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Author: Bryce Edwards
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PARLIAMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour closing in on National in latest Ipsos issues poll, with 65% support for capital gains tax
Chris Trotter (Interest): Christopher Luxon should be grateful that Chris Hipkins is as out of sympathy with the temper of the times as he is
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): An end to fiscal holes – National, Labour and Greens push ahead with costings offices (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour’s political attacks - Andrew Bayly, Dunedin Hospital put the spring back into Labour leader Chris Hipkins’ step (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Three strikes, one strike, Wellington knows best, bold ideas
Don Brash: Prebble puts the cat among the pigeons!!
Ffion Heale (Post): Could Wellington lose an electorate? (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE, GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Government spends $3.5 million to fight historical abuse claims
Audrey Young (Herald): Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche on his plans for the job (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. political appointments
RNZ: 'Unbelievable' - Labour's Willie Jackson furious over Prebble's Waitangi Tribunal role
Greg Presland (The Standard): Act’s revenge on the Waitangi Tribunal
Tim Selwyn (Daily Blog): How mad is that doggy in the Waitangi Tribunal? Selling Prebble.
David Farrar: It is a great thing the Human Rights Commissioners were not the ones officials wanted
Vernon Small (Post): Nat MP’s ‘loser’ controversy a kerfuffle, not a scandal (paywalled)
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Andrew Bayly
Herald: Hutt South MP and Government Minister Chris Bishop announces birth of second child
HEALTH MINISTRY CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Health Ministry not winning any friends over conflict of interest handling
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Ministry of Health has questions to answer over Costello conflict
ODT Editorial: Messy smoking saga drags on (Paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): 'Incredibly disappointing': PM turns up heat on Ministry of Health failing to disclose conflict of interest
Michael Daly Chris Hipkins says he chose ‘wrong form of words’ to describe Ayesha Verrall’s relative
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon calls out ministry for failing to tell Casey Costello worker was Ayesha Verrall’s relative
HEALTH
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Budget documents: Is Health NZ underfunded? Treasury doesn’t think so (paywalled)
Rachel Thomas (Post): Health NZ spent $188k each day plugging doctor gaps last year (paywalled)
Ian Breeze (ODT): The rewards to NZ of delivering timely healthcare
Mike Hunter (ODT): Taking a pulse of the hospital ED
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Hospital's tertiary status at stake: MP (paywalled)
RNZ: Northland ED doctor Gary Payinda speaks out on dire state of Whangārei Hospital
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate): Dargaville Hospital safe without on-site doctors, Health NZ tells Northlanders
RNZ: Southland Hospital wait times 'heartwrenching' says cancer advocate
RNZ: Cancer Control Agency accused of 'flawed' analysis on blood cancer drugs
Peter Reynolds (Post): Disability community’s nervous wait for the next hammer blow (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Pharmac Minister David Seymour stops short of supporting law change amid drug-buying reform
RNZ: West Coast telehealth service receives hundreds of calls in first month
Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): Mike King calls for unity ahead of Gumboot Friday: 'Can't we just come together for our kids?'
Herald: Mike King’s stolen electric bike found by Tauranga local, Good Samaritan refuses reward
Herald Editorial: Helping the ‘missing middle’ in mental health in New Zealand (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Multicultural, multilingual hospitals (paywalled)
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Want only white nurses? You might be waiting a while
Siena Yates (E-Tangata): ‘If we give up now, nothing is going to change’'
Derek Cheng (Herald): Why nitrous oxide is causing the Government concern, despite being less harmful than kava or vaping (paywalled)
Hannah Martin (Stuff): The dentist opening his doors for a whole island
RNZ: ACT MP sets sight on scrapping West Auckland alcohol licensing trust monopolies
RNZ: Epidemiologist warns of 'very harmful' summer Covid-19 wave
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Calls for sunscreen to be GST exempt as cost of slip, slop, slapping increases
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