Not into wokeness, victim mentality or entitlement. Doing my best not to end up in twitter jail again.
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Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
OMG @nzlabour candidate Toni Boynton offering a free iPhone to people to come down to the Labour campaign to register to vote in the election.
Isn't this illegal @chrishipkins?
Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
An Open Letter to the University of Sydney @Sydney_Uni @mscott
Regarding the appointment of Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice
Dear Professor Scott,
I read with absolute disgust that the University of Sydney has appointed Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice, where she will apparently be sharing her wisdom on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust.
You cannot be serious.
You are quoted as saying:
"Dame Jacinda led New Zealand through events of profound consequence and her leadership demonstrated that empathy and resolve do not compete with one another; each can strengthen the other."
Appointing Jacinda Ardern to teach social cohesion is rather like appointing Jeffrey Dahmer to teach a course on wellbeing, or Jimmy Savile to run the local daycare centre. The sheer absurdity would almost be funny if the consequences of her leadership weren't so hideously tragic.
My name is Alia Bland. I am a co-founder of Voices for Freedom, an organisation established in New Zealand in 2020. For years, we stood alongside tens of thousands of ordinary Kiwis whose lives were torn apart by the policies of Ardern's government.
While the international media fawned over her kindness and compassion, we were dealing with the wreckage.
At the height of the COVID response, we were receiving upwards of 1,000 emails a day. Desperate people reaching out because they had lost their jobs, their incomes, their homes and, in many cases, their will to live.
People nearing retirement were forced to sell family homes they had spent decades paying off. Some are still living in caravans five years later.
Marriages collapsed. Families fractured. Lifelong friendships were destroyed. People who had served their communities for decades were suddenly treated like lepers because they declined a medical procedure.
Some of the people who came to us had spent their entire lives believing New Zealand was a decent, fair-minded country. Watching that belief crumble, and seeing what it did to them, was heartbreaking.
I cannot adequately describe the anguish in those emails. The desperation of parents wondering how they would feed and house their families. The humiliation of hardworking people being marched out of professions they loved. The despair of people who had done everything society asked of them, only to discover that their own government considered them disposable.
And presiding over it all was Jacinda Ardern, smiling for the cameras and telling the world how kind New Zealand was.
Kind? For whom?
Her government deliberately created a two-class society. Ardern herself acknowledged it publicly. New Zealanders were excluded from workplaces, businesses, events and ordinary social life. People were coerced into accepting a medical intervention under threat of losing their livelihoods.
And those who suffered adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines faced another nightmare. We fought for vaccine-injured New Zealanders whose lives had been devastated by serious physical harm, while many struggled to have their injuries acknowledged or receive adequate support.
The government's public assurances about vaccine safety deserve particular scrutiny. Officials knew about the myocarditis risk, including among young people. We have examined the records. Yet people raising legitimate questions about those risks were routinely dismissed and vilified.
The damage went far beyond lost incomes and broken relationships. An enormous number of New Zealanders lost faith in the very institutions they had trusted their entire lives. Government, health authorities, education, police and the media. That trust has not magically returned because Ardern has moved on to more prestigious surroundings.
While her government was busy marginalising people, we were building a nationwide support network to help them survive.
Voices for Freedom grew to more than 100,000 people on our mailing list, many representing entire families. More than 45,000 people signed up to our local groups across the country, which are still operational today in 2026. We established industry groups to help people fight for their careers, provided support through employment disputes and legal challenges, organised practical assistance and hand-delivered millions of flyers to households throughout New Zealand.
We did this while facing censorship, public vilification and government surveillance. Official records obtained since have confirmed that our activities and communications were being monitored and reported on.
Our volunteers gave everything they could to help people who had been abandoned by the institutions meant to protect them.
And now the University of Sydney wants to hold up the woman responsible for overseeing this period as a shining example of empathy and social cohesion?
It is sickening.
Professor Scott, did anyone at your university bother to speak with the people whose lives were destroyed under Ardern's leadership before celebrating her appointment?
Have you spoken to the former nurses, teachers and police officers who lost their careers? The families who lost their homes? The people still suffering from vaccine injuries? The parents whose children no longer speak to them?
Or did you simply swallow the carefully cultivated international image of Saint Jacinda, the compassionate leader who saved New Zealand?
I wonder whether you have considered why this internationally celebrated former prime minister now lives in Australia rather than the country she once led. The depth of hostility towards her among many New Zealanders should give you pause.
Because I can assure you, there is another side to that story. And there are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who live with the consequences.
I have no objection to universities studying Ardern's leadership. In fact, I would encourage it. There is an enormous amount to learn from what happened in New Zealand between 2021 and 2023. Like, what not to do...
But presenting her as someone uniquely qualified to teach empathy, social cohesion and civic trust, without acknowledging the extraordinary human suffering that occurred under her leadership, is an insult to the people who paid the price.
We were there, Professor Scott. We saw what happened. We picked up the pieces. We are still picking them up.
Some of those people will never recover what they lost.
And the woman who presided over it all gets a professorship in empathy.
What an absolute disgrace.
Yours sincerely,
Alia Bland
Co-founder, Voices for Freedom
New Zealand
Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
In November 2022, Waikato GP Dr David Smylie received a dinner invitation from a sales rep that opened “Ate Marie Everyone”. Late that night, he fired back a four-sentence private reply, joking about the typo and grumbling about the amount of te reo in her email. You might not agree with what Dr Smylie said, but it wasn’t sent to a colleague or a patient.
Her manager complained to the Medical Council. Within days, Dr Smylie had written an apology. The Council never passed it on, at one point claiming it would “interfere with an active investigation”. When the rep was later interviewed and the committee chair floated a meeting with him, another member warned her off: “it’s tough calling out racism.”
The Professional Conduct Committee found his comments “objectively racist, offensive, and insensitive”. Whether he meant any harm was “of little consequence”. His four sentences had “the potential to contribute to current health inequities”.
The penalty was a year of what the Council called an “Educational Programme”: monthly sessions with a supervisor who reported back on him, readings on colonisation and institutional racism, and strategies for managing his “implicit biases (which are inevitable)”. He was expected to pay for it, at $125 an hour plus GST. To finish, he had to write two essays, including 1,000 words on structural racism in New Zealand health care.
In almost 40 years of practice, nobody had complained about his care. The committee’s ruling noted he had “not yet” received a complaint.
He sat through all twelve sessions and refused to write the essays, on a matter of principle. Dr Smylie now practises overseas.
Health NZ is short of doctors and recruiting from abroad. The Medical Council has driven one out over a private email.
Dr Smylie tells the full story on Free to Speak:
In November 2022, Waikato GP Dr David Smylie received a dinner invitation from a sales rep that opened “Ate Marie Everyone”. Late that night, he fired back a four-sentence private reply, joking about the typo and grumbling about the amount of te reo in her email. You might not agree with what Dr Smylie said, but it wasn’t sent to a colleague or a patient, and was remarkably minor.
Her manager complained to the Medical Council. Within days, Dr Smylie had written an apology. The Council never passed it on, at one point claiming it would “interfere with an active investigation”. When the rep was later interviewed and the committee chair floated a meeting with him, another member warned her off: “it’s tough calling out racism.”
The Professional Conduct Committee found his comments “objectively racist, offensive, and insensitive”. Whether he meant any harm was “of little consequence”. His four sentences had “the potential to contribute to current health inequities”.
The penalty was a year of what the Council called an “Educational Programme”: monthly sessions with a supervisor who reported back on him, readings on colonisation and institutional racism, and strategies for managing his “implicit biases (which are inevitable)”. He was expected to pay for it, at $125 an hour plus GST. To finish, he had to write two essays, including 1,000 words on structural racism in New Zealand health care.
In almost 40 years of practice, nobody had complained about his care. The committee’s ruling noted he had “not yet” received a complaint.
He sat through all twelve sessions and refused to write the essays, on a matter of principle. Dr Smylie now practises overseas.
Health NZ is short of doctors and recruiting from abroad. The Medical Council has driven one out over a private email.
Dr Smylie tells the full story on Free to Speak: youtu.be/Hn1ahDIwf6k?si=eeHh…
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Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
"Social cohesion"??
This wretched c**t divided NZ by Left/ right, black/white, rural/town, vaxed/unvaxed.
She is the absolute LAST person you need teaching your kids about anything at all 🤬🤬
Teaching in public health and social cohesion?
Is it April 1st?
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nzherald.co.nz/world/jacinda…
The Aussies are thicker than I thought
nzherald.co.nz/world/jacinda…
Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
Kayla Kingdon-Bebb is #4 on The Opportunity Party list and will be elected should the party gain more than 5% of the party vote on 7 November.
She co-authored He Puapua.
He Puapua is the roadmap to decolonisation and is @nzlabour policy.
Don't vote for TOP.
Opportunity Party want you go own nothing and be happy, the commie way.
What young person would vote for a party that takes away the option of using Kiwisaver for their first home?
Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
The idea of a Land Tax is national economic suicide...it will bankrupt the country
🤖 Made with AI
Let’s think about the TOP land tax
TOP wants to take 1.75% of your land value every year
If you can’t pay they’ll let it accumulate and take it when you pass away
Most retirees could never afford to pay it so effectively it’s an inheritance tax
Most Kiwis will get a significantly reduced inheritance as much of their parents’ house value is transferred to the state
The land tax will significantly disincentivise land/property ownership
Demand for property will collapse
Supply will explode as people look to sell their houses to avoid the tax
House prices will plummetPeople who have bought recently will be stuck in a lifetime of negative equity paying off mortgages for houses worth a fraction of what they paid
Many will choose bankruptcy instead
This will hit banking hard and further damage the economy
Construction and real estate sectors will crash with significant job losses
Landlords will either leave the market or pass the costs on to renters causing rents to rise
Many family farms will be forced to sell to corporations who can afford the new taxes
Household wealth and spending will be decimated
All of the above means less tax and rates will be collected
Taxes and rates will then rise to compensate
Economic growth will collapse
NZ will enter a long hard recession
Huge numbers of Kiwis will leave the country
Unexpected consequence of Kerrin Leoni’s resignation is that Oriini Kaipara is now guaranteed, giving TPM a definite seat and that means they need less overhang. Not great.
Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
Hey @NZStuffPolitics @radionz
What is Quisling Wong doing today, are you going to publish her diary? 🤣
Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
Australia’s most decorated soldier, VC recipient Ben Roberts-Smith, was driven to the brink of suicide by a relentless witch hunt.
Now Anthony Albanese’s government is trying to lock him up for life.
He hit absolute rock bottom after years of allegations.
“There were many times I thought it might be a better option for my family if I just took my own life,” he said.
What stopped him was his kids, and the realisation that suicide would let his accusers claim victory and brand him guilty forever.
For four years he stayed silent during the defamation case, trusting the system. He was wrong.
Nine slaughtered his reputation while he said nothing. Now he’s speaking out because the scales are being tipped against him.
“The public has a right to know how the scales of justice are being tipped in favour of the government.”
Albanese’s prosecutors have charged him with five war crimes murder counts over 2009 - 2012 engagements. Roberts-Smith insists no civilians were killed, every one involved Taliban fighters.
Judges and bureaucrats are second guessing split second battlefield decisions from lounge chairs.
Australia’s highest decorated living soldier faces the prospect of dying in prison while Albanese’s government presses ahead.
He trusted the process once. He’s not doing it again.
The public deserves to see every step.
I stand with Ben Roberts Smith.
Monkey See Monkey Do retweeted
I told my 14 yo son the truth about PBs, that they would mean the genital surgery would be much worse & require part of his colon & so would smell. After that, he stopped claiming to be suicidal & stopped demanding PBs. He desisted 4 years later.
I am absolutely bloody furious.
The High Court has struck down the Government’s restrictions on new puberty blocker prescriptions for children with gender dysphoria. PATHA is celebrating that they can continue to pump drugs into children that have known lifelong impacts including setting them on a path to sterilisation.
Mark my words this WILL be a medical scandal.
It is outrageous that the courts have intervened when the Government is simply seeking proper safeguards for vulnerable children.
Look overseas! Governments and health authorities have been pulling back from the insanity that has seen activists controlling the narrative and strong arming institutions. In New Zealand our courts want the deranged to run the asylum.
Britain’s LABOUR Government made restrictions on puberty blockers indefinite due to unacceptable safety risk. Wes Streeting understood that children’s healthcare requires evidence, however loudly campaigners shouted at him.
In America, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s restrictions on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors. Another decisive rejection of the idea that governments must simply defer to the organisations promoting these treatments.
And the organisations NEED scrutiny. WPATH and NZ’s version PATHA are without credibility and should not have remotely the influence they have enjoyed.
Documents from US litigation raise serious questions about political influence over WPATH’s supposedly authoritative standards. Justice Clarence Thomas discussed those revelations in his separate Skrmetti opinion, including pressure to remove minimum ages from treatment guidelines. Seriously it is worth reading that opinion.
The Cass Review also found that WPATH’s guidelines lacked rigour and transparency in their development.
After all that, we should have no confidence in WPATH as an impartial authority. And PATHA winning a judicial review does not magically establish the safety and effectiveness of the treatments it champions. They are a dysfunctional band of activists and it is embarrassing that they are taken seriously.
Read what this judgment actually says. The judge accepted that Simeon Brown had a rational basis for restricting puberty blockers and he rejected the allegation that Brown was simply advancing NZ First’s “anti-woke” agenda.
The restrictions fell because of consultation failures and the judge’s conclusion that the prohibition on new prescriptions was disproportionate and unlawfully discriminatory.
I obviously utterly disagree with that conclusion. The uncertainty surrounding these treatments is why precaution should be exercised.
The Government must address the legal issues, consider its appeal options and establish safeguards that can withstand challenge. This cannot be where this ends. Our children are too important. And these are the most vulnerable children. Research shows that among kids who are given puberty blockers autism, previous sexual abuse, and other mental health disorders are prevalent.
The ruling arrives 17 days before the election. People can draw their own conclusions about that timing.
But this is another reason it is so important to back the current Government. Simeon Brown has been prepared to take this on, and I’m backing him to keep going.
Luxon’s answer during the leadership debate was wishy washy but Simeon has been solid and NZ First have been too. We need the Coalition back in to continue this fight.
The alternative barely bears thinking about. I half expect Labour and their gang to come up with the bright idea to make puberty blockers available at school tuck shops.
(That is sarcasm, by the way.)
My serious point is that children deserve adults willing to challenge crazes, demand proper evidence, and withstand the abuse that follows. I am willing to be one of those adults. I reckon Simeon is too. Are you?