Graham Adams: Decolonisation agenda drives race-based MAPAS

The elephant in the room when Guyon Espiner interviewed David Seymour last week about race-based entry to medical schools was the fact his former wife Emma began her career as a doctor via Auckland University’s Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme. And, according to Emma Espiner (as she was then), he had encouraged her to apply.

Act has pledged to abolish MAPAS and it would have been fascinating if Guyon had explained why he fully supported someone gaining a place through a pathway that offers preferential treatment based on ancestry.

Matua Kahurangi: Apartheid has no place in New Zealand

University of Otago must end its racial discrimination

In New Zealand, we pride ourselves on fairness, equality, and opportunity. We are told that success comes from hard work, merit, and commitment. However, at Otago University’s medical school, one of the country’s most “prestigiously woke” institutions, that fundamental promise is being betrayed.

Peter Wilson: The Week in Politics -The extent of the health staff shortage hits home

Health workforce data shows the extent of the problem that this government and the next are facing, National and ACT reject a report which says the country can't arrest its way out of the gang problem, and the Kiri Allan saga rumbles on as Labour's internal problems continue to plague the party.

The health workforce shortage is a decades-old problem but it wasn't until this week the extent of it was precisely known - more than 8000 nurses, doctors and other health professionals.