The government last week made two announcements that sent two completely different messages about workers’ rights. Their first announcement was a pay freeze across the public service. It was an announcement that most would expect to come from a conservative government. The only sign that it wasn’t from a
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David Seymour ACT Leader Compulsory unionism is undemocratic, will be a wrecking ball on the economy, and doesn’t solve any identified problem. Today’s proposal is far more radical than anything the Government has proposed before. It said it would initially be ‘one or two industries.’ Today’s proposal
Labour’s so-called Fair Pay Agreements are an ideologically-driven project without any sound analytical basis, National’s Workplace Relations spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “It is acknowledged in the Cabinet Paper that the FPA could lead directly to businesses having to cut costs by reducing staff numbers and hours
Nebojsa Malic rt.com Is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. I once thought the internet would have the same effect on corporate media gatekeepers as the AK-47 had
Imagine the screaming outrage from the left if a multinational corporation or a billionaire publicly campaigned against gay marriage or “transgender rights”. Actually, we don’t have to imagine: we’ve already seen it. Even something so mild as a brewery calling for civil debate over gay marriage was met
In a key scene in Orson Welles’s classic Citizen Kane, an outraged trustee confronts Kane at a party celebrating his purchase of a newspaper. The newspaper is a bad investment, he warns: it lost a million dollars in just the last year. Far from being chastened, Kane replies: “You’
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s paternalistic approach towards Maori through procurement is a step too far and needs explaining. The Government, in another departure from the idea that all New Zealanders are equal before the law, has set a quota of five percent of Government procurement being spent
David Seymour ACT Leader Stuart Nash owes New Zealanders an explanation about why he said he wasn’t working on a bed tax when he has been. Information obtained by the ACT Party through Parliamentary Written Questions and briefings to Stuart Nash show that Government is working with the Queenstown
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. This article is excerpted from the FEE Daily, a daily email newsletter where FEE Policy Correspondent Brad Polumbo brings you news and analysis on the top free-market economics and
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s paternalism of the Cook Islands has caused economic and emotional harm to our Pacific neighbours that will take years to fix. ACT was calling for a travel bubble with the Cooks in July last year. Here we are almost a year later
Brooke van Velden ACT’s Deputy Leader Our Wellington bureaucrats could learn a thing or two from Amazon on how to avoid largess, especially when taxpayer money is at stake. Bureaucrats from the Film Commission and Tourism New Zealand weren’t afraid to whip out the taxpayer funded credit card
Brooke van Velden ACT’s Housing spokesperson A website set up by the ACT Party to hear concerns about the Government’s new interest deductibility law change has shown just how damaging this policy will be to renters. We have been inundated with stories about how this policy will hurt
