Ross Lawrenson Professor of Population Health University of Waikato The New Zealand health system is currently in the throes of its biggest reorganisation in more than twenty years. The aim is to provide more efficiency and equity. But while it is acknowledged New Zealand has under-invested in health infrastructure,
Stuart Nash and his texts really are a gift that keeps on giving. From sharing cabinet decisions to texting his Police Commissioner he really is loose with his communications. That includes lying to the Ombudsman about the messages between him and me. He said they didn’t exist until I
Nobody Someone “We’ve got five parties of death currently sitting in The Beehive” The hundreds of thousands of Kiwis who are currently disillusioned, need to vote strategically in the 2023 election. New Zealand’s politically homeless are the only chance to save our country from wokeism, an unrepairable racial
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Chief Coroner Anna Tutton has responded to our recent letter to her. We expressed our grave concerns about the state of the Coronial Service, which is, in effect, being expected to provide a pharmacovigilance function for covid 19 vaccines, but without
Christopher Luxon National Party Leader This is the most difficult moment for New Zealand’s economy since the Global Financial Crisis – and arguably since well before that. Real wages have experienced their most significant period of decline since records began. Inflation has outstripped wage growth for the last eleven quarters
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Our country will face a real choice in five months’ time. And the choice isn’t Red Chris or Blue Chris. As many now see, that isn’t much of a choice at all. The choice New Zealanders face is between parties offering more of
Earl Bardsley Research Associate at the University of Waikato and the originator of the idea of pumped storage at Lake Onslow. The economic aim of pumped storage at Lake Onslow is to provide a sustainable dry year solution that will not send electricity prices through the roof. The fuel of
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Coronation of King Charles III was watched by over 400 million people worldwide. Millions of royal fans crowded into London to be part of the celebration, with over a hundred thousand lining the procession route. The pomp and pageantry of the Westminster Abbey ceremony
Christopher Luxon is really living in cloud-cuckoo land. The poll numbers are so obvious that even Blind Freddy can see them. Christopher Luxon’s degrading personal popularity is hurting National’s chances. But he is adamant that they aren’t. National’s Christopher Luxon denies his leadership is holding
Fred Too A basic plank of public policy work is cost/benefit analysis. You might not be able to quantify all the costs and benefits of a proposal, but you should certainly be able to identify what they are and give them a weighting. You use these to assess if
Graham Bell, former host of Police Ten 7, recently bemoaned the demise of the show and the wokeness that did it in and that got me thinking: New Zealand is one of the wokest places on earth. How do I know? The silence over the government’s damaging radical policies,
Heather du Plessis-Allan writes about the very low bar of expectations for people wanting to change the government at the election. It is a phenomenon I have noticed amongst our commenters: so desperate are they for a change of government that they’ll accept the average, the mild and
Three months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, the government has announced a $1 billion package for transport, education and mental health. ACT called out the government: “Frustrated locals have had to wait months for funding and certainty so they can get on with their lives,” he said in a statement on
hatchardreport.com OPINION We have arrived at a point in an election year when our votes matter, so expect some surprising replies to our emails and even some answers to our questions, but, if today was anything to go by, it won’t be without fireworks. Yesterday, I fact checked
