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Sue Crengle

@tieke.bsky.social
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Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha. Hauora Māori. Public health medicine and GP/family medicine. Professor. Bit of CrossFit, bit of weights, bit of walking… occasionally photographs animals

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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Radio NZ reporting on the ‘roady’ and places it will go but no detail on venues etc. Likewise the ODT. 🙄🤷🏾‍♀️ Healthcare 'roady' seeks first-hand accounts from concerned communities www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Healthcare 'roady' seeks first-hand accounts from concerned communities
An advocate is concerned local communities are unable to access healthcare due to growing pressure on the public system.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gives me some hope that ‘average Kiwi’ is focused and real issues not politicians and media beat up ‘problems’. Although the percentage convened about the environment is too low…
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤣. A privy was also mentioned on my Brave search
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Masshole? (Can’t take credit. I asked my web browser)
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
100%. Sits alongside other ideology/policy about markets (eg the purported consequences of electricity market reform years ago) that have been shown to be neoliberal fantasy/hogwash
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And didn’t the rise in unhoused people a consequence of what tenants are (un)able to pay?
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Of course. If they proceeded in the current environment they wouldn’t raise/make as much money. New strategy seems to be - appear to be taking action to make things safer, hope that calms the situation, and carry on in the background anyway… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says
OpenAI’s decision comes after dire warnings about rapidly progressing technology and lawmakers’ calls for new rules
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And Liberation Toolbox by YK Hong
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I quite like guardian world news and aljazeera too.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have both newsroom and e-Tangata on Inoreader (chosen because not a US based company). I’d also like other suggestions!
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kia ora. Ngati Kahungungu have launched a petition ‘Do not remove or amend Te Tiriti principles or references in legislation’ It can be found here. petitions.parliament.nz/ddbe7598-59d... If you support it, please sign and consider sharing with whanau, friends and colleagues
petitions.parliament.nz
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And the NZ government. Is about to do this - providing protection to these companies. Shameful. drilled.media/news/new-zea...
drilled.media
New Zealand to Become First Country in the World to Lock the Courthouse Door on Climate Change
Borrowing a tactic from the United States, New Zealand will adopt a law authored by industry to give legal immunity for tort claims against fossil fuel producers and big emitters.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Quite enjoying the Apple TV documentary series ‘1971 the year music changed everything’.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
They told us to worry about the economy. The planet IS the economy.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The question was never what YOU can do. The question is when will THEY pay.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They have just given up… hopeless
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Would also be good to have a list of Canadian products to buy instead of US ones (if anyone is still buying US…)
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
‘Erased’ - still can’t bring themselves to say genocide. ‘More than 100 French and British former diplomats have said Palestine is being erased in front…’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine
In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think they are trying to lose…
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
‘For years, experts have warned about the human costs when private equity firms or other institutional investors buy into health care.’ Coming our way…..
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
There are very rich New Zealanders paying to ensure the majority of us have no healthcare, insecure housing, unsafe workplaces, lower wages and more racism. This is the world they want for us. #nzpol
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For a more evidence based consideration written by real people newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/14/s...
newsroom.co.nz
Social media not the bogeyman of all kids' ills
Analysis from the University of Auckland: Research about the negative effects of social media is inaccurately being used to scare parents
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Oh dear… busted big time www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I suspect DoC has to ration the vaccine because govt hasn’t given sufficient funding.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Agree. I thought it was great too.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Also, I love that song
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Surprise f**king surprise. ‘Big food’ playing form the tobacco companies playbook. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
Ultra-processed food companies hindering health drives by suing countries, says WHO
Exclusive: Director general accuses corporations of obstructing efforts to tackle obesity crisis after investigation by Guardian and others
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Such a great article www.nzgeo.com/stories/west... @nzgeo.bsky.social
nzgeo.com
West side story
When life’s gone off the rails and the road home is hard, it helps to have a horse.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I really enjoyed ‘the wonder of Stevie’ podcast which was about that time period.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
sorry but why the fuck does the Deputy PM get to set framing for an extensive *Auditor-General investigation* that found his school lunch changes were absolutely fucked?? beyond the pale that he gets to essentially dictate the headline against evidenced and credible findings media are fucking DONE
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Reminder of the achievements of current govt. Feel free to share. Election coming up. Hold your nose and vote for one of the others… youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?...
youtu.be
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Alienating more of their traditional their traditional base… 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This is very cool. Would love to hear her talk about her work and read her dissertation/thesis/paper….
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
@paullecomtephoto.nz Answer this tomorrow cos don’t want to interrupt your sports commentary… what oil do you recommend for your wood chopping blocks? And yep, I’ve asked you this before but I didn’t get the name firmly installed in my cerebral networks. ☹️🙄🤷🏾‍♀️
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The graph is a bit confusing though. The question is ‘to what degree do you support or oppose’ but it’s not cake from the graph of the bars are support or oppose…
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🤣
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Not surprised. ‘Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres
Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Excellent work. Thank you!
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
That whole story… 😳
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
UK takes leadership that current NZ govt walked back from. UK legislation about to be signed. Creating a smoke-free generation - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
Creating a smoke-free generation
Legislation imposing a ban on anyone in the UK born after 2008 from buying cigarettes and other tobacco products was always likely to be contentious. Predictably, The UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill—shortly...
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Bought one of the recommended poetry books from Timeout via bookhub.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
No. I didn’t. Hope it goes well for her.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Re-upping this - as much to remind myself as anyone else…
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
📚🇳🇿 Kia ora. Im looking for suggestions for short story collections to read. Thanks for your ideas!
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Blue Sky, Kiwi Fly @blueskykiwifly.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Europe: Offloading Mircosoft and taking data security seriously NZ: Just use AI to do your job. Put all the secure data in there, it's fine... We're not trying to get you to train your replacement, honest
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thoroughly enjoy the explosive media videos.
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hard to disagree… open.substack.com/pub/awrworke...
open.substack.com
New Zealand – Trying Its Hardest to Go Broke
A great week back in New Zealand but one question kept coming up: are we trying our best to go broke?
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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Good grief. And also check out the excellent annotations of incorrect responses in the comments. Accurate and hilarious
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