Nicholas Steyn Shaun Hendy University of Auckland Michael Plank University of Canterbury Nicholas Steyn is a Research assistant at the University of Auckland Shaun Hendy is Director of Te Punaha Matatini, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted by the University of Auckland. Michael Plank is a Professor in
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson Yesterday I successfully triggered an urgent debate in Parliament about the cyber security breaches at Waikato Hospital. It follows documents from Waikato District Health Board being released onto the dark web after the ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals’ IT systems in May. What’
Andrew Little needs to stop making excuses and take ownership on mental health, says National’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention spokesperson, Matt Doocey. “All we’ve heard from the Minister is how everyone else is to blame for his government’s utter failure to deliver on its promises on
Dr Pierre Kory is an ICU and lung specialist who is an expert on the use of the drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist, visiting fellow at Princeton, host of the DarkHorse podcast and co-author ( with his wife Heather Heying) of the forthcoming “A Hunter-Gatherer’
NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking out with Science NZDSOS is a group of doctors, dentists and scientists who are concerned about the safety of the roll-out of the Pfizer vaccine in New Zealand and the lack of balance in the information being presented. They have written polite, insistent, and repeated
David Seymour ACT leader It’s mandatory for businesses to display QR codes, but not for people to scan them. Only the Ardern Government could continue this madness. ACT has supported compulsory scanning since January, but the Government is so complacent on COVID it’s sometimes hard to tell if
Dear Editor I would like to thank you as one, or maybe the only, voice calling this wayward government to account. I am of the opinion that we are being lied to, or at the very least, our government are slaves to groupthink regarding the pandemic and the way forward.
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In Parliament yesterday Health Minister Andrew Little had few answers to my questions on the mental health crisis Labour has allowed to balloon in their nearly four years in Government, National’s Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey says. “New Zealanders want answers as to how need for services is growing,
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rt.com The forever wars that the US launched after 9/11 led to a surge in military suicides, a new study claims, with traumatized soldiers taking their own lives as they are repeatedly deployed in conflicts that have no public support. A new report by Brown University’s Costs
In a classic case of quantity over quality, the Government has managed to add just five new youth mental health beds after allocation of nearly two billion dollars: In Budget 2019 the Government announced $1.9 billion for mental health – $235 million of that was allocated to building mental health
New Zealand is in the midst of a mental health crisis and this Government has proven itself incapable of delivering on any of their promises to address it, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “The Prime Minister has had nearly four years to make progress on her pledges of
Marc Grey In three previous articles various aspects of the novel covid vaccines were examined, While it was possible to discuss the design/formulation of them, we could essentially only speculate about what might happen with respect to adverse reactions and other risks. Now we are rolling out the vaccine
