A Mere Blip in History?
The Covid-19 spectacle. Going into 2025, we must not forget: we must think about it and demand answers and accountability.
Health
Pregnant Woman Billboard Deemed ‘Too Controversial’
How has Canada has gotten to a state where the beauty and excitement of pregnancy is deemed controversial?
The Evolution and Decline of ACC
Strong leadership, a return to visionary ideas and principles, and a commitment to effective prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation are essential to restoring ACC’s legacy and ensuring its future success.
Christmas and the Great Kiwi Summer Holiday
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. – Mahatma Gandhi
Funding for Euthanasia, but Not Palliative Care
The head of New Zealand’s pro-euthanasia advocacy group indicated that euthanasia is a useful cost-cutting measure for a stretched health system.
We Need to Act
NZDSOS has sent an urgent letter to the prime minister, NZ leaders and health officials.
Judith Collins’ Naivety
Lawyers and doctors going off the rails in one way or another is so commonplace I’m surprised the media bother reporting it.
More Money on Sex Changes Than Care for Dying Children
The government and Te Whatu Ora need to get their priorities right.
We Can’t Let Them Do This
Analysis of misinformation in the Gene Technology Bill and suggestions for submissions and discussions.
AHPRA and the Medical Board
Instead of protecting the public, AHPRA has become a tool for enforcing political compliance through regulatory terror. The human cost is devastating. This demands a complete overhaul of medical regulation in Australia.
The NZ Govt Wants to Enshrine Mandates in Law
The Gene Technology Bill seeks to institute a revolution and it spits in the face of the public who suffered during the pandemic and who voted in a new government with the thought that things might change.
These Procedures Are Funded by Taxpayers
Health NZ say that since 2020 the service has been publicly funded to deliver up to 14 gender-affirming genital surgeries (either feminising or masculinising) per year.
No, This Is Too Risky
If the world’s most recognisable bioscientists can’t get it right, what hope is there for our government appointed local regulator?
Puberty Blocks – the Facts
Thousands of doctors worldwide rely on WPATH including our own Ministry of Health Te Whatu Ora – and it’s pushed by the radical association of NZ activists called PATHA (Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa).