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Mega-rich have taken big hits as markets crash – but they don’t care

Comment: It’s the small savers who face the biggest losses from last week’s tariff fiasco. Rob Campbell tries to focus on the positive amid the unfairness – and find some things to celebrate. , writes Rob Campbell.

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Rob Campbell: We can’t leave the climate up to Kiwi ingenuity

There are exciting opportunities in new energy and transition for all parts of the economy if it’s treated as a national priority. Failure to make these big shifts will condemn us to failure.

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It's vital, not dangerous, to question democracy, Mr Seymour

Rawiri Waititi's comments about the ‘tyranny of the majority’ was recognition that simply adding up votes and handing control to the group who gets the most is indeed dangerous, argues Rob Campbell

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Both main parties misreading business interests

The main concern of business applies to both Labour and National – there is no strategy for economic prosperity. But economic growth is not seen as a goal in itself but as the key enabler of social wellbeing, says Rob Campbell

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Former soldier takes on new battle to rebuild our health system

Jeremy Holman was a senior British Army engineering officer overseeing the construction of community and medical facilities in war-torn Afghanistan; now he's building hospitals and community clinics in New Zealand. Jonathan Milne reports.

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What it takes to get a road back open

Storms and cyclones have caused major disruptions on state highways across the country this year. What's involved in fixing them up to get them back open?

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Bored with boards – plotting a better way to employ people

In the state sector, we have vastly over-corporatised a great deal of what we do but not every activity is a business with private ownership interests to protect, argues Rob Campbell

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Social equity needn't be a taxing issue

Yes, we should have a fairer tax system, but I’m more concerned about the aspects of our society that generate increasing inequity than those that fail to ameliorate it, says Rob Campbell

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Rob Campbell: When regular electioneering seems trivial

No polls, no focus groups, no donor obligations. Rob Campbell is party to a discussion weighing up whether Parliament is the right place to advance honestly-held causes.

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A real bread and butter fix that Govt should spread

Extending free healthy lunches to more schools wouldn't cost the taxpayer much, but would make a world of difference to cash-strapped families in the cost of living crisis, writes the former Te Whatu Ora chair.

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Are diversity plans back-firing – or am I just being a grumpy old man?

Corporate diversity and inclusion have become more about profits than about recognising the rights of women and minorities, argues the ousted Te Whatu Ora chair.

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The Week in Detail: Manosphere, Bloomfield, and supermarket shelves

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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NZ has a history of prominent public servants who were also outspoken public intellectuals – what’s changed?

It’s been a difficult time for senior public servants recently – at least it has been for those willing to express their political views publicly. One has been sacked, another offered his resignation, and yet another has been questioned by a parliamentary select committee.

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Ashley Bloomfield, the public service and political neutrality

In the wake of the Rob Campbell saga, Sir Ashley Bloomfield talks to The Detail about why political neutrality in the public service is so important.

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Germany’s political public service v NZ’s myth of neutrality

We should be more honest about the fiction of a politically neutral public service. In Germany there would be room for someone as political as Rob Campbell in the public service, says Oliver Hartwich

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Sacked health chair used up at least $125k in fees in three months

The Govt is set to appoint an interim chair to its big health agency, but now must find additional budget to pay them. Jonathan Milne reports.

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An Ode to .. Rob Campbell

Bard Billot on the twice-sacked goneburger Rob Campbell

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Ousted health chair reveals plan for 'many hundreds' of job cuts

Te Whatu Ora staff to be consulted on managerial and administrative lay-offs to reduce duplication between former DHBs: 'I hate it,' says Rob Campbell, 'but they do happen'. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Explainer: Is health chair wrong on neutrality– or are the rules wrong?

There's a succinct answer to that question. Rob Campbell and Prof Jonathan Boston debate the pros and cons of political impartiality.

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The long political game behind the sacking of Rob Campbell

The appointment of a health outsider to the chair of Te Whatu Ora was opposed by the Prime Minister from day one, but health minister Andrew Little carried the day. It wasn’t an encouraging start.

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Floods have barely receded and already the self-serving calls: Build, baby, build

Let’s build for that future, not a repetition of the past, writes public and private sector director Rob Campbell.

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Calls to bring 30-year-old company law into the future

Capitalist attitudes have shifted in the past 30 years, but the governing legislation has not moved with it.

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Health chair warns against 'baying like a drunken crowd' at hospital failings

Te Whatu Ora chair Rob Campbell is speaking out about his 'concern for each and every one' of those suffering bad health care.

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Obituary: Ken Douglas, unionist and visionary

Ken Douglas, a colossus within New Zealand’s economic and political history, died this week aged 86.

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National database will reach patients in drug shortages – but 'no magic pill'

Health NZ is developing a national 'data warehouse' for NZers' primary care information – a tool it hopes will help talk with patients in crises like this month's drug shortages.

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