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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.
A year ago next month, I reluctantly stepped away from the role of NZNO president. After persevering for years, I…
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.
On 19 January 2021, as the Trump administration was coming to an end , the US State Department accused the…
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.
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.
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.
In short the government has to regain control of the mortgage market it abdicated to the privately owned banks in the early 1980’s
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).
Climate scientist Michael Mann’s recent book ‘The new Climate Wars’ argues that the battle to convince people that climate change…
