New government policies. Healthy,the bank balances of some doctors, P.H.O. Medical Centre; wealthy, boutique funds managers; wise, not Aucklanders, Auckland Kindy rates, 20 free hours, 30 rather costly hours...$$$$ "I think I better get a job first." 2 July, 2007

The cartoon shows three scenes, each of which illustrates one of the notions, 'healthy', 'wealthy', and 'wise'. The first shows a queue outside a P.H.O. (Primary Health Organisation) Medical Centre, illustrating 'healthy; the second shows Don Brash, the ex-leader of the National Party and John Banks, ex MP and Auckland mayor and again aspiring to the mayoralty, John Banks, smiling happily as they consider their wealth; and the third shows a child outside an Auckland kindergarten thinking, when he sees the fees, that he needs to get a job first. The images refer first to the launch of Public Health Organisations which are an attempt to improve primary health care, second to the setting up of a boutique funds management company by Don Brash, John Banks, aspiring Auckland mayoral candidate and millionaire businessman Peter Huljich, and the third to the partial funding of pre-school education, something that not all pre-schools are buying into.

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