Free dental care for adults would cost $648m a year

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date October 2, 2020

While Labour and National have both pledged millions to boost childhood dental care, both have been less vocal on the idea of extending free dental care to adults.

But the cost of funding free dental …

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Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city, if she’s to fund her ever-diminishing lifestyle. Whanau was elected to lead Wellington in 2022, winning an overwhelming victory against the incumbent mayor: the evil version of Jason Gunn. […]
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Ukrainian militia receives defective shipment of pagers that just send and receive messages September 18, 2024
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Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
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Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
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Heartwarming: Thoughtful driver uses indicator to tell you what they’ve just done September 17, 2024
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NPC teams will now be allowed to actually use the Ranfurly Shield in play September 17, 2024
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Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’ September 16, 2024
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Air New Zealand flight attendant named CEO after one year on job November 30, 2021
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National Party board denies it unanimously agreed to Collins’ Faustian bargain with Satan November 26, 2021
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Super Saturday recap: Patrick Gower doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do October 16, 2021
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‘WE LISTENED’ January 31, 2025
IMAGE: HEALTH NZ Health Minister Simeon Brown’s main talking point yesterday - and you know it was his main talking point because he said it about a dozen times - was the government had listened to the people of the South and decided to go ahead with the new Dunedin hospital project.
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ODT quiz: February 1 January 31, 2025
[[{"type":"riddle_embed","riddleId":"Vz5zgWP8","odtEmbed":true}]] Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Saturday, February 1.
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Hospital decision worth celebrating January 31, 2025
Southerners, pat yourselves on the back.
Cartoonist’s view — Yeo January 31, 2025
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.
Letters to the Editor: energy, flooding and rates January 31, 2025
Dunedin's rates may increase 10% per annum for the next three years. Photo: ODT files Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including spruiking the same old shibboleth, flooding issues caused by inaction, and holding the council accountable.
Iona wins second race January 31, 2025
Iona (Otago, left) chases Queen March (Auckland) to win the second Sanders Cup race on February 1, 1925. — Otago Witness, 10.2.1925 Auckland, February 1: Iona greatly enhanced Otago’s chances of annexing the Sanders Cup by winning the second race of the 1925 contest over a triangular course on the Waitemata to-day.
The satellite town with aeroplane streets January 31, 2025
Photo: Stephen Jaquiery Waldronville, 13km to the southwest of Dunedin, was developed by Bill Waldron in the early 1950s.
Landers hang in to clinch Pasifika warm-up January 31, 2025
Highlanders winger Michael Manson. Photo: supplied Two out of three ain’t bad.
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The black hole of the neglected Civis mail January 31, 2025
Photo: Getty Images Civis readers are owed apologies for the absence of feedback on their feedback.

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