Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:13 pm
New Zealand’s vaccine roll out is going from bad to
worse, with New Zealand now last in the developed world for
the percentage of the population who have been fully
vaccinated as well as for vaccination doses delivered per
100 people, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop
says.
“The Prime Minister’s regular excuse to the
fact that New Zealand is last in the OECD for vaccination
doses is because we are focusing on fully vaccinating
people, not just getting jabs in arms.
“Well that
rebuttal has just fallen by the wayside. Australia has now
fully vaccinated 11.17 per cent of the eligible population,
Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:14 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding a surgeon in breach of the Code of
Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the
Code) for failures in her care of a woman who was later
diagnosed with breast cancer.
The woman, in her
forties at the time of these events, had been diagnosed and
treated for breast cancer in 2013.
In 2018, she was
found to have a breast lump. The breast and general surgeon
performed a biopsy on the lump but failed to order a
mammogram or an ultrasound. The surgeon formed the opinion
that the breast lump was benign and discharged the
Monday, 12 July 2021, 12:03 pm
The Government’s Three Waters Reforms programme is
gaining traction in the media.
You have seen a few
scary numbers, and the massively misleading advertising
campaign, where the Government claim that without water
reform there is the potential for astronomical increases in
household costs and awful environmental outcomes.
As
far as our Council can tell having gone through their data
both of these statements are not true and the Council and I
have serious concerns about the information and
approach.
The Government is proposing to remove water
services from Councils and establish four water service
entities across the country, with one entity proposed to
Monday, 12 July 2021, 3:05 pm
Phishing is big business. The industry includes a variety
of criminal players doing specialised work to steal and sell
your information. Our research shows why phishing campaigns
are so pervasive, how phishers are using phishing kits, and
how valid HTTPS certificates are used to dupe people around
the world.
We analysed more than 1,500 unique URLs
used to host phishing kits that formed part of our analysis.
We found that 85% of phishing websites used a certificate. A
valid certificate is visible to end users using a padlock in
the browser bar, typically green. This padlock indicates
that the traffic to and from the website is encrypted, but
Monday, 12 July 2021, 11:07 am
Master Plumbers, Gasfitters & Drainlayers is renewing
calls to ban lead in drinking water, with further evidence
that New Zealanders are still at risk from this invisible
poison.
CE Greg Wallace says lead has been removed
from paint and fuel, but the Government continues to ignore
the potential health risk being caused by lead in household
drinking water. The Australians are taking a much
harder line on this, and are looking at introducing
zero-lead tapware and brass plumbing products. Yet the New
Zealand Government doesn’t seem to be interested in taking
stronger steps to protect New Zealanders.