GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – From thriving to surviving: ‘Poster Child’ general practice struggle symbolises primary care crisis
‘Poster child’ is not a commonly used term in health systems. Its origin is as a North American noun that…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Fast-tracking wealth accumulation and the ‘war on nature’
The Fast-Track Approvals Bill currently before Parliament is up there with the most controversial decisions of the National-ACT-New Zealand First…
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Fischer – The Fruits of Defeat?
New Zealand entered the Vietnam war on behalf of the United States in 1963 with a small force of artillery…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – ‘If you don’t have hope, you can’t have a strategy’
16 September was a particularly enjoyable day for me, including cognitively. I visited Palmerston North Hospital. My visit included two…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Non-Disclosure Agreements in Health New Zealand – an oxymoron!
Oxymoron is one of the more sharpest and cutting words in the English vocabulary. It is a figure of speech that…
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GUEST BLOG: Seeby Woodhouse – NZ Treaty of Waitangi debate
Last night I was pleased to be invited to attend in person a televised debate on the Treaty of Waitangi…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Why Socialism (why not New Zealand)
When people think of the German born Albert Einstein (1879–1955) usually this would as the theoretical physicist who is widely held…
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GUEST BLOG: Nick Rockel – Modlik vs Seymour
Once I could laugh with everyone Once I could see the good in me The black and the white distinctively…
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GUEST BLOG – Marie Venning: Apart from hypocrisy surely they don’t believe their own propaganda?
A recent headline in Christchurch’s Press said: “Hezbollah Luring Israel into the Killing Zone”. How ludicrous. Israel has been Invading…
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GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – YOU DON’T GO TO PRISON TO DIE
I haven’t blogged lately, rather choosing to sit back and watch the circus unfold shall we say. Previously I have…