Nurses have told me they are considering leaving New Zealand in response to new standards of competence, or ‘pou’, requiring nurses to use te reo and tikanga, describe the impact of colonisation, and advocate for cultural and spiritual health.
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Todd Stephenson MP
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@actparty Member of Parliament. Authorised by C Purves, Suite 2.5, 27 Gillies Avenue, Newmarket, Auckland, 1023.
- Yet you defended the violent mob at the Posie Parker event as an "energetic protest". It'd be nice to see the passion for rule of law applied consistently.Destiny Church is putting peoples safety at risk. @MarkMitchellMP needs to step up. nzherald.co.nz/nz/destiny-chu…
- Thank you to all the public servants who have been in touch this week expressing their concerns and experiences around the practice of karakia in their workplaces. ACT believes the public service should be religiously and culturally neutral. No one should be forced, explicitly
- The responsibility of a midwife should be to the patient – not to the Treaty, mana whenua, or any political campaign. However, the New Zealand College of Midwives has distributed a ‘Tangata Tiriti Checklist’ flyer to its members, which asks non-Māori midwives to agree to
- I’ve now had reports of the public service going further than just daily karakia. I have been informed that multiple Ministries have been exercising tikanga practices in which women cannot speak and must sit at the back at ceremonies such as mihi whakatau. ACT says that it isThank you to all the public servants who have been in touch this week expressing their concerns and experiences around the practice of karakia in their workplaces. ACT believes the public service should be religiously and culturally neutral. No one should be forced, explicitly
- I want to thank all the brave public servants who are continuing to contact me with examples of inappropriate practices and behaviour they are seeing in their workplaces. Some of the political activism I'm being tipped off about in the public sector is incredibly brazen. This
- Perhaps the most absurd example of woke health regulation yet... In 2021 Labour set up the Chinese Medicine Council to regulate traditional Chinese medicine. The Council requires Chinese practitioners to honour the history of Māori as tangata whenua, enact the principles of Te
- Fantastic to see @SimeonBrownMP opening a review of cultural requirements in the health sector. This is what I've been banging on about. Even acupuncturists are told to embed 'bicultural principles'. Time to get health professionals focused back on clinical need.
- We should not be giving taxpayer money to an organisation that thinks it's alright to set ticket prices based on race.
- I've been approached by pharmacists alarmed by the Pharmacy Council’s new competence standards. The standards require frontline pharmacists to give effect to Te Tiriti at all levels, prioritise Māori voices, be familiar with Māori health models and be ‘confident to perform
- Regulatory bodies in the health system have been captured by Treaty ideology. The good news is that under this Government, change is coming.
00:00 - The New Zealand Psychologists’ Board is introducing a new Code of Ethics to embed Treaty principles and matauranga Māori into psychological practice. Psychologists are instructed to challenge colonisation and respond to patients’ colour, race, sexuality, and socio-economic
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