#BHN Doctors unethical says Simeon Brown | Jim Bolger passes away | BSA comes for Plunkett

Kieran McAnulty and Chris Bishop appeared in TVNZ Breakfast talking of the passing of Jim Bolger who, as the conversation demonstrated, is about as far away from today's National Party as one could get. McAnulty and Bishop then debated how this CoC is ignoring the latest select committee submissions that went against their position 98% to 2%Health Minister Simeon Brown says senior doctors have crossed an “ethical line” by striking and delaying surgeries and care for “thousands of New Zealanders”, in an inflammatory address. “Strikes are a choice and a political one,” he said. “But when a union chooses strike action that forces thousands of operations and appointments to be cancelled, in my view, it crosses an ethical line.”Winston Peters accuses broadcasting watchdog of ‘Soviet era stasi’ censorship as the BSA begins the process to look if their regulations cover internet broadcasting such as The Platform. Plunkett, of course, clutched pearls and prostrated himself as the martyr for free speech, but the overall conversation as if the BSA was to regulate the internet, what would that mean for us, for Bomber, for Brie Elliott, for Paul 'the other one' Barlow, in fact for anyone making content online.=================================Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠=================================Merch available at www.BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebookwww.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter.@patbrittenden @Chewie_NZFollow us on BlueskyPat @patbrittenden.bsky.socialChewie @chewienz.bsky.socialEmily @iamprettyawesome.bsky.socialMagenta @xkaosmagex.bsky.social