Agreed, it does not have to be this way. It wasn't always like this, driven by greed & selfishness.


Perhaps our govt could prioritise housing for homeless people..yep, I know.



https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5659...e-this-way

Neo Liberalism is an evil system, we need to remove it from every country it exists in, starting here...



Health NZ has been accused of putting money first by dropping a safe staffing agreement from its latest contract offer. It was dropped without explanation, demonstrating their emphasis on cost cutting, rather than patient safety.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5659...-pay-offer

If you have a deep need for privacy & a strong aversion to following the herd, the answer might be yes.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/relationships...n-otrovert

so much for the saint


https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36074365...ritten-you

heres a few, feel free to add more

Scott Watson........no   i remember at the time a off duty cop saw the missing boat but there has been silence from him since

David Tamahere ......no    the cops said he stole the watch and gave it to his son but when the skeleton was found it still had the watch

Mark Lundie.....yes   there is a issue with timing but he is a terrible actor

David Bain.... not sure on that one

It will be deep in the Florida Everglades & will house up to 5000 migrants awaiting deportation. A 'low cost facility fortified by Mother nature' is how they're describing it. There's a backlash from immigration rights activists, from environmentalists & the indigenous community.
Migrants will be housed in repurposed trailers & tents. Despite temperatures which can reach the 90s.

An evacuation plan is being developed in case of hurricanes...


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/565735/...r-alcatraz

More than 500 people have already been killed while attempting to get food.

I'd like to see Natanyahu & his govt arrested for war crimes & also the leaders of Hamas. Let them all stand trial & allow peace groups to do whatever they can to fix the situatiion.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/565694/...ion-system

Silly boy. Claims he was 'testing the speed of the car'...


Of course he was. And I am Marie of Romania...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5657...-lights-on

Poor baby, poor mum. A woman is in custody.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5657...n-auckland

Every so often one of our delightful govts will decide to 'get tough' on crime, & bring ever harsher penalties. Generally it does gain votes; no one likes crime & no one wants more of it.

And yet statistics show that, by voting foe those harsher penalties, that is exactly what they're voting for. And really, you'd expect politicians of all stripes to be aware of that since surely a part of their job is to check these things.

So in voting for  yet harsher penalties, either those politicians are deeply ignorant - or they're not averse to potentially ruining lives in order to appear 'tough on crime' in order to gain support.

I think its high time that we set about educating high schools pupils & Uni students about the effects of harsher penalties.




https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/...recidivism.



"As someone who works in the criminal justice sector, the recent policy proposals by major political parties make we wonder whether politicians are more concerned about appearing hard on crime than they are with reducing criminal offending.
This long-standing punitive approach to crime withstands the plethora of evidence and research that disproves its effectiveness for reducing re-offending. On the contrary, criminal justice experts and statisticians have consistently said harsher sentencing increases recidivism".