GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Time for Health Minister to step up on workforce crisis
Late last year I urged Dr Shane Reti, then the expected incoming health minister, to get ready to run on…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What are this Government’s budget priorities?
I will reserve my comments on Nicola Willis’ Budget until it is released, however last weeks statement from her makes…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Function versus form: public service cuts
The National-led coalition government is undertaking a brutal assault on the public service by implementing blunt arbitrary cuts on public…
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Bryan Bruce: Weekend Satire
The National Act NZ First Coalition have taken urgency to avoid public submissions on so much legislation it is undermining…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Weekend Satire
(In the style of a skit about Malcolm Turnbull by the late John Clarke and Bryan Dawe remembered with a…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Why is Finland the happiest country on earth 7 years in a row?
Why is Finland the happiest country on earth 7 years in a row? The population of Finland is close to…
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – A ceasefire in Gaza
Ceasefire in Gaza The UN has finally ordered Israel to ceasefire in Gaza. The US abstained from voting on the…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Capitation should not be decapitated
In 2002 the then Labour-Alliance government implemented what was known as the Primary Health Care Strategy. A key feature was…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – From overcoming ‘bonkers’ to a political pickle
Labour’s landslide victory in the 2020 general election meant that it became the first majority government in Aotearoa New Zealand…
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GUEST BLOG: Jamie Dally – Migrant Exploitation
The latest allegations of potential migrant exploitation had me reflecting on the current Darleen Tana situation for starters those hybrid…