GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – If patient co-payments were removed from general practices
It is only a matter of time before a government, whether Labour or National-led, accepts that patient co-payments for general…
New Zealand Politics
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49 cases – another decline – Jacinda has broken the back of the Delta attack
Where are all the critics who claimed Elimination wasn’t possible?
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Judith’s Parliament stunt & inane attack on 1pm briefings are her last puff
National have bewilderingly concluded that rather than accept Jacinda’s use of the 1pm briefings, they will actually try and compete by immediately broadcasting a statement from Judith afterwards!
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What To Make Of National Making A Fool Of Itself Over Demands For “Tactile” Democracy – And Its Subsequent, Spurious Suspension Suggestion
National is now complaining that Labour compromised and allowed National to have what National claimed it wanted.
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MUST READ: Ice-Cream Dreams
May God forgive us.
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Covid diary
You won`t quite believe this. A woman I know in a small Coromandel town was rung by a community person -`how are you doing in lockdown,are you ok?` The caller then proceeded to quote from the book of Revelation.
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Waatea News Column: Why 70 percent vaccination rates to end lockdowns carry a terrible hidden cost
As the economic pain and frustration of lockdown bites this time around, people are desperate to see what moving back…
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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes For Commentariat Under Covid
Something I recall from last year’s Lockdown experience was the press conferences. Not, you understand, because they were pretty decent exemplars in political communication (although they were also that).
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GUEST BLOG: John Tamihere – Working on the Vaccination and Covid testing lines
I write this column as a tribute to the thousands of essential workers that break their bubble to stand up front line services including Covid Testing and Covid Vaccination centres across Aotearoa.
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Can Jacinda survive the Covid fear monster or is she destined to lose 2023?
People were queuing at 1.30am in Auckland for Covid tests.