Category: This Is Christchurch -> National Governance
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Canterbury District Health Board campaign increasing in public prominence
This post is a followup to the last two posts we wrote which were also relevant to this subject. Our post of 18th August referred specifically to the relevance of proposed health sector reforms to the overall direction of government policy, and yesterday’s one was about the need to ensure that elected representation is maintained…
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Local / Democratic Representation Important In Government Services
Last time we talked about the Government’s “centralist authoritarian path” as described by Dr Ian Powell, former head of the senior doctors’ union ASMS, in the context of funding challenges at Canterbury District Health Board. As we know, in the year 2000, the Government set up the 20 District Health Boards to run local health…
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Serious Health Sector Questions Raised By CDHB Funding Debacle
In the news for the last few weeks has been the debacle over CDHB’s deficit. The issue is driven by underfunding of CDHB in recent years, and questions are due as to why the present Government has failed to address this matter, despite expectations. In fact, there is a much greater picture brewing over government…
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A Tale Of Two Electricities
This post is about electricity and how the Government has taken a cavalier approach to it in the last 30 years or so in NZ. Firstly in electrical safety, and secondly in the provision of electricity at a cost that people can afford. So let’s look at electrical safety. We can remember Consumer magazine reporting…
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Why NZ First Self Destructs
NZ First is self destructing again. The reason they do this is because they piss people off. The reason they piss people off is their party is not a collective interest. It is based on self interest of each member, starting from the very top. The party is not democratic like other parties. Winston Peters…