GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Tax the Ghost home!
This ‘ghost home’ problem is not of course unique to NZ so we could certainly look overseas for some inspiration.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Rents are going up, what should Jacinda do?
In trying to slow down a runaway housing market the government has unquestionably created a situation where rents will go up as landlords try to offset the costs of last week’s housing related decisions.
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GUEST BLOG: Grant Brookes – A year ago next month
A year ago next month, I reluctantly stepped away from the role of NZNO president. After persevering for years, I…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Health Minister Little gives thoughtful keynote speech…but!
Last Thursday (25 March) I was interviewed live on Radio New Zealand’s The Panel about a keynote address the previous day by Minister of Health Andrew Little on the implementation of the review of the health and disability system led by Heather Simpson.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – WHO TO BELIEVE?
On 19 January 2021, as the Trump administration was coming to an end , the US State Department accused the…
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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 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).