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Fairness for Vaccine Rollout Needed

Fairness for Vaccine Rollout Needed

David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is calling on the Government to have a fair approach to vaccinations after it was revealed “priority access codes for Maori” are being handed out that do not require a booking. The virus doesn’t discriminate on race, so neither should the rollout.

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Middlemore Mistake Creates Massive Risk

David Seymour ACT Leader The 91-year-old left for hours in a room with a COVID-19 positive patient has today reached out to me, furious at the risks he was exposed to. The elderly man with underlying health conditions, and two other patients were in a ward when a fourth patient

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Grazing, Gorging or Skipping: Which Is Better for Weight Loss?

Adam Collins University of Surrey Adam Collins has been a qualified nutritionist for over 20 years, completing his undergraduate degree in 1996 before going on to complete an MSc in Nutrition & Metabolism and a PhD focusing on energy expenditure and body composition. When it comes to diet and health,

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Marie Stopes Australia Closes 4 Abortion Clinics

Marie Stopes Australia Closes 4 Abortion Clinics

righttolife.org.uk Marie Stopes Australia has closed four of its Queensland clinics. The clinics, located in Townsville, Rockhampton, Southport, and Newcastle employed over 40 staff and performed around 5,000 abortions annually. Managing director Jamal Hakim described the closures as “a really difficult decision“. He explained: “Costs, when it

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Bill Risks Criminalising Safer Models of Care

Laura Lopez Laura Lopez holds a graduate degree in psychology and is the mother of two young children. Anyone who wants to understand the harm that our government’s Conversion Practices Bill could cause, needs to know the story of Keira Bell. The Bill has been marketed as a straightforward

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How Snake Oil Got a Bad Name

How Snake Oil Got a Bad Name

Caitjan Gainty King’s College London Caitjan Gainty is a historian of twentieth century medicine and technology. She initially trained in public health and worked for several years in health care research before returning to academia to pursue a PhD in the history of medicine, which she received in 2012.

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The Battle over Plunket Heats Up

The Battle over Plunket Heats Up

Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Mothers are aggrieved by what some say is a racist policy instituted by New Zealand’s most cherished parenting organisation. Graham Adams argues it is just one example of growing dissatisfaction over preference granted on grounds of ethnicity. Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer

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Labour’s Failure to Plan Means COVID Cases Isolating at Home

Labour’s Failure to Plan Means COVID Cases Isolating at Home

A lack of planning by the Government for a Delta outbreak has meant as of 1 pm yesterday 78 Covid-19 positive people were isolating at home, having not yet been moved into quarantine, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed in Parliament yesterday

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Health System Unprepared for a Delta Outbreak

Health System Unprepared for a Delta Outbreak

The Government must explain why the health system was so unprepared for a Delta outbreak and why no new ICU bed spaces were provisioned over the five months since Delta first appeared in our MIQ facilities, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “What’s worse is that the

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Critical Healthcare Workers Must Be Granted Residency as a Priority

The Immigration Minister must urgently reopen the frozen Skilled Migrant Category visa EOI pool and prioritise processing of residence applications for critical healthcare workers to keep them in New Zealand as we battle the Covid-19 outbreak, says National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford. “National is also calling on the Government

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MIQ Escapee Proves Podium of Truth Just a PR Exercise

MIQ Escapee Proves Podium of Truth Just a PR Exercise

David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern’s decision to keep under wraps that a man had escaped from MIQ and posed a risk to the community shows how far her Government is prepared to go to avoid scrutiny. Ardern stood at the podium at 1 pm yesterday and neglected to

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz It is wonderful to have support from across New Zealand for my petition to get the Epidemic Response Committee reinstated. It is also great to have heard from the people who have phoned and emailed in support of the House sitting from 31

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135,570 Jobs

135,570 Jobs

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under

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Thoughts on the Christchurch Countdown Arrest Fiasco

Thoughts on the Christchurch Countdown Arrest Fiasco

We have seen a bit written about the arrest outside a Christchurch Countdown supermarket over the last week or so. Just for the record, I had no input to the first article by Cam, only a tiny input to the second article and basically nothing in the follow-up article yesterday.

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