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Mongrel Mob Meth Programme Gets Dodgier by the Day
The Prime Minister has more questions to answer on the Mongrel Mob meth programme as it’s revealed the time the project would run each year decreased as the overall funding increased, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. In the 71 days between the initial funding application and
How They Blew the Cannabis Referendum
Information Opinion Let’s start with Andrew Little. The referendum should have been a simple question, something like “Do you agree that cannabis should be kept as an illegal substance.” or “Do you agree that cannabis should become a regulated substance.” Instead what we got was retarded legislation. Why do
A Silent and Peaceful Protest
Dark Jester A peaceful protest took place outside Taita College on the 22nd-23rd of September. The protest was organised by the Wellington chapter of Voices for Freedom. The protest was in response to the Taita College Vaccine Programme. The protest was silent and peaceful with people offering information about the
Faceless Bureaucrats Come Between You and Your Doctor
Like most of us on the wrong side of a half-century, I’ve got “me pills” to take. Not many and nothing particularly serious, but they make life a lot easier (although apparently no-one has yet developed a pill for making a symphony of groaning noises when getting off the
Transgender Medicine Has Failed Us, Say Detransitioners
Rachael Wong mercatornet.com Rachael Wong is the CEO of Women’s Forum Australia and an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has a particular interest in the crossover between law, ethics, health care, human rights and women’s issues. If
Discrimination of the Day
Guy Blue If you really want to deal with institutional racism in New Zealand, this is the low hanging fruit. It is undeniable that this is pure racism in every sense of the word possible. pharmac.govt.nz/news-and-resources/consultations-and-decisions/decision-to-fund-two-new-medicines-for-type-2-diabetes/ When you work your way through the flowchart (below)
The Role of Doctors
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman had the misfortune to be struck with multiple sclerosis in 2018. This is an affliction in which the body’s all-important immune system basically turns on itself and instead of its protective role, attacks the body in diverse ways. In
Separation of Medicine and State – A Common Sense Review of Ivermectin Safety Data
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news The Lying Harlot Media has peddled a lot of conspiracy theories about ivermectin since Covid-19 got on the first flight from Wuhan and became a global pandemic. I’ve avoided getting into the weeds on the science because I really don’t care about that debate.
Multiple ICU Failings from a Distracted Minister
Health Minister Andrew Little has serious questions to answer over New Zealand’s Intensive Care Unit capacity, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. Hospital ICU capacity was so under-prepared for this Delta outbreak that the Auckland DHB was forced to issue an urgent callout for 30 ICU nurses
ACT’s New Approach to Mental Health
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Andrew Little needs to take some responsibility after blaming the Ministry of Health who “has struggled to achieve as much as we would have liked them to” on mental health. “The Government has allocated billions of dollars towards the issue and
Govt Reviewing Itself on Mental Health Is a Sham
The Government claiming it’s on track to deliver its mental health promises is a kick in the guts to all those New Zealanders desperate for mental health support and can’t access it, National’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention spokesperson Matt Doocey says. “Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s
Nepotism in Appointments for New Health Boards
Andrew Little has announced his appointments for the new health boards, including the race-based Maori Health Authority that will have veto rights over every other New Zealander’s health outcomes: The Government has announced the interim boards of Health New Zealand and the Maori Health Authority. The Government announced it
Letter to the Editor: My Right to Exercise My Own Decisions about My Personal Health
Dear Editor I sent the following e-mail to the PM. You, Jacinda Ardern, Have Made NZ, My Country, an Unsafe Place for Me. I am a healthy, youthful in appearance, 66-year-old mother, grandmother and wife. I have a masters level degree. I worked for the last 26 years of my
Still No Plan to Address NZ’s Growing Mental Health Crisis
New Zealand is in the midst of a mental health crisis, what is needed now is action not more vision statements, working groups and nice words, National’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention spokesperson Matt Doocey says. “After four years in Government, Labour has today released another strategy, set up
