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As top public sector union leaders went in to bat for their members and for public services over the last…

Our nights were punctuated by screams and Eddy wore the haunted look of a child who knows no rest.  A child too scared to sleep for fear of the imminent suffocation and pain that awaits.  He had bruises from head to toe where limbs and face had met hard things in the night and poor balance in the day.  A child who would tell me he was scared of dying on his 7th birthday.

Minister of Health Andrew Little claimed that his recently announced health restructuring was bold. But it was only bold in…

With the Westpac apparently thinking of demerging its New Zealand operation isn’t it time to ask:

I’ve been very disappointed in many aspects of the current government’s previous budgets because they have shown a reluctance to pull all the available levers open to them to close the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor in our country. (By and large, for example,they rejected the recommendations of their own Tax Working Group).

General practice ownership in New Zealand has been incrementally challenged for some years. It is a chal lenge can’t be…

My heart is pounding out of my chest as we 3 blink down fat tears into Eddy’s 5th seizure tonight.  He mewls weakly, floppy-limbed, white-lipped and slumps into my arms.  I can still hear the echoes of the deep aching sobs he cried before bed, terrified of the seizures he knew he would have tonight. 

What has a pay freeze got to do with a universal public health system? Actually quite a lot. Health systems,…