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Author: Bryce Edwards
HEALTH
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Role of tobacco interests in making government policy
Stuff: Watch: Professor ‘flabbergasted’ over Govt cutting excise tax on Heated Tobacco Products
Nick Rockel: Tobacco First
Dominic O’Sullivan (The Conversation): Ethnicity, equality and Pharmac: how the Treaty really guides NZ’s drug-buying policies
RNZ: Director's resignation loss to Pharmac, Māori health advocate says
RNZ: Pharmac director quits over government's Treaty directive
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Pharmac director quits over Government's Treaty rejection
Gwen Mcclure (RNZ): The Detail: The doctor won't see you now
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Half of the country’s general practices not taking new patients
RNZ: Doctors warn fees will need to rise due to funding 'shortfall'
Ian Powell: Health system IT: 0 steps forward; two steps back
Luka Forman (RNZ): Talks underway for specialist GPs to diagnose and treat ADHD
Belinda Loring and Elana Curtis (E-Tangata): How racism plays out in public health
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): It’s not cheating ‒ Ozempic can make Māori healthier
Ehann Manera (Herald): Wellington company director Finlay Thompson loses 30kg taking Ozempic, wants medication funded
Niki Bezzant (Listener): Could new weight-loss drugs make dieting redundant? (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Kits to guard firefighters against cancer need more work - union
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Police mental health callouts: Hospital staff say they are already getting hurt as cops pull back
Wayne Howett (Herald): Do we really want to be a country forced to choose between sick kids?
T Black (Spinoff): We don’t have enough organ donors in New Zealand. Why?
1News: Changes to NZ's medicinal cannabis export rules approved by Cabinet
Katie Ham (Stuff): Family $45k out of pocket after 4-year-old boy denied free healthcare amid visa issues
Anjali Bhatia and Nadia Charania (The Conversation):Navigating NZ’s health system can be so hard some migrant mothers travel home for medical help
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Aged care facility proposes cutting 400 hrs/wk from roster
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Aged care funding in the spotlight
Tony Wall, Nick Truebridge and Ryan Anderson (Stuff): Four NZ suicides linked to poison selling Canadian chef
Cherie Howie and George Block (Herald): Four New Zealand self-inflicted deaths linked to Canadian murder-accused Kenneth Law, Coroner rules
ABUSE IN CARE
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): The Crown is in the dock, the verdict is in
MIchael Morrah (Herald): Redress about more than just 'shut-up money': Gang boss on abuse in state care (paywalled)
Tim Brown (RNZ):Abuse in Care: Survivors self-fund travel to Parliament for report release
1News: Abuse in care: Govt promises survivors will be heard
Tim Brown (RNZ): 'It was an abomination, don't let it be repeated,' victim says ahead of report from abuse in care inquiry
Sapeer Mayron (Post): Shut it down: Abuse survivor calls for the end of Oranga Tamariki (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Government creaks open Treaty debate vault
Carwyn Jones (E-Tangata): The Treaty bill is an act of extreme bad faith
Atereano Mateariki (Waatea News): Māori governance expert says new ministers are overstepping their briefs
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Attorney-General warns Govt against rushed lawmaking
Mountain Tui: Pharmac Director, Climate Change Commissioner, Health NZ Directors - The latest to quit this month
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Ghost trip: Crown limo drives hundreds of kilometres with no passengers
Ella Somers (Interest): NZ faces highest gender gap in central government trust amongst OECD nations
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. Sheriff Seymour
1News: PSA considering more legal action over Govt job cuts after win
Anna Whyte (Post): ‘Another huge process’ ahead for Education Ministry public servants (paywalled)
Good Ideas: Could randomised control trials save government? (paywalled)
K Gurunathan (Post): The Government needs more consensus, not dismissiveness (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Inside the Beehive: 10 minutes with Casey Costello (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT, WEEK IN POLITICS, FOURTH LABOUR GOVT
1News: Fresh questions raised on Tāmaki Makarau MP's electoral return
Azaria Howell (Herald): Ex-Manurewa Marae CEO and Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp to take leave after kidney disease diagnosis
RNZ: Te Pāti Māori MP diagnosed with kidney disease, to take leave
1News: Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp diagnosed with kidney disease
Anna Whyte (Post): Welcome back, Prime Minister, it’s going to be a busy week (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Coalition parties get lift in latest poll (paywalled)
Peter Wilson (RNZ): The Week in Politics: Former Green MP will be a media target
Audrey Young (Herald): Donald Trump assassination attempt kicks off a week that shook the world (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Good morning and welcome, Dunedin is ready for visitors
ODT: Civis: Taking on water and making all votes count
Audrey Young (Herald): David Lange in his own words: on leadership, fatherhood, the Rainbow Warrior, India, the Treaty of Waitangi, Helen Clark and making up with Roger Douglas (paywalled)
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