Quick Hit: Pharmac Said No in May
National wants $604m more for medicines, paid for mostly by a 10 per cent aid cut with the Pacific protected. In May its own budget turned down Pharmac’s request of about $800m and gave it $54m.
Simeon Brown
Quick Hit: Family Farm Means the Invoice
Luxton could not define family farm on HDPA, then walked dairy accommodation into a proportionate CGT. National claims an $18.8b hole. Sold a farm exemption, taxed the cowshed.
Quick Hit: Tradies Pay the Lawyers’ Loans
Labour will take 10 per cent off eligible student loans and wipe balances of $2000 or less entirely, at $583.4 million over five years. The debt moves to taxpayers and a doctor gets nearly four times what a teacher does.
Simeon Brown Stands By His Medical Council Appointments
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Simeon Brown declined to reappoint Medical Council chair Dr Rachelle Love and deputy chair Simon Watt when their terms expired, despite both remaining eligible for reappointment
Coalition government NZ ‘working well’ despite email clash, Simeon Brown says
The coalition government NZ is being described as stable even as internal tensions surface, with...
Simeon Brown On Complaint Against TVNZ For Breaking Parliament Rules
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Luxon seemed surprised that his ditching Bishop for Simeon Brown as campaign chair would be a talking point.
Health Minister Simeon Brown On The Covid-19 Inquiry
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Simeon Brown accuses striking doctors of ‘crossing an ethical line’
“Patients are collateral damage in a system every day that refuses to staff or resource services.”
Simeon Brown: Health Minister with Balls or Just Another Suit? Five Qualities Tell the Tale
Perhaps his boss might like to take a leaf out Simeon Brown’s playbook, starting with growing a spine.
Get Back In Your Box
Public health commentators are all upset at being told to get back in their box by new Health Minister Simeon Brown.
Simeon Brown takes on media spin over health worker survey
98.5% of workers didn’t even bother responding.
Simeon Brown wants to get rid of rules that ‘hold back’ Auckland
“Rules and regulations often become the thing which blocks so much stuff..."
Attempting to Depoliticise the Fast Track Bill?
The power to send applications to the expert panel will now be concentrated in the Office of the Minister of Infrastructure, Chris Bishop. Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Transport Minister Simeon Brown will lose their power.
Open Letter to Simeon Brown
Colin Parkinson Dear Simeon I have tried many times to get you to speak up about the mRNA”vaccines” and mandates, yet you were mostly silent. “Unvaccinated” staff are still unable to return to work in our public hospitals in the midst of a “global pandemic” and now we have