GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When health bosses operate in an isolated bubble
When delivered by district health boards (2001-22) Aotearoa New Zealand’s universal health system was one of the centralised in developed…
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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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Bryan Bruce – Democracy For Sale Part 2 – Where did the money go?
Yesterday I listed the donations made to political parties who succeeded in getting candidates elected to parliament in 2023 and…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Democracy For Sale Part 1 Should We Cap Donations
While it is often difficult to convince the few who have great wealth to share some it with the many…
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Bryan Bruce: David Seymour, please watch this clip about effective school lunch programmes
Dear Mr Seymour, Having a centralised lunch programme for schools might seem like an attractive cost saving option to you,…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – How I Became A Radical By Standing Still.
Anyone under the age of 45 will not remember the New Zealand in which I grew up and was educated….
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Land of the Long Dark Cloud
I know there is a risk with writing about the gloomy mood pervading our country, that some of you may…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Policy vacuum enables for-profit corporate general practice ownership by stealth
Since the 1938 Social Security Act which, among other things, established Aotearoa New Zealand’s universal health system, general practices were…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What about our children?
That parliamentarians can accept a substantial pay rise while increasing numbers of Kiwi families are struggling to make ends meet tells…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Cuba and New Zealand: a relationship worthy of strengthening
Cuba and Aotearoa New Zealand have some similarities as small island nations (in different hemispheres) and with small populations (over…
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Dr Gavin Ellis – Koi Tū Discussion Paper: If not journalists, then who?
New Zealand cannot sit back and see the collapse of our Fourth Estate, the director of Koi Tū: The Centre…