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Kia ora and welcome to the second New Zealand Primary Health Care Awards | He Tohu Mauri Ora.
My name is Barbara Fountain and I am managing editor of your co-host The Health Media and editor of New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa.
On behalf The Health Media and the Pharmacy Guild, I give a heartfelt welcome to health minister Andrew Little and his caucus colleague Aupito William Sio. And to Dame Tariana Turia and Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick.
A big welcome back also to associate health minister Peeni Henare – like many of us you will be pleased we’ve moved on from the tropical theme of last year and have working air conditioning.
Revealed: Email from ousted Tauranga councillor warns Wellington council of serious natural justice concerns
13 May, 2021 06:37 PM
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Tauranga City councillor Steve Morris warned Wellington City Council elected members of his concerns regarding a review into the city s governance. Photo / File
Tauranga City councillor Steve Morris warned Wellington City Council elected members of his concerns regarding a review into the city s governance. Photo / File
The official who led the independent review into Tauranga s council has been criticised by an ousted councillor in a warning letter to Wellington s warring elected members. Tauranga councillor Steve Morris emailed Wellington s mayor and councillors
Kareem Roustom honors victims of racial violence with new violin concerto
Led by principal guest conductor Gemma New, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will premiere the work on Thursday, with its principal second violinist, Angela Fuller Heyde.
Kareem Roustom, a Syrian-born American composer, completed his Second Violin Concerto last summer. In a phone interview, he said, It was impossible not to be aware of what was going on … and not feel this profound grief and frustration. (John Robson)
“In memory of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and far too many others.”
That’s the postscript on the last page of Kareem Roustom’s Second Violin Concerto. Subtitled “with might and main,” the new work will be premiered Thursday by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with its principal second violinist, Angela Fuller Heyde. Principal guest conductor Gemma New will lead the program, also including Mendelssohn’s
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Former nurse Leonie Metcalfe wants all cases of mesothelioma to be covered by ACC, without dying patients having to try to prove how they were exposed to asbestos.
Mesothelioma – a cancer caused by inhaling asbestos fibres – is a death sentence. As the law stands, both occupational exposure and accidental exposure outside the workplace should be covered by ACC. So why do dying patients have to dredge 40 years of memory to try to pinpoint where and when they might have been exposed? Nikki Macdonald reports. It was supposed to be a routine GP visit for a repeat prescription. The doctor asked Leonie Metcalfe how she’d been.
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It’s worse than you think: an ominous phrase that could cover any number of issues, but here refers to the impending closure of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline that brings vital oil to Ontario. Or, if you’re Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, “carbon pollution.”
As my colleague Kelly McParland argued in Tuesday’s National Post, Trudeau is in a cleft stick trying to keep this pipeline open, because Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer’s arguments against it are precisely the sorts of things our prime minister has been saying all his adult life about oil spills, etc. But it’s worse than you think, and possibly than he does, because the extinct polar bear in the room is Trudeau’s belief that fossil fuels are useless rubbish.