Funding Crisis in Healthcare Impact on Nursing - Anne Daniels President NZ) urses Organisation NZNO Anne Daniel 14th May 2024

Early in her nursing journey Anne’s strong sense of justice led her to become an NZNO delegate, then Convenor for Thames Hospital/Hauraki Plains NZNO members, leading nurses through strikes and restructuring. She worked with the Thames Hospital Clinical Director, a local Councillor and the community to fight the reduction of many health services under the National Government.

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Neoliberalism A conspiracy? - Charles Pigden Professor of Philosophy at Otago University He is Burtrude Russell scholar'. More interestingly Pigden also an expert on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories, being the first to revive the issue after Popper’s denunciations of conspiracy theorizing in the fifties. We will be discussing the case for Neoliberalism as a conspiracy.

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Importance of the public media to Democracy in NZ - Peter Thompson

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Unions and Work Safety - Craig Renney

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Gun Control or Gun Massacres - Kevin Clements is the former director and was the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies, Founding Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at Otago, &Sec. Gen. of the International Peace Research Association. Kevin Clements, is the new Director Toda Peace Institute is an independent, nonpartisan institute committed to advancing a more just and peaceful world through policy-oriented peace research and practice.

We will be discussing I need to keep and indeed strengthen New Zealand's gain control regulations!

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Otago Central Environmental Society - Phil Murray and Matthew Sole.

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War on Gaza - Robert Patman.

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Abolish The Military - Prof. Richard Jackson Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS). His interest’s nature, causes, & resolution of organized forms of political violence. He is the Editor of the Critical Studies on Terrorism. He has recently written “Abolishing the Military” Published by BWB text.

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Fringe Festival - Kate Schrader and Ruth Harvey were appointed last year as co-directors of the 'Dunedin Fringe Festival

Both Ms Harvey and Ms Schrader have previously held part-time senior roles in the organisation, and are enjoying the transition to jointly steering the DFAT stable of projects.

We will discuss the history of Fringe Festival's internationally and the history of the 'Dunedin Fringe Festival in particular.

We will also talk about how the COVID-19 affected the direction and nature of events like the Fringe Festival and what we can look forward to in this Fringe Festival.

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