GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Health polyclinics for New Zealand?
General Practice New Zealand (GPNZ) is an interesting organisation formed over a decade ago. General practitioner representation is fragmented in…
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GUEST BLOG: Murray Horton – Anti-Bases Campaign Still Calls For Closure Of Waihopai Spy Base
Waihopai spy domes to be dismantled due to irrelevance The Waihopai spy domes will be decommissioned and dismantled as they…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – A very scary graph: Comparing Delta variant in New Zealand and New South Wales
According to Wikipedia data science is an inter-disciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge…
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – A message from a Pakeha New Zealander to the Tai Tokerau Border Control
A message from a Pakeha New Zealander to the Tai Tokerau Border Control
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GUEST BLOG: Greg Barns SC and Craig Tuck: Asylum for Assange – How the NZ government can lead the way home for the world’s highest profile political prisoner
Julian Assange is facing politically motivated criminal charges, laid by the Trump Administration. These charges reflect an abuse of process, designed to silence Assange, and to gag media freedom. Assange’s case has profound implications for the right of the public to know the truth about government wrongdoing – particularly abroad. In late October a court in London heard argument in an appeal by the US against a decision in January this year by Judge Vanessa Baraitser not extradite Assange.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Was Delta spread inevitable in New Zealand?
It has become somewhat of a casual mantra that the arrival and subsequent spread of the most recent, contagious and deadly of the Covid-19 variants, known as Delta, in New Zealand was inevitable.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Euthanasia and palliative care funding: “horribly distorted”
Dr Ben Gray is a very interesting doctor and one of the few that can lay claim to being a…
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – The Big Lie
“There is no such thing as bad soldiers, only bad generals” Napoleon I imagine that there were just as many…
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – Hikoi go home
Statement from Hone Harawira in relation to the proposed S.H.O.T. Hikoi due to march to Waitangi. This Hikoi is a…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Is Delta Plus coming (the Boris variant)?
On 20 October the BBC published the kind of news that no-one would have wanted to know about: The heading…