Brooke van Velden ACT Health Spokesperson Health Minister Andrew Little owes an apology to Patient Voice Aotearoa for accusing them of using “extremist rhetoric. Patient Voice Aotearoa is a group that is advocating for medicines for people who are sick or dying. For a Minister to accuse them of extremism
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson It is grotesque political theatre to make people wait for the budget to get their medicines funded each year. A more mature Government would have included funding in the PHARMAC review so that we have a policy to compare options of non-pharmaceutical interventions, such
There’s an old saying in journalism: if it bleeds, it leads. That is, the media are more likely to report the extraordinary. “Man bites dog” is a far more interesting story than vice-versa. The only problem with that is that it leads to a very skewed worldview for the
David Seymour ACT Leader and Epsom MP The Laura Fergusson Trust which provides critical services to young disabled people has broken its silence and agreed to meet with the Minister of Health. This is fantastic news which follows my questions to the Health Minister in Parliament yesterday and a rally
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seemingly daily we read of GP misdiagnosis costing lives. From long experience I would say this. First; understand that GP’s are, general practitioners with the emphasis on “general”. That is they can only really deal effectively with relatively minor obvious issues. If a GP
Health Minister Andrew Little needs to rule out cutting health services to pay for his radical restructuring plans for the health sector, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. National has a letter from Andrew Little to Finance Minister Grant Robertson, setting out his priorities for Budget 2021. “The
Trigger warnings. Suddenly, they’re everywhere. So-called “triggers” have proliferated faster than “gender dysphoria” in a clique of teenage girls with Instagram accounts. And they’re every bit as real: which is to say, they’re a phony fad, cooked up by leftists terrified of having to debate their blatantly
The Auditor-General’s audit of the government’s vaccine roll-out presents a very worrying picture of a lack of progress and significant concerns about whether it will achieve its goals at all, says National’s Covid-19 Response Spokesperson Chris Bishop. The Auditor-General states that he is “not yet confident that
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has made it clear it’s willing to get back to the table with the Laura Fergusson Trust, so we need answers about why the Trust is refusing. The Laura Fergusson Trust has been a safe haven for young people with physical and neurological
Tetraplegic Sophia Malthus was among disabled protesters clutching placards who rallied in Greenlane today calling on authorities to save the Laura Fergusson Trust. The Trust supports young disabled people with physical and neurological impairments. Its rehabilitation centre has been providing treatment from its home and respite care unit for almost
Margaret Somerville mercatornet.com Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine (Sydney campus). She is also Samuel Gale Professor of Law Emerita, Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law Emerita
Anonymous author mercatornet.com I am an American working professional and mother. We live on the West Coast. My son is on the autism spectrum and has become convinced that he is transgender. My belief is that much of this new identity is a rewriting of his history. Do you
Ardern’s view of Maori independence, or separate government, is not new at all. The ink was scarcely dry on the Treaty when Maori chiefs challenged British sovereignty. Little good it did them because they were captured in the first article of the treaty. “The chiefs of the Confederation and
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak George Orwell, “1984” I’ve long been a proponent of the efficacy and safety of vaccines. I have my “shots” regularly, including the annual flu vax. I’ve long disdained, and occasionally, futilely,
