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Fuel taxes and road user charges could eventually be abolished, with a GPS car tracking system to toll drivers one possible replacement.
Newsroom
With so little detail on what the Māori Health Authority will look like, it’s difficult to know whether those most in need of medical care will be the ones feeling the change.
Newsroom
As long as we make decisions on the basis of discretion or intuition, like the banning of flights from India, many of these decisions will invariably fall prey to bias - no matter how well-meaning we are, writes Ananish Chaudhuri.
Newshub
One emergency housing supplier has earned $14.7 million since December 2017.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Breaking Bold: Andrew Little's reform of the health sector smacks of the sort of desperation that seizes politicians who know very well what...
Pearls and Irritations
It is risible to see the Australian Foreign Minister setting off to New Zealand to pull the Kiwis into line over their lack of support for attempts by the so-called Five Eyes of Anglo Saxon countries to pressure China. This is the very same Australian Foreign Minister who one year ago pushed the Australia-China relationship... Continue reading »
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Jono Bell hears and sees tragic stories of people affected by the housing crisis every day. He says building more houses is essential.
RNZ
The Ministry of Health allowed a family to remain in the community for more than two days after escaping managed isolation during last year's first level 3 lockdown.
Newshub
"Now it's time for us all to act."
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Uncomfortable: Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, along with the rest of the Five Eyes Partners, were shocked to hear New Zealand's ...
Stinging criticism of Southern District Health Board management by Health Minister Andrew Little was fair, to a point, chairman Pete Hodgson says....
RNZ
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care has asked for three emergency funding top-ups because it had blown the $56 million budget meant to last another two years.
1 NEWS
National said the Government was running a "get rich quick" for emergency housing providers.
1 NEWS
The actor feels "really lucky" to be in NZ during the pandemic.
Stuff
The Government's planned Māori Health Authority will give Māori a greater voice in the health system, according to patients and health leaders.
RNZ
Major changes planned for the health system have divided opinions. Here is what is being said one day after the reforms were announced.
The Conversation
The announcement of a new Māori health authority could radically transform health outcomes for Māori, but its success depends on how independent and accountable it will be.
The loss of local decision-making about health services could lead to people marching in the streets, Dunedin list MP Michael Woodhouse has warned....
The Standard
Yesterday was a day where National focussed on dog whistle racism, supported religious extremists and moaned about workers receiving a modest increase in the minimum wage.
RNZ
A two-year investigation by investigative journalist Nicky Hager has found school children from the School Strike 4 Climate group, who joined a peaceful protest with Greenpeace against the oil-exploration company OMV in New Plymouth a year ago, were targets of the private investigation firm Thompson and Clark. This was only weeks after unprecedented numbers joined the 27th of September school strike marches around the country. The investigation has found between 2019 and 2020, a major focus of Thompson and Clark was monitoring and helping to counter citizen groups concerned about climate change. The main Thompson and Clark operations were in 2020, when the floating oil rig, The C.O.S.L Prospector, drilled first off the coast of Otago and then Taranaki. The private investigators worked intensely trying to uncover the protesters' plans - with daily reporting to OMV - and then devised counter plans and liaised with police to try to avoid or thwart the protests. Other Thompson and
ZB
If a government – it won't be this one – can say in 20 years Māori are on a level playing field when it comes to health outcomes, then you couldn't argue w
ZB
The source of the latest case of Covid-19 at New Zealand's border has been discovered. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins told Newshub genome sequenc
National is already taking aim at the Government's major health sector reform, calling it a "reckless" move that will see regions lose their...
Newshub
This is what it will look like post-structural reforms.
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