minister in charge of the sector.

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Join our expert panel Michael Baker, Warren Tate, Paula Lorgelly and Jenene Crossan for this important webinar.

What do we now know about Long Covid and what impact is it having? What more should we be doing?

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cutting over 130 jobs at Biosecurity NZ - a frontline organisation if ever there was one - to help pay for landlords' tax cuts is the ultimate false economy.

One disease outbreak as a result of sacking the people who stop them could easily cost hundreds of millions, if not more.

Casey Cancerello, Associate ‘Health’ Minister defers banning of vape products by 6 months, enabling Phillip Morris Tobacco to flog off their stocks of soon-to-be illegal vape products to youngsters for another half year.
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