GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Will You Roll or Roll Over Prime Minister?
In April this year P.M. Luxon fired both Disability Issues Minister Penny Simmonds and Media and Communications Minister Melissa for incompetence….
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Structured literacy – how rigidity flows from ideology
On 18 June an earlier Political Bytes post discussed the ideological framework in which the government has required schools to…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Corporate general practice ownership highlights unintended perverse outcome
A public controversy has erupted over a Lower Hutt general practice that has wider implications for primary healthcare in Aotearoa…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Time For A Change
Fifty-two years ago The New Zealand Labour Party swept to power with the slogan “It’s time for a change”. Yesterday…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Not So Bright-Line Test
As of Yesterday, July 1st , the bright-line test reduces to two years, from the current 10 years, or five…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Keith Locke: Hard on issues; soft on people
One of the outstanding union leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries made many wise observations. The one…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Bullshit and Hunger
The government’s proposed law change to keep agriculture out of the Emissions Trading Scheme has passed its first reading. So…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Data cleansing of unmet patient need hides a national health scandal
In the mid to late 2000s, while Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, I used the term…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Speed Kills-it’s that simple.
Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Regulation Minister David Seymourwant to raise some speed limits. For example, they want to reverse…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Hegemony, meaning and structured literacy
One of the big political influences on me has been Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). He was a courageous revolutionary…