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South leading for first shots of vaccine
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Farmers howls echo around corridors of power
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Covid-19 has been an all-dominating distraction from international relations, but also shows how important New Zealand s relationships with other countries are, Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says.
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta. (File photo).
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
Opening the two-day annual Foreign Policy School at the University of Otago last night, Mahuta gave a wide-ranging assessment of New Zealand s foreign policy issues - trade negotiations, climate change, human rights and even an outline of her thoughts on how to administer outer space.
But the impact of the global pandemic and the diplomatic challenges and opportunities posed by it were a recurrent theme.
Former health minister heads southen health board
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The shoe is about to be on the other foot for Pete Hodgson.
Pete Hodgson(centre) in 2004, when he was a government minister, meeting President of the Republic of Chile Ricardo Lagos, with Steve Maharey and Stuart McCutcheon.
Photo: AFP
Once, as health minister, he had health board chairpeople reporting to him. Now he will be reporting to the minister as the new chairperson of the Southern District Health Board (SDHB).
Former SDHB chairperson and Dunedin mayor Dave Cull s short term at the head of the organisation was cut short in October by the discovery of a tumour on his pancreas.