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ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff Scalpel or defibrillator? It depends who you listen to. Health minister Andrew Little announcing a major reform in the health sector in the Beehive Banquet Hall at Parliament. OPINION: Two contrasting examples of Your Government Working For You made headlines this week. Depending on your news source, Andrew Little either took a scalpel to the health system or applied a defibrillator. All in the wake of a probing report that bore the hallmarks of a rubber glove snapping on, ...

The first ‘podcast’ listed above includes interviews with two highly competent economists, University of Auckland property economist Michael Rehm, and former Reserve Bank monetary economist Michael Reddell. The hologram of another such economist, Arthur Grimes, was present also. The interviewer is Kathryn Ryan, certainly one of our more intelligent journalists, more prepared than most to dig a little, though prone to asking questions heavily laden with assumptions. Kathryn Ryan to Michael R...

Personally I am impressed with our nuanced position. We have criticised China repeatedly over their appalling human rights abuse issues against the Uyghurs, their questionable influence in the Pacific and their brutal crackdown in Hong Kong while acknowledging our reliance on them for Trade thanks to John Key’s ‘all our cows in one Beijing paddock’ strategy. We have signalled that we will continue to criticise China’s human rights abuses while also stating that we will start to de-cou...

The first podcast listed above includes interviews with two highly competent economists, University of Auckland property economist Michael Rehm, and former Reserve Bank monetary economist Michael Reddell. The hologram of another such economist, Arthur Grimes, was present also. The interviewer is Kathryn Ryan, certainly one of our more intelligent journalists, more prepared than most to dig a little, though prone to asking questions heavily laden with assumptions. Kathryn Ryan to Michael Rehm: "...

Speculation Five Eyes will become Four Eyes is completely ridiculous Newshub 2 hrs ago © Image - Getty; Video - Newshub Watch: Newshub political editor Tova OBriens report. Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. OPINION: The speculation that Five Eyes will become Four Eyes is completely ridiculous. There is no way New Zealand is going to be given the boot from an 80-year-old ...

Matthew Hooton on health reforms: Andrew Littles bold plan shows the way 22 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 6 minutes to read Andrew Little - with Associate Health Ministers (from left) Aupito William Sio, Pene Henare and Dr Ayesha Verrall - announces his health shake-up this week. Photo / Mark Mitchell Andrew Little - with Associate Health Ministers (from left) Aupito William Sio, Pene Henare and Dr Ayesha Verrall - announces his health shake-up this week. Photo / Mark Mitchell NZ Herald OPINION: Andrew Li...

…When Labour ‘break’ the rules it’s to return stolen Māori land. That cost $30m When National ‘break’ the rules it’s to bribe Saudi Businessmen , make State Tenants Homeless and idealogical mutations like Transmission Gully. Those alone cost $311.5m. TDB Recommends NewzEngine.com Add in the 71 other times National pulled the same stunt and that balloons out to about half a billion. The problem is that National stands for crony capitalism, property speculators, bankers and Farme...

NZs potentially catastrophic near-miss from outer space: Were not learning 19 minutes to read Experts including a former chief science advisor say New Zealands risk-management systems are flawed and we can no longer rely on our "shell be right" mantra. By Donna Chisholm. The email giving New Zealand 24 hours warning of a potentially catastrophic solar flare landed in chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckmans inbox in late July 2012. It was an alert from his UK counterpart, Sir...

Political Roundup: National has bigger problems than its leadership 20 Apr, 2021 02:33 AM 12 minutes to read National leader Judith Collins during her caucus reshuffle announcement at Parliament. Photo / Mark Mitchell ANALYSIS: Speculation about the National Partys leadership has died down, after a fortnight of rumours and overt positioning by supposed challengers to Judith Collins. She lives on as leader for a bit longer, and Christopher Luxon and Simon Bridges have been put in their place. Na...

Mooney appears less controversial, but whether by design in order to play the role of a safe pair of hands, or by dint of his shy personality, his low-key approach means it’s hard to work out what the electorate has got from Mooney thus far or what exactly it can expect from him in the future. Crux Media/SUPPLIED Southland MP Joseph Mooney: “My experience as a kid was not having food.” Beginning with a childhood in Hawke’s Bay and a stepfather who struggled to put food on the table, i...