GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – How a leadership culture conflict escalated in New Zealand’s public health system
Earlier this month the Democracy Project hosted by Victoria University published my first article of a two-part series on a…
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – REAP WHAT YOU SOW: Jacinda treads a sensible Foreign Policy pathway.
They who fight China on behalf of USA which sells these “Poodles” weapons but doesn’t buy their exports lost due to conflict with China, will reap what they sow.
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GUEST BLOG: Patrick John O’Dea – Greta calls bullshit on climate targets
If New Zealand is to be a leader on climate change, 2050, which is the target date for the whole world to be climate neutral, cannot be New Zealand’s target date to be carbon neutral.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Bureaucratic centralism rules supreme in New Zealand health system restructuring
This morning Minister of Health Andrew Little announced the Labour Government’s response to the Heather Simpson review of New Zealand’s…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Time to end health system’s headless chook leadership
The Labour Government’s heart is in the right place and has some good brain power within its parliamentary team. But, to date, it has been influenced too much by pre-determined positions, not enough health system expertise, obsession with restructuring, and reliance on business consultants.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Ghosts
Last week I was filming outside the High Court in Auckland when a man approached me and asked if I…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – District Health Board considers directly employing general practitioners
Like almost every economically developed country outside the ‘Disunited States’, New Zealand has a universal health system that endeavours to…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Ministry of Health: feudal fiefdoms and a culture of obliviousness
Several Director-Generals of Health ago I recall a senior official bemoaning that the Ministry was made up of feudal fiefdoms…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
I found myself looking up this famous quote, attributed the Danish existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, the other day because I…
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GUEST BLOG: Nadine McDonnell – The new gold rush…. housing in the 21st Century?
A hundred or so years ago the discovery of gold somewhere in the ‘new’ world triggered a new disease of…