Exploitation, inequities and the Māori Health Authority
On 15 June BusinessDesk published my article on the Māori Health Authority (MHA – Te Mana Hauora Māori): Māori Health…
Author: Ian Powell
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Scandal or temptation in the health restructuring transition unit?
Although linked words, ‘scandal’ and ‘scandalous’ are not the same. Scandal is a noun for an incident or event that disgraces…
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An unresponsive Prime Minister and Health Minister to a best endeavour
I have expressed my concerns in these postings and other media outlets about the Government’s decision, without mandate or engagement…
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Bye-bye subsidiarity; hello democratic deficit
Every piece of parliamentary legislation has a ‘purpose’ clause describing the legal means or effect of the legislation, usually clause…
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Strategic Covid-19 direction needed, not traffic lights red herrings
The debate over whether New Zealand’s Covid-19 ‘traffic lights’ system should be lowered from ‘red’ to ‘orange’ misses the point….
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More than egg running down face; it’s an entire poultry farm’s yolk
What does a Treasury ‘Investor Confidence Review’ (ICR) and a poultry farm have in common? Nothing really apart from an…
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Frailty, dependency and health systems
One of the things I enjoyed most when Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) was its…
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The immorality of moral equivalence
On 14 February, in an earlier Political Bytes blog posting, I wrote about the anti-vaccination occupation of Parliament grounds and surrounding…