Prof Jennifer Carryer CNZM
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Prof Jennifer Carryer CNZM
@Jennifercarryer
I am a nurse academic with absolute determination that our health system needs some fundamental changes




Decision to build $230m medical school in Waikato is a textbook case study of policy capture, where interests of well-connected institution, amplified by high-powered lobbyists, have overridden expert advice, fiscal prudence, and superior alternatives. . open.substack.com/pub/theintegri…

I was trying to explain the Lester Levy/Health NZ situation to a friend and came up with this. What a fucking mess


"It's extraordinary that a Deputy Prime Minister here should initiate an online campaign of intimidation against university scholars, using Trumpian rhetoric & tactics to harass them for exercising academic freedom." 1/2 newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/23/ann…



We have two New Zealand's. One where the rich are wealthy and sorted and the one where people who aren't wealthy and sorted suffer. On RNZ today we heard about the level of desperation youth homelessness is causing. Manaaki Rangatahi Pou Arahi (chief executive) Bianca Johanson told RNZ she was hopeful the Budget would offer. There was none. It delivered no support for young people, slashed emergency housing, took almost $700million from Māori and took $12billion from pay parity to subside big business. Johanson said the proposed changes were likely to make things harder for those who are already vulnerable. This is not the way a Government is supposed to care about its people. As I look at images of the Finance Minister and Prime Minister laughing on Budget Day, I also see those who bear the price of those decisions and it is as angering as it is sad. Our people deserve more than the crumbs from the table. They deserve dignity and well resourced support until they can make it on their own two feet. We used to believe in unlocking our potential by helping one another. The right wing values of profit first, people second have replaced those values and it is causing a damage in our communities that we are not appreciating yet. The harm this budget will cause must force the rest of us to redouble our efforts to make them a 1 term Government because I don't want a NZ that is sorted and one that is suffering. #nzpol














