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I am David – book review
I can’t say for sure when I first read the book I am David, but I know where I was. A junior school in my home town in the UK sometime in the early 1970s. It was one of those books that […]
I can’t say for sure when I first read the book I am David, but I know where I was. A junior school in my home town in the UK sometime in the early 1970s. It was one of those books that […]
A worker who was seven weeks into his first job at Taranaki Sawmills has been left unable to return to work after he lost three fingers and part of his palm as the result of a traumatic amputation in unguarded machinery.
UNICEF NZ, Executive Director, Vivien Maidaborn is deeply concerned at the added challenge of Covid-19 that our most disadvantaged students must now face.
Mental health conditions amongst New Zealand youth have doubled in the past decade with mental health experts describing it as “a silent pandemic of psychological distress.”
The serology tests necessary to track the mystery resurgence of Covid-19 have been banned by New Zealand’s Ministry of Health.
Members of the Australian Covid Doctors Network in Melbourne have written to Victorian State Premier Daniel Andrews saying that not all doctors are in agreement with the decision to keep people in their homes.
Research into critically ill patients with COVID-19, published today in JAMA, shows fewer patients died and less intensive care (ICU) support was required when patients received corticosteroids compared with usual treatment. And the effect was consistent for those receiving either hydrocortisone or dexamethasone.
Incomes are scheduled to be cut by up to $63 a week for many of New Zealand’s lowest-income households in less than a month, but Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) are both urging the Government to immediately raise family incomes instead, as an ongoing crisis-response measure.
Bullying and harassment (including sexual harassment) at work are complex problems, which can have significant impacts on workers, businesses, wider community, and the economy.
Whole Food Living editor Peter Barclay has hit out at last Friday’s (28 August) Seven Sharp TV programme which purported to promote the need for iron in our diets but was really just a promotion for meat industry body NZ Beef and Lamb.
New household labour force data showing three in four working-age disabled people are unemployed underlines the need for the COVID-19 recovery by government and business to focus on the needs of disabled people, says Disability Rights Commissioner Paula Tesoriero MNZM.
People on the Covid-19 Income Relief Payment, a new benefit for those made jobless by Covid-19, are faring better than those on main benefits, new survey data shows.
Most New Zealanders who suffered a repeated bout of rheumatic fever between 2010-14 were young adults, or had stopped their medication, according to a new study.The research also found recurrences were strongly associated with severe rheumatic heart disease.
The Salvation Army Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit (SPPU) is warning that more will need to be done to respond to the social impacts of Covid-19. The fifth Covid-19 Social Impact Dashboard released today by the SPPU shows that Salvation Army centres […]
The decision made on 14 August 2020 by NZ’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to keep the 1.5 million people who live in Auckland under a Level 3 lockdown, due to a new cluster of Covid-19 cases, stands in stark contrast to her government’s cavalier approach to public health and safety in relation to the 5G issue.