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Luxon flicks Reti's hospital pass to Brown
Long stories short to start the year in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate:
* Christopher Luxon fired Shane Reti as Health Minister and replaced him with Simeon Brown, who Luxon sees as National’s most politically effective minister, but who will have to manage hospitals and health with the same budget;
* Luxon said the reshuffle was all about re-focusing the Government on restarting economic growth, but the main changes were in the big spending areas of Health and Transport, and the reshuffle came straight after a bad poll;
* Big businesses are increasingly…
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