Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FAST TRACK, INFRASTRUCTURE Anneke Smith (RNZ): Critics express alarm at list of fast-track projects Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The details for each of the 149 projects on the ‘fast track’ list Richard Harman (Politik): Bishop answers the call (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Post): Why fast
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HEALTH Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Govt out of pan and into fire on health funding Phil Pennington (RNZ): Analysis: Dunedin Hospital rebuild held up by authorities as example of 'lessons learned' programme Haimona Gray: Dunedin Hospital - A Mislabelled Failure Jules Radich (Post): Dunedin
The concentration of property ownership among MPs and the potential influence this might have on policy decisions, especially in a housing crisis, raises valid concerns about conflicts of interest and erodes public trust.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HEALTH Jo Moir (RNZ): Casey Costello will release 'independent advice' about benefits of heated tobacco products ODT Editorial: Getting on the case of Costello (paywalled) Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘Resign’: Growing calls for Casey Costello to lose portfolios over heated tobacco products Adam
This idea that politicians should monetise their time in office is new. In the past, former prime ministers and senior politicians were expected to carry out public service after they finished their time in the Beehive.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards DUNEDIN HOSPITAL CUTS, PRIVATISATION 1News: Health NZ urges Govt to consider privately-run public hospitals Gordon Campbell: On the Dunedin hospital fiasco Ian Taylor (ODT): Dunedin Hospital: An open letter to Christopher Luxon Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Claim of efforts to cut costs — service chops
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards DUNEDIN HOSPITAL CUTS Chris Trotter (Interest): No government can survive the level of anger driving one quarter of a major city’s citizens onto the streets Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Dunedin Hospital's low place in infrastructure must-haves list Richard Harman
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards DUNEDIN HOSPITAL CUTS Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): The things that are unaffordable and the things that aren’t ODT Editorial: Build it once, build it right (paywalled) Mike Houlahan (ODT): Going off diary to deliver a kick in the guts for South (paywalled) Matthew Littlewood
Finally, in 2016, I took early retirement to get out of the system. In all my training, I had been told ‘midwifery is an autonomous profession’, but it seemed to have become completely controlled.
Perhaps if the Greens want to endorse a different kākāriki mayoral candidate next year, they should go for someone who isn’t from the lobbying beltway and instead choose someone with a better sense of what ordinary people want from local government.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HEALTH Otago Daily Times Editorial: Give us the hospital that was promised RNZ: Nurses union warns people will die in downgrade of new Dunedin Hospital Tim Scott (ODT): Mayor calls on people to voice their outrage Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Retrofitting idea ‘unworkable’ Matthew Littlewood
It’s clear that McKee will carry on in her radical direction and will continue to work hand in glove with the gun lobby.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards TAX Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): Here’s what’s at stake in the Labour tax debate Toby Manhire (Spinoff): A roll call of all the people championing a capital gains tax Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Inland Revenue raises capital gains tax questions Newstalk ZB: 'It
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES, ENVIRONMENT Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Gas industry boasts about killing proposed ban with lobbying Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Greens vow to revoke new oil and gas permits, but Labour doesn’t appear on board Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Oil and gas exploration
