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  • 1 week ago | business.scoop.co.nz | Colin Peacock

    Article – RNZA call to consider universal military service was enthusiastically endorsed in the media this week. But those backing it seized on stats that also tell a different story.Colin Peacock, Mediawatch PresenterOn Anzac Day, pundit Matthew Hooton floated the return of national military service in his weekly New Zealand Herald column headlined ‘The case for universal military training’.

  • 1 week ago | rnz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

    On Anzac Day, pundit Matthew Hooton floated the return of national military service in his weekly New Zealand Herald column headlined 'The case for universal military training'. After setting out the country's current financial problems, he proposed getting a bit more of a social bang out of the big bucks that - like it or not - we'll soon be spending on defence.

  • 2 weeks ago | rnz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

    "There isn't a single aspect of the cardio team that's well resourced at the moment," the former head of Nelson Hospital's cardiology service Dr Tammy Pegg told TVNZ's 1News last weekend. She went on to say some patients' conditions had become inoperable while they waited for scans. "I decided not to do an interview. And then I thought about it and I worried that senior leadership... think that this is just a bit of noise and that it will go away," she told 1News.

  • 2 weeks ago | radionz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

    "There isn't a single aspect of the cardio team that's well resourced at the moment," the former head of Nelson Hospital's cardiology service Dr Tammy Pegg told TVNZ's 1News last weekend. She went on to say some patients' conditions had become inoperable while they waited for scans. "I decided not to do an interview. And then I thought about it and I worried that senior leadership... think that this is just a bit of noise and that it will go away," she told 1News.

  • 3 weeks ago | radionz.co.nz | Colin Peacock

    In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as "a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women". That would probably not fly these days - but as a rule, movies about Australian journalists are no laughing matter. Back in 1982, a young Mel Gibson starred as a foreign correspondent who was dropped into Jakarta during revolutionary chaos in The Year of Living Dangerously.

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