IRD, Treasury and MSD – Does the tail wag the dog?
The long overdue review of Working for Families has been signalled as part of the Government welfare overhaul work programme.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Rheumatic fever highlights challenge of social determinants of health
Arguably the biggest challenge facing New Zealand’s 20 district health boards (DHB)s is that the biggest driver of health demand and therefore financial costs is external to the health system. This places DHBs in the unenviable position of being unable to do much more than being an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
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Penal Reform League double down on criticising Green Party Sexual Violence Bill – compares it to Salem Witch Trials
In a blistering critiqué of the Green Party’s Sexual Violence Bill which will strip away any defence from the accused…
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National Party Election Autopsy so bad, it has had to be censored
This campaign was triggered by coward MPs who turned on their leader in a frenzied selfishness to protect their own jobs. Stripped of their fake ideology the electorate has seen the National Party for what they really are, self serving arseholes whose sense of teamwork is as temporary as Trump’s sense of decency.
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Conscientious abortion GPs are the worst!
A Conscientious abortion GP is like a dentist who won’t pull teeth because they believe the Tooth Fairy hates fillings!
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Why in the name of the little baby Jesus are we trusting Rio Tinto?
Toxic waste from Tiwai Point smelter: Government halted talks over lack of plan It has been negotiating since September over…
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What Sort Of Technology Requires Clear Images Of People’s Faces – And Are The Police Still Operating It?
IT SEEMS PERFECTLY OBVIOUS to me why the Police are stopping and photographing young Maori and Pasifika New Zealanders.
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With all due respect to Minister Little – really?
No one is asking for the mass surveillance empowered Intelligence Apparatus to go all Orwell on us, we are simply asking they use the considerable tools already at their disposal and protect us who pay them from extremist violence!
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For the love of God – it’s not the racial profiling that is the bloody problem!!!!
Kids need extra rights, not less!
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Did Labour screw over the stoners as badly as they screwed over the renters & beneficiaries?
Of course Jacinda not revealing her vote hurt the referendum!