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Andrew Dickens: Emergency housing issues another example of public sector failure (Photo / 123RF) The sorry saga of New Zealand’s use of motel units as emergency housing stuttered on today.  This time it was Ministry of Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni waffling away about how much wrap around care is provided to those in the housing.  Asked about the cost of damage to the units caused by tenants she claimed it was impossible to calculate as the MSD accounting systems were, quote, “too clunky”.  This spurred a flurry of angry incredulous texts and calls regarding what seeme...

Andrew Dickens: Ministry of Health must shoulder the blame for Covid failures Ashley Bloomfield is the Director-General of Health. (Photo / NZ Herald) Andrew Dickens: Ministry of Health must shoulder the blame for Covid failures Mon, 19 Apr 2021, 1:35PM Listening to the blamestorm over MIQ last week I thought the universe had tipped on its axis.  There was our poverty defeating socialist Prime Minister, punching down on a minimum wage frontline worker and bemoaning his lack of accountability and accusing him of lying.. Meanwhile, a cohort of neo-liberal, conservative righ...

OPINION: The Government's attitude is to blame.

Covid 19 coronavirus: Fran O'Sullivan: Business knocking on Jacinda Ardern's door 3 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Rob Campbell, chairman of SkyCity, Tourism Holdings, Summerset and Chancellor of Auckland University of Technology. Photo / Supplied Rob Campbell, chairman of SkyCity, Tourism Holdings, Summerset and Chancellor of Auckland University of Technology. Photo / Supplied OPINION: How many times do prominent company chairs and chief executives have to put their hands up and ask to be taken into the inner sanctum on the fight against Covid-19 before Jacinda Ardern listens? The Prim...

Govt has managed the crisis but needs to be transparent about what comes next, so it's not "lockdowns forever".