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Frontline Kiwi workers are struggling to pay for food and rent, while politicians are giving away billions to the very rich. Public services are being cut back, privatised, and sold off. This is not how you build a stronger, healthier, or safer society. It’s time to stop the vandalism and rebuild NZ.
Join Dr Gary Payinda and guests on The Frontline.
Join Dr Gary Payinda and guests on The Frontline.
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Glenn Barclay of Tax Justice Aotearoa answers our tax questions, from the $1 billion LNG import terminal 'levy/tax', to the IRD's treatment of high-net worth individuals, to how some multinational companies are diverting 94% of their NZ revenue offshore and avoiding paying billions in taxes. Plus the Salvation Army's report on surging child poverty and a 50% increase in food insecurity in NZ since 2019.
History teacher and Post-Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) president Chris Abercrombie discusses cut-rate lunches, school curriculum changes, and double standards when it comes to school privatisation. With a perhaps surprising chat about the cellphone ban in schools. Have a listen, get educated, and share with a friend. #teacher #education #nz
A conversation with Rob Campbell, economist, healthcare expert, and co-founder of Kaitiaki Hauora, a new organisation that wants us to focus on 3 things: an adequately funded public healthcare system, a move away from healthcare privatisation, and a return to respect for Te Tiriti obligations in healthcare.We know the public backs our public healthcare system. In an election year, how can we get all our political parties to back the public healthcare system as well?
Dr Bagshaw (can we make him Health Minister please?) points out the 'secret' scam that is public-private partnerships...also known as dirty 'ol 'privatisation'.Surgeon Phil Bagshaw has dedicated his life’s work to helping people in need. He’s founded a charity hospital. Now he’s doing right by the people of Aotearoa educationally as well, pointing out the elegant scam used internationally to transfer wealth from taxpayers to corporate owners: the public-private healthcare ‘partnership’, in its many guises. Currently hitting NZ in a big way.Substack here https://drgarypayinda.substack.com/p/spent-or-squandered-where-are-your
An eye-opening talk with Reuben Otto, firefighter and member of the NZ Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) about the challenges of firefighting. Not just the heat and cancer risk, but the lack of a #FENZ employment contract for 571 days and counting, a broken funding model, public attacks by politicians, understaffing, and debilitated fire trucks. Despite it all he maintains a positive outlook and an undiminished dedication to the job that will inspire you. Share with your friends!
Dr Tim Welch, urban planning researcher, talks to The Frontline about how faster speed limits can actually lead to slower driving times. And he introduces us to the concept of "network delay", which may be stripping our economy by up to 2% of its productivity.
HIV/AIDS, Covid, Syphilis, Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. What, if anything, have we learned about the social determinants of health that will help us battle the next epidemic more successfully? Dave 'Bear' Hookway-Kopa talks to The Frontline about a lifetime looking after the people of Aotearoa New Zealand#HIV #AIDS #syphilis #PublicHealthwww.communitiesagainstalcoholharm.co.nzhttps://substack.com/@drgarypayinda
Malcolm Mulholland is the chair of Patient Voice Aotearoa, a patient advocacy group that The Frontline is happy to help support. They fought for better medicines access for New Zealanders, and now are fighting for public healthcare in NZ. Malcolm has traveled the length and breadth of Aotearoa holding community meetings and talking with patients and healthcare workers. He has stories to share about what's really happening to our healthcare system, and what we need to do to fix it.Sign the Buller Declaration, and donate to Patient Voice Aotearoa here: www.patientvoice.nz
Today the Frontline talks with Dan Short, paramedic, rescue swimmer and lifelong surf lifesaver...back by popular demand. We discuss some daring rescues, some good and bad outcomes, and what it means for society when 'regular New Zealanders' step up to help others. Is this a model for how we build a New Zealand that looks after its own people?
Around 20% of New Zealanders have tattoos. Around 350 people a year in New Zealand die from melanoma.Is there an association between melanoma and tattoo inks?Given the huge cultural importance of tattoos/moko in Aotearoa, and the widespread uptake of tattoos by so many, especially in younger age groups, are regulators doing everything they can to make sure what goes in our skin is as safe as it can be?Swedish toxicologist Dr Emelie Rietz Liljedahl discusses the sometimes poor international regulation of tattoo ink ingredients and discusses her research on whether there is an association between tattoo inks and skin cancer.Link to the study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-025-01326-6
Jessie Moss, senior professional advisor at NZEI, talks us through attempts to rush the Education and Training (System Reform) Amendment Bill into law. Destabilising the curriculum, aiding public school privatisation, demoting the voice of professional organisations, and weakening community and Māori input is just the start of the far-reaching bill.
Ann David is the Past President of the End-of-Life Choice Society, and she's with us to talk about a newly proposed bill that seeks to reduce some of the hurdles, hoops and obstacles placed in the way of terminally ill patients at the end of their lives -- people who seek medical assistance to help them die gently.
Accurate and effective, or a policy that will fill the jails while simultaneously not making the streets any safer? What does the international evidence show? We chat with Nikolai Siimes of the University of Auckland, a researcher who has published on roadside illicit drug testing.
The Frontline spoke with Dan Short about what it takes to be a critical care paramedic. The training, the challenges, the teamwork, and the most memorable cases, both good and bad. Everything you wanted to know about being on one of the most highly exposed frontline jobs.
A conversation with Max Harris, lawyer, campaigner, and author, talking about Dental for All, a group that's got a national roadshow under way talking about the crazy idea that dental care should be a public service available to every New Zealander. Even the ones who are not 'wealthy and sorted'.If you want to imagine where the current government's push to healthcare privatisation will lead us, look no further than adult dental care in NZ: with almost half of people locked out due to cost. Together, let's say No, fight back, and build a better nation. Please share this video with a friend.For more, also check out my Substack @drgarypayinda.
Craig Renney (Chief Economist of the CTU and host of The Locked-In Podcast) is our guest this week on The Frontline, telling us about the $500 million dollars in the Health budget that didn't get spent, despite overwhelming need. This half-billion of taxpayers' dollars evaporated at the same time the government was telling nurses they must accept real pay cuts, because there was just 'no money' left.
Māori health ‘privilege’ starts in childhood with a 30X higher risk of rheumatic fever, continues in adulthood with later diagnosis, fewer treatments, and worse outcomes, and ends with an overall death gap that is a remarkable 7 years earlier than Pākehā. In this episode we talk with Health Policy Specialist Gabrielle Baker about whether current health policies will fix this, or make this woeful situation even worse.LINK to ASMS https://asms.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Maori-Health-Final.pdf
The Frontline spoke with a maths education researcher about international test scores, smartphones in classes, bullying and behavioural problems in students, streaming in classrooms, teacher defunding, charter schools, and the stripping of professional education funding from teacher's aides. Plus the introduction and rollout of the 3rd curriculum for schools in the past 3 years. There's a wrecking ball coming for public education that makes me wonder whether it's following the same model as public healthcare: "defund, destabilise, and privatise".Have a listen as Dr Lisa Darragh shares her learnings about maths education and how best to maximise resources and positive impact in the public school sector.
Ivor Popovich, the young ICU doctor who wrote A Dim Prognosis, gives us an insider's look at the best and worst of medicine and healthcare in NZ. He balances stories of bullying, abuse, corruption, overwork, and understaffing, with inspiring stories of seeing lives saved, deep connections with patients and whanau, and growing as a person during the approximately 14 years between starting med school and leaving as a fully-qualified specialist. Along the way, there are insights into health policy, politics, poverty, and ethnicity that make this book required reading for everyone from patients to politicians.
Did you know that the growth in New Zealanders' life expectancy, increasing since basically forever, has finally fizzled out? That our levels of untreated youth mental health problems have shown a staggering increase? And that our lack of access to GPs has perfectly mirrored our blown-out numbers of ED presentations? Economist Andrea Black and I talked about data trends and a decade of economic insights. How good did we have it, how bad are things now, are there any bright spots, and where has the money gone? And perhaps most importantly, can we fix it?
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