Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes on Thursday, March 27

NZ spends just a third of OECD average on primary health care; Slumlord with 40 Christchurch properties relies on temporary migrant tenants not complaining; Westpac CEO pushes for easier capital rules

In short: New Zealand is spending just a third of the OECD average on primary health care and hasn’t increased that recently. A slumlord with 40 Christchurch properties is punished after relying on temporary migrant tenants not complaining about holes in the ceiling. Westpac’s CEO is pushing for easier capital rules to fire up lending into our economy: a housing market with bits tacked on.

Here’s my selection¹ of scoops, breaking news, news, analyses, deep-dives, features, interviews, Op-Eds, editorials and cartoons from around Aotearoa’s political economy on housing, climate and poverty from RNZ, 1News, The Post-$², The Press−$, Newsroom/$³, NZ Herald/$, Stuff, BusinessDesk/$, Politik-$, NBR-$, Reuters, FT/$, WSJ/$, Bloomberg/$, New York Times/$, Washington Post/$, Wired/$, The Atlantic/$, The Economist-$, and more on Thursday, March 27.

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My Top Pick n’ Mix Six at 6am on Thursday, March 27