Waatea News Column: Is our public health sector too sick to save us?
The latest review into public health has been released and it has managed to utterly ignore Māori grievances and criticism from the disability sector.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – You can’t have a lifestyle if you don’t have a life.
We are going to have to face up to the fact that we are going to have much stricter entry rules into our country for a long time ( because this thing is not going to go away in a hurry) and these necessary security measures are also going to impact on our economy.
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Auckland Council Austerity Budget Part of the Problem not the Solution
Just when the Council’s annual plan indicated a small step towards overdue environmental, infrastructure and social equality, it has reviewed its budget in light of expected income slumps, and suggests cutting all things good in favour of austerity, prioritising contracts where commitments have already been made with socially distorting effects.
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Dr Liz Gordon – No open borders for at least a year
What we have learned this week, with absolute clarity, is that our borders will have to remain closed for a long time to come.
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New Horizon Poll another body blow to Todd Muller
The new Horizon Poll that was taken during some of the quarantine breaches and it has shown no bounce at all for Muller…
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The bottleneck for almost everything – only 250 people a day can enter NZ
In an interview with the Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway on Radio NZ last week it became clear that the entire country is now hostage to a bottleneck in the managed isolation/quarantine system that means only 250 people a day can be allowed into New Zealand.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Some people need to get a grip.
The calls for resignations by Todd Muller over Covid 19 incidents last week is desperation politics by National.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Black Lives Matter, Capitalism and White Supremacy
Racism as it erupted into global consciousness in recent days to confront a growing mass movement, is the surface manifestation of a much deeper problem – capitalism.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Commissioner Coster
Everything the new commissioner of police has done – since his appointment, has been in my view, exemplary. This response…
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The Ghoulishness of National
Between now and the election, National will be a Party of Ghouls, always wanting the country to fail and become plague ridden so that they can blame Jacinda and win power, even if all that meant was that they ruled an economic plague wasteland swollen with grief and ruin.