Tagged: Winston Peters

The Measure of Māori Wellness - Kidney Punch

John Pickering • Feb 18, 2013 •

• Evidence Based Medicine,
• Māori,
• Rongoa,
• Whanau Ora,
• Winston Peters

Winston Peters is employing classic diversion techniques in order to avoid answering questions as to why he hasn’t sacked Mr Prosser – in this case it is an attack on the associate Ministry of Health about funding of traditional Māori healing (rongoā Māori) through Whanau Ora (apparently $1.9M worth).  He claims that there is no measure of … Continue reading » … Read More

Back to school Mr Prosser - Kidney Punch

John Pickering • Feb 13, 2013 •

• critical thinking,
• racism,
• Richard Prosser,
• Winston Peters

I once stood as a parliamentary candidate in the Waimakariri electorate as did Richard Prosser.  I got more votes than he did, albeit a few years earlier (Compare electoral results 2011 & 2005)).  If I were to appeal to the same level of logical reasoning as does Mr Prosser,  more votes makes me more of … Continue reading » … Read More