GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Boris the Barbaric threatens more than UK
Last Tuesday my oldest daughter Lana returned from London where she teaches for six weeks during the northern summer. That…
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GUEST BLOG: Samira Taghavi – Surviving False Sexual Allegations: A Wife’s Story Part One
I asked Jade to write about the couple’s experience. Here is part one of her two-part story ….
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Gaius Petronius Arbiter on abolition of New Zealand’s district health boards
In the 1991 Budget, the National government of Prime Minister Jim Bolger confirmed its intention to restruc ture New Zealand’s…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Taiwan a Covid-19 wake-up call for New Zealand
When the coronavirus pandemic hit Planet Earth in early 2020 it was confronted with two main opposing strategic responses to…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Has the government mishandled New Zealand’s vaccine rollout?
If one were to accept the statements of National Party leader Judith Collins and her Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop, along…
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Shame and Disgrace
In a demonstration of solidarity with Israel, shortly after the declaration of the latest Gaza so-called ceasefire, UK Government Foreign…
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GUEST BLOG: Katy Thomas – The medicinal cannabis trauma isn’t over, we’ve just stopped haemorrhaging for now
Zero fucks given for patient safety.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Funding general practice in New Zealand
Universal public healthcare in New Zealand was enabled by new ground-breaking social security legislation in 1938 under the first Labour…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Let’s manufacture our own pharmaceuticals
An inadvertent consequence of recent a decision forced upon state drug purchasing agency Pharmac highlights the importance of New Zealand…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Should hate speech become a crime?
Let’s be clear about the purpose of the proposed law change. It’s not about restricting freedom of speech. Why? Because…