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Cornwall Park Leaseholders Association (CPLA) alarmed at the actions of the Trustees of the Cornwall Park Trust Board.

[Save Cornwall Park @SaveCornwall]

How can 4 trustees do so much damage — Save Cornwall Park
This is the story of a family who have paid a Cornwall Park lease for 22 years & may end up walking away because of
Adrienne Young Cooper (also AT chair)
Alistair Carruthers
Keith Smith
John Duncan

https://t.co/WSYhvBp0QQ

[Save Cornwall Park @SaveCornwall]

@chrislynchmedia @trish_higginson Yup!!!

[David Farrar @dpfdpf]

Is very good.

[Save Cornwall Park @SaveCornwall]

@elonmuskADO B

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Arab Muslims are the biggest colonizers that have ever existed in the history of humanity.

[Malakai ™️ @saltyreigns]

🤦‍♂️

[Linda hfx @Linda_hfx]

The man!!!
Get em Winnie 💪

[Newshub Politics @NewshubPolitics]

'It's offensive': Swarbrick's 'incendiary chant' at pro-Palestine rally under fire https://t.co/5jGcFPoyDX

[Damien Grant @damienmgrant]

Come on @jamespeshaw; you can't remain an MP in a party where your co-leader is ranting this grossly inaccurate and dishonest nonsense?

[Robert Moloney @moloneyrobert]

How can Wayne Barnes admit to Savea he made a mistake but let Pollard kick the penalty?
If #AllBlacks lose the #RWCFinal    by 3 points or less surely that's a mad call #RWC23Final #Springboks 🏉 #waynebarnes

[Sir Richie McCaw @RichieHMcCaw]

Oops, you missed one #NZLvRSA

[Steven Adams Stats @funakistats]

Make it make sense…
#RugbyWorldCupFinal

[Save Cornwall Park @SaveCornwall]

Agreed

[Corina Shields @AuntyHeihei]

She's a disgrace to her Father 😔.

[Save Cornwall Park @SaveCornwall]

https://t.co/0B5UCsDoGi

[Chamfy @chamfy]

Love that this is still central Auckland

[Victoria Carter😊🐶🎧🌏🌳 @vcarternz]

Enabling vandels.
Tragic when a much loved and vital disabled rehab facility is sold.
Seems worse when buildings lie empty for 3 + years & windows get smashed and ignored. Pathetic attempts to stop more damage.
@FriendsofLFT has tried to lease the office space. #deaf ears

[Save Cornwall Park @SaveCornwall]

+1 - good article that I was oblivious to initially!

[Rachel Smalley @Rachel_Smalley]

In an election year you expect political spin and deflection, but the Health Minister’s claim at the weekend that patients and people advocating for access to modern medicines are ‘on the take’ by pharma is a botched and brutal attempt to muddy the waters and deflect criticism away from Pharmac’s shoddy tactics and poor performance.

Minister Ayesha Verrall, for months, has denied all interview requests regarding Pharmac’s performance. Then, when she agreed to a rare interview and spoke with Jack Tame on Q&A at the weekend, she attempted to sow a seed that patients and advocates like myself are influenced or ‘benefiting’ from pharma.

Ayesha Verrall, you are the Health Minister for goodness sake.

This is the same line that Pharmac attempts to feed into the media when sick patients arrive on the steps of the Beehive to petition or protest – 'they are all on the payroll of pharma' apparently.

There is an irony here - just before Ayesha Verrall became a minister, she resigned from a 4.5 year paid role with Pharmac - she worked under CEO Sarah Fitt and Chair Steve Maharey, two people she now says she has full confidence in.

To this day, neither Fitt nor Maharey have commented on the significant failings in leadership and governance that were highlighted in the Pharmac Review. And, worse, OIA’s have revealed communications advice telling them to “look hurried” as they leave select committees to avoid the waiting media, and to “look coy” if they are questioned about the medicines budget.

How is that for 'transparent government'?

Right now, there are significant failings in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. In 25 years, we haven’t funded a bowel cancer drug. Kiwis with MS have to ‘prove’ their health has declined in order to get medicines that would have STOPPED their decline, and I recently reported on a pharma company which has packed up and left New Zealand after trying for 13 years to get a meeting with Pharmac – their drug to treat pancreatic cancer is funded in every other western nation on earth.

Pharmac is broken and no longer fit-for-purpose. It’s apathetic leadership, outdated funding methodology, dismissive attitude to patients and advocacy groups, and contempt for the media now renders it a siloed beast that needs to be dismantled, and brought inside the health system. More money won’t help Pharmac. It needs new leadership and a modern fit-for-purpose operating model.

However, what is most concerning right now is the attitude and commentary of the Health Minister – Labour’s fifth Health Minister in 6 years. Minister Verrall, you made the conscious decision to avoid addressing New Zealand’s position at the bottom of the OECD for access to medicines, and instead attempted to muddy the waters around who’s paying patients who are sick or dying with cancer, rare disorders and chronic disease.

Labour, you came into power in 2017 on the mantra of “Be Kind” - what a sham that was. New Zealanders suffering from cancer and disease have enough on their plate without being accused by their Minister of trying to capitalise on their disease by earning a few bucks off pharma.

[David Farrar @dpfdpf]

Lol

[Save Cornwall Park @SaveCornwall]

Pushing tenants out is feudal.
https://t.co/2cP9ApkBbN

[Sean Plunket @SeanPlunket]

Just unbelievable! https://t.co/uSg5jrUEXI