Renee Liang
@reneeliang.bsky.social
Paediatrician, health researcher, writer, librettist and poet from Aotearoa. Child longitudinal studies, equity, intersectional youth health. Columnist on big-picture health issues, North and South. Staunch Cantonese aunty/mama.
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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There has never been a “public-private partnership” that provided a higher quality service or cost less money than the public just doing the job in-house.
PPP’s exist to transfer more public, taxpayer money to private entities. It’s welfare for the immortal, immoral, unaccountable corps.
PPP’s exist to transfer more public, taxpayer money to private entities. It’s welfare for the immortal, immoral, unaccountable corps.
July 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There has never been a “public-private partnership” that provided a higher quality service or cost less money than the public just doing the job in-house.
PPP’s exist to transfer more public, taxpayer money to private entities. It’s welfare for the immortal, immoral, unaccountable corps.
PPP’s exist to transfer more public, taxpayer money to private entities. It’s welfare for the immortal, immoral, unaccountable corps.
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I may be a dropkick but surely $300 million of tax buys quite a lot of hospital. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
A tobacco product tax cut slated for one year has been extended by two
The coalition has pushed back a review of its tax cut for Heated Tobacco Products by two years.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I may be a dropkick but surely $300 million of tax buys quite a lot of hospital. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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Hopefully the NZ govt will now backtrack on deeply unfair & undemocratic plans to change electoral processes - plans which threaten to erode trust in govt & elections. The National govt needs more experienced MPs to help it regain the middle ground it is losing #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/28/a...
Attorney-General rules her own Govt’s voting crackdown breaches human rights
The young and Māori, Pasifika and Asian communities will pay the 'heaviest price' by being disenfranchised, warns Judith Collins, KC. Jonathan Milne reports.
newsroom.co.nz
July 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hopefully the NZ govt will now backtrack on deeply unfair & undemocratic plans to change electoral processes - plans which threaten to erode trust in govt & elections. The National govt needs more experienced MPs to help it regain the middle ground it is losing #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/28/a...
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Real leadership for women isn’t about suddenly claiming the mic when it suits you. It’s about who you stood alongside when it was hard, who you made room for when you had power, and whether you used your influence when it counted, and not just when you want to hoard power.
July 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Real leadership for women isn’t about suddenly claiming the mic when it suits you. It’s about who you stood alongside when it was hard, who you made room for when you had power, and whether you used your influence when it counted, and not just when you want to hoard power.
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THIS. I know this is a really uncomfortable conversation to have, but righteously reading Ray Chung for filth should never obscure that so many of those frantically distancing themselves are only doing so because he couldn't spin his way out of a tumble dryer. #nzpol
I’m glad Ray is finally being exposed. But let’s not forget another councillor who has persistently fanned the flames of rumour against Tory from the very beginning. Yes, Nicola Young.
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July 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
THIS. I know this is a really uncomfortable conversation to have, but righteously reading Ray Chung for filth should never obscure that so many of those frantically distancing themselves are only doing so because he couldn't spin his way out of a tumble dryer. #nzpol
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#NZPol Australia ahead of us on the curve nact want to take is down. How about we simply don’t make this stupid mistake in the first place?
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NSW to ban public-private hospital partnerships after toddler's death
The Minns government is set to introduce the legislation known as "Joe's Law", which will protect hospitals providing emergency, surgical and inpatient services from any future government entering suc...
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July 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
#NZPol Australia ahead of us on the curve nact want to take is down. How about we simply don’t make this stupid mistake in the first place?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/07/02/t...
Feeling safe is a rare feeling…sparse or nonexistent resources make everyone feel like they’re stretched thin, knowing that errors leading to patient harm are more likely. But there’s also a real fear that just speaking out will draw a large target on their back.
Feeling safe is a rare feeling…sparse or nonexistent resources make everyone feel like they’re stretched thin, knowing that errors leading to patient harm are more likely. But there’s also a real fear that just speaking out will draw a large target on their back.
The Inconvenient Truthers: doctors speaking out
Freedom of speech in the health profession is like walking the knife edge - particularly so for doctors who are faced with egregious professional and personal implications for speaking out. According ...
northandsouth.co.nz
July 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/07/02/t...
Feeling safe is a rare feeling…sparse or nonexistent resources make everyone feel like they’re stretched thin, knowing that errors leading to patient harm are more likely. But there’s also a real fear that just speaking out will draw a large target on their back.
Feeling safe is a rare feeling…sparse or nonexistent resources make everyone feel like they’re stretched thin, knowing that errors leading to patient harm are more likely. But there’s also a real fear that just speaking out will draw a large target on their back.
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Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools.
The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.
The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.
3. "Informational Microplastics" - the artefacts invariably produced as a function of how these models work will be present undetected in Scientific journals and web pages. "ScamTech" will doubtless have web pages generated to "answer" searches with pages of bland, subtly incorrect, blather.
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June 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools.
The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.
The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.
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So cuts for real people, tax breaks for business, all paid for by stealing from women. Oh, and deliberately conflict the government in its role as regulator for the fossil industry. What a crock of shit. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Budget 2025: Coalition claws back savings from pay equity, KiwiSaver in Budget
There's big cuts and savings, changes to Best Start and a surprise tax cut for businesses as the government opens the books.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
So cuts for real people, tax breaks for business, all paid for by stealing from women. Oh, and deliberately conflict the government in its role as regulator for the fossil industry. What a crock of shit. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Super chuffed to have these up again: 16 poems/ poetry extracts from poets over 45 years of Poetry Live! Catch them today if you’re in the Auckland CBD. For more : poetrylivenz.wixsite.com/poetrylivenz...
May 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Super chuffed to have these up again: 16 poems/ poetry extracts from poets over 45 years of Poetry Live! Catch them today if you’re in the Auckland CBD. For more : poetrylivenz.wixsite.com/poetrylivenz...
My latest North and South column is live! I talk about why feeding children at school makes sense, health and education wise. I also invoke the word 'fiscal' twice in honour of Budget Day tomorrow - let's hope there are some nice, not nasty surprises in there.
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/05/21/s...
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/05/21/s...
School Lunches
Nurturing young minds: the case for a high quality, universal school lunch programme.
northandsouth.co.nz
May 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
My latest North and South column is live! I talk about why feeding children at school makes sense, health and education wise. I also invoke the word 'fiscal' twice in honour of Budget Day tomorrow - let's hope there are some nice, not nasty surprises in there.
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/05/21/s...
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/05/21/s...
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You just traveled to the Middle East, Donald. They let you go, no issues.
May 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
You just traveled to the Middle East, Donald. They let you go, no issues.
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The last few years have been pretty hard & I’ve largely become a bit of a hermit. But I’ve briefly emerged to talk about the thing that’s reignited my spark - menstrual cups! Thanks to NZ Women’s Weekly and Elizabeth Easther for coaxing me out of my shell. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/si...
Dr Siouxsie Wiles' Covid curse: ‘Abuse changed my world’
Pandemic fallout turned her into a hermit, but her future’s looking brighter.
www.nzherald.co.nz
May 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The last few years have been pretty hard & I’ve largely become a bit of a hermit. But I’ve briefly emerged to talk about the thing that’s reignited my spark - menstrual cups! Thanks to NZ Women’s Weekly and Elizabeth Easther for coaxing me out of my shell. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/si...
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Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Te Pāti Māori MPs to be temporarily suspended from Parliament over haka
MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke faces a seven-day suspension for her actions.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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A reminder that Judith Collins, the defender of Parliamentary "civility" leaked a Civil Servant's personal details to her Dirty Politics attack dogs, who then followed her orders to try and destroy that Civil Servant. "Civility", she calls it.
May 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A reminder that Judith Collins, the defender of Parliamentary "civility" leaked a Civil Servant's personal details to her Dirty Politics attack dogs, who then followed her orders to try and destroy that Civil Servant. "Civility", she calls it.
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Hey just a random reminder, as the coleaders of te Pāti Māori are suspended for three weeks over a haka...
David Seymour *personally* fought for the rights of anti-choice protesters to scream at pregnant people outside abortion clinics
because that's the kind of "free speech" he approves of
David Seymour *personally* fought for the rights of anti-choice protesters to scream at pregnant people outside abortion clinics
because that's the kind of "free speech" he approves of
May 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hey just a random reminder, as the coleaders of te Pāti Māori are suspended for three weeks over a haka...
David Seymour *personally* fought for the rights of anti-choice protesters to scream at pregnant people outside abortion clinics
because that's the kind of "free speech" he approves of
David Seymour *personally* fought for the rights of anti-choice protesters to scream at pregnant people outside abortion clinics
because that's the kind of "free speech" he approves of
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Channelled these posts into something longer, linking to the work of black feminist women and highlighting how Brooke and Nicola are performing white womanhood while simultaneously suppressing legitimate resistance to their oppressive acts:
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May 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Channelled these posts into something longer, linking to the work of black feminist women and highlighting how Brooke and Nicola are performing white womanhood while simultaneously suppressing legitimate resistance to their oppressive acts:
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
So now the women who have disempowered tens of thousands of women with a misogynistic bill rushed through without any discussion are claiming victimhood and wanting 'right of reply' to being called out as sexist by a journalist.
Classic bully playbook.
Classic bully playbook.
May 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
So now the women who have disempowered tens of thousands of women with a misogynistic bill rushed through without any discussion are claiming victimhood and wanting 'right of reply' to being called out as sexist by a journalist.
Classic bully playbook.
Classic bully playbook.
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Thinking a hand full of women being called cunts is worse misogyny than stealing wage increases from 10s or 100s of thousands of women is whack as hell and just the kind of thinking you'd expect from Tory women #NZPol
May 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Thinking a hand full of women being called cunts is worse misogyny than stealing wage increases from 10s or 100s of thousands of women is whack as hell and just the kind of thinking you'd expect from Tory women #NZPol
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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