Te Whatu Ora tells surgeons to consider ethnicity in prioritising patients, AT rolls out a new city parking plan and Prince Harry's court case costs UK taxpayers £1m in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / New Zealand HeraldAuckland surgeons are now being required to consider a patient’s ethnicity alongside other factors when deciding who should get an operation first. Over 200 days for Māori and Pacific patients. “These adjustments are based on evidence which shows these groups often have inequitable health outcomes, which often begin at the start of their healthcare journey. The Auckland District Health Board’s own data show Māori and Pacific patients take longer after referral to have a procedure confirmed.

This year didn't look like being a good one and now half-way through we are getting the confirmation. These have provided a hit to the economy that helped to propel us into a 'technical recession'. As an aside, it would be fairly interesting if there's any revisions to the March quarter figures done by Stats NZ once the June quarter figures are released in September. I've said before that at the moment the labour market figures are THE key ones to watch, for a number of reasons. That's when we will get the answers to a lot of the questions that have formed in the first half.

Steve Miller watched the final moments of his son Daniel's life as he livestreamed himself wading through floodwaters during the Auckland Anniversary floods. Photo: NZ HeraldSteve Miller watched the moments leading up to his son's death in the Auckland Anniversary floods through a phone screen separated by 350 kilometres. Having a visual record of his son's last moments to speculate on how he died became torture for Steve. Steve Miller said having a visual record of his son's last moments became torture for him. Photo: Supplied/ Auckland CouncilOnce back in Napier after Daniel's Auckland funeral, the Miller family then had to confront the onslaught of Cyclone Gabrielle.

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:52 am, June 18th, 2023 - 29 commentsCategories: education, labour, political parties, tertiary education - Tags:New Zealand is not an intellectual or innovation powerhouse but the rapid decline of our entire tertiary education is a tragedy. This affects some regional centres that have relied on this massive economic and social driver more than others. The fact that reading that sentence seems unreal is a measure of how far down we hold tertiary education now. Neither help in the attractiveness or financial stability of tertiary education. The result of course is that we are dumber, making the same dumb stuff, too dumb to make smart policy, dumb enough not to argue or protest, and too dumb to care that we are indeed dumber.

I think we need an urgent upgrade of our universal suffrage with a focus on Tino rangatiratanga to save NZ democracy. Allowing all prisoners to vote: Prisoners are the weakest members of our society because the State controls every element of their life while in prison. The constant drive by voters for crueller and harsher sentences needs a counter weight in the ability for Prisoners to vote. One might argue that for real Universal Suffrage Tino rangatiratanga we would limit voting to rights to only citizens and permanent residents. TDB Recommends NewzEngine.comDonation limited to voters not corporations: Limiting donations, expanding state funding and only allowing citizens and permanent residents to donate rather than allowing Unions and corporations to donate is righteous.

But the implied endorsement from this influential dynasty is better than a cheque for van Velden’s campaign to win Tāmaki from National. It makes that seat one of a number of Auckland electorates where real drama is going to play out on election night. MMP has largely taken the fun out of watching how the seats fall on election night. The Red Tide of 2020 will recede and National can expect to retake the blue-ribbon seats like Rangitata and Tukituki. As finance spokesperson, Willis is one of the faces of National's campaign.

Hundreds of gang members headed to the Bay of Plenty for the tangi. Photo: NZ HeraldNational is announcing a new policy intended to give gang members tougher criminal sentences, just days after two Bay of Plenty towns accommodated a large Mongrel Mob funeral procession that led to schools closing, a highway being shut off and a police investigation into gunshots. Photo: NZ HeraldUnder a National Government, this policy would mean gang membership would always be an aggravating factor, regardless of the office committed. In practice, it means offenders who are known members of criminal gangs will likely face tougher sentences for crime.”According to the latest quarterly Gang Harm Insights Report, there were 8875 gang members across 33 gangs on police’s National Gang List - a percentage increase of about 10 percent from August last year. The party would also boost police powers to enable warrantless searches to find guns held by gang members, to prevent gang members from communicating and to restrict their public meetings.

Shop the outside supermarket aisles for food which tends to have less packaging. Shop the outside supermarket aisles for food which tends to have less packaging. I admire activists who remove the packaging of their food at checkout and take only the edible stuff home with them. Once you’ve stuck to the less packaged stuff on the outside aisles, continue your low-waste efforts by controlling what you can control. Buy food thoughtfully so it won’t rot in the bottom of your fridge.

As authorities battled to stop a downtown karaoke bar selling alcohol, a Herald investigation reveals the untold story of the short but colourful life of BayLuck Karaoke. Officers spoke to security outside BayLuck, who were obstructive and closed the door on them, police said, refusing to allow access to the venue. Pamatatau, remaining deadpan, replied: “You must consume a lot of chips.”In his brief opening remarks, Wiles said the incidence of disturbances outside BayLuck were now “largely in the past”. Michael O’Flannigan, an Alcohol Licensing Inspector and Hearings Specialist at Auckland Council, said BayLuck had become a magnet for excessive noise, litter and other issues. BayLuck and Arby's "Red Flag Fridays" raised red flags with police and Auckland Council.

In those days we had no website to worry about – the NZ Herald, Herald on Sunday and nzherald.co.nz operations were separate, under individual editors. Any concerns I did have were further eased after the newsroom meeting. The Press Council has upheld the substance of the complaints. This is a brief outline; for the full Press Council decision, in two parts, please see www.presscouncil.org.nz. The Press Council is concerned with maintaining the press in accordance with the highest professional standards.

Meng Foon resigns after $2m in Govt payments not ‘adequately declared’Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has resigned from his role this evening over undisclosed conflicts of interest. Ok.Ok.Ok.TDB Recommends NewzEngine.comLet’s do a compliment sandwich where I say something positive, then give my criticism and then end on another compliment so that the criticism can go down a little easier. So let’s start, and I mean this without being facetious, I have an enormous respect and aroha for Meng Foon. YOU HOSTED AN OFFICIAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION INQUIRY INTO CLAIMING HOMELESSNESS WAS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE WHILE BEING A RECIPIENT OF A 2.3MILLION CONTRACT FOR HOMELESSNESS AND DIDN’T SEE THAT AS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!!!!! Now let us end the compliment sandwich with a final compliment, which is I think it’s neat he speaks te reo.

Police at the scene in Wellington early today. Photo: NZ HeraldTwo people are in hospital, one in a critical condition, and two others have been arrested after a hit-and run incident in Wellington early today. Police were called to the scene on Cable St about 1.15am after a report of a car hitting two pedestrians. “Police immediately commenced area inquiries to find the car and it was located on Evans Bay Parade,” a police spokeswoman said. “The occupants of the vehicle, a 23-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman, were arrested.”She said charges would be laid inquiries were ongoing.

Eight people were injured - two seriously - in a crash on the Manuka Gorge Highway, between Milton and Lawrence yesterday. The crash, between a van and a ute, happened about 4.30pm between Round Hill Rd and Ford Rd, a police spokesman said. It appeared two people sustained serious injuries, two had moderate injuries and four had minor injuries, the spokesman said. The crash happened about an hour after another on the Manuka Gorge Highway, State Highway 8, nearer to Milton. A person received minor injuries when a car went into a ditch near Falla Burn Rd, police said.

The Independent Electoral Review out today has included a recommendation to ‘affect the Treaty of Waitangi andPrinciples’ and make it one of the Act’s ‘explicit objectives’. What ‘principles’ are they talking about exactly? Our Electoral Act is the foundation of unwavering equality for every New Zealander

And its former editor, New Zealand Herald editor-at-large, Shayne Currie, this week recalled a 2005 case in which a reporter fabricated content on the Sunday paper. Pressures built, and the public’s expectations (fuelled by their own use of social media like Twitter) led media organisations to satisfy a need for instant gratification around the clock. Again, technology created both the need and the means to satisfy it. In the main, it serves them well, although RNZ, Stuff and NZME in the past few days will have applied some rueful hindsight to the perils of human error and human nature. That reflection should point news media to a reset: Relieve some of the pressure points to allow for comprehensive oversight.