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10 cents for an antibiotic pill: 'unaffordable'. Thousands of $ for a preventable hospitalisation or death? Not a problem.
On the sheer financial stupidity of the current approach to medication costs.
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Levy's hatchet man Censured, and PM Luxon on "Low Performing Organisations"
Nothing surprises anymore in this govt's Trump-lite wrecking crew.
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Another in-custody death. Are they preventable?
A death yesterday in Orere Point leads to the question, what can we do to minimise these deaths?
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Another child driveway death. Most are preventable for less than the cost of a WOF.
We have the solution. Just not the drive to implement the solution across the board.
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February 2025

Don't laugh, you're drinking faeces water too.
Why we can't all have Clean Air or Clean Water: there are just no corporate profits or political powergrabs in ensuring clean water for everybody.
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what can keep one gun murder from turning into 10? strong guns laws.
When a gun lobbyist is our firearms Minister, we are left in a danger zone.
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On its side and being eaten alive: Healthcare for the NZ public
They cut the health budget, sold out to Big Tobacco, and decimated essential public services. Can a functioning society last through two more years of…
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Why help people with disabilites when you can help Property Investors and Big Tobacco?
A (long) chat with podcaster and disability advocate Blake Forbes, of the BFG podcast. This government preyed on the vulnerable: beneficiaries, the…
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A devastating and factual front-page article on the Health NZ crisis. So what, though?
Knowing there's a problem, and fixing it, are two different things.
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Who needs a brain that works?
A few tidbits from my recent concussion reading.
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Why can't our kids afford to buy a small home? Or even a trolley full of groceries, for that matter.
There's someone making gangs of money, by design. And it ain't the people who work for a living.
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Don't know this man? You should
James Buchanan: evil in the form of a world-influencing economist. New Zealand government is currently following his blueprint.
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