GUEST BLOG: Chris Leitch – Govt should buy Westpac
The potential sale of Westpac’s New Zealand banking operations provides a unique opportunity to return a significant slice of the country’s banking business to Kiwi ownership.
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Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Imagination required for transformation of housing.
Yes we have to increase our housing supply but we don’t have to do it by spreading our cities outwards and building over our best arable land.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – If it looks like data cleansing, barks like data cleansing, smells like data cleansing then it’s data cleansing
Last week Radio New Zealand’s ‘Nine to Noon’ programme ran an excellent item based on two quality interviews highlighting the unsavoury outcomes of patient harm data cleansing for those people who require non-acute (elective) surgery but are either severely delayed or miss out.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – You can’t get the right answer if you keep asking the wrong question.
In short the government has to regain control of the mortgage market it abdicated to the privately owned banks in the early 1980’s
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Very good fluoridation political call, Dr Verrall
Infectious diseases specialist Dr Ayesha Verrall was a surprise cabinet appointment being a first-time MP. Despite the rarity she’s not mucking around. This is evidenced by her legislative proposal, as Associate Minister of Health, to shift decision-making over water fluoridation from local authorities to the Director-General of Health (in effect the Ministry of Health).
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GUEST BLOG: Douglas Renwick – Doomism and challenges for the environmental movement:
Climate scientist Michael Mann’s recent book ‘The new Climate Wars’ argues that the battle to convince people that climate change…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Pointer to Government rethinking on district health boards?
On 4 March I blogged on Otaihanga Second Opinion about recent indications that the Government was rethinking its position on one…
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – MARX VS KEYNES: WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH ‘PEAK’ IDEALISM?
The NZ Labour Party hanging onto the coat-tails of dying capitalism will end up in the same graveyard of “progressive…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Health system at risk by Government abdicating leadership of Simpson review implementation to business consultants
The Government is putting the health system at risk by abdicating the leadership duties and responsibilities of its Health Transition…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Rheumatic fever highlights challenge of social determinants of health
Arguably the biggest challenge facing New Zealand’s 20 district health boards (DHB)s is that the biggest driver of health demand and therefore financial costs is external to the health system. This places DHBs in the unenviable position of being unable to do much more than being an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.