Thousands of senior medical doctors have voted to go on strike for 24 hours overpay at the beginning of next month. Callaghan Innovation has confirmed dozens more jobs are on the chopping block as the organisation disestablishes. Palmerston North hospital staff want improved security after a gun-wielding man threatened their colleague who was walking to her car after her Friday night shift. The Government has put out a multi-billion dollar plan for rebuilding hospitals it says are so run down patient care is being affected.
Union coverage
- ASMS: Minister ‘disappointed’ as senior doctors vote to strike for 24 hours
- ASMS: ‘Made-up number’: Doctors dispute Simeon Brown’s pay claim
- ASMS: Fiery exchange between Health Minister and Senior Doctors Union
- NZNO: Hospital staff want better security after man with gun jumps in nurse’s car
- PSA: Callaghan Innovation confirms 67 more potential job cuts as it disestablishes
Employment
- Two thirds of full -time senior doctor positions in Taupō still vacant
- Worker critically injured after six metre fall reflects on painstaking road to recovery
Politics
- $20 billion of funding needed, first ‘Health Infrastructure Plan’ reveals
- NZ plugs in to boost US Navy’s space race with China
- Single-use plastic bans quietly shelved
- Government celebrates latest violent crime statistics, admits data is volatile
- Seymour seeks to spark a new ‘culture war’
- Greens tighten candidate selection process
- ‘Our city is in trouble’: Andrew Little on why Wellington needs him
Te Ao Māori
- Robbery forces closure of Rotorua kōhanga reo
- Tikanga guides whānau through girl’s cancer battle, loss of limb
Economics
- Reserve Bank’s budget to be slashed by 25%
- Finance Minister Nicola Willis tells Reserve Bank to ‘show some restraint’ as budget slashed
- Global trade war forecast to cut NZ’s economic growth by more than half
- Grim forecast says economic growth will almost grind to a halt