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This week's committee meeting
schedule is altered due to the house sitting in urgency, but
the Regulations Review Committee finds time to look into a
complaint about the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers
Board.
Binoy Kampmark: Rot In The Civil Service: Farewelling Mike PezzulloThere was no better example of Australia’s politicised public service than its Home Affairs Secretary, Mike Pezzullo. In most other countries, he would have been the ideal conspirator in a coup, a tittletattler in the ranks and bound to brief against those he did not like. Give him a dagger, and he was bound to use it... More
Ramzy Baroud: The Palestinian Cause Belongs To The World
At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media is now telling us it is a ‘Hamas-Israeli conflict.’ But what went wrong? Israel simply became too powerful... More
Ian Powell: Will Tennessee Threaten NZ's Medical Workforce?Our medical workforce crisis is primarily driven by uncompetitive remuneration. There is a massive over 60% specialist pay gap with Australia. Not only do we lose specialists (and doctors training to be specialists) across the Tasman, but we also can’t compete with Australia to recruit specialists from other countries. This pay gap is the greatest obstacle to addressing the specialist workforce shortages in our public hospitals... More
Vijay Prashad: The Savagery Of The War Against The Palestinian People
Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the time this report is published? Among the bodies that cannot be taken to a hospital or a morgue, because there will be no petrol or electricity, will be large numbers of children. They will have hidden in their homes, listening to the sound of the Israeli F-16 bombers coming closer and closer, the explosions advancing toward them like a swarm of red ants on the chase... More
