The Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt attends a sitting of Parliament In
Canberra, Australia. - Image by Mark Graham
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s
plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are
the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous ...
In 2014 nearly 40% of GP respondents were practice owners. By 2022 it had declined
to 31%. The number of GPs working in GP-owned practice has also fallen from 73% in
2015 to 64% in 2022. Partially filling the practice ownership gap is the for-profit ...
Health Minister Dr. Shane Reti has been only a ghostly presence of the government’s
front bench, in a case of the incredible shrinking Minister. Meanwhile, leaked documents
reveal planned funding cuts of over $100M to public hospitals that are already sinking ...
This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October
could hardly have come at a worse time, with the economy on the brink of recession,
massive cutbacks in public expenditure, public sector redundancies and rising unemployment.
Ian Powell discusses building on the constructive relationship between Cuba and New
Zealand in the context of the Unites States economic warfare (embargo) against Cuba
and the recent UN Rapporteurs findings.
Bird flu – often deadly to humans - is not only being transmitted from infected
birds to dairy cows, but is now travelling between dairy cows. And, Aukus members
are all being pressured by the USA to devote at least 2% of their GDP to Defence ...
