Carl Shuker
Carl Shuker is a Wellington writer and the author of novels including The Lazy Boys and The Method Actors. He has reviewed contemporary fiction for the Listener, Dominion-Post, and the Spinoff, and purports to view other reviewers with disdain. Carl was born in Timaru in 1974.

The power, peril and promise of targets
The measles crisis has thrown into sharp relief how publicising targets reached – and targets missed – can affect the healthcare all of us receive, writes Carl Shuker.