Mr Brown’s Diary: Week 9 – from road-sign rapture to realities

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Mr Brown’s Diary: Week 9 – from road-sign rapture to realities

Patrice
Dougan
Simeon's Week CR Canva composite
From faster speed limits to slow waiting times, it’s been a journey for health minister Simeon Brown this week [Image: Canva composite]

Week nine of the job, and it’s starting to get tricky for health minister Simeon Brown as the life-and-death realities of the sector hit the headlines. With regular reporter Martin Johnston off-grid in the Southern Alps, deputy editor Patrice Dougan picks up the reins to take a wry look at what the minister got up to this week 

It was back to a favourite stomping ground this week for roading, I mean, health minister Simeon Brown.  With the speed limit in his Pakuranga ele