Renee Liang

Wow.

Failing to check the weather forecast ahead of their outdoor promotional event, then declaring themselves heroes for having to run out with an umbrella when it rains, seems symbolic of this government.

I mean Xmas programming could be considered propaganda too …

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I hope she sues

There has never been a “public-private partnership” that provided a higher quality service or cost less money than the public just doing the job in-house.

PPP’s exist to transfer more public, taxpayer money to private entities. It’s welfare for the immortal, immoral, unaccountable corps.

A tobacco product tax cut slated for one year has been extended by two The coalition has pushed back a review of its tax cut for Heated Tobacco Products by two years.

I may be a dropkick but surely $300 million of tax buys quite a lot of hospital. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Attorney-General rules her own Govt’s voting crackdown breaches human rights The young and Māori, Pasifika and Asian communities will pay the 'heaviest price' by being disenfranchised, warns Judith Collins, KC. Jonathan Milne reports.

Hopefully the NZ govt will now backtrack on deeply unfair & undemocratic plans to change electoral processes - plans which threaten to erode trust in govt & elections. The National govt needs more experienced MPs to help it regain the middle ground it is losing #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/28/a...

Working on it

There are storerooms full of decorations so def things get recycled. The ‘Xmas decoration competition’ among hospital depts gets pretty heated, though given the other pressures on our time, also a silly distraction. Staff stay late / come in on off days to work on elaborate themed installations.

Probably staff too busy to fully pack up Xmas.

Why? He’s been dealing reckons, surely he should be able to take some back. People are being sly, not mean. Nothing even approaching the descriptions Joel has been dropping.

Real leadership for women isn’t about suddenly claiming the mic when it suits you. It’s about who you stood alongside when it was hard, who you made room for when you had power, and whether you used your influence when it counted, and not just when you want to hoard power.

THIS. I know this is a really uncomfortable conversation to have, but righteously reading Ray Chung for filth should never obscure that so many of those frantically distancing themselves are only doing so because he couldn't spin his way out of a tumble dryer. #nzpol

NSW to ban public-private hospital partnerships after toddler's death The Minns government is set to introduce the legislation known as "Joe's Law", which will protect hospitals providing emergency, surgical and inpatient services from any future government entering suc...

#NZPol Australia ahead of us on the curve nact want to take is down. How about we simply don’t make this stupid mistake in the first place?

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aunty Michele will look after you! Xx

The Inconvenient Truthers: doctors speaking out Freedom of speech in the health profession is like walking the knife edge - particularly so for doctors who are faced with egregious professional and personal implications for speaking out. According ...

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Feeling safe is a rare feeling…sparse or nonexistent resources make everyone feel like they’re stretched thin, knowing that errors leading to patient harm are more likely. But there’s also a real fear that just speaking out will draw a large target on their back.

Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools.

The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.

@reneeliang.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social

That’s a pretty big call with Seddon, Muldoon, Key etc etc

Probably doesn’t help that female journalists ‘joke’ about it too.

I know someone in Ōtaki.

Voila.

Budget 2025: Coalition claws back savings from pay equity, KiwiSaver in Budget There's big cuts and savings, changes to Best Start and a surprise tax cut for businesses as the government opens the books.

So cuts for real people, tax breaks for business, all paid for by stealing from women. Oh, and deliberately conflict the government in its role as regulator for the fossil industry. What a crock of shit. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Super chuffed to have these up again: 16 poems/ poetry extracts from poets over 45 years of Poetry Live! Catch them today if you’re in the Auckland CBD. For more : poetrylivenz.wixsite.com/poetrylivenz...

School Lunches Nurturing young minds: the case for a high quality, universal school lunch programme.

My latest North and South column is live! I talk about why feeding children at school makes sense, health and education wise. I also invoke the word 'fiscal' twice in honour of Budget Day tomorrow - let's hope there are some nice, not nasty surprises in there.

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You just traveled to the Middle East, Donald. They let you go, no issues.

I love it so much I now want the T-shirt.

It’s a very special kind of anxiety to have, this kind of weird mix of compassion/ competitiveness/ worry when you are all at a signing table after a panel together. Someone should make up a word for it !!