The title of this article (behind a paywall), “Do Colleges Provide Too Many Disability Accommodations?” tells you all you need to know about its bias. It perpetuates a stereotype that disabled people get “perks” and unfair advantages because of their disability

Not to complete the new Dunedin Hospital as envisioned for over a decade would be the greatest travesty in the history of my home city. Generations from now will lament the opportunity lost.

What I would say to you is

Actually, Shane Jones MP, I don't mind my taxes going towards helping people who can't find work to pay for rent, bills, and food. But I do object to my taxes paying for people to watch porn.

I’d rather a few people who don’t need accommodations but receive them “get away scot free” if it means more disabled students who need them get them without undue hardship

As a disabled law professor who has benefited from accommodations, I vehemently reject this article's claims. The rise in accommodations isn't fraud—it's progress. It means more disabled students are accessing higher education. This is cause for celebration, not suspicion. (1/5)

'Most benefits' of tobacco tax cuts go to tobacco giant rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/… "Claims that HTPs as a tobacco cessation product should not be made". WHO More dangerous than vaping & she won't produce her independent advice. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SACK THIS WOMAN Christopher Luxon?

Scoop: Unredacted legal advice mistakenly provided to Newsroom reveals Crown Law’s warnings to ministers about proceeding with major changes to the Marine and Coastal Area Act. newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/30/cro…

Apparently poorer targeting of health needs and consequent wasting of public money is fine if it helps Act's grievance narrative. nzherald.co.nz/kahu/coalition…

No government can survive the level of anger driving one quarter of a major city’s citizens onto the streets, Chris Trotter says interest.co.nz/public-policy/…

How Simeon Brown repeatedly misrepresented what he claimed to be evidence that his unilateral speed limit increases were in line with the European "standard".

this ad just looks like two hard working government ministers now

Not easy defending breaking one of those rock solid election promises eh?

Officials told NZ First minister Casey Costello that Philip Morris would be the biggest winner from tax cuts for Heated Tobacco Products, which they said were toxic and more harmful than vaping 👇 1news.co.nz/2024/09/30/mos…

Luxon's mentor and close friend John Key is accused of "breaches of fiduciary duties, unjust enrichment, waste of corporate assets” and violations of the Securities Exchange Act. At this stage, the next hearing for the case is in July. 1news.co.nz/2024/05/21/fur…

Some say the Treaty Principles Bill is rooted in ignorance, but Rupert O’Brien argues the Act Party is making a calculated move to remove a significant barrier to its privatisation and deregulation agenda. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-09…

That's what happens when the public health system collapses. Oh, and private health insurance in NZ doesn't cover pre-existing conditions and is horribly expensive. We have a disastrous American healthcare system in our future unless we change course.

Important article (with sound legal analysis) explaining that the Treaty of Waitangi principles, while flawed, have been a barrier to privatisation in the past. That, Rupert O’Brien says, is part of what’s driving ACT’s effort to redefine the principles: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-09….

Daily Indignation "that level of spending is simply unsustainable" It's the amount of the landlord tax cut. And yet that is supposedly sustainable.

Thanks to The Panel for having me on to talk about the huge response here in Otago to proposed cuts to the New Dunedin Hospital (Segment starts at 15 minutes) rnz.co.nz/national/progr…