GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Destroying the essence of Palestinian
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has been reported to be considering the Government’s response to an horrific United Nations special investigation…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Health Minister ‘purges’ regulatory health practitioner authorities for carrying out their statutory function
Dr Dylan Mordaunt is a vocationally registered specialist in medical administration, paediatrics and clinical genetics. In recent months he has…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Health target politics versus clinical prioritisation
It isn’t often that smaller provincial newspapers break revealing health stories. They struggle with fewer resources to call upon and…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When opportunity knocks for the Opportunity Party?
Opportunity Knocks’ is a British television and radio talent show that first began in 1949. It provided a platform to…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Two different tales of avoidable hospital bed-blocking
Through necessity bed-blocking is a term that of is increasingly being used by those working in Aotearoa New Zealand’s public…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Hypocrisy of Free Speech Union opposing free speech in practice
With some origins in ‘Athenian democracy’ free speech is one of the noblest rights which people have struggled for and…
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Ian Powell: The Risks Of Eyecare Privatisation
Health NZ says private eyecare will fix capacity. Ian Powell says that is not diagnosis, it is ideology in a white coat.
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GUEST BLOG: Seeby Woodhouse – Q-Day Is Coming
Q-Day sounds like sci-fi until you realise encrypted data may already be sitting in hostile databases, waiting for quantum computers to catch up.
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Gleichschaltung and Far-Right Momentum in NZ
Ian Powell warns that New Zealand is far from Nazi Germany, but far-right momentum, neoliberal drift and authoritarian instincts should not be dismissed.
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Why the New Zealand Economy Became Structurally Fragile
New Zealand is rich in land, resources and talent, yet increasingly unable to build or afford what it needs. Tadhg Stopford argues that fragility was designed into the system.
