The Frontline talks with Odie Matson, an experienced nurse and NZ Nurse's Organisation delegate, about Simeon's latest Facebook lash-out.

How can a Health Minister who just got 4 annual pay rises in a row, find himself attacking nurses on Facebook for their attempts to negotiate safer working conditions? 

Nurses who are offered a pay rise that is less than the cost of inflation... and who have watched their request for "safe staffing ratios" eliminated from their negotiations by a government bent on austerity for workers, while handing out tax breaks for landlords, tobacco companies, and oil corporations.

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Hiding 98% of your NZ profits in an offshore tax haven? Totally illegal. Unless you are a corporation like UBER, in which case it's totally legal.  But should it be?Join me for a conversation with researcher Ed Miller, of CICTAR.org,  on THE FRONTLINE.

NZNO Delegate and Emergency Nurse extraordinaire Rachel Thorn RN talks about retention of nursing staff, the challenges of nurse understaffing, pay offers that don't keep up with the cost of inflation, and other challenges that face the people who work days, night, weekends, and holidays to keep us alive and cared for.

The New Zealand government has announced that after 174 years, they're ending the NZ Census, to save money. The census helps decide what infrastructure and services YOUR community will get: roads, schools, police, hospitals. If it's inaccurate, your community loses stuff it needs. On The Frontline, Professor Paul Spoonley tells us whether dropping the census is likely to be a smart move forward, or a big step backward.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/564560/the-traditional-census-has-been-switched-off-what-happens-now

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Are nurses in Auckland being forced to work overtime, longer than they're contracted to and longer than they want to? Are those same nurses then getting underpaying and are their departments under staffed? Dawn Barrett from NZ Nurses Organisation joins Gary to talk about those issues and more.

The Frontline is a new podcast that is going to talk about whether there might be a better way to build a stronger nation than privatising our essential public services, and lavishing taxpayer billions on the very rich.Join Dr Gary Payinda on The Frontline… to talk about how we can win. How we can build a stronger New Zealand, one that takes care of ALL of its people. A New Zealand that serves the PUBLIC interest, not just the PRIVATE profit.