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…
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GUEST BLOG: Patrick John O’Dea – Meet the bullet trains of the sea
On the news that the Government has extended $600 million extra in credit to keep Air New Zealand in the air.
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GUEST BLOG: Grant Brookes – Trade unionists & environmentalism – Notes from a talk to the Green Party Rongotai Branch
Tēnā koe te Kaiwhakahaere ko Tom. E te whānau kākāriki, tēnā tātou. Ko Grant Brookes tōku ingoa. He mema o…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Criticisms of Pharmac review lose sight of an opportunity
The Government’s announcement of an independent review of Pharmac, implementing an election promise, has attracted criticism from many for not…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Jesus The Cold Case
Eight years ago I made a documentary which allowed me to go in search of an answer a question I…
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – BALFOUR’S SHADOW
It is not surprising that there is support in South Africa for the Palestinian people, because of the harshness South…