After Hours Medical Care Denied to Increasing Numbers of New Zealanders

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After Hours Medical Care Denied to Increasing Numbers of New Zealanders

Porirua is a city of 62,400 people, just north of New Zealand’s capital, Wellington. While it once had a reputation as a lower socioeconomic area, comprised mostly of Polynesian and Māori families on low incomes or benefits, in the past few decades it’s managed to shed that image. Its median earnings of $70,092 (in the year to March 2023) were still lower than for the whole of New Zealand ($74,754), but grew by eight percent over the previous ye…