Mike Houlahan

Back on August 12, 2021 BD (before Delta), when Parliament rose for what was meant to be an uneventful recess week, MPs had just started the second reading debate on the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill.

Southern mental health services have been subject to a second in-depth investigation in the past three years - a review which everyone hopes will ease the strain on a sector under severe pressure.

Dunedin aged-care workers have made an impassioned case for increased staffing at rest homes describing shifts where one staff member was left responsible for 50 people and routinely asked to work double shifts.