New Zealand beats Australia for world record skin cancer rates
Posted by te2ataria on March 30, 2016
Crikey, we finally beat the world at something!
New Zealanders now have the highest melanoma rates in the world, beating Australia, according to a new study.
Reported melanoma rates in New Zealand have nearly doubled over the past 30 years, with about 50 cases per 100,000 people in 2011.
In Australia, the rate peaked at 49 per 100,000 in 2005, and has since declined.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/78363931/New-Zealand-overtakes-Australia-for-highest-rates-of-skin-cancer-says-study
Killed, seriously injured… on NZ death roads
DAY 104 of the latest TOURISTS or truth? campaign in NZ
http://www.transport.govt.nz/research/roadtoll/
To protect the tourism industry, about two-thirds of the road fatalities in New Zealand go unreported by our political police, or unrecorded by Ministry of Transport [“Minitru”.]
- Blog estimate: About 900 people are killed on NZ roads each year. [Most probably] up to 223 road fatalities have occurred in NZ since 1 January 2016.
Work-un-Safe New Zealand
Man killed after being struck by a tractor
Between 2010 and 2015, WorkSafe New Zealand recorded 32 tractor-related fatalities and 302 severe injuries on farms. In 2014, at least 20 people were killed on New Zealand farms and since 2011, at least 97 people have been killed in agriculture industry work place incidents. Twenty-five of those were quad bike accidents. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/78331855/an-89yearold-man-has-died-after-being-struck-by-a-tractor
Forestry worker killed in Whangarei
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11613094
Other News in Drips…
WTF: 60,000 reported burglaries across New Zealand went unsolved last year
“A woman whose south Auckland home was ransacked by burglars three weeks ago in broad daylight says she feels ‘violated’,” according to a report.
“They took mine and my husband’s laptops, they took my iPad,” Ms Dolbel-Neville told ONE News.
Our world class police (!) barely solved one in 10 reported burglaries nationally, and the figure for Auckland is even worse.
“We’re going after those prolific burglars who we know are really hurting the community”, police said through their ****.
Zombie Democracy - Apartheid Fort NZ 
Charles said
This is because of the flag issue. Just kidding. Really, that is bad.
te2ataria said
the flag issue is but an abstract of how “we the people” are being shafted…
Charles Franklin said
And I hope that it gets better. I enjoy your blog so much, and it bothers me that your PM seems so out of touch. When you see a New Zealand PM being “made a fool of” on talk shows, in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, it says something about him. Kudos to you, and yours.
te2ataria said
Our PM is a micro Trump. Proportionally egotistical and psychopathic, but equally resentful of the victims of his fleecing activities.
Charles Franklin said
You know what bothers me, a lot? At one time, a poor, or middle class, person could run for office. Nowadays, and this seems to be true for the UK, Canada, the USA, and New Zealand as well, only the rich, the well connected, and corporate lawyers need apply. How can the super- rich really understand the rest of us? They cannot. My opinion. Regards.
te2ataria said
“How can the super-rich really understand the rest of us?”
That’s hardly the point. Soon robots will be able to reproduce and the working class, whose sole purpose was to create wealth, will no longer be needed. Did you really think the super-rich would somehow feel obligated to care for the 99.999999 percent of the population whose most visible legacies include depleted natural resources, humongous pollution and climate change?
Charles Franklin said
Scary to think about it. Really scary. And since money can buy almost everything, the super rich can isolate, segregate, and congregate among themselves. And to bring up my “old point”, naive young people from the United States, and elsewhere, think that New Zealand is not like the rest of the world. That it is clean, green, and not greedy. One of the things that I love about your blog, is that you point out that no place is actually paradise. Movies, television shows and travel “docs” are like vanilla frosting on a cake, how does the cake actually taste? I would love to meet you someday. Regards.