The Climate Change Commission report became public this week. I waited for Bernard Hickey to write his piece about the report. He has a wonderful, clear, view of the future. Jessie Mulligan interviewed him on Friday afternoon. That interview is on the RNZ website. Bernard wrote: Politicians, … [Read more...]
CDHB becomes international
Isn’t it interesting that the Ministry of Health, and its Ministerial puppets, have destroyed the local DHB because they hated being shown to be wrong? In the UK there is an organisation called the “Kings Fund”. They were pretty impressed with the way the CDHB was being run some years ago. … [Read more...]
Another cycle story
On The Panel this week there was a man who was intending to protest about cycle lanes this weekend. He sounded like a lawyer, just applying his arguments to the earlobe test. He seemed to be obsessed with the fact that cyclists break the law all the time. One of panellists said that she was confused … [Read more...]
Karen Guilliland interview on midwifery
One of my big heroes is Karen Guilliland. We have been friends ever since we both ended up on the Area Health Board about 100 years ago. Karen has been a tireless advocate for midwifery for decades now and she and Helen Clark joined forces to get legislation passed to protect the role of Midwives in … [Read more...]
Box 112 Canterbury Heritage Awards
On Friday night Pam and I attended the annual Heritage Awards which were held at Christs College. It was a wonderful evening of great celebration of the heritage of Canterbury. The two trustees, Dame Anna Crighton and Jenny May had excelled themselves with their entries. Geoff Bone was rushing … [Read more...]
In Conclusion 15 June 2021
Last Week Te Maire Tau
Te Maire Tau filled the room last week. He handed out a booklet which summarised what they had originally claimed. That has now changed. I liked that their claim which Ngai Tahu (and now joined by Kahungunu) originally submitted and where they are now is quite different. Their ideas have gone … [Read more...]
This week Philip Aldridge, Arts Centre
In early April I wrote about the speech Paul Callaghan gave 10 years ago which lay down a challenge for the country to accommodate new approaches to facilitate reform in society. Callaghan said “To solve the massive crises facing us, we must be innovative — we must use collaborative, … [Read more...]
A local government warning
I worked with the then Mayor of Tauranga, Stuart Crosby, and I always said that the City I would least like to be Mayor of was Tauranga. It’s full of retirees. Many of them successful (in the money sense) business people. They had a number of failings. One was they had too much time to focus on cost … [Read more...]
A history lesson on Health
Most of us watch from the side lines about what is happening in health. Unless you are on a Board, or work in health, the only thing you think about is can I get attention when I turn up at A & E? In his latest missive Ian Powell has written about Gaius Petronius style change with health … [Read more...]
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