1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (973+ words) With all the extensive media coverage one could not be blamed for attributing the current winter flu outbreak, which started to peak in late August, to the disastrous situation facing our overstretched and overflowing public hospitals. There is no doubt…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (933+ words) Casey Costello becomes ‘Minister of Organised Crime’ to tackle New Zealand’s top national security threat Casey Costello has been appointed New Zealand’s first Government minister solely responsible for tackling the growing risk of organised crime, a problem described as the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (512+ words) I keep telling you there is a toxic culture inside MSD and WINZ where the staff have grown to hate the vulnerable they are tasked with helping and this extraordinary story where MSD are denying food requests because they consider…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (825+ words) The NZ Veterans Advocate is calling on all political parties to commit to an independent review of the Veterans’ Support Act 2014 and the wider veterans’ support system in the first year of the next Parliament. The call is the centrepiece…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (480+ words) Labour will offer every New Zealand trained nurse a job in our public health system when they graduate, keeping our highly trained nurses here and strengthening the workforce. “National’s hiring freeze is fuelling a crisis in our health system. Just…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (831+ words) I genuinely can’t think of a sector of our workforce that’s going to matter more over the next 20 years than caregiving. And when you hit 60, you stop thinking about this as some abstract workforce or policy issue. You start thinking…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (687+ words) The Alliance Party says Health New Zealand’s decision not to renew home and community support contracts with three Auckland non-profit providers shows what happens when essential care is put out to competitive tender. Alliance Party Health Spokesperson Ethan Gullery says…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (493+ words) The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi welcomes a new report from the Human Rights Commission detailing the intergenerational impact of PCP use in the timber industry, including on timber workers, their whānau, and their communities. “The…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1636+ words) ‘In a pickle’ is an idiom meaning to be in a difficult, tricky, or troublesome situation; one where it is hard to know what to do or how to escape. It can include everyday things such as losing house or…...