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Labour, National Experts Agree on Failed Approach
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 11:22 am | Democrats for Social Credit
If anyone believes the ‘experts’ on the construct of the NZ economy have an answer to what causes inflation they just need to take note of the latest admission of failure from three of them. More >>
New Zealanders are being ripped off
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 3:41 pm | Democrats for Social Credit
PO Box 18-907, New Brighton, Christchurch Phone/Fax: 0064 7 829 5157 Email: nzdp.inc@xtra.co.nz Website: www.democrats.org.nz More >>
Back to the Future – Again
Tuesday, 3 October 2006, 10:21 am | Democrats for Social Credit
The revisiting of the waiting list issue highlights not only the failure of our Labour Government in providing effective solutions to the problems around provision of hospital services but also the spectacular hypocrisy of National’s Dr Jonathan Coleman in ... More >>
DHB Elected Board Members "Speak Out Or Resign"
Friday, 8 September 2006, 11:02 am | Democrats for Social Credit
DHB Elected Board Members Should Speak Out Or Resign If the elected members of DHB boards are ever going to do something positive for their communities the near-unanimous protest by Christchurch surgeons over Canterbury's waiting list cuts should spur ... More >>
DHB Elected Board Members Should Speak Out
Friday, 8 September 2006, 10:36 am | Democrats for Social Credit
If the elected members of DHB boards are ever going to do something positive for their communities the near-unanimous protest by Christchurch surgeons over Canterbury's waiting list cuts should spur them to publicly protest over patients recently dumped ... More >>
Policy Has CDHB Corporate Office In Disarray
Thursday, 7 September 2006, 10:44 am | Democrats for Social Credit
An internal memo from the CDHB ceo leaked to Democrats for Social Credit health spokesman David Tranter shows just how far government's enforced surgery policy has DHB corporate management in disarray over their politically driven surgery agendas. More >>
DHBNZ Secrecy Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 10:20 am | Democrats for Social Credit
Concerns being raised about DHBNZ Inc. (the little-known group essentially made up of the government-appointed DHB chairmen) merely scratch the surface of the secrecy surrounding how DHBs are run, according to Democrats for Social Credit health spokesman ... More >>
Take 20% off rates
Monday, 28 August 2006, 5:12 pm | Democrats for Social Credit
Stephnie de Ruyter, Leader of Democrats for social credit, today called for an across the board rates reduction of 20%. “Rates could be reduced by 20% right now if the government were to listen to calls by ratepayers to remove GST and to fund essential ... More >>
Sticking plaster remedy fails to address issue
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 10:49 am | Democrats for Social Credit
“The Rodney Hide rating cap formula is only a sticking plaster remedy for rising rates” claims Heather M. Smith, Seniors Advocate for Democrats for social Credit, commenting on a Bill due for discussion when Parliament resumes this week. More >>
Lawyers Thwarting A Community Law Centre
Sunday, 20 August 2006, 6:01 pm | Democrats for Social Credit
The West Coast legal profession should be ashamed of its role in preventing a community law centre operating here, says Democrats for Social Credit health spokesman David Tranter. More >>
Another Step Down Health Privatisation Road
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:55 am | Democrats for Social Credit
The Otago and Southland DHBs' contracting of all hospital laboratory services to the private sector further demonstrates the privatisation by stealth of the New Zealand health system together with the failure of the post-1993 corporatisation of health ... More >>
Interest-free loans are the obvious solution
Friday, 4 August 2006, 11:12 am | Democrats for Social Credit
“Ongoing exchanges between local body politicians and ratepayers over proposed rates hikes are a sideshow and need to stop” said Stephnie de Ruyter, Leader of Democrats for social credit. More >>
DHB Corporate Office Can’t Back Their Statements
Monday, 31 July 2006, 10:00 am | Democrats for Social Credit
The lack of substance behind public utterances from DHB officials is again highlighted by Kevin Hague’s pathetic attempt to answer a simple question concerning his planning and funding manager’s recent statement that reconfiguring Grey Base Hospital could ... More >>
The great Why tomo(rrow) debate
Monday, 24 July 2006, 5:05 pm | Democrats for Social Credit
The debate around local authority rates is just that, a debate around, not about, the issue. The primary problem has two inter-related parts. The first is there has been decades of under-expenditure on essential infrastructure which has now resulted ... More >>
Bankers smile as overseas debt climbs
Sunday, 25 June 2006, 2:39 pm | Democrats for Social Credit
“The current account deficit for the March year of $14.5 billion now sees our overseas net debt total $132.9 billion – and rising. Whose fault is it?” asks John Pemberton, Deputy Leader and Finance Spokesman for Democrats for social credit. More >>
No Escape from DHBs' Patients Cull
Friday, 23 June 2006, 1:57 pm | Democrats for Social Credit
The Grey Hospital corporate office’s announcement of culling over 300 West Coast patients from their waiting lists shows that the scandalous abandonment of patients needing treatment requested by their G.P.s has become a nationwide blot on successive ... More >>
Democrats Attack Brash Waste Of Taxes
Friday, 9 June 2006, 11:23 am | Democrats for Social Credit
The National Party postcard campaign on tax cuts displays again how locked into last century’s failed solutions Don Brash is. More >>
National Accused Of Using Placebo Politics
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 9:35 am | Democrats for Social Credit
How typically hypocritical of politicians like National's Tony Ryall who, having stuffed up the public health system during the 1990s are now playing politics with its ongoing problems. More >>
Cullen thinks inside the square
Friday, 19 May 2006, 9:48 am | Democrats for Social Credit
“Michael Cullen knows that the “borrowing costs” for the 2006 year could be as high as $2.6 billion, and yet he continues to think inside the square by borrowing more money from overseas owned banks” said John Pemberton, Finance Spokesman for Democrats ... More >>
Patients pushed off lists
Friday, 12 May 2006, 10:42 am | Democrats for Social Credit
“Anxiety and despair will be the result of the latest round of rationing of health services” according to Stephnie de Ruyter, Leader of Democrats for social credit. “Taking thousands of patients off waiting lists and referring them back to their ... More >>
