GUEST BLOG: GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Death in Custody
Body Cams protect us All. A police dog handler set a dog on Sam Matue after he had been forced to…
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Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Private versus public health systems
When I began employment as Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists in 1989, the relationship between the…
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – School Lunches cause bitter controversy in Indonesia and West Papua.
This government has blundered badly over the school lunch issue. Good school lunches contribute to good learning outcomes, but David…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – Our Economic Dashboard is Broken—And thus, the Ship of State. Who benefits?
The RBNZ got a kicking today from a neoliberal (act) economist for “engineering three recessions”. But New Zealand’s economic navigation…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – ACTs Ram Raid on Nz
The Treaty Principles Bill isn’t policy—it’s a ram raid. A full-throttle, smash-and-grab attack on the last legal barriers preventing New…
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GUEST BLOG: Douglas Renwick – Notes on Climate Change Denial in Economics Education
Benjamin Franta is a historian who has done interesting research on the fossil fuel industry’s role in shaping the economics…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When overlaying fact in health systems with fiction morphs into embellishment
In discussing what he believes to be his health system understanding and prowess Health New Zealand Commissioner Lester Levy is…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – Why I’ll always love Winston. The Winebox, Winston, and the Theft of New Zealand
Most people don’t really understand what the Winebox Inquiry was, or why it mattered. It wasn’t just about dodgy tax…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – The rare Genius of Sir Robert Muldoon
Its funny to write those words, but its true. Robert Muldoon was our last economic nationalist PM. Everyone else since…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Is Health New Zealand becoming an Audit Office frequent flyer?
The Office of the Auditor-General, which includes the Audit Office, is a critical statutory body charged with giving Parliament and…