5 Things You May Have Missed That Impact Your Life Deeply

• YOUR HEALTH: This government is actively privatising our public healthcare system. What does it mean? More doctors moving to the expensive private system. Less resources and money to invest in public healthcare. A US healthcare model in development. Don’t take my word for it. Legends in the medical community, Doctors Dame Sue Bagshaw and Dr Philip Bagshaw joined a chorus of top doctors around the country to warn Kiwis about this last year.ACTION: Talk to your local MP, join a political group, make sure you and your family are enrolled to vote. Understand the US healthcare system is widely recognised as a disaster for citizens/residents, but hugely lucrative for private and corporate healthcare.

• YOUR HEALTH: Cecilia Robinson, who has written touchingly about Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, was granted a New Zealand Order of Merit (NZOM) this year. OZNM’s are nominated by the Prime Minister of the Day - in this case, Luxon.Robinson also leads Tend Health (now known as Arataki PHO) and appears to be part of a National opening the doors to enable the corporatisation of GP healthcare models in NZ. What does it mean for you? It could result in things like less community, local GPs, less caring lifelong doctors interested in preventative healthcare, and increasing big money to see healthcare as profit.ACTION: Get informed. Support community GPs and enrol to vote

• PROPERTY INSURANCE: Consumer NZ warns that insurers are increasingly looking to stop insurance for flood prone / climate change prone areas. The notorious multi-billion dollar “not woke” industry has been modelling climate change for years. Consumer NZ says the number of uninsurable properties is expected to grow with “more extreme weather” and points out the impacts are even broader than insurance. i.e. you need insurance to get and continue your mortgage in the first place.ACTION: Check your property risk profile and do your due diligence before any purchases. Recognise that climate change is recognised by the world’s most anti-woke industry for a reason - it’s real. Support politicians that acknowledge climate change

• YOUR WORK: Know your rights as a worker. ACT has just passed laws to further erode workers’ rights. This includes disallowing unjustified dismissal cases for workers above a certain salary threshold1, and overriding the Supreme Court’s ruling on contractors (the Uber case was a landmark case for workers’ rights). This continues a trend from ACT that includes removing fair pay, repealing pay equity, restricting the right to strike, and prioritising business profit over worker safety.

• The trend matches David Seymour’s libertarian economic hero, Javier Milei, who just introduced 12 hour work days, restricts rights to protest, pay in food and lodging instead of money, and cuts to all types of leave entitlements

  ACTION: Join your union. Make sure you and your family/friends are enrolled to vote.

• YOUR RIGHTS TO VOTE: Last year many Māori roll voters found themselves suddenly unregistered on the Electoral Roll. That situation is still under review, but multiple readers of this publication have told me that they faced the same situation in recent months.National’s voter suppression laws alone will give the right 2-3 extra seats in an already tight race. Chris Bishop is on record as confirming the extra seats.Right now the right wing Coalition is on track to win and Verizon’s latest polling shows that the main thing Kiwis care about above all is their backpocket and the economy as I alluded to in “A Left & Right Conundrum”. National is leveraging this to fan their big lies about economic management, but it’s an effective misrepresentation because too many people bought in.ACTION: Please encourage those you know to enrol to vote, and check your own. Too many of our youth and Māori partners fail to vote, giving in to disenfranchisement, demotivation and/or lies e.g. “All parties are the same.” “All politicians are the same”. They are not.

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