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NZ Public Healthcare: 'destabilise and privatise'
They will keep doing this, if we keep allowing them to get away with it.
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Reprint/Flashback 2024: Nats/NZF/ACT govt, 'under urgency' and without consultation, undoes the world's best anti-smoking reforms
This is an old post I'm migrating to Substack.
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Dragging the Grim Reaper out of the Crypt for one last hurrah
Ruthanasia destroyed the social safety net, doubling poverty. She's back for more.
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Everything's not fine. My recent Bryan Bruce interview
we talk about the corporate/politician assault on healthcare, among other things
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1 simple question: will it benefit the Corporations?
That's really all you need to know about road cones rules, or any of the laws this Government of Vandals have passed "under urgency".
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A new NZ "Constitution for Corporate Profits": My Regulatory Standards Bill Interview with Melanie Nelson
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Bowel cancer keeps striking earlier. Why does our cutoff start at 58?
Half of bowel cancers hit Māori in their 50s. Yet govt raised their screening age from 50 to 58. It doesn't make sense.
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ACT's van Velden shifts Worksafe from 'enforcement' to 'advice'
Of course she did.
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May 2025

When Money is King: ACTs Rotten "Regulatory Standards Bill"
The RSB puts an unelected Seymour "Standover Man" as the overseer of every gov't law-making committee.
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Today's Budget, and what it means for your Health system
Landlords laughing, savers cringing, and patients left... where exactly?
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I spoke on RNZ's Checkpoint about healthcare privatisation
It's not "by stealth" anymore. Now it's right out in the open.
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When govt cares about the military more than low-wage women...and then proves they don't care about the military either.
People come last, and corporations first, for profit-driven governments like this one.
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