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'Huffing deaths' and CPR in schools
Now this is something I can back: A sovereign wealth fund for NZers.
The Sneering Class: Simeon and Collins
Careful buddy, that Māori/foreigner/woman wants your cookie
Young and can't get a job in this austerity economy? Govt's got a policy to make it worse.
Cancer patients missing the 'treatment window'
Simeon Brown's so-called 'ED Boost'
Māori Wards, Local Votes, and Citizenships-for-sale
Putting an ex-gun lobbyist in charge of NZ's Alcohol Policy. What could possibly go wrong?
They're not looking for greener pastures, they're being forced off the paddock.
Spent or squandered? Where are your Health dollars going?
Powerchucking: Vomiting Kids and Powerade
Affording life: No money? Too bad.
Paying more so that the rich don't have to: the story of the govt's Petrol/RUCs changes
"Can I eat instant Ramen noodles every day?"
Judith Collins stands up to voter suppression
Privatisation: Everything I worried about in 2023 has happened, but faster.
Mess with the census + suppress votes: "undercount & obstruct"
The obvious (but always unmentioned) solution to the slow-motion breakdown of a functional society
Never give up: Simeon Brown's insistence that the average nurse is making $125,000
Wealthy and Sorted, Or Sinking?
Losing doctors faster than we can churn them out?
Nurse Odie's right: Support our Nurses in their strike!
Simeon attacks nurses on Facebook; the 'doctors of the people' speak against privatisation
Announcing my new podcast: The FRONTLINE with Dr Gary Payinda
900 patients on a single waiting list? Public suffering drives private profit.
'Death to regulations!' Why would a Farmer's newspaper mislead?
Why tax the rich, when you can tax a worker?
Jacinda Ardern's book: A Different Kind of Power
Their assets, their society, sold out from under their feet
NZ Public Healthcare: 'destabilise and privatise'
Dragging the Grim Reaper out of the Crypt for one last hurrah
Everything's not fine. My recent Bryan Bruce interview
1 simple question: will it benefit the Corporations?
Bowel cancer keeps striking earlier. Why does our cutoff start at 58?
ACT's van Velden shifts Worksafe from 'enforcement' to 'advice'
When Money is King: ACTs Rotten "Regulatory Standards Bill"
Today's Budget, and what it means for your Health system
I spoke on RNZ's Checkpoint about healthcare privatisation
Hiding Mental health staff shortages
Enough is Enough: Doctors' Strike, and our talk at the PSA "Fight Back Together" Community Rally
Nationwide strikes, protests, rallies this Thursday, May 1
A Dengue Fever Death in Auckland; what you need to know about Dengue
Seymour's power grab over the Doctors' and Nurses' Councils
This Thursday is May Day/Workers' Day
Simeon attacks public hospital doctors for harming patients. We are Not Having a Bar of It.
My response to Simeon Brown (Health Minister) attacking striking public doctors
Medical negligence: a tragedy for patients, but a profit-maker for private hospitals.
"But what can I do about it? I'm just trying to keep young mums from killing themselves..."
Govt splurges on shiny new med school vs. simply expanding our 2 med schools. Why?
More deadly: govt health policy, or a new bird flu pandemic?
It's not a recession, it's just your imagination
"Cellulitis": A patient primer on wounds and wound infections
"Is there a doctor onboard"... the rescue helicopter?
Why can't we have nice things too?
Blowing the Lid off the Coalition of Private Profits
Your New Hospital: It's 2032's problem now...
Doctors are 'Muppets', say this pack of Vandals in govt
Open Letter to the Politicians Telling *Public Health Doctors* to not talk to the public
The most real and raw emergency airway video I've seen in years
For an anti-fluoride mayor seeking publicity, fluoride is the gift that keeps on giving....
'Dr Privatisation' will now see your sick child.
'Dr Privatisation' will now see your sick child.
Levy's hatchet man Censured, and PM Luxon on "Low Performing Organisations"
Another in-custody death. Are they preventable?
Another child driveway death. Most are preventable for less than the cost of a WOF.
Don't laugh, you're drinking faeces water too.
what can keep one gun murder from turning into 10? strong guns laws.
On its side and being eaten alive: Healthcare for the NZ public
Why help people with disabilites when you can help Property Investors and Big Tobacco?
A devastating and factual front-page article on the Health NZ crisis. So what, though?
Why can't our kids afford to buy a small home? Or even a trolley full of groceries, for that matter.
Don't know this man? You should
More deaths. But also more profits. Worth it? Depends if you're sick or rich.
Taxes are how we pay for a functional society.
8 council flats demolished, only to lie fallow for years.
Maybe it's worth having a critical care doctor on board after all
Kicked out on their last day of life
Health and political news so bad that even Jones's overt racism can't distract
Mum dies inhaling helium at a child's birthday party
They've cut funding for 3,000 healthcare positions.
This 1 weird trick will help Simeon Brown dominate Health NZ
If you want to know my story, here it is:
Will swapping Shane Reti for Simeon Brown make any difference?
NZ's population grows by 93,000 people a year. Why are all the politicians ignoring this?
Why do so many shifts feel like they're getting busier? Because they are.