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I made the mistake of listening to #RNZ Midday Report today.
The first story was David Seymour saying he was determined to end the allocation of spaces at #NZ Medical Schools for Māori and Polynesian medical students as these, according to Seymour, were giving an advantage to students due to their race. He managed to get a study done into the practice of increasing the number of Māori and Polynesian doctors to serve their communities under the coalition agreement but didn’t agree with its findings which support the practice.
He disagreed that a similar approach to offering places at medical school for rural students was the same thing as apparently it is not based on ethnicity.
The next story was David Seymour supporting MDMA treatment for victims of PTSD. I have no idea what the story after that was as I had switched off my radio by then. #NZPol
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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"I have spent 15 years working in the business sector, in sustainability primarily, so I... have seen the opportunity for business as a force for good. If we can harness the best of innovation, and great ideas, and competition, to solve some of the world's biggest social and environmental problems, that's a really exciting place to be."
#QiulaeWong, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner/season-5/qiulae-wong
These are Business Idiot talking points.
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"We've had 4 or 5 decades... of an economic system that says 'don't worry about concentration of wealth, eventually that will flow down, everyone will be better off', and a lot of people are going, '... that's not what we're experiencing, the cost of living is getting more, we're feeling more marginalised economically, our jobs are less secure', and they want something different"
#ChrisHipkins, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=529f222f-cd18-45ae-9a52-39bfda42b320
Bang on, but ...
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"I think the Green Party in Britain has adopted your wealth tax policy. But the centre-left Labour Party is not going to do that, are they."
#GuyonEspiner, 2025
I don't want to pick on Guyon, but this is a classic example of news media defining 'centre-left' as 'whatever the largest liberal party says at any given time'. You'd think the NZ Labour of the 1980s would have showed them that's not a meaningful way to define it.
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"Not that commercial. I think it used to drive the record companies crazy, and I think that's why I never really fit in, in the music industry."
#DonMcGlashan, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2019016171/don-mcglashan
Intriguing! Because as a teenager I perceived McGlashan's band The Muttonbirds as quintessentially commercial pop music. Right up there with Crowded House, some of whom also came from an avantgarde background (Split Enz), and who also had some quirky songs (Chocolate Cake).
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Hintergrund | RNZ: Die Burschenschaft Normannia ist zurück
Nach dem antisemitischen Übergriff vor sechs Jahren war sie in "Cimbria" umbenannt worden. Drei Monate nachdem das Urteil rechtskräftig wurde, tauchte sie wieder unter altem Namen auf.Die Burschenschaft Normannia ist zurück – jedenfalls tritt sie auf ihrer Internetseite wieder unter ihrem alten Namen auf. Am Dienstag berichtete die Heidelberger Studierendenzeitung "ruprecht" über die neue Entwicklung der alten Burschenschaft, etwa von einem Instagram-Account, der zwar wenig Inhalt hat, aber bereits seit Juni 2025 unter dem Namen "normannia1890" existiert. Unter den knapp 200 Followern befinden sich überwiegend andere Burschenschaften, aber auch mehrere AfD-Politiker und ein Account mit dem Namen "rechteschueler"... (weiter)
#Hintergrund #Normannia #Burschenschaft #Heidelberg #Rechtsradikal #Cimbria #RNZ #2026-01-24 @heidelberg
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IMO | Mal wieder herrlich dieses dumme rechte Gegacker!
Man denkt ständig 'dümmer gehts nimmer' und dann schaut man in die Kommentarspalten der RNZ und lernt wieder einmal das es doch geht! So geschehen bei den Kommentaren zu diesem Artikel (ohne Paywall), in welchen es darum geht das das Studierendenwerk plant seinen Mensabetrieb nachhaltiger und sozialer zu gestalten. Und natürlich kommt sofort wieder unfundierte gequirlte Scheiße aus der rechten Ecke... Man kann sich wirklich nur noch an den Kopf greifen!#IMO #RechteScheiße #Heidelberg #Studierendenwerk #Mensa #Nachhaltigkeit #RNZ #2025-12-15 @heidelberg @RNZonline
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Listening to Guyon Espiner interviewing John Kirwan about his work as a mental health champion;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=62b1152d-ab4d-4702-bbc4-e73847232c9f
He talks about avoiding mental health care, because One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was his model for what it was like. That wasn't far off the mark in NZ, even into the 1980s, and in some parts of the country, well into the 90s/ 2000s.
But that enduring cultural image of mental health care is a double-edged sword.
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"If I'm really frank, for me [capitalism is] a growth in society in which wealth is accumulated in particular at the top, and less so at the bottom, and it depends on the theory of that wealth being redistributed through ... trickle-down ... It's also a way that our society - probably quite recently - has swung more towards."
#BarbaraEdmonds, #NZLabour finance spokesperson, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=a2e309c8-38d9-4597-b028-855766e58d9f
Video here:
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"Do you welcome our new 'AI' overlords?"
"[Laughs] I do. I feel like 'AI' will inevitably reach a point where it can, maybe, solve some of these intractable cultural issues. And, make people feel seen and heard enough that they don't, you know, vote for Trump and storm the Capitol."
#RNZ #30, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=619270c5-d346-45d4-9115-186e0ef42b5e
This is *comedy*! I am in critical danger of busting a gut laughing. Of course, when they say "AI" I'm hearing "#MOLE Training" 🤣
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When I heard Winston Peters talking sense about the UN resolution demanding Israel withdraw from occupied Palestine, I thought I'd flipped into a parallel universe, where Winston First decides policy based on verifiable facts and consistent political principles;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=26999a4d-c479-4ed7-a241-57d918ee41e1
... then he moved on to domestic policy and the political gaslighting and doublethink returned to normal levels 🙄
#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #Israel #UN #Palestine #TwoStateSolution #WinstonPeters
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"The five things that you really need in order to grow mass amounts of foods [are], you need capital to pay for the entire production cycle; you need phosphates; nitrogen and potash to fertilise the crops.
Those only come from a few places. And you need a huge amount of petroleum for the fuel, and to bulwark the other additives, things like pesticides."
#PeterZeihan, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2018942492/peter-zeihan-why-china-s-days-are-numbered -
"I am the Minister of Resources. I look forward to leading the debate, changing the law, enabling gas and oil exploration - wealth development - to take place yet again in NZ. Mining is coming back as well, and if there is a mineral, if there is a mining opportunity, and it's impeded by a blind frog, goodbye freddy."
#ShaneJones, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018940142/destroying-the-seabed-for-green-reasons
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Herzlichen Dank an Harald Berlinghof für seinen freundlichen Artikel in der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung über meine Fotoausstellung zum Finkenbach Festival in Neckarsteinach.
#FinkenbachFestival #Ausstellung #Fotos #Fotoausstellung #Schindelbeck #Neckarsteinach #rnz #haraldberlinghof #rheinneckar #heidelberg #mannheim #ludwigshafen #neckartal #odenwald #finkenbach
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Dear RNZ, I don't think the sign reading "Bring Back The Manu" is an appeal "to bring back seabirds" as your caption suggests.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515412/hundreds-rally-to-save-petone-wharf
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#GuyonEspiner: "You'd hoped for a majority in 2002. The polls said it was possible."
#HelenClark: "I think with MMP it was probably never realistic. Whatever the polls said... kiwis in the end quite like the government not having it all it's own way, having to talk with others..."
May 2017
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-9th-floor/story/201842639/the-commander-helen-clarkEgg on your face Helen.
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"[Mike Moore] would eventually rise to lead the WTO - the highest international position ever held by a NZer - and a respected champion of globalisation."
#GuyonEspiner, 2017
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-9th-floor/story/201840181/the-trader-mike-mooreEven in 2017, "respected champion of globalisation" was an oxymoron. I'd argue that even then, Helen Clark's tenure as head of the United Nations Development Programme was a more respectable position.
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Here's a questionable claim from a NZ public servant:
"There are [internet platform] companies that hold way more information about individuals and businesses than the [GCSB] would ever be able to access..."
#AndrewHampton, Director-General, #GCSB
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WTF?!?
"The Cell Buster, made by American company Sabre and marketed under the tagline Making Grown Men Cry Since 1975, involves hosing pepper spray into a closed cell to incapacitate the inmate.
It was used multiple times against Mihi Bassett and Karma Cripps at Auckland Women's Prison in 2019 in what the District Court earlier ruled was cruel and degrading treatment designed to break their spirit."
#GuyonEspiner, 2022
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@ryancrawcour This morning I listened to Guyon Espiner's interview with Luxon for RNZ. Very slick. We may have another Teflon John on our hands ;)
