With Andrew Little’s drive to create a separate health system for Maori, I thought it would be interesting to see how ethnicity is defined.
Its clear in section 2.1 that one’s ethnicity is self-determined, and also your ethnicity can change over time!
People will be able to self identify as Maori if they wish to access the separate Maori Health provider.
Nearly every dollar we pour into preventing heat deaths will end up killing more people than it saves. It’s time climate ministries put more accurate costings on any policy aiming to reduce global temperature.
If drugs that ease physical pain are available there is no reason for drugs that relieve psychological pain not also being available. It is both morally and ethically irresponsible.
How one toddler’s fight sparked a precision medicine revolution.
Don’t tell me that a Hyde-like creature isn’t going to get out eventually. There will be consequences.
Randell is reportedly set to contest the Tukituki seat, currently held by National’s Catherine Wedd.
The word for today is… strait (noun, adjective, adverb) - noun 1a: a comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water —often used in plural but singular in construction b: isthmus c archaic : a narrow space or passage 2: a situation of perplexity or distress —often used in plural
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
