However, this has a hollow ring when the same government has decided to reject the World Health Organisation’s International Health Regulations. “Pandemic preparedness, like all emergency preparedness, needs to be a long-term, cross-party commitment. The future health and wellbeing of this country may depend upon the decisions being made right now. The New Zealand public will need to see the high-level aims of this report enacted with transparency and accountability. The report itself provides limited details about how the public will be informed of New Zealand’s progress towards better pandemic preparedness.