February 2025

Oceania Healthcare: Company books in good shape, but workers face more struggles

February 14, 2025

New Zealand’s largest rest-home owner Oceania Healthcare boasts in its latest financial report upward arrows on all key economic outputs from total comprehensive income to operating cashflow to assets. Every output has a good story for its board of directors and shareholders. But…

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February 2025

Grandfather excited at Whitireia growing the next wave of ‘warrior nurses’

February 13, 2025

Like many other grandparents and parents, Bob Rolleston travelled hundreds of kilometres across the country early this morning to give his mokopuna granddaughter to Whitireia’s bachelor of nursing Māori. He has worked in what he calls the “broken health system” but today he got more hope after seeing the huge interest by his moko and many other Māori in becoming “warrior nurses.”

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February 2025

FEBRUARY 2025 crossword

February 3, 2025

Instructions: Click on any cell to get started. Click on vertical / horizontal lines to change direction, or direction can be changed by clicking on Space / Enter key. Across and Down Clues can be toggle visible by clicking on the down / up arrows.

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January 2025

January 1, 2022

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