The Week In Parliament Nov 12 2010

Friday, 12 November 2010, 4:25 pm
Press Release: Tom Frewen

The Week In Parliament Nov 12 2010

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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results

Luxon has been doing his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not all of its MPs will be coming back alive.

Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth

In 2014 nearly 40% of GP respondents were practice owners. By 2022 it had declined to 31%. The number of GPs working in GP-owned practice has also fallen from 73% in 2015 to 64% in 2022.

Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti

Health Minister Dr. Shane Reti has been only a ghostly presence of the government’s front bench, in a case of the incredible shrinking Minister. Meanwhile, leaked documents reveal planned funding cuts of over $100M to public hospitals that are already sinking.

Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise

This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the economy on the brink of recession, massive cutbacks in public expenditure, public sector redundancies and rising unemployment.

Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening

Ian Powell discusses building on the constructive relationship between Cuba and New Zealand in the context of the Unites States economic warfare (embargo) against Cuba and the recent UN Rapporteurs findings.

Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee

Bird flu – often deadly to humans - is not only being transmitted from infected birds to dairy cows, but is now travelling between dairy cows. And, Aukus members are all being pressured by the USA to devote at least 2% of their GDP to Defence ...

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The Week In Parliament Nov 12 2010