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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,…

Blogger Martyn (Bomber) Bradbury has brilliantly coined the term ‘neo-kindness’ to describe the government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Ardern…

Hemp Cannabinoids like CBD and CBC are, according to GP Dr Ben Jansen “inherently safe products”.

Long time ago now, but the recent play ‘The Haka Party Incident’ gave us the chance to catch up again.