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Dr Paul Spoonley: Immigration: risks and rewards for NZ

Alison Eddy, CEO of the NZ College of Midwives

Each prisoner costs NZ $150,000 a year. Could that money be better spent keeping at-risk youth healthy, housed, fed and educated instead?

"Who wants to be dependent on Middle East Oil?" asks Rewiring Aotearoa

Are the new learning reforms innovative, or just a return to 1940s factory-style education?

What drug kills 900 NZers a year, but may actually get easier to sell in NZ next year?

NZ, Monaco, the Cayman Islands: the strange company we keep when it comes to taxes & public services

"Students become little more than backpacks full of cash." When private profit drives public school policy.

Raise your hand if you would like your public hospital to be there for you when you need it

Spent or squandered? Where are your Health dollars going?

Putting out the fire: a talk with firefighter Reuben Otto

Tim Welch: Fast is slow, a conversation with a speed limit expert

Dave 'Bear' Hookway-Kopa on battling epidemics. From AIDS in the 1980s to alcohol harm today

Malcolm Mulholland: "Someone's got to speak out..."

Surf life saving: creating a nation of rescuers, helpers, and good citizens

Safer inks for tattoos + reducing melanoma risk: the latest research

Turning teachers into technicians and education into regurgitation: the Education Amendment Bill

Hurdles on the path to a gentle death: Ann David speaks about a new bill to improve assisted dying for terminally ill patients

"Roadside drug testing could be a great idea if it was accurate and effective. But is it either of those things?"

Man on a wire: Dan Short Helicopter Paramedic and Rescue Swimmer

Half of NZ can't afford to see a dentist. Max Harris and Dental for All want to change that.

The Mysterious Case of Health's Disappearing Half-Billion.

Gabrielle Baker: Connecting Māori life expectancy back to current health policies

Dr Lisa Darragh: Setting education up to fail?

A Dim Prognosis? NZ healthcare at a crossroads

'Managing Decline': More than a Decade of Health Data Reveals Where We're Heading

Tales from the Crypt: Rogernomics and Ruthanasia reappear

Poverty, prison, and Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: An ignored problem affecting far too many NZ children

Rogernomics, privatisation, and your taxes: Haven't we tried this already? A conversation with Terry Baucher

Women's Pay Equity has been gutted: are you one of the 300,000 women (and men!) affected?

Firecracker: Justine Sachs talks about Nurse Understaffing

"When cancer screening fails"

Max Harris: Good guys finish last? Max says ‘No’

An ex-gun lobbyist Govt Minister weakening NZ's Alcohol Policies? It's exactly as bad as it sounds

Tough times for patients: a path forward

Can a 'decent and thoughtful man' win in local politics?

No legal requirement for an equitable health system via changes to Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act

Empty threats: If they have to pay their fair share of taxes, they will leave

On the backs of low-wage women: the secret schemes of a privatisation government

The conflagration: How much more damage could they possibly do in another 18 months?

Is there anything wrong with your public healthcare being a source of private profit? A chat with Ian Powell.

Doctors ask Politicians to finally put some 'Skin in the Game'.

Taupo ED underfunding, the alcohol industry doing the right thing and is wine a carcinogen?

The Hate that Social Media Brewed: When rage fuels Social Media corporate profits, how do nations avoid a descent into violence?

Simeon Does it Again, Attacking Nurses on Social Media

UBER hiding from taxes? Say it ain't so

Driving nurses away by the thousands

Who's counting anyway? Killing the NZ Census

'Work faster.' NZ nurses push for safety

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