Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, April 21st, 2026 - 19 comments
Christopher Luxon will today face his sternest challenge as leader as repeatedly bad polls are having their effect on National’s caucus’s morale.
Written By: - Date published: 4:46 pm, April 11th, 2026 - 36 comments
An ideological reflex to an economic challenge has severe limitations by design.
Written By: - Date published: 2:03 pm, January 29th, 2026 - 9 comments
A year after the Government slashed a third of Health IT jobs the Auckland hospital system has suffered a massive IT outage.
Written By: - Date published: 12:43 pm, January 10th, 2026 - 17 comments
Brooke Van Velden, responsible for refusing a firefighters’ levy increase in 2024, piled on to firefighters who have been struggling for over a year to be heard – leading to catastrophic losses & risk
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, January 6th, 2026 - 12 comments
The company has been accused of using outdated encryption protocols, and has been slow to respond to community concerns. And importantly, has National put our other public health data at risk too?
Written By: - Date published: 7:31 am, December 19th, 2025 - 3 comments
Masterton hospital has been deemed structurally unsafe with money awarded for its remediation after a long court case.
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, November 2nd, 2025 - 90 comments
Ryan Bridges fawns over Tend’s Telehealth corporate model which is subsidised by taxpayers, rewards private equity investors, and costs about $80 per consult
Written By: - Date published: 1:35 pm, October 19th, 2025 - 15 comments
The senior National Party Cabinet Minister has penned an “Open letter to the people of New Zealand” on the New Zealand Government’s official website
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, October 19th, 2025 - 5 comments
An exodus of professionals are leaving – with Kiwi citizens fleeing at levels we haven’t seen in 24 years. These incl. community GPs, doctors & nurses – and Simeon is going after those that remain
Written By: - Date published: 11:07 am, October 1st, 2025 - 4 comments
The British multinational meeting was first reported by ODT. Plus: Physician Associates spell more danger for the health of our health system
Written By: - Date published: 11:02 am, September 23rd, 2025 - 37 comments
Christchurch joins Nelson ED to sound the alarm as Code Red rages across NZ departments
Written By: - Date published: 5:55 pm, September 5th, 2025 - 6 comments
Perhaps the biggest news from a jam packed news week is how, under National’s Health Ministers Shane Reti & Simeon Brown, Health NZ illegally hid staffing data for over a year to conceal their systemic understaffing of our public health.
Written By: - Date published: 1:10 pm, June 12th, 2025 - 37 comments
For-profit healthcare continues its acceleration under National as second largest private healthcare provider in Australia shuts down
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, March 22nd, 2025 - 45 comments
It seems that the National Act Government is looking at what is happening in the US of A and thinking that the rolling out of fascist restrictions of freedom of speech is a good thing. And they are starting with health professionals.
Written By: - Date published: 8:14 pm, March 15th, 2025 - 13 comments
By pursuing cuts, selling off assets to multinationals, enabling ACT’s attacks on the Treaty and cutting back on climate commitments, Luxon is guaranteeing that NZ will not be stable for long, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, March 15th, 2025 - 17 comments
Health officials advised the Government “significantly” more lives could be saved if it lowered the bowel cancer screening age for Māori and Pasifika further than the rest of the population. But it refused to accept this advice. Why?
Written By: - Date published: 5:19 pm, March 11th, 2025 - 13 comments
As the Coalition moves to partially privatise our healthcare system, and Seymour fatally undermines the free school lunch programme, it is time for us to take to the streets and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 pm, March 10th, 2025 - 8 comments
This week Simeon Brown used a Deloitte report to criticise Health NZ and accelerate his privatisation message. But, writes Mountain Tui, the Deloitte report appears to reveal a lot more from what it omitted, than what it covered.
Written By: - Date published: 2:23 pm, March 10th, 2025 - 25 comments
Simeon Brown’s gutting of funding for earlier bowel cancer screening of Maori and Pacifica will increase health disparity.
Written By: - Date published: 10:33 am, March 6th, 2025 - 9 comments
Simeon Brown has appointed John Carnegie to the EECA even though Carnegie has some decidedly anti energy conservation ideas.
Written By: - Date published: 1:12 pm, January 20th, 2025 - 61 comments
Christopher Luxon has conducted a major Cabinet Reshuffle with the stand out feature the demotion of Shane Reti and the transfer of Health from Reti to Simeon Brown.
Written By: - Date published: 11:01 am, December 31st, 2024 - 25 comments
It is that time of year when during the brief hiatus of civilisation known as the holidays we get the time to reflect on what has happened over the past 12 months.
Written By: - Date published: 6:35 pm, December 4th, 2024 - 3 comments
The Government announced reform of AT, effectively conceding that the behemouth National created in 2010 was the wrong structure.
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, November 17th, 2024 - 33 comments
There has been a major blowout in the cost of the Roads of National Significance with the cost being potentially $10 billion more than National claimed during last year’s campaign.
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, November 10th, 2024 - 10 comments
Nicola Willis deflects a question on why National are spending billions on roads without a business case – after cancelling the 2026 i-Rex – which had a strong business case and required $1.4bn more to complete seismic upgraded ports and next generation ferries.
Written By: - Date published: 12:59 pm, September 26th, 2024 - 45 comments
NZ has already spent $1bn on thin air (Kiwirail ferries), $70bn on roads, and $35bn on tax cuts so no to your hospitals and investments!
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, September 12th, 2024 - 25 comments
It seems clear that the Government refused to do anything to stop Winston Pulp from closing its mills. And the Government’s plans to address price volatility by the use of LPG is counterproductive, especially when the cost of renewable energy is considered.
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, September 3rd, 2024 - 39 comments
The year is 2035 and after the McAnaulty-Sepuloni Government is removed from power new National Prime Minister Simeon Brown makes his first new announcement. Guess what it is?
Written By: - Date published: 4:16 pm, August 30th, 2024 - 38 comments
94% of councils that have voted vote to retain Maori wards. Many of them are National background Councillors and previously urged Central Government to not push ahead with the legislation. The forced local referendums are now expected to cost ratepayers and take away from Council workloads
Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, August 28th, 2024 - 26 comments
While Luxon and Brown hand it to the Councils, a grassroots campaign is taking effect and the power is with the people. Warning: article contains satire.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, August 27th, 2024 - 17 comments
We are in a power crisis and the government has had to respond, but will their response make any difference?
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